One Of The Most Important Things I Learned About Respiratory Illness, Specifically COVID-19, I Got From

One of the most important things I learned about respiratory illness, specifically COVID-19, I got from an Indian pharmacist who also knew her Ayurvedic remedies. She told me the most important thing was to keep the stuff in the throat from getting down into the chest. She said the way to do this was to drink beverages as hot as you could tolerate them, containing garlic, ginger, and turmeric.

From this I figured out that you could take bone broth and put the three remedies in, along with some healthy mineral-rich salt, then get it as hot as you could tolerate it and serve it to everybody who is sick.

If you can get fresh turmeric and make a tea from it, that is more powerful than dried turmeric.

HearthKeeper

Practical Thoughts for a Young Homemaker: Healthcare — HearthKeeper

All of us will have areas of home healthcare that come naturally to us, just like we’ll all have areas to shore up, strengthen our faculties

Excerpt: We can’t be tenders of our people without being engaged in the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual healthcare of our people. This doesn’t apply only to your children but also to your spouse, if so blessed, (grown men need tending, too) your friends, and yourself. It’s hard to tend others when you are overdrawn on your energy-budget, just like you can’t expect to clean your home if you’re covered in mud. You have to be relatively clean to clean your house. Proper healthcare takes care of you and your people.

Let's help each other out! Share some of the must haves in your medicine cabinet, apothecary, and first aid kit. Also, share some of your favorite books, podcasts, or resources for home health management.

by aclotheshorse

Favorite Moment from Writing This Morning: Getting to write about romanticizing the ordinary. It's one of my favorite things about being alive.

Favorite Line Crafted: One of my great joys in life is when you read a book that leaves a gossamer blanket of magic over ordinary life. When trees become a little unsafe, white flowers become the graves of ancient kings, and autumn is summoned by the witch of seasons.

@alana-k-asby This is something I love about our book too! It gives life a little twist and shifts the perspective so that apples are more than apples and winter is more than winter, and a small part of my heart waits to catch a glimpse of a white stag through the trees.

Pink Evening Dress

c. 1853

Unknown maker

Albany Institute of History & Art

Thomas Benjamin Kennington (English, 1856-1916)

Reading the Letter