Friday, November 19, 2010

Alternative medicine or complementary medicine or natural medicine

      S is the set of frameworks differ from therapeutic medical treatments traded in modern medicine have been developed these therapies are popular treatments of inherited across generations for many of the civilizations that existed in the past and support this type of processors on the grounds that the rights and integrated unit linked. Holistic. And parts of the human body ((physical and moral)) influenced each other positively and negatively. A group of healthy practices based on medical science stand-alone for each of them, based on accurate diagnosis through a comprehensive examination; taking into account the psychological and mental health in addition to the case of physical, applying therapeutic principles for each of them, may use water, electricity, radiation, laser, heat and massage, Chiropractic, herbs, medicinal oils, and natural medicines) to be apportioned alternative medicine into the following sections; - 1 treatments tend to have mental control on the body, including yoga and hypnosis.   2 - electromagnetic therapy may be used in hard disk or magnet AC and most of the uses are in treating bone fractures to treat sores and wounds resistant diabetic patients for the treatment and restoration of nerve cells is also used to raise the efficiency of the human immune system.  3 - replacement therapy, a systematic study in most countries of the world such as branches of Chinese medicine (massage ironing cupping acupuncture Chinese), Indian Alaopda AIDS medicine, natural medicine (Nachral) Environmental Medicine -  4 - manual therapy example Alastaiobathi and Alcreobraktk the process of amending the joints, massage of all kinds, physical therapy Aelovesyothirabi. That alternative medicine is not a specialized Kalt_khassat other, nor should it be so, that alternative medicine is a set of new techniques in diagnosis, treatment, intervention in the scope of each specialty of internal diseases, surgery, ear, nose and throat, even mental illness, medicine is a holistic links between the various members of the body and the various disciplines to reach the diagnosis and treatment are complementary. It is also a complementary medicine, adds new tools for diagnosis and treatment of various specialists and doctors.
 
  5 - most important of all this is the herbal treatment of medical selection available, rare, and where there are vitamins and proteins and antibiotics in the form of natural and mixed according to the equations studied and tested to give effect to cure even if for the long term, but without the negative effects .

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Cupping Therapy

How is cupping?

Varied methods of discharging the air from the cups in the way rural, we find the works to put a piece of dough on the back of the patient then places the candle is above the cup, whether glass or pottery and some of them put a piece Qlhp (what is left of Corncob after the output of grain of it) dipped in diesel fuel (jazz), as well as we find it works to ignite a sheet of newsprint in the form of ply inside the container so proper, or a piece of cotton dipped in alcohol and paste the top of the cup. Or found in some species pottery place for his secret of salt saturation of diesel or the like is then burned to give the same effect.

        Can be used only on rural cupping of the above?

        Not only used in the countryside back pain and rheumatism, but it also goes beyond that to the problems of childlessness for women who did not give birth, also used the same method in Palestine under the name of lock back, and in some communities Alsinaoip to reverse the effect of pregnancy.

      Most probably, the way they inherited from the ancestors of ancient times as one of the manifestations of Pharaonic medicine, which is still influential to this day in some healthy habits and other aspects of life.

Medicinal herbs for health life



  
All the doctors realize the importance of nutrition, herbal life, and experts in the field of traditional health understand that medical science sometimes is necessary. However, while medical science has received a critical review and media attention, and review and attention to nutrition herbal life to make people's lives better, healthier and stronger, and longer, so long been ignored and excitement.
Herbal Medicine for lifeWhen you are looking for medical herbs as feed in life, we must look to the various herbs in the market today. One of the first thing you will notice that most of the supplements apply, but not irreversible. To find out whether St. John's wort and the treatment of hemorrhoids really (which, by the way, it will not), you will have most likely to find it yourself. Can encyclopedias, and the Internet, and make this process much easier; allowing you to know what was being sold to you and 'herbal remedy' file. While there are many different herbs, the following are a few of them together.St. John's Wort

St. John's Wort, our example herb above, doesn't cure hemorrhoids, but it has been used as medicine for many years. Primarily, it is currently used to treat depression and anxiety disorders. While it may be arguably effective for other problems, it should be noted that the only thing St. John's Wort has evidenced effectiveness for Herbal life nutrition is low to moderate depression/anxiety disorders.
Ginkgo Biloba

Many energy drinks and herbal supplements display that they include Ginkgo Biloba proudly on their label. Ginkgo is also known as the Maidenhair Tree sometimes. It is a 'living fossil', which means that it is a species that has no living relatives (Ginkgo is in its own division, Ginkgophyta, which has only the one class Ginkgopsida, the one order Ginkgoales, the one family Ginkgoaceae, the only genus Ginkgo and just the one species. It's far, far away from any other species, enough that scientists don't know of any relatives at all), and has remained fairly stable through the centuries in the fossil record. Given all of this, you may be led to believe that it has the wondrous effects for Herbal life nutrition that the labels claim. However, for the most part, the only claim that has any semblance of the truth is that Ginkgo Biloba can be used as a memory enhancer and anti-vertigo agent, and even those claims are contested. It is also expensive enough that most manufacturers only put just enough in to be able to say on their label that it is in their product, in hopes of a placebo effect. The American Medical Association found indications that Ginkgo was no better than a placebo in memory tests, but those experiments are still preliminary. Overall, though, Ginkgo should probably not be something that you use as a deciding characteristic when looking at a product to purchase.
Garlic and Artichoke

Not all Herbal life nutrition elements must be obscure or specific; common household items can be healthy and helpful too. Garlic and artichokes both have been shown to lower cholesterol. Garlic also reduces blood pressure, and has some antibacterial properties.
Name Confusion

    It should be noted that, while there are international naming conventions for herbs, they often can be mistaken. St. John's Wort, as commonly talked about, is actually Common St. John's Wort, as there are other varieties. In Belgium, a company producing what was supposed to be an ancient Chinese medicine for weight loss, instead produced a product that caused a lot of liver damage; the herb they put in increased blood pressure and overall heart rate, too, and the only noticeable difference between the herbs, besides their effects, was the suffix of their Latin names, which is what caused the confusion.
Dangers

     Some people think that 'natural' and 'organic' means the same thing as safe. This is not the case. Before taking anything related to Herbal life nutrition, you should research it and probably talk to your primary care provider. Some herbs can cause liver or kidney damage; a common side-effect for many is abortifacent effects, so that pregnant women should be very careful before starting any kind of herbal regimen. Nightshade and hemlock, as another example, are herbs that might be marketed for soporific or tranquilizing purposes, however, they are extremely dangerous, and as a general rule should not be taken unless you've spoken to a qualified health professional.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Herbs are the ultimate solution to ease the tension and nerves Zguet

     Most of the members of the society aims to alleviate the currently Pressures and Altotralve Iwguena to sleep in the responses of our actions towards others. Regardless, if you live in the capital of a large global or in a small town, each one of us experience stress at one time or another, which makes us feel overwhelmed by a large and tired, and you see the results of a particular event
     May be just a passing phase, and the tension and emotions during the holiday season, or the fears and concerns about future job interview, but those events, adding extra pressure these days makes it very useful and almost mandatory for the use of herbs to relax.
Valerian, skullcap, kava kava, hops and many others have been used for a long time with the purpose to calm the spirit bringing peace to the mind, in fact some of them, such as valerian, Lemon Balm leaves, orange leaves or orange blossom have been used as home remedies for ages to improve children's sleep by mixing an infusion of the herb with sweetened warm milk.

     It is also known that some delicate aroms of herbs induce to relation and placid dreams. One of those herbs is Sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata), a native herb to North America as well as Europe, also known as sweetgrass, holy grass, buffalo grass, vanilla grass, or Zubrovka, considered as a sacred plant and used in peace and healing rituals.

Sweetgrass leaves are dried and made into braids and burned as vanilla-scented incense. The long leaves of sterile shoots are used by Native Americans in making baskets, while the coumarin content of the herb or the fragrance is used as incense and in making perfume. Aromatherapy is the practice of using essential oils taken from plants, flowers, roots and seeds for healing and relation purposes.

      Infusion of relaxing herbs is the most common and cheap method of extracting the medicinal compounds of herbs when used as an intake for easiness. Infusions are the simplest way of extracting herbs active principles by dropping them in hot water or boiling the herb slowly as in decoctions.

      An infusion is prepared as a regular tea to extract the volatile compounds of the herbs. Flowers and leaves of relaxing herbs can be used in infusions as single herbs tea or blending and mixing them. Although it may be drunk hot, warm or cold, experts advise to drink them as hot as you can, and sweetened with honey if possible.

        Decoctions require more time and are particularly useful when using the roots of the herbs, barks or fruits, because they are thicker and less permeable than the aerial parts of the relaxing plants, and do not liberate their active principles by simple infusion or just liberate it partially.

          In decoctions it is necessary to simmer the parts of the plant in boiling water in order to extract all their medicinal compounds. It is advisable to cut or break into small pieces the plant materials, and use a lid over the simmering pan to avoid loosing volatile constituents. After cooling down and separating the solid from the liquid, decoctions can be taken hot, warm or cold as regular infusions.

         If you cannot turn your mind off and you need to relax, one of the herbs successfully used to help you recover the tranquility and inner wellness is the passion flower, a Native American herb. The passion flower is most effective in the alcohol extract form, because a few drops of this herb in tea, milk or water are enough to get results.

       We can also combine the products and accessories, such as passion flower with a lid Scull and / or kava, it is better to take a dose of 1 / 2 to 1 hour before bedtime, and then again at bedtime only for this condition intranquility. In conditions, insomnia, and a combination of Chinese ginseng, Reishi, Ling Fu, all in equal parts are taken twice a day with meals may solve the problem.
     Relaxing herbs like Valeriana and Passiflora incarnata (passion flower) may be helpful in pain relief after traumatic injury, or when a patient become tense and less tolerant of pain for any other reason. In fact a naturist remedy in this case is Dr. Bach's Flowers.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Witch Hazel

What is Witch Hazel ?.
         The origins of this plant are helping American North, an herb reduced growth. Historically, it is a herb known in the medical fields, and this led to its spread in Europe. Witch hazel preparations are available in drug stores. They range from tincture to soothing cream and also in skin care stores. This herb acts as an astringent and in firming and tightening the tissues. This also reduces irritation and itching on the skin. Its properties make it an excellent herb for adding it to medicine cabinet.


Four species of hazel witch are included in “Hamamelis” genus. All the four species have bright yellow flowers that appear in fall and simple leaves with wavy edges. The fruit of flower matures from the previous years simultaneously. These crack and open explosively, when they are ripened fully and the seeds eject into the surrounding areas. That’s why it is also called “snapping hazel”.
Some people believe erroneously that the herb’s name is related to witches. The origin of this herb’s name is a bit mundane. “Witch” refers to corruption of Anglo Saxon word “wych” which means flexible. Witch hazel branches are more popular for pliancy. Plant has some mystical associations because witch hazel branches are very suitable for dowsing rods.
Teas, tinctures and, distillations of witch hazel are used to treat various ailments from past hundreds of years. Distillation is created when hazel is steamed to extract the volatile oils. Teas are prepared from flowers, bark and, leaves. To prepare tinctures, hazel barks are suspended into alcohol for leaching out useful compounds of herb. Tinctures and distillations are used for external use while tea is used for internal use.
According to researchers, hazel acts in various ways. Its astringent property heals the sun burns, sore muscles and, irritation caused by insect bites. It also acts as a toner for body and face and soothes irritated tissues. Its surface numbing property helps in treating sore muscles. Some skincare creams, like shaving creams and lotions contain witch hazel.

What are Antiviral Herbs?

       Herbal anti-virus protects the body from many of the Ail several aspects. Some of the antiviral herbs are echinacea, ginger, garlic, saw palmetto, capsaicin, tea tree oil, chamomile, milk thistle, ginseng, sweet Annie, aloe vera, licorice.  Uses of Different Antiviral Herbs  The primary use of some of the antiviral drugs are:  Echinacea: It is one of the most important antiviral herbs. It increases immunity, reduces the stress levels and maintains good balance of the body system.  Ginger: It is known as a motion sickness drug as it is good for digestion and related conditions. It is good for loss of appetite. Stomach pain and indigestion. It cures cols and cough.  Tea tree oil: It has excellent antiviral properties. It is used in deodorants, first aids, cosmetics and moisturizing lotions. Tea tree oil is an antiseptic and it heals athlete’s foot and toe nail infections. It should not 
be applied directly to the affected part without diluting.
Ginseng: It improves the digestion and resolves the problem of loss of appetite. It acts as a muscle and skin toner.
Sweet Annie: It is popularly used in china to treat malaria. The tea made of this is very useful for treating vomiting, nausea, nerve damage and abdominal distress.
Aloe Vera: It is one of the herbs which are used for its antiviral properties. It has antiviral, antibacterial and anti fungal properties. It is used for radiation bums after undergoing treatment of cancer. It reduces inflammation and swelling. It is effective for wounds and cuts.
Licorice: It is used to make tea which calms cough, cold and asthma. It helps to retain the water content in the body.
Licorice is beneficial in treating headaches, sore throat and in preventing tooth decay.


Best healthy way to lose weight

       Health of the best ways to lose weight, are medicinal herbs, which is the option to regain control of your weight. Usually stated needs 2500 calories and a female, an average of only 2000 calories a day, but excess weight is the result of various factors, including the increase in calories that may be controlled with consumption of certain herbs.
      Restricting your diet excessively is not a solution, because your body switches to emergency mode and converts most of your food into fat as a safeguard against starvation. This way your body uses its protein stores, for example in your muscles, and the smaller they get the lower your metabolic rate.
      On the opposite side, weight loss herbs increase your body's metabolism, enhancing deteriorated health resulting from poor eating habits, or starvation diets, that suppress the metabolic rate causing the body to destroy its lean muscle tissue while conserving its stores of fat.
Mushrooms have diverse supporting and cholesterol lowering actions in weight loss but many other herbs have specific properties that may help you out to achieve your goal to get rid of extra fat in your body pretty fast, as it is well know Ginseng stimulates metabolism and energy, apart from many other medicinal properties, but there is an array of herbs auxiliary to reduce fats and maintain your ideal weight.
Through relatively recent studies researches found that granules of the whole seeds of Psyllium (Plantago ovata) consumed with water prior to each meal can cause the spontaneous reduction in the consumption of calories and fats, increasing the feeling of satisfaction, measured as "fullness sensation" for as long as three hours after the intake of meals.
Gymnema sylvestre is an Ayurvedic treatment for diabetes, and it is well known that drinking the tea or chewing the leaves will help you suppress the ability to taste sugar for several hours. This is useful to avoid the intake of extra calories in your diet.
     Also used in Ayurvedic treatments, Garcinia cambogia suppresses the appetite inhibiting an enzyme involved in converting carbohydrates to fat in mammals, as Seaweeds helps to reduce cellulite by stimulating the thyroid gland laminaria and sargassum.
Polygonum multiflorum, or Ho Shou Wu or Fo Ti is said to help lower cholesterol preventing the penetration of fats in the arterial lining.
Flour of Konjac Root is obtained from the tubers of various species of Amorphophallus as soluble dietary fiber similar to pectin in structure and functions for weight loss, control and later weight maintenance.
Popular herbs helping in the fight against you becoming overweight are Guarana and Kola Nut, both high in caffeine used to enhance thermogenesis.
Detoxification Herbs - These are usually included in formulas to rid the body of toxins while dieting and to help metabolism function better.
Another herb rising in popularity is Banaba Leaf, which is also widely used in Ayurvedic medicine for weight loss, as well as one of the most effective auxiliary in the treatment of diabetes.
Evening Primrose seems to be effective to reduce cholesterol and excess weight, particularly in those individuals who do not process fats effectively.
      Ephedra, also known by its Chinese name Ma Huang, is an evergreen plant derivative, which is a natural ephedrine available legally in nutritional supplements, energizers, and dietary teas, but now banned in the United States but still available in many stores until stocks run out.
       Ephedrine is a thermogenic aid herb originally used to relieve asthma symptoms by its bronchodilating that stimulates thermogenesis causing the adrenal glands to dump epinephrine into the blood stream, increasing body temperature and expending more calories.
After received an increasing number of reports related to adverse reactions associated with ephedra use, any products containing ephedra is illegal for over-the-counter sales by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since April 12, 2004.
         Popular used as an herb to weight loss, Stevia, is a remarkable sweet noncaloric herb, native to Paraguay and used as a sweetener and flavor enhancer for centuries, but also under the look of the United States in recent years because of actions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, subject of searches and seizures, trade complaints and embargoes on importation, handled at times by the FDA as if it were an illegal drug.

Herbs to treat blood pressure

       Different from high blood pressure from one person to another by a number of reasons, notably age and physique, but more important is to keep the pressure 130 mm Hg systolic and less than 85 mm Hg diastolic, and being blood pressure optimum of less than 120 mm Hg systolic and less than 80 mm Hg diastolic. Above, these measures are diagnosed individual with high blood pressure.
       Blood pressure is the force of blood against the walls of arteries, and Hypertension is defined as a blood pressure greater than 140/90, it is recommended to bring back blood pressure closer to 120/80, considered optimal, because elevated blood pressure levels increase the risk for heart attack and stroke.
Although hypertension can be treated with medication, most people everyday are wanting to control this condition with the use of herbs, as recommended by ancient disciplines that have spread widely in Occident in the last years, such as Ayurveda.
A change in diet and lifestyle, including regular exercise, stress management and self-monitoring getting a home blood pressure device, can be used to control and bring down the blood pressure with no side effects, but adding herbs to the treatment will improve one thousand times the quality of life.
Many of those herbs and spices have been used traditionally not only in Ayurveda, but also in western herbalism or by ancient civilizations such as the Greeks, Romans, Persians, and Egyptians, although some of them are questioned as traditional herbal folklore, with no clinical proof being established yet, but some others which efficacy have been already confirmed scientifically.
Herbs for high blood pressure can be used individually or in combination, and it is most likely to find them at your local health food store, or grocery store, supermarkets and delicatessen or specialty stores because some of them are used in cooking as well.
Some of the most renowned herbs in the treatment of high blood pressure are Cinnamon, Garlic, Valerian, Ginger, Cardamom, Kelp, Manjishta, Jatamamsi, Shankapushpi, Burdock, Gotu Kola, Skullcap, Hawthorn, Nutmeg, Arjuna and Ashwagandha.
Many people know that stroke and heart disease are consequences of untreated high blood pressure, add herbs commonly used in cooking to their daily meals as a preventive measure which does not involve a health risk or side effects. Some others are advised to be used after consulting your doctor, particularly if you already are diagnosed with high blood pressure.
People with elevated blood pressure have to take medication to bring it down and implement lifestyle changes to make sure that the blood pressure stays low, introducing herbs to their diets as useful aid managing this condition. Garlic is on of the most beneficial herbs for the heart breaking up the toxins that lead to abnormal blood pressure and heart problems, stimulating blood circulation.
      The intake of Garlic alone can increase dullness of the mind, so Ayurvedic Alternative Medicine recommends its combination with herbs that promote mind's activity such as Gotu Kola, Ashwagandha,      Shankapushpi, Jatamamsi, and Skullcap, or the consumption of Rashona rasayana, a "food jam" consisting of herbs and spices in a base of honey, rice syrup and ghee.
       Rashona rasayana are made with herbs that also can be used individually in high blood pressure, such as Valerian (Valeriana), Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum), Ginger (Zingiber officinale) Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) Kelp (Fucus visiculosis), Garlic Allium (sativum) Hawthorn (Crataegus oxycanthus) Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans), Aruna (Terminalia arjuna) Gotu Kola (Hydrocotyle asiatica) Skullcap (Scutellaria)  Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) Manjishta (Rubia tinctoria) Jatamamsi (Nardostachys jatamamsi)  Shankapushpi (Clitoria ternatea), and Burdock (Arctum lappa).
     Hypertension is often called the silent killer because it often has no warning signs or symptoms, and no regard to race, age, or gender, anyone can develop high blood pressure. Changing your lifestyle now and adding herbs to your diet, may help you prevent this condition.

What is known about annual herbs?

            When the plant grows and passes all the stages of growth, and then die within one season, describing it as the annual grass. If the real annual herb prevented from putting the seed, it may leave for more than a year. In some cases, are a small number of seeds of annual plants although they do not grow any flower.Cultivation of annual plants


    
* In the garden, and grow annual plants often in the open air during the spring and summer.
    
* Most of domesticated cereals and annual grasses, including most of the food plants. But a few garden (or farmers) grow herbs for the biennium (for example carrots, parsley and celery) or permanent (peppers, tomatoes and sweet potatoes) in the land to rest.
    
* Planted a small number of ornamental perennials and annuals such as coleus, impatiens, pelargonium, wax begonia, petunia, snapdragon, etc..
    
* Some names of the Yearbook is the real corn, watermelon, beans, rice,.

  • One life cycle of seed-to-seed may occur in about a month, but others might need months.
  • Oilseed rapa takes about 5 weeks to complete one life cycle from seed-to-seed when kept under a bank of fluorescent lamps (which are used in school classroom).
  • Herbs that complete their life cycle in weeks, often have to spend the rest of year in dry conditions.
  • Growth in Summer
  • The annuals that grow during the summer show the following kind of growth -
    • Sprout during the early summer —> flower blooms during the summer months —> seed —> die during late warmer months
    • Example – lawn weed crabgrass.
    • The seeds lie dormant until the warmer months start.
  • Growth in Winter
  • The annuals which grow in winters follow the following pattern of life cycle -
    • Germinate begins in the late autumn or early winter —> live through the winter months —> blooms during the late winter or early spring —> set seed and die.
    • Seeds start germination only when the soil is coll, else experience dormancy till winters are felt.
    • These plants mostly grow low to the ground level.
    • Example – chickweed, deadnettle, henbit and winter cress.
Winter Annuals
  • Most of the herbs which grow during the winter are more important ecologically, because they prevent soil erosion.
  • Animals and birds are capable of feeding on them during the winters.
  • Commercially, winter annuals are considered as weeds and host to pests and fungal diseases.
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