Ensure that you and your family members do not fall sick again, the next time, with the change in weather. Including these basic foods in your daily diet will help boost body immunity. Loading your grocery cart with nature’s supplements such as green leafy veggies, cherries, tomatoes, carrots, guavas, citrus fruits and Amla will go [...]
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Curcumin, an ingredient found in turmeric, reduces heart enlargement, lowering risk of heart failure, reveals researchers in Canada. The Researchers at the Peter Munk Cardiac Center, Toronto General Hospital, tested the effects of curcumin in mice with ‘Hypertrophy’ (enlarged hearts). They found that curcumin could prevent and reverse the condition and restore heart function, apart [...]
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Although the Beta-blockers help by ‘blocking’ some of the effects of adrenaline that surges through the body during stressful situations, natural calming methods helps in dealing stress in a more effective manner in the long-run, as they help you tide through movements of higher-anxiety easily. Go herbal Passion Flower: Passion Flower (passiflora incarnata) is an [...]
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Several studies and researches that have been so far conducted, suggests that some of the day-to-day food that we consume, may be more than just ‘life-sustaining’. They could even prove to be ‘life preserving’, with loads of healing power. t is high time we realize the value of foods stored in our ‘kitchen cabinet’, or [...]
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Often, the substances used by modern medicine in Chemotherapies for treatment of Cancer are natural products derived from natural substances. For instance, ‘taxanes’ which is used in treatment of breast and prostate cancers are made from Yew trees. Yew Tree is a popular periwinkle plant that grows on the ground of many front yards and [...]
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Here are a few scientifically studied natural/ complementary remedies to treat allergies. Vitamin C: Recent studies have suggested that Vitamin C is effective in treating allergies, as it lowers histamine levels in the bloodstream. Hence, eating plenty of citrus fruits and juices, berries, broccoli, dark greens, onions, berries, and mangoes could prevent on-set of allergies. [...]
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Essential oils carry a lot of significance in the world of Aromatherapy. Whenever one thinks of Aromatherapy, the essential oils are the first aspects that come to mind. The volatility of essential oils makes them suitable for aromatherapy, as these oils vaporize easily. Aromatherapy essential oils are extracted from various parts of plants, and have [...]
Despite being the commonest of spices, used regularly to flavor our daily foods, we are hardly aware about the high-medicinal value of cumin, which always scores high on the popularity chart of spices. Cumin is the dried fruit of a small aromatic astringent herb, native to Egypt, but also cultivated in India, Middle East, China [...]
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