Important: Tylenol and Other Popular OTC Meds Recall

Last month McNeil Healthcare LLC, the makers of Tylenol, started a recall of their most popular product. Yesterday the product recall has expanded to include more than two dozen other over-the-counter products manufactured by McNeil, which includes children's pills.

According to the company, the broadened directive adds 54 million bottles of product to the recall, boosting the total number of bottles recalled by McNeil to 60 million.

Products include Tylenol, Banadryl, Rolaids, Motrin, Simply Sleep and St. Joseph.

Please visit the RECALL WEBSITE for details.

What did you say?

I read a great article today on "The Art of Authentic Listening" by Ann Catlin, LMT.

Over and over I've read steps on becoming a better listener, from both the business perspective and the personal focus. I enjoyed Ann's steps and I'm going to dedicate a week to each step. Here they are:

• Quiet your mind
• Be willing to listen without judgment
• Commit to patience (a hard one, personally)
• Remain in the moment
• Avoid the temptation to formulate a response
• Be honest
• Listen with your eyes (read non-verbal and watch your posture)
• Listen to the silence as well as the words
• Gladly receive the gifts of authentic listening (let yourself be uplifted and the other person will feel the same)

I look forward to the coming weeks and see how different my world will be when I listen authentically!

Inexpensive and Effective Therapy: Epsom Salt!

I often suggest Epsom salt baths to clients and regularly enjoy them myself. Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, a natural substance hailed for its many uses. The most popular benefit from an Epsom salt bath is its ability to reduce swelling of injuries, ankles and other joints. A bath can also help relax the body with hopes of a better night sleep.

Additional Ailments that may benefit:

• sciatica, lumbago, rheumatism, diabetes, neuritis, cold, kidney disorders, and other uric acid and skin affections.

You can find Epsom salt in most drugstores in either a carton or bag. It is very inexpensive and has a long shelf-life.

The best time for this bath is in the evening before bedtime because of its relaxing effects. Follow the directions on the label as the dosage depends on the size of your bath. I like to add essential oils such as eucalyptus or lavender to make my bath more therapeutic and relaxing.

Precautions

• Bathing should be avoided within 3 hours after a meal, or one after before eating.
• Avoid during menstruation.
• Do not use Epsom salt internally, this product is intended for external use only.
• Do not use in cases of skin infection or external wounds.
• Consult with a doctor before using if you have medical conditions, on medication or are pregnant.

Recovering from the Holidays - Natural Help!

Since Halloween I've eaten too much sugar, underexercised and slacked off on my supplements. Honestly, I don't feel 100% when I don't take care of myself. My sleep patterns are off, my energy is lacking, my digestion isn't what it should be and my skin doesn't have its healthy glow.

Now that New Years has come and gone, less parties are on the schedules and regular routines are back. And that means taking better care of ourselves and helping the ones we love do the same.

A great article was sent to my inbox this morning and I'm passing this great info to you. Many of you who know me hear me mention homeopathic remedies often. I love them! In the Sacramento area the remedies are easy to find in stores. Try Nugget, Whole Foods, Sunrise Natural Foods or Elliot's.

Here are some of my favorites from the article:

Overeating including too many sweets or alcohol:

Lycopodium: With belching and bloating. Craving for sweets and alcohol and warm drinks, huge appetite.

Nux Vomica: With irritability and constipation, colic and cramping, worse tight clothes, better warmth and warm drinks, addictive cravings, impatience.

Argentum Nitricum: Rectal gas loud enough to earn a reputation, stomach distension, desires sweets including sugar, desires salt.

Anticipation with excitement:

Argentum Nitricum: Impulsive, sympathetic, compulsive thoughts, anxiety while anticipating and needs company, fear to be late, hurried, worse from eating sweets.

Coffea: Sensitive, nervous and over-reactive, insomnia, uncontrollable thoughts and racing mind, ecstatic states, ailments from grief.

For more information, read the entire article.