Posts Tagged ‘immune system’

Home Remedies To Get Rid Of Your Cough

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

Everyone will suffer from a cough at some point in time and finding good cough remedies can make all the difference for your recovery. To effectively treat coughs you need to be aware of the causes of your cough. This way you can use the proper treatments. Coughs can be caused by respiratory disease, post nasal drift, allergies and asthma.

There are many different home remedies that people use to treat their coughs. Many times fresh air can provide relief and taking a walk or going for a short jog and get rid of your cough. This ensures that your lungs get plenty of oxygen and is particularly effective if you are coughing because you have a respiratory disease. Many times if you are wheezing a lot and coughing then drinking warm water can help.

A few other effective and popular home remedies for coughs include drinking a mixture of lemon juice, hot water and honey, turmeric powder in honey, juniper essential oil, a tea and honey mixture, drinking baked onion juice, herbal tea and cinnamon, sprinkling apple cider vinegar on your pillow, before bed drinking a mixture of hot milk and honey, ginger tea, and eucalyptus or mint in boiling water.

Most cold medicine also contains compounds that work to get rid of your cough as many times a cough is due to the post nasal drip from a cold. Many times the nighttimes cold and cough medicines just make it possible to sleep so your body can better fight your cold.

There are other coughs such as chronic coughs that are not due to colds. A chronic cough is nay cough that lasts for more than 2 months. Coughs can be a psychological issues or they can be caused by gastro-esophageal reflux disease, post nasal drip, asthma, infection or smoking. Track your progress by taking pictures with a canon slr camera.

There are a lot of over the counter medication available to treat your cough and the most common active ingredient are guaifenesin, iodides and dextromethorphan. Additionally there are throat lozenges and hard candy that can be used to treat your cough. If over the counter medication is not effective than you may need to visit an otolaryngologist, pulmonologist or allergist.

Many times prescription medication is needed for coughs related to asthma or GERD. There are also foods and activities you should avoid. COughing cannot cause hair loss in women.

The Right Kind Of Nutrition Allows You To Experience Better Health

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

If you believe ‘you are what you eat’ and you should, then you will know that healthy eating is not called ‘healthy’ for no reason. Eating right has a huge impact in the way you look and feel and this has been proven time and again by researchers.

Eating healthy and making sure of taking the right supplements if required can prevent all kinds of dread diseases from happening in the human body. Sometimes even the simplest of fruits and vegetables eaten in the right quantities can protect and boost the immune system immeasurably. When this system is protected, virtually the entire body has an extra element of health support.

Eating the correct foods to maintain optimum health not only means eating good quantities of fruit and veggies, it also means knowing what to use in your diet which may prevent certain illnesses from occurring. It is also possible to eat certain foods if you are already suffering from an illness, for example cancer, and you want to successfully fight against the disease.

A good example of this is the agaricus Brazil mushroom or Agaricus Blazei Murill. This small fungus has been found to have cancer beating qualities and in fact, Ronald Regan brought it into the limelight after his successful attempt to sure his skin cancer.

People who are not a part of civilization as we know it, they are cut off, but not necessarily hard done by. It is only when western principles are applied to them that problems arise. In their own habitat, hunting and gathering, they naturally eat all the right foods. These are the same foods that they have survived upon for thousands of years if not longer, and it is fresh, nutritious and health giving.

Cancers, heart disease and many other complaints have been cured completely naturally just by the intake of the correct nutrition, and in some instances this was not even a holistic approach. In other words sufferers did not make use of any traditional forms of chemical treatment, only natural methods and eating the right food.

My family all has problems with their legs and hips both my mother and father, I am approaching 50 and felt a problem with my hips when walking which I do a lot of. I discovered a click and was worried about it.

Nervous that I would suffer the same joint health problems as my parents I researched what I could eat and what natural supplements I could take to prevent this from occurring and I found Trigosamine, this is a supplement, I added it to my diet and two weeks later the hip click has virtually vanished. I don’t know if it is too late for them, but I am making my parents take this too!