CONSTIPATION

• Eating more fruits can also helps to prevent constipation such as prune pears, grapes, Orange juice & Papaya.
• Ginger tea is a very good home remedy for constipation. It helps start bowel movement.
• Another natural remedy for constipation is to add a little extra sugar or some honey to a glass of milk. Drink twice a day.
• Take a high fibre diet. Soluble fiber, found in grains, legumes and fruits, is particularly effective. Oatmeal, rice, wheat germ, corn bran, prunes, raisins, apricots, figs and an apple a day are all good sources.
• A person with constipation should try to avoid milk and milk products such as cheese. Both milk and cheese contain casein, an insoluble protein that tends to block up the intestinal tract.
• Exercise also helps to get rid of constipation. Aerobic exercise such as walking, running and swimming is best.
• Drink one liter of warm water and walk around for a few minutes immediately after waking up early in the morning. this is also very effective home remedy for constipation.
• Mix lemon juice with warm water. Take it two to three times a day. It helps to relieve constipation.
• One of the most important remedy is to cut short a bout of constipation is to sit in a bathtub of warm or hot water. It may take several immersions in the water to cure the problem, but it does work.
• Take a glass of warm water to which the juice of 1/2 a lime and 1 tsp honey has been added. Drink daily in the morning.

KIDNEY STONES

• Patients with kidney stones should avoid taking too much milk because of its high calcium content.
• For kidney stone treatment, drink lots of water and other fluids.
• Limit the amount of calcium-rich foodsâ€"milk, cheese, butter, and other dairy foods.
• Avoid oxalate rich foods such as beans, beets, blueberries, celery, chocolate, grapes, green peppers, parsley, spinach, strawberries, summer squash, and tea.
• Eat vitamin A rich foods. Vitamin A is necessary to keep the lining of the urinary tract in shape and help discourage the formation of future stones. Foods high in vitamin A include apricots, broccoli, cantaloupes, pumpkins, winter squash, and beef liver.
• Protein tends to increase the presence of uric acid, calcium, and phosphorus in the urine, which, in some people, leads to the formation of stones. Limit the quantity of proteins in your diet.
• Reduce your consumption of table salt, pickled foods, and salty foods such as luncheon meat, snack chips, and processed cheese.
• For kidney stone treatment, boil two figs in a cup of water. Drink this first thing in the morning for one month.
• Mix 1 tspn of Holy basil leaves juice with 1 tspn of honey. Have this every morning for 5-6 months.
• Eat 2-3 Apples a day.
• Eat watermelon, either as such or had a juice. This is an effective home remedy for kidney stones.
• Take 1 cup of juice made with radish leaves 2 times a day.
• Drink 1 glass of fresh tomato juice first thing in the morning. Add a pinch of salt and pepper to this.
• Take 3 long and thick lady fingers (slightly raw) Cut in thin long pieces and soak it in 2 litres of water overnight. In the morning, remove the ladyfingers and squeeze the juice into the same jar of water. Drink the entire water over 1 â€" 2 hours· Celery is a valuable food for those who are prone to getting stones in the kidneys or gall bladder.
• The seeds of both sour and sweet pomegranates are useful medicine for kidney stones. Make a fine paste of a tablespoon of the seeds, take this along with a cup of horse gram (kulthi) soup to dissolve gravel in kidneys.
• Watermelon contains the highest concentration of water amongst all fruits. It is also rich in potassium salts. Therefore it is very good food for kidney stones patients.
• Eat a whole foods diet that contains leafy green vegetables, fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and fish and poultry in small portions.
• Mix 2 oz of olive oil and 2 oz of lemon juice, drink it straight down and follow with a large glass of water at the first sign of stone pain. This is also an effective home remedy for kidney stones.

COUGH

• Prepare a mixture by adding 1,1½ teaspoon honey with 1,1½ teaspoon lemon juice. Take this every 12 hours. Honey relieves the itchiness by moisturizing the throat passage·
• Take 0.5 pounds (250 gms) of sweet apples daily for a week to cure cough.
• Soak almonds overnight and remove their skin. Make a paste of the soaked almonds with little butter and sugar. This is very useful for dry cough.
• Mix 8 - 10 tablespoons of coconut milk with 1 tablespoon poppy seeds and 1 tablespoon of pure honey. Take this every night before going to bed.
• Prepare a mixture by adding a teaspoonful of honey with a few drops of brandy. It helps to relieve cough.
• Mix equal parts of limejuice and honey.
• Combine a cup of grape juice and a teaspoon of honey. Mix well to prepare an effective natural cough remedy for coughing.
• Mix 1 teaspoonful raw onion juice with 1 teaspoonful of honey. Keep it aside for 3 to 4 hours before drinking. This is an effective home remedy for cough.
• Apply hot mustard pack on the chest. This brings down fever, eliminates toxins and speeds in recovery. If needed, repeat every other day for a week.
• Deep breathe in front of an open window. This has multiple benefits. Exhaling vigorously rids the body of waste gases and deep inhalation saturates the lungs with oxygen.
• Chop an onion finely, put it with a tablespoon of clear honey in a screw-top jar and leave overnight. In the morning, drinking a teaspoonful of the juice produced will give relief to cough.
• Garlic-and-onion chicken soup is also an effective remedy for cough .
• For cough treatment, drink hot tea with lemon and raspberry jam, drink as much as possible.
• Drink hot milk with honey at bedtime for cough relief.
• Slice 2 snow pears into small pieces. Add 3 bowls of water and boil until the water has reduced to 2 bowls. Strain and discard the pears, and add 30 grams of rice to the liquid. Boil again until rice is cooked. Drink the soup.
• Peel 50 grams fresh ginger and cut into small slices. Boil the slices with 100 grams maltose in 2 glasses water for 30 minutes. Drink it hot, twice a day, in one day. This is also an effective home remedy for cough.
• Boil 20 red dates with 60 grams maltose in enough water. Eat once a day.
• Prepare a mixture of 5 fresh-pitted olives and rock sugar; steam them for half an hour. Eat the olives to help with chronic coughs.
• Steam 2 unpeeled tangerines with 30 grams rock sugar to relieve coughs with a yellowish mucous discharge. Eat the tangerines at bedtime.
• In one cup of warm milk, add a pinch of turmeric powder (Haldi) and drink twice a day.
• In one cup of warm milk, add 2 teaspoon 3 strands of saffron (kesar) and drink twice a day.
• For cough treatment, Mix half a teaspoon of tulsi juice with half a teaspoon with ginger juice. Add 1 teaspoon of honey. Take the above mixture 2-3 times a day till symptoms subside.
• Take 1 cup of water and add 4-5 leaves of tulsi; a small piece of ginger (adrak) and 1 teaspoon of jaggery. Boil this mixture over slow heat till the quantity becomes half a cup. Drink this at least 2 times in a day.

Asthma

Allergy caused by weather conditionsAsthma is caused by a variety of factors. It may be due to an allergy caused by weather conditions, food, drugs, perfumes, and other irritants. Allergies to dust are the most common.
Asthma Cures
Asthma treatment using HoneyHoney is one of the most common home remedies for asthma. It is said that if a jug of honey is held under the nose of an asthma patient and he inhales the air that comes into contact with it, he starts breathing easier and deeper.
Asthma treatment using FigsAmong fruits, figs have proved very valuable in asthma. They give comfort to the patient by draining off the phlegm.. Three or four dry figs should be cleaned thoroughly with warm water and soaked overnight.
Asthma treatment using LemonLemon is another fruit found beneficial in the treatment of asthma. The juice of one lemon, diluted in a glass of water and taken with meals, will bring good results.
Asthma treatment using Indian GooseberryIndian gooseberry has also proved valuable in asthma. Five grams of gooseberry mixed with one tablespoon of honey forms an effective medicinal tonic for the treatment of this disease. It should be taken every morning .
Asthma treatment using Bitter Gourd RootsThe roots of the bitter gourd plant have been used in folk medicine for asthma since ancient times. A teaspoon of the root paste, mixed with an equal amount of honey or juice of the tulsi leaves, given once every night for a month, acts as an excellent medicine for this disease.
Asthma treatment using Drumstick LeavesA soup prepared from drumstick leaves, and taken once daily, has been found beneficial in the treatment of asthma. This soup is prepared by adding a handful of leaves to 180ml of water and boiling it for five minutes. After being allowed to cool, a little salt, pepper, and lime juice may be added to this soup.
Asthma treatment using GingerA teaspoon of fresh ginger juice, mixed with a cup of fenugreek decoction and honey to taste, acts as an excellent expectorant in cases of asthma. The decoction of fenugreek can be made by mixing one tablespoon of fenugreek seeds in a cupful of water. This remedy should be taken once in the morning and once in the evening.
Asthma treatment using GarlicGarlic is another effective home remedy for asthma. Ten garlic cloves, boiled in 30 ml of milk, make an excellent medicine for the early stages of asthma. This mixture should he taken once daily by the patient. Steaming ginger tea with two minced garlic cloves in it, can also help to keep the problem under control, and should be taken in the morning and evening.
Asthma treatment using Bishop's WeedThe herb bishop's weed has been found valuable in asthma. Half a teaspoon of bishop's weed should be mixed in a glass of buttermilk and taken twice daily. It is an effective remedy for relieving difficult expectoration caused by dried-up phlegm. A hot poultice of the seeds should be used for dry fomentation to the chest twice daily. The. patient can also inhale steam twice a day from boiling water mixed with ajwain. It will dilate the bronchial passages.
Asthma treatment using SafflowerSafflower seeds are beneficial in the treatment of bronchial asthma. Half a teaspoon of powder of the dry seeds, mixed with a tablespoon of honey, can be taken once or twice a day in treating this disease. This acts as an expectorant and reduces the spasms by liquefying the tenacious sputum. An infusion of five grams of flowers mixed with one tablespoon of honey, taken once daily, is also useful in this disease.
Diet for Asthma
Carbohydrates, Fats and ProteinsThe patient should avoid common dietetic errors. Ideally, his diet should contain a limited quantity of carbohydrates, fats and proteins which are 'acid-forming' foods, and a liberal quantity of alkali-forming foods consisting of fresh fruits, green vegetables, sprouted seeds, and grains. The patient should avoid foods which tend to produce phlegm, such as rice, sugar, lentils, and curds. He should also avoid fried and other difficult to-digest foods, strong tea, coffee, alcoholic beverages, condiments pickles, sauces and all refined and processed foods.
Other Suggestions for Asthma
Fasting and exercisesThe patient should also follow the other laws of nature. Air, sun, and water are great healing agents. Regular fasting once a week, an occasional enema, breathing exercises, fresh air, a dry climate, light exercises, and correct posture go a long way in treating the disease.

Diabetics

There are few natural ways by which Diabetics can be controlled and can be cured1. Keep a small pinch of Turmeric powder to a glass of drinking water at night and drink it morning after breakfast .As turmeric powder is one of the best antibiotic from nature it can control Blood sugar. Drinking twice In A day is more effective.2. Take two Ladies finger (Vendakaka) Vegetable,and cut and remove both ends , then make a small cut on the middle. put it in a glass of drinking water keep it and remove the ladies finger (Vendakka ) morning from water and drink that water before breakfast. Continuously if it use for 3 months you can see the miracle of controlling and curing of Diabetics and if you have Kidney stone problem it can be also cured.3. Take 2 grams of Cinnamon and eat it and drink little water daily after breakfast. and at night after supper. it can control the blood sugar.( it is a popular herbal and spice.4. Eat daily 10 fresh curry leaves ( Kariveppila or sweet neem) at every morning Can control and cure Diabetics also can even reduce obesity and digestive problems.

Detoxification

Before you go to bed at night, take two cloves of fresh garlic and chop it and let it expose to the air for a few minutes ( not more than 5 mts) The chopping releases the enzyme alliance in the garlic. Gather the chopped garlic on a spoon and swallow it with water. The garlic will travel your entire digestive tract while you sleep and scavenge and neutralize all the toxins, carcinogens, harmful bacteria, fungi, viruses, foreign chemical before they can harm your healthy cells. Swallowing the chopped garlic will not give you garlic breath, as long as you don't chew it. You brush your teeth and rinse your mouth before you go to bed anyway. In the morning, drink a big glass of water. Your first bowel movement will have a strong garlic odor and you will know that the harmful stuff have been eliminated from your body. Try it, especially if you have had a bad eating day. Before practice any natural medicine it is advisable that wash your stomach by enema or take some Tamarind in warm water and drink it at night , it can be happen a loose motion, and your stomach will be clean.which will help you for a good treatment ( at least once in a Couple of week is best for maintain a good health.

Some Body facts

Bones - The largest bones is the femur, or thigh bone which is 20 inches in a six-foot tall man. The smallest bone is the stirrup in the ear, which is one-ten th of an inch. Each had has 27 bones : eight in the wrist, five in the palm, and 14 in the fingers. A newborn baby has 300 bones, some of which fuse to form in the adult.

Blood - In a child, there are 60,000 miles of blood vessels. An adult has 100,000 miles of blood vessels. The blood circulates through the body 1,000 times a day.

Brain - A newborn baby has a brain that weights three ounces. The average brain of an adult weighs three pounds. The brains is the "mission control center" of the body, sending our messages at a rate of 240 miles per hour. The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.

Cells - The cells are the body's building blocks. There are about 26 billion cells in an adult.

Eyes - Each eye weighs 1 1/4 ounces. The eyes are constantly in motion, even during sleep. Tears keep the eyes warm and are continually secreted through 12 ducts in the eye. Tears are normally secreted through two canals near the inner corner of the eyes.

Fluid - The body is two-thirds water. Blood is 83% water, muscles are 75% water, the brain 74% water, and the bones contain 22% water. In a single day, three pints of saliva are produced in the mouth.

Hair - Kids have about 75,000 hairs on their heads, which grow about 1/100 of an inch daily. Hairs of different colors grow at different rates. Dark hair grows faster than light-colored hair. No one known why. Each hair on the scalp grows about five inches a year. Eyelashes keep dust out of the eyes. Aneyelash lives about 150 days before it falls out and is replaced.

Muscles - There are over 650 muscles in the body, form the tiny ones that move the legs. The strongest muscle is the masseter muscle of the jaw. It takes at least 14 muscles to smile. The smallest in the body is located in the middle ear. Fingers have no muscles.

Nails - Nails are made up of hardened skin called kertain. Nails protect the ends of the fingers and toes. The half-moon at the root of the nail is called the lunule. Nails grow faster in summer than in winter. Fingernails grow fourtimes faster than toenails. Right - handed people's nails grow faster in their right hands. Left-handed people's nails grow faster on their left hand.

Nose - More than 2,500 gallons of air flow through the average adult's nose in a day. The nose can recognize up to 1,000 different smells. The nose is the air conditioning unit of the body. It cools or warms incoming air. It also filters the dirt and dust in the air.

Skin - The human body has six pounds of skin which is, on average, 1/20 of an inch thick. The two layers of skin are the epidermins and under it, the dermis. The skin is waterproof, it protects the body and helps to regulate body temperature. A substance called melanin colors the skin the more melanin, the darker the skin. A freckle is a dense concentration of melanin. A new layer of skin replaces the old layer approximately every 27 days, totalling about 1,000 new outer layers of skin a lifetime.

teeth - Humans have 20 primary Baby teeth and 32 permanent teeth. By age 13 most people have 28 teeth. By age 18 the four "wisdom" teeth have grown in for a total of 32 permanent teeth.

The Wonders of Blood

The Wonders of Blood
You’re born with a little over a pint of it, by adulthood you’re up to
four or five quarts, and if at any point you suddenly shed more than a
third of your share, you must either get a transfusion or prepare to
meet your mortician.
Taste for Blood (October 21, 2008)

Human cultures have long recognized that blood is essential to lifeand have ascribed to it a vast array of magical powers andmetaphorical subroutines. Blood poultices and blood beverages weresaid to cure blindness, headaches, gout, goiter, worms and gray hair.The Bible mentions blood more than 400 times, William Shakespeareclose to 700. It’s “all in the blood,” your temperament, your fate. Areyou a blue-blooded Mesopotamian princess or a red-bloodedAmerican male?Yet to scientists who study blood, even the most extravagant bloodlore pales in comparison to the biochemical, evolutionary andengineering marvels of the genuine article.The fluid tissue we call blood not only feeds us and cleans us,delivering fresh oxygen and other nutrients to all 100 trillion cells ofthe body and flushing out carbon dioxide, ammonia and othermetabolic trash. It not only houses the immune system that defendsus against the world.Our blood is the foundation of our very existence as multicellularanimals, said Andrew Schafer, a professor at Weill Cornell MedicalCollege and the outgoing president of the American Society ofHematology. Blood is the one tissue that comes into contact withevery other tissue of the body, and it is through blood that ourdisparate parts communicate, through blood that our organscooperate. Without a circulatory system, there would be no internalcivilization, no means of ensuring orderly devotion to the commoncause that is us.“It’s an enormous communications network,” Dr. Schafer said — theoriginal cellphone system, if you will, 100 trillion users strong.Blood can also be thought of as a private ocean, a recapitulation ofwhat life was like for all the years we spent drifting as microscopic,single-celled organisms, “taking up nutrients from sea water andthen eliminating waste products back into sea water,” Dr. Schafersaid. Not only is blood mostly water, but the watery portion of blood,the plasma, has a concentration of salt and other ions that isremarkably similar to sea water.Of course, we can’t rely on wind and weather to keep our hiddenseas salubriously churned and aerated, so we have evolved an activerespirator and pumping mechanism, the lungs and heart. Our eightpints of blood circulate through the powerhouse duet maybe 60times an hour, absorbing recently inhaled oxygen from thehoneycombed fabric of the lungs and proceeding into the thicklymuscled heart, which then shoots the enriched fluid outward.Oxygen allocation is the task of the red blood cells, whichhematology researchers refer to with a mix of affection and awe.“Red cells have enormous capabilities,” said Stanley Schrier ofStanford University’s School of Medicine. They give up so much tomake room for their hemoglobin, the proteins that can latch ontooxygen and that give blood its brilliant grenadine sheen. Aloneamong body cells, red cells at maturity jettison their nucleus andDNA to accommodate their cargo.And oh how roughly they are treated. A red cell at rest looks like aplump bialy and measures about 8 microns, or .0003 inches, across.Yet to reach every far-flung, oxygen-hungry customer, the cells mustsqueeze through capillaries less than half their width, which theyaccomplish by squashing down into threads that then crawl in singlefile along the capillary wall, pulling themselves forward, Dr. Schriersaid, like tank treads gripping the road.Blood is also a genius, able to sustain two contradictory stateswithout going mad. To ceaselessly shuttle along the body’s 60,000miles of arteries, veins and capillaries, blood must be fluid, our trustysouvenir sea.Yet even though we constantly replace components of our blood,directing the aged and the battered to the spleen and liver — the“graveyards for blood cells,” Dr. Schafer said — and replenishingthem with fresh blood cells forged in the bone marrow, the turnovercycle is gradual and we can’t afford to lose everything in one biggush wrought by a predator’s gash. Blood, then, departs from seawater, or, for that matter, from breast milk, another prized bodyfluid, in one outstanding way: it is always poised to clot, to relinquishliquidity and assume solidity.In deciding whether to flow or clot, blood takes its cues from itssurroundings. As blood glides through the bulk of its tubularcircuitry, the comparatively heavy red cells are driven toward thecenter of the swirl, said James N. George, a hematologist at theUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, while two other,lighter characters are pushed out to the periphery: the white bloodcells that operate as immune warriors, and the platelets, tiny cellsthat have been called the Band-Aids of the body. Theirmarginalization is no accident. “They’re surveillance cells,” Dr.George said. “It’s almost like they’re scouting for trouble.”White blood cells look for signs of invasive microbes, while plateletsscan for leaks. As long as the platelets detect the Teflon-like surfaceof unbroken endothelium, the tissue with which blood vessels arelined, they keep moving.But even the tiniest cut or gap in the smooth vessel wall will exposesome of the fibrous strands beneath, and the platelets are primed toinstantly detect the imperfection. A passing platelet will stick to theraggedy strand and change shape, from round to octopoid, which inturn attracts other platelets, forming a little clump. “If the cut issmall, that’s all you need,” Dr. George said. If not, the next phase offlood control begins. Signals from the platelets arouse the blood’sclotting factors, free-floating proteins that can cross-link togetherinto bigger, better Band-Aids.“Platelets and clotting factors,” Dr. Schrier said. “It’s a marriagemade in heaven.”Up to a point. Just as our immune cells can go awry and beginattacking our own body tissue, so an overzealous clot response canhave dire consequences. Should a clot happen to cut off blood flow toa vital organ like the heart or brain, the only one playing the harpwill be you.

Much is talked about Cholesterol and its control.
Foods That May Lower Your Cholesterol
Oats

When women in a University of Toronto study added oat bran to
an already heart-healthy diet, HDL-cholesterol levels—the
beneficial kind—climbed more than 11 percent.

Almonds

A 2005 Tufts University study found that substances in almondskins help prevent LDL cholesterol from being oxidized, a processthat can otherwise damage the lining of blood vessels andincrease cardiovascular risk.

Beansand lentils

In results reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2005,LDL-cholesterol levels fell almost twice as far in volunteers on alow-fat diet who added beans and lentils (along with more wholegrains and vegetables) to the menu.

Blueberries

Blueberries contain a powerful antioxidant called pterostilbenethat may help lower LDL cholesterol, scientists at the AgriculturalResearch Service reported in 2004.

Barley

When volunteers in a 2004 USDA study added barley to thestandard American Heart Association diet, LDL-cholesterol levelsfell by up to 17 percent.

Avocados

The monounsaturated fats in avocados have been found to lowerbad LDLs and raise good HDLs, especially in people with mildlyelevated cholesterol.

Alcohol

Drinking a glass of wine with dinner—any alcoholic beverage, infact—has been shown to raise good-cholesterol levels and lowerthe risk of a heart attack. (Excessive drinking, however, raisesheart-disease danger.)