Alternative Medicine Information

Cold sores are a condition caused by a virus; is symptomatic of painful blisters, tingling, headache, irritability, and other less common symptoms.

To minimize symptoms and to reduce the infectious process, we have a wide range of options. So then we present the following home remedies for cold sores.

Ice: Ice will decrease swelling in addition to numb the area, reducing discomfort, you’ll need to apply for each hour interval, a few minutes on the infected area.

Lemon: It is an excellent remover-inflammatory and foreign agents, you just need to cut some slices of lemon and leave all the time that can be over the damaged area of the lip (you should not apply where there is a wound or scab).

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Iodine is an essential element in the body, since it is needed for good functioning of the thyroid gland. In extreme cases of lack of iodine can cause cases of physical and mental dystrophies (causes severe damage causing disability in the offspring).

Thus in the case of pregnant women emphasizes the importance of iodine diet for proper growth and development of the fetus, and is therefore good to know some foods with iodine for pregnancy. However it must be emphasized that the need for iodine in pregnant women does not increase, nor need more of this element in the diet.

The foods you should include in your diet will be purely natural origin and fresh as much as possible (this is because handling in packaging processes, preserves and makes food cooking lose nutrients).

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The skin, porous border that delimits the inside from the outside world has on one hand the function of being a true protective shield on the other, the main organ of communication of all external stimuli received by more subtle and delicate they are.

The skin is the largest organ in the human body with 2 square meters, 4 kilos and is 0.2 mm epidermis that protects us from heat, cold, dust, thousands of bacteria that are lurking waiting for the moment to enter and all kinds of attacks to which it is subjected daily. It’s definitely a brain surface.

The Mirror of The Body is The Skin

It is not easy to maintain healthy skin by in fact not easy to know properly preserve health. The skin health depends on the state of purity that has the blood and it is kept in this state, is necessary to maintain healthy organs and in different full operating capacity. Signs of the skin are obvious signs of the state of the body in its entirety. From the standpoint of natural medicine to the skin is considered as a third lung making this reference to the function performed by removing metabolic waste substances and the work of skin breathing, both of utmost importance to health.

Given the relationship of the skin with all the internal organs is known that the origin of many of its disorders in hormonal changes is a toxic diet, bad combo or unbalanced, chronic constipation and sites of infection in the mouth.

What is Outside is Inside

The skin accumulates or rather it is deposited, metabolic toxins, bacteria, and other waste substances to be eliminated. The body uses the cumulative function of the skin when the surplus can not be released to remove substances. Among the aphorisms of the most famous doctor of antiquity to whom his name is still the father of medicine, Hippocrates (460 BC) is, all diseases are cured by one evacuation through the mouth or anus, the bladder or emunctories other. The body of sweat is a major and common to all ills. That is, many waste substances are stored and neutralized in the skin, body odor being of many individuals an eloquent example of this.

Only this process shows that the agency has serious difficulties in their role and that heat needs immediate help. If, moreover, we become intoxicated by an excess of acidifying foods such as refined sugars, meat, cow’s milk and white flour, the result will be a draw to retain the skin tissue in perfect smoothness and the defensive capacity of the skin. The frugal food, based this on juices, fruit diets or fasting lets clean out the bowel, skin and get rid of all waste matter, regaining normal function and color.

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The algae, its low in calories, are a good choice for inclusion as part of our daily diet. They do not generate overweight, but rather help us to lose the pounds that we have too many.

To achieve the wonderful benefits of seaweed slimming, we must take (in capsule form) from 30 to 45 minutes before our meals. Why take the algae before meals? Well, I count the algae are rich in fiber. They have a substance called mucilage, a type of fiber, and as you know the fibers upon contact with water or other liquid, increase in size and that makes us feel full and satisfied.

The mucilage, which is more abundant at algae as agar-agar, stimulates our intestine grus as any good source of fiber. By stimulating grubs intestine helps us best to expel all the waste and toxic wastes in our body. In this way we eliminate fat through the feces and thus helps us to maintain, lose weight and have our body free of toxins. (more…)

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Go is the annoying problem of dandruff. I suffered for a whole year, closer to my puberty, and fortunately so fast disappearing without a trace. But not all face the same fate, and there are those who must deal with the problem of dandruff steadily. Today I will present a home remedy against dandruff.

Dandruff is the shedding of the skin layer of the scalp surface, resulting in a shower of white bits of skin that is quite annoying besides ugly. It generates hair too dry or too fatty.

This home remedy will probably save the money you spend on special lotions to combat or spot treatments that are not exactly accessible. The basic element of this home remedy is the spinach, and then show you what to do with it.

You boil spinach leaves and prepare a poultice with them. In this preparation just have to put it on your scalp for several minutes, to come into contact with your skin. After such refriégatelo fingers like a shampoo, to penetrate well into your scalp. (more…)

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Very consumed by the countries of Europe, the fruits of gooseberry are known for their delicious taste, normally used to make jellies and jams. However, in addition to their taste the fruits have some medicinal properties that we share below.

The fruits of gooseberry typically contain organic acids, sugars, vitamins A, B and C and minerals. All these elements will provide an important nutritional value and a number of properties that traditional medicine has taken advantage of.

Amongst these is the purifying action, aeritiva, digestive, and laxative remineralizing, although all the most used is the diuretic action of gooseberry. Therefore, the consumption of the fruits of the plant is characterized by being able to eliminate toxins from our body.

To exploit the properties of this plant is recommended consumption of fruit juice in half a glass every twelve hours. Also fruit jelly is recommended.