You Know They Are the Best Home Remedies When Your Doctor Recommends Them

People generally tend to mistrust home remedies. They look upon them as unscientific, superstitious or even harmful. They don't feel this way for no reason, of course. There are any number of home remedies out there that make no sense whatsoever. But you can't say that of everything. Even the doctors believe in some of the best home remedies. They will sometimes recommend that you try those out first before you choose to medicate yourself. Let's take a look, shall we?

Let's start off with two of the best home remedies the natural world has to offer - honey and salt.

Most of us know that honey can be great for anything to do with a scratchy feeling in the throat - be it for reasons of sore throat or an oncoming cough. Many doctors believe now that honey can be great for cuts and scrapes. Honey has helped in this way for the longest time. Apparently, it contains a natural protein called defensin-1 that makes it antibacterial. To use it in this way, what we need to do is to dab a bit of warm honey on the injury you're concerned with, and then to dress it up in gauze bandage.

Salt can be great for sore throats too. Has been for as long as humans have existed. It can be of considerable help in a modern-day affliction too - sinusitis. If your sinuses are just clogged up and your head feels heavy, what you need do is to make a briny mixture that has more concentrated salt than your bodily fluids do. Prepare a strong salt solution and put it in a squeeze bottle to flush your sinuses out. It can be one of the best home remedies possible for unpleasantly clogged sinuses.

Did you ever notice that most antacids tend to be mint flavored? It turned out that way because through the ages, mint has been a great defense against stomachaches and indigestion. Mint has the ability to calm the muscles of the stressed-out digestive tract. An eased digestive tract allows food to pass far more easily, and it aids in digestion. Peppermint leaf tea should be great - unless you have regular trouble with acid reflux.

You wouldn't normally think to do anything with meat tenderizer - after all it’s a powerful enzyme that can practically dissolve meat. But used carefully, it can be a great way to take care of bee stings and mosquito bites. It works because the chief enzyme in meat tenderizer - papain - does more than just break down flesh. It also breaks down poisons. It makes short work of the poisons in beestings.