Bowen Therapy
May 23rd, 2008 in Massage
Bowen therapy is used to heal the body in order to get remedy from pain and stress. It balances and integrates all the physical and energetic system in the body. It will also aid to prevent the blockages. This helps to promote good health with zero effects of diseases. Bowen therapy was developed in Australia and it has been used world widely now. One can easily adapt to this treatment. It is mainly for balancing and relaxing the body. It can be also a form of protection as well as to enhance the appearance. This is the most important health care treatment in human history.
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Peacock Flower
April 18th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
Peacock Flower is normally considered to be an ornamental shrub which is planted in gardens and parks for its beautiful red or yellow flowers. Prickles are found scattered on the branches. Each compound leaf bears about 20 to 24 stalkless leaflets. The inflorescence or the cluster of flowers borne on a common stalk have flowers arranged in a pyramidal fashion with the lower flowers bearing longer stalks and the ones above having shorter stalks and this progression is seen till the terminal end. The flat pods normally have in them 6 to 8 seeds.
Black oil plant
April 15th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
A deciduous shrubby climber with stems up to 23 cm. in diameter 18 meters high. The twigs are fairly smooth, reddish brown and densely covered with small elongate whitish lenticels which are openings meant for diffusion of gases or respiration. The leaves are elliptic-ovate or obovate and serrate. The greenish-yellow flowers are 3.8 mm. in diameter and are found on panicles which are 5 to 20 cm. long. The capsules which are 1 to 1.3 cm. in diameter are 3-lobed and bright yellow in color. The seeds are completely enclosed in an orange-red aril.
Papaya for Cure
April 14th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
Papaw or papaya is one of the most common plants grown in tropical countries. It is an upright usually branchless, fast-growing tree. The trunk is soft, grayish, marked with fallen leaf scars. The leaves are deeply lobed, with long stalks, borne on the top of the tree. The male flowers are in long-stalked clusters, but the female flowers are stalkless or sessile. The fruit is obovoid, yellow-orange when ripe, fleshy, juicy, and often contains numerous black seeds although seedless varieties are also available today. It is a common fruit which is found in the market during the fruiting season.
Mexican Poppy
April 10th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
The Mexican poppy grows in waste lands and is a perennial herb which grows to a height of about 1 meter. The leaves have spines and are sessile or without petioles. The flowers are yellow. The fruit consists of a capsule bearing several small spines and seeds which resemble the mustard. It grows in tropical and sub-tropical countries.
Celery for Holistic Life
April 9th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
Celery is a biennial, erect, branching, garden herb. The root is fleshy and bulbous. The stem is angular and furrowed. The leaves are opposite, dark-green, incised and coarsely toothed. The flowers are gray-white and arranged into compound umbels. Seeds of the plant are small, ribbed and ovate.
Fruits and Veggies for Your Health
April 8th, 2008 in Diets, Herbal medicine
- Apple
- Apple is considered very good for the heart.
- Oranges
- Oranges are prescribed for patients with a high blood pressure.
Psoralea
April 8th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
Psoralea is a common weed found everywhere. It has a grooved stem, simple leaves which are subcordate, ovate or roundish in shape with mildly serrated leaf margins. The 10 to 30 very small bluish-purple flowers are seen close together on axillary solitary racemes. The single-seeded pods are 5 mm. long ovoid-oblong, somewhat compressed and black in color.