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.
Chrysanthemum
April 17th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
Chrysanthemum is an erect, hairy, whitish herb. It is a perennial, aromatic plant which grows to about 60 cm. high. The leaves are sharply toothed, ovate-oblong, with 2 or 3 lobes on each side. Flowers are borne in white, purple or other colored yellow heads. The disc florets are numerous. The fruit is very small, somewhat compressed and grooved. This plant is widely cultivated for ornamental purposes.
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.
Herbs for Your Health
April 10th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
- Gum-resin of guggulu Sprouted mung
- Gum-resin of guggulu Sprouted mung is the only kind of pulses allowed in the diet of a rheumatic patient. The gum-resin of guggulu is the most important ingredient used in medicines which cure rheumatism.
- Cumin seeds
- Adding cumin seeds to the food during an attack of dysentery is beneficial.
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.