Vixen_Poetic

These examples spring to mind.For toothache - until you can get to a dentist - Ground Cloves, a pinch tucked into the mouth by the affected gum.Muscle Relaxant - Kava Root, ground and prepared as a cold-pressed tea not heated. Warning: The pulp does not digest well and is a general muscle relaxant. Treat like a sleep aid and be sure to set aside time to regain dexterity before being active again.Congestion - Cayenne Pepper, a pinch in 1/4 c. warm water, gargle and spit. Follow with a piece of buttered bread for the tender of mouth.Upset tummy/gas - any mint tea. Also relaxes the esophogus flap and eases burping.

I have a friend with a similar problem and nothing has helped, but his insomnia is a life long problem. Sometimes I have problems sleeping too, usually because of stress. When my mind just refuses to settle down and no amount of emptying my mind is helping I go the other direction and set it a problem or task, like calculating prime numbers or imagining every detail of a three dimensional object of my choice (such as a glass sculpture, an apple tree or a rock face). At some point, when the effort of holding all those details in perfect focus becomes too tiring, I slip into sleep without noticing.

,I'm in a similar situation where more than an hour of cooking exhasts me so here is a recipe. More to follow, I hope. First E-Z Chili This recipe I find ideal because it has very little work involved and it is spread throughout the day. Ingredients Pinto Beans optional: Red Beans optional: Piece of Salt Pork or 1/2 Hamhock Ground Beef - 1/4 lb. per person being served round off to nearest convenient lb. Onion - 1/2 to 2 onions depending on taste Oil or Margerine to saute Onion Favorite Salsa - about 1 c. per cup of dry beans to be varied by taste. Chili Powder to taste Honey or Brown Sugar - about 1/4 c. per cup of dry beans varied by taste. First, to prepare the beans for cooking; Select your beans, I use Pinto beans but sometimes add Red beans to the mix, and measure out the amount you wish to work with. To feed a family of 7 I use 3 cups(dry beans) and usually have a little left over(makes great chip dip). Sort your beans to remove any little stones or other non-bean objects, rinse and set to soak in water, 4x amount of beans. If you are really planing ahead and doing this step the night before then just leave overnight. If you are doing this in the morning then you need to bring your beans and water to a boil and keep it boiling for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and cover to let sit for 1 hour. To cook the beans(begin 3 1/2 hours before time to serve); Drain beans, discarding soak water, rinse in fresh water at least once. Add water to the pot, 3 - 4 cups per cup of beans(when dry). (Optional: Add piece of salt pork or 1/2 hamhock.) Bring to simmer and cover to cook for 2 to 2 1/2 hours (I favor 2 1/2 hours for softer beans). Final Assembly(about 1/2 hour before serving); In skillet brown the Ground Beef and drain, set aside. While Beef is browning chop Onion then saute Onion in skillet in Oil or Margerine till onion is translucent, set aside. Add to cooked Beans; Beef, Onion, Salsa, Chili Powder and Honey or Brown Sugar. Stir to mix ingredients and serve. Best with cornbread on the side which, cooked from scratch should be begun 45 minutes before serving.

3 slices of dark bread. Do you have similar variety in your other meals? Seriously, let's take a look at this for a moment; rail thin, socially self conscious and always hungry. You're probably between 13 and 16 and still growing/developing. Am I close? Well, assuming I'm right I'll give you the advice that I would give anyone of any age. 1) Relax. Until you can "pinch an inch" how much you eat is not a problem, and the extra stress can hinder your efforts to gain an education. (Or if you ever face being overweight, losing it.) 2) As a growing girl you currently need more food than you eventually will but the key principle is to eat healthy foods, a variety of healthy foods. Try adding a fruit you like to your breakfast, especially one that can be eaten on the go. When you feel hungry have a granola bar or another food with grains, when you've got the munchies try raw veggies, like carrot sticks or salad makings, and when your sweet tooth makes demands go for fruit. 3) Try to stay away from junk food. Sometimes you will have to eat and it will be all that is available which is okay as long as it is not a daily part of your diet. Firstly, something swimming in grease is too much grease, we need some oil in our diet but only a little(and fish oil is best.) Secondly, prepackaged, hyper-preserved, longer-shelf-life-than-dirt foods are harder for our bodies to process for less nutrition. If you continue to have problems after applying these principles consider consulting a nutrition specialist. They are generally nice people just looking for an opportunity to help someone.

Why not remain a virgin? You get to bypass all the risk factors associated with sex. STDs, pregnancy, broken trust... Sex complicates a good relationship and becomes manipulative in a bad relationship.Within a marraige both parties have some legal protection for themselves and any offspring, outside of it it can get legally complicated if things go wrong.So lastly there is social perception... Sleep with one person and it becomes believable that you may have slept with others (some could earn a reputation for being a **** without ever doing anyone!) Sleep with someone and your spouse (when you get one) may always have a suspicion that their performance is being compared to an old flame's and they are found wanting.For those who want to stay a virgin and are finding themselves presured to not retain that most personal item, the person who doesn't respect your choice to say 'no' doesn't respect you. And then the question to ask yourself is, "Do I really want to be with someone who doesn't respect me?" I assure you, such a person will not respect you in the morning.

I see two possibilities, both positive:1) Being with you is a more active life than they had been living and the lifestyle change has had it's natural effect,2) Being happier has impacted their psychological need for 'comfort food' and their change in diet has had it's natural effect.Either way, as long as their change in weight has been healthy and not due to pressure from you then consider yourself complimented.

I've noticed that my worst cramps are accompanied by my lightest (and most extended) flows. I take some Calcium and my pain is alleiviated, and the whole thing is over quicker. The mood swings I can't do much about, just keep reminding myself that the offending person does not really deserve to die.

A lot of the problem with our off the shelf vitamins is that they lack the most important aspect of any medicine/vitamin: Absorbability. Some (perhaps many, I've only done limited research) vital minerals are only absorbed by the body at certain times, or in certain ways, and many off the shelf vitamin suplements are produced by companies who care more about selling the product than about the effectiveness of the product. An example of a tricky suplement is Calcium. Most people's calcium suplements pass right through them leaving only potential complications in the bladder with kidney stones. The problem is that Calcium must first be properly broken down in the stomache to where it can rebond in a form usable by the body and then it needs to stay that way long enough to be absorbed by the small intestine before the solution it is swimming in becomes base enough to allow it to rebond and become useless to the body. I'd suggest for anyone that any vitamin or mineral you are worried about a deficiency in (or excessive amounts of) do a little (or a lot of) research on what it needs to be effective.

In my experience good people will do their best to be good whatever their religeon or culture. They do their best to help people in need and find happiness. Bad people are still people and seek the acceptance of their culture, but if their culture is tolerant of evil acts or evil ideas then the bad person does not feel bound by society to 'play nice and get along'. Just because you and most people you know understand that everybody benefits if everybody is nice, doesn't mean that everybody accepts that, or wants to play nice. Giving them even a nod at social acceptance while they fulfil their basest of desires is one of the things encouraging those so inclined (or desperate) to do atrocious things in the name of religeon. And we are all judged by other peoples actions.

My second son has moderate autism. It was diagnosed before he turned three and he is now ten, and I must say it has been an interesting life. He is smart and observant, clever and artistic. His favorite subject is dinosaurs and he will call them by their proper names instead of diminuatives. But one of the most important things we learned over the years is that the most important contact for most autistics is physical, hugs and kisses and so forth. Because their visual peception is like seeing all the picture all the time it is easy for them to get over-stimulated and distressed or excited and the personal contact helps to cut through all the other stimuli vying for their attention. When our boy was little and still having trouble communicating verbally (and sometimes even now) what I did was to give him my hand and say, "Show me." And he would lead me to what he wanted and some patience, deductive reasoning and a few yes/no questions later and his wants were understood and his need to communicate met. Don't get me wrong, he is still one of the most stuborn kids I have ever had to deal with, but he doesn't strike out just because he isn't getting what he wants.In our efforts to help our boy we even went to a local parent support group... once. We found we had nothing in common with the parents or their children. The parents were more or less unanimous in their complaints about their autistic child's temper tantrums, bad behavior and simple violence. My husband and I quickly realized that they were not adressing their child's frustrations but trying to get on with their own lives. Much later when we were contacted by a counselor and we explained our son's idiosyncracies she noted that we had not mentioned any problems with temper tantrums or violence. We could only explain that we had experienced no such problems with him. After further questions about our relationship with our son, mostly concerning how much we hugged him, she revealed that, in her experience, the autistic kids who lack violent behavior are the ones whose parents always take the time to express to their autistic child that they are loved by holding them and hugging them.