Herbal Medicine

Slimming Using African Mango

2011-08-24T15:54:00.000-07:00

African mango or mango Irvingia gabonensis is wild bush that grows disemak-West African nation of Cameroon. African mango mango is not as known to many people because the color red as an apple. Is it true that African Mango can lose weight?
After appearing on the Dr. Oz Show, a popular television show in America in September 2010, the demand for ever-increasing African Mango pills. Dr. Oz says there are three that should be kept in the medicine cabinet than medicaments of vitamins B, Mango Africa and multivitamins. Because of the popularity of pills that African Mango, now appears replica manufactured in China.
Mango Extract Africa claimed efficacious for weight loss. Average user claimed to lose weight 10-12 pounds in 10 weeks. The research was first conducted by the University of Yaounde in Cameroon found that extracts of this African Mango has a natural ability to suppress appetite is great and the brain affect the outlook for food.
This is because African Mango extract can increase adiponectin production in the body. Production of high adiponectin can increase sensitivity to insulin so the body will burn more fat. If fat cells much the production of adiponectin in the body will be low, that's why a lot of thin people than fat people adiponectin production.
Mango Africa Confidential said to have been used for centuries by local people to starve while there he had to go hunting with a little stock. Eat Mangoes can be deadly African hunger mechanism so that the man there did not overeat at meal supplies running low.
Yet Africa's rampant use of the pill Mango is criticized by Chris Kilham, an herb doctor and researcher from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She did not think possible without any effort of people could lose weight just by taking a pill.
"There are many opportunities for companies to always produce the diet pills, and for people who do not want to hard of course is very welcome. But there is one similarity in diet pills, so many people who have tried and become disappointed because they do not get as expected, "Kilham said as quoted by FoxNews, Wednesday (17/08/2011).
Mango is a fruit that is rich in fiber and contain antioxidant carotenoids. Mango fruit is also low in fat and cholesterol free. With the Glycemic Index ranges from 41-60, mango does not have a significant effect on blood sugar levels increase, so do not store much fat. Low Glycemic Index is made mango suitable for diabetics.
According to Kilham if you want to lose weight do not dwell on the short but doing the basic things to lose weight. Eat smaller portions, multiply eat fresh fruits and vegetables, eating less refined carbohydrates (like white flour, sugar, syrup) and keep the fried foods and rajinlah walk.
"Indeed, with the basics such people will not get a lot of weight loss, but this was better and the sense than to be disappointed again and again disappointed with the shortcut through drugs," says Kilham.

Carambola Wuluh as an Alternative Herbal Medicine

2011-08-24T15:48:00.000-07:00

Starfruit (Averrhoa bilimbi L.) is a kind of small trees are estimated to come from the Maluku Islands (Indonesia), but from other sources also said to come from tropical America.

The fruit has a sour taste and is often used as a refresher syrup, flavoring dishes, clean the stains on the cloth and items made of brass, cleaning dirty hands and as an ingredient of traditional medicine.

This plant can reach 5-10 m high with a trunk that is not so large and its diameter is only about 30 cm. Planted as a fruit tree, sometimes growing wild and are found from lowlands to 500 m above sea level.

Wavy coarse stalks, and branches a bit short. The leaves form a group alternately pinnate, 30-60 cm long and clustered at the end of the branch. On each leaf there are 11-45 pairs of oval leaves.

The flowers are small, emerging directly from the stem with feathery flower stalk. Crown of five flowers, white, yellow or purple.

Fruit elliptical shaped like a torpedo with a length of 4-10cm. They were green when young with petals remaining attached to the end. Ripe fruits yellow or pale. Flesh juicy fruit with a very sour taste to sweet. Fruit skin shiny and thin. Seeds small, flat, brown, and covered with mucus.

Property

A treatable disease include cough, thrush stomatitis, abdominal pain, mumps parotitis, rheumatism, whooping cough, bleeding gums, canker sores, painful cavities; Acne, phlegm, high blood pressure (hypertension), paralysis, improves digestive function, inflammation of the rectum .

Parts that can be used: Leaves, flowers, fruit.

Usefulness:
Interest
1. Cough.
2. Canker sores (stomatitis)

Leaf
1. Abdominal pain. Mumps (parotitis).
2. Rheumatism.

Fruit
1. Whooping Cough.
2. Bleeding gums, canker sores.
3. Pain of cavities.
4. Acne. Panu.
5. High blood pressure.
6. Paralysis.
7. Improve digestive function.
8. Inflammation of the rectum.

How to Use

Stiff: 1 handful of leaves of young starfruit, 10 clove seeds, 15 seeds of pepper, finely ground and then add vinegar to taste. Smear the sick place.

Mumps: 10 young twigs following starfruit leaves and 4 red onion grains after washed and finely ground. Apply the sick place.

Cough in children: A handful of flowers starfruit, a few grains of fennel, sugar to taste and 1 cup water, steamed for several hours. After chilling filtered with a piece of cloth, divided for 2 times drinks, morning and night with an empty stomach.

Cough: 25 flowers starfruit, a finger rhizome Intersection bells, cinnamon bark 1 finger, 1 finger rhizome kencur, red onion 2 eggs, ¼ handheld gotu kola, sage leaves ¼ handheld, handheld ¼ rue leaves, a handheld leaf ¼ spoon, washed and cut necessary, boiled with 5 cups water until the remaining 2 ¼ cups. After chilling filtered, taken with honey as necessary. ¾ cup 3 times a day.

Whooping cough: 10 pieces of starfruit washed and finely-smooth, kneaded with 2 tablespoons of salt water, then filtered. Drink, do it 2 times a day. Or starfruit made candied fruit, 3 x 6-8 meals a day of fruit.

Rheumatism:
1. 100 g young leaves starfruit, 10 clove seeds and 15 seeds are washed and finely ground pepper, add vinegar to taste until it becomes dough like mush. Spread batter slurry had a sick place.

2. 5 fruit starfruit, 8 leaves of magnolia (Michelia champaca L.), 15 clove seeds, 15 grains of black pepper, washed and finely ground, kneaded with 2 tablespoons lime juice and 1 tablespoon eucalyptus oil. Used to rub and massage the sore body parts. Do it 2-3 times a day.

Sprue:
1. Segenggarn interest starfruit, sugar to taste and 1 cup of boiling water until thick. After chilling filtered, used to clean and lubricate the mouth sores.

2. 2 / 3 hand-held interest starfruit, washed and boiled with 3 clean water glass until remaining 2 1 / 4 cup. After chilling filtered and drunk, 3 times a day 3 / 4 cup.

3. 3 pieces of starfruit, red onion 3 eggs, 1 nutmeg are young, 10 leaves thrush, 3 / 4 teaspoon fennel, 3 / 4 finger pulosari, washed and finely ground, kneaded with 3 tablespoons of coconut oil, squeezed and then filtered . Used for greasing the wounds caused by canker sores, 6-7 times a day.

Acne:
1. Fruit starfruit sufficiently washed and finely crushed, crushed with salt water as necessary, to scrub the face with acne. Do it 3 times a day.
2. 6 pieces starfruit and 1 / 2 teaspoon of powdered sulfur, finely milled and kneaded with 2 tablespoons lime juice. This herb is used to brush and lubricate the face with acne. Do it 2-3 times a day.

Panu: 10 fruit starfruit cleaned then is milled smooth, add the sour seeds of whiting, kneaded until smooth. This herb is used to rub the affected skin tinea versicolor. Apply 2 times a day.

High blood pressure: 3 fruit starfruit washed and cut into pieces and eaten.

Composition

Chemical properties and pharmacological effects: Sour taste, cool. Eliminate the pain (analgesic), multiply the expenditure of bile, anti-inflammatory, laxative urine, astringent. Chemical Ingredients: Trunk: Saponin, tannin, glucoside, calcium oxalate, sulfur, formic acid, peroxidase. Leaves: Tannins, sulfur, formic acid, peroxidase, calcium oxalate, potassium citrate.

Traditional Medicine

2010-07-13T15:38:00.000-07:00

Over the centuries, various drugs have been trying to find humans to treat various diseases. Since the earliest times, traditional medicines, mostly in the form of herbal medicine has been used to treat disease. For example Ebers Papyrus, compiled in Egypt around the 16th century BC, contains hundreds of folk medicine for various diseases. However, herbal medicine is usually handed down orally from generation to generation.

Although there is a notion that traditional medicine or herbal medicine is safer than modern pharmaceutical medicines, traditional medicines rather than not at risk. Warnings and recommendations of what should be kept in mind when considering a person or a traditional medicine herbal medicine? Before discussing about the risks of traditional medicine, the following are some recipes of traditional medicine and medical facts of each of these nutritious recipes for overcoming several types of diseases and solve problems for a personal appearance.

Cholesterol and Diabetes

* Recipe: Boil bay leaf together laos then drink the cooking water.
* Fact: The leaves contain flavonoids and tannins regards as a substance capable of lower cholesterol. Can also lower blood sugar levels.

Galingale containing essential oil to help expedite the process of blood circulation and metabolism expenditure including excess cholesterol.

Hypertension

* Recipes: Consumption of regular celery.
* Fact: Celery contains the phthalide which is able to relax muscles and thus reducing arterial blood pressure in hypertensive and also reduces production of stress hormones.

Headache

* Recipes: Drinking water decoction of ginger, lemongrass and coriander.
* Fact: Ginger, lemongrass and coriander essential oil that will contain the circulation of blood also serves as an analgesic to reduce pain in the head.

Cough

* Recipes: lemon water mixed with honey.
* Fact: Orange juice contains vitamin C which can improve the resilience of the body to fight the flu. Also functions as an antiseptic that is able to remove toxins in the body.

Honey, which also functions as an antiseptic and is able to add energy to defeat the disease.

Wound

* Recipes: Apply honey on the injured part
* Fact: Honey contains hydrogen peroxide and gluconic acid that will kill the bacteria causing the infection and helps the growth of new cells so that the wound be quickly healed.

Nosebleed

* Recipes: Wind the betel leaf which has been cleaned and put into the nostrils.
* Fact: The betel leaves are able to reduce bleeding, including bleeding in the mucous membranes in the nose like that happen in people who experience these nosebleeds.

Mouth Odor

* Recipe: Boil the betel leaf, cloves and turmeric. Then rinse with boiling water it uses.
* Fact: betel leaf and cloves contains antiseptic. Turmeric contains curcumin is able to cope with infectious germs that cause bad breath.

Whitish

* Recipe: Boil some betel leaves and bitter.
* Fact: betel leaf serves as an antiseptic. Sambiloto antiflamasi which serves as the ability to kill fungi and prevent itching.

Menstrual pain

* Recipe: Boil turmeric along with java acidic.
* Fact: Turmeric contains curcumin. Java acidic fruits contain acid that will create a smooth menstrual blood and reduce stomach cramping.

Sleeping difficulty

* Recipes: rubbing lavender oil on the pillow or under the nose that can be smelled. Can also drink juice with cucumber, banana and nutmeg.
* Fact: Aromatherapy using lavender flowers make a person more quickly to sleep soundly.

Cucumber contains vitamin C. Bananas contain carbohydrates and folic acid blood circulation. Nutmeg seeds contain essential oil which makes the mind becomes calm mempu.

Dry Lips

* Recipes: Apply honey on the lips.
Facts *: Honey works as an antioxidant and humecant that can retain moisture, including moisture lip so the lip does not become broken.

Dull teeth

* Recipes: Lumatkan strawberries and mix with half a teaspoon of baking soda. Brush the teeth, leave on for several minutes then wipe. Do it sparingly, because this acid can erode your teeth if used frequently.
* Fact: Strawberries contain malic acid which functions as a natural bleach.

Wrinkling

* Recipes: Take the egg white and apply on face, use as a mask.
* Fact: Egg white albumin mangandung that can serve as moisturizers and skin tightening.

Dandruff

* Recipes: Soak the slices in the juice cayenne pepper and lemon juice. Apply on the head before shampooing.
* Fact: Orange juice contains vitamin C and fruit acids. While the chili contains Capsaicin which are capable of killing bacteria or fungi, so the scalp is clean.

Bee Stings

* Recipes: Apply toothpaste or baking soda and water mixture on the part stung. Do not forget to remove the sting is left in the body.
* Fact: Toothpaste can neutralize the pain of the sting. Baking soda can give a sense of comfort at the wound stings.

Burned skin or blister

* Recipes: Apply aloe vera on the part of the body covered with blisters.
* Fact: Aloe vera contains mucopolysaccharides which is useful as an antiseptic and anti-inflammatory that helps to keep skin blisters are not infected with the bacteria also prevent the occurrence of redness caused by inflammation. Aloe vera content of collagen in preventing swelling. In addition, aloe vera can give cool effects that help reduce pain.

Treating Burns with Aloe Vera

2010-06-14T16:56:00.000-07:00

Many plants are extremely beneficial than medication. One of these is Aloe Vera, Aloe vera plant has been known since the time of Nefertiti and Cleopatra as a cosmetic drug. Alexander the Great also got advice from Aristotle to colonize the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean with the famous crocodile tongues. Aloe Vera Alexander as required by the drug battle wounds.

Aloe Vera is a healer of the fastest burns, no one can match it, and also the most effective against the skin.

Aloe vera has 75 chemicals in total only 1% of the rest is water. These chemicals can not stand alone and must be used together. Best and most effective is the use of fresh Aloe Vera because after a broken aloe vera will be oxidized. Overall, the Aloe Vera will provide fuel anti-panas/anti-luka effects, anti-bacteria on the skin and moisturizes the skin so that would be less itchy and no infection.

The History of Herbal Medicine

2010-05-15T10:20:00.000-07:00

Author: Steve Maszlagi

The History of Herbal Medicine

Medicinal plants have been used for medicinal purposes long before recorded history. For example, ancient Chinese and Egyptian papyrus writings describe medicinal plant uses. Indigenous cultures (e.g., African and Native American) used herbs in their healing rituals, while others developed traditional medical systems (e.g., Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine) in which herbal therapies were used systematically. Scientists found that people is different parts of the globe tended to use the same or similar plants for the same purposes.

In the early 19th century, when methods of chemical analysis first became available, scientists began extracting and modifying the active ingredients from plants. Later, chemists began making their own version of plant compounds, beginning the transition from raw herbs to synthetic pharmaceuticals. Over time, the use of herbal medicines declined in favor of pharmaceuticals.

Herbal Medicine Today

Recently, the World Health Organization estimated that 80% of people worldwide rely on herbal medicines for some aspect of their primary healthcare. In the last twenty years in the United States, increasing public dissatisfaction with the cost, efficacy and potential of side-effect of prescription medications, combined with an interest in returning to natural or organic remedies, has led to an increase in the use of herbal medicines. In countries such as Germany and Switzerland, roughly 600 to 700 plant-based medicines are prescribed by approximately 70% of physicians.

How do Herbs Work?

For most herbs, used in herbal medicine, the specific ingredient that causes a therapeutic effect is not known. Whole herbs contain many ingredients, and it is likely that they work synergistically to produce the therapeutic effects. Many factors affect how effective an herb will be. For example, the type of environment (climate, bugs, soil quality, altitude, etc.) in which a plant grew will affect its constituents. In addition, how and when it was harvested and processed will also influence the quality of the resulting herbal extract.

How are herbs used? For the reasons described in the previous section, herbalists prefer using plant extracts from the whole herb or various parts such as roots, flowers, seeds, etc., rather than extracting single active ingredients from them. Herbal extracts have many components and are usually too complex to manufacture synthetically by the pharmaceutical industry.

These components contained in medicinal herbs work together to produce therapeutic effects, while at the same time moderating potential side-effects often associated with pharmaceutic preparations. Several herbs are often used together to enhance effectiveness and synergistic actions and to reduce toxicity.

Are Herbal Medicines Safe?

In a study by the World Health Organization on the use of herbal medicine, about 80% of the world's population still rely on herbal medicine to treat certain ailments and about 74% of the pharmaceutical drugs we use today contain at least one botanical element.

For instance, Chinese Herbal Medicine's uses Ephedra, which containes ephedrine in the treatment of some respiratory conditions. Ephedrine remains an active ingredient in many pharmaceutical drugs being prescribed to relieve asthma symptoms.

Herbal medicine is defined by three schools of thought: Ayurvedic Herbalism, Traditional Chinese Herbalism and Western Herbal Medicine. While both Ayurvedic and Chinese herbal medicine have moved on to advanced forms, western herbal medicine remains a part of folk treatments. Herbal medicine is, first and foremost, holistic. It aims to address not just a particular symptom, but also to help the whole body rejuventate strengthen itself.

Research

Reseach into herbal medicine is growing and evidence of efficacy is growing at a rapid rate. Universities such as the University of Meryland Medical Centre, are publishing good quality, researched information on herbal medicine, herbs and other aspects of alternative medicine.

Warning

Always keep in mind that herbal medicines are medicines and, therefore, need to be regarded with as much care as pharmaceutical drugs. Some people have the misconception that because herbal medicines are natural, they are 100% safe. This is not so. Allways consult a fully qualified, experienced medical herbalist to have your health problems assessed and treated.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/supplements-and-vitamins-articles/the-history-of-herbal-medicine-319373.html

About the AuthorSteven Maszlagi has been promoting the benefits of herbal and alternative treatments through such websites as HerbalWorks for many years. He is a passionate believer in the power of herbal remedies over chemical based unnatural solutions.

Many Health Benefits Of Coconut Oils

2010-05-12T17:49:00.000-07:00

Many Health Benefits Of Coconut Oils

Author: Jaden Santon

Have you heard about coconut oil yet? People are adding coconut oil to their diets and are receiving incredible fallout. They are down emphasis, receiving more energy, and getting healthier. Coconut oiled is protected to use, and does not revolve to fat in your body. It raises the metabolism, so you burn more fat and have more energy. It does not redouble your cholesterol, but actually helps worse it. Coconut oiled is fantastic diet addition for just about everyone. Coconut oiled is round of healthy payback. Next to mother's milk, it is nature's uppermost informant of standard series greasy acids (MTC's), which hoist the body's metabolism, important to mass loss. It has oily acids such as lauric acid and monoglycerides, similar to mother's breast milk. When lauric acid is consumed in the body, whether through mother's milk or coconut oil, it enhances the immune logic to help the body wrestle infections, diseases, bad bacteria and toadstool invasions. Lauric aid is known to be unwilling-viral, unwilling-fungal and unwilling-bacterial. Coconut oiled raises the metabolism, which helps people who are annoying to escape load and people distress from thyroid evils. Coconut stabilizes the blood honey levels, ration with diabetes. It also protects the kindness cells from hurt. Coconut oil helps relieve the symptoms of menopause, and pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS). Many women who bear the equipment of PMS have found the symptoms lessened when coconut oil was consumed regularly in their diet. Coconut oil does not upgrade cholesterol. Studies have exposed the people who use coconut oil have lower cholesterol than those who do not, even when the people consuming coconut also eat other high cholesterol foods like eggs and meat. Coconut oiled smells good, tastes enjoyable and is so good for our bodies that some people consume it organized, by the tablespoon, and use it in place of other oils on their salads. Many people also use it as an ingredient when juicing or making smoothies. If all this good newscast isn't enough, coconut oil one of the best things you can join frankly on your skin and beard. It not only gives interim relief to skin harms like rashes, but it aids in healing and restoring skin to a younger appearance. It has also been known to help with people who suffer from mold infections in the skin, and there is pure seek that shows the MCTs in coconut oil do overcome yeast infections. Coconut oiled also makes an excellent massage oil.

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The Advantage of Frangipan

2010-05-10T17:09:00.000-07:00

Frangipani (Plumeria rubra L.cv. Acutifolia.) Ordinary planted around the cemetery / grave. When I was little chance my mind "Why frangipani just planted a funeral ..? " beautiful when it flowers, the another strange burial already planted but never used (rich offerings for example).

But now, these trees began to be cultivated and ornamental plants. Besides as an ornamental plant, Frangipani appears to have significant efficacy for the drug. The content in this tree are empirically proven to cure some diseases.

Ingredients:
- Compounds agoniadin
- Plumierid
- Plumerat acid
- Lupeol
- Serotinat acid
- Plumierid a bitter toxic substance.

Sap
- Resin
- Kautscuk
- A kind of rubber compound
- Amytin triterpenoids and lupeol

Usefulness:
In traditional medicine frangipani sap used for toothache drug or drug injury, while the bark is very effective to suppress pain and swelling and cracking on soles of feet.

History of Ginger

2010-05-07T17:09:00.001-07:00

Ginger is a medicinal plant in the form of quasi-trunked clump of plants. Ginger thought to have originated from India. But there is also a trust ginger came from South China. By Therefore these two nations has been hailed as the first nation used rimarily as raw ginger beverages, spices and traditional medicines.

Because ginger can survive only in tropical areas, planting is only done at the equator bsia are like Southeast Asia, Brazil, and Africa. Currently Ecuador and Brazil became the world's largest supplier of ginger.

Ginger is included in the tribe-finding meeting (Zingiberaceae), a family with Other findings such as the Intersection-Intersection buffoonery (Cucuma xanthorrizha), black Intersection (Curcuma aeruginosa), turmeric (Curcuma domestica), Indian galanga (Kaempferia galanga), galangal (Languas galanga) and others.