herb experiment on skin cancer

Living and working under the Arizona (any)sun can wreak havoc to peoples skin. Arizona has a lot of it going around and my boyfriend is one of the ones to get it. about a year ago he had a good size chunk taken out of his arm and we have been watching these two areas on his face for a few months.

The cancer on his arm was red and flaky( not unlike the ones on his face), something that had been there awhile but was ignored until I found it and caused alarm. they cut it out, he has about an inch scar.. they had to cut pretty deep too.

This spots on his face are quite a bit smaller than the one that was on his arm and the dermatologist suggested a pharmaceutical cream to be applied to the two spots and for us to keep an eye on them, if they were to remain after the use of the cream then we were to return and they would be burnt off and then watched again.

The cream didn't do anything and my boyfriend has volunteered to do an herbal experiment and we thought that we would share it on my blog.

We tried a tincture of red clover in a cream and applied that for several weeks, it looked as though it may have reduced the redness in color but they still remain with hardly any change. That could be due to the inconsistency of the application...

We are now trying a creosote oil, not an essential oil but creosote that has been infused in olive oil. I will be helping remind him to apply this more consistently then he had been applying the red clover cream. We will keep you posted every other week or so.

wish us and the herbs luck!

Results to the hair and scalp oil

On the 21st I posted a nourishing hair and scalp oil recipe... I love it!
It worked wonderfully, It has been 7 days and my hair is still soft and shiny. I tried it on my daughter and she got the same results... I give it a BIG thumbs up!

infused oils

I am sun infusing, straining and decanting herbal oils for salve making in an upcoming work shop that I am planning for in the near future.

I love the golden color of the calendula and jojoba oil!
It can be a fun but tedious process if you grind the herb down as finely as I do but in doing so, it produces a much stronger herbal oil due to the break down of the surface area in the herbs which will allow the extraction of its healing constituents to absorb into the oil at a higher level.

Nourish your scalp and hair

One of my favorite magazines is "natural health", I may not agree or like everything in the magazine but definitely find a lot of good information in there.
Today I am putting one to the test.
I have really thick hair.. I have dry scalp and a lot of damage from using dyes, bleaches and flat or curling irons. I saw this hair oil that is supposed to nourish your hair and just happened to have the ingredients in my kitchen so I am putting it to the test.
I took two tablespoons each of castor oil, organic coconut oil, organic jojoba oil and mixed well. I then drizzled it on to my entire scalp while massaging it in well. I worked it out to the ends of my hair and then placed a steamy hot towel over my head and wrapped that in a plastic shopping bag. I am a bit concerned about it all coming out in time for class tonight and would really dislike showing up with a head full of oil... none the less, I am pleased that it feels quite nice and will let you know how easy it was to remove and how different it made my hair.




The recipe is from the september 2009 issue of "Natural Health" magazine.