I’ve been developing arthritis in my fingers. My mom said she had the same issue in her 20s, and to drink 1 tbsp raw unprocessed apple cider vinegar, 1 tbsp raw unprocessed honey, mixed with some orange juice (to cut the taste) (I doubled everything because I’ma big guy). And voila! She said she had to do it for a year straight before it helped, but I’ve been doing it barely a week and I already feel ~15% better!

Do you all have any stories of unconventional home remedies / alternative medicine?

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      Didn’t even think of that, I’ve actually enjoyed the taste and been swilling it around my mouth 🤦‍♂️😅 thanks for the tip!

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          I’d say relatively pretty decent, I eat fruits and vegetables everyday, decent meats (avoid red), but also some processed/sugary/fried stuff too. How come?

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    Change the orange juice for water, Add some powdered ginger and you have yourself a tasty drink 👍 I also add lemon juice

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      My scurvy ass could always use some vitamin C, sometimes i drink straight lemon/lime juice but that’s more for shock value

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        So try 1l water, 47ml apple cider vinegar, 95ml honey (the recipe is normally made with molasses or even maple syrup but if you need honey then try with honey), and 3g powder ginger. Measure those 3g on a kitchen scale because it’s a lot of powder, more than you’d expect. Whisk until it dissolves as much as possible, then let decanting happen, the powder ginger will eventually settle at the bottom. Leave in the fridge and you can drink it like that, or what I do is mix it with just a little bit of ice tea. You could try adding lemon juice in it but I think then you’d need a bit more sugar as well.

        You can also add a little bit of rum, it goes great. Drink in the next few days, it doesn’t keep for very long. Tastes better the next day in my opinion when the ginger has properly dissolved too.

        Old-timey energy drink from the 1700s lol

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      My brother brought some from an education trip to Argentina, I just thought it was their version of tea/coffee. Cool!

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        Apparently it has the health benefits of green tea, chocolate, and coffee all in one. Often if I wake up from a poor sleep feeling crappy, Yerba usually makes me feel better. Not to mention the joy of drinking it.

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    I’d recommend adding nettle to your diet to help with the arthritis.

    You can drink it as a tea and it’s quite nice but tbh I think you get better mileage from using dried nettle leaves as a substitute for dried parsley and/or as an addition to where you would use spinach. It’s very nutritious too.

    Basically, if you’re going to make something like spinach and ricotta lasagna then you can add a heaping pile of dried nettle leaves (anywhere from a tablespoon to a handful) and you won’t even notice it.

    I think you need to be a little cautious about incorporating it into your diet early on because too much can cause diarrhoea and stomach upsets but once you’ve adjusted to it then you can go hard on it.

    Nettles have been a subsistence food and peasant food for centuries, if not millennia. It’s prole af.

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    Olive oil is great for dry skin problems. I had some very deep cracks in my foot causing me lots of pain. After a week of applying some every night they were as good as new. Just don’t use it on acne-prone parts of your body like your face, for obvious reasons.

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    Cialis for kidney stones

    Pressing thumbs onto the sides of your nose (on your sinuses) with a tilted head to clear sinuses rapidly

    Breathing exercises for pain

    Ginger for motion sickness and nausea

    Salt gargle for all throat ailments