Natural Health Articles

Infertility, miscarriage and C-sections are fast becoming important topics of discussion for anyone wanting to become pregnant. The rate of infertility, miscarriages and C-sections are at an all time high. Add everyday worry and anxiety to the equation and you will easily see how stress can contribute to these problems. Stress, as it does in so many areas of our life interferes with the reproductive process and a major cause for infertility and miscarriages.

During an enema, water is inserted into the rectum through a tube causing the emptying of the lower bowel. Enemas are useful for a quick fixes. However, they only flush loose fecal matter in the lower part of the colon.nn The Colonic nnA colonic is a type of enema that injects large amounts of water under controlled pressure through the rectum high into the colon for cleansing purposes. Some treatments add things to the water such as peroxide or even herbs. Think of the colon

Tis' the season for a little .... detox. Heavy foods, lots of imbibing, and a constant parade of opportunities for the two makes for a sometimes great desire to detox. I get a lot of patients who ask about cleansing and detox, and many who have done some heavy duty liquid versions combined with colon cleanses, meditation, yoga, etc. This (what I am about to share) is not any of that. It is an eating cleanse, based out of Ayurvedic (known sometimes as kitchari) and TCM theory, designed for someone who is working and quite simply : needs to eat!

A New Human Awareness Transforming our inner drives and belief systems is the key to revolutionizing our personal reflections regarding health, self-improvement, relationships and behavior. For too long, we were not aware enough of the power and value of our inner environment and especially how ...

In the wake of the terrorist attacks (9-11), many women find that they are fearful, anxious, nervous, or depressed. In this series of articles adapted from her best-selling book New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way (available through www.ashtreepublishing.com, herbalist Susun S Weed shares her favorite herbs and home remedies for dealing with fear, anxiety, nervousness, grief, depression, rage, fatigue, and sleeplessness. Her Wise Woman remedies are simple and safe to use, easy to find and buy, and amazingly effective.

If you live in any of the temperate regions of the world, whether at sea level or high in the mountains, some pine tree is likely to be growing very near you. If you live in the desert, you may have to get to the mountains before you find a pine. But wherever you live, north or south, east or west, so long as it isn't the tropics, you will find pine trees. And since they are evergreen, you can find them easily right now, in the deep of winter, when deciduous trees are bare of leaves. So the next time you take a walk or go for a drive, be on the look out for pines.

Why is it that every night on the news, we see vials of H1N1 vaccine rolling down the assembly line, yet when we see film footage of actual vaccination administrations, children are being sprayed with a mist in the nose? Have you ever seen a nasal spray vaccine? Probably not, since this is a very new medical technology. The H1N1 vaccines that are finally being shipped out to clinics and health departments across the country consist mostly of the H1N1 inhalant vaccine, known as FluMist. As a parent myself, I want to know what FluMist is and if it's safe.

Raw Food. Perhaps a better name would be natural food. You’ve probably heard about Raw Food, also known as Living Foods and Natural Hygiene. All words, that when first heard, may denote some negative images. Raw Food makes me think of raw meat, Living Foods causes me to think of actually living meat and growing vegetables, and Natural Hygiene has me thinking about natural soap and feminine products. But what it really does mean is eating fruits, vegetables and grains in their natural state, being not cooked and not processed.

Most herbalists, throughout history, have been fascinated with poisonous plants. This fascination, along with careful study, experimentation, and observation, has given rise to pharmacy - the use of concentrated poisons - on one hand, and to homeopathy - the use of diluted poisons - on the other.

Food for Thought - A New Look at Food and Behavior written by Dr.'s of Psychology, Saul and Joanne Miller published in 1979 by Prentice-Hall, New Jersey. How the right foods can help you reduce stress, increase strength, prevent disease, achieve sexual satisfaction and feel centered in mind and ...

Thai women are good looking and very charming. Thailand is also famous for the beauty of women among other things. Thai women often own clear glowing skin, long silky hair, thin sleek bodies as well as perfect nails. Although many Thai women utilize Western-style beauty products, some of them I know still utilize traditional beauty secrets. These women have a few beauty secrets making them look so beautiful and gorgeous. Here I am going to share a few beauty secrets and tips used by Thai women.

A few years ago I discovered how to make a simple facial mask that left my face feeling incredibly soft, smooth and looking absolutely radiant. This mask contains kelp, honey, and aloe vera.nnSeaweeds have been traditionally used to detoxify the body both internally and externally. They are rich in nutrients which help to both tone and nourish the skin. Seaweed contain mineral salts that can help the skin to hold it’s moisture better, which helps to smooth fine lines.nnAddi

Coconut Oil for making soap adds special qualities that not every carrier oil has. Coconut oil will allow a quicker trace, and make a harder and better cleansing bar, with fluffy lather. It is usually combined with other soap making carrier oils such as olive, palm, palm kernel, soy and castor, yet this is the oil that will definitely add those nice big bubbles, even in salt water.

You can achieve quick weight loss with juice fasting even though it is a method usually adopted to give your body a rest from too much activity in digesting foods. Fasting allows your body to remove waste and toxins that have been accumulating in your body. Weight loss is achieved as nothing else is consumed during a typical juice fast, except for water. A noticeable loss of fat has been experienced by many people. Many celebrities have also admitted to using juice fasting or a form of fasting to help get them into shape quickly.

If Barbie Were a Real Woman, She Would Look Like the Rest of Us! Listen to or Watch “Healthy is the New Skinny” on the “Dr. Andrea Show” as she Discuss the Obsession of Body Perfection in America Radio show on demand: www.BlogTalkRadio.com/DrAndrea TV show on demand: www.YouTube.com/PenningtonMedia If Barbie were a real woman she would have: divorced Ken, had 1-tummy tuck under her belt, endured 2 lay-offs, suffered with thinning hair, turned off the lights while making love and probably been treated for her depression!

The benefits of lemon are numerous! Lemons are small yellow, oval-shaped, fruit grown on the evergreen tree, Citrus limonium. They are low in calories and rich in nutrients. They have the benefits of vitamins B, high amounts of vitamin C, citric acid, carbohydrates, dietary fiber and a small amount of protein. Lemon pulp, peel and juice are used in a many ways. Lemons are antibacterial, anti-viral and antiseptic. They have antioxidants benefits! Improve health, inside and out

To lose 1 pound of fat, you must create a 3,500-calorie deficit. The easiest way to do this is to decrease your caloric intake and increase your physical activity. By incorporating one or two of the following tips into your everyday life, you can lose 1 pound every week — and still eat most of ...

Behavioral therapy for autism is becoming popular due to its reported high rate of success. Using this therapy, your child quickly learns that his previous inappropriate behavior will be ignored and not encouraged. He finds that only appropriate behavior is rewarded and will be motivated to do more of the same. The success rate of this type of therapy rises if you start your child as early as 3 years old on the sessions for behavioral modification.

Does your complexion bother you? Nowadays men and women who are not contented with their skin color and appearance are bleaching their skin. There are countless people who do not have the skin they were born in anymore. The shocking thing is that many of them are using drugs and beauty products that can easily cause terrible side effects later on. If you want to enhance your skin color, you should use natural items. Honey complexion benefits are enjoyed everywhere in the worl

You can prevent acid reflux symptoms with an alkaline diet. This is a common view shared by most naturapathic doctors. Apparently, what you consume can greatly influence the delicate acid – alkaline balance of your body. You need to have the correct acid – alkaline balance to enjoy good health and the proper functioning of the body. To understand the meanings of acidity and alkalinity, here are some explanations. An acid is a substance that releases hydrogen into a solution

My favorite herbs for postmenopausal women are horsetail, oatstraw, red clover, stinging nettle, seaweeds, and the plants rich in flavonoids. These gentle green allies are more like foods than drugs; they offer bone-creating, heart-protecting, disease-preventing, sex-enhancing optimum nourishment to the woman in the second half of her life. HORSETAIL Equisetum arvenser Ackerschachtelhalm, Prêle des champs Horsetail is particularly rich in glycosides which nourish hormones, heart, and bones, making it a special ally for post-menopausal women.

Much is said about the importance of cleaning up your diet, eliminating junk food, drinking enough water and taking the right supplements in order to help your body heal. And those are all very important things we must pay attention to. However, there is another facet to healing that is many ...

HGH has been used since the 1950s to help children with growth problems, but it stayed under the radar for other uses until 1990, when in the New England journal of Medicine reported that men taking a six-month course of HGH reduced their body fat by 14.4 percent while increasing lean muscle mass by 8.8 percent. HGH certainly generated some noise when it comes to making headlines: - According to the coroner, HGH was found in Anna Nicole Smith's body after she died.r

Hawtho is the tree of May. Its many common names include whitethorn, hagthorn, ladies' meat, quickthorn, maytree, and mayblossom. Its magic and medicine are ancient and memorable. From the earliest records, hawtho is one of the sacred trees. Hawtho is the sixth tree of the Ogam cycle, Hath. Hath precedes Quer, the oak, center tree of the cycle of thirteen. Hawtho is said to guard the hinges and to oversee crafts. A branch of flowering hawtho placed in studio or workshop is believed to make the craftsperson skilled and successful. Hath shuts what is open and opens what is shut.

Hives or Urticaria is the kind of allergic reactions that cause itchy red bumps on the skin. Hives causes uncomfortable feeling with the most popular symptoms such as itching, difficult breathing, tongue or throat swelling, nausea, etc. Hives emerges when the body’s immune system reacts to heat, anxiety, or varied temperature. Some of the common triggers of hives react to food, chemical, animal dancer, infection, etc.

When it comes to preparing food, there are ingredients you might want to swap with something healthier. Well, at first, it may feel odd and foreign to substitute proven and tested kitchen staples. However, if you get used to it, you’ll eventually notice the positive effects. As a matter of fact, you might even fall in love with the taste! To begin with, here are 10 everyday foods and their corresponding healthy counterparts. 1. All-Purpose Flour > Whole-Wheat Flour

Snowdrops and crocus flowers herald the spring. And if you look in between them, with luck, you'll see a bright green creeping plant low to the ground with little white starry flowers: chickweed, a good friend of mine.

The path from ill health to good health takes 7 stages; odd how often 7 comes up. Shakespeare claimed there were 7 ages of human existence, it was said there were 7 wonders of the world, 7 deadly sins and we could go on. The ancient belief systems claimed that a Sharman had to go through 7 heavens, to find knowledge. So seven seems to have significance.

What is matcha? nnMatcha green tea is the powdered form of high grade green tea leaves, known as gyokuro. It is traditionally used in the Japanese tea ceremony, but it is also used to make other drinks. And it is also often used in cooking.nn How is matcha green tea made? nnMatcha is made from gyokuro leaves, which are shaded from the sunlight with reeds or straw two or three weeks prior to picking. (This process of shading the leaves, differentiates it from other kinds of gr

Just what is leaky gut? In a person with leaky gut, the stomach lining is more porous than it should be, allowing protein molecules to slip through the gut and enter the blood stream where it causes an autoimmune response. What causes leaky gut? • Prolonged/chronic antibiotic use • Parasites • Food allergies/intolerance • Low stomach acid • Food additives and preservatives • Alcohol consumption • Caffeine consumption • Oral contraceptives How can leaky gut be treated? • Probiotics • Digestive enzymes • Fiber • Herbs

Here Comes the Flu Season Protect Yourself the Wise Woman Way © 2004 Susun S Weed Time to get out my long underwear and my warm wooly socks. Time to nourish my immune systems so cold days won't be days of colds -- and flu.

When I was in my early 20's I was diagnosed with Graves Disease or Hyperthyroidism. This diagnoses took three different doctors to figure out why my energy was so low and why I was gaining weight even though I ate like a bird. I was so uncomfortable with myself and probably wasn't thinking very well either. Thankfully, while getting a pap smear a nurse recognized my problem and sent me to an Internal Medical Doctor. I was given three options to get healthy. * Cut out my enlarged thyroid * Have radiation treatments * Take a little white pill with a long name

rnAre you getting impatient about growing your hair to think that you have already used a long list of hair products but still to no avail? Maybe you should try using some natural remedies to resolve such malady this time. Yes, there are actually cheaper and natural ways on how to grow long hair fast if only you will research about it. Here are some tips and tricks you may want to follow if you are truly bent on growing your hair fast and easy: 1. Have your regular hair trim.

In my first article for SelfGrowth.com, I talked about my husband’s cancer and subsequent death and my ending up mostly bedridden and in a wheel chair.

Gastroesophageal reflux disease is nearly completely thought of as a problem brought about from an over manufacturing of gastric, or digestive acids in the stomach. Whether or not it’s from too much or not enough gastric acid, both approach this nasty stuff ultimately erupts into the throat, or esophagus, eroding away normal throat, sinus and mouth tissues. This chemical erosion really mutates the throat cells to develop into more just like the stomach cells, remodeling you

“Have you ever heard of PRP? Pityriasis Rubra Pilaris?” the woman asked on the phone. “It’s a rare skin condition. My daughter is covered with it—from head-to-toe.”

Homeopathic remedies are great healers, but even the best selected remedy may not work, or may cause a condition to worsen. There are a few key reasons why an indicated remedy doesn’t work. This article will explore those common reasons. 1. Factors that Derange Health

Are you a busy person who doesn’t have time to complete a daily morning routine and exercise every evening to grow taller naturally? Would you like to do little things during the day that add up over time and can also have a height increasing effect on your body? Then you have come to the right article because the following four things can even be completed by busy people and they have shown to work really well. What’s important to know here is that these four things alon

There are many natural extracts, each with distinct characteristics and properties, used in healthful skin care products. These natural extracts include: allantoin, green tea, rosemary, cornflower, cucumber, and Roman chamomile. Combined, these natural extracts help provide a healthful face cream for absolutely beautiful skin. Allantoin is a healing, moisturizing, soothing, anti-irritating, keratolytic and non-toxic agent useful in dermatological and cosmetic preparation. Itâ

You may want to consider adopt a healing eczema diet to help you reverse your itchy symptoms, as an alte ative or complementary approach to conventional topical steroid treatments. While topical steroids can help provide you with instant reliefs from your eczema symptoms, they produce various long term side effects. Steroids are also best used for a limited period only. If you have not realized it by now, steroids only treat your symptoms. Your eczema outbreaks come back agai

I aspire to be a joyous human being. As with most aspirations: It is easier said than done. Easier imagined than put into practice. Easier to search for than to have. I want joy to roll like thunder across the hills and valleys of my life; I want surging winds of joy to carry me through loss and disappointment; I want joy to be an electrical rush that lights up my entire body when I succeed. What does it take to create a joyous existence? Is it possible to experience joy daily, not just in special circumstances?

Mad Ophelia tells us: "There's Rosemary, that's for remembrance". In Shakespeare's day it was common knowledge that rosemary helped one remember. Today, as then, herbalists agree: "For weyknesse of ye brayne, sethe rosemaria in wyne and keep ye heed warme". The leaves of this tough, evergreen shrub, are valued for both medicinal and culinary uses. And, the powerful antioxidant vitamins found therein do help the brain work better.

In western world, Chakras and Reiki is combined. The body has seven major chakras, from the root (perineum) up to the crown (the top of the head). These chakra meditations are performed to feel unique energy within the body and around. It is activated by regular practice and maintains the energy levels in the body. Mostly, chakras are meditated in groups especially in the Reiki class but you can also do them on your own. Only by meditating more chakras, you can know the energ

Although most women love to be under the sun and work on that golden tan, they often don’t realize that in the long term this is the biggest contributing factor to skin cancer. Even if you use tanning beds for an artificial tan, the ultraviolet radiation produced by these lamps also contributes to tanning skin cancer. The immediate effects of tanning skin cancer may not be felt or seen early on, but in your later years this will show through wrinkles, fine lines, and may al

We live in such a fast paced world that we sometimes forget that our health is something that we need to be conce ed about. We get so busy with family, friends, our jobs, our fun that we even forget to eat, or we eat on the run. Do you feel tired or run down? Do you just pass it off as loss of sleep? When you are young maybe you can get away with that excuse, but eventually it will catch up with you.

Mysterious Biting MitennThe condition is called Morgellons, and has been coined the name 'black pepper mites', skin parasites and other descriptive terms of some microscopic organism attacking unsuspecting persons. To many, it seems like a TV script straight from the X-Files, but to those who suffer with it, life has become a living hell. Family members, friends, and doctors tell these sufferers, "it's all in your head." Some doctors believe the condition is a form of delusio

Not so long ago, visiting a sauna required a membership to a gym, spa, or recreational facility. Building a sauna was considered an arduous task better left to the experts. Early saunas required a large space, often even a dedicated room, and were costly and labor-intensive to set up. In recent years, however, it’s become more and more popular - and less expensive - for enthusiasts to build their own private saunas to use in the comfort of their own home.nn Why build yo

Message from Susun - Garlic Honey - December 13th, 2011 http://wisewomanherbalezine.com/wordpress/2011/12/12/december-12-2011/ Dear friends of the green, One of my favorite remedies to have on hand for the winter is garlic honey. It is super easy to make and ready almost immediately to counter sore throats, colds, the flu, lung congestion, and sinus problems.

Caring for your liver is essential if you want to keep fit and healthy. To do this, many people opt for a liver cleanse. There are many products on the market which will help you do this but if you are looking for a home-made recipe then you may want to try the lemon juice detox.nnYou can simply add lemon juice to a glass of water which you sip during a meal. This will help you stomach digest your food and prevent undigested food entering the blood stream. This syndrome is so