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Four Vitamins for Hair Loss
Hair loss isn’t something that you should just consider normal. Regardless of your gender and your genetics, there are often underlying causes for hair loss that you can control. In fact, in many instances hair ...
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Treating Eczema Effectively with Beta Glucan
An inflamed irritation caused by eczema can result in a great deal of discomfort. Often referred to as topic dermatitis, many people will do whatever it takes to relieve this uncomfortable dilemma. About 3% of ...
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Herbal Profile: Milk Thistle
Milk thistle, or Silybum marianum, is described as an annual, winter annual, and biennial herb that belongs to the Asteraceae family. The main stem of the milk thistle is stout and ridged. The branches spread ...
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The Top 11 Health Benefits of Pumpkin and Pumpkin Seeds
Think of the word pumpkin and images of jack-o-lanterns or whipped cream-covered Thanksgiving pies will probably pop into your mind. Pumpkin is traditionally considered a holiday food and is a staple in our kitchen pantries ...
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Dry Skin Brushing for Skin Health, Circulation and the Lymphatic System
Our lymphatic system is our body’s immune system. The lymphatic fluid can become sluggish over time and dry skin brushing can be a lymphatic stimulant. Skin brushing helps exfoliate and invigorate our skin too. It ...
You Can Get Rid of an Ulcer if Caught Early
Peptic ulcers can be found in the lining of the stomach or in the duodenum, the upper part of the intestines. If you were to test an ulcer in the lab you would find chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and pepsin. If the ulcer is found in the upper part of the intestines it is […]
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Natural Remedies for Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids are sometimes referred to as piles. They are veins around the anus and rectum that become swollen and inflamed. Hemorrhoids that are external can become quite painful. Internal hemorrhoids may not cause pain but they can produce blood with a bowel movement. Other symptoms of hemorrhoids can include a sensation of fullness that is […]
The Top 10 Favorite Junk Foods and How They’re Trying to Kill You
The fast paced life that we lead today makes fast food almost a necessity, and most definitely a convenience. Now that we have become accustomed to instant deliveries, instant messaging and other kinds of instant gratification, how then can we expect to be asked to wait for food? While fast food has been around in […]
Treatment for Genital Warts
Genital warts are soft warts like growths that appear on the genitals and are caused by the same virus that causes warts on other parts of the body-human papilloma virus or HPV. Genital warts are the type of sexually transmitted disease which brings with it an increased risk of cervical cancer for women. There are […]
The Process Of Metabolism and How It Works
Metabolism is a process using several chemical reactions. These reactions take place in the body’s cells. Metabolism is all about change. Metabolism changes the food we eat into the energy that is needed by the body to move, think, grow, to heal and repair cells. All living beings need metabolism to live. The reactions that […]
Tips for Preventing and Dealing With Stomach Ulcers
Ulcers can appear in the soft tissue of the stomach or duodenum. They can be described as a type of sore or lesion. What happens is that the stomach creates acids to aid in the digestion of food. These acids can eat their way through the protective mucus and an ulcer starts developing soon thereafter. […]
STD Testing: When a UTI is Not a UTI
You’ve got the tell-tale symptoms: a frequent urge to urinate, an uncomfortable and burning sensation when you do urinate, pelvic pain, cloudy urine… all signs of a urinary tract infection. You drink cranberry juice and try other natural and homeopathic remedies with no success. After weeks, you still have symptoms, and they are getting worse. That’s […]
Homemade Nasal Inhaler
Get your dried, organic herbs, organic essential oils, bulk spices, loose leaf organic teas and aromatherapy supplies at the place where we shop – Starwest Botanicals! For those nasal allergy symptoms. You’ll need: * rock salt * 2 d. eucalyptus * 2 d. rosemary * 1 d. peppermint Put a few pieces of rock salt […]
How to Get Your Baby to Sleep Soundly Through the Night
What is a new parent’s number one frustration? Their baby doesn’t sleep through the night. Some parents are lucky and baby will sleep for eight or twelve hours at a stretch from the beginning. On the other hand, most parents are not that lucky. As adults, we need more than two or three hours of […]
Health Benefits of Goldenseal – the Wonder Herb With Purpose
Goldenseal (Orange-root, Orangeroot; Hydrastic canadensis) is a perennial herb that grows in the northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada. It has a purplish and hairy stem. The leaves that form in Spring are also hairy and have 5-7 double-toothed lobes and small, single flowers with greenish white stamens. During the summer it bears a single […]
