Tips for Today's Woman

Homemakers! Here are some quick easy tips for you to help keep your home free of fruit flies. And natural remedies for headaches a woman's most common ailment. Timely tips for today's woman.

• Put out a container. Fill it with vinegar. Add one drop of liquid soap to it. Place it fairly near the fruits, but not immediately next to it. The smell will keep flies away.

• Put some tulsi leaves over the fruit bowl. It keeps away flies. You can have some tulsi plants near the entrance of your house or near the windows in your kitchen.

• Keep the fruit completely covered with a cloth. This will not only keep the flies from getting at the fruit, but will also help the fruit to breathe.

• Add a few drops of vinegar to boiling hot water. Inhale the fumes for a few minutes. Lie down immediately after. It should help the headache clear up.

• Coarsely mash some black pepper and boil it in a glass of water. Sip at it slowly. Your blood vessels get dilated. The blood circulation improves almost immediately. This helps cure the headache.

• A teaspoon of honey taken twice a day will keep headaches at bay. Most headaches are caused due to the constriction of arteries. The properties in honey help relax the arteries and improve the blood circulation. This remedy has helped many a migraine patient.

• Pour some hot water into a tub. Add a few teaspoons of mustard powder to it. Dip your feet in it for a while.

• Rub a few drops of eucalyptus oil to your temples. Take long deep breaths. The ache will stop.

• Spend time out in the fresh air regularly. And go for long walks. This will help you relax. And the tension with its accompanying headache will disappear.

• Almonds are supposed to work wonders with headaches. Chew on two almonds when you feel a headache coming on.

• Cut a lemon into two halves. Rub them on your forehead. Breathe deeply as you do so. The headache will be relieved in a short while.