This is flu and cold season. The best defense is an offense, and doing a detox with mustard bath is a good way to stay ahead of the germs and the H1N1.
A hot bath with Epsom Salts or other bath salts, coupled with Dr. Singha’s Mustard Bath will detox your body. Eliminating toxins, which weaken the immune system, helps rid your body of potential bouts with flu and colds. The idea here, though, is to keep on top of it. By regularly taking a hot detox bath - which raises body temperature - you are killing off germs. That’s what a fever does where you’re sick. It’s the body’s natural reaction to the virus. Why not help it?
When my throat feels scratchy and I fear I might be bitten by some errant bug, I jump in the tub and ‘boil’ myself for an hour or two. I guess, too, that I am blessed with a good immune system, but I never get sick. I don’t get colds and haven’t had the flu in over 30 years. (knock wood)
I’m not saying that Dr. Singha’s Mustard bath will cure the H1N1 flu or a cold once it’s gotten a good grip on you. No, it’s just a good cold and flu fighter and keeps your system running better to fight off illness.
This is my own testimony to the healing effects of detox baths and bath salts.
On Christmas Eve, I took a nasty fall on the stairs inside my home. I missed the last step and went down like a ton of bricks. Most of my weight landed on my right hand and knee, but my fall was broken (thankfully) by some boxes at the foot of the stairs. As I was falling, and apparently by instinct trying to find balance, I yanked down the brass hall tree, which fell on top of me. I got ’stabbed’ on the back by one of the arms of the tree, leaving a cut and nasty bruise. My leg had a bruise that ran from my kneecap half way up my thigh! (I’m gettin’ too old for acrobatics!)
That night I knew the best thing to do was to take a hot bath in Dr. Singha’s Mustard Bath. This I knew from other ‘over-exertions’ would draw some of the soreness and pain out of my body.
Being injured produces a myriad of chemical reactions in the body. Physical effects include stiffness wherein the affected area tries to immobilize itself to heal torn or stretched ligaments or bruises. We also react unconsciously, by limiting our movements. Taking a hot bath in salts or a detox solution helps to relieve pain and stiffness. It draws toxins from the injured area away and out. Old blood that has pooled due to bruising is stimulated to move out, reducing more pain.
The next morning - I could not believe how sore I wasn’t! I thought for sure I’d really be hobbling and unable to move. Yeah, my knee was touchy and the immediate area where it was bruised was tender, but all in all - I truly believe the detox bath helped!
‘Tis the season for slipping and sliding on icy stairs and sidewalks. A Dr. Singha’s Mustard Bath and oil in your medicinal arsenal will do wonders to help with winter acrobatics!
Produce on grocery store shelves may look good, but there’s a dirty secret behind it. Most of it has been grown using chemical fertilizers. The earth in which it has grown has been treated with herbicides, fungicides and pesticides, too. It has also been genetically engineered to resist treatment with weed killers like “Round-Up” . What you’re getting in the store is loaded with potential toxins. This food has traveled an average of 1500 miles to get to your plate and has probably - without your knowledge - been irradiated: treated with low levels of radiation to kill off bugs and prolong storage.
The food at your local farmer’s market is a lot different. Raised in soils amended without chemicals, the food is healthier from the get go. Studies have shown that the nutritional value of food has actually declined in the last 50 years due to poor soil management. Farms have for the most part abandoned the age-old practice of crop rotation, thus stressing out the soil and depleting nutrients.
If your buy meat from your local farmer’s market, most vendors do not treat their animals with steroids or antibiotics. Do you really want to eat steroids (growth hormones) or expose your kids to more antibiotics?
Check out this link for farmer’s markets near you: LocalHarvest.org
Another plus is that your money is staying in the community. You are also helping your local farmer stay in business, rather than sell his/her land to a mega farm or to a developer. We DON’T need more shopping malls!
You can further reduce your toxin load by taking a regular detox bath. This assists your body in fighting off illness and enhances the removal of toxins. Be clean - inside and out!
The environment is tops on everyone’s list. Browse the ‘new and notable’ tables at your favorite book store and GREEN jumps out at every turn.
You can help introduce your friends and family to environmentally friendly living, too.
Give them a GREEN GIFT of organic personal care, 
or bath salts, 
or perhaps some
mustard bath. 
or a detox seaweed bath 
Henna hair coloring 
is a great way to lessen a loved one’s exposure to possible carcinogens in chemical dyes.
You can promote sustainability, independence and encourage environmentally friendly business in impoverished nations by purchasing fair trade gifts. 
Artisans worldwide produce crafts and are paid a fair wage. This also helps preserve ancient crafts which are rapidly disappearing as populations move to urban areas.
Another great way to introduce environmentally friendly living is to get a GIFT CERTIFICATE to start a friend sampling some environmentally responsible products. Often people are a bit hesitant to give up what they know, but once they try things, they find they are doing TWO things at once: saving the environment and being more environmentally responsible themselves!
This could be toward the purchase of a Sun-Mar composter 
or perhaps a rain barrel…, 
or even for a composting toilet 
or maybe for a portable solar powered battery charger, 
which is great for travellers!
We also have unusual 
art and 
gifts like original art 
by local Virginia artists.
There are many ways that you can spread the word about sustainable, green and helping the environment!
Thank you MONSANTO! Thank you ORTHO! Thank you to ALL those wonderful scientists who thought they were helping this world when some of this stuff was invented.
OK…, OK…, I know about the miracle of plastics and synthetic compounds and how they have revolutionized life on this planet.
Let’s also remember that as we are finding out, ‘fake’ isn’t better. Synthetic isn’t necessarily better. Why? Because it’s killing us.
Modern science is gathering evidence that artificial ingredients are making us sick. Decades have passed since this stuff was first introduced into our food. Look at us now? We’re fat and sick… some of us are dying from cancer BECAUSE of the stuff.
Our bodies cannot metabolize those fake ingredients. They cause all sorts of havoc in our bodies as they try to deal with them. The result: cancer, hormonal disruptions, illness, allergies and mysterious diseases.
Pesticides are endocrine disruptors, carcinogenic and weaken the immune system. They are also NEUROTOXINS. How do you think they kill bugs? The chemical makes their systems shut down - BANG ! Little by little, with enough exposure, humans suffer a different reaction. These insidious compounds lodge in fat cells and organs and sit there for decades. By then - there may be other factors, coupled with the weakened immune system and the whole body goes nuts and says “I GIVE UP!” Result: cancer.
I heard a story of a woman who worked at a company where she was in contact with chemicals on a regular basis. I don’t know what the extent OF the exposure was; direct, indirect, exposure to fumes, or what chemical. I do know that her hair started falling out, she had terrible pain and many other symptoms. Doctor after doctor dismissed her as a hypochondriac because their standard blood & urine tests revealed nothing.
Finally she went to a doctor who was inquisitive enough to run some different tests which evidenced that this poor woman was slowly being poisoned!
This is how insidious these things can be. If you or someone you know has been diagnosed as a hypochondriac, tell them to get a different doctor who will do some extensive tests for poisonings.
It could save their life!
In the meantime, we all need to DETOX on a regular basis. A mustard bath or a bath with healing salts can help detoxify your body. Plenty of fresh water to help wash out toxins, too! Using organic personal care items can help keep toxins out of your system, too
Pesticides pose a health risk to humans, especially children. Because the ‘pests’ they are designed to kill - insects, fungi and plants, their use in the past half century has become the norm. Not only farmers use them but the average household uses a frightening amount each year.
Pesticide manufacturers will SWEAR that these products are safe. I once attended a seminar given by some of the folks at Ortho, Spectracide and others. I was absolutely enraged to hear these men LIE about being able to put these toxins on FOOD, then eat them an hour later! I wanted to stand up and scream…, alas, it would have meant the end of my job. They will defend them to the minute they are pulled off the market!
Recent studies show that they cause damage in the following areas of human health:
Skin, lung and eye irritations
Neurological systems
Hormone
Carcinogenic effects
What can you do? Limit your exposure as much as possible and detox your body often. This list gives information of how you can help yourself avoid pesticides and why!
Just a simple start of a detox bath once or twice a week, plus eating organic food, drinking purified water can go a long way to help reduce the toxic load. These poisons accumulate in the body, so it’s time to get rid of them - for a healthier YOU !
Until a few years ago, only the most savvy spa worshiper had probably even heard of detoxing with salts. Now, however, bath salts, aromatic bath salts, along with Epsom salts have become well known.
Salt has long been used as a purifier. Salt was, and still is in some cultures, used as a preservative. Now, however, it is used for detoxification and cleansing.
Containing many different minerals depending on its origin, salt’s healing properties have been extolled for centuries. Its exfoliating action not only strips dead skin cells but actually draws out toxins upon contact with the skin. When mixed with organic oils, which also have their own healing properties, salt promotes rejuvenation of the skin through many layers.
Bathing in itself is relaxing and healing, perhaps taking us back to our time in the womb…, who knows?
Tis the season for colds and flu which makes taking a hot detox bath even more important for overall health. Add some aromatic bath salts and organic oils to your next bath and see if you don’t instantly feel better!
What could be more romantic for Valentine’s Day than to gift your sweetie with detox bath products and organic facial care?
It’s not just for the ladies, either. Detox bath products are important for the guy in your life to use too. Doesn’t he deserve a good soak in a hot tub after a long day? Doesn’t his face need some moisturizing from organic facial care? Spa baths aren’t just for girls anymore. Guys appreciate a bath, too, especially in the winter.
Spa bath products make everybody feel better. They rev up your immune system which is important now that flu season is here. Tired muscles relax in a aromatic bath.
Why not give your sweetie ‘a bath’ for Valentine’s Day? He -or she - might really appreciate it!
A healthy body needs to rid itself of toxins. A beneficial treatment is a massage, followed by a detox bath using bath salts.
Massage stimulates the body physically, mentally and emotionally, assisting healing and enabling the body to heal itself. One of the ways that you can help your body is to follow a massage with a detox bath using aromatic bath salts and herbal remedies.
Following a massage, your body’s entire system is in a cleansing mode. Human touch itself is a basic need of life; our body actually responds to touch in beneficial ways. Direct stimulation of muscles helps carry toxins out of the body which is why, following a massage, you should drink plenty of water to flush your body.
The evening after a massage, you can continue the benefits by taking a detox bath in aromatic bath salts or sea salts. The action of the salts further stimulate the circulation which draws out toxins. Other remedies, such as a mustard bath, combined with the salts increases the effects of the bath salts. Epsom salts, which are very permeable through the skin, also serve to enhance the action of the bath or sea salts.
The scent of the aromatic bath salts - or the mustard bath - acts as an olfactory stimulation which relaxes you, assisting further in detoxing.
Help your body heal. Schedule a massage, then go home and soak in a good hot bath!
If you’ve done any reading at all on statistics of cancer worldwide, nations with the greatest intake of processed food have the highest rates of this disease.
While browsing the book, Foods to Fight Cancer by Richard Beliveau, Ph.D and Denis Gingras, Ph.D (DK Books, 2007 ISBN# 978-0-7566-2867-3) a map showing the global distribution of cancer incidences tells all. North America, Europe, Australia, Eastern Europe (Hungary & the Czech Republic) are colored in bright red showing highest rates. Most favorable are the dark green areas: parts of western Africa, and Southeast Asian nations of India, Thailand, and China are lowest.
Industrialized nations, which consume greater amounts of processed foods containing artificial ingredients with no nutritional value, more meat and dairy, high sodium, sugar and chemical additives, are far more at risk for cancer. In regions which eat a diet made up of unprocessed natural foods: fruits, vegetables, nuts and soy, are far less likely to develop it.
The traditional Japanese diet, high in vegetables, fish, soy, with little consumption of meat, is today being replaced by Western fare. Presently in Asia there has been a tremendous increase in “Western diseases” because of the switch to industrialized eating
Michael Pollen pointed out in his book, A Guide to Food - An Eater’s Manifesto that humans today are eating a diet of “food-like substances,” meaning processed foods; fast food, sodas, canned, boxed, microwaveable, which rely on chemicals for taste. He stresses that we should read labels very carefully. We should stay away from packaged items with more than 5 ingredients, and from those made up of chemical compounds. “Don’t eat food with ingredients you can’t pronounce.” he cautions. The ideal diet should be what our bodies were designed to eat: mostly vegetables and only “what our grandmothers would recognize as food.” I take that one step further and reword it to what our great grandmothers would recognize as food.
Typical Western diets focus on quickly providing the body with fuel. Asian diets, on the other hand, use food to maintain health. The axiom “food is medicine” certainly applies here. After all, doesn’t what we eat affect our health?
It is interesting to note that Westerners also approach medicine differently than their Asian counterparts. Americans seek medical care to ‘treat’ illness which is directly related diet. In efforts to preserve health, people from Eastern countries are more likely to eat naturally and use ancient remedies, thus preventing illness.
Research indicates that risk factors for cancer are:
Poor dietary habits 30%
Smoking 30%
Hereditary factors 15%
Obesity & lack of exercise 5%
Work-place related exposure 5%
Infection 5%
Alcohol 3%
Pollution 2%
UV-ray exposure 2%
Drugs 1%
Other 1%
The top 2 factors are within everyone’s control; hereditary we can do nothing about. We can, however, choose what we eat or whether to smoke or the amount of exercise we get. A good detox regimen: a series of detox baths, followed by a detox diet and organic foods will help rid the body of toxins, reducing the chance of cancer.
Out of everything, the diet may be the easiest act to clean up and there is no better time than your next meal or trip to the grocery store.