Millions of people suffer from Arthritis and most people turn to pain relievers, well, these simple cures might just help relieve you from the pain of arthritis.

1. Lose weight and get close to your ideal weight. If you weigh less, there is less weight on your joints, and less pain. Fairly simple way to relieve some of the pain of arthritis.
2. Exercise, especially in a pool, will greatly help you relieve some of the pain. When in water you weigh less, less strain on the joints, and your more flexible. Also a benefit in helping you lose weight, and keep your muscle tone.
3. Reduction of stress may help, if your relaxed and rest enough, it just may help remove some of that pain. Stress can be so terrible on the body, and you really should take steps to eliminate it as much as you can.
4. Vitamin C, helpful on so many levels, but it has been shown that people with rheumatoid arthritis don't get enough vitamin c, so add some to your diet.
5. Watch your diet, reduce fat, sugar, salt, and cholesterol.
6. Herbal tea: Yarrow, willow bark, dandelion, and burdock tea are all known to help relieve the pain of arthritis.
7. Certain foods can trigger the pain, anything in the nightshade family, including:
   1. White potatoes
   2. Eggplant
   3. Tomatoes
   4. Green, red, and yellow peppers
   5. Tobacco
8. Garlic, behold the power of Garlic, if you look at many of the remedies on this site, you'll find that garlic is in a lot of the cures. Garlic boosts the immune system and can really help reduce the pain of arthritis.

Asthma is a serious condition that should always be checked by a doctor, these hints are just to help prevent Asthma or reduce some of the symptoms of Asthma:

1. Avoid smoke filled room. For someone with Asthma, smoke can trigger an attack, so avoid smoke if you can.
2. Cold air can also trigger an attack or just make you feel uncomfortable, so if it is frigid outside stay indoors.
3. Certain foods can cause trouble, these are the worst offenders that may cause an attack to start, this includes:
   1. Milk
   2. Nuts
   3. Seafood
   4. Eggs
4. Additives to foods like, monosodium glutamate (msg) and metabisulfite. MSG is found in Chinese food, so you should ask for no MSG when ordering from a Chinese restaurant.
5. If you don't have your medicine on hand and you feel an attack coming on, drink a cup of coffee. Caffeine is known to calm the effects of an attack.

This common fungus thrives in warm, moist conditions. It can be easily cured and easily prevented, here is how:

1. Soak your feet in a mixture of two teaspoons of salt per pint of warm water. Submerge your feet for five to 10 minutes, and repeat this process until the rash goes away.
2. Baking soda paste can used between your toes if the fungus is there. To make this paste you add a few drops of water to one tablesppon of baking soda. Rub it all over the irritated area, rinse off, and the powder your feet with corn starch.
3. Soaking your feet in apple cider vinegar can also take away the athlete's foot fungus. It will sting, but it will also take away the irritation.
4. Prevent athlete's foot by wearing plastic sandals when in a shower room, locker room, etc. Also keep you shoes clean and dry. Do not wear them until they a completely dry. Also a antifungal powder in the shoes can remove the threat of it.

Backaches can be a real pain in the, well, the back. Here are a few helpful hints that may help you with your backache:

1. The first one seems obvious, but be very careful when lifting heavy objects. The old rule of lift with your legs and not your back is true and can help prevent you from getting backaches. Also keep your back straight when lifting something heavy. Also, don't lift something that you think is beyond your ability. Ask for help and prevent yourself from hurting your back.
2. Women should avoid high heels. It arches the back and can cause some damage to your back.
3. Bed rest, another obvious solution to backaches, but don't stay in bed too long. The sooner you move around the sooner you may get better.
4. Some exercise could help. Now don't do anything strenuous, but some light activity would help the healing process. Swimming is a good activity for someone with back problems.
5. Ice can reduce the inflammation of back pain and after a few days switch to heat.
6. If you wake every morning with a stiff painful back, you should think about changing your mattress to a waterbed or you may just want to try getting a new mattress.
7. Color therapy, well, this is one of the odder remedies, but it says, that wearing blue can sooth you and help with back pain. I'm not sure about this one, but it's worth a try.

Bad Breath can be caused by many things, everything from certain foods to poor oral hygiene. So here are some tips that may help you with bad breath.

1. You are what you eat and your breath can reflect that fact. Be careful about what you eat. Garlic and other spicey herbs can stick around for a long time. Other foods like cheese, deli meat, and fish may also cause bad breath.
2. Brush your teeth after every meal. It is a simple, common sense way to improver your breath.
3. Parsley is a great food to neutralize bad odors in your mouth. So keep some parsley around, and when you need to freshen your breath, chew a little of it. Other foods you can use to freshen your breath is: Clove, fennel, and anise seeds might also help.
4. Brush your tongue every time you brush your teeth. Yep, your tongue can retain odors.
5. Make regulars trips to the dentist.

"Yo Adrian", okay, so it doesn't matter how you got a black eye, whether your a prize fighter or a prize klutz that happened to walk into a door, here is some ways to get rid of a black eye.

1. Ice pack, just use it to reduce the swelling.
2. Don't use aspirin for the pain, if you can, because the aspirin is an anticoagulant, and this makes it harder to stop hemorrhaging which causes discoloration.
3. Castor oil, if you rub it gently on your black eye it will help reduce the swelling.

Blisters are a painful problem and can be caused by touching something too hot or rubbing too hard. Here are some tips to prevent it, and to cure it:

1. Use petroleum jelly to grease your feet when you are wearing a new pair or if you're going on a long walk. Apply the petroleum jelly to the areas of your feet that are most likely to get blisters.
2. Do not break a blister if you can. If you break it, it puts you at a higher risk for infection.
3. If the blister should break, clean it thoroughly with some antibacterial soap.
4. Do not cover the blister, if the blister gets some air, it will help cure the blister quicker.

I would suggest that you go to the doctor if you have Bronchitis, it really is important to have something like this checked. Now, Bronchitis is caused by a virus, so antibiotics won't work. Bronchitis can linger for a considerable amount of time. So here are a few tips to help you through this illness:

1. If you're a smoker, STOP and QUIT!! Smoking is the chief cause of chronic Bronchitis, so if you give up smoking it will help or make it stop all together.
2. Steam, yes steam will help vaporize the mucus in your lungs. You can use the steam machines that they have out there or you could just run a hot shower.
3. Fenugreek Tea, name sounds rather silly, but it can really help. Take this tea every few hours and it will help break up the mucus in your lungs.
4. Aromatherapy will help, you can sniff a cotton ball soaked in pine oil and you can take a bath with a few drops of the oil in it and it should help.

Minor burns can be attended to at home, but if the burn is serious go to the doctor. Here are a few treatments for 1st degree burns:

1. Lots of cold water on the burn, don't put on ice, just cold water, because the ice can make the pain worst.
2. That old remedy about butter, well, it doesn't work, so don't do it. It can increase the rate of infection and does nothing.
3. There is a poultice that you can apply to the burn. The poultice should contain: grated carrots or gauze soaked in carrot juice. A mushroom also works well.
4. When the wound has started to mend a little you should open a vitamin E capsule and put the liquid over the burn. This will reduce the chance of scarring.

Everyone has had chapped lips at one time and it is more annoying than anything else, here are a few things you can do to prevent and cure them.

1. When you are out in the cold or dry weather or the sun is very strong, apply lipbalm and during the summer get one with a sun block in it. Now this seems obvious, but how often we forget this little precaution to solve this problem.
2. Another thing to do is make sure you have enough B-Complex vitamins. Some doctors believe that a deficiency in this nutrient can make people prone to getting chapped lips.
3. Once you have chapped lips, avoid licking them, this makes the problem worst.

The common cold, everyone gets them, yet there is no easy cure for it, but perhaps there are a few things that can be done to ease the common cold.

1. Vitamin C, one of those wonder vitamins, and it can really help reduce the amount of time you have a cold. The second you feel a cold coming on you should start taking more Vitamin C. It can shorten the length of the cold and make the symptoms less severe.
2. Zinc Lozenges can have the same effect, reduce the symptoms, and quicken recovery. Now this has been in the news of late and it can help.
3. Get plenty of rest, when you rest up your immune system is boosted up and it quickens the process of getting better.
4. Chicken soup, odd but true, it does help cure the common cold. Some chemicals in the soup help to heal. So drink up the soup.
5. Hot shower or bath can relieve congestion and breaks up the mucus.
6. Garlic, if you put garlic in your mouth and chew on it, the juices will help cure the cold. Garlic has a powerful antiviral agent and can knock out a cold in a few days.
7. A bath with a few drops of cinnamon in the bath water, it is said that this can relieve congestion, and generally make you feel better.

A minor cut can be very annoying, but some of these suggestions might make the cut go away quicker and make you feel a little better:

1. Apply direct pressure to the cut for a few minutes. Once the bleeding has stopped, apply a gauze bandage.
2. If you have a wet tea bag handy, use it to stop the bleeding, the tea bag contains tannic acid which will help the blood coagulate quickly.
3. You can rub a garlic clove over the cut if you think it will be infected. Mind you, that garlic has a powerful natural antibiotic.

Dandruff is a scalp condition that is very easy to control. Here are some simple things you can do:

1. Shampoo often, and if you have severe dandruff use a tar based special shampoo.
2. Thyme can also be used. Now this is a folk remedy, but here is the recipe: Boil four tablesppons of the herb in two cups of water for 10 minutes, strain, and allow it to cool. Pour the mixture over clean, damp hair and massage it in.
3. Ultraviolet light can reduce the scalp inflammation and ease the flaking problem. So get out in the sun a little, it'll help your dandruff problem.
4. Wash your hair with Warm Apple Cider Vinegar, then cover your head with a shower cap and let it stand for about an hour. Rinse with plain water, do that twice a week until your dandruff goes away.

Diarrhea, what can someone say about it, it comes at the most inconvenient times, and you always feel a bit embarrassed to say it as an excuse. So here are a few things you can do to prevent it and treating simple diarrhea.

1. Every few hours eat blackberries in any form you like, jam, raw, or juice. This will make you feel instantly better, it is an old cure that is very effective.
2. If you peel an apple and let it sit until it turns brown, and then eat it. If you let the apple stand you let out the pectin of the fruit. This is the main thing in most over the counter diarrhea medicines.
3. If you get diarrhea after eating a dairy product you may be lactose intolerant. They have over the counter medicines that contain an enzyme to allow you to eat dairy products without getting diarrhea. So you might want to look into that if you believe yourself to be lactose intolerant.
4. Drink plenty of fluids when you get diarrhea. Dehydrations is what can make diarrhea very dangerous so make sure you have plenty of fluids.

Dry skin mostly comes on during the winter and when it occurs it can be an unbearable annoyance. So here are two things you can do to help your skin.

1. Soaking in water will only dry out your skin more and when you do bathe, make sure you use a super fatted soap. Strong soaps can make your skin that much dryer!!
2. When you do bathe, once you are out of the water, make sure to put a moisturizer on your skin. Any type of moisturizer will do and it doesn't have to be an expensive moisturizer.