Health Alternatives and natural self healing

If you enjoy this post, please share it using the buttons to your right >> , or email it to a friend , we'd really appreciate it! You can also get natural health articles delivered free by email or RSS - AND get a free mini-course on the Healing Art of Reflexology! Green Tea Contains The Following: Tannins – A group of simple and complex phenol, polyphenol, and flavonoid compounds. Produced by plants, all of the tannins are relatively resistant to digestion or fermentation. All tannins act as astringents, shrinking tissues and contracting structural proteins in the skin and mucosa. What Does This Do For You? Having a cup of green tea after a meal can aid in digestion. Green tea has been used for thousand of years in Asia as a digestive. Catechins – Catechins are a category of polyphenols. In green tea, catechins are present in significant quantities, more specifically; epicatechin (EC), epigallocatechin (EGC), epicatechin gallate (ECG) and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). E...

If you enjoy this post, please share it using the buttons to your right >> , or email it to a friend , we'd really appreciate it! You can also get natural health articles delivered free by email or RSS - AND get a free mini-course on the Healing Art of Reflexology! By Selena Fox, Circle Magazine Healing is a journey from illenss to wellness. Helaing is rebalancing and renewing. Healing is transformational and multidimensional. The multidimensionality of healing is also known as holistic. Holsitic healing recognizes that restoring well being includes more than treating phsyical disease. When there is physical illness, other dimensions of self and life also are impacted, inclduing mood, thinking, activity, and soul. As a preistess, psychotherapist, and counselor, I serve as both a catalyst and a guide in doing healing wiork with others. Drawing from my background in Wiccan spirituality and Paganism, and my Psychology studies and practive over the past thirty-five years, I hav...

by Warren Matthews of Xtend-Life Omega 3 fatty acids are a group of polyunsaturated fatty acids essential for our good health. They are needed for the membranes of all our body cells, encompassing not only heart and brain function, but they also play an important role in the normal function of our eyes, our nervous system, our kidneys, and our liver. In fact all our body systems! Other functions of Omega 3 include the contraction of muscles and the dilation/constriction of blood vessels, blood health, and inflammatory processes. There are many types of omega 3s , but the most important ones for health are DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (Eicosapentaenoic acid). These are long-chain, highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA) of the omega-3 family. DHA is the most complex of the Omega 3 fatty acids and it has what is known as a 22 carbon molecules and 6 double bond molecules. I know that this might sound like a foreign language for many readers but I mention it because it is important. ...

If you enjoy this post, please share it using the buttons to your right >> , or email it to a friend , we'd really appreciate it! You can also get natural health articles delivered free by email or RSS - AND get a free mini-course on the Healing Art of Reflexology! Hypnotherapy is the process of using hypnosis to treat any disease, addiction or disorders. Currently, hypnosis are used for children to overcome any anxiety, fear or other issues that can affect them as they grow. Most of children, respond to hypnotherapy pretty well, which is why this technique is pretty much getting attention and used by experts to resolve juvenile concerns. Hypnotherapy is attributed on resolving bedwetting, thumb sucking, eating problems and other problems. It is even attributed in releasing stress and pressure children experienced. They say that children can be hypnotized as early as 3, but children above age 5 are found to be more responsive to hypnosis. Actually all people can benefit fro...

The American government controls the medical industry and decides what is taught in medical schools and practiced in regulated medical fields. As a result, all licensed medical professionals have the same general background of information on which to draw in their practice. This also means that important information not available within the confines of the medical education are missing throughout the field. As Kevin Trudeau explains in his book Natural Cures, medical professionals and doctors in America do not recommend or prescribe natural cures for the simple reason that pharmaceutical companies and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have prevented natural remedies from entering the system. The FDA passed a regulation stating that only drugs and pharmaceuticals can cure, prevent, or treat a disease. As a system designed to protect the public from harm, the FDA can only regulate products with homogeneous consistency. Since natural cures cannot be created and duplicated in lab e...

Yoga was first experimented with in the US in the 1960's and has steadily grown in popularity since. Approximately 30 million Americans practice Hatha yoga. Like many of the other alternative medicines, yoga promotes a whole-body approach to health and exercise. Unlike traditional medical practices yoga is a physical and mental discipline that uses posture-related techniques that involve gentle stretching, breath control and meditation. As patients delve more and more into the alternative medicine fields to cure their health problems the followers of acupuncture, chiropractic, meditation and yoga are growing at a rapid speed. Yoga originated in India around 3300 BC. Much like many other practices in India, yoga is associated with philosophies of Hinduis, Buddhism and Jainism. Yoga has several meanings which are derived from Sanskrit, all of which can be correlated to traditional or modern day yoga, "to control", "to unite", "contemplation", and ...

Nowadays, people are losing confidence on allopathic medicine. It is no longer the panacea people once perceived and been accustomed to. Questions now haunt conventional medical practices as the public's primary concern shifted to protecting their family's lives and their own. The attention has turned towards alternative medicine - which is gaining reputation in the field of health care. It has become the benchmark as conventional medicine fails to produce satisfactory results. Television and other forms of media continue to endorse medications that guarantee to alleviate and contain known diseases. Moreover, advertisements entice the public by allowing strangers to give dubious testimonials on a certain drug. Magazine ads do the same. Some drug's side effects are mentioned but appear to be carelessly explained and examined. These effects resulted in a deviation of norm as people choose alternative medicine. Here are some examples of the adverse side effects of Premarin,...