Natural Herbal Beauty

A hot spa in the weekend, lot of money… yeah, it is quite expensive to have such a high price relaxing weekend. Physically relaxing, but may not work mentally… still worrying the high price paid by using your credit card. So if you are expecting a real gate relaxing way, have something natural and sharing with your family. A herbal therapy with a bunch of self growing herbs in your garden… or a fancy afternoon family aroma hot tub… (more…)

It is beautiful to bring something special and beautiful for home warming. Essential aroma candles might be a good plan. To enjoy an aroma therapy with my family, I might have the essential oil burners. Or I might have some herbal plants for the Sunday afternoon cooking. The aroma… hmmm is delicious. (more…)

When I was a kid, I was dreaming having my own fairyland with silvery towers and the clouds and many man trees! Trees have many different shades. Fairyland garden groups different tree species with contrasting leaf colours, variegated leaves of gold and green, silver and green, pink and green, and many other colour combinations.

My fairyland always pictures a pleasing display of foliage plants with high mountain in the sun. Grey leaves are a delight to high mountain which soften bright colours to act as a link between different colours. I picture the fairyland place a grey-leaved Aglaonema with a dark-leaved Spathiphyllum with a lighter and softer effect. (more…)

Have you dream of the flowering country garden refreshing your spirits without any hard word.

Flowering plants add colour to your home. However, the size, shape and colour of the flowers, as well as their flowering time, will influence your selection. Most flowering plants bloom in spring or summer, but there are a few that flower all year round. However, it is worth‑while considering those species that flower in winter as their colour can be a pleasure at a time when there is very little of it around. Then you will have to ask for advice at your local nursery or garden centre as to which flowering plants are best suited to your needs. Flowering plants like pretty pelargonium should be positioned in a sunny spot to prolong their blooming period. (more…)

As much as herbs and foods benefit our health, pertinent consumer information is still lacking. Online life style practice may be one way to offer more and more people easy access of basic herbal knowledge. Online health prevention and cure lies in the four cornerstones of proper health management:

• Living positively

Whatever comes your way in life, how you react to it is still your choice. You may regard life as a bottle half full, or a bottle half empty. Either way, you are going to drink from it. The only thing you can do is to exercise your right of choice: how you see it. A positive mental attitude can solve most of the world’s problems, heal many ailments and repair much emotional damage, whereas a negative attitude has the exact opposite effect Living positively is a glorious life discipline with many rewards. The only thing it demands is that it should be actively and purposefully practiced, every single day.

• Lifestyle

Being involved in a healthy, balanced lifestyle every single day, is the most effective way in which to promote excellent health and wellbeing. Enjoying a holistic lifestyle based on balance and variety is perhaps the best way to achieve quality of life. This includes a good social life, enjoying relaxing and stimulating hobbies and interests, regularly practicing stress-relief techniques and paying attention to your dreams. The subconscious uses dreams as its communication tool and many health-promoting messages are sent to us through our dreams.

• Diet

The food pyramid – the prudent diet – is hailed by the most respected scientific organizations in the world as the eating plan most beneficial for the promotion of great health . By following the right eating plan you can control and regulate many physical functions such as lowering your cholesterol, blood pressure, weight and blood sugar level and controlling your stress levels and mood swings. A good, sensible diet also contributes most effectively to the prevention of serious diseases such as arteriosclerosis, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

• Complementary health practices

Taking care of the body means taking care of the soul as well. Practicing yoga, tai chi, meditation and/or regular, physical exercise offers immeasurable emotional and physical advantages. Regular massages , manicures, pedicures, facials, acupuncture, lymph drainage, colonic irrigation, hydrotherapy and a host of other health facilities contribute greatly to an increased zest for life.Herbal remedies and food supplements are extremely powerful means of attaining a better quality of health. (more…)

Snow lotus only grows on cold ice temperature next to snow. Its flower leaves are white as snow. It is hard to find in the snowing mountain not only because of its snow color, but also its scarcity.

They survive the cold temperature and heavy snow in the crevices of mountain rocks. Snow lotus is a very rare perennial herb. It will take 3 years to seed. Most of seeds doesn’t have chance to grow up. Snow lotus is very vital herbal medicine.

Its beauty and vitality enriches snowing mountain. In the spring, the snow melt on their white flowers leaves. On the dull grey color mountain background, there is a beautiful view: snow lotus flower leaves flourishing the shinning half melting snow. (more…)

You can add the Flower Remedies to an aromatic bath to augment oral doses of the Remedies and to enhance the effect of the essential oils. Use 5 drops of each chosen Stock Concentrate to the bath water, and 6-8 drops of essential oil.

Secret Aroma Blends

For tiredness and exhaustion, especially in convalescence:

Flower Remedies: Hornbeam or Olive.

Essential Oils: If you like the aroma, a blend of clary sage and vetiver is a fortifying combination (e.g. 3 drops of vetiver, 4 drops of clary sage). Other suitableessences include citrus oils, coriander, geranium, rosemary and tea tree.

For nervous tension and ‘mental chatter’:

Flower Remedies: Rescue Remedy and/or White Chestnut.

Essential Oils: If you like the aroma, a blend of bergamot, clary sage and neroli is a calming combination (e.g. 2 drops of neroli, 2 drops of clary sage, 4 drops of bergamot). Other suitableessences include camomile, cypress, frankincense, juniper, marjoram, rose otto and sandalwood. (more…)

The botanical garden is full of rare plants. Keeping look after these precious plants from damage is necessary. Each year, hundreds of botanical plants are not surviving summer.

Each spring, the beautiful floral trail has been the famous view. Botanical flowers have great herbal and aromatic value. Many visitors enjoy laying their hands on these beautiful botanical flowers. Insects, birds also bought a lot of damage on these precious flowers.

Many botanical plants do not survive summer. Half of them have been stolen; the other half has been suffering great of damage.

Each spring, the precious seeds will be sowed. In order to protect the precious herbal plants on earth, the herbal and aromatic plant guide has been replaced with normal description. Professional herbalist still can discover the best value of herbal plants. Each year, there are herbal pieces leftover sold on the market. But the herbal plants are still the easy target. (more…)

I have been trying to get my secret herbal recipes to hand over to all people who are passion with the natural herbs. I had bottles of essential oils, bottles of cream, bottles of dried herbs and bottles of fragrance. It was a wonderful time to get all my herbs done. When everything was ready, I found I wasn’t good enough to hand over my fine herbal recipes. I had to agree I was just good at my herbal healing formulas. (more…)

Recently my mom has persuaded me joining the Spa club with her. I spent fabulous time with her on the village stone healing therapy. And we had a chance dipping into the natural hotspring. The herbal recipes seem work very well with my acne.

When I decided to spend more time with mom for the luxury Spas, I found a little trouble with the journey. To reach the entire relaxing Spas, we have to travel national wide, what my mom never mentioned to me. (more…)

Frequent mouthwash can prevent the proliferation of bacteria. Essential oils like peppermint can effectively retard the proliferation of bacteria. Combined with scrupulous dental hygiene,herbal mouthwash is a healing, antiseptic mixture which will strengthen the gums, help to heal mouth ulcers and prevent the onset of gingivitis. Rinse the mouth with 6-8 drops of Fennel, geranium or tea tree in a small teacupful of warm water two or three times a day. (more…)

I persuade my boyfriend to eat green. He like to make joke of me “meat contain more green because animal had already taken enough green”.Health is the priority. I believe the more green vegetables and fruits we have, the more health we may feel.

Eating green is one solution to keep health. But part of health solution is to get fit. Getting fit is quite hard for a man who has a busy job, a big family and a lot of friends. Many friends who want to lose weight would choose to spend a lot of money to have primary gym membership. I have seen none of them having the time and perseverance to keep going. (more…)

I love floral forest, their beautiful colors with these fantastic smells. My therapist told me to bring light floral colors to enhance our positive emotion. Living in the city, it is quite difficult to manage our own colorful floral pots of flowers . But floral colors are easy to obtain. I have a great time to hang up the beautiful light floral colored oil painting in our living room, bedrooms.

I am wondering maybe something I can see through everywhere and every time. To have a positive emotion in the busy city life, light floral colors may heal our pressed heart. (more…)

I am always looking a deep soaking bath which can make my herbal formulas work the best for my body. My grandma has passed me a lot of herbal medicine healing formula which she hoped some day I can pass to my grandchildren.

I have found these soaking herbal healing formulas quite interesting. I have been trying to heal of my patients. But the great challenge I have been facing is the proper bath tub. Most of bath can not hold the water temperature for a long time which I find difficult to keep all my herbal ingredients to release enough healing herbal energy before put on for use. Second, most bath tub is too shallow to comfortably soaking body in. Normally patients have to deep in the water and keep soaking for several hours for a proper treatment. A normal bath tub will be either too shallow or too uncomfortable for a proper treatment. (more…)

Symptoms

Abdominal bloating and pain. Belching.

Flatulence (passing rectal gas).

Treatment Options

Changes in diet—avoiding or limiting milk products, alcohol, carbonated beverages, and high-fiber foods like beans—can go a long way toward solving problems with excessive gas. Many people rely on over-the-counter medications containing the active ingredient simethicone, which can help break up gas bubbles in the large intestine. Alternative medicine offers a wide variety of natural treatments as well. (more…)

Symptoms

• Sudden, intense pain in a joint, typically the big toe or ankle, sometimes the knee.
• Swelling, inflammation, and a feeling that the joint is very hot.
• In extreme cases, alternating chills and fever.
• Usually strikes unexpectedly and may recur, but the symptoms typically do not last more than a week. (more…)

Symptoms

Constipation or diarrhea shortly after meals, over a period of several months, usually accompanied by abdominal cramps or bloating and increased intestinal gas.

Bowel movements different in frequency or consistency from your normal pattem.

Treatment Options

Various herbal and dietary remedies may be effective in preventing or soothing the discomfort of diarrhea and constipation. Relaxation techniques may be particularly effective in coping with stress- related aspects of the problem. (more…)

Symptoms

The early symptoms of mononucleosis resemble those of the flu, including:

• Severe fatigue.
• Headache.
• Sore throat, sometimes very severe.
• Chills, followed by a fever.
• Muscle aches.

After a day or two, the following symptoms may appear: a Swollen lymph nodes, especially in the neck, armpits, or groin. (more…)

Symptoms

Sweating, dizziness, pallor, and nausea—sometimes leading to vomiting—while traveling by car, bus, train, ship, or airplane.

Treatment Options

If you are prone to motion sickness, preparations for any trip should include measures to prevent the disorder or mechanisms to cope with it. (more…)