BARBARA O’NEILL notes taken from her original videos
POULTICES and more ……
The humble Onion

Onion draws – e.g. odours out of the air – helps remove a bad smell in fridge
Cooked onion is used for:
5. FLU WHACKER –
This can be used for bronchitis, asthma, flu,
pleurisy, pneumonia, sinus, head cold.
6. POTATO
Potato is a draw-er, but is very gentle.
For tissue inflammation.
Use where you would not use onion or garlic. In the tender parts of the body e.g. eyes.
It is very calming and soothing for inflamed eyes, conjunctivitis, sprained ankle.
Good for inflamed red areas – draws out and reduces inflammation.
Poultices – mess-free.
Wrap up Gladwrap a few times so it is larger than the poultice.
Then put the cloth for the poultice on top of the plastic.
Now grate the potato, straight onto the cloth. (disposable clean dish cloth would do).
Not for breast cancer
Good for sprained or swollen ankle.
Be careful not to use too much potato so the poultice doesn’t get soggy and leak.
Fold over the poultice, two sides, two sides so you have a square with the plastic just overlapping edges of the cloth.
Plastic goes on the outside.
Bandage to hold it in place – keep on for a few hours or all night.
Potato for tissue inflammation.
Sprained ankle, ingrown toenail.
Splinters (you might need to repeat a few times until the splinter comes out by itself. We removed a big splinter in five days
Example of a three year-old standing on a rusty nail – in about ½ inch.
Bathed the little boy to clean him and calm him down.
Potato compress, bandaged, sock on and shoe on. No more pain.
That night a fresh grated potato poultice. Repeated for three nights.
After third night on top of the poultice were shavings of metal a bluish colour.
So the potato had handled the pain, healed the foot and pulled out the now cleaned-up rusty fragments!

7. GINGER – for joint inflammation.
Grate, even frozen ginger. Use the juice, e.g. for gout, arthritic finger or joint.
Sore lower back – usually indicates inflammation. Same poultice procedure. Apply about 6pm.
Best in the evening as the skin can get a little irritated/hot.

What an amazing product, for just so many different conditions – safe, simple and super-helpful
A NOTE ON POULTICES
Vegetable matter poultices – discard
Castor oil compress can be used again and again.
8. CAYENNE PEPPER
will thin the blood, rebuild heart muscle, strengthen the arterial walls.
Cayenne pepper is a blood stimulant and anything that stimulates blood stimulates healing. It has been said that any other herb you add cayenne pepper to will increase its effectiveness.
You can use it internally. For a sore throat. It will tingle at first but once that abates the throat will be greatly relieved. It it not burning, but is rather stimulating.
Use topically to bring blood to an area.
If someone has no feeling in their feet or has peripheral neuropathy or continual cold feet.
Perfect health requires perfect circulation.
Perfect circulation means your feet and hands are warm.
If someone has cold feet (don’t use hot water) do this:
Olive Oil and Cayenne Pepper compress
Clingwrap and double layer of clean kitchen paper.
Sprinkle with olive oil (you could use Castor Oil if you like). You want sufficient olive oil that the cayenne pepper will stick to it, but not too much, to avoid leaking.
Sprinkle cayenne pepper over the olive oil (about ½ tsp to one foot).
The foot goes straight on that and it will never burn.
Clingwrap over and then a sock on.
For someone with poor circulation it might take a few days’ treatment (they will start just feeling pins and needles).
It’s a gentle treatment and good way of increasing blood supply to the extremities.
You can make these “packs” beforehand and pack them up, e.g. if travelling.
Usually best if applied overnight.
Put on thyroid for an underactive thyroid. Any area where there is no feeling.

9. CHARCOAL
Charcoal can absorb up to 150 times its own weight in poisons.
Is unique in that it not only absorbs poisons, but also neutralises poisons.
It can be used internally for poisoning, diarrhoea (e.g. when travelling and consuming suspect food).
Use topically for bee stings, wasp stings, spider and even snake bites.
When you mix charcoal with water, it’s like mixing soil with water. To avoid mess, mix it with Psilium or Ground Flax.
Use equal amounts (e.g. 2tsp / 2 tsp).
This can be used on sore eyes and stings, as mentioned above.
Mix in a ziplock bag for less mess – pour a little water in.
Seal the bag and then mix manually.
As it mixes you can spread it out and it will begin to become jelly-like.
You can flatten this out with a rolling pin or just press with hands so it fills the bag nicely.
That will set. Remove excess air from the bag.
Now you can keep this in the fridge or freezer for emergencies
If someone has a sting, just cut a square, peel off the plastic and slap it on the sting so charcoal goes straight onto the skin. Tape that on.
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
Castor Oil
is not recommended for taking internally – just topical application.
More on COMPRESSES:
Castor Oil penetrates deeper than any other oil.
It breaks up lumps, bumps, congesion and adhesions.
Castor Oil can even break up a bone spur; can break up tumours e.g. lumps in the breast.
Those lumps may be cysts, even breast cancer. E.g. use panty liners and slip one into your bra.
It may take months but there have been successes in this regard.
Take a folded up clean tea towel – pour on castor oil – over the middle third of the area.
Let it soak in “ about half an hour
It will heal nmany problems in the abdomen – will penetrate and break up fibroids in the uterus, also cysts on the ovaries.
It will soften the colon if constipation exists.
Once inside the body it will penetrate into and heal the colon e.g. for bad diarrhoea.
Also irritable bowel – castor oil goes in very deep. It causes a cleansing and healing in the area.
To break up gallstones – place on the liver area, under the right rib.
Place at he back to break up kidney stones.
Bone spurs, e.g. on knee – may take around 6 weeks or longer to break up. It won’t break up a bone.
Brain tumours – it will penetrate very deep, break up lumps, bumps, adhesions.
You can e.g. for a sore knee, use castor oil, ginger or potato.
Alternate them and see how the body responds.
Compresses can be used over and over e.g. for uterus can be worn overnight or for 5 hours a day a least for 5 days a week.
They will penetrate and penetrate and start breaking up any unnatural growths in the area.
You can do it for 24/7 in the bra.
Just add a little more castor oil each day.
The thicker the compress, the more oil it can hold and the more oil is available to get to the area.
If you get something in your eye, put a drop of castor oil in the eye. That will roll around and even take that ‘something’ out.
For glaucoma or cataracts, 1 drop in each eye before bed.
May prevent an operation.
Good news – we now have Castor Oil Compress Packs available
in two sizes – large wrap-around and small for specific areas of the body