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Alternative Index

701. Watch Out for Alternative Medicine Charlatans! By JP Saleeby, MD
     Forget those CrystalsAs an integrative medical practitioner, I keep an open mind to new modalities of evaluating illness and treating disease. My interest and pursuit of complementary or alternative medical therapies has led me to selectively incorporate some of what I have come across. For example, in my practice, I embrace acupuncture for the diagnosis and treatment of certain disease states. Also, Traditional Chinese Herbal medicine and western herbs have been quite helpful and marked wi…



702. What Happens During a Pain Relief Visualization Session By Ben Plumb
     A visualization session is an hour-long conversation with your subconscious about what visualization statements you may be able to use to help relieve your pain. Here's how the session works.Visualization statements represent the specific language that your subconscious wants you to read to it several times a day to help it to ease your pain. The statements are simple and are targeted directly at the main factors that could bring you relief.You can obtain these statements by learning how to …



703. Essential Oils and Nail Fungus By Judith Tovey
     When everyone else can't wait for warmer weather to bare their toes, do your feet go into hiding?  When it's time to head for the locker room, do you want to head straight home?  Chipped, hardened and discolored nails are embarrassing, and can keep you from enjoying what you like to do. If you have a nail fungus infection, you should know that the infection does more than just give you unhealthy toenails.If you have a nail fungus infection, you should know that the infection does more than jus…



704. Air Purifiers And Air Filters Can Help The Health Of Allergy And Asthma Sufferers By S.A. Smith
     Indoor air pollution in the form of dander, dust and pollen particulate matter can be a real irritant for suffers of asthma, allergies and other respiratory conditions. In addition to removal of all direct irritant sources and minimizing the irritant containment materials in your house, you should also consider the indoor ventilation and filtration system of home.Environmental control is the key to reducing exposure to indoor and outdoor allergens. Keeping a clean house free of dust, dander,…



705. How To Stop Your Snoring - 3 By Anantha Krishnan
     So…Just What the Heck is Snoring, Anyway?Technically, snoring is defined as any resonant noise from the respiratory tract that emerges during sleep.Biologically, snoring refers to a vibration in the airway connecting the nose and the mouth; a vibration that can emerge through the mouth, the nose, or (as some non-snorers are painfully aware), it can emerge through both!As you can sense, the more narrow the airway, generally speaking, the more intense the vibration; and ultimately, the louder th…



706. Aphrodisiacs: Increasing Sexual Desire and Capacity By Al Link
     Are you among the millions of people worldwide who are otherwise healthy but who’ve lost interest in sex? Do you find it boring and routine? Are you so tired that you’d rather nap than make love? Do you think TV is more stimulating than your partner? Do you have physical symptoms, like vaginal dryness or difficulty with erection, that make sex unpleasant?As a relationship matures it is common, but definitely not necessary, for sex to become predictable and unexciting. One of the first places t…



707. Lowering the Blood Pressure with the Help of Acupuncture By Groshan Fabiola
     Doctors and scientists from the Irvine university of California have recently discovered a new method of lowering blood pressure. This method is based on electroacupuncture, which seems to have a significant effect in lowering blood pressure. The method has been tested on rats, by inducing low electric stimulation at the front of their legs, and their blood's pressure after the treatment was 40 percent lower than before(their blood pressure had been artificially increased before). This opens n…



708. Reflexology & Meridian Therapy By C. Bailey-Lloyd
     Reflexology & Meridian Therapy are combined healing arts that utilize stimulation of the feet, hands, ears, and meridian lines to correspond with respective body parts and organs. By using reflexology & meridian therapy sessions together aids in stress relief, muscular tension, and improves blood circulation. Reflexology & Meridian therapy helps to unblock energy and nerve pathways that cause these physical obstructions.Reflexology & Meridian Therapy can help persons suffering from PMS (Premen…



709. How Many Bowel Movements Should You Have Each Day? By Rudy Silva
     Most doctors don’t ask you about your regularity. They may think it is not important to have a bowel movement every day. In fact, some doctors think its ok when you have 2-3 bowel movements a week.If you have one, two or more bowel movements a day, you may still be constipated. If you are leaving fecal matter along your colon walls because you don’t eat enough fiber this is considered constipation. Remember constipation is really the elimination of all fecal matter that passes through your…



710. Preventive Medicine - Ayurveda By Robert Baird
     It should not be hard for anyone to imagine that man sought medicine to maintain life and gain knowledge since the time of his being pre-hominid and eating plants while learning which ones killed him. Your puppy or kitten will show this when it goes outside for the first time and eats grass to help its gastrointestinal processes. The Therapeutae of Pythagoras who some say developed the pentagram were learning from far more ancient insights that were being lost and we have lost a lot of the kno…



711. Aloe Vera - A Miracle Plant or Marketing Hype? By Simon Hancock
     Many people have heard of Aloe Vera - after all you can find it in many everyday products. It's in shampoo, hand cream, after-shave and even toilet paper. What are the benefits of putting Aloe Vera in toilet paper, or any of the other products for that matter? For the answer, we need to journey back a long time.Let's go back to the age of Nefertiti and Cleopatra - reputed to be the world's most beautiful women. In an age when most illnesses would disfigure the skin, anything that enhanced skin…



712. Green Drink For Constipation By Rudy Silva
     A green drink is a powerful drink that can help detoxify your colon and your blood. This drink keeps your colon and your whole body working better and longer.There are many types of green drinks that are prepared with powders. But the green drink that I like is made using only liquid chlorophyll.Chlorophyll has many benefits. It is capable of neutralizing substances that cause cell mutations and strengthens the cell walls of the small intestine and colon. It has an exceptional deodorizing e…



713. How to Tap Your Inner Energy Reserves - The Secret You Already Possess By Karen Cohen
     When we were born, our whole body breathed. Every cell was energized with the vitality of the breath. As adults we are amazed (and exhausted) by the relentless nature of children’s energy. We remember the exuberance of our early youth when we breathed with relaxed, open bellies and had an almost limitless supply of energy. Then we began to learn and develop poor breathing patterns. Breathing is not an intellectual activity, yet to reclaim our youthful energy and natural breathing requi…



714. Water: The Best Medication Ever Created! By Charles O. Palmerson
     How much water do you drink every day? The majority of people do not drink enough!In 1995 Dr. F. Batmanghelidj. MD published his research on dehydration in a best selling book entitled “Your Bodies Many Cries For Water” which shocked the medical community and pharmaceutical industry. In this book the author shows medical evidence which supports his thesis that the majority of medical conditions stem from dehydration.The research by scientists clearly shows that dehydration is one of the most…



715. Be Natural! Treating Chronic Diseases with Ayurveda By Dr Rav Davis
     Ayurveda is perhaps the oldest system of health care in the world and originates from the Indian subcontinent. Ayurveda is based on scientific principles of diagnosis and treatment. It differs from conventional medicine in the basic principles of investigation and assigning causes to processes rather than specific areas of physiology.Ayurveda has been a vogue since 5000 years ago. Our Vedas have been repeated references to the efficacy of Ayurveda as a science of healthy life. The western wor…



716. My Personal Favorite Candida Remedies (Anti-Fungals) By Heidi Whitaker
     Candida can mimic, cause, or worsen Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome symptoms. For this reason, a natural approach to these autoimmune disorders should include a plan to fight candida. The following is a list of my favorite remedies. (These should be combined with an anti-candida diet to be effective.)Oil of Oregano-Oregano oil has been used as a medicine for thousands of years and has been shown to be potent against a wide range of bacteria, fungi, like Candida, and parasites. Or…



717. Various Types of Herbal Medicine: Used for Thousands of Years to Successfully Treat Diseases By Danny Siegenthaler
     Interest in medicinal herbs is on the rise again and the interest is primarily from the pharmaceutical industry, which is always looking for ‘new drugs’ and more effective substances to treat diseases, for which there may be no or very few drugs available.Considering the very long traditional use of herbal medicines and the large body of evidence of their effectiveness, why is it that we are not generally encouraged to use traditional herbal medicine, instead of synthetic, incomplete copies of…



718. Different Detox-cleansing Regimes By Sandra Kim Leong
     Your body should clean itself naturally, but today’s diets make that process difficult. Many turn to internal body cleansing to rid the body of waste products and toxins. A detoxification treatment is designed to help the body eliminate stored toxins and strengthen the organs involved in this process.Colon cleansing helps clean the organ that assists the body in the elimination of waste. A dirty colon can lead to a build up of toxins in the body and illness. By using herbal treatments or i…



719. Herbal Remedies – Don't Believe Everything You Hear! By Tim Gorman
     Using herbal remedies instead of doctor-prescribed medications is becoming more and more popular. Many people consult their local health food store or about how to treat potentially serious sicknesses or conditions, attempting to cure ailments “naturally” without the help of their family doctor.While there are many benefits to herbal remedies, it is dangerous to assume that “natural” means “safe.” Many herbal remedies are extremely safe and have few or no side effects. BUT, herbs are strong…



720. Flu Vaccine Hysteria By Lee Cummings
     Last week the media circus surrounding the flu vaccine reached a crescendo.Half of all the flu vaccine supply is not available this year!Why? Because the British company that supplies half of the U.S. flu vaccine supply was shut down by health officials.Does it really matter?Unless you are under 2 or over 65 and are in poor health, It doesn’t matter.Because of the flu vaccine shortage The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have said that healthy people under the age of 65 should do without a fl…



721. Are You Suffering From Chronic Constipation? By Dr. Rita Louise
     Embarrassing as it may be, we have all suffered from constipation at one time in our life or another. According to the National Health Interview Survey as many as 3 million Americans suffer from frequent if not chronic constipation. While constipation is not recognized as a degenerative disease or serious disorder, people who are constipated often feel bloated, uncomfortable and even sluggish. Constipation by itself is miserable enough, but sufferers often experience painful bowel movements…



722. Cleaners And Our Health By Axel Rodriguez
     Many people use strong cleaners or acid cleaners to make the house clean and to get hard to clean stains out, but people don’t realize that many cleaners are bad for our health they contain ingredient that irritate the skin and the fumes that those cleaner produce are dangerous if we inhale them.Many people suffer from asthma and other respiratory problems and using those type of cleaners in a place not well ventilated can be harmful for the health. A good way to help is using gloves and a mas…



723. Crystal Healing – Do Crystal and Gemstone Healing Therapies Really Work? By Sherry Sims
     Crystals and gemstones have been valued for centuries for their beauty and also for their healing powers. It is believed that the ancient Egyptians were advanced crystal healers.There is the school of thought that exists that these Egyptian healers may have obtained their advanced knowledge in the use of crystals in the healing arts from their predecessors, the people of Atlantis.They knew that through stimulation of subtle vibrational frequencies in the human energy field, or aura, healing co…



724. Ethical Guidelines For Hypnotherapy By Simon Duff
     The study of ethics concerns moral choices, generally in the areas of relationships, agreements between parties, intentions, and possible outcomes. In practice this starts as the observation of the moral choices people make and the reasons given for these choices. Ethical thinking is then responsible for producing theories about what is, or should be, the basis for moral choice. In the case of a practicing hypno-psychotherapist the main place for ethical consideration concerns questions of wha…



725. Herbe Fraiche Essential Oil : A Combination of Forest Essences By Nur Syahid
     Herb Fraiche essential oil is derived from essential oils complex blended from plant substances such as pine, thyme and mint. The refreshing plant fragrance induces a calming effect and relieves fatigue after a long day. To over-stressed urbanites who suffer from deteriorating body functions and sleep quality, Herb Fraiche provides a soothing remedy.The scent of Phytoncidere reminds us of our connection with Mother Nature. Urbanites who make a trip to the countryside or forest just need to tak…






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