Tea Tree Oil, a first aid kit in a bottle.

Tea Tree Oil, a first aid kit in a bottle.

A natural, healthy, cure for many ailments can be had in the form of tea tree oil (Melaleuca alternifolia). Tea tree oil is an essential oil which is a topical antifungal antiseptic to fight germs. According to The Marshall Center, University of Western Australia, "tea tree oil has broad spectrum in vitro antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral activity."

During tick season, pet dogs will benefit as there is nothing better than tea tree oil. Placing the flea and tick pesticide control remedy on the back of the neck does kill adult fleas and ticks to prevent infestation in the dog's body. However, if you need to use a tweezer to remove a tick, then is very important to place a drop of tea tree oil on the site to disinfect it, and help healing. Tea tree oil also kills ticks, (one by one), and tea tree oil is a natural fungicide. Laundering dog blankets, or dog beds with tea tree oil added alongside the laundry detergent helps with home infestations of fleas and ticks. Also apply tea tree oil in the laundry for an added boost and wonderfully fresh smell (but do not use on plastics). Add a few drops to the pet shampoo is especially helpful at the beginning of tick season when the ticks are harder to spot. Tea tree oil can also be applied directly to leeches in the same way, and disinfect the leech bite area. Not only dogs benefit from tea tree oil, but it is used in pet store aquarium preparations to heal ailing fish with fungal infections.


Tea tree oil also works as a wonderful insect repellant. Tired of showering after applying DEET products, try tea tree oil soap, or a bit tea tree oil diluted in water in a dark colored glass bottle; shake it up and apply to the skin. If you have insects entering the home, try tea tree oil, a natural pest control.

Not only is tea tree oil effective against ticks for humans, dogs or livestock, but it also helps those suffering from head lice as well. Use tea tree oil on insect bites when out hiking in the woods.

Tea tree oil is always used topically (never taken internally ever), and its properties heal almost any skin ailment. Athlete's foot for instance, is healed by tea tree oil, and tea tree oil also helps any sweaty, smelly feet. It is beneficial to use tea tree oil soap to treat body odor when commercial under arm antiperspirants cannot be used. For acne sufferers or those with oily skin, tea tree oil, tea tree oil soap or tea tree oil lotion does wonders. Tea tree oil fixes rash which flares up after shaving, and it alleviates chapped lips in the winter months. Do you feel a boil, carbuncle or abscess coming on, a small bit of tea tree oil nips it in the bud. For minor skin abrasions, such as cuts, burns and scrapes add a dab of tea tree oil or tea tree oil lotion when they first occur. Spider bites and insect bites can be ameliorated almost immediately with an application of tea tree oil. Another skin ailment, warts, can be effectively treated with tea tree oil.

If tea tree oil is not swallowed, it can be mixed with water, and used to treat sore throats and canker sores of the mouth. Try it for a sore throat. All that is needed is a few drops of the pure essential oil, tea tree oil, added to warm water, then gargle. Try this two or three times a day. Also beneficial is tea tree oil lozenges from an herbal store which linger as they slowly dissolve, also providing relief from the pesky sore throat. Add a bit of tea tree oil to a vaporizer or boiling water or to the bath water so that the mist can be inhaled can treat not only coughs, but bronchial congestions and inflammations. Gargling with tea tree oil alleviates bad breath, plaque build up and inflamed gums as it is an anti-fungal agent. Earaches, as well benefit from a bit of tea tree oil, as do hair and scalp irritations. If you have fingernail or toenail fungal infections, again applying tea tree oil works wonders.

Amazingly the lists goes on and on. Add a bit of tea tree oil to water to make a douche to treat vaginitis. For Candidiasis, not only can this yeast infection be treated by douche, but also by placing a dab of eat tree oil on the end of a tampon. Also use tea tree oil for any herpes or cold sore flare ups. Fungal infections such as "jock itch", bursitis, shingles, chicken pox and ringworm (a fungal skin infection) are no longer irritations with an application of tea tree oil. Try tea tree oil as a remedy for poison ivy itch.

A depressed immune system> which has to deal with additional stresses of disease, diabetes, cancer, or HIV will truly relish the assistance of tea tree oil to battle off fungal infections. Tea tree oil is an anti-fungal agent, which can be used alongside an antibacterial agent as well for some infections which may be both bacterial and fungicidal. There are also several other natural and herbal anti-fungal agents which can be helpful and supplemental in all these applications upon further research.

Pharmaceutical companies add the phytochemical contents to a number of products. Alpha-terpineol, camphor, caryophyliene, limonene, linalool, alpha-pinene is a brief break down of the components of tea tree oil which have been used in toothpaste, floss, mouthwashes, shampoos, soaps, cold remedies, lozenges, skin lotions, household cleaners and many other products. When penicillin was discovered back in the mid 1900s then this first aid remedy got the back seat to treat infections. However, those with penicillin allergies or a resistance to penicillin, tea tree oil becomes a wonderful addition to the first aid chest.

Why does tea tree oil work so well and effectively? Tea tree oil is a natural antifungal agent. Only use tea tree oil externally, never take it orally at all. Tea tree oil can be used without harm more than one time a day. Check with your pharmacist, physician or other reputable source for more information on topical skin dosages, strength of mixtures and applications for most effective use.

Take a bottle of tea tree oil on a hiking trip, or going camping, a wonderful little first aid kit contained in a bottle. Nestle a bottle in your first aid cabinet, and have a versatile germ fighting agent.

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Additional Information:

Other names of Tea Tree Oil are Aceite del Árbol de Té, Australian Tea Tree Oil, Huile de Melaleuca, Huile de Théier, Huile de Théier Australien, Huile Essentielle de Théier, Melaleuca alternifolia, Melaleuca Oil, Oil of Melaleuca, Oleum Melaleucae, Tea Tree Essential Oil.

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Bibliography:


Online sources imbedded within text of article.


Balch, Phyllis A. Prescription for Nutritional Healing. Fifth Edition. Avery, Penguin Group (USA) Inc. New York. 2010. ISBN 978-1-58333-400-3




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Image Pigsqueak in the rain. This flower is a Bergenia, also known as pigsqueak or elphant's ears. This flower is not of the Narrow-leaved paperbark, narrow leaved ti-tree, or snow in summer (Melaleuca alternifolia) from Australia. Plantae, Angiosperms, Eudicots, Core eudicots, Saxifragales, Saxifragaceae, Bergenia, perennial, leaf rosette, pigsqueak, elephant's ears, cone shaped flower, pink flowers,


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Visiting your Ancestor's Homestead.

Visiting your ancestor's homestead.

 






So you have heard that it is delightful to connect with ancestral history and become acquainted with their workplace and living conditions. It is great to experience that area where they walked and homesteaded, and imagine the customs and language of the settlement, what would have been the hard times, and what would have made the joyous times.



It is wise to make a few preliminary preparations before setting sail on your journey and adventure. Contact the local genealogy society, and library, make enquiries at the regional town office and museum. Send a letter of introduction to the reserve head office if your ancestors were part of a First Nations Indian band.



Locate the community church and see if there are any records which can help place branches onto a family tree. Remember to locate the cemetery where your ancestors may be interred on a regional map. Find out the size of your ancestral family on an historic census and imagine the lifestyle in a sodhouse or log cabin.



Post your queries on a genealogy query board and mailing list for the area, and you may get lucky and have a long lost cousin meet you at the airport.



Delve into resources at the National Library and Archives and find out if they served overseas in a war effort which may mean a memorial is standing in the hometown. Look up Metis scrip records or Dominion land grants to help determine place of residence. Read the local history / family biography book to determine which buildings, and places of interest are the same as those your ancestor saw, and which have been designated as historical sites.



Discover the one room schoolhouse which your ancestor attended and visit a museum or restored schoolhouse to see what childhood education was like. See if the building is still standing, or if the history of the school district is commemorated with a heritage marker.



Visiting the local museum will shed light on the lifestyle that your ancestor had. The agricultural implements and tools evolved greatly through the late 1800s to early 1900s. The home furnishings and housekeeping utensils also varied depending on the era.



The contacts you make and information you glean before setting out will be invaluable and provide an amazing vacation, perhaps even the best you ever had as you walk in the footsteps of your ancestors.



Compiled by Sask Gen Webmaster Julia Adamson. ©








Just a little fun by Aum Kleem

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Have you ever visited your ancestral home?

Saskatchewan Normal School

Saskatchewan Normal School

 

It was not a well known fact amongst the general public nor one room school district trustees that the "Normal Schools" were indeed a college to train teachers. From the French, an École Normale provides instruction in the "norms" of educational training.

Bismarck is credited with the quote "What you would have appear in the life of the nation, you must first put in your schools." This is the sentiment taught to teachers at Normal School, or as another instructor said "It is the duty of every teacher to participate in the work of the community as it is the price they have to pay to occupy their three by six plot of ground for eternity."{Charyk. The Little White Schoolhouse. p.229}

In the 1886-1887 year the Board of Education pressed for professional instruction in a centralized training school. Nothing was forthcoming until 1889 and 1890, when Mr. A.H. Smith, B. A., of Moosomin conducts lectures. And at the Moosomin Normal department, Inspector Hewgill also trains teachers in 1890 but no students proffered themselves for classes at the Regina Normal department. In 1892 and 1893, teachers were trained by inspectors in Regina.

From 1889 to 1920s the school class organisation was for elementary levels; Standard I, II, III, IV and V; followed by secondary school beginning at Standard VI. Standard X corresponded to a junior or Class 3 provincial certificate, Standard XI would give a Middle, Class 2 provincial certificate, and finally Standard XII would result in a Senior, Class 1 provincial certificate. A level of attainment of at least Class 3 Standard was needed to teach during this time.

Classes at the Regina Normal School commenced in 1893. In Regina the "Red School" was erected in 1895 providing high schools classes. A portion of this school later named "Alexander School" was set aside for teacher training and called the Normal School. In Saskatoon, two rooms were rented in 1912 at the Saskatoon Collegiate Institute (now the Nutana Collegiate Institute) for a Normal School, which expanded to four rooms the following year.

The first official Normal School had its own building in Regina as of 1913, classes commencing 1914.

Moose Jaw and Saskatoon erected Normal schools after the Great War. Moose Jaw normal school operated classes between 1927 to 1959. Regina and Saskatoon Normal Schools were surrendered to the Royal Canadian Air Force for Air Training Plan recruits.

The Nutana Collegiate, originally monikered the Saskatoon Collegiate Institute, opened up in 1909. On August 20, 1912,the Saskatoon Normal School held its first classes. The demand for teachers was so high, that after one year of training at a Normal School, students graduated from Normal School to begin teaching at a rural one room school house. To help train students to become teachers, even a section of Valleyview School in Estevan was designated as a Normal School until 1927.

It was following the First World War that the Saskatchewan government enquired at the University of Saskatchewan for a site to locate the Normal School. It was desirous to obtain a ten acre plot, yet the University of Saskatchewan could only allocate about four acres south of Emmanuel college. A large enough plot of land could be found south of the University, but not at the aforementioned optimal site. The University grounds were abandoned, and a site on Idylwyld Drive was chosen on Estate land of the Drinkle family. M.W. Sharon, the provincial architect designed the building. The corner stone was laid 1921, and the official opening ceremonies were held in 1923.

A study conducted in 1925 found that about 400 were enrolled in Normal School in Saskatoon students could complete their education at Nutana receiving a class one teaching certificate after four years of study or a class two after three years.

The Normal Schools published year books, the book in Saskatoon for the Normal School was termed The Light, Regina Normal School published The Aurora, and the Moose Jaw Normal School had the "Normal Echoes".

The name of the Normal school, was later changed to the Saskatoon Teacher's College, and is now known as the E.A. Davies Building. It was the year 1953 when the Moose Jaw Normal School adopted the name Saskatchewan Teacher's College, and in 1959, the Normal School in Regina took on the name Saskatchewan Teacher's College.

The early one room school teachers used their ingenuity for practical circumstances above and beyond their Normal School teaching. For example, heating the school house in the early winter mornings meant abandoning the desks for a warmer queue near the wood stove. In these cases, the teachers would adapt the lessons to this seating format.

It was in 1964, that teacher training moved to the University of Saskatchewan, and in 1969 also to the University of Regina.


compiled by Saskatchewan One Room Schoolhouse webmaster Julia Adamson


Bibliography


Charyk, John C. The Little White Schoolhouse. Volume 1. Western Producer Prairie Books. Saskatoon, SK. 1979. ISBN 0-919306-08-X. pp. 100,228.

Kerr, Don and Hanson, Stan. Saskatoon: The First Half Century. Ne West Press, The Western Publishers. Edmonton, AB. 1982. ISBN 0-920316-35-2bound ISBN 0-920316-37-9. pp 231, 241-2, 244, 246.

Delainey, William P., Duerkop, John D., and Sarjeant, William A. Saskatoon A Century in Pictures. Western Producer Prairie Books. Saskatoon, Sk. 1982. ISBN 0-88833-09-1 bound ISBN 0-88833-099-8 pbk.pp 72.

Charyk, John C.Syrup Pails and Gopher Tails Memories of the One Room School. Western Producer Prairie Books. Saskatoon, Sk. 1983. ISBN 0-88833-115-0. pp.6, 8, 10, 56, 110

Vajcner, Mark. NcNinch, James. Normal Schools. The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Canadian Plains Research Center. University of Regina. 2006.

Adamson, Julia. One Rooms School Project Evolution. Rootsweb.ancestry.com. 2010.

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