Natural Herbal Beauty

Instead of any kind of drugs, the best detoxification is let toxins out of the body naturally. The most convenient way to make detoxification comfortable and enjoyable is having sauna. The smart Japanese has used the sauna for detoxification for centuries. Scientists have shown the average life-span Japanese people are longer than other countries. (more…)

Last year, we bought my house on seaside village which is far away from the city. We never wanted to waste the beautiful view, so we built the huge glass windows for our living room. (more…)

Once or twice a week a scrub or a mask makes an extra-deep cleansing and refining treatment. If your skin is sensitive do not use the scrub, nor should you steam your face, but do cleanse with your usual method very thoroughly. (more…)

Cleansing lotions are useful if you do not like to use water on your skin. They are applied and removed with damp cotton wool. A toner must be used afterwards to remove any oily residue. (more…)

One such herb is saw palmetto, which has been shown to be effective in treating BPH. (more…)

Crystal has great healing energy. The ray from the crystal is believed to have great health effect on human body. In Asia, crystal bowls is a magic religion symbol in Tibet. When monks do their za-zen, they used to memorize their lection and hit the magic crystal bowls. The most popular bowls we have seen in the temple are the wood bowls, because in the ancient times, crystal bowls are very rare. Only high rank monks have the chance to access it. (more…)

The recent bad press regarding genetically modified soy foods might be a blow to the budding soy industry, and they’re already on many consumers’ worry lists. But the booming interest in soy foods and supplements over the past few years is hard to ignore; in any case, many genetically unmodified soy food varieties and supplements are available. (more…)

I have been keeping my teeth in bad health. I inherited from my mom the sweet teeth. I am not a sugar, sweet and cake eater. (more…)

Isoflavones and lignans from soy and flax seeds interact with intestinal bacteria to form hormone-like compounds that have a weak estrogenic effect as well an antioxidant effect in the body. Phytoestrogens influence many key functions in the male and female body: (more…)

Use plant (phyto-) oestrogens:

• Take isoflavone phytoestrogens, found abundantly in soy foods and soy protein extracted supplements (also in chickpeas, red clover, linseed, most nuts and seeds). (more…)
  
   

An acute inflammation of the bladder with frequent and painful urination characterises this infection. The inflammation commonly causes both blood and pus to be found in the urine. The condition is more common in females due to the shortness of the urethra from bladder to external opening or urethral meatus. (more…)

If you see, I have full wardrobe of handbags. You must think I am crazy. First of all, I don’t’ confess myself as shopholic. If I am, then I must love shopping something else. But I don’t shop a lot of something else. And I don’t think I shop too many handbags. Yeah. My mom used to say “I know, I know, you have the hobby of collections of handbags.” They are beautiful. Compared to drink and smoke, I think I have a very reasonable habit. (more…)

To date, two groups in Ginkgo biloba have been identified as containing the most active ingredients: the flavonglycosides (containing flavones, a chemical substance, and glycosides, compounds consisting of a sugar and a nonsugar component) which include bioflavonoids like quercetin, and the terpene lactones which include the ginkgolides and bilobalides. (more…)

The efficacy of Kava kava doesn’t originate from a single active substance but — as with all medicinal herbs — from the combined effect of several ingredients, in this case kavalactones, that results in a synergistic physiological effect. Some of the compounds may be of secondary importance when taken individually, but are nonetheless required for the whole range of Kava kava’s psychoactive effects. (more…)

I have been short sight for years. I know what good glasses mean for me. I do know keeping my eye healthy is most important. (more…)

This condition invariably follows an earlier history of bronchitis or pneumonia and sometimes follows childhood fevers such as measles. It is rare to have a patient with this condition who has not had some previous history of chest problems. Chest infection is very common, as is the accumulation of yellow and green sputum which the patient finds very difficult to expectorate. (more…)

In winter, more children are treated in my practice for bronchitis than for any other condition. Twenty-five years ago, one was _considered unlucky to have children with this problem. Now it is _considered almost the norm. (more…)

Natural therapists agree with the orthodox medical profession that this is a very complex disease, although possibly we see it as complex for different reasons. It will not deal separately with the many different forms of cancer, such as melanoma, carcinoma, leukaemia, multiple myeloma and lymphoma. Of all diseases, cancer is one which must be treated in a most holistic fashion, and our treatment does not usually vary a great deal according to the type of cancer, but rather according to the individual. (more…)

People who have found other methods unsatisfactory have been greatly helped with sleeping problems by the use of herb pillows. A vast amount of herbs would be needed to fill a pillow. (more…)

These are to help set hair, particularly if it has a natural tendency to be fine and rather limp. Vary basic setting lotions can be made from flat beer, lemon juice or sugar and water. (more…)