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76. Athlete Foot Remedies By Balaji B
    Athlete foot is a common skin infection that is caused by a fungus. The medical term for foot fungus is tinea pedis. The fungus is a plant-like microorganism too small to be seen by the naked eye that mainly depends on dead tissue for nutrition and growth. As athletes are at high risk of getting this disease,it is called as Athletes foot.There are plenty of athletes foot remedies that are being widely used by people to get some relief from the symptoms causing greater level of discomfort. The …



77. A Lifestyle Approach to Remedy Snoring By Kevin Meates
    If you want to remedy snoring, you have to find the underlying cause. Snoring is not an affliction like the common cold, where you wake up one morning and you’ve just got it. It is something that normally arrives slowly over time. Most people can’t remember the day and date that their snoring started. It was sometime in my mid 30’s or some such vague description is the normal response to a question on its arrival.The lifestyle approach to remedy your snoring, doesn’t treat it as a condition or…



78. Alternative Medicine is Holistic, Western Medicine is Reductionist By Daryl Kulak
    The major difference between alternative medicine, or what I'll call holistic health, and Western medicine, is in approach.A Western doctor, or MD, sees his duty as searching out disease, diagnosing it, and treating it. If he does that correctly and effectively, he's done his job. Most often, this means the doctor prescribing a pharmaceutical drug or a surgical procedure to remedy the situation. The patients is passive in all of this.A holistic health practitioner sees her duty as an educator…



79. The FDA Finally Reviews the Safety of Antibacterial Soaps By Dr Joseph Mercola
    A Food and Drug Administration(FDA) advisory panel has met to examine the safety and effectiveness of antibacterial soaps.Could Cause ProblemsThe American Medical Association (AMA), and a number of scientists, have cast doubts on the use of antibacterial soap. They point out that there is no evidence that these products stop infection any better than regular soap, and they worry that increased use of antibacterial products might lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.Alcohol-Based Sanitizers ar…



80. Getting Rid Of Gallstones Naturally By Dr. Rita Louise
    The gallbladder is a small pear-shaped organ that sits on the right side of our bodies just beneath the liver. Its primary function is to store and secrete bile. Bile is a yellow-brown fluid produced by the liver, which helps us digest fats. Our liver produces up to three cups of bile a day. Our gallbladder can store up to a cup of bile as it awaits a fatty meal.When we eat, our gallbladder contracts and pushes bile into the small intestines where it helps with the digestion of fats. Bile…



81. Not Now, I Have A Headache By Doug Smith
    Home Remedies - Facts or Quacks?That’s what I recently asked myself. Myths and legends often have their basis in a grain of truth. So I wondered if home remedies, alternative treatments, and folklore cures might also be based on truth. A little research provided this unusual perspective on one of our most frequently-used medicines.Barking Up The Wrong Tree?Not if it’s a willow tree! Chewing on willow bark to reduce fever and inflammation dates back to the time of Hippocrates (400 BC). Wil…



82. Garlic – My Favorite Healing Herb By Lee Dobbins
    Garlic is a wonderful healing herb and, unlike many of the other herbs, it tastes great and can be incorporated into a variety of meals. Garlic has been used for over 5000 years as a healing herb and has strong antibacterial, and antiviral properties. But it’s health benefits extend well beyond it’s infection fighting properties. It is also reputed to help lower cholesterol and blood pressure as well as help protect against heart disease and stroke.And the benefits of garlic don't stop there…



83. Aromatherapy Favorites - Beautiful Rose Oil By Misty Cech
    Ah, Wonderful Rose OilIf there's an aroma that more individuals find deeply moving than any other, it is the oil of rose. The scent is divinely sweet, rich, and deeply floral - exclusive to the extract of history's most revered flower. Though the rose is renown for it's fragrance, the flower actually contains very little aromatic oil by weight. Some 60,000 roses are needed to distill a single ounce of oil, or about 60 roses PER DROP, a fact which brings the seemly high cost of rose oil into pe…



84. Facts About Social Phobia By Jay Villaverde
    Social phobia, also called social anxiety, is a disorder characterized by overwhelming anxiety and excessive self-consciousness in everyday social situations. People with social phobia have a persistent, intense, and chronic fear of being watched and judged by others and of being embarrassed or humiliated by their own actions.Their fear may be so severe that it interferes with work or school—and other ordinary activities. While many people with social phobia recognize that their fear of being …



85. The Fine Art of Smudging By Samantha Stevens
    An Aboriginal Canadian friend of mine who teaches at the Whispering Lodge in Toronto was explaining to me how physical or emotional healing cannot take place until the person is cleansed of any of the following conditions:1) Emotional conditions such as resentment, bitterness, envy, jealousy and guilt2) Negative thoughts about others or one's past or future3) Negative emotions such as grief, hatred, desire4) Bad or evil spirits5) Attachments or negative energy sent to us from other peopleIn mo…



86. Medieval Remedies That Still Work Today By Doug Smith
    Home Remedies - Facts or Quacks?In a previous article we looked at several possible definitions of a home remedy, and patched together a definition that met our mental image of such a remedy. If you missed it, here’s the definition we derived.A home remedy is an experience-based or even accidental remedy or cure prepared from herbs, plants, or other available ingredients by common folk when modern medical help was unavailable (or hadn’t been devised yet).But Home Remedies Are From The Dark Ag…



87. Healing Crisis A Natural Part of Body Cleansing By Kris Kelkar
    Introduction to A Healing Crisis An increasing number of people today are trying alternative healing methods to cleanse and detoxify their bodies. Simple methods such as switching to a natural food diet, juicing to increase nutrition, or fasting are used to cleanse the body of stored toxins in the hopes of naturally addressing long-standing symptoms such as chronic headaches, adult acne, allergies or arthritis. More intensive methods may be used to perform cleansing of the body’s elimination o…



88. Dopamine Relieves Pain – Try Encouraging Your Subconscious To Supply It By Ben Plumb
    Dopamine has long been known to be linked to positive experiences such as eating and sex. But it's now known to be released when you're in pain, so you may want to try increasing your supply of it-—naturally.Dopamine levels tend to rise when something good happens that exceeds your expectations. The neurotransmitter gives you a pervasive feeling of well-being, making everything seem right in the world.But dopamine also is released when you're in pain. That is, the same reward pathway that give…



89. Aromatherapy Oils By Ric Wiley
    Aromatherapy is a method of using the aromatic oils which have been distilled from plant sources to engender a feeling of well being both physically and psychologically. Safe and correct use has been shown to benefit the physical and mental well being.There are many aromatherapy oils which are used in the art of aromatherapy and these are too lengthy to list here. However, there are many benefits to be had from aromatherapy oils but you need to understand that there can be some drawbacks for u…



90. Herbal and Home Remedies that Prevent Memory Loss By Susun Weed
    Even a single family member who is senile or afflicted with Alzheimer's is enough to make anyone dread the possibility. Since women have always lived longer than men, the Ancient Grandmothers have a thing or two to tell us about how to keep our memory sharp until the day we die (at 100+). These remedies are taken from my book New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way. They are arranged in order of safety, with the safest first and the most dangerous last.“Touch my face, granddaughter,” murmurs G…



91. Just The Tea FAQs: Health Benefits (Part II) By Gary Griffin
    A hot cup of tea might be just the thing to soothe a sore throat, warm the body, or relax with after a stress-filled day. But tea is more than just a comfort drink. Its healthful properties make it a smart choice for just about everyone. Tea has been used as a medicine in other cultures for many years, but it has only recently gained a great deal of media attention for the many nutritional benefits it offers.Tea’s Medicinal PastWhile most Westerners drink tea for pleasure and refreshment, peop…



92. 3 Quick Herbal Remedies By Tony Newton
    In recent years the issue of Alternative Healing has skyrocketed to the forefront of the medical field. A 2004 government survey concluded that more than one third of adults use alternative medicine and healing.One facet of this burgeoning interest is Herbal Medicine. While it may seem "trendy" to some, Herbal Medicine has been around for thousands of years. In fact, many of the familiar pharmaceutical medications we use today were originally created from "natural" ingredients.Drugs l…



93. Living with Aromatherapy By Nur Syahid
    Places Suitable for Use of Aromatherapy Products: living room, bedroom, study room, kitchen, bathroom, office, conference room, KTV, hospital, car and other enclosed spaces.Aromatherapy· When someone at home is down with influenza, light an aromatherapy diffuser to prevent mutual contagion.· Use aromatherapy diffusers to remove odor and prevent inhalation of second hand smoke during mahjong games, KTV sessions, or in enclosed spaces such as wardrobes, shoe racks, cars, washrooms, offices or pe…



94. Aromatherapy To The Rescue! By Olena Gill
    Happy Holidays! Yes, the holiday season is upon us now in all ways - Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and more. And celebrating takes on a life of its very own it seems. From high-tech parties to small intimate gatherings, in the aftermath, we are faced with recovering from hangovers, feeling of being overstuffed, headaches, weight gain, etc.. "Never again," we say, resolving to change our so-called bad habits especially during our New Years resolutions, often not succeeding for more than a…



95. Food Combining for Indigestion By Chet Day
    I'd like to share with you some basic food combining rules as set forth by the late Dr. Herbert Shelton many years ago.A couple of comments before we get to the rules.First, the medical establishment says you're wasting your time if try food combining to help gas and indigestion problems.Instead of paying attention to the types of foods you eat (combine) together, the folks in white coats claim you can cure your gas and indigestion problems by popping pills or swallowing some prescription goop…



96. Health Benefits of Hemp Oil By Ross Bridgeford
    Hemp oil has long been recognised as one of the most versatile and beneficial substances known to man. Derived from hemp seeds (a member of the achene family of fruits) it has been regarded as a superfood due to its high essential fatty acid content and the unique ratio of omega3 to omega6 and gamma linolenic acid (GLA) - 2:5:1.It is this ratio that is believed to be optimal in terms of improving skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis and acne.It has been reported that those using hemp oil…



97. Hypnosis and the Treatment of the Agoraphobic Eleven By Michael Hadfield
    Agoraphobia: fear of the market place.…not, as many people imagine, a fear of open spaces.There are no phobias that are fun to have, but agoraphobia is one of the worst, simply because it's almost impossible to avoid the object of fear on a day to day basis. This is because the object of fear is Life itself. Fear of Life manifested as a fear of social encounters; a fear of being trapped; a fear of feeling foolish; a fear of looking foolish; fear of humiliation…Another deadly aspect of agorapho…



98. Bleeding Gums By Steve Polk
    Bleeding gums can be one sign of periodontal disease, gingivitis, or other serious problems. Other symptoms of poor dental health may include persistent bad breath, toothache, and receding gums. Untreated, bleeding gums and gum disease can lead to serious medical problems. Good oral hygiene, including thorough brushing and the removal of plaque and tartar from the teeth, is crucial. However, brushing alone is not enough to stop bleeding gums. Total oral hygiene requires a comprehensive plan to…



99. Fibromyalgia Pain: How Using Visualizations May Bring You Relief By Ben Plumb
    There are many theories about what causes fibromyalgia. One is that it's due to an overly stimulated sympathetic nervous system. Here's some background on that system and how you may be able to use your subconscious to help calm it down.If you have fibromyalgia you know only too well the bizarre collection of symptoms that can accompany this condition-—pain throughout the body, fatigue, digestive upsets, cognitive problems, sleep difficulties, and others.One theory that seems to account for mo…



100. Some Smells Cause Headache By Mike Lindsey
     Did you know that some smells cause headache?Its true, the intoxicating or stupefying fragrances of some perfumes and room fresheners are some of the odors, that if you inhale them long enough, you will find that these smells cause headache. This need not be something that you have used on your own body. It can be a perfume that your neighbour has used. So if you sit next to person and feel that your head is getting woozy, try to move to a safe distance away. Maybe 5 or 10 feet away if necessa…






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