Three Useful Essential Oils With Healing Properties

Due to the natural healing properties of essential oils, they are widely used to treat number of ailments. This article focuses on three commonly used essential oils with their remedial properties. 1. Benzoin Benzoin is actually a tree resin which is processed to turn it into a liquid. Benzoin essential oil is helpful for: 1. Coughs colds and flu: Try steam inhalation 2. Itchy skin, dermatitis: Mix into a carrier oil or a perfume free cream and apply to the affected area. 3. Nervous exhaustion, tension: Mix into a carrier oil and use for massage particularly around the neck and shoulder area.

Horsetail Shavegrass Kills Diseases and Speeds Healing

The horsetail herb is also known as horse willow, toadpipe, bottle brush, Corn Horsetail, Dutch rushes, Quyroughi, Atkuyrugu, and Shavegrass. It is a perennial flowerless plant whose value is found in the hollow, jointed stems. First recommended by the Roman physician Galen, several followed his advice to treat for kidney and bladder troubles, arthritis, bleeding ulcers, and tuberculosis. The Chinese still use it to cool a fever and as a remedy for eye inflammations such as conjunctivitis and corneal disorders. They also use it to treat dysentery, flu, swellings, and hemorrhoids.

Lobelia Herb Treats Respiratory Problems and More

Lobelia (officially lobelia inflata), alias Indian tobacco, was a common herb prescribed by early North American doctors. Its main use was in healing respiratory ailments, such as asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, and coughs. The plant stem, which has only a few branches, is smooth above while the lower part is rough and hairy. The lower leaves, which are about two inches in length, have stalks, while the upper, smaller ones do not. The pale green or yellowish leaves have a sharp taste and a slightly irritating odor. The sparse flowers are pale violet-blue outside and pale yellow inside.

Homemade Colon Cleanse - The Basics in 3 Steps

You're considering a homemade colon cleanse because you already get the importance of your colon health to your overall well-being. How can you have the energy and vitality you desire if your digestive system is out of order? So, what are you searching for in a homemade colon cleanse? As you search, you will likely come across all sorts of things: from soups to raw eggs. But be cautious in what you choose for your body. Here are 3 steps to think about before you go and try the next thing: 1 -- Do you take full responsibility for your health or do you leave it to others? This is the first and most important step because your attitude changes completely when you realize you're in the driver's seat.

Make Your Cleanse Count With Foods That Cleanse Your Body

Colon cleansing and body cleansing bring in big money. In fact, colon cleansing supplements are some of the most popular internet products. Even spas offer expensive body cleansing treatments. Which ever way you choose to cleanse your body, you can't do it without the right foods. Why is this true? Food can help your body cleanse or they can clog and irritate your body. Foods can contribute to built up waste in the form of excess weight and fat or help you lose fat. The right food will give you lots of energy while the wrong foods can leave you feeling depressed or cranky. While it is true that your body has the ability to cleanse itself, you still need to do your part.

Healing With Electricity

Unlike chronic pain where electricity is being used to stimulate nerves you have a multitude of potential applications using electricity - electromagnetic energy, to treat many of the illnesses found today. Today we've refined the application of electricity to the point we can define the flow of electrons and add or subtract them from an area in or around the body. This process of adding/subtracting electrons in an area increases the chemical responses throughout our body. A very simple example of this is if you place two magnets beside each other with the "south" ends facing then no matter what you do you will not be able to make the two magnets stay together as you have the similar poles repelling each other.

The Origin of Ayurveda

Ayurveda in its real meaning is a way of life, a philosophy and a science of healing and health care. As a medicinal knowledge, it originates from two distinct dominions, folk wisdom and scientific knowledge. Tradition attributes the origin of ayurveda from the creator itself. Ayurveda is the collection of the principles of life that took birth with the world itself and is believed not liable to change at any time or in any part of the world. Although ayurveda put across antiquity, authenticity and efficacy, the tradition does not determine the source of knowledge, nor does it suggests any precise date of origin.

Juice Fast Journal - Week 1 of 6

I have found that juice fasting is a longtime practice used to cleanse the body of toxins and to maintain a state of optimum health. Toxins, you say? Yep - nasty little things that hibernate in your fat cells depleting your body of nutrition, rest, and vitality. They don't just get to you by the food that you eat but by the air you breathe and things that come in contact with your skin. Liquid is the only substance that will pass through the lining of your stomach. When you juice, you are sending all those vitamins and nutrients directly into your bloodstream, and in turn they are flushing out the toxins that are laying in wait to sabotage your good health and forces them into your bloodstream to be removed through excrement, your lungs, and your skin.

Radicals, Antioxidants and Life

Radicals are molecules, atoms or ions that have an unpaired (extra) electron in their outer (electron) shell. Unpaired electrons are highly reactive and play a part in many of many chemical reactions and biological processes. Since these radicals are so reactive, they need to be tightly controlled in biologic environments, because excess radicals can cause damage to living cells. What kind of damage are we talking about? Damage to DNA that can cause mutations that can lead to cancer or damage to the lipid structure of cell membranes. There are many different radicals, but for the scope of this article, we are just illustrating the role of oxygen radicals or oxygen reactive species.

Detoxification-Purification - Why Should We Detoxify?

We are living in the most polluted environment in earth's known history. We are continually inhaling and assimilating residues from petrochemicals, plastics, pesticides and herbicides that occupy cell receptors sites and block hormone utilization. Consider the following: Since 1980, there has been a 1600% increase in birth defects and 250% increase in breast cancer. Since 1940, a 59% decrease in male sperm count. Since 1900, a 500% increase in cancer mortality and 400% increase in heart disease. Many experts believe that these statistics are directly related to the increased exposure to petrochemicals, heavy metals, and other chemicals and toxins in our environment which include the air we breathe as well as the foods that we consume.