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little
college learning out of the books, people asking me questions and
offering scenarios and just plain old library research and trying out
stuff myself.
Thank
goodness for the big encyclopedia that some of you call a computer. I
don’t use mine for computing anything! I use it for educating myself.
It’s like a big wonderful book with lots of pictures. If I need to
cipher anything, I do it in my head or with a pencil and paper.
Let
me say what’s on my mind today.
"Tea-tree
oil" is from the Ti tree. Melaleuca alternifolia is in the
myrtle family of plants and though native to Australia, it is a
relatively easy shrub to grow.
The
oil is a remedy for lots of things from battling cold-sores to thwarting
certain types of staphylococcus boils. I guess you’d have to have a
pretty good supply of these plants to make as much oil as I use on a
daily basis.
I
keep a couple of bottles handy for such everyday gardening and farming
injuries as: thorn pricks, skinned knees, stick pokes and cut fingers. I
have even used it for injuries that I know will be below the skin and
cause a bruise. The tea-tree oil is supposed to penetrate the outer
layers of skin.
I
have tried it for some of the claimed remedies that I can honestly say
won’t work. Those are repelling mosquitoes and running off ticks that
have attached themselves to me. As a mosquito repellent, it only works
in mid-day and not in the cooler part of the evening when they are in a
feeding frenzy. Also, I have doused ticks with eye-droppers full of the
oil and waited for 10 to 15 minutes for them to turn loose of me. They
just kept on sucking and left me feeling foolish for not pulling them
off in the first place.
If
you live in a small town like I do, you can probably get the oil at the
drug store. If you live in a big city like Anniston, you’ll probably
have to get it from the health food store.
Tea-tree
oil has hundreds of uses that are documented and I use it regularly. If
I get hurt, I put some tea-tree oil on the injury and go on about what I
was doing. It may or may not really work, but it makes me feel better
knowing that I have treated a problem with a natural substance rather
than a drug. Besides; it makes me smell good!
If
you have any questions about other uses for tea-tree oil, email me at farmerht@yahoo.com and
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