Breath of Fresh Air

	Chest/Neck Rub* 1 oz. Price: $12.00
Directions:Rub all over body or on local area where discomfort is located. Ingredients:Grapeseed Oil, Sweet Almond Oil, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Castor Oil, Vitamin E Oil, Thyme, Geranium and Lavender Oils Herbs Infused:Horehound, Anise, Blue Vervain, Angelica, Hyssop, Thyme, Lavender

Herbal Tea Bath* (2) 2 oz. pouches Price: $12.00 When herbs and essential oils are added to hot bath water, the molecules extracted from them begin to absorb into the bloodstream through the body's pores. The Magnesium Sulfate in the mineral salt helps promote better absorption.

Directions:Drop the bath tea in very hot bath water and allow herbs to seep for 5 minutes. Add cool water so your bath is not too hot. (Hot baths may dehydrate the body and high water temperatures can cause your skin to perspire and may not enable your body to absorb the properties of the herbs.) Soak in the tub with remedy for no less than 15 minutes. Ingredients:Horehound, Anise, Blue Vervain, Angelica, Hyssop, Epsom Salt, Thyme, Lavender, Geranium Essential and Fragrant Oils

These products are endorsed by a team of Natural Health practitioners located at the base of the Wasatch Mountains.

• As an expectorant, Horehound works to treat coughs and croup, common to children with colds. It will help to expel phlegm from the respiratory bronchial system. It affects the respiration directly by dilating vessels.
• Singers will find Horehound sustains vocal cords and helps with horarseness, laryngitis and congestion.

• Anise was used by Hypocrites for coughs
• Anise can be helpful in treating bronchitis

• Blue Vervain was used as a cure all and by some as being a sacred plant. It was used to save lives during the Medieval plagues.
• Blue Vervain is a quieting herb that helps calm coughing and is a natural tranquilizer.
• Blue Vervain is one of the best herbs to use to help alleviate the onset of a cold, especially with upper respiratory inflammation of the lungs.
• Blue Vervain will aid in expelling phlegm from the throat and chest.

• Angelica is invigorating and strengthening to the boday and can be used as a tonic to improve vitality and mental well being.

• The healing virtues of this plant are due to its volatile oil which is stimulative, carminative and sudorific in nature. Hyssop is used primarily for quinsy and other sore throat afflictions. Hyssop is excellent as a blood regulator, since it both increases the circulation and lowers the blood pressure.
• Hyssop is used to strengthen the immune system.
• Hyssop also helps the healing process by producing sweating.
• Hyssop has a multitude of specific curattive powers from treating poor digestion to inflammation of the breast, to clearing phlegm from the bronchial area. It is good fro treatment of coughs dure to colds and is helpful in the treatment of nose and throat infection.
• It will help to free congestion in the intestinal tract due to an excess amount of mucus.

• Thyme is a powerful germicide with a pleasant odor. It is used as a pharmaceutical product in gargle, mouthwashes and in toothpaste.
• Thyme has been reported to remove mucus from the head, lungs and respiratory passages.
• Thyme tea has been used as a remedy for shortness of breath

• Lavender is one of our best loved scented herbs, lavender or its oil is also one of the best remedies for burns and stings.
• Lavender is excellent for helping to heal cuts and has a strong antibacterial action.
• Herbalists use the oil to kill the diphtheria and typhoid bacilli as well as streptococcus and phoumococcus.
• Lavender has traditionally been used to treat chest infections, coughs, and colds, either as a infusion or a steam inhalation.
• Lavender has sedative properties and is good for calming anziety and tension, as well as relaxing spasms of the digestive tract.
• Lavender, as an infusion is good for nervous headaches and a few drops of the oil used in a massage oil will help relax muscles and ease neuralgic and rheumatic pain.

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