Added April 5, 2012, Under: Diseases, Headaches & Migraines, Health, Skin Conditions
Chinese medicine is a form of alternative medicine that has been in place for thousands of years and is popular with over a third of the world's citizens. Its main focus is to treat symptoms even before they appear – to be proactive rather than reactive.
Chinese medicine is a complete system that uses many different natural health methods including herbs, acupuncture, food therapy, massage and therapeutic exercise as well as less well known healing treatments known as cupping and moxibustion.
These ...
Added March 22, 2012, Under: Children's Health, Environment, Health, Skin Conditions
When we use, or are exposed to, many different substances every day, we can sometimes forget how dangerous many of them can be. Solvents and resins are two such items that are in common use in the work place or at home.
A solvent can generally be described as a liquid that is used to dissolve another substance. Although solvents can be used safely, health problems can result from skin contact with solvents or from inhalation of their vapors. In addition ...
Added March 18, 2012, Under: Children's Health, Health, Skin Conditions
If you or your child has been diagnosed with molluscum, then it is a condition that you can safely treat at home while taking care to remember that it can be very contagious as its full name suggests - molluscum contagiosum. This skin condition, which is increasingly common in children and young adults, is characterized by lesions or bumps which are small, waxy, round growths – often with a tiny indentation in the middle making it easier to recognize as ...
Added March 14, 2012, Under: Children's Health, Diets, Health, Skin Conditions
My young granddaughter was recently found to be lactose intolerant which meant that we had to take her off dairy products as they were causing a red rash on her face and elsewhere on her body. We found that instead she could have the occasional organic dark chocolate treat, she could add rice milk or almond milk to her breakfast cereal and in place of ordinary butter, she was very excited to have magic butter (namely coconut oil). She called ...
Added , Under: Children's Health, Diseases, Health, Skin Conditions
There is a viral skin condition that is appearing more often and which has rather a strange name – it is called molluscum contagiosum. As its name suggests, the virus is very contagious and easily spreads both from person to person and from one part of the body to another part of the same body. A virus is a small infectious agent that can only replicate inside the cells of another organism. The word is from the Latin ''virus'' referring ...
Added March 11, 2012, Under: Health, Skin Conditions
Finding out that your skin condition is psoriasis can be very upsetting and life changing, particularly when it happens to young people. They can find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that it is a lifelong condition which may vary from red blotches on one part of the body to being covered from head to toe in painful, itchy patches of red skin which do not go away.
If left untreated, the skin can become increasingly dry, cracked ...
Added March 5, 2012, Under: Diseases, Environment, Skin Conditions
If you are one of the those “hands on” people like me who don't even own a pair of rubber gloves for using in the kitchen, then these tips are for you! When I start chopping up onions or pressing garlic, I always seem to end up with stinky hands with an odor that keeps on lingering no matter what I do. Well now it seems that I have been doing the wrong thing by trying to wash my hands ...
Added , Under: Diseases, Environment, Skin Conditions
Just as more and more people are becoming aware of the dangers of toxic and harmful chemicals that they apply to their skin, so the same awareness is dawning on pet owners too. Cats, dogs and other pets can be just as vulnerable as we are to synthetic and harsh products. Of course these products can be very damaging to your pets but also to your children, your home and to the environment in general. Instead of going straight for ...
Added February 24, 2012, Under: Diets, Diseases, Headaches & Migraines, Health, Nutrition, Skin Conditions
Cancer does not like cabbage but you should! They can be the most beautiful and tastiest of the brassica family and yet all too often they are overlooked in favor of more glamorous veggies. The important thing about cabbages is not to overcook them otherwise you will end up with soggy cabbage and that institutional aroma.
You can enjoy cabbages by:
- Eating raw in a coleslaw salad along with grated carrot, grated apples and some raisins and chopped walnuts. Toss in ...
Added February 22, 2012, Under: Health, Skin Conditions
While every teen almost expects to have a few pimples or even full blown acne along the way, when it continues into adulthood, then it can become more of a nightmare.
Our skin has thousands of tiny hair follicles, each with its own sebaceous gland that produces an oily substance known as sebum. Sometimes there is an abnormal reaction by the sebaceous gland in the skin to the male hormone testosterone that causes them to make more sebum. This is typical ...
