Natural Health Cure

Common Eatables and Their Harmful Ingredients

The description given below only gives the harmful elements contained in the following foods but it doesn’t mean that they are totally harmful and shouldn’t be taken at all. They have got some beneficial nutrients also. That’s why their occasional use is permissible.

Ice water (or chilled/refrigerated water)

• Ice water impairs the ability of the spleen and stomach functions. Therefore the digestion of food is hampered.
• Ice water or other drinks make the body and its joints stiff and aggravate arthritis and rheumatic problems. According to Ayurveda, it increases ‘vayu’ in the body.
• Ice creates inertia in the body. (more…)

Real comfort and happiness is experienced when we are in a sound health. Although modern man has developed sophisticated machines, medical equipments and powerful medicines, he is deprived of health and therefore he is far away from happiness. He has conquered the diseases like typhoid, malaria, leprosy, tuberculosis, small pox etc. by inventing antibiotics but he is still struggling to control diseases such as hypertension, insomnia, heart disease, diabetes, asthma where the cause of disease is not a particular germ or bacteria but the mental tensions or the stress due to our faulty lifestyle. (more…)

High blood pressure (hypertension) is regarded as the silent killer. More and more efforts are being undertaken to deal with hypertension, more and more it is spreading. More than 38% of adult urban population (mostly males) is suffering from this monstrous disease and are victim of its dreadful complications. In fact hypertension is not a disease; it is only a symptom of poor inner health. If not taken seriously and dealt firmly it can lay foundation stone for number of diseases and some of them can be life threatening too. Now the world has experienced that hypertension can only be managed with tablets and cannot be cured or reversed. No sooner medicine is discontinued; the hypertension comes back with greater intensity. People who are overweight, who worry too much, have a lot of stress, who over work and even those who are lazy are susceptible for hypertension. In industrially developed countries hypertension is reaching epidemic proportions. A very high protein diet, overuse of alcohol and tobacco, lack of exercise, atmospheric pollution, too much pressure of work, aggressive behavior etc., are some of the common causes of hypertension. (more…)

Everybody wants to be healthy and happy, which is our birthright and of course responsibility too. To achieve this, we need to be physically and mentally sound. Whereas many times, we get upset mentally on approaching various issues in our day to day life. When the mind is affected, automatically body functions also will get upset and affected.

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When a person becomes angry, a stress mechanism is activated in the body which leads to a lot of biological changes in the body. It is as if a red alert or emergency were declared in the body to cope with an impending threat. This is a spontaneous physiological response of the body whenever you get aroused. It is immaterial for the body whether you are aroused due to a traffic jam or due to the negligence of your subordinate or due to a real life-threatening attack on you. Body’s response remains the same. It can’t differentiate among various sources of arousal. This response of the body, also called Tight or Flight response, is organised by the activation of a component of autonomous nervous system called sympathetic nervous system which brings about the following changes in the body temporarily:

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Impotence and Erectile Dysfunction

If you are getting along in years, as so many of us baby boomer herbalists are, would you like to have
sex, say, weekly, and not, uh, weakly?

Impotence, also called erectile dysfunction (ED), is the inability of a man to achieve or maintain an erection long enough to engage in sexual intercourse. Although a man’s plumbing is pretty simple, ED is not. Medical science tells us that it can occur from at least 15 possible underlying causes, from diabetes and pituitary tumors, to the side effects of drugs, hormonal imbalances and psychological issues. Injury to the nerves of the penis, from Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis, may also cause impotence. In men over 60, the primary cause is atherosclerosis, or narrowing of the arteries. Diabetic men are particularly at risk because of their high rate of atherosclerosis and diabetic neuropathy. (more…)

Black Pepper (Kalimirch)

Also known as

• Latin : Piper nigrum
• English : Black Pepper
• Sanskrit : Maricam
• Hindi : Kalimirch
• Marathi : Miri
• Tamil : Milaku
• Telugu : Miriyalu
• Malayalam : Kurumulaku
• Kannada : Ollimonasu

Among the spices, black pepper is the king. It is the most important, most popular and most widely used spice in the world. It has extensive culinary uses for flavouring and preserving processed foods and is important medicinally. Of the total spices traded internationally pepper accounts for about 34% (throughout this chapter, pepper is used to mean black pepper, unless otherwise stated). South West India is the traditional home of this important spice, particularly the Western coastal regions of South Peninsular India (the Malabar Coast). (more…)

Faulty Functioning of Ovaries: Symptoms include Amenorrhoea (absence of menstrual flow in women), Menorrhagia (Excessive bleeding during menstruation) and Metrorrahagia (excessive bleeding from the uterus from onset of the puberty or any age. Recommended yogic exercises: Paranayama, Dhanur Asana, Halasana, Mal Asana, Sarvang Asana, Sirsh Asana. (more…)

People have been using herbal medicines for thousands of years to meet their health needs. Self treatment is suit the primary use of herbs today, even though enlightened clinics and practitioners are beginning to incorporate herbal remedies as complementary medicines. (more…)

During World War II, art therapy was de­veloped and was used in treating victims of  “shell shock,” a term now referred to as posttraumatic stress syndrome. It was used to help patients express their feelings when words were insufficient. Following the war, the uses of art therapy were broad­ened. It is now used in many different pop­ulations, including traumatized children and adults, self-improvement groups, and people with chronic illnesses. (more…)