Herbalism

What is 5-HTP and It’s Legal Status 5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan) is a natural amino acid and dietary supplement derived from the African plant Griffonia simplicifolia . It is used to boost serotonin levels in the body, which can influence mood, sleep, appetite, and pain perception. 5-HTP is also known by its full name, 5-Hydroxytryptophan or by “oxitriptan.” It is naturally occurring, an amino acid and a chemical precursor. It is most importantly, however, used for its creation of serotonin. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is responsible for mood and relaxation. More serotonin, typically means a more relaxed mood. 5-HTP is one of the most effective sedation ingredients in a lot of xanax-like supplements for that exact reason. 5-HTP is also legal in the United States, and sold over the counter (no prescription and not controlled). It is also legal in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and pretty much every where else around the world. Taking a closer look at 5-HTP can reveal mor...

  1. Old Olive Oil, Still Effective Olive oil is a great remedy for all types of hair loss prevention, including baldness. You may use olive oil for baldness cure in one of many ways mentioned here. Make olive oil hair pack You will need: • Olive oil – As per your hair, less for short hair, more for long hair • Honey – 1 to 2 tsp • Cinnamon powder – 1 tsp Directions: • Warm the olive oil. • Add honey and cinnamon powder and mix well. • Apply it on your scalp and hair. • Leave for about 15-20 minutes. • Wash with mild shampoo. • Do it twice or thrice a week. Use Olive oil with cumin seeds You will need: • Olive oil- Half a cup • Cumin seeds- 1 tsp Directions: • Take the olive oil. • Add cumin seeds in it. • Leave for 10-15 minutes. • Rub this oil on your bald patches gently for 5-10 minutes. You can even store olive oil mixed with cumin in a bottle and use it daily for faster results. Overnight olive oil treatment If you are thinking that your bald patches will vanish in a night, yo...

  • A recent study found that ursolic acid (from apple peels), curcumin (from turmeric), and resveratrol (from grapes and berries) may be some of the most powerful natural compounds for slowing prostate cancer growth. They work by blocking cancer cells from using glutamine, a nutrient tumors rely on to survive and spread. • On their own, these compounds showed moderate effects, but when ursolic acid was combined with either curcumin or resveratrol, the results became much more impressive — shrinking tumors without the toxic side effects commonly linked to chemotherapy or radiation. • Prostate cancer is still the second most common cancer among men in the U.S., and this research highlights the growing potential of plant-based approaches as safer alternatives to conventional treatments that often damage healthy cells along with cancerous ones. • For decades, natural medicine has struggled to receive the same attention and funding as pharmaceutical drugs. Since the early days of moder...

Triglycerides: Why Are They Important? Triglycerides are an important measure of heart health. Here’s why triglycerides matter and what to do if your levels are too high. If you’ve been monitoring your blood pressure and cholesterol, there’s something else you may need to keep track of: your triglycerides. Having high triglyceride levels in the blood can increase the risk of heart disease. But the same lifestyle choices that promote overall health can also help lower triglycerides. What Are Triglycerides? Triglycerides are a type of fat (lipid) found in the blood. When you eat, your body converts calories it doesn’t need right away into triglycerides. These are stored in fat cells. Later, hormones release triglycerides for energy between meals. If you regularly consume more calories than you burn—especially from carbohydrate‑rich foods (sugars and refined flours)—you may develop high triglycerides (hypertriglyceridemia). What Is Considered Normal? A simple blood test can r...

  Everyone experiences gastric problems, whether major or minor, at some point in life. If you do not take certain precautions, such seemingly commonplace problems may lead to ulcer. Before, consumption of spicy foods and stress used to be the subject of blame for the open wounds that develop inside the digestive linings. However today, it now known that one perhaps even more common cause of peptic ulcer is bacterial infection, which can be treated within a couple of weeks. While modern medicine helps, there are many natural remedies for stomach ulcers and one is aloe vera. The use of aloe vera for ulcer has been proven by a number of studies to be an effective solution in alleviating pain symptoms of ulcer due to the herb’s anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and demulcent properties. Stomach ulcer is characterized by distinct pain caused by an open sore or wound appearing inside the stomach or small intestine. Even though this gastric complaint causes excruciating pain, the ...

  Pimpinella anisum Anise is native to the eastern Mediterranean areas as well as western Asia and North Africa, where it still grows wild as a wayside weed. Because it is so shortlived, it often appears in spring and again in late summer, drawing bees and butterflies to it in droves with its sweet liquorice fragrance. Remarkably, anise has been cultivated in Egypt for over 4 000 years. Pharaonic texts show that even then it was used as a digestive herb, diuretic   and to help ease toothache. The Greeks used it too; Dioscorides wrote in the first century that aniseed ‘warms, dries and dissolves, facilitates breathing, relieves pain, provokes urine and eases thirst’. Modern medical science has proved that these ancient uses of this marvellous herb were indeed correct. Cultivation Anise is an attractive, shortlived annual growing up to 50 cm in height with pretty, feathery flowers typical of the Umbelliferae, often mistakenly called lace flowers. It is a rewarding plant to grow ...

  It is hardly possible to take up any newspaper or magazine now a days without happening on advertisements of patent medicines whose chief recommendation is that they "contain phosphorus."  They are generally very expensive, but the reader is assured that they are worth ten times the price asked on account of their wonderful properties as nerve and brain foods. The proprietors of these concoctions seemingly flourish like green bay trees and spend many thousands of pounds per annum in advertising. From which it may be deduced that sufferers from nervous exhaustion and brain fag number millions. And surely only a sufferer from brain fag would suffer himself to be led blindly into wasting his money, and still further injuring his health, by buying and swallowing drugs about whose properties and effects he knows absolutely nothing. How much simpler, cheaper, and more enjoyable to eat apples! The apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable...

Green tea contains the natural lipase inhibitor that have been found to inactivate gastric and pancreatic lipases. For fat and oil to be absorbed in our body ( after we eat any food that contains fats and oil such as burger and hotdog), it needs to be broken down in to smaller molecules by lipase enzymes in our stomach and small intestines.   The more fat and oil in our diet, the more it will broken down, absorbed and store away in our body, resulting in weight gain and obesity. The natural lipases inhibitiors in green tea will attach themselves to lipases, preventing them from breaking down some of them from breaking down some of the oil that we have eaten.This cause the dietary oil remain as large particles. Since, undigested oil cannot be absorbed, it stays in the intestines, until it is finally flushed out of the body through normal bowel movement.

A banana a day keeps the doctor away! The Good of Banana After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again . Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes. But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet. Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier....

Ganoderma, a rare variety of Mushroom credited with the highest medicinal qualities by the classic Chinese ‘Seng Nong’ is indeed a subject of much research from the ancient china of 100 B.C. or earlier to the modern times by various universities and research organizations. It is also known as Linghzi in China and Reishi in Japan. It is said that in the ancient times anyone who found the rare Linghzi never revealed the place and kept it a secret of health, longevity and wealth. The Japanese revered the herb as ‘God’s Herb’ where it is known as Reishi. Lingzhi in medicine was considered so auspicious that its medical efficacy has been attested to in the oldest Chinese medical text (over 2,000 years old). The book, which is known in Japan as "Shinnoh Honsohkyo", is now accepted as being the original textbook of Oriental medical science. In it, 365 kinds of medicines are classified and explained. Ganoderma is classified as “Superior Herb” or "God's Herbs" and they a...

  Pine-apple juice is the specific for diphtheria. This seems to have been first brought to the notice of Europeans by the fact that negroes living round about the swamps of Louisiana were observed to use it with great success. A writer who records this says: "The patient should be forced to swallow the juice. This fluid is of so pungent and corrosive a nature that it cuts out the diphtheria mucous and causes it to disappear."   The above direction looks satisfactory enough on paper, and it is eminently cheering to read of how the pine-apple juice causes the diphtheria mucous to disappear, but anyone who knows anything about diphtheria knows that to "force" a diphtheria patient to swallow is more easily written about than accomplished. Fortunately, I have been able to obtain the following explicit directions from an experienced nurse and mother:   The pine-apple should be cut up and well pounded in a mortar. The juice must then be pressed out and strained thro...

  Treating high blood pressure with Bile of Earth ( Hempedu Bumi) Bile of Earth or Hempedu Bumi plant is also known by local as akar cerita. Hempedu Bumi plant abundantly found in China , India, Thailand and Malay island. Could be easily found at the peat soil. Hempedu Bumi is a herbal plant that grows vertically. This seasonal herbaceous plant can grow until 70-90 cm heights. The upper part of the leaf is dark green in color while the lower part is light green in color, smooth and arranged. The leaf also oval in shape. The stem is green and has many branches. Hempedu Bumi leaf can used as the remedy to lower the high blood pressure pressure, besides to cure diabetes, antiinflammation, antibacterial, antivirus, relieve fever and as the phlegm liquefier. It is also used to improve defecation, destroy the worms in digestive system and fasten the blood clotting. The method to made it as the medicine is by braising the leaf to drink the water. The leaf can cure wound by grinding it and...

  Many people nowadays are turning to “organics” and “naturals” otherwise known as herbals. The rising popularity of herbal supplements has created a new fad if not a new health lifestyle. But before you join the bandwagon, here are some things you need to know about this mean, “green” dietary supplementing machine.   What is the difference between a drug and a dietary supplement?   According to the definition set by food and drug administrations in different countries, drugs are chemicals that can prevent, prolong the life, treat other effects of a health condition, improve the quality of life, and/or cure ailments and diseases, or alter the function of any part or chemicals inside the body. These drugs have approved therapeutic claims. For example, paracetamol is a drug given to bring down the body temperature in fever. Ascorbic acid is indicated for the treatment of scurvy. Iron supplements are given to treat mild cases of anemia. Herbal supplements are not cla...

Garlic has earned for itself a prolific reputation due to is smell. Due this unforgettable aroma, garlic have comes with the variety of names such as Poor Man's Treacle, Fruit of Love, Devil's Posey, Poor Man's Camphor, Devil's Roses, Lucifer's Tulip, Hell's Passion Flower, Dragon's Perfume and many others names. Beside the unfavorable names of garlic, garlic have play a major role in ancient and modern medicine. There a lot of diseases can be cure by garlic. The curing effect can be achieved by consuming garlic in everyday life. These is the way herbal medicine work. It's more emphasize on daily intake. Some people don't like to eat garlic in their meal because of it strong aroma. But with the modern technology they have come various food supplement of garlic such as garlic pill, garlic capsule, garlic powder and many other products. So what type of diseases that can be cured by garlic. Garlic is been used to cure such Arthritis, Flu, Aging,Burns, W...

  Today there are many way of treatment to cure cancer in which people can choose to fight cancer. Most of these treatments have been used traditionally long time ago. Aromatherapy Aromatherapy utilizes essential oils and fragrant substances from a plant’s flowers, stalks, bar, roots, or leaves. These scents are released into the air, creating a calming environment to promote relaxation and relieve stress. Aromatherapy can be performed by a practitioner, but individuals may also use aromatherapy without a practitioner present. The fragrant oils are applied to the skin or added to bath water Aromatherapy is used to relieve stress but is also used to treat a variety of ailments, including infections, depression, insomnia, and high blood pressure. It is important for an individual to consult a doctor before determining the appropriate use for aromatherapy in an overall alternative cancer treatment or alternative treatment for another disease. Acupuncture This form of alternative cance...

Herbs against hypertension Some herbs that easily found in our kitchen have great benefit to our health, such as; Garlic  Researchers believe that garlic may lower blood pressure for 2-3 hours after it is consumed. It also has anti-clotting compounds that may lower the risk of clot formations. Garlic is very flavorful which means that you can use extra garlic as you prepare meals and reduce the amount of salt that you use while still retaining flavor. Turmeric  Turmeric is a yellow herb that is commonly used in Indian cooking. Its extract appears to have anti-inflammatory properties. It may also lower cholesterol and reduce the formation of clots in the arteries. Turmeric has high antioxidant levels that may improve blood flow and circulation while strengthening the blood vessels. Ginger  Ginger is believed to reduce platelet clotting in the blood. This may reduce the risk for heart attack and stroke. It also may improve circulation and help blood to move more easily thro...