Juice for Health and Benefits

Since thousands of years ago people were using a variety of vegetation that is now known as the vegetable
and fruits to be eaten and processed naturally without using any mix.
Fruits and vegetables have a delicious, eaten fresh, in addition to the womb have a lot of nutrient substances such as vitamins and minerals.

Vitamin A work to maintain eye health, the structure of skin, hair, and teeth. On the vegetable food vitamin A can
obtained from leaf vegetables such as dark green spinach, katuk, fruit or vegetables and yellow / orange.

such as carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkin, papaya, mango, etc.. Fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin E is able to prevent the occurrence of heart disease,cancer, stroke, infection and viruses. Vitamin E found in many green leaved vegetables (spinach) and tomatoes. Vitamin C functions as antioxidants, gum health, and prevent the occurrence of bruise. In fruits there are lots of vitamin C in guava, citrus, tomatoes,mango and sirsak.
From the research that was done showed a lot of fruits and vegetables in addition to the full vitamin and mineral also contains non-nutrient substances that proved most beneficial for health. Non-nutrient substances are fiber, phytokimia, and others.From the research that was done that revealed phytokimia can neutralize toxic substances and drugs with a street karsinogen neutralize radical free, preventing the enzyme karsinogen the same time stimulate the enzyme karsinogen neutralize substances.

Fruits and vegetables that contain phytokimia including spinach, kangkung, broccoli, mustard greens, beans, tomatoes, papaya, grape, orange,carrots, and others.

The fruit is usually consumed fresh. Processed vegetables cooked in a way with a little water(pan) and a dish with the sauce such as soup. Another way that made many of late, namely in the form of juice.

For the busy, buy a juice stall in the food and drink more practical when compared to create your own at home. However, when
be more, to make juice does not need special skills to make the process very simple. Combination of various kinds of fruit and vegetable juice to make it more interesting.

juice compared with the more profitable eat fruit pieces. Consume the juice, can be relatively Feed more so benefits are greater

Submitted the following tips to prepare the juice:
• For selected fruit juice should be fresh, not cooked long and saved to get that tasty juice and beneficial for the body.
• juice should be drunk as soon as possible after so, before the water soluble vitamin contents damaged by oxygen, light or heat.
• To sweetener should use honey or brown sugar.
• Color of fruit juice to be more bright and does not change color when mixed with a little lemon or lime juice nipis.
Next recipe-recipe fruit juice and vegetables for good health:

Manggo juice
Savor: medicine asthma, bronchitis, shortness of breath, weight and influenza
Ingredients: 200 g ripe mango tree
100 g warm water
? tbsp lemon
2 tbsp honey
How to create:
All materials included in the blender
Teraphy: drink 2 times a day until symptoms of the disease missing

Carrot celery juice
peculiarity: lower blood pressure and blood sugar
Ingredients: 300 g carrot
1 handful celery leaves (± 3 tbsp)
2 cloves garlic
? tsp salt
? tsp pepper powder
How to create:
All materials are mixed and put in the Juicer. Taken only the essence course using the fiber ekstractlor juice or filter.
Teraphy: drunk 1 time a day until symptoms of the disease missing

The combination of fruit juice
Savor: smooth digestion, constipation, stomach and puffed up
Ingredients: 100 g papaya
100 g apples
100 g pineapple
2 tbsp lemon
2 tbsp honey
200 cc of water ice
How to create:
All materials included in the Juicer
Teraphy: drunk before breakfast

juice vegetable's
Savor: perfect allergy, eczema, back pain, feeling of angina pectoris, and maintain intestinal health.
Ingredients: 150 g carrot
100 g spinach
100 g cucumber
50 g celery
3 tbsp honey
1 tbsp of lemon
100 cc cold water or ice
How to create:
All materials included in the Juicer
Terapi: drunk 1 time a day after meals.

Any juice if you drink fruit juice or vegetable juice will be very useful to health care.evenless when you get one for drinking juice regularly then the condition of your body would be more awake, care health will be very beneficial if you also drink a healthy care for your body

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Turmeric, the Alzheimer's Disease

Turmeric (Curcuma domestica Vahl.) Which is a native plant of Southeast Asia, including the types of spices and medicinal plants. Almost every Asian nations generally have this spice plants consume, both as a culinary spice supplement, or herbal medicine to maintain health and beauty.

This plant grows upright to reach high 1.0 - 1.5 m. Have cast a rod in the convolution by leaves stem. Spiny plant leaves and slippery with about 30 cm long and 8 cm wide.

Flowers appear from the pseudo-stem with length around 10 - 15 cm. Color white flowers green or white ribbed edge and sometimes pink flowers. The major part of the plant is rhizome that is in the land. Rhizome usually grow this vine and rhizome parent usually shaped ellips.Gynecology plant turmeric
In the turmeric plant are kurkuminoid compound consisting of kurkumin, desmetoksikumin and bisdesmetoksikurkumin and other benefits, such as mnyak asiri / volatil oil, fat, carbohydrate, protein, starch, vitamin C, iron, phosphorus, and calcium.

The disease can be treated:

turmeric can treat various diseases such as diabetes melitus, Tifus, caecum, dysentery, leucorrhoea, Hapa is not smooth, heartburn when stomach cramps, tonsil and reinforce breastfeeding.

Not only that, turmeric was also the Alzheimer's Disease, which is a kind of senile diseases that commonly occur in people who began to enter the old age where the physical conditions the brain begin to decrease. However, the condition can be slowed with consume turmeric in the form of curry spices.

Results conclude that the researchers reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology Issue 1 November 2006, states that the curry spice is a potential to prevent Alzheimer's Disease because the views of efficacy and not toxic. This is the first evidence that shows the relation between the consumption of curry with the cognitive ability of the brain.

Confidential drug potency turmeric as Alzheimer's Disease, is located in the yellow coloring matter (kurkumin) that there is in rhizome turmeric used in curry spices to make it. Kurkumin in turmeric has a very important function in various types of diseases treated as compound can function as anti-tumor promoter, antioxidants, anti-microbe, anti-inflammation and anti virus. In addition kurkumin in turmeric that also play a role in increasing the body's immunity system.

Please note:
Although routine consume curry spice, may lower the risk of Alzheimer's Disease, but the excessive use of the information age can cause ill effects stomach, liver or kidney trouble

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Advantage of Rosella Red

Rosella (Hibiscus Sabdariffa.Linn) is a plant that is estimated broom came from East India, and spread widely to the tropics and sub tropics, including Indonesia.

rosella flowers are very easily found in indonesia ass also popular with some uses in the treat disease.Rosella flower beside can also help health care also commodity materials that can sell and buy it because the function that can health care

This tree grows from the seed with a height that can reach 3 - 5 meters and remove the flower almost all year round. Rosella flowers with bright-colored flower sheath kaliksnya or dark red, thick and have a sour taste.
This flower sheath vitamin C, vitamin A, amino acid, protein and calcium and used as herbal tea, herbal syrup, coloring material and make sense in the pudding and ice cream. Young rosella leaves can also be eaten as a side dish or salad. While in India, rosella seeds used to treat skin disease, lack of blood and lethargy. In Sudan, Rosella processed into traditional drink called Karkadeh and is the national drink, the Sudan.

Property:
As herbal tea, rosella can prevent nutritional deficiency (mal nutrition) and treat diseases, such as: reducing the thickness of blood (blood viskositas),urine emetic and stimulates bile secretion from the heart, lower blood pressure, prevent asteriosklerosis, increase peristaltic intestine, treat worms , to kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes tuberculosis, anti-convulsive, reduce cough, increase stamina, accelerate urinate, defecate easier, prevent heart attack, intestinal antiseptic and to reduce alcohol and drug addicted.

Drinking Rules:
To prevent lack of nutrition: this herbal tea drink 3 glasses a day @ 150 cc
For treatment: herbal tea drink as much as 5 - 10 glasses a day @ 150 cc

one more if you drink rosella flowers then you will help in health care with cheap and do not get contamination by chemical substances that are usually included in the materials, modern medicine.

rosella flowers in a very easy care,plants can be planted and put in the pot so that in addition to embellish your page then you will be very easy to health care because it is near you

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Honey Effective calm sinusitis

such as the honey comes from bees that are very useful in our health care, as the evidence is so much discovery and recognition that recovery from illness due to drinking honey with regularly, this is one of the agencies in the United States reported the property back from honeymoon in care health

USC University Hospital reported that honey can help ease chronic sinusitis.
One laboratory study conducted at the University of Ottawa found that the "natural rubber bacteria" in the honey can kill bacteria that cause sinusitis, "written by so-Oana Xinhuanet.
Some researchers try to test on the honeycomb material "biofilm" that contain the bacteria sinusitis, and indeed found that honey is more effective in killing bacteria than the anti-biotik, which is used traditionally.

Director of Pediatric Clinical Research at Penn State Dr. Ian Paul on the new study. "Bacteria does not grow well in the honey! There is data that honey to treat wound healing, destroy bacteria in the wounds developed on. So, not at all surprising that honey would effectively kill the bacteria in this".

Dr. Paul and a team at the Penn State College of Medicine completed a year ago another study, which found that honey is more effective than commercial cough medicines in ease coughing in children.

There are two types of honey the researchers found that Canada is most effective against sinusitis: Manuka honey from New Zealand and Sidr honey from Yemen.

essentially honey is very useful for care health, consume with honey then with regular akan very useful in health care

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caraway white

Caraway white with a latin name cuminum cyminum often used as a cooking ingredient in everyday life. This plant can grow well in a cool area that, in areas such as north india foot mountain near the Himalaya. Although able to grow in Indonesia, but is generally less well.

Caraway leaves no white sheet-shaped, but more like a thread-the thread is composed of short rigid circular and cumulative. This plant flowers with small yellow and older in a prop by a handle rather long. Caraway seeds have white fragrant aroma and interesting.
Caraway seeds and white oil vapor containing elements of less than 8%. Oil vapor is derived from caraway seed with a white disuling.
The disease can be treated:

In addition to use as a culinary spice, caraway and white also trusted companion herb as a traditional medicine to treat heart disease, menstruation is not smooth and difficult to sleep.

Medicine:

Heart pain :
crushed fine caraway seeds 1 spoon white, 1 red onion, cloves, 7
cubeb seed pairs, and 6 pieces of betel leaf. Add 4 tbs cooking water and filtered,then crumple up. Drinking this concoction in the morning and evening regularly.

Menstruation does not smoothly:

Prepare caraway seeds 1 spoon white, 2 cloves, dry seeds, seed pieces, ½ nutmeg, 1 rimpang turmeric, cardamom 1 fruit, 1-piece palm sugar, 1 tablespoon sugar and 2 pieces of leaf srigading. Boil all ingredients with 2 ½ cup water until boiling, then filtered. Drinking this concoction came five days before menstruation.

insomnia
Prepare caraway seeds 1 spoon white, 3-piece kangkung vegetables, 2 pieces of leaf and pegagan ¼ tablespoon coriander. Boil all ingredients with 2 glasses of water until boiling and remaining 1 glass. Filter drinking water stew before going to bed.

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healt care with red betel (1)

Since people first on the island of Java has been using drugs as red betel. Red betel plant (Piper crocatum) to include in the family Piperaceae. Plant this vine to grow with the form of leaf-like heart andstalk, which criss-cross growth of stem and leaves that appear silvery red and shiny.Gynecology red betel

In red betel leaves are compound fitokimia ie alkoloid, tanin. Saponin and flavonoid. Gynecology other chemicals found in the betel leaf oil atsiri is red, hidroksikavicol, kavi-col, kavibetol, allylprokatekol, pcymene, cineole, caryofelen, kadimen estragol, penena-ter, and fenil propada.

Karvakrol a compound disinfectant or anti-fungi that can be used for medicinal antiseptic smell in the mouth and whiteness. Eugenol works to reduce pain, and tanin can be used to treat stomach ache. While alko-colloid and flavonoid activity have hipoglikemik that can lower the blood glucose level.

Benefits red betel:
With the number of useful chemical substances womb, and betel leaf have the benefits that red is very knowledgeable as medicine. In Java, particularly in Jogyakarta palace red betel plant has been consumed before to cure various kinds of diseases, such as hemorrhoid,whiteness and mouthwash.

While the empirical, red betel believed to cure disease militus diabetes, hepatitis, kidney stones, lower cholesterol, prevent stroke, blood vessel acid, hypertension, liver inflammation, prostat inflammation, eye inflammation, whiteness , ulcer, fatigue, painful joints and to refine the skin .

Medicine:
To treat the disease Diabetes, drink water stew red betel each day will lower blood sugar levels to the normal.
Cancer is a disease that is shut off, can be treated using powder or stew of red betel leaves.
Foreword red in the form of herbal tea can also treat acid fiber, diabetes, ulcer and fatigue.

in health care, better check your health frequently to the doctor or hospital that will ease you in health care

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All the good Of cucumber for health

cucumber that have a scientific name Cucumis sativus in has long been known as complementary food: be eaten raw, made pickle, or fresh beverages.

cucumberthat have a scientific name Cucumis sativus, contains 0.65 per cent protein, 0.1 percent fat and 2.2 per cent carbohydrate. Honeysuckle fruit also contains calcium, iron, magnesium, fosforus, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and vitamin C. Cucumber seeds themselves contain toxic alkoloid type hipoxanti, which works to treat worms.
External
*Acne :
Washed cucumber fruit then cut a slice. that pieces rubbed on the scrub-pimpled skin. Make every day.
*Flek former black blotch:
Take the tip of the fruit along cucumber approximately 5 cm, and rasp. Take turmeric of thumb,crushed and take the water. Water is mixed in turmeric cucumber that is already shredded. Then rub in to face. Make every day until flek disappeared. Or, you can use a home-made spray toner. How, one mentimun shredded that has been peeled. Capture and filter water, Mix with two tsp honey. Then enter it into the mixture that has a bottle splasher. spray to face twice a day.
* Pain Management throat:
A few seeds cucumber Mix with a little salt. Then add water. Use the mixture to gargle.
Be drunk or consumed
*High blood pressure.
2 cucumber fresh fruits washed clean then shredded. Results grated and strained, and drunk all at once. Perform 2-3 times a day.
*cold of sore:
Each day eat the fruit of cucumber fruit 9. Do routinely.
*Clearing the kidney:
shredded fresh cucumber then washed.Results the grated and filtered. Drink water little by little until the stomach to receive the liquid cucumber.
*Fever:
Take cufficient cucumber, washed clean, and then shredded. Results grater placed on the stomach.
*Hapa not regular.
Grinding 10 sheets fine leaf cocor duck, 5 finger water pumpkin, 5 fruits majakan, 1 fruit cucumber, 10 dadap srep leaf sheets, 10 sheets sambaing colok leaves, add sufficient salt water. Then rub in to the stomach, and dressing. Perform twice a day.
* As a fresher mouth. After brush teeth, eat a few slices of cucumber. Your breath will feel fresh.

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black ginger,that makes fertile Gynecology

ginger plant is a bush of black, green stem and a bit soft because it is a pseudo-stem on the regular collection of stem leaves, stem length of approximately 50 cm, and higher plants can reach 2 meters

Meeting is a black plants that can survive in the wild in the forests of teak, especially on the island of Java from a height of 400-1750 meters above sea level and plant like this fertile land. Lancet-shaped leaves with wide leaf blade is thin, leaf color green to purple to brown a bit dark.
Flowers out of the armpit side of the leaf or stem. Flowers closed by 2-3 stem, flower stem length of 20-50 cm and the flower crown until creamy pink.Rimpang plant produces large, uniform and is a fork stem tubers.

Temu black has a different name on the origin of each region: meeting IRENG Java (Jawa), koneng hideung (Sunda), temo groaning (Madura); Sumatra: meeting the item, groaning temu (Malay), meeting a black (Minangkabau); Sulawesi: temu lotong (Bugis), meeting leteng (Makassar); Nusa Tenggara: IRENG meeting (Bali).

all the good of temu black, among others:
* Fertile womb
* worm
* Pile
* Painful menstruation
* Half down
* Clean up the blood after the birth
* Cough
* Increase stamina
* Increase appetite
* urine containing blood
* Neutralize poisons in the body
* Skin disease such as scab, scab, ulcer
* Asthma
* cold sore
And others

Utilization of black meeting to prevent and overcome the interference:

Fertile womb:
25 Gram temu black, 25 grams temu bell, 20 grams kencur boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 200 cc then filtered and drunk.
Hapa pain:
25 Gram temu black, kencur 20 grams, 20 grams of turmeric, tamarind segment 2 boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 200 cc, then filtered and drunk while hot
Clean up the blood after the birth:
25 Gram meeting with boiled water sufficient until the remaining 200 cc and filtered while warm drink.
Cough :
25 Gram temu black, 5 gr cumin, kencur 25 grams, 5 grams pulosari, 5 grams of fennel, and drink water.
Neutralize poisons in the body:
25 Gram temu black, 30 grams takokak boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 200 cc and filtered then while drunk warm
Worms:
25 Gram temu black, 15 grams bangle, 5 pieces of betel leaf, coriander seeds 5 grains, 4 grams seed pinang then boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 200 cc, then filtered and drunk

Do it regularly according to a proposed 2 times a day. Moderate to heavy disease that still recommended to consult a doctor.

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Ginger to fight fungus and puffed up

Ginger (Alpina galanga SW) is known matrix-rich chemicals. Some chemical substances that are known in the plant, known by the name of the laos, laja, or isem is saponin, tanin, flavonoida, and oil atsiri. In addition, there are the actual active basonin, eugenol, dock, and galangol.

To include in the ginger family Zingiberacceae. Plants that have up to three meters high is divided into two types, white and red. Plant roots do not have this regularly. In the cortex there is a thin brown skin and red at the rod-shaped tubers that. In the white part, if dried to become greenish. This plant has a smell as flavor, taste spicy and sharp, such as bitten tongue.Ginger is usually used for treatment is a type of red ginger (Alpinia purpurata K Schum). Farmakologi in China and the other traditional, red ginger have anti-fungus and anti puffed up. Farmakologi effect is generally obtained from rhizome containing basonin, eugenol, and galangol dock.

Basonin have known effect to stimulate the spirit, eugenol prevent ejaculation premature, anti Candica albicans fungus, anti-convulsive analgetik, anestetik, press and movement control, dock ease tired feeling, anti mutagenik, resistor siklo enzyme-oksigenase and lipoksogenase, while galangol can stimulate the spirit and body heat.

Based on the literature about the various hereditary experience from different regions and countries, red ginger can treat diseases such as stomach trouble (puffed up), Panu (Pitriyasis Versikolor), ringworm, eczema, The speck-The speck skin and mole (sproeten), fever and swelling spleen, after cleaning clothes, ear inflammation, bronchitis, flu,
diarrhea, toothache due to wind cold, and as a tonic.
Interference to treat stomach, ginger red fingers of one thin-sliced thin, boiled the water up to three glasses into two glasses. Drinking a glass of morning and evening before meals.

as medicine for Pitriyasis Versikolor, take rimpang fresh one finger, cut sloping, at the end of the beaten-up to such as brush, and rub on sick. To treat ringworm, Grinding ginger until smooth rimpang four fingers and one garlic. Add one spoon vinegar, heat, and rub in the body affected by scabies.

To treat eczema, scar massage and one finger rimpang, add sufficient of water whiting, and poke the dough to become mushy. Use to mix plaster exposed skin eczema, then bandage. Wrapping the dough once replaced two days.

For drugs with the anti fever spleen enlargement; washing, scar, and crumple up rhizome. Add one teaspoon of water and a salt sufficient, and drink in the morning.

For cleaning after childbirth (childbed), take ginger rhizome young as three fingers, washed, cut into pieces, boiled with sufficient water, and drink. To treat bronchitis, rhizome ginger one finger to be washed clean, and scar. Add half cup water and cook two tablespoon honey, and crumple up until evenly distributed. crumple up and filtered for drinking three times each day.

As for diarrhea, three-quarters of scar rhizome, add half cup water and one spoon honey. crumpled up, filter, and drink two times a day. Meanwhile, for the tonic (aphrodisiac), drinking water rhizome stew (preferably mixed with other medicinal plants)

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special quality star fruit

Star fruit (Averrhoa pentandra) with a wide variety of property to cure various diseases, such as:
Parotitis :
Take 10 young branches following star fruit leaves and 4 red onion grains. Wash clean smooth then crushed. rub inn to place the sick.
Whelk:
a. Take a sufficient fruit star fruit, wash and finely crush,crumple up with salt water as necessary. Use to rub a pimpled face. Perform 3 times a day.
b. Take 6 pieces wuluh (Averrhoa bilimbi L.) and star fruit 1/2 tsp powdered sulfur, fine grinding then crumpke up with 2 tablespoon lime juice. Use to rub a pimpled face. Perform 2-3 times a day.
pitiriasis versikolor:
Take the 10 fruit star fruit, washed ago grinding finely, add the whiting of tamarind seeds, diremas until flat. This herb is used to polish the skin fell ill. Do 2 times a day
Meanwhile, for the use in as drunk, needed a special way.
Cough:
Take a handful flower star fruit, some grains fennel, add sufficient sugar and 1 cup water.boiled all materials for several hours, lift, and coller. Filter and drink two times, morning and night when stomach is empty.
Or, take 25 flower bud star fruit, finger rimpang temu 1 bell, 1 cinnamon bark finger, 1 finger rimpang kencur, 2 grains of red onion, 1/4 hold pegagan, 1/4 handheld saga leaves, 1/4 hold the leaves inggu , 1/4 hold the spoon leaves, washed and cut a slice as necessary, boiled with 5 glass of water to remaining 2 1/4 cup. After a cold, filtered water stew, add a little honey. Drink 3 times a day, each 3/4 cup.
Whooping cough:
Take the 10 fruit star fruit, washed then crushed until smooth, and then crumple up with 2 tablespoon of salt water, then filtered. Drink 2 times a day.
Sariawan (stomatitis aphtosa):
a. Take a handful flower star fruit, add sufficient palm sugar and 1 cup water boiled until thick. After filtered cold, use to clean and lubricate the mouth.
b. Take 2/3 interest handheld star fruit, boiled ago washed with 3 clean water glass until remaining 2 1/4 cup. After the cold filtered, and drink 3 times a day, each 3/4 cup.
c. Take 3 pieces star fruit, red onion 3 clove, nutmeg 1 young, 10 pieces of sprue leaves, 3/4 teaspoon fennel, 3/4 finger pulosari, washed then crushed until smooth,crumple up with 3 tablespoon coconut oil, filtered then crumple up. Used to lubricate injured due sariawan(stomatitis aphtosa),6-7 times a day

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Cassava For rheumatism medicine

Who do not know of cassava? Plants' people 'can be said is this tune by the people of Indonesia. Not only the tubers have a characteristic taste, but cassava leaves can be cooked a very delicious vegetable.

As confectionery, cassava tubers are in almost all regions of the country. Cassava tuber also known as a staple food in certain areas. In some areas, cassava (Manihot utilissima) is known with different names, such as cassava kayee (Aceh), kasapen (Sunda), tela pohong (Java), tela belada (Madura), lame wood (Makassar), pangala (Papua), and etc.

Cassava plants are easy to grow. Plants originating from Tropical America is much planted in the yard, mole, or rice. Multiplication can be done with the plant's stem stek old cassava.According to experts, plant medicine, Prof. Hembing Wijayakusuma, farmakologis Effect of cassava is as antioxidants, antikanker, antitumor, and increase appetite. The common use of this plant is the leaves and tubers.
Cassava tubers have a uterus calories, protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B and C, and amilum. The leaves contain vitamin A, B1 and C, calcium, calories, forfor, protein, fat, carbohydrate, and iron. Meanwhile, stem bark, contains tannin, peroksidase enzyme, glikosida, and calcium oksalat.

Besides the food, have a variety of cassava plant as a medicinal property. Among drug rheumatism, headache, fever, wounds, diarrhea, worms, dysentery, dim twilight, lack of vit B, and can increase stamina.
Rheumatism can be overcome with the use of in and out.
On the outside, as many as 5 pieces of cassava leaf, 15 grams of red ginger, lime and betel secukupnya, mashed and added water secukupnya. Once stirred, ingredients be smeared on the body of the sick. On the usage in, 100 grams of cassava stem, 1 stem sereh, and 15 grams of ginger boiled with water up to 1000 cc remaining 400 cc. Then, filtered water and drink as much as 200 cc. Perform twice a day.

The headache, cassava leaves ditumbuk ago used to compress. As drug fever, 60 grams of cassava trees, 30 grams jali that has been soaked until soft-boiled with 800 cc of water until the remaining 400 cc. Herb and drink filtered water as much as 200 cc. Perform twice a day.

On the outside, as many as 5 pieces of cassava leaf, 15 grams of red ginger,add sufficient lime and betel, mashed and added sufficient water. Once stirred, ingredients be smeared on the body of the sick. On the usage in, 100 grams of cassava stem, 1 stem lemon-grass, and 15 grams of ginger boiled with water up to 1000 cc remaining 400 cc. Then, filtered water and drink as much as 200 cc. Perform twice a day.

The headache,smash cassava leaves used to compress. As drug fever, 60 grams of cassava trees, 30 grams jali that has been soaked until soft-boiled with 800 cc of water until the remaining 400 cc. Herb and drink filtered water as much as 200 cc. Perform twice a day

To fester,crushed fresh cassava stem then placed on the body of the sick. To scratch, shredded cassava ago placed on the sick and bandage.

Wounds exposed to drugs because of heat,filtered shredded cassava. colled the water until the starch time to settle, and the starch be smeared on the wound.

The diarrhea, 7 pieces of boiled cassava leaves with water to 800 cc 400 cc left. Then filtered water and drink as much as 200 cc. Perform twice a day.

De-worming medicine, stem bark 60 grams and 30 grams of cassava leaf ketepeng Chinese (Cassia alata) boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 300 cc. Then strained and drunk the water bed. The lack of vit B, 200 grams of cassava leaves eaten as salad.

To improve stamina, 100 grams of cassava, kencur(galingale) 25 grams, and 5 grains angco that have been removed the seed, grinding by adding sufficient water. Then add honey and drink.

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Sun flower,variuos palliative sharp

sun flower or also called with the latin name Helianthus annuus L is a native plant of North America, the region around Mexico, Chile and Peru, which comes from familia compositeae (asteraceae). At this time is estimated there are about 67 species in this genus helianthus.

Helianthus name taken from the word helios meaning sun and anthos means flower. The reason for the most plausible reason is called the sunflower because it is always facing toward the coming sun. He moved to the light source is largest. This phenomenon is known as the term heliotropism.

Interest in China is known by the name Xiang ri genuflect. While in Indonesia he got a lot, including interest PANCA matoari, matoari pupil,ledomata,srengenge flowers,flowers tampongare,Bungong matuhori, sungeng, to purbanegara.
Low Cholesterol
In general, sunflower planted by many families to decorate the garden or the front of her home page. A wide yellow flowers like full sun with ray-like ornaments around it, making this plant more suitable as the sweetener.

Herb that short (less than a year) is to grow straight up to 1 to 3 meters with the plume in all parts of the fine. Single heart-shaped leaves with a large flower-like cup. Crown of flowers shaped like a tape wrap on the cup edge. Right in the midst there are flowers small tubular and brown. And although trunked plants including wet, sunflower turns it more "comfortable" in the area that gets lots of sun.

Based on data from the Nutrition Directorate of the Ministry of Health, sunflower seeds that contain nutrients that are complete enough. He was a vegetable oil with low cholesterol content, so the match that has consumed their high blood pressure or heart rudiment.

equal to olive oil

Sunflower seed oil quality is considered almost equivalent to the olive oil. Therefore, it is widely used as a substitute for vegetable oils. And quality of sunflower oil is obtained from the black seed varieties with oil contents of 50 to 60 percent.

From some of the literature is also known, sunflower seeds nutritious diuretic (emetic urine), expectorant, and can be used to alleviate fever, flu, cough, sore throat, or lung disease. According to Hartwell (1967-1971), botanical experts and herbal medicine from the United States, flowers and sun flower seeds has long been used as traditional medicine by the Venezuela to treat cancer. Sometimes, they also mix with the wine.

Meanwhile, in the eyes Dalimarta Dr Setiawan, author medicinal plants and also the chairman of the Central Development and Application of Traditional Medicine (Center P3T) DKI Jakarta, all of the sunflower that have medicinal property. He said, "to lower interest rates can be high blood pressure and reduce pain or analgesic. For example, to reduce the headache, toothache, sore menstruasi, or stomach aches. "

He added that the seeds can be used for improving the appetite, treat bloody dysentery, measles relieve pain, increase or passion. From several sources, Dr Setiawan also know that the root useful for urinary infection, inflammation breath channel, whooping cough and whiteness. Leaves useful for malaria and anti-inflammation.

In an experiment known, marrow and stem from the basic interest rate (reseptaculum) that contain hemicellulose was successfully prevent sarcoma and ehrlich asitic carcinoma in the rat experiment. "Therefore, it can also be used to treat cancer, for example cancer stomach and esophagus cancer," said Dr Setiawan.

Sunflower seed is one of the largest sources of oil, especially oil which can be eaten. But more than that sunflower oil is usually also used as margarine, soap, lubricant, lighting, and salad dressing. When mixed with linseed oil, sunflower oil which is usually half-finished materials also serve as paint or varnish.
Not only that. Sunflower leaves was also commonly used for fodder. Medium stem contains fiber which is often used for paper materials. At this time, also are doing research on the possible use of sunflower oil to diesel fuel.

Danger for pregnant women

With all the benefits, in fact there are several things to note when consuming or using sunflower oil. "The most important is, do not be drunk up by the mother who is pregnant or are breastfeeding," said Dr Amarullah H. Siregar, MSc, PhD, expert naturopati and homeopati. This is because the interest in the substance of the sun are called inulin that serves to reinforce and widen the channel or respiratory organs, that can be harmful to the baby.

But, according to Dr. Siregar, until now he has not heard cases of poisoned adults who consume. "I spelled sunflower this relatively safe. Moreover, it contains many minerals, iron, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and natrium useful for the body, "he said. But, he reminds, the sunflower or traditional medicine other more secure if consultation with a doctor or specialist

Some of the Sun Flower Recipes:

Here are some examples of prescription medications with the flower of the sun gathered from various sources:
1. Headache:
an interest rate of 25-30 grams of boiled chicken with 1 having a speech impediment (not solved) in 3 glasses of water to stay half a glass. Drink after a meal, 2 times a day.
2. Breast inflammation (mastitis):
take some of the flowers (without seeds) finely cut, and dried. Once dry, fried without cooking oil until charred and then grinding until smooth (a meal). Take 10-15 grams, mixed with a little white wine, sugar secukupnya, and half a glass of warm water. Drink 3 times a day.
3. Rheumatism:
boiled flower heads up to be such as starch,cooled then paste (rub in) in place of the sick.
4. Difficult to defecate and piss:
15-30 grams of roots boiled with 4 glasses of fresh water up to 2 behind glass. coller and filtered. Drink 2 times each 1 cup.
5. Dysentery:
pour boiling water on 30 grams of seed, then instead on hot water for 1 hour. Once appointed,add sufficient palm sugar then drink

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7 Benefits of Carrot for Health and Beauty

Among other types of vegetables, it's carrot-taste, including the type of vegetables in the most like's.the taste is sweet and intricate texture. Matches once made a healthful snack. If you're not so fond favorite vegetables, you include a group of lossy. Because, you lose a lot of benefits that are provided for the health carrot. Want to hold lossy? Of course not. Head start vegetables like this one.

Now, to obtain the maximum benefits of carrot that must be considered is choosing carrot jelly. Select a color carrot rather young and bright. This indicates that the carrot is still young and fresh.Here is a line of carrot benefit you need to know. Who knows there is a prescription you need.
The hypertension:
Take 500 gr carrot wash clean and cut into pieces, give a little water, and making juice. Filter and drink immediately. Try to drink water routine carrot this 3 times a day.

The fever in children:
Take 200 gr carrot and then wash clean. rasp and squeeze up and and take out the essence. boiled that distillation water, drink while warm.

To burn:
crushed the carrot to be smeared on the smooth and burns. Perform as often as possible until the injury does not feel hot.

Cough cure:
Take a carrot a and clean seam. Give some spoons and hot water then filters. Add a little palm sugar, poke up the average. Drink 2 times a day.

Overcoming painful menstruation:
250 gr carrot washing ago clean out and cut by pieces. Add a little water, and making juice. Try to drink this concoction for at least 2 times a day.

Overcoming constipation:
Take 2 young carrots ago wash and clean seam. Add 2 tablespoon water and a little salt, and filtered. Drinking water 2 times a day.

Subtilize face:
Take 2 - 3 carrots that have been peeled clean, and wash and seam. Then scrub in directly on the face as a mask. Wait until dry then wash your face.

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All the good things about ginger

Ginger plants and has long been known to grow well in our country. Ginger is a one of the important spices. rhizome very wide use, such as cooked flavor, aroma and taste our food, such as in bread, cake, biscuit, flowers sugar, and various refreshments. Ginger is also used in industrial medicine, perfume and traditional herbal medicine. Young ginger is eaten raw, processed into pickle.In addition, because the effects can feel heat in the stomach, the ginger also used as materials such as beverage bandrek, sekoteng and syrup.
The scientific name of ginger Zingiber officinale is not foreign to us, both
as kitchen spices and medicines, so that each area in
Indonesia have its own designation for the ginger. The names for the ginger
include ginger (Aceh), bahing (Batak karo), sipadeh or sipodeh (Sumatera
West), Jahi (Lampung), Jae (Java), Ginger (Sundanese), jhai (Madura), pese (Bugis) lali (Irian)
Herb plants are ginger, upright, can reach a height of 40 - and 100 cm
age can be annual. Stem form of the pseudo-stem composed of leaf blade
with a flat aft end of the taper. Interest consists of bunches of flowers
cone-shaped sheath with a cream-colored.
Root is often called rimpang ginger smell fragrant and spicy taste. Rimpang
ramose ramble, fibrous rough, horizontal sweep. In the yellow
pale.
Gynecology Rimpang Jahe
Characteristic due to the ginger atsiri oil and ginger oleoresin. Fragrant aroma
oil of ginger is caused by atsiri, while oleoresinnya the sharpness.
Mnnyak atsiri can be obtained or diisolasi with steam from destilasi ginger rhizoma
dry. Oil of ginger extract liquid form thick verdure until the yellow color,
smell fragrant but do not have the component maker sharpness. Gynecology
atsiri oil in dry ginger, approximately 1 - 3 percent. The main components of oil atsiri ginger which caused the fragrance is zingiberen and zingiberol. Oleoresin ginger contains many components maker that does not taste spicy evaporate. Components in ginger oleoresin consists of gingerol and zingiberen, shagaol,atsiri oil and resin. Best of ginger in a spicy taste that is the main zingerol.

Since Jahe first used as a medicine, or the kitchen, and various spices
other purposes. Ginger may stimulate digestive gland for both raise appetite and digestion. Ginger is used as a cooking ingredient, especially nutritious to increase
appetite, strengthening the stomach, and improve digestion. It is possible
inflame the mucous membrane of stomach and intestine by the oil asiri
issued rimpang ginger.
Oil ginger contains gingerol unique fragrant smell of ginger, nutritious and prevent
treat nausea and vomiting, such as drunk as a vehicle or on women who
pregnant young. It's also a sharp stimulate appetite, strengthen the intestinal muscles, gass help remove the gut and help the heart function. In treatment
traditional Asia, ginger is used to treat influenza, cough, diarrhea diseases and inflammation artritis joints such as bone. Ginger is also used to improve the cleaning body through sweat.
Modern research has proven the benefits of the various scientific ginger, among others:
• Lower blood pressure. This is because ginger stimulates hormone release adrenalin and widen the blood vessel, a consequence of blood flow more quickly and simplify work smoothly and the heart pumping blood.
• Helps digestion, ginger contains the digestive enzyme protease that is and lipase, which respectively become disolve protein and fat.
• Gingerol in ginger are antikoagulan, namely to prevent blood clotting. Be a gagged prevent blood vessel, the main cause of stroke, and seizures heart. Gingerol also alleged to help lower cholesterol level.
• Prevents nausea, ginger because it is able to block serotonin, a chemical compound that is can cause stomach contraction, so that relief feeling nausea. Including nausea,drunk due to travel.
• Create a comfortable side, relieve stomach cramps and to help
removing the wind.
• Ginger also contains antioxidants that help neutralize the damaging effects caused by free radicals in the body.

Ginger as medicine Practical
Pereda Ginger is a palliative natural pain and can ease pain
rheumatism, headache, and migraine. How,drinking ginger 3 times
day,eat ginger candy, or add ginger when the soto, semur, or rendang.
and also nutritious ginger, among others crushed and with a little water can be used as a compress on the drug and can be headache dipercikan to face people are shivering. While rhizome to be crushed and boiled in water
boil for approximately ½ hour, then water can be drunk as a medicine
to strengthen the digestion of food and drive out of gas in it, treat heart the swell, cough and fever.
To treat rheumatism rheumatism prepare 1 or 2 rhizome ginger. Heat rhizome above the fire or coals and then crushed. Paste in the collision ginger the body of the sick rheumatism. Another way is with pestle with cloves, and placed on the body of rheumatism.
Ginger can also be used to treat wounds as abrasions, stabbed sharp objects, exposed spine, falls, and snakebite. How to go about it the rhizome ginger red to be crushed and added a little salt. Put on the injured body part.ginger by crush can also be used as a liniment for the itch biten insects.
root destroyed, are given with a little salt, then placed on the
injured former poisonous snake bite (just as before the first patient
taken to a doctor). Mixed with radish, ginger can be used to treat eczema. Grated radish are mixed with water ginger. Water can be obtained with ginger rhizome grate ginger,then filters. This herb to be lubricated with the affected skin eczema. Usually in within 2 weeks it has just reduced. To prevent drunken way, it's good to drink ginger before travel. How: smashed fresh ginger along one finger joint. Enter into one glass of hot water, let sufficient honey, and drink. Can also use the third teaspoon ginger powder, or if resistant, eat two raw ginger slice.

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Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke with the pattern of food and Healthy Living

Prevention efforts to avoid heart disease and stroke begins with improving lifestyle and controlling risk factors will reduce the chance of disease is affected.
For the prevention of heart disease & stroke avoid Obesity / overweight and high cholesterol. Start by consuming more vegetables, fruits, grains, and other fibrous food fish. Less meat, snacks, and the food with high calories and contains many other saturated fat.

cholesterol buried in the blood vessel walls and cause aterosklerosis which the trigger heart disease and smoking stroke.stoped is a target that must be achieved, as well as avoiding cigarette smoke from the environment. Smoking causes reduced blood vessel elasticity, thereby increasing blood vessel arterial stiffening, and increase the blood coagulation factors that trigger heart disease and stroke. Smokers have the opportunity infected coronary heart and stroke about two times higher compared with non-smokers.Reduce alcohol. The more alcohol consumption, then the type of stroke, especially the higher hemoragik. Alcohol can increase blood pressure, weaken the heart, blood coagulate and cause arterial strain. Make Sports / physical activity. Sports can help reduce body weight, controlling cholesterol content, and lower blood pressure which is the other risk factors affected the heart and stroke
controle of high blood pressure and blood sugar. Hypertension is the main factor affected by stroke and coronary heart disease. Diabetes also increases the risk of stroke 1,5-4 times, especially when blood sugar is not restrained.
Avoid the use of prohibited drugs such as heroin, cocaine, amfetamin, because dope can increase the risk of stroke 7-fold compared with the non-drug users.

Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke with the medicine plants
Some types of plants, drugs that can be used to prevent heart disease and stroke have any effect smooth blood circulation and as antikoagulan that prevent blood clotting, due to heart disease and stroke
is the main cause of disturbance in the blood vessel.
Some types of plants and natural medicine that can be used to prevent and overcome the Heart Diseases and Stroke, among others:
1. Daun Dewa (Gynura segetum)
Farmakologis effect: as the anticoagulant, dilute blood clot, blood circulation and expedite clean up toxic.
The leaves are used and tubers. The recommended dose is 15-30 grams of fresh leaves and 6-10 grams tubers
2. Mengkudu (Morinda citrifolia)
Property; reduce high blood pressure, lower cholesterol and high blood sugar. Property can be prevent the risk of exposure of stroke and heart disease. Dosage: 2-3 pieces of cooked.
3. Garlic (Allium sativum)
Effect: smooth blood circulation, antikoagulan (to prevent coagulation of blood), lower blood cholesterol,lower blood sugar, lower high blood pressure and increase immune system.
4. Onion (Allium CEPA)
Nutritious prevent blood clotting, reduce blood fat content, lower blood sugar and
lower blood pressure.
5. Ear black mushroom (Auricularia auricula)
Property / effect: Preventing stroke and brain hemorrhage, good for the heart and blood vessel.
6. Seaweed (Laminaria japonica)
Property: prevent blood vessel constriction, lower cholesterol and high blood pressure.
7. Purple eggplant (Solanum melongena L.)
Property: prevent aterosklerosis (constringency and stoppage of blood vessel), to prevent the increased cholesterol blood, reduce nervous tension.
8. Banana heart
Savor: Preventing stroke and brain hemorrhage, good for the heart and blood vessel.
9. Rose flower (Rosa chinensis)
Property / effect: smooth blood circulation, neutralize poison. The dose: 3-10 g dried flower
10. Siantan (Ixora stricta Roxb.)
Savor: minify clot, lowering blood pressure. The dose: 10-15 g flowe

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Overcome stroke with chilli

Chili. Fruit and plant members of the genus Capsicum such as this two-edged knife. Can be loved because it can add zest and flavor of food to eat, because it can also spicy, hot, and enliven food. You may hate the fruit of this one. But you can not deny that the fruit that one can overcome a number of diseases, including stroke, coronary heart attack, and impotensi.
In order to spicy and delicious, people often blend into the chili cuisine. Some use a large red chili, and long, using a green chili and the chili ringleted use. But most people choose to make chili ringleted cuisine or food to be more spicy. That's because the smaller size and less water content, so the spiciness substance per 100 gr more. Is it only benefits chili?Gynecology and Benefits
In fact, according to dr Prapti Utami, a consultant herbal, medicinal plants in the evergreen family, Bintaro Jaya, Tangerang, not many people know the benefits of chili. Chili actually is a nutrient rich food. Chili sauce contains a lot of vitamin C and betakaroten (provitamin A), more than fruits such as mango, pineapple, papaya, and watermelon. Even mineral content, especially calcium and phosphorus, surpass fresh fish. But the actual green chili vitamin C higher than the chili sauce. Therefore any paprika. Paprika red womb have higher vitamin C twice the color other than paprika. value betakaroten also winning nine times more than green paprika. Most of the paprika betakaroten uterus is located in the section near the skin.

Substance that makes chili spicy feel kapsaisin is stored in muscle and white chili, where the seeds stick. Therefore, to reduce the feeling of spiciness, usually red chilli seeds removed following nerves. Kapsaisin chili is stomakik, ie, can increase appetite. Not to mention the ability to stimulate production of endorphin hormones that are able generate a sensation of delight. That is why when people eat chilli head dizzy. Sharpness caused kapsaisin inhibit brain activity to receive the signal pain that we suffer, firm Prapti dr.

Kapsaisin compound was not only stimulate appetite, but also into drugs. Kapsaisin dilute loosen mucus so that stoppage of the throat and nose, including sinusitis. Kapsaisin also be antikoagulan way to keep the blood that remains liquid and prevent the scaling form of fat in the blood vessel. Not surprisingly, people who frequently eat small chili likely suffer stoppage vein (aterosklerosis). That also means that the small possibility of suffering stroke, coronary heart, and impotensi.

Chili Java
Puyang chili ever heard? In Java, people often order the herbalist pickaback. And most of the chili puyang this book are women who just give birth to Why? Because racikan chili puyang believed to be clean and freshen the womb because of fatigue or exhaustion.

Java pepper (piper retrofractum), one of racikan in puyang chili, contains a number of chemical elements that have element remover tired and healer of disease. The fruit contains substances spicy piperine, chavicine, palmetic acids, tetrahydropiperic acids, 1 undecylenyl-3, 4-methylenedioxy Benzene, piperidin, oil asiri, N-isobutyldeka-trans-2-trans-4-dienamide, and sesamin. Piperine has power antipiretik, painkillers, antiinflamasi, and the central nervous system. While the roots contain pepirine, piplartine, and piperlonguminine.

In addition, information from Dr Prapti fruit nutritious chili jawa also eliminate pain (analgesic), emetic sweat (diaforetik), and emetic flatus (karminatif, Stimulation, and afrodisiak). While the root of the Java chili, spicy and hot taste, as a nutritious tonic, diuretik, stomakik, and emetic period (emenagog).

There are a number of diseases that can be solved with this chili Java, including stomach cramps, vomiting, flatulence, heartburn, dysentery, diarrhea, difficult to defecate on the people with heart disease, headache, toothache, cough, fever, nose, slimy , weak orgasm, difficult birth, neurastenia, and low blood pressure. Root can be overcome flatulent, disturbed digestion, can not be pregnant because the uterus cold, clean the uterus after birth, the body feels weak, stroke, rheumatism, and sore shoulders. While the leaves can be used to overcome stomach cramps and toothache. How easy enough. Fruit of 2,5-5 gr pill made or boiled, and drunk

For the case of toothache, processing, and also pemakaiannya easy. Chili dried fruit to dry grinding into powder ago. This powder inhalation through the nose or inserted into a hollow tooth. This powder can also be used for rheumatism and or liquid to rub on body after born the children. While the leaves can be used as a gargle in sore mouth. To clean the womb, or as a tonic gargle inflammation in the mouth. To clean the womb, or as a tonic, which is the root dry. Roots of 3 gr fine grinding, boiled with hot water and drink.

For stomach cramps, take leaves of fresh Java chili 3 pieces, washed and crush then boile with a glass of hot water. Then strained and drunk. For toothache, take leaves of fresh Java chili 3 pieces, washed then pound.boiled with a glass of hot water. While warm and filtered water is used to rinse out. Can also chew the root of tacky, but must be removed after chewed.

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Happy Hormones

Fluctuating hormones can wreak havoc on your health and happiness. The right herbs can helps you feel sharper, slimmer-even sexier. Here's what to use for premenstrual syndrome (PMS), hot flushes and hormone-related depression.

--> CHASTEBERRY (vitex agnus-castus)

Chasteberry boosts production of the hormone progesterone, and is commonly prescribed for symptoms of PMS and menopause, including irritability, breast tenderness, bloating, depression, menstrual-related acne, sweating and hor flashes. It is also used for uterine fibroid cysts and to stimulate milk production in new mums.
Dosage : 225mg 1-2 times a day. It may take several months to get the full benefits.

--> LICORICE (Glycyrrhiza glabra)

One of the most thoroughly studied herbal remedies, licorice contains glycyrrhizin which stimulates the adrenal glansd to produce corticostiroid hormones and reduce inflammation. Licorice is rich in phytoestrogens (plant oestrogens), making it useful for menstrual problems and menopause. women with CMS may find thet taking licorice for 0 days up to their period eases symphtoms.
dosage : 200mg (standardised to contain 15% glycyrrhizin) 3 times a day.

--> RED CLOVER (trifolium pratense)

Red clover contains isoflavones that mimic the action of oestrogen and bin to oestrogen receptors in the body, creating either pro-oestrogenic or anti-eostrogenic effects, depending on how much oestrogen the body is producing. Clinical trials show red clover reduces hot flushes and other common menopausal symptoms. Unlike synthetic oestrogen, the isoflavones in red clover do not create unpleasant side effects.
dosage : take according to manufacturing instructions or as professionally prescribded.

--> BLACK COHOSH (Cimicifuga recemosa)

Traditionally, black cohosh has been prescribded to treat menstrual problems and pain after childbirth, nervous distress, and joint pain. It is an effective remedy for hot flushes, vaginal dryness and other menopausal symptoms. Black Cohosh is also prescribed for gynaecological disorders, including periods (absent, painfully, or heavy) and PMS.
dosage : 40 mg (standardised to contain 2.5% triterpenes) 1-2 times a day

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Saint John's Wort

The Bright yellow star-shaped flowers of Saint John's Wort( hypericum Perforatun) are a common sight along roadsides in late summer. the fresh flowers and bud are rich in compounds (hypericin and hyperforin) that have mood-brightening effects. Saint John's Wort has a well-deserved reputation as the most popular herbal remedy for easing mild to moderate depression. In dozen of studies, extract of the herb have been proven to relieve mild to moderate depression as effectively as prescription antidepressant.

St. John's Wort also has been used for centuries for treating wounds, burns, bruises, varicose veins and nerve-related pain, such as sciantica, and bruises, varicose veins and nerve-related pain, such as sciantica, and recent studies are verifying the herb's anti-inflammatory and antimicroial properties.

For treating depression, St. John's Wort is most effective when taken as a standarized extract, generally 300 mg three times daily. Because Saint John's Wort has cumulative effect on mood, it can take one to two months to notice a difference. The herb can interact with numerous medications, so consult your doctor if you're taking prescription drugs.

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Immune - enchacing Echinacea

A strikingly bautiful native North American pla, Echinacea pupurea, the most commonly used echinacea species in herbal medicine, has large magenta flowers. Echinacea was the favorite madecine of the Plains Indian, who used it for treating infectious disease and wounds.
Several hundred scientific studies have confirmed that echinacea is a potent natural healer : It simulates immune function, strength-ens cells against invading microorganisms and has natural antibiotic activity. Echinachea is effective for helping the body fight off colds, flu and virtually any other type of infection. It also can be used externally as antiseptic wash to treat wounds or skin infections.

the flowers and roots of Echinacea contain healing properties, and both are used in teas, tinctures and other medicinal preparations. For best results, take achinacea at the first sign of an infection.

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