Here are just a few little tips to help you find out how to naturally fight off Allergies.
Bladderwrack is a known booster for the immune system and Irish Moss, also found as seaweed and kelp, works as an anti-viral agent and also boosts the immune system.
Ginger root also helps the immune system while working as an anti-inflammatory and offers pain relief and works as a natural remedy for allergies.
Astragalus increases metabolic activity to make the immune system stronger helping to resist colds and the flu. It also improves interferon production and capsicum increases energy and is used as an expectorant. It contains quercitin and helps those with allergy and breathing problems as it is used as an expectorant and works as a natural remedy for allergies.
Stinging nettles used as a natural remedy for allergies has shown to offer relief to hay fever sufferers and Ma Huang contains ephedrine and pseudoephedrine opens airways by stimulating the central nervous system.
Also used to treat colds and sore throats is burdock which helps clear congestion.
Additional immune system boosters include Vitamin E and selenium, grape seed extract and raw adrenal, making them help as a natural remedy for allergies as do magnesium which has shown to relieve bronchospasms.
Vitamin B5 helps adrenal functions and Vitamin A is an anti-inflammatory and immune system booster.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Natural Health Remedies
What is a Natural Health Remedy?
A natural health remedy is just that: natural; produced by nature, not in a laboratory or medical school classroom. Alternative Medicine involves using healing techniques and substances that aren’t part of “mainstream” medicine.
In this category are massage therapy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, hypnosis, biofeedback, and homeopathy. Natural health remedies don’t involve prescription medications, surgery, or other traditional medicine approaches.
Practitioners such as massage therapists have acquired specific education and skills, and are officially licensed to perform their craft. Herbal healers, however, are not. You must rely on their skills as verified by how long they’ve been practicing, and recommendations from others.
You can also obtain natural health remedies via the internet; reputable herbal medicine companies will have consultation services and will provide you with specific information as to how to use their products.
Natural health remedies involve you taking charge of your health care. If traditional medicine hasn’t helped, you can make the decision to try alternative medicine. Herbal medicine use, including homeopathy, is on the rise.
Natural health remedies purchased through skilled, reputable providers or companies are less expensive than prescription medications and have much few, if any, unpleasant side effects. Natural Health magazine consistently provides information on herbal remedies and their safe, effective use.
You must be aware that herbal products are not tested or regulated by the FDA; you use natural health remedies such as herbs at your own risk.
A natural health remedy is just that: natural; produced by nature, not in a laboratory or medical school classroom. Alternative Medicine involves using healing techniques and substances that aren’t part of “mainstream” medicine.
In this category are massage therapy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, hypnosis, biofeedback, and homeopathy. Natural health remedies don’t involve prescription medications, surgery, or other traditional medicine approaches.
Practitioners such as massage therapists have acquired specific education and skills, and are officially licensed to perform their craft. Herbal healers, however, are not. You must rely on their skills as verified by how long they’ve been practicing, and recommendations from others.
You can also obtain natural health remedies via the internet; reputable herbal medicine companies will have consultation services and will provide you with specific information as to how to use their products.
Natural health remedies involve you taking charge of your health care. If traditional medicine hasn’t helped, you can make the decision to try alternative medicine. Herbal medicine use, including homeopathy, is on the rise.
Natural health remedies purchased through skilled, reputable providers or companies are less expensive than prescription medications and have much few, if any, unpleasant side effects. Natural Health magazine consistently provides information on herbal remedies and their safe, effective use.
You must be aware that herbal products are not tested or regulated by the FDA; you use natural health remedies such as herbs at your own risk.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
For Most Maladies, there is a Natural Herbal Remedy
The oldest medical treatment known to man is a natural herbal remedy and according to the World Health Organization about 80 percent of the world’s population today uses some form of natural herbal remedy.
Because of their smell, taste or perceived medicinal value, herbs or some part of the herb plant is used for specific purposes and many believe that different herbs can help cure or reduce the affects of different ailments.
For example, the herb ephedra has been used by the Chinese for thousands of years to relieve symptoms of asthma or erratic breathing problems. Today, commercial pharmacies use that same herb calling it ephedrine. What used to be a natural herbal remedy is now a commercial product.
Another example is the foxglove plant used as a natural herbal remedy since 1775 and now is used as a cardiac stimulant and is known as digitalis. As in most herbs used as medicine, many were discovered by trial and error. By watching what the animals ate and how it affected them, humans tried to achieve similar affects by eating the same plants.
Because of their smell, taste or perceived medicinal value, herbs or some part of the herb plant is used for specific purposes and many believe that different herbs can help cure or reduce the affects of different ailments.
For example, the herb ephedra has been used by the Chinese for thousands of years to relieve symptoms of asthma or erratic breathing problems. Today, commercial pharmacies use that same herb calling it ephedrine. What used to be a natural herbal remedy is now a commercial product.
Another example is the foxglove plant used as a natural herbal remedy since 1775 and now is used as a cardiac stimulant and is known as digitalis. As in most herbs used as medicine, many were discovered by trial and error. By watching what the animals ate and how it affected them, humans tried to achieve similar affects by eating the same plants.
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