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Home Remedies to Quit Smoking |
9th April 2009, 22:51 | |
| You may feel like you will never possess enough commitment power to quit smoking cigarettes. However, trying to stop smoking is just like all things else in the world. It takes practice. Very few individuals stop for good on the principal try. Each time you try to stop, it will get a little easier, especially if you are knowledgeable of some of the best ways to quit smoking. Home Remedies to Quit Smoking : - Whenever you feel the urge of smoking, eat something salty, or lick a little salt with the tip of your tongue. Your craving will go away. If you do this every time you feel like smoking, you will be totally cured of the addiction. - Grate some radish, strain it and extract its juice. Mix some honey in it. Have this juice twice a day. This is a good remedy for raising the body’s tenacity against smoking. - Licorice sticks have a placebo effect on smokers. Smokers like to have something in their mouths. So, some experts suggest them to chomp on licorice sticks. These are safe substitutes for the cigarettes. Putting some chocolates in the mouth also help to reduce the urge of smoking. But excessive chocolates are dangerous to health in other respects. - Chew on sugarcane stubs as a substitute for cigarettes. Sugarcane stubs are very harmless, and their sweet taste helps to reduce the urge for smoking. - Aromatic oils and fragrances are very good for smokers. A massage with aromatherapy oils can really go a long way in curbing the smokers’ urges. - When there is nothing around, experts also suggest a certain breathing therapy to stop the craving for cigarettes. When you have an urge, sit down in a calm place. Take ten slow and deep breaths. By doing so, you are stimulating your respiratory system. This will slowly help your urge for smoking to subside. - Foreign herbs such as valerian, chamomile, hops, skullcap, lobelia and peppermint are also very beneficial in suppressing the urge for smoking. - Do not consume more of acidic foods. Increase the quantity of alkaline foods in the diet. This changes the food preferences of the taste buds and helps them to adapt themselves to the de-addiction. Foods such as raisins, beets, lima beans, dandelion, etc. are very good for people who are giving up smoking. - Have a good amount of vitamin C intake. This increases the hormones that help the body strengthen. Have a glass of orange juice or grapefruit juice twice daily. - Sweet foods also help a bit to reduce the urge for smoking. Honey must be liberally used in the diet in different forms. - Keep your food well supplemented with sources of proteins, amino acids and all the different kinds of vitamins. - Have a glassful of water with a teaspoon of baking soda in it with every meal. This not only helps to digest the meal properly, but it also helps to reduce the urge for smoking after the meal. Read About Home Remedies also Read about Home Remedies for Psoriasis and Home Remedies to Quit Smoking |
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Home Remedies for Psoriasis |
9th April 2009, 22:47 | |
| Psoriasis is a non-contagious skin disease which causes patches of thick, red skin covered with silvery scales. Itching and burning accompanied by pain are the common symptoms of psoriatic skin. The inflammations are observed mostly on the hands and legs, but they could spread to the fingernails, the toenails and even to the mouth and the genitalia. Psoriasis Causes: While the exact cause of psoriasis is not known it is believed that a combination of several different factors contributes to the development of this disease, including genetic, environmental, and metabolic, and particularly any disorders in the immune system. What's interesting is that many folks who suffer from skin problems like psoriasis complain of intestinal upsets, and the psoriasis can often be triggered after a long course of anti-biotics. Psoriasis Symptoms: The most common psoriasis symptom is flaky skin - particularly on your elbows, knees, ankles or scalp. This flaky skin can occur anywhere on the body though, including the genital areas, hands, feet and face.Another common psoriasis symptom is redness on the skin in the area where the flaky, scale like skin is developing.Itching is a psoriasis symptom that is often experienced in addition to the redness and scaling of your skin.Discoloration of the fingernails can be a psoriasis symptom too, often appearing as a yellowish color that resembles fungal infections.Though much less common, another psoriasis symptom can be hair loss. Treatment of Psoriasis: - Take one teaspoonful of sandalwood powder in three cups of water. Boil it till it is reduced to one-third the quantity, i.e. to one cup quantity. Add some rose water and sugar to it. Take this thrice a day. - Make the powder of some almonds and boil them thoroughly in water. This is used for external application on the affected part. Keep it overnight and wash it next day with water. - Shikakai (soap nut) boiled in water and applied on the affected parts also gives good relief. - Attach a fresh thin banana leaf on the affected part. - Fry thin slices of onion in ghee and eat them. - Apply lime juice that has been diluted with water externally on the psoriatic patches. - Cabbage soup is good for treatment of psoriasis. Drink one bowl of it everyday. - Exercise is good for psoriatic people, but care must be taken not to perform exercises like jogging and running which will put more pressure on the knees. - The juice of the leaves of the black nightshade can be applied locally on the affected regions. - Garlic is a blood purifier. Eating a few cloves of garlic every morning on an empty stomach filters the toxins out of the blood and provides protection against psoriasis. - The flowers of the jasmine have good effects in the treatment of psoriasis. - Onion has blood purifying properties. Hence, it is made an important part of the diet of a person suffering from psoriasis. - Cut down on fats, animal proteins and sugars. Also consume less quantity of food. - Bitter tastes are preferable. These foods help in purifying the blood and also facilitate the kidneys to flush out the toxins from the blood. - Avoid all hot, spicy and pungent foods. These take long time to digest and cause toxins in the blood, known as ama. - Salts and curds must be avoided as they can inflame the skin further. This will cause greater itching and hence more discomfort. Read About Home Remedies also Read about Home Remedies for Psoriasis and Home Remedies to Quit Smoking |
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Home Remedies for Jet Lag |
31st March 2009, 23:17 | |
| Jet lag is a common sleep disorder that just about any long-haul air traveler will be familiar with. It is caused by the body's inability to reset its internal clock quickly enough to bring it into line with local time when arriving at your destination. Jet lag is a common sleep disorder suffered by many millions of travelers every day, whether traveling on business or for pleasure. In one recent survey of international business travelers, seventy four percent of those questioned said that they suffered frequently from jet lag. Causes of Jet lag: Jet lag is caused by a significant and rapid change in time zones which result in a difference between the local time and the time recorded by your body’s internal clock. Jet lag happens because our body temperature rhythm doesn't adjust to a new time zone as quickly as we'd like it to. Whenever you travel East, you are forced to sleep when you are not sleepy. Whenever you travel West, you experience feelings of drowisness and tiredness earlier than everyone else. Treatment of Jet leg: 1. Proper Hydration When you fly in a plane for 8 hour, you would lose a lot of water. You may notice that your lips get really dry during a long flight. This is because there's zero humidity in the plane! And this means that water is literally evaporating out of you as if you were a puddle of cool aid on a hot summer day! 2. Set your schedule in advance The best strategy for going across several zones is to start changing your sleeping schedule several days in advance to the trip. 3. Shock your sleep system When you arrive your destination, immediately adapt your sleeping schedule to the local time zone. For instance, if you arrive at 3Pm and you're feeling tired and drowsy, don't sleep! Wait it out and go to sleep at the time you normally would. This will put more pressure on your body temperature rhythm to adapt to the local time. If you try to adjust gradually it will take longer and make your vacation time less enjoyable! 4. Reduce you caffeine intake. Coffee, as well as other caffeinated drinks, both speeds up and slows down your internal body clock, depending upon the time of day that you consume it. 5. Avoid Pills. With the exception of any prescribed medication that you normally take, you should avoid sleeping pills, so-called ‘jet lag’ pills and over the counter medication for jet lag. Not only do these have little or no beneficial effect, many of them can actually add to your problems. 6. Dress comfortably for your flight. Choose comfortable and loose fitting clothes to travel in and tuck a pair of slippers into your carry-on luggage to wear on board the aircraft. 7. Get out in the sunshine. Once you reach your destination get out into daylight as much as possible during the first few days of your trip. 8. Take something special with you. Read About Home Remedies also Read about Home Remedies for Jet Lag and Home Remedies for Joint Pains It can often be difficult settling in strange surroundings and, in particular, relaxing sufficiently to fall asleep. |
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Home Remedies for Joint Pains |
31st March 2009, 23:17 | |
| The Ayurvedic name for arthritic joint pains is Sandhi Vata. As the name suggests, it is caused by vitiation of the vata dosha in the human body. The word sandhi means ‘joint’ in Sanskrit. Ayurveda believes that Sandhi Vata can be caused due to rheumatism, infections, gout, hemophilia, trauma and even due to digestive problems which result in a buildup of ama in the body. Causes of Joint pains: • Excessive wear and tear of the joint muscles (particularly applicable to athletes) • Osteoarthritis (growth of bone spurs and cartilage degeneration at a joint. Common in adults above 45 years) • Chrondromalacia patella (weakening of the patella cartilage) • Tendonitis (inflammation of a tendon) • Fractures and injuries • Osteomyelitis (inflammation of bone and bone marrow, usually caused by bacterial infection) • Gout (inflammation of the big toe due to uric acid metabolism disorder, resulting in accumulation of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints) • Bursitis (inflammation which are fluid-filled sacs protecting the bones in the joint) • Aseptic necrosis (scant blood supply to a bone area, resulting in bone degeneration) • Autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, which further stiffens the joints • Contagious diseases like hepatitis, influenza, mumps, chicken pox, measles, etc • Sickle cell disease (an anemic disorder in the cells) Treatment for Joint pains: a. Massage the joints with a mixture of camphor, eucalyptus oil and menthol before going to bed. b. Have a glass of carrot juice early in the morning. Continue this till you find reduction in the pains, which should happen within a week. c. Do not exercise wildly, but at the same time do not keep your joints lethargic. Perform some activity with them so as to keep them mobile. d. Have a bath with warm water every morning. This facilitates proper blood circulation. e. Ginger and garlic are extremely good for controlling joint pains. Some people find the odor of ginger intolerable. f. People with joint pains should totally steer away from all kinds of sour foods, since these can increase the vata. g. The alfalfa herb is very effective in the reduction of joint pains. It must be had in the form of a tea four times a day h. Ashwagandha is the herb popularly known as Winter Cherry in the west. i. The banyan tree produces a sap much like the latex from rubber. This is used as an external application over the joints. j. Oil extracted from the bishop’s weed is applied locally on the affected joints to relieve pains in them. k. Celery can be used as an effective treatment for rheumatism and gout, both of which can cause pain in the joints. l. Dandelion is rich in magnesium, an element that is needed for the proper mineralization of the bones. m. If the joint pain is due to trauma, then Vishagarbha taila is prescribed for external application over the region where the joint pain is felt. n. Panchamrita or Lakshadi Guggulu is prescribed. The dosages are 125 milligrams twice a day for one month and 250 milligrams thrice a day for three months respectively. Read About Home Remedies also Read about Home Remedies for Jet Lag and Home Remedies for Joint Pains |
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Home Remedies for Diabetes |
19th March 2009, 23:20 | |
| Diabetes is a lifelong, chronic health condition, in which the body is unable to break down sugar so the sugar levels are high in the blood, and also can't produce insulin or have resistance to insulin and therefore loses energy. Types of Diabetes: There are two types of Diabetes, Type I and type II. In type I, the pancreas produces no insulin whatsoever, therefor the patient depends on insulin injection, to control the glucose, this type of diabetes affects people less than 30 years old, and develops when antibodies, kill cells of the pancreas in charge of creating insulin. Type II diabetes, develops on people 30 years of age and older, and is cause by the insufficient or ineffective production of insulin, this type of diabetes can be controlled with drugs and proper diet. Causes of Diabetes: Cause for IDDM IDDM mostly outcome from a virally initiated autoimmune destruction of beta cells of the pancreas. Cause for NIDDM NIDDM is determined heritably and is expressed with age or other factors like obesity, diet and inactivity. Symptoms of Diabetes: Early Symptoms Increased thirst, increased urination, increased appetite are the initial signs. In type I weight loss is seen and in type II obesity is seen. Additional Symptoms Other possible symptoms are blurred vision, skin irritation or infection, weakness or loss of strength, and decreased healing capability. Clinical lab test information reveal glycosuria (sugar in urine), hyperglycaemia, abnormal glucose tolerance tests. If diabetes is not identified at the right time symptoms like fluid and electrolyte imbalance, acidosis, coma is seen. Treatment of Diabetes: 1. Eat 1 teaspoon of cinnamon daily. 2. Yemeni med: Soak 1 teaspoon of fenugreek seeds (Hilba) in 1 cup of water at night. Drink the water in the morning on an empty stomach and eat the seeds. 3. Take 1 small bitter gourd, remove the seeds and saturate in a cup of water. Drain and drink every morning. 4. Take Alpha lipoic acid It helps to control sugar level in the blood. Alpha lipoic acid is considered among the elite, multipurpose antioxidants. 5. Wash a green plantain and peel it, put the peel in a jar cover with water and drink this water three times a day. 6. Eat green vegetables, coriander, cucumber, cabbage, coconut, chenopodium album (bathu), creeper of pumpkin, cucumber, cabbage, bitter guard, carrot, tomato, lemon, radish, onion and ginger. 7. Eat fibre rich food like apple, figs, guava, lemon and orange. Grains rich in fibres are barley, oatmeal, maize, wheat flour, jowar, bajra, whole wheat, rice flakes, refined wheat flour (without husk) and puffed rice. 8. Boil 3-4 fresh leaves of mango tree in the morning and drink. It is also very effecting in curing diabetes. 9. Do regular exercises to reduce the chances of developing coronary artery disease and also improves control over diabetes. 10. Avoid exertion and always try to stay free from tension. 11. Avoid sweets, chocolates, rice, banana, grapes, mangoes, dry fruits, oils, cakes and pastries. 12. Drink half-cup karela (bitter gourd) juice daily. It is an effective natural home remedy for diabetes. 13. Avoid drinking alcohol (including beer, gin, wines and whisky). 14. Indian gooseberry, with its high vitamin C content, is considered precious in diabetes. 15. Experiments have shown that the drinking of water extract of Bengal gram enhances the use of glucose in both diabetic and normal persons. 16. The juice of Margosa is a cooperative natural home remedy for diabetes. Read About Home Remedies also Read about Home Remedies for Diabetes and Home Remedies for Dry Skin |
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Home Remedies for Dry Skin |
19th March 2009, 23:20 | |
| Dry skin looks dull and life less due to lack of moisture. Well hydrated skin glows and exhibits a healthy look. Wrinkles develop at an early age due to prolonged dryness of skin. Dry, rough and wrinkled skin gives an aged appearance. Dry and cracked skin harbor microbes and cause fungal infections. Excess drying of skin leads to dry eczema. Symptoms of Dry Skin: • Delicate, dry, and prone to irritant or allergic reactions • Easily damaged or irritated • Intolerance to cold, heat, wind, temperature changes, or pollution? • Regular breakouts of patchy blotches • Red, itchy, swollen or dry • A tingling or tightening of the skin without visible signs • Overreaction" to skin care or cosmetic products • Reactions to shaving, or other physical stress to the skin Causes of Dry Skin: 1. The cold and dry weather of winter takes its own toll on the skin. The cold, dry weather of winter brings about drying of skin making it scaly. Lack of sufficient humidity out doors also leads to dry skin 2. Dry skin condition may occur due to genetic factors. 3. Dry skin condition may arise from nutritional deficiencies due to poor diet. 4. Unhealthy practices like exposure to extreme weather conditions, bathing for long time in very hot water, using harsh soaps, swimming in chlorinated water, chemicals and harsh cosmetics. 5. The skin loses its capacity to retain moisture, as we grow old. The extreme climatic conditions to which we get exposed, as we grow old worsen the condition and skin becomes more dry. 6. Few underlying diseases like hypothyroidism, diabetes, eczema, psoriasis or seborrhea may also lead to dry skin. 7. Dry skin may arise as an effect of medications like diuretics, antihistamines and anti spasmodics. Treatment of Dry Skin: 1. Sieve barley or wheat flour and add one fourth teaspoonful of turmeric powder (in the thick part), one spoon of mustard or sesame oil and water to make a paste. Apply on the body and face before bathing. After drying or after 10 minutes rub it with the palms to remove the paste. After an hour bath with lukewarm water. Skin becomes soft, fair and silky. 2. Use cotton dipped in raw milk on the face, neck, hands etc for 5-10 minutes gently. Keep it for 20 minutes and then wash with fresh water. 3. Avoid using soap for bathing. It makes your skin dry and rough. 4. Apply small amount of raw milk on your face, neck and hands. It is very effective natural remedy for dry skin. 5. Do not wash your face very often. It takes away your natural skin moisture and natural oil. 6. Apply some moisturizer after face wash. It helps to remove unwanted dryness. 7. Gently massage with olive oil or almond oil. It is an effective remedy for dry skins. 8. Drink 8-10 glasses of water daily for dry skin cure and other skin ailments. Also include green vegetables and fruits in your diet. 9. A diet consisting of a lot of Vitamin A, Vitamin B, and Vitamin E can be taken for an inner glow in the skin. Leafy vegetables help the most in replenishing the moisture in the skin. 10. Rose water, almond oil, honey, olive oil, and beaten curd can all be used as good face packs. 11. Avoid alcohol-based cleansers. 12. Avoid junk food like chips, deep fried food etc. Read About Home Remedies also Read about Home Remedies for Diabetes and Home Remedies for Dry Skin |
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