My bay magnolia

The magnolia is thriving in this rain. I'm working on a list of remedies for the home, a better medicine cabinet. It would behoove people to throw out (not flush down toilet) all prescription drugs; especially families with children. There is an epidemic of prescription drugs in the schools. We don't need them - most all of them are unnecessary. There are better home remedies and homeopathic remedies. Baking soda is perhaps one of the most amazing wide acting items in the home. Many of us know that a 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda mixed with a little water can alkalize the system, great for indigestion! A little baking soda and vinegar makes a fine poltice for bee stings.In a wonderful seminar last weekend the homeopath, naturopath, eclectic healer, Robin Murphy spoke of a retired truck driver, herbalist who is curing late stage cancers with a warmed mixtrue of maple syrup and baking soda. Cayenne pepper can stop a heart attack. Someday historians will marvel over the pharmaceutical giants of this day and perhaps see this as another power move similar I think to the murder of witches in Europe when the church sought to take over the art of healing and herbalism. In this case the phamaceuticals used marketing via the great brain wash medium of TV to persuade the general population of the need to seek a drug for any and all complaints. What a boone for the Drug Companies to realize the secondary benefits of drug induced maladies; eg. folks on high blood pressure meds who become depressed. Note the "side effects" of drugs is a list of provings; homeopaths know this as they did the first drug provings. ach.....................