Relax With Aromatherapy Massage Oils

By Bryan Josling

After a hectic day at work, your husband complains of every part of his body aching with pain. Will a good night’s sleep refresh him for the next hectic day? Not necessarily. With a similar schedule each day, he is adding to his pain, which within time will transform into a fatal disease. You being a caring wife, will you want this chain of events to continue? If no, then aromatherapy massage oils are for you.

Aromatherapy massage oils will go a long way in giving the much-needed relief to a person after a long day at work. Massage is both physically and emotionally stimulating for the body. When the massage is supplemented with essential oils, the person gains from the synergistic influences of a calm mind and a radiant skin.

Aromatherapy massage oils may be used in two ways. Inhale the massage oil vapours, which refresh your mind too. Alternatively, apply it to the skin. This method ensures that the massage oils are directly absorbed by the body from where they reach the blood stream. This has impact on one's health and skin.

After a massage with aromatherapy massage oils, one actually feels splendid. These oils have been known to have special therapeutic qualities. This finds them large-scale use in healing common diseases like cold, flu, pain in the muscles, headache etc.

For the purpose of massage, people often mix more than one essential oil to give the desired effect. The most common of these is the lavender, clary sage and lemon blend. It is known as the stress blend. The essential oils in concentrated form can be dangerous for use. Therefore, aromatherapy massage oils are mixed with carrier oils before applying it on the body. Similarly, one can prepare an aphrodisiac blend with essential oils of sandalwood and jasmine. Just have an idea of what purpose the aromatherapy massage oils will be used for and go on with the blending.

Aromatherapy massage oils are used largely in spas and physical and mental healing centres. Trained masseurs will help you in relieving stress and give you an ecstatic feeling.

If you want, you can also get massaged in your home. Massaging your loved one with fragrant aromatherapy massage oils is the best way to convey the concern for him or her. Aromatherapy massage is also recommended for the infants to give them a glossy skin and strong bones.

Aromatherapy massage oils work wonders with your skin and provide mental calmness. It is also used as a cure from several diseases.

Bryan Josling is working with the Horticultural Research Station in Adelaide. He has also been involved with research on plants. To find Aromatherapy essential oils,Aromatherapy Candles,essential oils wholesale visit http://www.ndaroma.com

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Home Detox 101 - 4 Quick Tips for Easy & Affordable Detoxing at Home

By Ananga Sivyer

Heading to a spa for an all-out cleanse may not always be possible, fortunately there’s plenty we can do ourselves to evict unwelcome elements! Here are 4 quick tips for easy and affordable detoxing at home.

1. Skin brushing

Dry skin brushing greatly benefits the lymphatic system. It helps in the elimination of toxins and removes dead skin cells. Regular brushing gets the skin looking clean and fresh, and feeling super smooth.

All you need is a natural bristle brush and 3 or 4 minutes extra time before your morning shower. When dry skin brushing, always work up the body in long strokes, towards the heart. Include the soles of the feet and palms of the hands, but avoid brushing the face or any sensitive or broken skin.

2. Solvent Solutions

Thirst is the body’s way of telling you it’s already dehydrated. Dehydrated bodies are more sluggish, toxic and prone to aches and pains than their well-irrigated counterparts.

For an easy solution to dehydration and its challenges to our healthy functioning try sipping hot water throughout the day.
Water is nature’s greatest solvent. When hot it is even more potent in reaching the finer tissues of the body and moistening, lubricating and flushing the areas that cold water doesn’t reach so easily.

Hot water from the kettle usually tastes nasty though, so here’s an easy home tip for a convenient, refreshing and portable detox.

Grab a stainless steel saucepan and fill it with 3 pints of water, add 2 slices of fresh ginger and a couple of black peppercorns. Set it to boil for 10 minutes. During that time, any chlorine will evaporate, and the water will absorb the benefits of the ginger and black pepper. Once it’s boiled for a few minutes, strain it into a flask and keep it by you for the day.

Many who’ve tried this have waved goodbye to headaches and mental fatigue.

If a flask of hot herbal water isn’t practical - you could start your day with a cup of hot water and lemon juice in the morning and increase your plain water intake for the rest of the day. Lemon juice is cleansing to the liver and generally helps the body de-gunk.

3. Tongue Scraping

Tongue scraping cleans the mouth of bacteria accumulated while sleeping, and stimulates the bowels to empty first thing in the morning. Many health food stores and Internet sites now sell custom-made tongue scrapers, otherwise, an upside down teaspoon will do the trick. Simply scrape your tongue from back to front a few times before brushing your teeth in the morning. Be gentle, and don’t scrape too far back.

4. Walking

A brisk 20-minute walk is as useful for detoxing as it is for exercise. Walking briskly encourages the skin to break out in a light cleansing sweat, massages the colon by using the lower stomach muscles and gives the lungs a blast of fresh air. Walking also helps cleanse the lymphatic system, which although it possesses circulation-like channels throughout the body, is an inert system with no pulse that only really benefits when we get moving.

And finally, some kitchen cupboard detox quickies. Cleansing ingredients in your kitchen cupboards include:

Detox drinks such as, apple, cranberry, or red grape juice, and herb teas or hot water with fresh lemon juice in place of tea or coffee. Green tea is a great detoxer due to it’s high concentration of anti-oxidants.

Citrus fruits (with the exception of grapefruit), which contain limonene a natural detoxer

Vitamin E rich nuts, sees and good oils

Brassicas - antioxidant rich greens including broccoli, cabbage, and spring greens

Ananga Sivyer is a health writer for LifeScape magazine and author of the self-help workbook: The Art & Science of Emotional Freedom Sign up for her ezine today, and get a FREE COPY of her Energy Balance e-book.

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Vitamins -- Why You Should Seriously Consider Supplementing

By Ba Kiwanuka

What Are Vitamins?

Vitamins are organic compounds that are required by the body in very small amounts for normal growth and maintenance of good health to occur. Vitamins play vital roles in the metabolic processes of the body and a deficiency state for a particular vitamin will manifest with characteristic symptoms. Vitamins are broadly categorized into two types: Water Soluble Vitamins and Fat Soluble Vitamins.

Water Soluble Vitamins

The water soluble vitamins include Vitamin C and the Vitamin B Complex group. They are so-called water soluble vitamins because they are easily and quickly lost in the urine and are not stored in the body. Consequently deficiencies of water soluble vitamins occur much more rapidly than those of fat soluble vitamins. Conversely, since water soluble vitamins are not stored in the body it is extremely difficult to attain toxic levels.

Fat Soluble Vitamins

The fat soluble vitamins include: Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin E and Vitamin K (use the acronym ADEK to remember). These vitamins are classified as fat soluble since they are soluble in fat and are absorbed by the body from the intestinal tract. As they follow the same path of absorption as fat any condition or factor that interferes with fat absorption also interferes with their absorption. Because these vitamins are more readily stored in the body than the water-soluble vitamins, deficiencies occur less frequently and take longer to occur. One drawback of being soluble in fat and thereby readily stored in the body is that toxic levels are more easily attained with these types of vitamins.

Why Supplementing With Vitamins Is Good For You

The American Medical Association (AMA) currently encourages all adults to supplement daily with multi-vitamins. What is of particular note here is the fact that for the past 20 years plus, the AMA has strongly stood against supplementing with vitamins. So why the change? Following a landmark review covering 38 years of scientific research by Harvard researchers, the June 19th 2002 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that although the current North American diet is sufficient to prevent vitamin deficiency diseases (such as scurvy), it is insufficient to promote good health. Furthermore, recent studies have shown that insufficient vitamin intake has a direct correlation to the development of chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease and cancer as well as other degenerative diseases.

Anti-Oxidant Activity of Vitamins

Vitamins have several different functions, however detailing the different ways in which each individual vitamin works is beyond the scope of this article. Having said that though, I will touch on the anti-oxidant activity of vitamins because it truly highlights the importance of vitamins.

Energy creation within our bodies (specifically, within cells) occurs through the transfer of electrons from one molecule to the next. The process by which an electron is lost is called reduction and the opposite process by which an electron is gained is called oxidation. The oxidation-reduction (redox reaction) reactions that occur within our cells to manufacture energy are what is known as cell respiration. One of the side effects of cell respiration is leaking of electrons involved in cell respiration from the respiratory centers of the cell. These escaped electrons then react with ambient oxygen to form what are known as free radicals (note, several other factors cause free radical formation including: environmental pollutants, smoking, vigorous exercise, pesticides to name but a few).

What are free radicals? They are molecular fragments that are characterized by having an unpaired electron which makes them extremely volatile. Because of their unstable and volatile nature they react especially aggressively with other molecules from the instant they are created and over time the cumulative damage unleashed by their activity destroys molecular integrity which spreads to the cell, then to tissues, onwards to organs and ultimately affects the entire organism to manifest as degenerative disease associated with aging, as well as accelerated aging process. To date an estimated eighty to ninety percent of degenerative diseases are believed to be linked to free radical activity.

Several vitamins are known powerful anti-oxidants and act as protective buffers within our cells to counter the destructive effect caused by constant free radical activity.

So to summarize, although vitamins have many other essential functions within our bodies, their anti-oxidant activity alone should be reason enough for anyone to seriously consider supplementing with vitamins if they aren't already.

Learn more about vitamins

Ba Kiwanuka is the owner of http://www.vitaminstate.org

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Herbal Home Remedies for Reducing Stress

By Rebecca White

CHAMOMILE SPRITZER

Boil 4 c water

seep 3 chamomile tea bags for 5 minutes. Cool

Put into a spray bottle Keep in Fridge

Lasts about 14 days

Shake before each use.

Use cold chamomile tea bags on puffy eyes

put over eyes for 4-5 minutes

CUTICLE TREATMENT

Use 2 Tblsp of papaya or avocado with a little lemon juice
mash, work into cuticles for a couple minutes.

Also you can apply canola or olive oil to cuticles
do this 2x's a week

FACE SCRUB

2 tblsp oatmeal

1 tblsp almond meal

1 tsp apple cider vinegar

chamomile water

Mix to a thick paste, wet face work into skin leave on for 15-20 minutes oatmeal will fall off. Take off with dry towel, buff…won't scratch or tug skin. Rinse with warm not hot water

FEET

2 tbslp oil

1 tblsp salt

Mix and apply to feet

Put oil onto feet then add socks

Light oil-saffron or sweet almond

Heavy- hazelnut or canola

Astringent for your face:

Rose vinegar:

Steep rose petals in white vinegar for 2 weeks in a warm place out of direct sunlight.
Remove rose petals and put into a glass jar and keep in refrigerator when ready to use apply with cotton balls.

Face and Body Crème:

Wash your face everyday with buttermilk or use you would ordinary cold crème avoiding eye area.

Buttermilk contains naturally occurring lactic acid, which is good as a mild exfoliate to remove dead skin buildup.

Peppermint Skin Toner:

1-pint vinegar

I pint purified water

1 c mint leaves

Place all ingredients in a glass or enamel saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Pour into a glass jar and allow to steep for 4 days strain and bottle. Be sure to label.

Herbal Quick Refreshers:

Tie fresh lavender, thyme, and sage together in a small bundle and hang near your desk or work area.
Place dried chamomile, rosemary, lavender, and lemon balm in a small clothe bag. Place bags in the bathroom, under cushions or other places. Pressure and warmth will release the smell.

Cucumber mask:

1 small cucumber

Chamomile or green tea brewed 1 cup each

1 packet unflavored gelatin

1 oz aloe Vera gel

Peel cucumber and puree in a blender till smooth. Strain the puree through a sieve or cheesecloth and reserve the juice. Take 2 ounces (1/4 c) each of your teas and place in a pan. (Sip the leftovers) Add unflavored gelatin and aloe Vera gel heating until the gelatin is dissolved. Add cucumber juice to the mixture and set in fridge for 30 minutes or so. Apply to face and let dry.

Peel off skin if normal and rinse off if skin is sunburned or extra sensitive.

SILKY SMOOTH SKIN:

Pour cornmeal on a wet washcloth and after you have taken a shower as a finish rub cornmeal all over your body.

CHEAP! Rubs off dead skin.

HEALTHY SOFT SKIN:

1 egg, some lemon juice, olive oil, and water. Mix in a small bowl. Wipe it on face after 10 minutes wipe off and wash face w/cold water and soap.

MAKE-UP REMOVER AND EXFOLIANT:

Equal mixtures of vegetable oil and cornmeal. Rub (softly) on face with a wet washcloth, rinse off.

ALOE VERA GEL:

Use as a hair gel, brow gel, or body lotion.

I have very dry, frizzy hair in the summer...I used aloe Vera gel on my hair and my SIL asked what I used to get it looking so curly and shiny...boy was she surprised when I told her what I use!!

BRIGHT EYES:

Witch Hazel on a cotton ball, lay down, cover eyes and relax for 5 minutes

SIMPLE BEAUTY MASK:

Mash boiled carrots with honey, put onto a clean face and let sit for 5-10mins. Rinse off with warm water.

SWEET BANANA MASK:

Mash up 1 banana really well add enough sugar to desired consistency (you can add a drop or two of essential oil, like mint, if you want to.) Spread on a clean face...let sit for a few minutes and wipe off gently with a wet washcloth.

CUCUMBER FACIAL:

Smash 1/2 a cucumber add 1 tblsp honey and about 2-tblsp oatmeal. Apply to face and let sit for 30 minutes. Wipe off gently w/clean damp cloth.

FACIAL MASK:

1/2 a banana

1/4 a cucumber

2 tblsp honey

1 strawberry

1 tsp lain yogurt

Chop then blend in a blender, spread on face. Let dry...wipe off gently.

BABY SOFT FACIAL MASK

1/4 c baby powder (I like to use the lavender bath powder)

with 1 tblsp water.

Smooth on face, leave till dry, wash off w/a damp washcloth.

Peppermint Facial Toner:

1-pint vinegar

1 pint purified water

1c mint leaves

Place all ingredients in a glass or enamel saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Pour into a glass jar and allow to steep for 4 days. Strain and bottle. Be sure to label. Use after cleansing face, apply with a cotton ball.

Herbal Facial Toners:

Use apple cider vinegar or white vinegar with these ingredients:

orange peel, orange mint leaves and calendula petals

lavender flowers, lady's mantle flowers, rose petals

Rose petals, chamomile flowers, rose water

Lavender flowers, mint leaves

Calendula petals and witch hazel

lavender flowers, rosemary, mint and thyme leaves

Mix together in a bottle and use a cotton ball to apply to face.

Rebecca White is a mother to 3 boys ages 12, 10 and 4. She loves to grow herbs for cooking and medicinal uses. Rebecca owns http://www.medicinalherbguide.com where you can find many more tips and great articles on owning your own medicinal herb garden. Be sure to stop in to see books she recommends using and software that saves you time when recording your plants progress. Gardening is Rebecca's hobby and passion.

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Essential Points You Need to Know About Migraine

By Justin Foss

Migraine is one of the most common excuse people use when they can’t attend a meeting or miss a class for students. In fact, it is an overused excuse next to insomniac. But this kind of headache is not a joke. It is necessary to find out the essential information about migraine so that when the time comes that the excuse becomes true you will not freak out of what you are feeling.

What it is and what it has…

Migraine is the kind of headache that occurs repeatedly. There is an estimated 11 individuals who get migraines in 100 people. A person with migraine experiences excruciating pain on one portion or side of the person’s head.

Migraine is classified according to the occurrence of aura and otherwise. Aura is a range of neurological disturbances such as visual irregularity. This serves as a sign that migraine is yet to occur. A person may experience vertigo, numbness which last approximately 20 minutes or less. This type is also called classic migraine that includes symptoms such as weakness of leg or arm, itching hands or face, confusion,

A common type of migraine does not occur with an aura. Some individuals only experience preceding symptoms such as mental confusion, mood swings, fatigue, and others. This type lasts to a maximum of 4 days.

Speaking of visual irregularity, one type of migraine is the ocular migraine which may result to vision loss or difficulty. But do not worry because its symptoms only lasts a while and doesn’t pose harm to the eye only that it affects your daily lifestyle.

Migraine signs include the following: severe headache, one-sided and frontal headache, nausea, vomiting, weakness, light and sound sensitivity, throbbing headache, eye pain, etc.

Triggering factors

Migraine can be triggered by many factors but all of these do not yet have scientific explanations. It includes allergic reactions, perfume odors, stress, irregular sleep patterns, meal skipping, alcohol, caffeine, pills intake, headaches due to tension, foods with tyramine, chocolate, peanut butter, banana, dairy products, and many more.

There are also drugs that can trigger migraine. These include nitrates, theophylline, reserpine, nifedipine, indomethicin, and cimetidine. So watch out for these if you know that you have the tendency to have migraine.

The Writer is the webmaster and owner of Medical Health Articles which has more than 1000 articles on all kind of health diseases and Auto Glass Repair Pittsburgh

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