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Current ‘Pharmaceuticals’ for Pain Relief

Posted on: June 14th, 2013

What are the current “pharmaceutical” products/systems for pain management? Pain management (also called pain medicine) is the discipline concerned with the relief of pain. Acute pain, such as occurs with trauma, often has a reversible cause and may require only transient measures and correction of the underlying problem. In contrast, Chronic pain often results from conditions that are difficult to diagnose and treat, and that may take a long time to reverse. Some examples include cancer, neuropathy and referred pain. Often, pain pathways are set up that continue to transmit the...

Is the pH of my soap important?

Posted on: May 31st, 2013

Soaps vary in their pH depending on how they are manufactured. Natural saponification usually results in a soap which has a pH in the range 10 to 11.5. This is very alkaline and can cause some irritation to sensitive skin. Common mass market toilet soaps, laundry soaps and even some ‘baby soaps’ can fall into this category. Soaps that are based on milder saponification techniques or are ‘superfatted’ have a much lower pH of around 8.5 to 10. While this is still alkaline it is much less alkaline than mass market soaps. Any soaps that have a pH around 5.5 (the pH of normal skin) are...

There are many treatments for Heel Spur

Posted on: May 30th, 2013

The plantar fascia is a thick band of tissue attached to the heel bone that supports the arch of the foot. When plantar fasciitis continues for a long time, a heel spur (calcium deposit) may form where the fascia tissue band connects to your heel bone. Approximately 8-10 percent of the population has severe bone heel spurs, with the most common treatments for alleviating the pain being ice, heat, stretching and various anti-inflammatory agents. Steroids and local anesthetics can be injected, and oral analgesic medications may be prescribed, but most of these methods have only provided...

The Future of Aromatherapy

Posted on: May 29th, 2013

The future potential for aromatherapy as a medicine is enormous and diverse. We have seen the popularity of aromatherapy grow, especially during the last two decades to help aid headaches, soothe arthritic joints and muscular pain, encourage sound sleep and help with hormonal changes to name just of the few of the many wonderful benefits. I believe the use of essential oils will become commonplace in our homes, hospitals and other healing centres. They will prove that they are a potent alternative to using many drugs and a first-choice when it comes to the treatment of many ailments...

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Posted on: October 5th, 2012

. Please enable cookies in your web browser to continue. What are Cookies? Cookies are short pieces of data that are sent to your computer when you visit a website. On later visits, this data is then returned to that website. Cookies allow us to recognize you automatically whenever you visit our site so that we can personalize your experience and provide you with better service. We also use cookies (and similar browser data, such as Flash cookies) for fraud prevention and other purposes. If your web browser is set to refuse cookies from our website, you will not be able to complete a...

Essential oils help reduce your waist line

Posted on: June 20th, 2012

Want to look better in jeans? A study on the effects of aromatherapy oils and massage on abdominal fat showed significant improvement in the reduction of abdominal fat and waist circumference. A study on the effects of aromatherapy massage on abdominal fat and body image in post-menopausal women showed a significant change suggesting that aromatherapy massage could be utilised as an effective intervention to reduce abdominal subcutaneous fat, waist circumference, and to improve body image in post-menopausal women. All subjects received a one hour whole body massage as treatment by the...

Butter vs Margarine

Posted on: June 1st, 2012

THIS IS VERY INTERESTING. BUTTER VS MARGARINEThis is interesting ... it was sent in an email to me. Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings.... DO YOU KNOW. The differenc...

Benefits of Carrier Oils

Posted on: May 24th, 2012

BENEFITS IN SKIN CARE Fats or oils are major components of cell walls, intracellular membranes. These are typically made up of a double layer of phospholipids. Cholesterol, so often painted as the bad guy, is fundamental to such membranes. It’s not surprising that oil is important in skin care. The skin contains a number of fats and related substances. You would expect to find the following in “average” skin fats: Triglycerides 32%, Free fatty acids 28%, Waxes 14%, Cholesterol and esters 4%, Squalene 5%, Other hydrocarbons 8%, Steroids 9%. Vegetable oils are among the oldest used...

Lavender Research

Posted on: May 18th, 2012

Lavender aromatherapy has cortisol-lowering and relaxation effects and may have beneficial acute effects on coronary circulation. - GreenMedInfo Summary. Abstract Title: Relaxation effects of lavender aromatherapy improve coronary flow velocity reserve in healthy men evaluated by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography. Abstract Source: Int J Cardiol. 2008 Sep 26;129(2):193-7. Epub 2007 Aug 8. PMID: 17689755. Abstract Author(s): Yumi Shiina, Nobusada Funabashi, Kwangho Lee, Tomohiko Toyoda, Tai Sekine, Sachiko Honjo, Rei Hasegawa, Takayuki Kawata, Yu Wakatsuki, Shinichiro Hayashi, Shio...

BE SPORT is not just for sport.

Posted on: April 3rd, 2012

This stimulating blend for pain and inflammation is often misunderstood and overlooked when it comes to choosing a blend to deal with arthritis, backache, migraine etc. Read what one of our customers had to say. “I'd just like to tell you about my great and unbelievable results from your product BE Sport. I was talking to my next-door neighbour and complained about lower backache, she kindly gave me some of her BE Sport to try. Within one day my backache was gone and has not returned so I decided to try it on my ankle tendonitis which I have had for over a year. I love to walk but...

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