Sunday, February 20, 2011

nicole gets athlete's foot: the year's most compelling drama

about a week and a half ago, one of my toes was feeling weird and itchy and hot. when i looked at it, it was really red and the skin was peeling off. after some internet research, i discovered i probably had athlete's foot (tinea pedis). gross! i decided to try some essential oils to get rid of it, since it is a fungal infection. i had some eucalyptus and clary sage, which apparently & luckily are some of the most anti-fungal essential oils of all.
at first i mixed them into some drops of the only oil i had, organic canola oil, and put it on my toe twice a day, then covered it with a bandaid. within a few hours the itching had been greatly reduced. also i took some goldenseal tincture the first day, but forgot to after that. after a few days i had an intuition that the canola oil probably wasn't helping very much, oil being so prone to hosting molds. so i just started putting one drop of each essential oil on my toe. within a few days my infection had vanished. raising my fist to the night sky, i rejoiced, crying out - A POX ON YOU, LAMISIL A.T.! ONE MORE VICTORY FOR HERBAL MEDICINE!

2 comments:

  1. dig it! way to listen to your inuition. keep on raising that fist to the night sky!

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  2. Nice story. I'm passing the word along to a friend currently battling the AF.

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