Archive for October, 2009

Natural Remedies for Back Pain

One of the most famous health issues today is back pain.  Back pain or dorsalgia is a pain felt in the back from the bones, nerves, muscles, joins and in the other structures of the spine.  One of the most common cause of back pain is strain or muscle strain.  Fortunately, there are many ways to treat this.

Massage is one of the short relief but is very effective.  You can go to spas or therapists to help you deal with your back pain or you can also do it your own.

Exercise can also help ease the pain in the back.  Lying in flat board and stretching while breathing out and in can greatly help.  Taking some time to rest and relax also helps.  When sleeping, put the pillows between your knees while you are lying on one side can also help by increasing the comfort.  Or you can also lay your back with a pillow under the knees.

You can also try deep heating tubs and getting some sun exposure early morning between 5 to 8 in the morning.  A cold or hot compression therapy may also help.  You can do this by putting hot compress or ice bag on the strain.  This remedy can help you through your day.

 

Home Treatment for Sciatica

A common form of a lower back pain is called Sciatica.  The longest peripheral never in our body is the Sciatic nerve.  It runs from lower back through th buttock area and the pelvis, right down to lower leg’s back.  Since it originated in the spinal cord, the spinal cord’s health and its vertebra plays a big role in the functioning of the sciatic nerve.

There are many natural remedies for Sciatica and ice is one.  It reduces the inflammation around the nerve and it stops sciatica before it even starts.  Put the ice around the area for about 10 minutes and take rests.  Although not a permanent cure, ice can help immediately reduce the pain.

Another way to relax the muscles and to reduce the strain and easing the pain is by stretching the piriformis muscle.  One should loosen his hip and pelvic muscle.  Don’t lie down when one experiences sciatica for it will just tighten the muscles.

Another trusted effective remedy for this back pain is by treating the area with a fresh minced horseradish poultice.  When this is applied to the area where there is pain experienced and kept there for an hour, it stimulates the sciatica nerve and give a tremendous relief from the sciatica pain.

 

How to Reverse Diabetes with Natural Remedies

The diabetic epidemic is now huge and all over the world, more and more people are joining the group each year.  The old treatment for diabetes is exercise, lose weight, taking pills and watching the diet.

Our medical community has the mindset of the prescribed pills to treat their symptoms instead of actually curing the patient.  The patients mostly end up with more side effects needed to be treated that is caused by these medications.

Before, the theory for diabetic is to stay away from sugar and to take insulin.  Now the emphasis is on balancing one’s diet.  50-60% of the daily food intake should come from good carbohydrates, 15-20% from proteins and 20-30 grams of daily fiber.

Good carbohydrates include those that comes from fruits and most vegetables with the exception of corns and potatoes and whole grains.  The high start content of these are the reason why they are excluded.  Empty or bad carbohydrates have little value nutritionally like that of bread with white flour, desserts, cereals and pastas.

 

Ways to Make Sure You are Drinking Safe Water

if you are concerned if you are drinking safe water, you are not alone.  Everyone is concerned and should be concerned about this issue.  Parents and those parents-to-be are particularly concerned.  Lead is one thing that they need to be concerned about the water they drink.  This is particularly true for those living in oler house or in older cities.  A home purifier that has ion exchange step is a method of lead reduction.

There are other systems which can remove lead but they are expensive.  Reverse osmosis, for example, can remove lead but it typically ten times the cost of a purifier with ion exchange step.

Parents of small children and infants should also be concern about the cysts and chlorine in the water they drink.  Pedias advised parents not to use the regular tap water for mixing formula.  However, the jugs that most parents choose and buy are not usually the best choice.

Endocrine disrupters are used to make these jugs.  They can affect the growth, health and the normal development of a child.

 

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Carbon monoxide or CO is a toxic gas that is formed from a combination of one atom of carbon dioxide and one atom of oxygen.  This is produced trough incomplete combustion of fossil fuels.  For instance is when you use fossil fuel such as gas stove on enclosed area.  In this case, there is a large possibility that this gas will produced because of the lack amount of oxygen in the area.  Poisoni9ng fr9om Carbon monoxide happen when somebody inhaled this poisonous gas.  It is difficult to know and avoid this kind of poisoning because of the characteristics.

The characteristics of this toxic gas includes being tasteless, colorless and odorless.  Because of these characteristics, it is called a silent killer since it attacks the person silently without warnings.  However, poisoning from carbon monoxide can be avoided if you have a good ventilation.  Those areas with good ventilation is free from toxic gases since carbon monoxide that is produced can easily escape the area.

 

Advantages and Disadvantages of Dark Chocolates

Not only do kids love chocolates and ice creams.  Even elders love the tastes of them that sometimes they even go beyond their limit.  Chocolates and ice creams are truly the delights whether for holidays or even no holidays.  They are also great to give as gifts to our loved ones during Christmas season or Valentine’s Day.  These two are the treat for the family and also great as package for journey.  Dark chocolates also have advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages of chocolates include the ability of dark chocolates to lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, produce anti-oxidants into the body, lower heart problems risks, promote good digestion, prevent cancer, slow down nervous activities and help in the treatment of kidney stones and anemia.

The disadvantages of dark chocolates on the other hand include being high on calories for it is high in sugar and fat, it contain elements that are addictive like caffeine, sugar and theobromine which elevates mood, it contain vasoactive amines which leads to migraine problems, it dilates the brain’s vessels and it is high in arginine, a necessity in the herpes virus replication.