Tuesday 28 October 2014

5 Natural Remedies For Headaches

1. If it's a recurring issue…
You can eliminate soda from my diet and replaced it with water. Though my headaches aren't completely gone, it made a huge difference!

2. If stress brought is on…
Take L-Athenian.
Doctor's note: Although a 50 mg dose has been shown to relieve stress and improve focus, it's also thought to lower blood pressure, so consult your physician before use if you're on blood pressure medication.

3. If allergies are to blame…
A nasal spray with saline does the trick.

4. If it's inflammation-triggered…
Swallow 1 or 2 capsules of turmeric and 1 teaspoon of yogurt, and chase it with a glass of water.

5. If you want a natural fix…

Try willow tree back—aspirin is derived from the plant.  

Tuesday 13 August 2013

Natural Remedies That Work

Looking for simple, natural cures for common ailments with no side effects? Home remedies give natural cures with easy, natural ingredients such as fruits, honey, herbs, vegetables and natural oils. Delve into home remedies and have the pleasure of curing common ailments at home with easily available, low cost ingredients and rest guaranteed you will stay healthy with no side effects from the treatment. 

Home remedies may or may not have medicinal properties that treat or cure the disease or ailment in question, as they are normally passed along by laypersons. Many are just employed as a result of a tradition or habit or because they are useful in inducing the placebo effect (The placebo effect is the measurable, observable, or felt improvement in health or behavior not attributable to a medication or invasive treatment that has been administered). A considerable number, however, have been confirmed to effectively treat ailments such as minor lacerations, sprains, fevers, headaches, and even the common cold.

Monday 12 August 2013

Cultural Heritage Imaging

Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) promotes the growth and acceptance of technologies for digital capture and documentation of the world’s scientific, cultural and artistic treasures. We do this by working together with experts from around the world in cultural preservation, natural history collections, computer imaging science, museum/library science, and data archiving. 

If you want more thorough information, including examples and documentation, follow the information below.

Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI): A get through class of imaging methods used in cultural heritage and natural history documentation and preservation, allowing the study of the minute details of surfaces.

Algorithmic Rendering (AR): An applied mathematical technique employed to create scientifically reliable illustrations of cultural heritage and natural history subjects.

Photogrammetry: The practice of deciding mathematical measurements and three-dimensional (3D) geometry data from two or more photographic images of the same subject.

Digital Lab Notebook: a CHI term that explains the digital process history record of the means and situation used to produce a digital representation (digital surrogate) of an empirically captured subject in the physical world.

Wednesday 6 March 2013

Home Remedy

A home remedy is a treatment to cure a disease or ailment that employs certain spices, vegetables, or other common items. Home remedies may or may not have medicinal properties that treat or cure the disease or ailment in question, as they are typically passed along by laypersons. Many are merely used as a result of tradition or habit or because they are effective in inducing the placebo effect. A significant number, however, have been demonstrated to effectively treat ailments such as sprains, minor lacerations, headaches, fevers, and even the common cold.

One of the more popular examples of a home remedy is the use of chicken soup to treat respiratory infections such as a cold or mild flu, and according to one in vitro study, there may be benefit from this use. Other examples of medically successful home remedies include willow bark tea to cure headaches and fevers duct tape to help with setting broken bones; and duct tape or superglue to treat plantar warts; and Kogel mogel to treat sore throat.

In earlier times, mothers were entrusted with all but serious remedies. Historic cookbooks are frequently full of remedies for dyspepsia, fevers, and female complaints. Many European liqueurs or digestifs were originally medicinal remedies. In Chinese folk medicine, medicinal congees, foods, and soups are part of the healing repertoire.

Monday 4 June 2012

Epilobium canum

Epilobium canum

Epilobium canum, known as Zauschneria, is a species of willowherb, native to dry slopes and in chaparral of western North America, especially California. It is a perennial plant, notable for the profusion of bright scarlet flowers in late summer and autumn.

The name reflects that in the past it used to be treated in a distinct genus Zauschneria, but modern studies have shown that it is best placed within the genus Epilobium. Other common names include California-fuchsia (from the resemblance of the flowers to those of Fuchsias), Hummingbird Flower or Hummingbird Trumpet (the flowers are very attractive to hummingbirds), and Firechalice.

Wednesday 8 February 2012

Herbalism

Herbalism is a traditional medicinal or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Herbalism is also known as botanical medicine, medical herbalism, herbal medicine, herbology, herblore, and phytotherapy. The scope of herbal medicine is sometimes extended to include fungal and bee products, as well as minerals, shells and certain animal parts. Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines derived from natural sources.

Traditional use of medicines is recognized as a way to learn about potential future medicines. In 2001, researchers identified 122 compounds used in mainstream medicine which were derived from "ethnomedical" plant sources; 80% of these compounds were used in the same or related manner as the traditional ethnomedical use.

Plants have evolved the ability to synthesize chemical compounds that help them defend against attack from a wide variety of predators such as insects, fungi and herbivorous mammals. By chance, some of these compounds, whilst being toxic to plant predators, turn out to have beneficial effects when used to treat human diseases. Such secondary metabolites are highly varied in structure, many are aromatic substances, most of which are phenols or their oxygen-substituted derivatives. At least 12,000 have been isolated so far; a number estimated to be less than 10% of the total. Chemical compounds in plants mediate their effects on the human body by binding to receptor molecules present in the body; such processes are identical to those already well understood for conventional drugs and as such herbal medicines do not differ greatly from conventional drugs in terms of how they work. This enables herbal medicines to be in principle just as effective as conventional medicines but also gives them the same potential to cause harmful side effects. Many of the herbs and spices used by humans to season food yield useful medicinal compounds.

Similarly to prescription drugs, a number of herbs are thought to be likely to cause adverse effects.

Furthermore, "adulteration, inappropriate formulation, or lack of understanding of plant and drug interactions have led to adverse reactions that are sometimes life threatening or lethal.

Monday 14 November 2011

What is the history of herbal medicine?

Plants had been used for medicinal purposes long before recorded history. Ancient Chinese and Egyptian papyrus writings describe medicinal uses for plants. Indigenous cultures (such as African and Native American) used herbs in their healing rituals, while others developed traditional medical systems (such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine) in which herbal therapies were used. Researchers found that people in different parts of the world tended to use the same or similar plants for the same purposes.

In the early 19th century, when chemical analysis first became available, scientists began to extract and modify the active ingredients from plants. Later, chemists began making their own version of plant compounds, and over time, the use of herbal medicines declined in favor of drugs.

Recently, the World Health Organization estimated that 80% of people worldwide rely on herbal medicines for some part of their primary health care. In Germany, about 600 - 700 plant-based medicines are available and are prescribed by some 70% of German physicians. In the last 20 years in the United States, public dissatisfaction with the cost of prescription medications, combined with an interest in returning to natural or organic remedies, has led to an increase in herbal medicine use.