Sick Kids!

                     
      "Let food be your medicine"   Hippocrates.

If you're a parent you have likely at some point in time had a sick child. When your child is sick, it can really stir your fears, deep seated ones. Ones we like to keep locked tuck away in a place we rarely visit. Depending on how sick your child is, sometimes that door can be unlocked and the fear can set it. This fear can really screw up how you handle a sick child and sometimes it can make you react at lightening speed.

I have deep belief that when the body is ill, it has the amazing ability to heal itself given the right tools.
Three weeks today, my sweet Riley came home from hockey and told us he wasn't feeling well, this rarely happens and he lied down on the couch and fell asleep. Seems normal enough, I suppose, I took his temperature and I as I suspected it wasn't high enough for me to treat. In typical Riley fashion, each year when he catches a bug, he develops a low grade fever and typically a day or 2, that is the end of it. I wasn't concerned at all.
On Monda, he still wasn't better and developed a really nasty cough so he stayed home. It was determined by the good ol' doctor he had a cold. Ok, I thought, I will let him rest at home, no hockey or football training for the week. By Wednesday he was climbing the walls and wanted to go to school and hockey. I was not convinced he was better, as this cough was really nasty so he stayed at home until the following Monday. He went to school and to hockey practice. After hockey practice, it looked like death was knocking on his door. He was a very sick young man.
Here is the deal with Riley, he has never been on antibiotics and when he does feel ill, it typically clears up within a day or two. He was home for an entire week! YUP, next day, Doc confirmed Pneumonia. I was very confused how does this happen? Riley hasn't even had an ear infection, throat, sinus,or respiratory infection. How does he go from being super healthy to super sick with Pneumonia?
I know how, but I will leave that for a later discussion.

Riley is a really busy 11yr old, whom has some really big dreams, and doesn't want to be held back by anything.
Since he isn't the only boy in the house naturally Kelly developed a fever too! Double Whammy! Just my luck and opps my FEAR! Oh shit, is all I could say!
Again, I believe the body knows how to heals itself given the right tools! I do need to thank Lisa Formosa, a homeopath, I have had to good fortune to learn from. " Let food be your medicine."

Garlic Poultice, Carrot & Ginger Juice!

The Garlic Poultice works wonders. This is the first time I used it and I couldn't believe the results.
I followed a simple recipe---

4 cloves of garlic chopped
folded in paper towel
soaked in warm water for 5 minutes
squeezed off excess water
rubbed olive oil on Riley's chest                              *Kelly, I placed the poultice on the bottom of his feet.
placed on his chest for 5 min intervals for an hour.

Both go to the Dr on Monday and viola, both are clear, no fluid in the lungs. You would never even know Kelly was sick. Riley on the other hand you can tell he had the crap kicked out off him but none the less, he is much better, though it has taken time.

I strongly recommend Carrot Juice with ginger & spinach for the lungs. I love my Jack Lalanne juicer!

I was really worried, as Kelly's temperature was high enough for him to be taken to the hospital. It was an hour by hour deal with him and I was unnerved! 2 days, 2 nights up all night hour by hour checking his fever, I used Kids Advil when his temp reached 104.5, yea I know what your thinking............it would stabilize, then on the 2nd night I used the garlic poultice, 5 min intervals for an hour and again each hour during the night. The next day he woke up happy, went to the Dr and nothing.

I truly believe the garlic poultice worked and I would recommend everyone to use it when you want to draw out the infection naturally. Of course, always see the Doctor, they are the professional's in illness.

Today's unnatural processed food can make your body weak against germs, and today's real natural food, herbs can heal the weak body.

Amazing eh?