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As an alternative to established modern treatments, herbal remedies are an effective and natural way of healing acne. The herbal remedies bring with them numerous other benefits. They do not contain strong chemicals that are normally contained in modern treatments and are sometimes more effective than over the counter treatments. They usually smell a lot nicer too. You can usually see the positive Read the rest of this entry »

I have had really bad headaches for a couple of months every day, what can i do and will it go?

1) I'm trying to find natural remedy's as i dint want to be living off paracetamol and ibuprofen, which i Hav managed not to take for a long time, except for the odd occasion when its really bad.
2) is it a chronic tension headache or what as im pretty much getting tired of it.
3) i cant work any Read the rest of this entry »

I have shingles in my scalp for the past 20 years. Unlike shingles on the waist,they are not visible outside.?

They are on 75 percent of the area.I have tried various treatments such as L-Lysine, Neurontine etc.
My doctor told me there is no treatment for shingles. Since they are blisters, which are about 1/4 inch deep inside. They cause me severe pain and I feel nauseated. Now I am using my crude method, Read the rest of this entry »

Hey Readers! I’ve been comin across some crazy stuff the past few days from a few different blogs around the web which I just had to share with you. Check em out below…

Epilobium Angustifolium: Roadside Weed or Remarkable Healing Herb …

“As with internal herbal medicine, topical herbal medicine should be prepared using whole plant extracts as a superior, more potent form of healing with less Read the rest of this entry »

Natural Remedies For Hypertension-tips For Optimal Health

High blood pressure, also called hypertension, occurs when too much pressure is placed on the walls of the arteries. While high blood pressure is a serious health concern, there are many proven ways to reduce blood pressure naturally without drugs or medications. Natural remedies are cost effective and have very few (if any) side effects. Read the rest of this entry »

Leptin is a hormone that is involved in the long term regulation of body weight. Leptin is a peptide hormone secreted by adipose tissue (fat Cells) that has been associated with many processes. One of the target tissues of leptin is the hypothalamus where it can act to regulate feeding behavior and metabolism.

Leptin is believed to act centrally via neurotransmitters in the hypothalamus to regulate energy balance and inhibit adipogenesis or the development of fat cells. It does this by the body’s fat tissues signaling brain cells to reduce appetite and food intake and increase energy expenditures.

Learning from my own experience, once I had been told my blood sugar was way too high; I did some study on what diabetes was. My studies led me to leptin. Leptin needs to be very low in amount to signal the brain, otherwise it merely gets lost in the background noise of the brain likely caused by all the crud most of us eat. It cannot be used it as a supplement and the brain can not hear it because it speaks so softly, dinner continues. This means that the noise has to be turned down to get the signal through.

I found a great book titled “Mastering Leptin” by Bryon and Mary Richards. This helped me to understand how my diet was hurting me. It stays on the top of my book pile and gradually I get thinner and feel better, by learning to observe what I eat and make different choices.

Amazingly, one thing made a huge difference in my weight and energy. I simply looked at food labels and if the words high fructose corn syrup appeared, I simply put the product back on the shelf. The same with artificial sweeteners. After a short time I broke what seemed like a light addiction, my weight went down and I felt much better. Interestingly, my sweet and food  cravings went down as well.

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Herbs are various forms of herbaceous plants whose fresh or dried parts are used to flavor foods, furnish fragrances, procure natural dyes, or make industrial or pharmaceutical goods.  They are abundant in vitamins, and in minerals, chlorophyll and organic antibiotics.

The plants are delicate, succulents which frequently grow in the temperate zone.  Herbs are additionally marketed by naturopaths, acupuncturists, iridologists, chiropractors, and unlicensed herbalists, many of whom prescribe them for the full gamut of wellbeing troubles.  Herbs are just foods no more, no less, that have been seen over centuries of time for creating definite effects on the earthborn body.

Herbalism is a variety of the healing arts that draws from herbal traditions of a realm and that emphasizes the investigation and use of native herbs and plants in the help and control of illness.  Herbalism is based on medical experts’ and herbalists’ clinical experience and traditional understanding of medicinal plant medicines preserved by oral habit and in written documentation across thousands of years.  Herbal advocates like to show that close to half of this present day’s prescriptions were derived from plants.  Herbal support is most likely the closest choice health aid to typical western medicine.

Medicinal plants and herbs contain substances pointed out to present-day and ancient civilizations for their healing properties.  Medicinal properties are added to creams when they use or are made with tinctures, infusions, oil infusions, vital oils or decoctions.  These plant life have long been considered to have therapeutic powers. Millions of households in various nations use medicinal herbs to care for their degenerative disease and have for thousands of years and most are accepted for their effectiveness for disease.

Chinese herbs have been used for treating many illnesses and restoring the usual body functions for hundreds of years, and have shown their effectiveness.  Chinese medicine is based on the promotion of fitness and encompasses the entire body.  The herbal formulas are felt to be the most sophisticated in the world.  Chinese herbology frequently include ingredients from all components of plant life, the leaf, stem, flower, root, and as well ingredients from animals and minerals.

Often, kitchen herbs are fresh or dried leaves used in cooking or to impart really unique flavors in edibles while spices are seeds, roots, fruits, flowers, and bark. Cooking herbs habitually have a modest taste while spices tend to have a stronger, pungent taste.

Herbs have been on the planet most likely longer than humans and given that we are made up of the history of the planet, one might naturally surmise they naturally support our being alive. Just recently with the advent of big pharma has there been any question of nature aiding our growth, wellness and development. Pity in fact that in our dominator society the clues of partnership, caring and calm aren’t thought to have a value, so the companies are allowed to keep wearing down and virtually controling the FDA and spend much time and wealth to make nature illegal or proprietary.

Stevia is a tropical plant native to South America. Its extract has up to 300 times the sweetness of sugar. Although some people complain of its staying power in the mouth or its sometimes licorice-like aftertaste, it is a popular natural alternative sweetener. As a sweetener, it is low glycemic and has added benefits in potentially helping to control obesity, enhance glucose tolerance, and reduce blood pressure. You would think that with this kind of pedigree, it would qualify as the perfect sugar substitute and be approved for use as an alternative sweetener everywhere. You would be half right. It is widely used throughout Asia (particularly Japan) and South America — not so in the US, most of Europe, and Canada, where it is banned as a food additive. In the United States, and Canada it’s allowed as a supplement, but not in food. In Europe, it’s only allowed as an additive to animal feed.
The bottom line on aspartame is that its safety record and evaluation record do not even come close to matching the safety of stevia. In fact, FDA’s own evaluation committees rejected aspartame. But in 1983, the Commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, overrode his own committees and approved NutraSweet (aspartame) for soft drinks two months before leaving office. A couple of months later, after he had retired from the FDA, he accepted a position as Senior Medical Advisor to Burson Marsteller, the public relations firm that promoted NutraSweet for G.D. Searle, NutraSweet’s manufacturer — at the rate of $1,000 per day. An unfortunate coincidence, one might say.
Jon Barron

In today’s markets the use of the term Herbal is pretty much used on everything. If you check labels you’ll see it will have the name of some type of herb and the rest will be some technical terms. Seems the FDA only requires a pinch or so of some herb to allow it to be labeled herbal. But with the FDA now pretty much fully controlled by the corporations the validity of its service is in question on most things. Unfortunately we’ve allowed the corporations to dictate laws to congress in their favor for so long now we seem to have lost the ‘for the people’ part of the equation altogether.

So you pay your money and you take your chances. Next time you buy an herbal product take the time to read the label and if there is something unpronounceable listed, make note of it and look it up. It’s really quite easy, first go to http://dictionary.com and see what it is and then Google it and check out a few links until you find out what it really is. Corporations that practice label games will give you a glimpse of their overall practices.

Beware of corporations that play both sides of the fence as well. For instance, I know a company that provides personal cleaning products that you may notice, as an unannounced benefit, makes your hair thin and the same company provides a product announcing thickening and growth products. Observe the clues from your own experience and don’t accept advertisements as they appear.

On this site I’ve tried to compile some reputable herbal sources mostly relative to symptoms or conditions. Some just for fun. Click the links on the left for regional or country herbal information. The India Herbs link deals with Ayurvedic information and formulas. The Native Remedies link is more western in its remedies. The Chinese link will take you to Asian remedies.

More and more you need to take your health into your own hands and be aware that programming and indoctrination are the norms in the new world and not the exception.

Products from the Neem Tree have been used for thousands of years to protect grain from insects in its native countries. The oil has also been used for controlling insects in many others ways. It surrounds and suffocates mites, whiteflies, aphids and other types of soft bodied insects on contact. The range of insects affected by Neem extracts are impressive and includes beetles, flies, mosquitoes, caterpillars, true bugs, locusts and grasshoppers, aphids, weevils, moths, and roaches.

In addition to its  insecticidal properties, traditional Ayurvedic lore holds that Neem has incredible ability to restore and maintain healthy function of the body in a number of ways.
Products can be produced from the trees that are helpful in alleviating tiredness and help maintain oral health, including healthy gums.

Taking Neem internally also helps keep skin, hair and nails healthy. Scientific research today validates many of the traditional uses of Neem Oil. It is used to treat bacterial, fungal, and viral infections, boost the immune system, and for many specific health problems. With its numerous anti-bacterial, antifungal, and anti-viral properties it has applications for dozens of human health uses including use in the treatment of malaria, chicken pox, small pox, fever, psoriasis, asthma, parasites, measles, as a contraceptive agent, and many other uses.  One of the most powerful blood purifiers and detoxifiers in Ayurvedic usage, Neem is often used to maintain healthy skin.

Neem oil is useful for skin care such as acne, and keeping skin elasticity.  It is used for preparing cosmetics (soap, shampoo, balms and creams). Skin problems in general: dry skin, wrinkles, dandruff, itchy scalp as well as other conditions can be effectively resolved by the use of soaps, lotions, and creams, containing Neem leaf extracts and oil. Neem has shown an almost magical effect on chronic skin conditions that often fail to respond with classical medical treatments.

Neem’s anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties have been well known for centuries and find extensive application today in soaps, shampoos and other skin formulations.  Neem has a purifying and clarifying effect, drawing out excess oil and smoothing out blemishes, so it’s wonderful for persons with Kapha (earth or water predominant) skin.  It is also soothing for dry, irritated skin when combined with aloe vera or rose water.

Extracts of the bark and twigs have been used to treat fevers, thirst, sickness and vomiting. Several extracts of Neem have recently been patented by US companies, and many farmers are incensed at what they regard as intellectual piracy.  Though, the FDA has not approved Neem extracts as an acceptable compound in medicine, Neem is manufactured into many health and beauty care products from the leaves, oils and extracts of the tree.

After the tree overcame some initial resistance, it has started to be used on a commercial basis and now, Neem finds immense use in a number of products in industries ranging from cosmetics to agriculture, from pharmaceuticals to Ayurveda.

According to Ayurveda, herbs are taken in combination with other herbs to neutralize the toxicity of one herb with the opposing effect of the other or to enhance the particular effect of one herb with the help of other.  In the ancient system of Ayurveda when an excess of one taste causes a disease the opposite taste is introduced into the diet with herbs and food to reduce the imbalance. Neem being very bitter was often used to treat diabetes in Ayurveda. Traditionally Ayurveda has recommended the use of Neem leaf, seed, and bark, for reducing arthritic pain and inflammation and for halting the progression of the disease as well.  Consult a practitioner of Ayurveda or other expert in the use of botanicals for guidance in appropriate indications and products.

So we can see that Neem is strongly antiseptic, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and an ideal natural insect repellent as well as an (organic) bio-pesticide. Neem is an alternative solution to global issues in the environment providing Sustainable Organic Support. The make up of the tree is made up of about 40 different active compounds called tetranortriperpernoids, or more specifically, liminoids. Aside from its use in traditional Indian medicine the Neem tree is of great importance because it is hardy and can has anti-desertification properties in this respect and like all green plants as a good carbon dioxide sink. This tree for millennia, has been called in Sanskrit Sarva Roga Nivarini, the curer of all ailments’, or in the Muslim tradition, Shajar-e-Mubarak, the blessed tree’. Neem is an environmentalist’s guilt-free natural product.