Alternative Medicine

Health Benefits of Spa Baths

There are many benefits of spa baths and whirlpool baths. Many of the benefits are health benefits and beauty benefits. Baths have been in use since Roman times as far back as about 500 BC. Romans use hot baths as a form of relaxing, socializing and maintaining well being or maintaining good health. The practice of bath as a form or relaxing, socializing and health benefits are in use till date in some form or other.

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Bath Bombs: an Introduction

Bath bombs or bath fizzie are used for making bath an wonderful experience. The difference between a bath bomb and bath fizzie is that bath bombs are solid form and fizzies are in grain form. Generally bath bombs are of round shape, but these days they are available in various shapes and sizes, various colors and of various scented. They can be rounded like a cricket ball, heart shape or there may be many different designs on the body of the bath bomb. Bath bombs may be of different colors like pink, rose, white, light green and may be in combination of 2 or more colors. Bath bombs are available these days in practically any imaginable color.

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Acne Treatment by Alternative Medicine

Acne is chronic inflammatory condition of pilosebaceous glands of mainly face (acne can occur in other parts of the body like chest and trunk). Main characteristics of acne are comedones, excess production of sebum or seborrhea and papule/pustule. The causative organism of acne is propionobacterium acnes. There is hypercornification of pilosebaceous gland in acne.

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Acai Berry: The Superfood

Acai berry is actually a palm, known as acai palm. It belongs to Euterp genus of palm and grows about 15 to 30 meters tall. Acai berry is a native of central and South America from Belize to Brazil and grows in swamps and floodplains. The species Euterpe oleracea is called Acai Palm; the word ‘acai’ is derived from ‘iwasai’ meaning fruit that expel water. Acai berry fruit has many nutritional ingredients like antioxidant, anti cancer, anti bacterial and antimutagenic (do not cause mutation of cells and can not cause cancer) substances.

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Salvia Divinorum: The Wonder Herb

Medical practice by using herbs (herbal medicine) is as old as human history. Man has been trying to find cure and remedy to their ailments by using herbs since time immemorial. In every civilization there is indigenous form of medicine by using herbs and minerals. And salvia divinorum is traditional medicine used by Mazatec people of Mexico, in southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Salvia divinorum, also known as Diviner's Sage' or Sage of the Seers. Salvia divinorum is a Latin word meaning sage of the seers. The herb belongs to genus sage of mint family.

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Know about Alternative Medicine

Alternative medicine is any form of medical practice a patient embraces other than mainstream medicine. My personal view as a practitioner of mainstream medicine is “a patient should seek help from alternative medicine only when there is no acceptable treatment or management in mainstream medicine, to alleviate medical problem”. Help of alternative medicine should be taken for chronic long standing diseases when no solution can be provided by mainstream medicine. In late stage of cancer alternative medicine can at least give some psychological support to the patient and family members. If cause of backache can not be defined than ayurveda and yoga can give better management result than modern western medicine. But one should be always be careful about the side effects of alternative medicines, because many practitioners of alternative medicine claim their system to be free from adverse effects. But in reality there are no systems of medicine which have no adverse effects. The rule is simple; everything has some good and some bad things.

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