During Ancient times health issues treatment included herbals and home remedies, due to a lack of health centers. But in today’s world to live free from health issues we seek medicines. Living a healthy life is a key to success and a healthy lifestyle plays a vital role in our life; and also to keep a healthy life we must maintain our health daily.
Expert says that consuming medicine daily isn’t good for health, and that may lead to other side effects. Today in this article I am going to share with you all the necessary basic home treatments and remedies by which you can cure any minor health issues such as scars, headaches, colds and coughs, stomach aches etc.
Nowadays people tend to be very weak and inactive due to their daily life schedules, environment, and other technology use, which makes our life more easier compared to earlier days.
Today I am going to mention the 10 most common health issues, that you can cure at home and avoid medicines.
Basic Health Issues to Avoid Medicines:
1. Headache: Headache is one of the most common health issues, we face headaches while stress, overwork, alcohol intake, lack of sleep, dehydration etc. Almost everyone is familiar with this issue and you cannot deny of not having a headache. Headaches can be easily cured at home with dozens of home natural remedies.
The most common cure for a headache is drinking water, and applying a warm or cold compress to your head, neck and forehead. Also, Drink water frequently and rest in a quite dark room.
You can also meditate alone with some essential oil rubbing a small amount of oil in your forehead or using some candles. Some of the essential oil fragrances I would recommend is lavender, tea tree oil, and peppermint.
2. Cold and Cough: Cold and cough usually occurs due to weather changes or sometimes may be due to adjustment of the body with weather. Cold and cough is a self-treatable common health issues, but to get well soon you need to take care of your health a little extra.
Many home remedies treat cold and cough. The very first thing you can do is drink hot. Anything hot such as hot soup, chicken soup, hot water with ginger, a hot cup of tea with ginger, or honey. Cold can be easily treatable with hot drinks or hot fluids.
If you have a runny nose, cough, or sneezing; Steam can be your option for home remedies. Nasal hot steam is one of the effective natural remedies to recover fast. Another home remedy includes salt water gargle (Persons with high BP or small children) should avoid this.
3. Minor cuts and scars: In our daily life this is very common, minor cuts and scars heal easily. When you get a cut firstly you clean the wound with water, then apply honey or aloe vera according to your availability, also you can apply coconut oil, and turmeric powder.
4. Indigestion: If you’re facing indigestion, chew a piece of ginger or drink a glass of ginger tea or ginger water, and this is going to help you cure indigestion. Indigestion is always discomfort to the stomach and it might occur after eating. Other remedies such as plain yogurt and peppermint tea can also cure.
5. Gastric: The most common problem faced by us, if our food timing changes due to some work schedules then we are going to face it without any calls. Well, to avoid gastric always drink water daily empty stomach early in the morning.
Not only gastric, but it also cures many stomach problems. The most instant cure is to drink water mixed with honey this is my experiment and I have also suggested a few of my friends and known people, they got the results too.
6. Fever: Fever is a sign of infection and this is when your body temperature rises and when your body is lacking something, your immune system becomes weak and you lose appetite too. To cure fever you can avoid eating heavy foods, and opt for light foods such as oats, and juice. Liquids will keep you hydrated and strong whereas it won’t help you reduce fever.
To reduce fever use a cold press on the forehead which will help your temperature cool down, and drink bone broth, and soups to fight infection. Always try to eat small meals as you will be losing your appetite. Rest heavily and wear light clothes.
7. Sunburn: There are thousands of remedies and therapies for sunburn, but helping yourself by taking precautions is one of the best things you can do. Well sunburn cannot be cured overnight but some remedies can help you recover sunburn, but if you do not take precautions by wearing sunblock clothes then it will automatically come back to you after exposing on the sun again.
Some of the self care treatments are cool water, aloe Vera gel, drink plenty of water to stay hydrated and keep yourself moist.
8. Sore throat: Curing sore throat can be irritating and this is one of the most uncomfortable issues. Gargling warm water can help reduce sore throat and it helps in reducing inflammation and killing bacteria.
9. Muscle soreness: Muscle soreness is caused when you do some kind of activity or participate in a new activity with the help of your muscles or body and this can happen to any age. To cure muscle soreness try to stretch gently to your muscle, and make use of a heating pad or ice on the area to reduce inflammation.
10. Allergies: Allergies are irritation of skin with food or any substances. Try to avoid the food to which you are allergic even if you love that food. The best solution and cure for allergy is to avoid the allergic substances.
Living a healthy life is a personal choice, living healthy can increase our life longevity and most of basic thing we can help ourselves is by drinking water regularly, doing exercise or physical activity, avoiding harmful substances, maintaining social connections such as engaging with family or other people community, and that will help our well-being more productively.
In this article, I have mentioned the basic health issues of home remedies, for which you can avoid medicines if your issues are minor. But it is always recommended for a health checkup if your issues are beyond extreme. The remedies I have mentioned are curable and treatable experiments.
So drink plenty of water and live a healthy clean life… Hope you’ve enjoyed my article Thanks!
