Hydrotherapy
May 23rd, 2008 in Alternative medicine, Massage
The term hydrotherapy is coined from Greek words: hydro means water and therapy means healing. It has been invented by ancient Greeks. Hydrotherapy is the uses of warm water to treat the diseases. It is also aided to heal and ease common ailments. Water is absolutely incorporated in the treatment of hydrotherapy. The treatment is so simple and easy to carry out. This treatment involves the process of naturopathy. It will also help to soothing pains. Hydrotherapy is safe and gentle use of warm filtered water with zero effects of chemicals and drugs. This is painless treatment but highly effective in curing diseases. It is usually done in swimming pool with the support of practitioner.
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Factors That Influence Nutrient Needs in Aging
May 15th, 2008 in Alternative medicine, Diets
Medications and old age often go together. Medications can improve health and quality of life, but some of them also profoundly affect nutrient needs at all ages, including the later years. Older adults take prescription drugs; one-quarter of the elderly population regularly take multiple prescription drugs, called polypharmacy. Many drugs affect appetite or the absorption of nutrias. Often, people must take medications for long periods. They should make sure to work with their physician and pharmacist to coordinate all medications taken. Pharmacists can advise when to take drugs-with or between meals-for maximum effectiveness.
Role of the New Biotechnology in the Developing World
May 7th, 2008 in Alternative medicine
Role of the new system in the bio field in the developing world will immense a good change in the upcoming generations, whether genetically engineered applications will help to significantly reduce under nutrition in the developing world remains to be seen. Unless price cuts accompany the increased production, only landowners and suppliers of biotechnology will enjoy the benefits. This point deserves emphases: the person who can’t afford to buy enough food today will sill face that same predicament in the future.
Caffeine Consumption
May 5th, 2008 in Alternative medicine, Diets
Research on the effects of caffeine consumption by pregnant women has produced some provocative findings. Caffeine decreases the absorption of iron and may reduce blood flow through the placenta, and studies have shown that the fetus is unable to detoxify caffeine. Studies using laboratory animals have shown that the risk of spontaneous abortion increases in the first trimester and early in the second trimester with heavy caffeine consumption. About five cups of coffee per day contain this amount of caffeine. In addition, as caffeine intake increases, so does the risk of delivering a low-birth-weight infant. Heavy caffeine use during pregnancy may also lead to caffeine withdrawal symptoms in the newborn. Finally, high caffeine intake often occurs in women who also smoke. In this case, it is the smoking that is the greater contributor to low birth weight.
Although more research is needed, it is advisable to limit caffeine intake. Drinking no more than three cups of coffee and no more than four cups of caffeinated soft drinks per day during pregnancy, or when pregnancy is possible, is advocated. Limiting intake from tea, over-the-counter medicines containing caffeine, and chocolate is also important.
Adaptation of Muscles and Body Physiology to Exercise
May 4th, 2008 in Alternative medicine
With training, muscle strength also becomes matched to the muscles’ variable work demands. Muscles enlarge after being made to work repeatedly, a response called hypertrophy. Certain cells in the muscles gain bulk and improve their ability to work. Conversely, after several days without activity, muscles diminish in size and lose strength, a response called atrophy. Both hypertrophy and atrophy are forms of adaptation to the load applied. Thus, many marathon runners have well-developed leg muscles but little arm or chest muscle development.
Beyond the effects on individual muscles describe earlier, repeated aerobic exercise also produces beneficial changes in the heart and blood vessels that are responsible for delivering oxygen to the mitochondria of the music cells. Because the body needs more oxygen during exercise, it responds to training by producing more red blood cells and expanding total blood volume. Training also leads to an increase in the number of capillaries in muscle tissue; as a result, oxygen can be delivered more easily to muscles. Finally, training causes the heart, a muscle itself, to strengthen. Then each contraction empties the heart’s chamber more efficiently, so more blood is pumped with each beat. As exercise increases the efficiency of the heart, its rate of beating at rest and during sub maximal exercise decreases.
Oleation Therapy
April 29th, 2008 in Alternative medicine
Oleation therapy uses ghee, oil, muscle fat and bone marrow. This therapy is usually done in three ways: oral administration, administration through the anus with a syringe and message. The simplest way is to drink hot sweetened milk with one or two teaspoonful of ghee before going to bed. Ghee is the beat because of its power to effectively assimilate the properties of drugs boiled in it. Ghee alleviates pitta and vata and is conducive to blood and semen.
Painful Menstruation
April 29th, 2008 in Alternative medicine, Herbal medicine
Pain usually occurs before the onset of menstruation or it may continue during the menstrual period pain in the back, thighs, lower abdomen, nausea, headache, sleeplessness, vomiting, and constipation are common symptoms associate with this.
Joint Pains
April 29th, 2008 in Alternative medicine, Herbal medicine
Joint pains may be caused by strain or injury or hey may be symptom of a disease. Chronic disease of a joint may lead to deformity. One or several joints may be affected simultaneously. Joint pains often occur in old persons. Read, hot, swollen or tender joints, and fever are often associated with joint pains.