Archive for the ‘Plants and Herbal Medicines’ Category
Vegetables for Your Health
Here are delicious blends with varying benefits. There is only one requirement for its production: vegetables thoroughly with clean water to remove dust or dirt, and disinfected with antibacterial solutions to them free of germs.
HEARTBURN: juicing a carrot, an apple and four sheets of white cabbage. Take it before each meal.
STRESS: plants have properties including sedative, and juice make this great for people nervous and anxious. The ingredients are: two cucumbers and the center of a lettuce. The vegetables are blended and the juice is stirred into a shaker with crushed ice, salt and pepper. We recommend taking it at night.
ARTHRITIS: 150 grams of cucumber, 150 grams of celery and 75 grams of white nettle, soaked. Once cut ingredients liquefy and are taken at noon, just before eating.
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Benefits of Cabbage

Plants by scientific name Brassica oleracea L. This became one of the popular vegetables. Plural known, cabbage is used as the main ingredient vegetable soup. Characteristic of the crop of cabbage leaves has. Crop leaf is a leaf folds that make cabbage round or flat.
Ingredients:
- Water
- Protein
- Fat
- Carbohydrates
- Fibers
- Calcium
- Phosphorus
- Iron
- Sodium
- Potassium
- Vitamins (A, C, E, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinamide)
- Glutamine
- Amino acids
Benefits:
Based on the empirical society, cabbage is believed to overcome:
- Constipation
- Acute inflammation
- Accelerate the healing of peptic ulcers (Cabbage juice)
- Lower cholesterol
- Increase breast milk production.
Noni Benefits

Noni (Morinda citrifolia, Linn.) Including the coffee-type copy. Noni can both cultures developed in the lowlands and highlands. Noni fruit it tastes good but is also beneficial for health.
Ingredients:
- Morindin
- Damnacanthal
- Methyl acetyl
- Kapril acid
- Sorandiyiol
- Xeronine
- Proxeronine
Benefits:
Research shows, Noni able to heal some penyekit, among others:
- Heart disease
- Indigestion
- Diabetes
- Stroke
- Cancer.
Species: Taste and Health
The species they put flavor to food, but natural species are not only delicious they are also healthy. These are some of the most healthy and your benefits:
Canela
It has been used for its medicinal properties for hundreds of years. In addition to aiding digestion, being anti-inflammatory, have anti-bacterial properties and other recent studies have found that helps balance insulin levels which helps control appetite and helps reduce triglycerides and bad cholesterol.
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Benefits of Wine
Wine is one of the favorite drinks on our planet. Some benefits are obtained by taking the wine wine or eating grapes.
There have been many studies on wine especially red wine, there is no definitive answer yet but it seems that wine is healthy.
Benefits of Wine
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Emilla and nuts
Seeds and nuts are very healthy. In the past earned a bad reputation for its high fat content but now we know that is worth eating for its many health benefits
Nuts and seeds are rich in vitamin E, unsaturated fat, balancing the bad cholesterol, protein, minerals and micronutrients.
Consumed in moderation offer many health benefits, improve skin and hair and help to have a good memory.
Garlic and health
Garlic is the king of the kitchen and one of the healthiest foods. Learn how to get more out garlic.
Who is the garlic
Its scientific name is Allium satiuum, belongs to the family pampers onions, leeks, onions and others. These cousins have similar benefits to garlic.
Benefits of garlic
- Garlic is an antioxidant, enhances autoimmune
- Helps eliminate toxins.
- Garlic contains vitamins A, B and C, phosphorus, silicon, sulfur, and others.
- is believed to help prevent high cholesterol and mild hypertension
- It is a natural antibiotic (raw) and is anti-viral.
- He is credited with helping fight certain cancers such as colon.
Tofu: health and variety
With the rise of Eastern and natural foods tofu has become an ingredient known. It is a source of vegetable protein that can be used instead of meat.
That is the tofu
It is a food of Eastern origin. The ingredients are tofu and soy milk coagulant. Tofu has no taste very prominent but it can absorb other flavors.
The tofu is white and comes in blocks, it looks cheesy.
Akapulko / Acapulco (Cassia alata)
Akapulko or Acapulco in English is a shrub found throughout the Philippines. It is known under various names in different regions in the country. Locals call the ancient plant, andadasi, and palochina in Tagalog, Ilocos and in the Visayas regions, respectively. The shrub belongs to the family of Leguminosae, and grows about one to two meters tall. It has thick branches and leaves are embraced with 8 to 20 leaflets that are oblong-Elliptical in shape. The flowers of Akapulko have oblong sepals, and its fruits are tetragonal, which are also winged and glabrous. A Medicinal herb that contains chrysophanic acid, a fungicide used to treat fungal infections, like ringworms, scabies, and eczema. Akapulko also contains saponin, a laxative that is useful in expelling intestinal parasites.
The primary part used for purposes Herbs are the leaves, although The Roots and flowers are also used for certain preparations with Medicinal value. The extracts from the Akapulko plant is commonly used as an ingredient for lotions, soaps and Shampoos.
Gymnema Sylvestre
Gymnema Sylvestre – is a stroke of plants growing in tropical forests of Central and South India. The leaves are used in preparing herbal medicines. The plants, when chewed, the actual blocks of sugar receptor sites, explaining gurmar not name or “sugar destroyer.” Gymnema is used in the Philippines for the treatment of diabetes for over 2,000 years. The leaves are also used for stomach ailments, constipation, water retention and liver disease.
-research / “> current research, gymnema improves uptake of glucose into cells and prevents adrenaline from stimulating the liver to produce glucose, thereby reducing blood sugar levels. According to diabetes / diabetes-research / “> the current research, gymnema improving glucose uptake in cells and prevents adrenaline from stimulating the liver to produce glucose, thereby reducing blood sugar. Although the gross comment at Harvard
Medical School in conjunction with the Natural Standard, an organization that produces scientifically based reviews of auxiliary and alternative medicine topics, states, “There is evidence to suggest that gymnema can lower levels of blood sugar in people with Type I and Type II diabetes. ” It is meaningful to say the least. Harvard has told gymnema Sylvestre can even affect glucose levels in those with type I diabetes?