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Chiropractic – A Truly Comprehensive Natural Healthcare

April 29th 2011 Posted at Other
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Chiropractic treatment is ideal for counteracting the sometimes unhealthy and stressful demands that modern living creates. It can treat various neuromusculoskeletal problems, relating to the nerves, muscles, and joints, and other conditions as well. Read on to find out how chiropractic treatment can help you.

Chiropractic is categorized as complementary and alternative medicine or CAM. It is a treatment method for various health conditions based on the manipulation of the nervous system. Hence, terms like “spinal adjustment” or “chiropractic adjustment” are often associated with it. Chiropractic is being rapidly integrated into mainstream medicine and has been growing and treating millions of people successfully and safely since it was founded by Daniel David (D.D.) Palmer in 1895.

Chiropractic treatment is ideal for counteracting the sometimes unhealthy and stressful demands that modern living creates. Modern lifestyle easily causes stress, poor posture from prolonged sitting and standing without breaks, poor nutrition, poor sleep habits, and a lack of exercise. In time, these unhealthy conditions accumulate and manifest in various adverse ways causing much pain – both physically and mentally. There are hundreds of pills available for different types of pains in the body, but they usually provide temporary relief. It is also a fact that taking too many strong pills results in serious adverse side effects. However, chiropractic treatment has a different approach and offers and treats the cause of the problem.

Chiropractic treatments can treat various neuromusculoskeletal diseases, related to the nerves, muscles, and joints, and other conditions as well. Although, a course of chiropractic care generally requires several ongoing treatments, the cure it delivers is often permanent. It has been known to be very effective for lower back pain, neck pain, headaches and other joint and limb pains. When looking for chiropractic treatment, it is advised to take time to find the best chiropractor for your particular condition. Basically, one would do research just like you would before visiting a medical doctor for the same problem.

Here are some tips:

* Check up on more than one chiropractor so you can compare each service they offer and other aspects too.

* Ask friends and colleagues who have undergone a chiropractic treatment and seek their advice.

* Look for a reputable center.

* Check and compare the scope of practice from one chiropractor to another so you can make a better decision.

* Professional qualifications of the chiropractor is another area you should look into.

* You should also find out the experience and success rate of the chiropractor.

* Chiropractic encourages its patients to be self-reliant in keeping themselves healthy instead of depending on the doctor, so you can expect a chiropractor to educate you with practices and techniques that you can do on your own and get results.

* A chiropractic center that accepts insurance such as PPO and HMO plans gives you added advantage.

* Be sure to select a chiropractor who carefully listens to their patients.

* The chiropractor should not make unnecessary requests for tests and scans.

* The Chiropractic Physician should offers personalized treatment and apply individualized treatment plans, depending on the specifics of the condition being treated.

To start your search, you can use a search engine and type in chiropractor with your location, for instance – chiropractor Chicago.

Cure Depression and Anxiety Without Medication or Drugs Naturally

April 28th 2011 Posted at Mental Health
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Often simple lifestyle changes can help cure depression and anxiety without medication naturally. However, because they are simple to do, they are also simple not to do!

Learning how to relax is extremely important in relieving stress and reducing depression and anxiety. Taking on too much can put undo pressure on anyone. Be kind to yourself, but be firm with yourself too, make sure you are active every day! Reduce your workload and re-examine your schedule. Learn to say no. Others do to you, why should you not to them? It is self preservation, often you find people suffering from anxiety or depression are too nice for their own good!

Regular exercise, sunshine, nature, meditation, pilates and deep breathing techniques will all help to make you less anxious and stressed. Exercising in the fresh air, especially somewhere beautiful (countryside or sea) is proven to have an invigorating effect on the mind, due to the negative ions in the atmosphere, which cause your endorphins (feel good chemicals) to rise. A daily walk will definitely help cure depression and anxiety without drugs.

A well-balanced diet that includes plenty of vitamins and minerals will help the body and mind to function at its peak and will help you to reduce anxiety and depression. An apple a day really does keep the Doctor away! (And cellulite too, as a side benefit!)

Make sure you get plenty of essential fatty acids in your diet too, especially Omega 3, as the brain is 70% ‘good’ fat. No – these won’t make you fat, it is the same oil found in oily fish, and as a side benefit, is great for you hair, skin and stops your nails splitting! You can take these as capsules, to avoid the fishy taste. Make sure you get one that is high in EPA, you need a concentrated strength version, don’t just go for the cheapest and wonder why it doesn’t work! With Vitamins especially, you get what you pay for, so buy a reputable brand as cheap ones can be full of ‘fillers’.

Get plenty of rest, make sure you get some sleep before midnight and avoid the overuse of caffeine and alcohol, two things that can massively contribute to raised levels of depression and anxiety. Alcohol especially is actually a depressant, and long term use will make you paranoid and suspicious of people, leading to social withdrawal and further problems.

Herbal remedies such as Kava-Kava or St.-John’s-wort can work wonders to cure depression and anxiety naturally. Kava-Kava can’t be bought in the uk, but you can obtain it online, from the USA, and it is as effective as valium as it acts on the same part of the brain as valium, but instead of making you incredibly tired and groggy, it actually improves mental clarity and performance!

Follow all the advice above and you will be able to cure your depression and anxiety without medication. I know, I did! And if I can, so can you!

Eat Smart! Stay Trim!

April 27th 2011 Posted at Diets
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Do you know that the basis of healthy eating is smart eating? Yes, and do you also know that eating when you want to have good health does not really mean going on a very strict and rigid diet wherein you are already being unreasonable and skinny, and even depriving yourself of the foods that you actually enjoy eating? Yes again.

You see, smart or healthy eating is more on you deciding to live a lifestyle that is healthy and not like the old one you normally do. It is actually something that should make you feel good and make you look good, too. It means having the energy to live and enjoy your life to the fullest without worrying that you might be eating the “wrong” food or other concerns. It means living life to its 100% full and loaded all the time.

But of course, there is always the idea and the thought that you would like to stay trim while eating, right? This is where healthy living enters the scene. In general, healthy living should include making healthy food choices and eating them out smartly. This process will definitely help you reduce any risk of having any of the killer diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and heart diseases.

It can also help you in staying emotionally and mentally sound and fit. It will also show by the way your mood is stabilizing and by the fact that you are mentally alert always. And most importantly, healthy eating or smart one for that matter will help you increase the chance of having a prosperous and eventually successful career.

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All of these can start not by making drastic and all-of-a-sudden changes in your present lifestyle but rather by making small leaps and manageable steps that you know you can handle and carry on for a long time. All you just got to do is to have that needed commitment that you are going to really change for the better and gradually doing it religiously. When you do this, a healthy lifestyle is soon to be yours, faster than you would even imagine.

Let us go to the other issue, your desire to stay trim and fit. Yes, it is possible to eat and stay trim at the same time. All you have to do is to simply the diet you are in now. Slowly but surely is the key here. Rather than measuring everything up, why not add color and variety to the meals that you include in your diet. Gradually, eat foods that are fresh and not processed, add different ingredients that will still ensure your goal. By doing this, your diet will eventually become a whole lot healthier and tastier, too. You see now? No need to deprive yourself.

Do not also attempt to go on a crash diet with the nagging thoughts that you have to be trim overnight. This is a total nonsense! And will eventually lead you to cheat on yourself and eventually failed in your goal. Eating smart to stay trim is not really going on some crazy diet and some drastic changes that you expect to happen overnight. Rather it is a process that includes small but realistic and attainable steps that you have to undertake in order to reach your goal.
Do not also forget to move around. Do some exercises that will aid in your diet. Simple ones like walking and running can already supplement any diet. The important thing is that you burn calories so that they will not be stored in as fats.

With all of these said, achieving your goal of eating smartly and staying trim will not be an impossible one anymore. Good luck!

Cure Panic And Anxiety Attacks Naturally

April 26th 2011 Posted at Mental Health
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Anyone who struggles with the fear associated with panic or anxiety attacks knows how serious it is. These fears are real and can be very scary. Knowing how to stop an unexpected attack can feel like a true lifesaver for people suffering with the disorder. Many individuals who are unaware of this know-how think that anxiety and panic attacks simply happen and are out of their reach to control. The reality is however that you can acquire the skill to control and stop anxiety at will.

When we are in harms way mother natures fight or flight mechanism tells our brain to release the hormone adrenaline into the body so we can endure the pain or fight and flee quickly. When this occurs in a demanding situation we don’t notice the adrenaline increase until we return to safety and the affects wear off. Anxiety and panic attacks are a result of our fight or flight instinct that “burst of adrenaline” taking effect unexpectedly.

The symptoms can vary from person to person, but there are some behavioral patterns that are common such as increased heart beat, difficulty breathing, the whole body shaking, chest pain, nausea, chills, dizziness, fainting, people feel that they are losing control, and that they are in mortal danger.

To overcome a Panic and Anxiety attack the first thing you should do is think to remain calm and take control of your breathing. Remember that these symptoms of anxiety and panic result from an unwarranted burst of adrenaline. Change the image in your mind and your focus. Concentrate on slow and deep controlled breathing to help offset the symptoms of adrenaline and bring the body down from the experience to a normal state of being.

Individuals who struggle with anxiety and panic attacks do so as a result of some fear they are thinking about. The negative thoughts of fear take control of their emotions and is the root cause of the attacks.

To overcome the fearful thoughts we must replace them with positive pleasant thoughts. Our minds only allow a response to a negative or positive thought about any given situation at any given time. Changing the image in our mind about whatever the situation is essential. Doing so and then reinforcing the positive thoughts now in our minds with for example the words “don’t worry everything will be okay” is like a natural cure for a panic or anxiety attack.

The mastering of your thoughts and visions from negative to positive should allow you to identify the subjects in mind that cause the attacks. By doing so one can take charge of and control their fear with the realization of knowing that nothing feared came to pass and in fact there was actually nothing to be scared of but the fear itself.

It is also important to cut down on caffeine and alcohol and make sure your diet is rich in vitamins and minerals. I recommend using soothing teas as well as infusions of lavender, valerian and rose hips which have a relaxing effect. Vegetables and fruit juices are also essential, especially carrots, apples and cabbage.

Natural Remedy for Your Joint Pain

April 23rd 2011 Posted at Natural Remedies
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Doesn’t joint pain cramp your life? When reaching for a jar in the kitchen or sitting down to lace up your shoes turns into a painful experience you know you have a problem.

Pain killers are the obvious next step so you take it. And take it and take it but sometimes you hear about side effects of painkillers and wonder if there is another way to deal with joint pain. A way that does not involve taking painkillers.

There’s no doubt about it – pain killers reduce the pain in your joints but who wants to take them permanently? And pain killers are not a cure, they give your body some time to heal the damage or inflammation causing the pain.

To fix or heal the damage you need to look elsewhere but where? Lots of natural remedies are used and advertised, but do they work?

One of the most used and most studied joint pain remedies is glucosamine.

Glucosamine is made by the body and so is a natural substance which helps joints move smoothly and without pain. But sometimes it seems that we don’t make enough of our own so we need to take a glucosamine supplement to supply the “missing glucosamine”.

We could be hurting due to a sports accident or maybe just wear and tear and it is true that painkillers will reduce the pain of the injury but we need the joint to heal as well.

What you need is a “repair kit”.

And we’d like our repair kit to be effective, free of side effects, easy to use and of course easily affordable.

And glucosamine hits the mark. And in case you were wondering if there was any back up from science – the answer is yes, there are many studies showing glucosamine to both reduce pain and boost healing in the joint. And our pets have not been left out either because there are special versions of glucosamine for horses, dogs and cats. If your pet has joint pain or is limping we can help them with glucosamine too.

The doses needed to be effective can easily be supplied in a normal supplement and side effects are virtually unheard of.

Finally we do have to deal with where glucosamine comes from and usually it is from the shells of shellfish. Vegetarians and shell fish allergic people can choose to use glucosamine derived from corn instead. There are other sources too.

Let’s end with advice to get the best out of glucosamine. Glucosamine has to be used with other remedies and with a supportive diet, glucosamine is good for your joints but it is not a magic bullet.

Simple and Natural Yeast Infection Remedies

April 21st 2011 Posted at Natural Remedies
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Natural yeast infection remedies are quickly becoming the best way to attack and cure your infection. I attribute this to more and more people doing their homework and understanding the benefits of using a natural remedy for their yeast infection. People are tired of going to the doctor and spending money on the doctor’s visit and prescription medication and not finding permanent relief from their infection.

People are also discovering the side effects of prescription medications and deciding to stop using those drugs as a cure. People are educating themselves and finding out that the prescription drugs only treat the symptoms and not the problem that comes along with Candida infections. So it really is no surprise that more and more people, especially women a turning towards the more effective yeast infection remedies to put an end to their pain and suffering from their vagina infections.

There are no down sides, only up sides to a natural yeast infection remedy. Below are some tips that you can start using today to put an end to your yeast infection suffering.

Clothing and Hygiene

If you have a Candida infection or to keep from getting an infection you should wear loose clothing. You should also avoid wearing clothes made of synthetic fibers. You should either wear cotton underwear or no underwear at all whenever you can. The goal here is to keep the outside of the vaginal area as ventilated and dry as possible. Yeast grows and thrives in warm, moist areas of the body.

Some people do not realize it but yeast infections are transferable from one person to another. Due to this fact, you should avoid exposure as much as possible. You should not share public showers, baths and whirlpools in places like the YMCA and your local gym. You should not share towels just to be sure you do not get a yeast infection from someone else.

If you are using condoms during sex you should not use a condom with nonoxynol-9 lubricant. Nonoxynol-9 has been found to actually cause vagina infections. There are plenty of different condoms with other type of lubricants. You should wear a condom if you are having sex with a partner that has a yeast infection.

You should eliminate the use perfumed soaps and oils as these items can potentially cause a vagina infection. These type of products can kill the good bacteria in and on your body. Killing the good bacteria leaves you open for the bad bacteria to overgrow and develop into an infection.

Foods to Avoid

Here are a short list of foods that you must avoid if you want to put a stop to your yeast infection.

Yeast
Sugar
White Flour
Wheat Flour
Processed Foods
Caffiene
Chocolate
Simple and Natural Yeast Infection Remedies

Yogurt is possibly the best food weapon to attack your yeast problem. Yogurt contains natural healthy bacteria. This natural healthy bacteria called Lactobacillus acidophilus, works to kill the overgrowth of yeast in your body. It is recommended that you eat one serving per day to help eliminate your infections for the long term. Some people recommend placing yogurt on a tampon and inserting it in to the vagina but highly recommend that you DO NOT insert anything of this nature into the vagina for an infections cure.

Garlic has been found to be a good fighter against yeast infections since it contains anti-fungal properties. Adding garlic to your diet by way of adding it to the food you eat daily will help to getting your infection cured. Some people recommend wrapping a clove of garlic into a cheesecloth and inserting it into the vagina. Again, I do not recommend placing anything like this into your vagina.

Tea Tree Oil is another natural remedy that many people use world wide to use as a natural yeast infection cure. People recommend placing drops of the tea tree oil onto a tampon and inserting the tampon into the vagina. Many people swear by this as a cure for their vagina infection but to repeat myself, I do not recommend placing anything of this nature into your vagina as a cure for your infection.

Each of these natural yeast infection remedies can be used but should be used thought your diet and not used internally. These cure have been found to work by thousands of women around the world for many years.

Boost Your Immune System And Digestion By Eating Oat Bran

April 20th 2011 Posted at Diets
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Are you getting the right amount of nutrients from the food you eat everyday?

Imagine yourself being made to choose between a juicy burger over a bowl of leafy greens, which one would you pick? The burger, of course.

For some people choices like this come everyday. If you’re an avid eater of junk foods and fast food meals, the decision to grab the burger is an easy one to make. Unknown to many, the health cost of this simple gesture such as picking the food you consume everyday, may have a large impact on your life.

Good Health Starts in The Stomach

Good health is dependent primarily on the food that we eat, as well as the activities we do each and every day. A person who spends his or her time eating fast food meals and junk foods for breakfast, lunch or dinner, as well as indulges in drinking hard liquor and smoking heavily, may find themselves sickly or even less capable to perform physically challenging activities.

Various ailments and diseases may easily crop up if the body is frail. It is far easier for viruses and bacteria to infect and spread throughout the body if the immune system is incapable of defending the major organs. The body’s immune system plays a very important role in keeping bad bacteria away, and helping the organs, like the kidney, liver and pancreas in their roles of filtering out food-borne pathogens and toxins.

Take cholesterol for example. Cholesterol can be mostly found in animal food products. Huge amounts of cholesterol in the body may force the colon linings as well as blood vessels to be constricted. This is turn may force major organs to fail or shutdown. Cholesterol has long been considered a major culprit in most cardiac or heart attack cases.

Eating Superfoods

There are many organic or natural foods that can be taken that has the effect of strengthening the body’s immune system and keeping health problems like diabetes, heart attack and cholesterol away. One of the best superfoods that is highly recommended for daily consumption is Oat Bran. This superfood is rich in vitamin B complex, minerals, proteins and most especially dietary fibers.

Fibers for Good Health

Fiber has been well known to keep the digestive tract in a clean and healthy condition. Fiber is commonly referred to as nature’s broom and has the effect of cleansing and absorbing toxins and other water-soluble cholesterol from the body, for easy excretion. Dietary fiber is essential for good health, and a lot of people should invest on Oat Bran to get their daily requirements of oats and fibers.

If you’re hoping to prevent diseases and ailments from keeping your body to achieve top shape, you should always consider the type of food that you eat. Organic and natural foods are highly preferred over junk foods or fast food products. Paired with regular exercise, a person can easily achieve a healthy lifestyle today.

A Natural Cure for Diabetes

April 19th 2011 Posted at Natural Remedies
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As a type 1 diabetic who has been living without any medication and with normal blood sugar levels for a while now, I know that a natural cure for diabetes is not a myth. If you doubt it, the best way to find out is to test it.

Apart from changing your diet (by removing quick sugars and adding complex carbohydrates and raw aliments to it) and exercising more, which is the best way to end your dependency on insulin injections, there is a simple habit to take which will help.

To drink medicinal herbal teas to naturally cure your diabetes!

Nature is very intelligent. For everything it creates, there is an opposite somewhere. Sweet is no exception. Some plants make the blood sugar level high, especially when they are cooked and transformed, and some others balance it, especially when untransformed and raw.

I have been studying those plants for just two years, and every day I am astonished about what they can accomplish. Some plants lower the blood sugar level as a result of digestion. Some others help the pancreas secrete more insulin, and some others help the whole process of digestion, which then frees the pancreas from some tasks, giving it more efficiency to process sugars and carbohydrates. Even though I can’t explain exactly how they all work, I know for sure that many medicinal plants do help to lower the blood sugar level and can work as efficiently as insulin when combined with physical exercise and a good vegetarian meal without fast sugars, and with complex carbohydrates.

Among those plants, there is eucalyptus, ginseng, fenugreek, black walnut leaves, avocado leaves, agrimony eupator, dandelion, burdock, chicory, blueberry leaves and roots, artichoke, psyllium, and many more. They are excellent if taken half an hour to an hour before meals, mixed together and with other plants to make an excellent herbal tea.

Eat medicinal plants to naturally cure your diabetes!

Most of the plants mentioned above can be eaten, but most are bitter and hard to chew. However, a few are easier to find palatable and to prepare.

For salads, you may easily use, by themselves or mixed with other types of salads: cress, dandelion leaves, chicory, and different grasses and other types of salads. If they don’t all have the great ability to balance blood sugar level, all greens are excellent for health.

For sprouts, you may use fenugreek, chia seeds, arugula, which have a certain hypoglycemic action, and all other sprouts also, which will fill you with proteins, nutrients, enzymes and complex carbohydrates (with no incidence on your blood sugar level) and help you prevent cravings for sugar.

For roots, you may use burdock, Jerusalem artichoke, sweet potato, dandelion, chicory. It is better to eat them raw, for example grated in a salad, of in a smoothie. An example of a great smoothie for diabetics would be an apple, half its volume of Jerusalem artichoke, and a little bit of fresh ginger. Add a little bit of water, blend it, and you have a delicious, healthy smoothie, which will help you digest your meal, especially if taken a half-hour to an hour before eating.

Try all those aliments, experience them, mix them, and you will learn how to cure naturally your diabetes!

Treatment of Malaria – The Natural Way

April 16th 2011 Posted at Natural Remedies
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Treatment of Malaria

For various reasons malaria continues to be a growing problem in Africa. The key factor is the widespread resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to conventional anti-malarial drugs, such as chloroquine, mefloquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) and amodiaquine. Overall, it is estimated that malaria costs Africa more than $12 billion annually, even though it could be controlled for a fraction of this amount.

WHO recommends that all countries experiencing resistance to conventional therapies should use combination therapies, preferably those containing artemisinin derivatives for P. falciparum malaria, called ACTs (Artemisinin Combination Therapies), which now appears to be the only known reliable treatment for malaria. However, lately resistance to ACT has been observed in Thailand-Cambodia border areas. Interestingly, previous incidences of parasite resistance for other anti-malarial substances have also been noted around the same region.

International funding available for malaria prevention, including mosquito-control strategies, and for treatment is estimated at $1.1 billion in 2008, but resource needs are estimated to be much higher exceeding $5 billion per year. International efforts to address malaria have intensified in recent years and the U.N. Millennium Development Goals include targets to reduce the impact of malaria by 2020.

Notwithstanding the malaria control strategies reported to have been widely applied such as, free distribution of mosquito nets in malaria endemic areas and increased level of funding in public and private sector directed at new drugs and vaccines, the world is still awaiting an inexpensive and effective treatment for malaria.

Present Day – World-wide strategy for mass production of safe and reliable cure and Prevention of Malaria

Artemisinin containing Artemisia is primarily available in China, Vietnam and to some extent in East Africa. Besides the limited availability of the plant itself, the artemisinin content is also low, rarely above 0.8% on large scale basis.

Since the isolation and characterization of artemisinin in China, the pharmaceutical initiatives have been based on using only the pure artemisinin or its derivatives, either as a mono-therapy, or as ACT, i.e., Artemisinin combined with other previously developed synthetic anti-malarials.

Thus, apart from development of anti-malarial vaccines on going for the past 25 years, research round the world has been focused on chemical and bio-synthesizing of the artemisinin compound, and to improve the specie to produce higher than average of 1.5% to 2.5 % or higher artemisinin content, which has been successful to a large extent. However, its impact has not yet been accessed.

Although it is recognized that the stereo-specificity of the artemisinin molecule makes total synthesis very difficult and may very well not be adaptable to industrial productions at acceptable price levels, the initiative is still being pursued aggressively. In contrast, the phytochemical investigation of Artemisia has revealed an abnormally wide range of endoperoxides and hydroperoxides similar to artemisinin, many of which have not even been tested for their anti-malarial activity.

It is possible that the pharmaceutical initiatives are focused on products that can be patented. In the meanwhile promising non-patentable solutions are set aside while malaria continues to be the scourge of Sub-Saharan Africa.

The future of artemisinin

Despite much research, artemisinin remains the only known natural product to contain a 1,2,4 -trioxane ring, and Artemisia continues to be its only known source. Although micro propagation of Artemisia can be easily accomplished, it is highly unlikely that this method will yield commercially viable artemisinin.

It appears that wild or field-cultivated Artemisia will be the only viable option for artemisinin in the foreseeable future. Therefore the requirement for increasing acreage under cultivation is of vital importance just as the need for improving the quality of the plant, as well as research for alternate solutions.

A Not-so-unique Approach to Development of Treatment for Malaria

Several issues are related to pure artemisinin or its derivatives as a mono-therapy or as ACT, such as:

short shelf life

special storage requirements

lower intestinal absorption

dietary considerations unlikely to be met in majority of malaria endemic areas

unsuitability for high risk populations: children under 5 years and pregnant woman

Besides the above adverse conditions, the primary shortcoming is due to ignoring potential therapeutic value of other endo-peroxides and hydro-peroxides contained in Artemisia in favour of selective extraction of artemisinin.

Following from the above assessment, a further three fundamental criterions were included:

The treatment should be FULLY EFFECTIVE with rapid resolution of symptoms for the entire population range including those at high levels of risk
The treatment should be AFFORDABLE & ACCESSIBLE worldwide to all under risk.
The treatment should have NO SIDE EFFECTS.

What to Do With High Blood Pressure – Natural Remedies

April 15th 2011 Posted at Hypertension
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Many people nowadays suffer from high blood pressure and most of them are on medications. Sometimes it is too hard to memorize all those medicines that one has to take in just to keep the body healthy and maintain having that normal blood pressure. You are probably one of those who are looking for natural ways to remedy this kind of condition, right? Well, this article will provide you with more information on what you need to know about having high blood pressure as well as what natural alternative do you have to help you maintain a normal rate when it comes to blood pressure.

The first thing that you may have to look into is that if you do have high blood pressure (HBP). Most of the time people are not aware that they already have it unless they experience serious symptoms that may even lead to fatality. The symptoms can be as simple as a head ache, nose bleeds, or even frequent dizziness and this condition can be caused by many reasons.

There are reasons why an individual suffers from HBP which is mostly known as hypertension. One of the most common causes is gaining too much weight. Weight brings pressure to the heart’s arteries which lessen the circulation of oxygen and nutrients for the body. Aside from weight gain, usage of tobacco, alcohol, excessive sodium intake and lack of physical activity may as well lead to hypertension. There are also some pre-existing disorders which may lead to high blood pressure and the condition more often termed as secondary hypertension.

Now, you probably want to start with avoiding those things that can cause hypertension as your first natural remedy for HBP. Since you are most likely looking for natural remedies to avoid side effects from the medications that you are taking, you can definitely start with dieting and exercise for this will not only help lead to normal blood pressure but it will also promote overall health and wellness to you.

You can start your dieting through eating healthy foods and taking in less processed foods which has trans fats and all of those harmful and junk ingredients not needed by the body. This just means that you will have to prepare fresh foods and less eating out in restaurants. Instead of eating pork and other meaty food you may opt for fish meat. The omega 3 fatty acids coming from fish is good for the heart.
Then, opt for exercises that will help you reduce stress. You may start with slow breathing exercises and then consider doing this regularly in a rhythmic pattern. Cardio exercises may help strengthen your heart and help in the normal flow and circulation of blood into your body. Try getting yourself involved with some gym work out if you still can, if not, then make use of the usual cardio-vascular exercises such as jogging or speed walking.

This is basically what you have to do to keep your blood pressure normal and maintain a healthy body aside from taking in those medications. This will lessen that chances of you having to deal with the same problem from time to time and eventually, you will be able to reduce those high blood pressure symptoms that you are experiencing at present.

Natural Cures for Common Illnesses