Archive for April, 2010
Herbal Remedies
1. Aloe Vera :
This herb has its own reputation worldwide. It is widely used as an herbal medicine from the oldest time. It is having extraordinary features of curing diseases.
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It is having a long history for its usage. Its beneficial effects on health and beauty resulted in its vast usage both in internal and external remedies.
The internal side of the leaves of the plant is having a gel which is widely used in several diseases.
The leaves are used in the treatment of burns. The aloine (milky liquid) is used as a laxative.
This plant is having about 20 minerals and it is very effective in regulating human metabolism, to accelerate the immune system, purifies the body from toxins, have antiseptic and disinfectant qualities and also have stimulating the cell renewal process. is vastly used in asthma, arthritis, inflammation of lungs, constipation, obesity, skin infections, sprains, anemia, and diabetes and cholesterol control.
2 Garlic :
This plant belongs to Africa and central Asia. It was originally discovered and used by Greek and Romans. Garlic has earned a good name as a best natural medicine. Garlic contains important antibiotic components, vitamins and minerals. It has many therapeutic effects as antibacterial, antiseptic, digestive properties, antihypertensive, diuretic and cancer curing qualities.
Eating meat is an activity that is the favorite of most of the people along the world and it is considered to be a very health giving diet but a recent research has shown some really amazing results.
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According to a research carried in The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, people who eat meat frequently especially the well cooked meat have higher chances of developing bladder cancer.
This research report was presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 101st Annual Meeting 2010. It was also notified that the risks appear to increase in people with certain genetic variants.
While discussing about the results of this research the leading presenter Jie Lin, Ph.D., assistant professor in M. D. Anderson’s Department of Epidemiology said that “It’s well known that meat cooked at high temperatures generates heterocyclic amines (HCAs) that can cause cancer”.
The bladder cancer is one of those diseases whose emergence rate has been seen to rapidly increasing from the past few years and according to American cancer society almost 71,000 new cases of bladder cancer have been seen in the country last year which is really an alarming ratio.
It has been seen from the past many years that the difference of races impacts many activities of daily life but a recent study has shown that even the diagnosis of disease and their treatment are also affected by races even though a person carries a health insurance.
Recently researchers from the GW Cancer Institute, with funding from the National Cancer Institute have studied the effect of race and health insurance status on the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
While discussing about this study Heather Hoffman, Ph.D., assistant professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services said that “We thought having health insurance would even the field and that insured black women would have had the same rate of evaluation as insured white women, but that was not the case in our study”.
The research was taken on a group of 581 women with breast cancer and those who were examined between 1997 and 2009 at different hospitals of Washington D.C.
Constipation Symptoms
Constipation is having more than one explanation. It is a condition where the colon is filled with hard stool and mostly very dry in nature which causes passing of the stool becomes very difficult and unnatural.
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It causes infrequent evacuation, a dull feeling to pass the stool, irregular habit forming in defecation and unsatisfied, incomplete bowel emptying.
It is very serious that constipation causes straining in some persons and eventually resulting in the bleeding of the rectum. Rectal defects appear in severe cases. In a medical condition called irritable bowel syndrome, constipation alternates with diarrhea. Age is normally connected with this habit of constipation and as the age grows bowel movements is slowing down and constipation begins to appear.
Constipation
Constipation is having more than one explanation. It is a condition where the colon is filled with hard stool and mostly very dry in nature which causes passing of the stool becomes very difficult and unnatural.
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It causes infrequent evacuation, a dull feeling to pass the stool, irregular habit forming in defecation and unsatisfied, incomplete bowel emptying. It is very serious that constipation causes straining in some persons and eventually resulting in the bleeding of the rectum. Rectal defects appear in severe cases.
In a medical condition called irritable bowel syndrome, constipation alternates with diarrhea. Age is normally connected with this habit of constipation and as the age grows bowel movements is slowing down and constipation begins to appear.
