Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Healing Herbs/Food DATABASE

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Healing Herbs/Food DATABASE

Here's what's in there (click on the side page LINK to get a clearer view and access to the articles on the herbs, foods and diseases):

Created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, as a free public service to promote health freedom and empower consumers with information about the healing power of foods. See NaturalNews.com and TruthPublishing.com to learn more.

Most Common Herbs

Most Common Health Conditions

About This Reference Database

This site is part of a public education project created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and hosted by Truth Publishing. Its purpose is to educate and empower consumers with information they can use to prevent and even help reverse degenerative disease. There are no commercial sponsors of this site, and neither Mike Adams nor Truth Publishing was paid anything to create this site.

Nature's foods contain powerful medicine in the form of phytonutrients, and knowing how to use those natural medicines empowers people with the information they need to be healthier, happier and free from the ravages of chronic disease.

The other sites in this project are:

HealingFoodReference.com - Covers healing foods, their nutrients and which diseases or conditions that may help.
SupplementReference.com - Explores the health benefits of popular supplements that don't qualify as foods or herbs. Example: glucosamine, amino acids, propolis, etc.
NutrientReference.com - Lists the medicinal properties of all known nutrients, including vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals.

The data presented on these sites are cited with research references. Sources include books by Dr. James Duke, Michael T. Murray, Michael Tierra and other doctors, authors and researchers.

A Few Links re: Blood Circulation, Weight Loss, Using Herbs, Bad American Foods Banned in other Countries; etc.

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14 Warning Signs That You Have Poor Blood Circulation

Poor blood circulation is a danger because of its silent nature. It can be easy to overlook in its early stage and only found once it has worsened. The following symptoms are common indicators of a weakened circulatory process.

12 Simple Tweaks for Weight Loss and Great Health

Most people are aware that weight loss isn't something that happens overnight. What many people don't know is the fact that small everyday habits can be tweaked to speed the whole process up.

Discover How To Use Herbal Medicine Effectively To Heal Away Disease & illnesses

If You Have Always Wondered How To Use Herbal Medicines and What is The Correct Way Of Using Herbs To Live A Healthier Life, Then This Guide Is About To Reveal All Just That.

7 Freaky Reasons to Ditch Plastic Containers

Plastic containers are bad for your health and the environment and they could be making you fat, infertile and sick. Learn here why and how to solve it.

Top Signs Your Body is Toxic and What to Do About It

Hundreds of years ago people didn't have to worry about toxicity in the body. But nowadays it turns out that toxins have become an inescapable part of our everyday lives. Find here the top signs your body is toxic and what to do about it.

11 American Foods that are Banned in Other Countries

Did you know that most Americans eat foods on a daily basis that are banned in other countries because they are known to cause inflammation, growth defects, and even cancer?

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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Constipation Nation: What You Need to Know About Pooping

Hi guys . . . . I always like to share helpful, healthful, fun and important information . . . . this article falls into those categories. Many of my own clients have this problem, so we need to share the knowledge!!!

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Did you have a satisfying poop this morning?

If yes, please share your ‘happy belly’ secrets in the comment section below!

If you are feeling heavy and plugged up, you are among the 100 million Americans who do not have regular daily bowel movements. If you want to check on the gravity of the situation, ask your coworkers or friends if they went to the bathroom this morning. There is a very good chance that a person sitting next to you (especially if it is a female) is literally full of shit!

‘Regularity’ is a loosely defined term. According to western doctors going to the bathroom once in 3 days is considered ‘normal’. Basically, most doctors are not concerned that you carry around a bag of toxic waste that gets re-absorbed into your bloodstream. Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda disagree. According to the naturopaths the Western pooping norm is abnormal.

Americans spend over $725 million on laxatives each year. Plus add in endless fiber supplements, herbal colon cleanses and other digestive aids and you have a booming billion-dollar elimination industry!

Why Should You Care About Poop

We are used to hearing that "we are what we eat" but in reality, "we are what we assimilate and eliminate." If you can't assimilate nutrients from food and eliminate leftover materials, no matter what you eat, you can't be healthy. Ayurveda and TCM claim that digestion is a cornerstone of health. They say that you must to cleanse your pipes at least once a day to maintain good health.

Being constipated can lead to an array of problems: bad breath, weight gain, allergies, bloating, poor nutrient assimilation, fatigue, migraine, breakouts, heart burn, lower back pain and sadly, the list goes on. Unfortunately, some people even grew to believe that digestive uneasiness is a normal state of being. You need to clean up your act and fast before disease sets in!

How to Restore Regularity

Two years ago, before I dived into studying Ayurveda and natural healing methods, my stomach was not exactly cooperating with me. Partially because of polycystic ovarian syndrome and in a huge part because of my diet, I felt perpetually bloated and often irregular and gassy. My stomach often looked like I was five months pregnant, even if ate very light.

Two years and many books, workshops and kitchen experiments later, my stomach and I are in a very happy place. We made friends and our relationship soared to a new level of intimacy. Yes, being regular and bloat-free takes intimacy because you can’t do it without truly getting to know your body.

It takes time to observe and to learn from your body. For now, I will share what worked for me in the hope that some of it might work for you as well.

There are multiple dietary guidelines that you can follow to improve regularity. You can also help to physically move things along with exercise, massage, and breath.

Add it to your routine: Yes, I know it sounds funny, but it is one of the most profound things you can try. It should be a part of your morning cleansing routine. So why not cleanse your bowels first thing in the morning as well? In our crazy busy lives, a lot of things have to be scheduled in advance to get done. Going to the bathroom is no exception! Making it a habit is similar to training a puppy to go out at the same times each day. It takes some practice, but then it works like magic. We are creatures of habit and our body thrives in a familiar routine. Even if you don’t feel an urge to go to the bathroom right away, sit on the toilet and focus on breathing (no BlackBerry or iPhone in the hands, though!). Over time, your body will connect the dots, appreciate your non-hurried effort and start cooperating.

Stop constant snacking: Don't eat until the previous meal is digested. Do a quick check in with your belly before and after eating.

Stop eating non-food items: Packaged, processed foods that have an extremely long shelf life do not deserve to be on your plate.

Simplify your meals: The fewer ingredients, the easier it is to digest. Avoid bad food combinations.

Stop eating drying foods: One of the reasons you get constipated is because you are dehydrated. When your body is dehydrated, your colon is the first to suffer. A healthy colon has a very high percentage of moisture/liquid and in extreme situations like dehydration, your body takes liquid from colon to support other bodily organs.

Surprising drying foods. You might be eating way more drying foods than you realize:

Nuts
Sandwiches
Beans
Chips
Bars
Cookies
Fiber cereal and bars. Fiber is great but it needs liquid to move along, so don’t forget to drink plenty of pure water.

Help Everything to Move Along..

Exercise: Being sedentary compounds constipation, while exercise increases the gut’s blood flow and improves gastrointestinal motility. Taking a short walk is often all it takes to convince your body it’s time to go. Certain yoga asanas are helpful in nudging sluggish systems into gear.

Abdominal massage: Give your belly some love. We take care of our nails, pamper our face and fuss over our hair, but our internal organs rarely get as much attention. If you’ve ever been in a managing role, you know that one of the easiest ways to get productive cooperation is to provide rewards and be nice. Our belly appreciates warmth, love and attention, as well. Abhyanga or a general whole body massage improves regularity due to its calming effects on the nervous system. A nervous stomach and irritable bowels need some calm and peace. If a whole body oil massage is an unreachable luxury, try gently rubbing your belly with your palm. Lie on your back, bring your feet into a butterfly (soles of the feet together and knees out to the sides) and gently massage the stomach clockwise. Ayurvedic massage therapists or holistically trained digestive specialists can be of wonderful help.

Breathe deeply. Take time time to breathe and check in with your stomach. If your knees allow it, sit in Virasana and do several rounds of deep abdominal breathing. I find it to be a panacea for my digestive troubles. It increases blood flow to the digestive system, while breathing calms your nervous system.

What It Comes Down to...

Our body is our Home. It is a place that should feel comfortable and cozy for us to live in. When we fail to maintain our Home in a clean condition, it is impossible to be comfortable living in it. It becomes anything but cozy and welcoming!

When our body is clean and light, we feel 'at home' living in it. To find this amazing feeling of being 'at home' in your own body, you need to keep its systems functioning well! You need to take care of your body and clean the sewage system if it gets plugged up!

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Harlem News ARTICLE: HEART CHAKRA cont'd from June 5th

As most of you know, I've been writing a weekly HERBS ARE NATURE'S MEDICINE column for a local New York community "good news only" newspaper (Harlem News Group) for the past five years. The last few articles have been on healing the chakras - which will be a major part of my upcoming eBook - and I wanted to share that healing information with you. We are subject to many imbalances that manifest as disease, that we (and our Doctors) don't really know how to heal. Our 7 chakras are energy hubs in our bodies that the Creator put in us as tools to heal all that ails us. But in this society, we were never taught about our Spirit, or how to access or heal it. That's what I'm offering us in my eBook and my many, many articles: tools to heal ourselves.

The information below is an expansion of this weeks article on the 4th Heart Chakra. There was soo much I wanted to share, there wasn't enough room in the limited article space.

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The Heart Chakra is the healer, the unifier, as LOVE IS THE PRIMAL GLUE OF THE UNIVERSE. LOVE INTEGRATES and LACK OF LOVE DISINTEGRATES. There is nothing more devastating than lack of love.

Heart Chakra

The Heart is the center of the chakra system, the mid-point of our journey. Like the green growing plants, which push up towards the heavens from their roots in the earth ~ we, too, reach outward in two directions: anchoring that Kundalini energy deep in our bodies originating at the base of the spine, and expanding upwards, liberating our energies as we reach beyond ourselves through our Crown Chakra for that Universal Energy source.

IT IS LOVE THAT OPENS THE ROAD TO DEEPER AND WIDER CONSCIOUSNESS, AND A DEEPER CONNECTION WITH OURSELVES.

Our Fourth chakra represents our basic right to love and be loved. Unfortunately this chakra is easily damaged, diminished or wounded, and that wounds both spirit and soul, affects both the mind and body, and impacts the very core of the self. Love, balance, self-reflection and acceptance, relationship intimacy, grief and compassion are the basic isues of this chakra. This chakra is located in the chest (cardiac plexus), and is of the air element. It is oriented towards self-acceptance as well as acceptance of others.

The abuses and traumas that damage this chakra are rejection, abandonment and loss; constant criticism, unacknowledged grief, divorce, death of a loved one, a loveless environment, and sexual or physical abuse. Abuses to the lower chakras will also manifest as wounds and scars to the heart, as the energy and strength of one chakra builds on the next. When we are unable to face, resolve and heal the traumas, our personalities manifest as antisocial, withdrawn, critical in judgment and intolerant of self or others; depression, fear of intimacy or relationships. Fear and grief usually block our attempts, and can eventually block the heart chakra itself. If we develop survival mechanisms that are excessive in its energy, we will manifest a personality that is codependent, exhibiting poor boundaries, demanding, clinging or jealous. We oftimes think our friends and family are just mean, negative or bad people. No, they/we simply need to heal their/our hearts.

All forms of child abuse are travesties of love - though they are not a complete absence of love, but simply an absence of "healthy love." Most often it happens when this most needed element of life is twisted and torn, withheld and used as a means of control. When this happens in childhood, we grow up not knowing what healthy love looks like and thus have a hard time creating it in our lives.

Without a healthy relationship with the self, reflective consciousness is impossible. So we end up seeking our groundedness through another - they become our reality, which usually drives them away. But when we "give them everything" and we lose them, we bankrupt ourselves because we don't have a center to which others can be attracted and stay - because 'no one is home.' There is no one inside us to love because we have given ourselves away.

Being loved by another increases our experience of Self, as we are reflected in the eyes, words, and behavior of our lover. Suddenly we catch a glimpse of our own divinity, our specialness, and begin a new way to truly care for ourselves and feel a sense of pride and purpose. WeThe most common block in the heart chakra is the absence of self-love. How can we have intimacy with others, reach out to others or maintain balance between ourselves and others if we have no balance within, are drowning in our own shame and self-criticism and/or are distanced from our own self?

Part of our healing process would need to include breathing exercises (pranayama), working with our arms - reaching out and taking in. (As the 3rd Chakra involves mastering the vibrational principles of 'holding on and letting to,') Of course there is much more, but I won't presume to be a Psychotherapist, but you could/should seek deeper assistance . . . as we ARE able to heal all. We just need to take the first steps. AFFIRMATIONS: I am worthy of love; I am loving to myself and others; there is an infinite supply of love; I live in balance with others.

Mandala of the Heart Chakra

Suggested reading: Eastern Body, Western Mind by Anodea Judith

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