Health Tips

Here you'll find health tips from alternative medicine. Prevention, treatment, optimum health secrets on a variety of topics. Read cutting edge health info on keeping yourself at your best.

Sinus congestion
Research has revealed that fungus is the primary cause of sinus congestion, so antibiotics and allergy medications may not be the best approach. Instead, clean the sinuses by irrigating them with a product called Sinus Cleanser, which contains Baptisia tinctoria, a homeopathic antifungal, along with colloidal silver, grapefruit seed extract, and oregano. It’s available at your health food store, or online at sinuscleanser.com.

The professional researcher/reporter who writes this site has no medical training. Always check with your doctor before trying anything you read here. Everyone is different, and what might be good for some people might be bad for you, considering your medical history and medications.

Health Tips About Cluster Headaches
Oxygen therapy for cluster headaches is effective, 78 percent of the time, at stopping a cluster headache within 15 minutes, according to a London study published in the Journal of the American Mdical Association. Researchers studied four different cluster headache episodes in 76 sufferers to see whether high-flow oxygen through a face mask was more effective than plain air. The plain air was effective only 20 percent of the time. For more info, see your doctor.

Source: USA Weekend, Jan. 15-17, 2010

Health Tips About Stomach Distress
If you’re having trouble with prescription drugs, such as Prilosec, Nexium, Prevacid and the like, check with your doctor about zinc carnosine (75 to 150 milligrams daily) a supplement that suppresses inflammation. Deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL) is also a popular alternative treatment for acid reflux, two tablets chewed before meals or when symptoms appear.

Health Tips for Psoriasis
A potent antioxidant compound in olives, hydroxytyrosol, eases inflammatory skin conditions such as psoriasis. During an unrelated study, subjects with psoriasis showed improvement while taking an olive extract, Olivenoil, for several months. One subject had 80 percent of his lesions go away.

Whey, a dairy byproduct may also be helpful. In a study on psoriasis, 84 subjects took 5-10 grams daily of a whey protein supplement called BioDERM, and more than 20 percent showed improvement after eight weeks and almost a third had significant improvements after 16 weeks.

An anti-inflammatory diet also helps, including fish rich in omega-3, such as wild salmon and lots of vegetables. Ease up on meat, vegetable oils and processed foods, and take a good multivitamin and mineral supplement.

Since UVB light therapy helps psoriasis by boosting production of vitamin D, check with your doctor about taking Vitamin D supplements and creams, such as the prescription cream Donovex.

Gels containing aloe vera or one-percent curcumin may help, as well as a product called Blue Cap, which contains zinc pyrithione. Check your health food store for these products.

Source:
Health & Healing newsletter, May 2008, by Julian Whitaker, M.D. For subscription information, go to www.drwhitaker.com/MainSite/Newsletter.aspx

Health Tips For Memory Improvement
Interacting with nature in a variety of ways can improve memory and attention span. A one-hour walk in the park, in good or bad weather, improved memory and attention span 20 percent, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. Participants in the study walked in a botanical garden sometimes and down city streets other times. The memory improvements only showed up during the garden walks. The city walks had no effect. “Interacting with nature can have similar effects as meditating,” says researcher Marc Berman. Even looking at scenic pictures of nature produced the same effect.

Source:
Psychological Science, December 2008 as reported on Newsmax.com, 12/24/08

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