Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Brain Cancer Symptoms

Brain Cancer Symptoms
Brain Cancer Symptoms
Brain Cancer Symptoms,Cancers of the brain are the result of abnormal growths of cells in the brain. Brain cancers can come up from primary brain cells, the cells that form other brain components (for example, membranes, blood vessels), or from the growth of cancer cells that grow in other organs and that have spread to the brain by the bloodstream (metastatic brain cancer).

Although many growths in the brain are often called brain tumors, not all brain tumors are cancerous. Cancer is a specific term for malignant tumors. Malignant tumors grow and spread very aggressive. They disturb healthy cells by taking space, blood, and nutrients. Like all cells of the body, tumor cells need blood and nutrients to survive. This is especially a problem in the brain, as the extra growth within the closed limits of the skull can lead to an increase in intracranial pressure or the distortion of surrounding vital structures, causing their malfunction.

Not all brain tumors had specific symptoms, and some are found mainly after death such as tumors of the pituitary gland. The symptoms of brain cancer are numerous and not specific to brain tumors, meaning they can be caused by many other illnesses as well. The only way to know for sure what is causing the symptoms is to undergo diagnostic testing.

The following symptoms are the most common for brain cancer:

  • Headache
  • Weakness
  • Clumsiness
  • Difficulty walking
  • Seizures


Other nonspecific symptoms and signs include the following:

  • Altered mental status changes in concentration, memory, attention, or alertness
  • Nausea, vomiting especially early in the morning
  • Abnormalities in vision
  • Difficulty with speech
  • Gradual changes in intellectual or emotional capacity

Removing Scar Using Traditional Herbs

Removing Scar Using Traditional Herbs
Removing Scar Using Traditional Herbs
Removing Scar Using Traditional Herbs,Every one of us must have experienced brushes or scar on our skin because fallout from bike or after playing rough football. This brushes maybe not dangerous for health, but the scar can affect on our look. Even though some men thinks that having scar can get more masculine look. 

Removing the scar sometimes difficult and need longer time. But actually, there some traditional herbs that can help us in this problem. Here are some herbs to cure scar:

1.Cucumber


Cucumber or cucumis sativus not only contains vitamin c and potassium which is advantageous to prevent free radical, but also contains high amount and refreshing water. Cucumber also contains silica which can increase the production of collagen and prevent facial wrinkles. That is why there many beauty products using cucumber as a important part in skin treatment. 

For scar removing follow the next step:
  • Wash the cucumber until it clean
  • Cut into small pieces
  • Blend or pound the pieces
  • Rub the blend upon the scar for a whole night.
  • do it every day and the scar will be slowly vanished 


2.Honey

Honey has known as a multipurpose medicinal herbs and has used since long time ago. This sweet viscous fluid has ability to stimulate cell regeneration, cooling the wound, reduce pain, and remove scar. For removing scar purpose, here are the steps:
  • use pure honey for better result
  • apply honey upon the scar
  • leave it for about 20-30 minutes
  • wash it using warm water
  • do it regularly few times a day


3.Green Tea

Green tea leaves contain antioxidant mineral named Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG). This antioxidant is 200 times stronger than vitamin E. Epigallocatechin Gallate has ability to reduce hormone activities which cause acne, reduce skin inflammation, control oil production, and remove scar caused by acne.
To use green tea, follow next steps:
  • boil green tea leaves with water, and let it cooling down 
  • pour the water into cotton or small towel 
  • sweep the cotton or towel into the scar

4.Mint leaves

Mint Leaves, or known as mentra piperita, is a kind of plant that often used as industrial product such as toothpaste, mouthwash, or oil. Mint leaves also beneficial for skin treatment, and often used to deal with acne, burned wound, and removing scar. Take the step as following:
  • take few sheet of mint leaves
  • wash it and pond until it become scrub
  • rum the scrub upon the scar


5.Aloe Vera

This plant often used as for traditional hair treatment. In fact, Aloe Vera also can be used for skin treatment because it contains lignin and amino acid which can moisturize the skin and regenerate skin cells. Aloe Vera also contains anti-inflammatory. To use Aloe Vera, follow next step:
  • rub the Aloe Vera mucus upon the scar
  • do it every day
  • be careful for the latex because it causing itchy


6.Garlic

Since 3000 BC, Chinese people has been using garlic as medicine for cold, cancer, and reducing hypertension. Recently, it is found that garlic can also cure deal with scar. To use this herb, here is the step:
  • slice or grater the garlic
  • rub the grater upon the wound then let it dry
  • wash it using warm water
  • do it routinely/every day



7.Noni Juice

Noni, or in latin called Morinda citrifolia, is a tree in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. Its native range extends through Southeast Asia and Australasia, and the species is now cultivated throughout the tropics and widely naturalised. 

This plant contain scopoletin compound which is very effective as anti-inflammatory. Noni can also be used to cure burning wound. To use Noni follow next steps:
  • Blend Noni until became juice
  • Pour noni juice into small towel
  • Compress the wound and let it dry.
  • Wash it using warm water
  • Do it 2-3 times a day

Monday, April 22, 2013

Benefits Of Onion For Health

Benefits Of Onion For Health
Benefits Of Onion For Health
Benefits Of Onion For Health The onion also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is used as a vegetable and is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. This genus also contains several other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food.

The onion plant has a fan of hollow, bluish-green leaves and the bulb at the base of the plant begins to swell when a certain day-length is reached. In the autumn the foliage dies down and the outer layers of the bulb become dry and brittle. The crop is harvested and dried and the onions are ready for use or storage. The crop is prone to attack by a number of pests and diseases, particularly the onion fly, the onion eelworm and various fungi that cause rotting. Some varieties of A. cepa such as shallots and potato onions produce multiple bulbs.

Onions are cultivated and used around the world. As a foodstuff they are usually served cooked, as a vegetable or part of a prepared savoury dish, but can also be eaten raw or used to make pickles or chutneys. They are pungent when chopped and contain certain chemical substances which irritate the eyes.

Onion is one of most common spice used in daily cooking. When we make burger or sandwich, it won’t be a tasteful one without onion. But actually, onion’s function is not merely for cooking purpose, but this spice is also very useful for our health. 

Since 4000 years ago, onion has been used by the Egyptian and Indian for health purpose. Some story said that Egyptian is using 9 tons of gold to bought onions as a main food for Pyramid workers. They believe that onions can give strength for doing heavy task. 

Hippocrates, ancient Greek medician, said that onion (or “dungari” as he said) can be used to cure wound and lungs inflammation. Onion essence mixed with honey can also be used as medicine for cough. 

Onion can also be used to cure skin bruise. One teaspoon of onion mixed with essence plus one teaspoon of vinegar, and then rubbed on the bruised skin. It is believed that putting onion slice under the pillow will make a better sleep. 

Onion contains various kind of nutrition such as allicin, amino acid, calcium, mangan, sodium, sulfur, vitamin c, vitamin e, asiri oil, quercitin, and curcumin. Nutrition in onions is useful to suppress the level of bad cholesterol in blood, increase the number of good cholesterol up to 30%, loosen the constriction of blood levels, reduce sniffles, reduce stomachache, reduce sugar amount in blood, prevent cancer, prevent the insulin broke in heart, stimulate insulin production in pancreas, and resist the osteoporosis attack. 

Patient with hypertension or blood vessel constriction also recommended to eat onion for the allicin in onion can prevent blood plague, and the blood can flow smoothly. 

Allicin produced by onions is containing a series of amino acids, minerals, such as calcium, manganese, sodium, sulfur, vitamin C & E, essential oils, sulfur and flavonoids. Allicin is an antioxidant that can boost the body's resistance and immunity, so it can work actively and effectively as antivirus. 

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Aloe Vera for Diabetes Treatment

Aloe Vera for Diabetes Treatment
Aloe Vera for Diabetes Treatment
Aloe Vera for Diabetes Treatment, Aloe Vera is a kind of succulent plant species originally came from Arabic and Africa. Often used as ornamental plant, aloe vera are known as wild plants which grow in hot climates. 

Since 3500 years ago, aloe vera are very popular as medicinal herb with many benefits. This plant has been used by Samaritan people around 1875 BC. The Egyptians also recognize the benefits of this plant as medicinal herb since 1500 BC. In fact, the Egyptian called aloe vera as “plant of immortality”.

Aloe vera contains many nutrition useful for human body. From more than 200 kind of aloe vera, one of the best kind is aloevera barbadensis miller which has 72 important nutrition for human healths such as 18 amino acid, carbohydrate, vitamin, mineral, enzyme, hormone, antibiotic, antiseptic, antioxidant, antivirus, anticancer, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacteria, and others. 

Dioscordes, a famous Greek healer, said that aloe vera can cure many disease such as ulcer, skin bruising, chapped skin, blister, hair loss, hemorrhoids, and laryngitis. One of the benefits of aloe vera is to cure diabetes. 


Aloe vera is used in traditional medicine as a multipurpose skin treatment. In Ayurvedic medicine it is called kathalai, as are extracts from agave.Early records of Aloe vera use appear in the Ebers Papyrus from the 16th century BC and in Dioscorides' De Materia Medica and Pliny the Elder's Natural History - both written in the mid-first century AD.It is also written of in the Juliana Anicia Codex of 512 AD.The plant is used widely in the traditional herbal medicine of many countries.


The next following I will give you the recipe of using aloe vera to cure diabetes: 

  • Wash 2 stem of aloe vera, clean it and throw all the thorn. 
  • remove the skin, and cut aloe vera into small pieces 
  • Boil the pieces using 3 glass of water
  • Strain the dregs from the water
  • Drink 3 times a day, ½ glass each after meal.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Using Avocado for Diabetes Treatment

Using Avocado for Diabetes Treatment
Using Avocado for Diabetes Treatment
Using Avocado for Diabetes Treatment, The most important thing for patient with diabetes is to maintain healthy eating habits. Food with less sugar will be highly recommended. Fruit consumption will also be dilemmatic problem for diabetic patient; they have to think twice to eat all the sweet fruit. 

Patient with diabetes should choose fruit which has low glucose. Fruit with high alcohol content such as durian are better abandoned. However, there's some fruit that beneficially for diabetes patient, avocado is one of them.

Avocado, or in Latin called persea americana, originally came from Mexico. This fruit contains single seed of the tree. Avocado mostly cultivated in tropical and mediterranean climates. 

The avocado tree can grows to 20 meters. The leaves arranged about 12 to 25 centimeters. The flower had greenish yellow color. This fruit is kind of subtropical food that need warm climate without frost and with little wind. High wind can reduce the humidity and dehydrate the flowers. 

Avocado contains almost 20 beneficial nutrients such as fiber, potassium, vitamin E, B vitamins and folid acid. This fruit is also enabling body to absorb more fat-soluble nutrient such as alpha and beta carotene and lutein. 

The seed of avocado is beneficial in diabetes treatment with its function to reduce blood sugar level, improving blood circulation, and help to fix the function of pancreas. 

There are 2 kinds of methods to use avocado seed: 

First method:
  • Avocado seeds are grilled but do not get burned, just enough to make it dry a bit.
  • Cut the seeds into small pieces.
  • Boiled the small pieces of seeds with approximately 3 or 4 glass of water
  • Wait until the water are brown colored.
  • Filter the water and drink when its warm


Second method:
  • Slice the avocado seeds
  • Dry it in the sun
  • Fry the slice without using oil
  • Put the slice into blender, and blend it until all crashed like powder
  • Put the powder into capsule shell (you can bought it at drugstore)
  • Eat the capsule once a day.
  • In my opinion, the second method is more practical, and you can bring the capsule anywhere when you are in traveling.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Benefits of Apple For Health

Benefits of Apple For Health
Benefits of Apple For Health
Benefits of Apple For Health The apple tree is a deciduous tree in the rose family best known for its sweet, pomaceous fruit, the apple. It is cultivated worldwide as a fruit tree, and is the most widely grown species in the genus Malus. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, is still found today. Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Asia and Europe, and were brought to North America by European colonists. Apples have religious and mythological significance in many cultures, including Norse, Greek and European Christian traditions.

Apple trees are large if grown from seed, but small if grafted onto roots (rootstock). There are more than 7,500 known cultivars of apples, resulting in a range of desired characteristics. Different cultivars are bred for various tastes and uses, including cooking, eating raw and cider production. Apples are generally propagated by grafting, although wild apples grow readily from seed. Trees and fruit are prone to a number of fungal, bacterial and pest problems, which can be controlled by a number of organic and non-organic means. In 2010, the fruit's genome was decoded as part of research on disease control and selective breeding in apple production.

About 69 million tons of apples were grown worldwide in 2010, and China produced almost half of this total. The United States is the second-leading producer, with more than 6% of world production. Turkey is third, followed by Italy, India and Poland. Apples are often eaten raw, but can also be found in many prepared foods (especially desserts) and drinks. Many beneficial health effects are thought to result from eating apples; however, two forms of allergies are seen to various proteins found in the fruit.

Apple is one of very popular fruit that almost exist in every country. Its soft and sweet taste has become favourite for appetite or desert, and sometimes mixed into main food. 

Along with its delicious taste, apple also has many useful mineral for our body. Consuming apple regularly can help our body stay health. 

Apples contain many vitamins such as vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, and vitamin C. Its also contains minerals such as potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, and other elements such as fitokimian, tannins, fiber, baron, tartar acid is also contained in apples. 

With all the elements, apple classified as medicinal plant which can provide a number of health benefit such as following: 
  • The fiber that exist in apples can make the digestive system stay healthy; avoid the attacks of diarrhe/ constipation; and useful for reducing body fat and cholesterol.
  • Biting and chewing apples everyday can help increase the production of saliva in mouth, which can kill the bacteria and protect the tooth from illnes
  • The antioxidant in apple can increase the body immunity from negative free radical.
  • Protect eye from cataract
  • Reduce the risk of alzheimer.
  • Apple skin can slow down the growth of cancer cell on breast, liver, or intestines.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Why is Too Much Salt Bad for Your Health

Why is Too Much Salt Bad for Your Health
Why is Too Much Salt Bad for Your Health
Why is Too Much Salt Bad for Your Health,Salt is very popular ingredients that never absence from our food. Almost every food in all over the world always uses salt. Salt is composed from mineral called natrium chloride, with the composition 40% natrium and 60% chloride. Actually this mineral is important for our body, but not in excessive amount. 

The ion of natrium chloride in small amount is needed by our body to keep arrange the amount of water in the body. Not only needed to keep the balance of water, but we also need salt to help the transmission of nerve impulse to the brain. Natrium also have a role in contraction and relaxation of our muscles because it can pull water like a magnet. 

In reality, if you’re truly serious about how long you live and how much stress you put on your heart and your kidneys, you have to take that advice with a grain of salt. A big grain of salt.

As a matter of fact, the calls for sodium reduction you see plastered all over health magazines, doctor’s offices and popular news reports are not only unsupported by research, but have been proven to be dangerous for you.


Beside those good advantages, the excessive amount also has bad effect to our body. Here is the danger of salt: 

  • Hypertension. Based on research which involve more than 10.000 people in 52 research centre, the excessive amount of salt are proven to cause hypertension, which is the source of many complication such as heart attack, paralyze and stroke. 
  • Cardiovascular problem. It is already proven by many researches that there are connection between high rate of salt intake, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. A decrease in dietary salt intake will decrease blood pressure, irrespective of sex, race, age, physical activity level, and body mass.
  • Stroke. People who consume less salt are having less risk on stroke. In fact, studies say that reduce 1 gram of salt can also diminish the risk of stroke up to 15%.
  • Fluid retention. The numbers of natrium in the body are determining the level of fluid. If too much salt are eaten, the kidney will had difficulties to eliminate the excessive salt and the body will repent the fluids. This situation sometimes cause swelling around heart.
  • Hair problem. Consume too many salt also can make problems to hair such as hoary and loss hair. Osteoporosis. Excessive salt will restrain the absorption of calcium and cause osteoporosis. A study to post menopause woman said that woman who eat more salt will lose more bone mineral than they who didn’t.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Health Benefits of Cloves

Health Benefits of Cloves
Health Benefits of Cloves
Health Benefits of Cloves, Cloves or clove, known in Latin as Syzygium aromaticum , are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae. Originally from Maluku island in Indonesia,cloves also grow naturally in India, the West Indies, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Brazil and Madagascar. For over 2,000 years, Indian and Chinese traditional medicine has made extensive use of cloves and clove oil. Arabic traders brought the buds to Europe in the 4th century. During the 7th and 8th centuries in Europe, cloves became popular as a food preservative. Today, cloves are in the spice rack of most homes and evidence supporting their use as a therapeutic remedy against harmful organisms continues to grow.

In European countries, clover is often used as a spice in cooking, while in Indonesia is commonly used as the main ingredient of cigarettes. Beside for culinary purpose, cloves actually has another significant health benefits herbal medicine such as following:

  • Can help Respiratory Infection problem. A cup of Tea with cloves can help overcome respiratory infections. The cloves can work as expectorant which make mucus in esophagus and throat became more liquid.
  • Can help with toothache. The flower of cloves can help us to treat toothache. We just need 5 to 10 grains of roasted cloves flower, then pounded until became powder. Then put the powder onto the teeth
  • Can help to cure acne. Cloves contain euganol, which is known as natural antiseptic for skin balance. The euganol can help to prevent the acne arise in the skin, and also help to erase acne scars
  • Alternative germs cleaners. The euganol content in cloves is very useful to keep your tool clean. Clove oil can reduce bacteria or fungi that exist, and prevent the germs to come. Mix ½ tablespoon of cloves oil in two cups of water, then spray it to the places or tools susceptible with bacteria or germs such as bathroom wall or floor. 
  • Natural perfume for clothes. Cloves have natural scent that can cover the odor and keep your clothes stay fresh. Keep few sticks of clove in your clothes and replace it every 2-4 week to keep the scent.