Bedbugs! Non-toxic Eradication and Homeopathy

All God’s creatures, great and small? Okay … bumblebees, butterflies, bunnies.

Got it. But bedbugs? 

Oh, I think not! Bedbugs are not nice, not fluffy, not useful at all. 

They can lie dormant in your walls for a year without feeding, and then suddenly wake up hungry for blood.

They can latch on to you in hotels, on busses, in dentists’ offices … anywhere people gather, sit, and can drop a critter or its eggs.

Bedbugs are dirty, disgusting, and demoralizing.

They creep, they crawl, and they cause a lot of alliteration in this blog.  (more…)

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3 Homeopathic Remedies for Pesticide Exposure

I love our lawn. It’s large enough for an animated game of badminton, for the dog to zig-zag wildly across it and for large family gatherings around the fire pit. I also take pleasure in the creeping Charlie, dandelions and plantain that tiptoe through the grass and give it an embroidered appearance. 

But not everyone thinks that way. 

Although I live in a country/suburban neighborhood, there’s a neighbor down the road who contracts to have his lawn sprayed with pesticides.

One evening when my husband and I were on a walk, we ran into him, and I delicately mentioned that lawn pesticides have long been associated with certain cancers in humans and dogs. He paused momentarily. “Now that you mention it, every dog we’ve ever had has died of cancer … and my wife had breast cancer.” (more…)

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