Antibiotic time bomb

only the above and it seems to work, the other herbal treatment i have used on my horses for years is chickweed, you boil it down and mix with lard let it cool and use it as a salve on cuts and abrasions works very well as good as any veterinary treatment better in some cases, never used it on humans not sure why really, but i do believe it is great for skin problems and has anti rheumatic properties but how it is used for that i dont know, but for animals it gets a thumbs up.
Oh and i always have witch hazel in my cupboard, use on both animals and human great for bumps bruises and cuts but it does sting lol

@(f)politics? wrote:

@pats wrote:

the best cure fa pain is alcohol. :wink: (unless anyone knows of a good cure fa tension headaches. :evil:

st johns wort widely used for mild depression i believe but fantastic for hangovers no idea why but it works lol so may help tension headaches, though be careful if ur taken other meds it may be herbal but they can be just as dangerous as regular drugs.

someone told me apple cider vinegar was brilliant for arthritis.

@rubyred wrote:

a silver birch tree contains Aspirin,,ya feel a bit of a tube getting caught sitting up a tree,gnawing on a branch though..

Im sorry but that just made me laugh and laugh loud lol Ruby i love you lol

Antibiotics, particularly broad spectrum ones, should never really be used unless it is a last resort, Ie you are about to die from pneumonia.

You are doing yourself no favours by taking antibiotics, they have side effects, starting with the almost total loss of all the ‘domesticated’ bacteria in your gut, that do you no harm at all. They also have other side effects, lest we forget they are chemicals designed to poison living things.

Many illnesses are in fact caused by viruses, who have taken hold opportunistically because bacteria have sprung up somewhere. Doctors are rightly very reluctant to prescribe antibiotics because over time, bacteria grow resistant, and bacteria do not multiply and form new novel strains at the same that we can invent antibiotics.

You may well be able to purchase amoxicillin (this is a commonly used drug in pigs actually) at the chemist everytime you get a cold, but there Is no way I would take them- all well and good until one day you end up in hospital with some more serious problem, they prescribe antibiotics and lo and behold, they don’t work…

You are supposed to continue taking a course of antibiotics because they do not have a good half life in the body, so need replacing regularly, and of course you want to kill all the pathogenic organisms you are trying to get rid of, rather than expose a few to a non-lethal dose of antibiotics and thus encourage them to become resistant.