Cucumber as a Natural Remedy for Kidney Stones

Cucumber as a Natural Remedy for Kidney Stones 300x225 Cucumber as a Natural Remedy for Kidney StonesCucumber is a cylindrical fruit of a vine plant that originally come from Indian continent but it has already spread widely and it is cultivated in many countries all over the world, with China as the biggest producer. Although cucumber is actually a kind of fruit, many people treat it as vegetable. Cucumber is rich of water. About 90% composition of cucumber is water. Therefore, cucumber is good to hydrate and keep the body cool. Cucumber is also nutritious with vitamin A, vitamin C, molybdenum, potassium, manganese, folate, magnesium, silica, and dietary fiber. The nutrition of the rich water cucumber is also good to be used as a natural remedy for kidney stones.

Cucumber can wash the debris from kidneys and dissolve the small stones. Cucumber can help the body get rid of excessive uric acid that can cause kidney stones. To treat kidney stones, you can eat fresh cucumbers or you can add cucumber slices to water and drink it as a better way to treat kidney stones. You need to know that people with kidney stones must drink plenty of water. The other way is to make cucumber juice and drink it everyday. You can make pure cucumber juice or you can add vegetables to it, such as carrot and beet but avoid vegetables that contain oxalate that can create kidney stones. When you make the juice, it will be better if you peel the cucumber since the skin may cause weird taste in your juice.

If you experience to have kidney stones, you can drink cucumber juice regularly to prevent from stone forming in your kidneys and bladder. To make it easier for you in consuming cucumber juice regularly, you can make cucumber juice for two or three days at once and keep it in your refrigerator. For busy people, it will be a time saving solution. However, do not make too much juice since if you keep it too long in the refrigerator, the nutrition inside it will decrease.

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Piper Betle Leaves for Itchiness and Allergy

Piper Betle Leaves for Itchiness and Allergy 300x258 Piper Betle Leaves for Itchiness and AllergyPiper betle or betel leaf is a vine plant that originally comes from South and South East Asia. Piper betle leaf is a heart shape leaf in glossy surface with green or green reddish color. In South and South East Asia, piper betle is cultivated due to the high demand of piper betle leaf for consumption and medicine. In Bangladesh, piper betle is one important commodity that is not only locally consumed but also exported to various countries in the world.

For consumption, people usually take it as betel quid with addition of one or more ingredients, including tobacco. However, consuming betel quid is not good for health, especially if it is mixed with tobacco since betel quid with tobacco is carcinogenic. Piper betle leaf itself does not show any side effect but the addition of areca nut and tobacco will make it dangerous for health.

Piper betle leaf has anti-oxidant and anti-septic properties. In addition, piper betle leaf contains various substances such as eugenol, phenyl, propane, estragol, sesquiterpene, kavibetol, terpennena, tannins, allylpyrokatekol, kavicol, and essential oil. The exact composition will be different for different types of piper betle.

As medicine, one common use of piper betle leaf is to treat itchiness. As a home remedy for itchiness and allergy such as prickly heat, you can make a paste from piper betle leaves and apply the paste to the itchy area. For the paste, you can add a small slice of ginger and eucalyptus oil. Piper betle leaf is also good to treat vaginal itchiness that is very common in female. Eugenol inside the piper betle leaf can help female treat the yeast infection and the tannin can help reduce the secretion of vaginal fluid. To treat the vaginal itching, you can boil two or three piper betle leaves with one cup of water and let it cool. You can use it as a vaginal douche every day until the itchiness has gone.

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Piper Betle as a Natural Treatment for Diarrhea

Piper Betle as a Natural Treatment for Diarrhea 225x300 Piper Betle as a Natural Treatment for DiarrheaPiper betle is a vine plant that grows in South and South East Asia, including India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Piper betle is creeper that commonly needs a support such as a tree or pole. Piper betle is cultivated in various countries as one important commodity that is very important for economy. Bangladesh exports the piper betle leaves to many Asian countries, Europe, Middle East, and more. Piper betle is a very important commodity due to the highly demand of piper betle leaves for consumption and medicine.

In India and many other places in Asia, piper betle leaves has been used for years as medicine. In Ayurvedic medicine, piper betle leaf is used to treat worm and bad breath. The other usage of piper betle leaf is to treat diarrhea. The anti-bacterial properties in piper betle leaves are believed to be a good weapon to fight Salmonella thypi and Escherichia coli as the common bacteria that cause diarrhea. To use piper betle leaf as diarrhea home remedy, you can boil two or three leaves with asmall cup of water and drink it while it is still warm. It will be better if you drink it after eating and do not drink it too much or you will experience a headache. You can also make piper betle paste from 6-8 piper betle leaves, 6-8 seed pepper, and 1 spoon of coconut oil. Rub the paste on your abdomen and the warm feeling will make you feel more comfortable.

One thing you need to know is that the common consumption of piper betle leaf is as betel quid with areca nut and tobacco. Although piper betle leaf is good for health and it can be used to treat diarrhea, you had better avoid consuming betel quid with tobacco since it will be dangerous for the health of your mouth. Combination of tobacco and areca nut is carcinogenic that can increase the risk of oral cancer.

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Jasmine Flowers for Treating Eye Irritation

 Jasmine Flowers for Treating Eye Problem Irritation 300x239 Jasmine Flowers for Treating Eye IrritationIn all over the world, people use jasmine extract as fragrance. Although the size is small, the smell of this white flower is amazing. Growing in tropical and subtropical areas and native to various countries in Asia, Africa, Australasia, and even Europe, jasmine is a very important commodity. However, fragrance is not the only usage of jasmine since people use it for jasmine tea that has many benefits to health. In addition, people also use jasmine flowers to treat several health problems, including eye problems.

For eye irritation, jasmine flowers can be used to soothe the eyes. Jasmine flower has a cooling effect that can help deal with redness and itchiness in eye irritation. To do it, you can take a handful of clean jasmine flowers, then put it in a jar and pour a glass of distilled water. Cover the jar to protect it from dirt and leave it for a night. In the morning, you can take the jasmine water and use it as eye drop three times a day until your eye irritation disappears. If somehow, the flower does not bloom yet, you can use jasmine leaves. Take a handful or jasmine leaves, crush them, and apply it on your forehead until it dries, and then replace it with the new jasmine leaf paste.

Besides treating eye irritation, jasmine flower is also used in treating various eye problems. Jasmine tea made from pure jasmine flowers is believed to have the ability to increase the eyesight. You can take a cup or more jasmine tea every day and you can maintain a good vision. Jasmine tea from green or black tea which is combined with jasmine flowers can be used as cataract treatment. However, it is debatable whether the jasmine flower has medicinal effect or not for cataract, since most people believe that tea which has anti-oxidant property plays the part.

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Jasmine Flowers for Reducing Bee Sting Swelling

Jasmine Flowers for Reducing Bee Sting Swelling 300x199 Jasmine Flowers for Reducing Bee Sting SwellingThe flower is white. The flower is small. The flower is fragrant. Jasmine flower is very popular in the world as one favorite ingredient to create amazing scent. Although most jasmine species are native to Asia, Africa, and Australia, while only one species is native to Europe, many jasmine species are already naturalized in Europe and various places in the world. In many countries, jasmine plays a big part in cultural events. However, the best benefit of jasmine is its ability to help human maintain the health. One example is to help reduce swelling due to bee sting.

Actually, one bee sting does only a little harm to human life. Even you do nothing, the swelling will eventually disappear. However, the swelling can be so painful that you may not able to do many things and surely it will ruin your performance. In addition, if you have the swelling on a visible area, it will be so ugly and embarrassing. In order to reduce the swelling and the pain, you can use jasmine flowers to deal with it. If you have jasmine in your garden and the flowers happen to bloom, take a handful of jasmine flowers or less, crush them using your hand, and apply it to the area where the bee stung. If you do it immediately after the bee stung you, you can prevent it from swelling.

Jasmine flowers and leaves contain many useful substances such as indol, benzyl, and livalylacetaat. Besides treating swelling due to the bee sting, jasmine flowers or leaves can be used to treat eye problems, including eye irritation, headache, and fever. It can also be used to reduce the excessive breast milk production. Since jasmine has many benefits for human, it will be better if you grow jasmine in your garden. Anytime you are stung by bees, you can easily take jasmine flowers from your own garden. Even more, the beautiful jasmine and the scent will be a great addition to your garden.

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Ginger Root for Treating Sprain

Ginger Root for Treating Sprain 300x300 Ginger Root for Treating SprainGinger is usually something that can be found in the kitchen. Ginger is a common rhizome that is used as spice for various cuisines and drinks. Mostly, it is used in Asian cuisines such Chinese, Indian, Korean, and Japanese; ginger has a hot taste. In Western cuisines, ginger is used for various drinks and sweet foods, including biscuits and breads. In many countries, people use ginger as medicine. The common applications of ginger as medicine are for fatigue, common cold, nausea, vomiting, and headache. Then, some studies found that ginger has the ability to relieve joint and muscle injury. Some studies found that ginger is also good to treat sprain.

Ginger has painkilling properties that have been used for years as a herbal remedy for sprain. When you are accidentally twisted and get sprain on your foot or other parts of your body that hurt so much, you can use ginger as your solution to relieve the pain. You can use ginger paste to treat your sprain. You can take some ginger root, make ginger paste from it, and rub it on the sprained areas. You will feel the heat that comforts you. You can also use ginger compress as an alternative. You can take a half-cup of ginger root. Simmer it on a pan with a small amount of water, and then add cinnamon. Let it steep and dip a soft cloth to the warm mixture. Apply it on the sprained area and let it cool.

If you do not have fresh ginger root, you can use ginger powder. Although the result is not as good as fresh ginger, powder ginger is good for first aid. You can apply ginger paste or ginger compress twice or three times a day. For a perfect result, you need to avoid movement in the sprained area. If you experience inflamed muscle, ice compress prior to ginger compress may help you deal with the inflammation.

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Clove for Toothache, Respiratory Infection and Acne

Clove for Toothache Respiratory Infection and Acne 300x224 Clove for Toothache, Respiratory Infection and AcneClove (Syzygium aromaticum) is native to Indonesia and Philippine. Clove also grows in various tropical countries such as India, Brazil, Jamaica, and more. It is the flower bud, which used for cooking and as medicine. For centuries, clove has been used as medicine in China, India, Indonesia, Europe, and America. The common used of clove are to treat toothache, respiratory infection, and acne.

To treat toothache, the flower of clove could be used. You can dry the flower and then crush it into powder. Apply the powder to the painful tooth. The other way is using clove oil that you can buy it at local medical store. Clove oil has antibacterial power to disinfect root canals and it has the ability to relief toothache. You can use a cotton swab to apply the oil to the painful tooth and gum. It will give you a numb effect. However, the effect is only temporary that if you do not solve the real problem, the pain may occur again.

In respiratory infection, clove can help to fight bacteria and germs. Clove also has the ability to work as an expectorant that will dilute mucus in the throat. Then, it can help to loosen phlegm on the respiratory system to allow easier breathing. To take it, you can just chew clove and you will feel the effect soon. If you could not chew it, you can put some cloves on your tea and drink it.

To help you deal with acne, clove contains euganol that could help you to get the balance on your skin. Clove oil could help you to deal with acne and acne scars. You can apply clove oil on the acne using cotton swab. However, if you have a sensitive skin, you need to dilute the oil with coconut oil or olive oil first before you apply it on your skin.

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Low Sodium Diet to Lower High Blood Pressure

Low Sodium Diet to Lower High Blood Pressure 300x234 Low Sodium Diet to Lower High Blood PressureSodium inside the food could be dangerous for people who suffer for high blood pressure since sodium could increase blood pressure, especially for sodium sensitive people. In order to reduce the risk and prevent hypertension, you need to follow a low sodium diet. The most famous low sodium diet for hypertension is the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension). The diet plan could be different for different people but there are similar rules that you need to follow.

The first rule is you need to avoid salty food such as salty biscuits, chips, processed food that contain high sodium, salty cheese, seasonings that contain sodium, and more. The second rule is that you need to put a limit for some foods that are you can only take maximum 100gr meat a day, 1 egg a day, and 2 glasses of milk a day.

Foods you can eat are breads, rice, nuts, vegetables, fruits, cooking oil, and spices. You need to limit salt intake by reducing the use of salt in your cooking. In order to get the taste of your foods, you can add other seasonings and spices to your food such as sugar, vinegar, pepper, garlic, onion, ginger, and more.

You need to aware that sodium in the food is not only sodium from the salt used. Some foods naturally contain sodium and something from animal such as meat contain more sodium than vegetables. Additives used for food such as mono sodium glutamate and sodium bicarbonate could also increase the sodium level in the blood and you need to avoid it.

Before you buy any processed food, you need to check out the nutrition label to ensure the product is low sodium. At the restaurant, you can ask for low salt food or it would be better if you ask no salt foods. For ultimate health, take exercise and change your lifestyle into a healthy lifestyle.

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Red Fruit Juice for Cancer Alternative Medicine

Red Fruit Juice for Cancer Alternative Medicine 300x198 Red Fruit Juice for Cancer Alternative Medicine Red fruit or Pandanus Conoideus Lam is native to Papua, Indonesia. The color of the fruit is red (merah in Indonesian) and that is why people of Indonesia call it buah merah (red fruit). Papuans call the fruit kuansu while people of Papua New Guinea call it Marita. The fruit mostly grows in Papua highland and mountain area such as Jaya Wijaya Mountain, Manokwari, Nabire, Timika, and more. The fruit could grow in different places but it may not contain the same substances with one grow at the highland.

The people of Papua have been using this fruit as medicine for eye diseases, skin diseases, and more. Then, a study found the fruit is rich of antioxidant such as karoten, tokoferol, betakaroten, omega 3, omega 6, and more substances that could help people to fight cancer or at least to slow the grow of cancer. Therefore, red fruit is believed to be useful as alternative medicine for cancer. In Indonesia, red fruit supplements are widely produced and consumed. So far, many people feel the benefit.

To get the benefit of red fruit, people take the oil. However, only ripped fruit about 3-4 months old could be used for high level of active substances and the process should not use high temperature that could increase levels of peroxide inside the oil. Filtering as the last process to take the oil is very important. Three-time filtering is recommended to get the pure oil. To store the oil, people need to keep it away from direct sunlight that may reduce betakaroten level inside it.

As a supplement to cure cancer, it is recommended to take 1 spoon of red fruit oil 2-3 times a day. When taking the supplement, people should not take aspirin and several medicines that could dilute blood since tokoferol inside the fruit has the same effect that double effects would be dangerous for the body.

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Anthill for Cancer Treatment

Anthill for Cancer Treatment 300x231 Anthill for Cancer TreatmentThere are many reasons why people tend to look for alternative solutions to their health problems rather than just follow what the doctor recommends. One of the excuses expressed by the patients is the worry about the chemical contents of the given drugs. Although the medical field has been more advanced, the natural remedies seems still offering the safer solution and equal effectiveness to treat various diseases. It is also including the cancer.

Everything that has been available naturally on the earth has advantages to humans. There is no exception to with anthill. It is more than just a home for the ants or a place where they can store foods. Anthill is now known as one of natural and alternative medicine for cancer treatment. Well, anthill or myrmecodia pendans that comes from Papua are different with the common species of anthill found at home. By the native people in the eastern part of Indonesia, the anthill has been used as a natural treatment for various diseases from generation to generation. Finally, experts have discovered what exactly owned by these ants nest. They found some active ingredients like phenolic, antioxidant, flavonoids, tocopherols, various minerals and anti-cancer substances. And now, the advantages offered by the ants nest from Papua have been able to be obtained by many people in the world. Many of them get recovered from serious diseases including cancer without having to take chemotherapy, biopsy or surgery.

The way to consume the anthill is not too complicated. It is quite easy and a person does not need to explore Papua just to get the ant nest. It has been marketed both nationwide and internationally. With the proper packaging, dry powder and water extract capsules, the consumption gets easier too. Here is one of the recommended serving ways.

  • Pour 1 tablespoon full (around 10g) powder into a stainless steel pot with 2 glasses of water (500ml)
  • Cook until boiling, fire, stirring occasionally reduced for about 15 minutes (2 cups water to 1 cup)
  • Cook the stew results
  • Strain the cooking liquid water and water of stew is ready to drink.

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