1. Cut a little upside-down triangle in the middle of your ingrown toenail - this encourages the nail to grow back together - away from your toes outside edge. No need to enter the 'quick' - just a little triangle and make sure it is in the center and upside down.
2. Soak your ingrown toenails in a basin of warm water or dark beer. Both will soften the nail - especially the warm dark beer. You can keep the beer in your home for a few days before you have to toss it out. After three days, toss it and open a new bottle. Soak for 10 to 15 minutes.
3. Take a rounded toothpick or something which can lift up the ingrown toenail outside edges. Then push in a small piece of gauze or cotton. under the outside ingrown toenail edges - this encourages the ingrown toenail to grow up and out again - not down and under...change the cotton or gauze daily so it doesn't harbor bugs and fungus.

1. Cut a little upside-down triangle in the middle of your ingrown toenail - this encourages the nail to grow back together - away from your toes outside edge. No need to enter the 'quick' - just a little triangle and make sure it is in the center and upside down.
2. Soak your ingrown toenails in a basin of warm water or dark beer. Both will soften the nail - especially the warm dark beer. You can keep the beer in your home for a few days before you have to toss it out. After three days, toss it and open a new bottle. Soak for 10 to 15 minutes.
3. Take a rounded toothpick or something which can lift up the ingrown toenail outside edges. Then push in a small piece of gauze or cotton. under the outside ingrown toenail edges - this encourages the ingrown toenail to grow up and out again - not down and under...change the cotton or gauze daily so it doesn't harbor bugs and fungus.

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Hi --- This comes from a good friend in Florida, who has had cancer twice and almost died. She is finally turning to complimentary medicine to help and has appointments set up with a chiropractor and acupuncturist. She is a young women of about 40.

This is what she sent me. If you have any suggestions, I would love to send them on to her.

"I have chronic constipation. Have tried every single solitary thing you can think of - natural and otherwise - nothing works to relive it - there isn't any pain and there aren't any growths and the stool is never hard or solid - they think it is a nerve problem from the chemotherapy - no mobility any more. I have pain a lot. In my hands and my legs to the point that they keep me awake at night. Hmmmm - let's see - occasional numbness on the right side of my face by my mouth that runs up toward my eye. Headache that is on the right side of my head and seems to start behind my ear - by what would be my maxillary sinus. Fatigue, weight gai...