Saturday, November 28, 2009

Sore throat's natural remedies.


When you have a sore throat, It is one of the signs that there is something going wrong internally with your body. It is one of your body's first defense lines, So you do want to make sure that you are taking care of your self during that time, and just not letting it go. Now soothing that sore throat as you know there are so many over the counter products that you can use. Even natural cough drops that can help, But there's a limit to how many times that you can take them per day. because of the some of the products that are getting in to your system.

Some things that you can do naturally at home however, is using a warm salt water gargle, and yes warm, because what's that going to do is that it's going to open the pores and allow that salt to naturally get into the system a little bit easier, and that's going to help kill any bacteria that's back there, as well as an addition to that you can use zinc lozenges or if you can make a zinc gargle as well. Can help significantly soothe that, but also instead of soothing, they're treating the actual problem.

If you just want the relief from it, If you want you may use warm tea with hone in it, and maybe a little bit of lemon can be good to health as well.The tea's that are very natural and helpful in with your sore throat are, Slippery Elm, Marshmallow and calendula with white willow bark and you can add honey with that, just don't use honey with child underage. ANd a pinch of cayenne pepper would also be nice to be added with those teas.

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Friday, November 27, 2009

Coconut Oil for your hair.


Well for those people who are still asking does coconut oil has benefits for the hair? And can you get some improvement from this? Then you may want to read this.. Because it really does. Actually that is one of the traditional use in the tropics and the Indians and in these places they put it in their hair and it helps with the hair health.

There was actually studies on this, Compared coconut oil to other kinds of oil, on hair health and the coconut oil is superior to these other oils, and it is because again in the medium chain fatty acids, having an affect on the hair shaft, makes it healthier. So the coconut oil acts like a conditioner, you put it in and you let it sit for a few minutes. It could be 15 minutes to half an hour and then you wash it out.

Another benefit of doing this, and using the coconut oil to your hair is that it get rids of dandruff. It's an excellent anti dandruff product as well, without drying your scalp of course. Another way of using this is to put some amount in your hand and smooth that on your fingers, then give yourself a massage with it, You can massage your scalp in circular motion for a bout 5 minutes all around your scalp with the coconut oil.Again in scientific studies, it was proven that oil can deeply penetrate in the hair shaft, then after 5 minutes put some amount of oil again in your hand, remember that you don't need a lot of oil to do this. then just work it around the hair., Then tie your hair up, and rinse it the next morning. Remember to do this at night before you sleep. And twice a week is fine.. So there, a simple yet practical way of leaving your hair healthy, it shines.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Pomegranate: A super fruit!


why pomegranate is a super fruit? Now some people are are not used to eating this fruit, for some they just haven't tried one. But for those who haven't you have to put this on your grocery list this weekend, your missing a lot!

pomegranate is packed with anti-oxidants, It is very high in Vitamin C, Polyphenols, Ellagic acid and Resveratrol. One thing that make this super fruit a super is the Ellagic Acid, It is a naturally occuring polyphenolic constituent found in fruits and nuts, such as apple, blueberry, walnut and of course pomegranate. It has the ability to inhibit mutations within a cell's DNA.

This means it helps prevents cancer from ever getting started, It is also know as cancer inhibitor, which has the ability to cause apoptosis or normal cell death in cancer cells.And there even studies shows that pomegranate helps lower LDL oxidation as much as 90%, some studies also shows that it also help improves blood flow,

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