Category: Dr. Mom
Sing-a-long with Arwen & Skully the Skeleton to learn about what to do when you get a boo-boo.
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Category: Dr. Mom, Headlines, Here's to your Health!
Tags: First aid, first aid for kids, gilpin county colorado, hands on health, health literacy, health workshops for kids, healthy kids, kids songs, lesson plan, nonprofit, RICE
We love our Mountain Mamas – some of the hardest working mamas around. We chop wood, drag slash, carry water, and clean out the privy. Fa real, it’s hard work and we love it. So, with all the depths of…
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Category: Dr. Mom, Headlines
Tags: black hawk, clean out the privy, Colorado, drag slash, family friendly events, herbal face mask, herbal foot soak, herbal tea, mother's day, mountain mamas, tea party
Public health officials base their forecast on the Southern Hemisphere’s flu season from the previous summer – and they’re all saying THIS winter’s flu forecast is worse than usual. That’s also how they usually develop the current years’ vaccine –…
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Category: Apothecary, Dr. Mom, Headlines
Tags: adaptogenic herbs, Dr. Gregory Pais, flu season 2017, flu season 2018, health benefits of garlic, herbal remedies, Naturopathy, nutritional healing, vitamin c, vitamin D, zinc
Favorite thing about the Holistic Homestead #67: We are more interested in EMPOWERING YOU to take charge of your health with simple, DIY, all natural remedies – than in making money from our products (we are a nonprofit, after all)!…
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Category: Apothecary, Dr. Mom, Headlines
Tags: candied lemon, diy health, dr. b's cough syrup, health and wellness, herbal cough syrup, homemade cough syrup, homesteading skills, horehound, licorice root, lobelia, make your own cough syrup, natural health, the holistic homestead, wild cherry bark
Way #1: Recognize (and appreciate!) that our kids are actually here to teach compassion to US boring, jaded, and temperamental adults. (I’m talking about myself here…mostly…)
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Category: Dr. Mom, Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: benefits of prayer, compassionate kids, cultivating compassion, Dr. Mom, empathy, family prayer, generosity, gratitude, kids and meditation, kids and spirituality, loving kindness, religion, teaching kids compassion, teaching kids empathy, winter retreat
Wait…wait! Don’t skip this one right away. You’re probably thinking, what the heck is “viral gastroenteritis” and “why should I care?” Basically, this is really bad diarrhea with vomiting, which are common symptoms of the stomach flu, but it can…
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Category: Dr. Mom, Headlines
Tags: Chamomilla, diarrhea, Dr. Gregory Pais, First aid, gastroenteritis, hirschsprungs disease, homeopathic treatment, homeopathy, how to treat dehydration, natural remedies for flu, Naturopathy, pedialyte, stomach flu, viral, vomiting
Sometimes I don’t even have the will to write. All I can do is cry and pray, and try to be strong for my little one who lives with Hirschsprung’s Disease (HD).
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Category: Dr. Mom, Headlines
Tags: arsenicum album, belladonna, Children's Hospital Colorado, cina, colocynthis, enterocolitis, HD, hirschsprungs disease, home management of HD, homeopathic remedies for diarrhea, homeopathic remedies for fever, homeopathic remedies for vomiting, lycopodium, probiotics, Pulsatilla, special needs children, sulphur
When my son was first diagnosed with HD (Hirschsprung Disease) I had never heard of it. In fact, it’s rare enough that most of the general public, and even a good deal of medical professionals have never studied or encountered…
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Category: Dr. Mom
Tags: denver children's hospital, dr. stig somme, ganglion cells, HD diet, HD moms, hirschsprungs disease, Hirschsprungs Disease blogs, holistic medicine for HD, long segment HD, natural treatments for HD, potty training and HD, short segment HD, special needs kids
The Holistic Homestead.org is way more than a blog – it’s a resource. We have cataloged literally hundreds of articles covering everything from health policy, the vaccine debate, herbalism, spirituality and health, and first aid…if there’s a topic that intersects…
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Category: Apothecary, Dr. Mom, Headlines
Tags: brigitte mars, earache oil, medicinal uses of mullein, mullein cough drops, mullein flowers, mullein infusion, mullein tea, natural cough remedies, natural earache remedy, quit smoking herbal blend, quitters blend
A large manufacturer of Homeopathic remedies has recently recalled three specific products from markets nationwide: Kids teething tablets, Kids Ear Relief Liquid, and Kids Ear Relief Oral Liquid. The reason for the recall is one ingredient in these homeopathic preparations:…
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Category: Dr. Mom, Headlines
Tags: atropa belladonna, belladonna, history of homeopathy, homeopathic recalls, homeopathy for kids, hyland's homeopathics, natural healing, raritan pharmaceuticals, Samuel Hahnemann, science behind homeopathy, teething tablets recalled