Garlic: An Herb for Many Common Health Problems

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Garlic is an Ayurvedic herb that is truly multipurpose. Since prehistoric times, garlic has been used in treating number of diseases. Garlic is part of every Indian kitchen due to its healing properties. Garlic is supposed to [...]

Natural Skin Remedies

The human skin has many important functions such as:
1. Protection: Your skin is an anatomical barrier between the internal and external environment in bodily defense.

2.Sensation: Your skin contains a variety of nerve endings that react to heat, cold, touch, pressure, vibration, and tissue injury.

3. Heat regulation: Your skin contains a blood supply far greater than [...]

Ayurveda and Body Detoxification

You are a toxic cesspool of the lifetime accumulation of chemicals from air, food, and water. These accumulated toxins contribute to nearly every disease, sickness, and malfunction of the body.
Your body is like a city where the sanitation units are on strike. As the garbage bags pile up, the city slows down and if the [...]

Supporting the Emotions and Psyche with Aromatherapy

Depression is a common condition, affecting millions of Americans across all walks of life. Many are seeking relief through natural remedies for mild to moderate depressive states; healing from, or transforming through, these states can be effectively supported with ‘alternative’ medicine, especially when precisely applied. Pure essential oils have been studied in clinical arenas for [...]

An Overview Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine

What is complementary and alternative medicine? Complementary and alternative medicine usually refers to practices that are not integrated into conventional medicine. Treatments in the category of complementary and alternative medicine are constantly changing. Treatments change when studies prove them to be effective or not.
Some of the treatments used in complementary and alternative medicine are:
* Homeopathy [...]

Healing What Ails You Through Naturopathic Treatment

The term naturopathic treatment covers a broad range of modalities that come under the umbrella of alternative medicines. All natural therapies aim to work with the body in treating the cause of illness, not just the symptoms. Naturopaths treat people holistically, taking into account not only their physiology, but also psychology and lifestyle.
Some examples of [...]

An Introduction to Natural Health Therapies

Alternative medicines are coming back in a big way. The over dependence on allopathic and surgical methods to cure human maladies, and their corresponding side effects are encouraging patients to take to older and more natural means of cure. In order to relieve themselves of the painful and often futile solutions, which are offered by [...]

How and Why to Meditate

“Yoga and meditation techniques are being implemented in management of life threatening diseases; in transformation of molecular and genetic structure; in reversal of mental illnesses, in accelerated learning programs, in perceptions and communications beyond the physical, in solving problems and atomic and nuclear physics; in gaining better ecological understanding; in management of lifestyle and future [...]

Treat Hormones Naturally with Geranium Oil

Known for its sweet, earthy rose-like scent and its colorful flowers, the geranium plant [...]

Healing Your Whole Self

If you ask the vast majority of people today what the definition of “healing” is, most would immediately refer to physical healing. A few would perhaps mention psychological healing from trauma or abuse and in either case they are always separate issues.
It is such a sad tribute to modern medicine that we are so [...]