Ravensara: a great essential oil for all age's, from infants to adults

Ravensara in Indian means the good leaf. The essential oil is believed to have a balancing quality on energetic boarders.
Ravensara is a great substitute for eucalyptus oil when treating respiratory problems.
When small babies have a cough or chest congestion eucalyptus oil is not recommended because it is to strong. In stead you can use Ravensara oil by either defusing it in a oil burner or applying it topically with a almond base oil (ten drops of essential oil to one teaspoon of base oil) to the chest and upper back. For a more intense treatment you can put your head over a bowl o steaming water, put three or four drops of Ravensara oil into the bowl and but a towel over your head and the water.

Out With the Pyramid And In With the Plate

We can probably remember the food pyramid as our earliest symbol of balanced nutrition. But it seems that our children will be being introduced to a colorful plate as they are taught about healthy eating.

The Department of Agriculture educated the public with its food pyramid for years. But experts have criticized the pyramid and found it lacking in certain areas. The new plate feature should address many of their concerns and be more user-friendly.

Read the full article http://www.healthnews.com/Categories/Diet-Weight-Loss/Plating-Up-Your-Daily-Food-Requirement

Drug Has Potential to Rid the Brain of Traumatic Memories | Health News

Drug Has Potential to Rid the Brain of Traumatic Memories | Health News: "adrenocortical steroid synthesis inhibitor"

The above link is about the use of a drug that reduces levels of the stress hormone, Cortisol, during the recall of the traumatic event. What I find to be very interesting is the similarity between this idea and a meditation technique known as the Eraser Technique. The way it works is that you bring yourself back into that memory with as much intensity as you can and then you interrupter the pattern. For example at the peek of intensity of the memory you imagine everyone with bunny ears. And you do this over and over until what happens is the memory becomes silly instead of traumatizing and then is easier to deal with. Easier said then done and I am sure with really bad memories it sounds imposable. But the drug does the same thing just chemically. It make it that the memory does not cause stress.

for more information on the eraser technique chack out this link http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/instant-healing.shtml

YouTube - MEDICAL - How cholesterol clogs your arteries (atherosclerosis)

YouTube - MEDICAL - How cholesterol clogs your arteries (atherosclerosis)

High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) – What Is It? How Can It Be Treated Using Natural Medicine?

High blood pressure is simp put difficulty for the heart to pump the blood to all of the parts of the boy and this is why in the beginning of high blood pressure the heart muscle thickens. High blood pressure has been called the silent killer because in the beginning it could go on without producing any symptoms. Also there are two main kinds of high blood pressure one that makes up for 90-95% of cases of hypertension is what's called Essential Hypertension. In essential hypertension the exact cause of the high blood pressure are not known. The other 5-10 % of cases are what is called secondary hypertension. In the case of secondary hypertension we know what is causing the high blood pressure.

So what is considered High Blood Pressure?

 

Classification	Systolic Pressure	Diastolic Pressure
Normal	90-119	60-79
Prehypertension	120-139	80-89
Stage 1	140-159	90-99
Stage 2	160 or higher	100 or higher
Isolated Systolic Hypertension	140or higher	90 or lower

 
What are the signs and symptoms of high blood pressure?

As I mentioned at the start, mild to moderate hypertension is usually asymptomatic. This means that produces no visible symptoms. For this reason high blood pressure has been call the silent killer. Because even though it doesn't cause symptoms it can cause heart disease, stroke as well as sight and kidney complications.

 
What can be done about high blood pressure?

Top five life style changes to help prevent high blood pressure:

1. Weight lose has been found to help prevent development of high blood pressure and to assist in it treatment.
   
2. Reduce dietary sugar
   
3. Reduce excess sodium(salt) in the diet
   
4. Discontinuing the use of tobacco and alcohol consumption
   
5. Reducing stress
   

Top two natural supplements that can be taken to help prevent and lower high blood pressure:

1. Niacin – vitamin B3
   
2. Omega 3 fatty acids
   

Herbs that can be helpful in the treatment and prevention of high blood pressure:

1. Garlic
   
2. Green tea
   
3. Olive leaf
   
4. Hawthorn berries
   
5. Ginkgo biloba
   
6. Cayenne
   
7. Rauwolfia serpentine (sarpaganda
   
8. Parsley
   
9. Aloe Vera
   
10. Reishi
    
11. Black Cohosh root
    

If you know that high blood pressure runs in your family don't wait until it's too late. Have your blood pressure checked today and once a year minimum.

 

Green Tea Monograph

So why do people drink green tea? Well personally the main reason that I would brew myself a cup of green tea would be for the caffeine, I am always looking for a little more energy. I actually wish that I could get myself to drink green tea instead of coffee, just because I know it`s so healthy. Now I am pretty sure that the health benefits of green tea are what motivate most people to drink it. But truth be told the taste is very pleasant as well. Whatever the reasons are tea is the second most consumed beverage on the planet. The first most consumed beverage is water.

Well no matter if you drink your green tea for pleasure, power or health. Here you have a green tea monograph, so that you can know what its good for.

Common Name – Green Tea

Botanical Name – Camellia sinensis

Active Ingredients -  caffeine (formerly called theine), tannin (flavonols), theophylline, theobromine, fat, wax, saponins, essential oils, polyphenols particularly catechins, carotene, vitamin C, vitamins A, B1, B12, K and P, flouride, iron, magnesium, calcium, strontium, copper, nickel, and zinc.

So what are the health benefits of green tea?

Properties – anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial, anti-cancer, helps to lower high blood pressure, help to balance cholesterol levels, reduces blood clotting and acts as a immune stimulant.

Dosage – studies that have shown health benefits stated above were with people who were drinking three cups of green tea a day.

How to make a cup of green tea? Add one teaspoon of dry green tea leaf to one cup of boiling water and let it steep for five minutes in a covered glass. Then stain out the used leaves and enjoy.

Green tea capsules are also available that contain active ingredients that are equivalent to three cups of tea and even more.

Green tea is extremely safe. The most common adverse effects reported are caused by the caffeine content in the herb. Adverse effects caused by consuming large amounts of caffeine are insomnia and anxiety.

Are you looking for relief from irritated skin? Some good herbal solutions to sunburns and bug bites

I`m not going to explain because if your reading this you are looking for relief and that what I want to give you.

Sunburns – First aid, get some aloe vera leaf, cut off all the skin and thorns and apply it directly on the sun burnt skin. Shea Butter mixed with lavender and tea tree oil should be applied to the skin generously until it has fully recovered. Next time you are out in the sun make sure to wear protective clothing and suntan lotion.

Bug bites – lavender oil applied directly to the skin can do wonders for helping get rid of bug bites fast, also it helps to relieve the itching right away. If the itching is too much and the lavender oil just doesn't cut it, you can try using mint oil. Mint oil can't be applied directly to the skin so add twenty drops to a teaspoon of olive oil and put that on to stop the itch.