Alternative Health

876. Purchasing Essential Oil By Gerry McCarthy
     Tips on Purchasing Essential OilsIt is important to purchase your oils through a reputable supplier, food stores are often reputable suppliers of Essential Oils. In other cases you can buy from the manufacture but you must know something about the manufacturers reputation,- Do they belong to the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapists?If so, it is a good indication that they are a reputable people.Most people should be careful about purchasing Essential Oils from a multi-level market…



877. Going Beyond Diffusion By Gerry McCarthy
     Beyond DiffusionThis advanced diffusion system is designed for continuous operation and holds a full oz. bottle of essential oil. It's Patented nebulizer breaks up essential oils into micro-mist and blends it with the air you breathe. Air entering the diffuser is first scrubbed with a hygienic filter that intercepts pollen, bacteria, dust, smoke, smog, dander and viruses even smaller than HEPA filters can catch. This filter never needs cleaning and lasts one year or more.Selector switch allows…



878. Some Tips on Stopping Smoking By Mike Lindsey
     Are you looking for tips on stopping smoking? And would you like to know what are some ways to help quit? Now let me remind you that when we come to the actual quitting process, that it is not going to be easy. Please do not consider yourself to be superhuman so be ready to get external help if you need it. As I told you earlier, there might be physical, mental and emotional changes when you stop smoking. But you do not have to worry. There is plenty of help available nowadays. Below are some …



879. Homemade Bath Products...the Pros and Cons By Oleg Moskvine
     When you surf the Internet to find proper bath products for your home spa bathing you can see many websites offering homemade bath product receipts:” Why to pay more for expensive bath products if you can make your own products…Forget (give up) these expensive bath products at bath (drug, department etc) stores…You can make your own inexpensive bath product at home etc…etc…etc…”Is it right? Yes and No…Let us describe three main levels of natural bath products depending on several factors. Ea…



880. The Benefits of Swedish Massage By Erica Brooks
     Swedish massage is the most common form of relaxation massage offering many relaxing as well as healing properties to your body. Swedish massage combines the use of long strokes, kneading and friction techniques to manipulate the soft tissues of the body causing a variety of benefits to your body to help it to heal itself. Below is a list of benefits that you will receive from Swedish massage:*Reduces stress and anxiety*Promotes relaxation*Improves circulation*Relieves general body tension*Rel…



881. How Essential Oils Differ From Dried Herbs By Melodie Kantner
     Essential Oils are the heartbeat of the plant kingdom, and are perhaps the most exciting life-giving substance we have in the world today. They represent in plants what blood represents in humankind - life! This heartbeat is the energy that was created to deliver the nutrients into every cell of the body.Defined: Essential oils are the subtle, volatile liquids that are distilled from plants, shrubs, flowers, trees, bushes and seeds.An ancient process, oil distillation is a delicate and …



882. Why is Prevention So Important? By Bruce Spiegler
     One of the least known and least practiced aspects of medicine is prevention. If you look at a list of medical specialists that have evolved in our system of western medicine, you will not find a Doctor of Preventive Medicine. You will find a physician for every part of our body -- but none for the whole.Most people do not realize that the essence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), which finds much of its roots in Traditional Chinese Medicine, really has to do with prevention. It…



883. Bird Flu: Three Powerful Reasons to Be Fearless By Julia Rogers Hamrick
     With the media’s increasing focus on the projected Avian or “Bird Flu” pandemic, you can almost palpably feel the fear rising. And with reports that there are insufficient medical safeguards to prevent the loss of human life, the feeling of helplessness is on the rise as well. But here are three reasons we would be wise not to allow fear to take hold.1) Fear weakens you and depresses your vibrational frequency, compromising your ability to resist infection. When you are operating at optimal…



884. The Causes Of Stuttering In Childhood By Steve Hill
     Stuttering is a problem that affects approximately one in every hundred people. It is mainly men who stutter, seven out of ten people who stutter are male.There are many types of stutter. Family and friends may not even be aware that a person they know has a stutter. That is because the person is able to hide the stutter, by using word avoidance or word substitution.Other people are unable to ddo this and have what they would consider an openely more severe stutter.Stuttering would normally oc…



885. Eucalyptus Oil for Colds and Flu By Rudy Silva
     Recently I came down with a cold, flu, and some heavy chest congestion. My 8-year daughter also became sick.One of the Natural Remedies I used was Eucalyptus Oil, which helped to reduce the chest congestion and the symptoms of the flu.Herbalists use this oil to treat colds, coughs, and other respiratory ailments. Eucalyptus helps to loosen phlegm and improve lung function.The active ingredient in eucalyptus oil is cineol or euclyptol. The oil is a fine decongestant and has strong germicidal an…



886. Foot Massage By Caroline Colby
     Foot massage or foot reflexology has a Chinese origin. It dates back to more than 3,000 years ago and is used in the prevention and cure of many health ailments.Some in fact say, foot massage dates back to ancient Eygyptian times due to archaeological findings in cave drawings in Egypt.The principle of foot massage rests in the premise that the meridian network connects all tissues, organs and cells in our body. Each organ in the body is connected to a specific reflex point on the foot throug…



887. The Origins of Aromatherapy By Jeanette Joy Fisher
     Aromatherapy, which involves the use of essential oils to treat various ailments, has been used by healers for thousands of years. Although its origins are difficult to trace, the use of aromatherapy goes back at least 4,000 years, possibly beginning with the ancient Egyptians, who were known to have used aromatic botanicals in many different ways. The Egyptians used a number of herbs and spices for soothing massage, medicine, cosmetics, and even in their embalming practices.Centuries later, i…



888. How To Improve Your Mood And Health With Deep Breathing Exercises By Tim Webb
     It is relatively well known now that exercise releases endorphins that can help to pull you out of a bad mood and to aid in alleviating depression. However, mental fatigue and depression are hard moods to simply overcome. You may not wish to train for forty-five minutes to an hour. It might be too hard to even get down to the gym for this to occur!Here is a good idea, instead of looking at your workout session in terms of an hour each time, shorten it.Plan just fifteen minutes!Change the mann…



889. The Healing Effect of Scented Candles By Lynn Manno
     In June 2002, I was a bridesmaid at my cousin’s wedding when I had my first panic attack (or “episode” as I called it at the time). I managed to get through the wedding without anyone knowing I was having a problem, but in two months I was going to be a bridesmaid at my sister’s wedding. What if I this “episode” happened to me again at my sister’s wedding? Well, it did happen again, well before my sister’s wedding.It started to happen during meetings at work, in the car and at restaurants. …



890. Got a Headache? Painkillers Are NOT the Solution! By Arina Nikitina
     Say you had a stressful day at work, didn't get enough sleep the night before and as a result you've got a bad headache. What do you do? It's easy! You take good old Tylenol or other over-the-counter medicine. And it helps! No more headache, the world is bright again.The next day you wake up with the headache again. This time your headache is tolerable but dull and constant. It's a good thing you bought that medicine yesterday. Better take it before headache gets more painful. If you ta…



891. How to Use the Subconscious to Cope with Body System Triggers of Your Pain By Ben Plumb
     The musculoskeletal, immune and endocrine systems can all be potent triggers of pain signals in your body. Here's a way to use your subconscious mind to try to lessen the impact of those triggers.The Musculoskeletal SystemThe musculoskeletal system consists of the muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments, cartilage and other elements that make up the structural part of your body.In chronic pain one or more parts of this system may not be working properly. Muscles may be cramped, joints may be out o…



892. Natural Pain Relief Through Magnetic Therapy is Possible By Paul Forcey
     No one can deny the power of magnets, racing pigeons find their way home across thousands of miles, and Salmon use the earth’s magnetic pulses to travel through oceans to make their way back to their spawning grounds. The ancient Celts built their places of worship at points where the earth’s magnetic ley lines intersect.Are you sitting there reading this and rubbing your wrist because your arthritis is playing up again? Do you avoid walking up stairs as your knees hurt so much?Magnets have b…



893. Alternative Medicine and Therapies – What, Why and How of it By R.G. Srinivasan
     Alternative Therapies and alternative medicine has been gaining ground along with conventional treatments. Alternative therapies have been practiced for thousand of years especially in the east commonly known as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine.Modern medicine has replaced such therapies due to its ability to quickly suppress the symptoms and treat the specific physical condition with pharmacological and surgical methods evolved after much research.However the modern medicine too has…



894. Using Hypnotherapy to Beat IBS By Sophie Lee
     Hypnotherapy is one of the best known and most widely used treatments for IBS, and can offer sufferers a drug-free solution to their symptoms of diarrhea, constipation, stomach pain and bloating.There are now many hundreds of hypnotherapists who offer what is called “gut-directed hypnotherapy” for IBS, which takes the general techniques of hypnotherapy and applies them directly to the abdominal pain and digestive symptoms which IBS sufferers struggle with. This type of hypnotherapy has been cl…



895. What is Sound Therapy? By Jodie Foster
     As energetic beings, our electromagnetic energy field (aura) vibrates at specific frequencies. When there is an energy distortion, clutter, blockage, etc, the vibration of the energy field gets clogged, bogged down and heavy. What does this mean to you?When your energy is clogged or bogged down with ‘heavy’ (slow moving) energy, physically you experience greater levels of fatigue, leg/joint aches, headaches, digestive trouble, and more. From an emotional level it can mean experiencing a…



896. Colon Cleansing By Edwin John
     Colonics are one of the best types of medicine. They clean up deposits of old toxemia. Colon cleansing reduces the formation of new toxemia from putrefying fecal matter.Most noticeable to the patient, a colonic immediately alleviates current symptoms by almost instantly reducing the current toxic load. A well-done enema or colonic is such a powerful technique that a single one will often make a severe headache vanish, make an onsetting cold go away, end a bout of sinusitis, end an asthmatic at…



897. The Tribrain and Trauma Therapy By Jef Gazley
     When someone experiences a trauma they go into immediate shock. This is very similar to hypnosis. Under hypnosis a person is more suggestible and tends to remember everything that occurred while in that state, even if it is on a subconscious level. Because of this a person, when abused, will remember vividly everything about what it was to feel like a victim and they will also remember everything about what it is like to be an abuser.When an event is traumatic and confusing enough, we tend to …



898. ADHD The Easier Solution By George Graham
     ADHD is a very rapidly growing part of the health care industry. The symptoms are varied, including: irritability, hyperactivity and behavioral problems. Many kids are so affected that they require some pretty hefty drugs to control them.I spoke at a medical conference in Denver in 2004. One of the other speakers was a pharmacology researcher. He brought up a statistic that indicated that kids on Ritalin [one of the prevailing drugs for ADHD] tend to become addicted to methamphetamines.O…



899. Eucalyptus: The Way to Smoother Breathing By Nur Syahid
     The eucalyptus is a popular Australian remedy that was first introduced to the world by the aborigines as a treatment for many kinds of ailments. Its uses range from treating wounds, suppressing colds, relaxing the mind to repelling insects.HistoryIn the 19th century, the Director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens introduced the eucalyptus plant to the West. Upon which, cultivation of the tree has spread to Europe and North America.EcologyThe eucalyptus is a tall, evergreen tree of the myrtle…



900. Hypnosis - Not Quite Utopia By Michael Hadfield
     Look, I want to have loads and loads of money, but I don't want to do any work in order to have it. Have you any suggestions? Seriously, apart from buying a lottery ticket – do you have any suggestions? I want to laze around all day and just have money arrive in my bank account, and not just little bits of money – loads and loads of it, and I want it guaranteed for life. Not only that but I want it right now, and I'm only prepared to pay you £40 for you to give that to me, and even that seems …



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