Natural Medicine

Its a fact that you are the only one responsible for your good or bad health. You have headache just because you have some tensions, or you were unable to sleep the last night, or you are unable to understand things or anything else!
Here, I am going to tell you my personal experience on the maintainance of my health. Whenever I have headache I use to observe the birds on my roof, or watch the joyous movements of young children. It makes me feel lighter and headache is gone is seconds! So, search for your natural medicine for maintaining your health. Its really soothing, and not bitter, believe me!!!

Facts about Ambulance!

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• An Ambulance is a commercial vehicle used to carry sick and injured people to hospital for treatment.

• Modern-day ambulances are typically large automobiles on a van or light truck chassis with a maximum road weight up to 7.5 tonnes. (http://auto.indiamart.com/ambulance/)
• They are categorized into various sub-categories such as Emergency ambulance, Patient Transport Ambulance, Response Unit and Charity Ambulance depending on their functional use: 

1. Emergency ambulance – The most common type of ambulance, which provide care to patients with an acute illness or injury.
2. Patient transport ambulance – A vehicle, which has the job of transporting patients to, from or between places of medical treatment, such as hospital or dialysis center, for non-urgent care. These can be vans, buses or other vehicles.
3. Response unit – Also known as a fly-car, which is a vehicle which is used to reach an acutely ill patient quickly, and provide on scene care, but lacks the capacity to transport the patient from the scene.
4. Charity ambulance – A special type of patient transport ambulance is provided by a charity for the purpose of taking sick children or adults on trips or vacations away from hospitals, hospices or care homes where they are in long term care. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance)

•  An ambulance's helpline number is 108.
• The name "AMBULANCE" written in front and back of the vehicle is laterally inverted like this:

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It is done so that when the ambulance is on its job, then while traveling over road, other vehicles could leave its way by recognizing it as an ambulance, by reading the letters "AMBULANCE" in correct form through the rear-view mirror.

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FAQs on health

I have a bad back and even walking can be too hard; what can I do to get some exercise?

 The back trouble is simply from weak abdominal muscles and poor posture. When there is something structurally wrong with your back, like a herniated or bulging disk or some muscular problem, non-weight bearing activities like a stationary or recumbent bicycle might be better than activities where you pound, like jogging or dancing. One of the best activities is swimming, because the water supports your weight and there is very little pounding, especially in your back.

 -http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=55833

I am a teenager and I frequently have pimples on my face.. What should I do?
 Pimples during teenage are natural! If you want a successful home remedy for that, then you should follow it regularly, without the use of any other beauty product during the course. The information provided here would help:

• Apply distilled white vinegar (may be diluted if too strong) for the face and affected areas. Allow this to sit for 5-10 minutes just before rinsing off with awesome water.
• Lemon or any citric fruit functions excellent as a natural exfoliate, removing dead skin color cells that might clog the pours. As using the white vinegar, apply the juice of a lemon (or desired citric juice) towards the face. Allow it to dry for about 10 minutes, then rinse with cool h2o. You may feel a mild sting or burn when the lemon juice is applied. If so, diluting the juice is acceptable. 
• Increase drinking water consumption. Water assists flush toxin out and assist transport nutrients in your body. 
• Eat a appropriately balanced diet to make sure proper nutrition. Take a high quality multiple vitamin and mineral supplement to make up for nutrients missing in today's foods. 
• Echinacea or Oregon grape may be utilized to boost the immune program and fight Pimple and Acne-causing bacteria.

-http://www.ecurepimples.com/

I frequently suffer from cough and cold. Is there any solution for this? 

 Prevention: Avoiding dairy and other mucus-forming foods could help. Ice, cold water and fruit juices should not be taken. Hot spicy herbs, particularly long pepper, dry ginger or chitrak as a milk decoction, are helpful.

 Cure: Ghee can be used to soothe the throat. Powdered lotus seed with honey is helpful. Licorice combination can be used.

-http://www.baidyanath.org/dicough.shtml

I usually have very high-blood pressure. What should I do?

 Hypertension (Rakta Vata) or high blood pressure is a disorder characterized by more than normal pressure at which the blood is being pumped by the heart.

Some of the common remedies:

• Garlic Raw garlic has heating effect. It is therefore used with buttermilk. In the early stages, it is advised to use 1 mg of garlic, thrice a day. Gradually, the content can be increased to 3 gm, also three times in a day.
• In another useful form garlic, is fried in ghee with honey. This way, one can get rid of extreme smell and also it is cholesterol free. (Garlic should be avoided raw and should be mixed with herbs to overcome any adverse effect).
  -http://www.baidyanath.org/dihighbloodpressure.shtml

 We are coming soon with more FAQs on health and their solutions! 

 Please comment if you have any question regarding your health!

  

First aid

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What is first aid?
First aid is the initial treatment given to any injury or a wound on the body, usually given by non-experts...

 

A first aid box should have the following things -

• Band aids of different sizes
• Antiseptic solution such as Dettol
• Rubbing alcohol also called Isopropyl alcohol
• A pair of pointed tweezers to remove splinters which are superficial and have one end protruding. Deeper splinters or foreign bodies should be removed by a physician.
• Cotton - preferably sterile
• Blunt ended scissors
• Sterile bandages
• Torch or flashlight
• Tourniquet
• Heating pad
• Ice pack
• ACE bandages - for sprains and achy joints
• Acetaminophen (paracetamol) for aches and pains and fever
• Throat lozenges
• Ibuprofen, which has an anti-inflammatory action, also for aches and pains and fever
• Aspirin tablets
• Anti-allergy pills such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl).

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So, always keep your first aid box ready with you at home for safety...

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Laughter is the best medicine..

Humor is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious than any cough, sniffle, or sneeze. When laughter is shared, it binds people together and increases happiness and intimacy. In addition to the domino effect of joy and amusement, laughter also triggers healthy physical changes in the body. Humor and laughter strengthen your immune system, boost your energy, diminish pain, and protect you from the damaging effects of stress. Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free, and easy to use.

Laughter is strong medicine for mind and body:

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Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humor lightens your burdens, inspires hopes, connects you to others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert.
With so much power to heal and renew, the ability to laugh easily and frequently is a tremendous resource for surmounting problems, enhancing your relationships, and supporting both physical and emotional health.

Laughter is good for your health

• Laughter relaxes the whole body. A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after.
• Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.
• Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.
• Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.

So keep laughing :D :D hahahaha...

Article source: http://www.helpguide.org/life/humor_laughter_health.htm

 

Don't do this!

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Most of the people pick their bad habits from their teenage, that have effects on their health for long... Here, is a brief of some of the common bad habits seen among teenagers...

1. Watching TV for unlimited time.
2. Taking drugs through mouth or by injections.
3. Drinking and Smoking.
4. Taking junk food.
5. Irregular sleeping.
6. Showing emotions at extremes.
7. Showing insecurity physically like chewing nails, scratching on body parts unreasonably etc.

 

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To get rid of your negative habits, you must first understand what creates them.
Your habits are created by your thoughts. When you were born into this world, you have no habits. You pick up your habits from the influence from your surrounding and your own life experiences.
Your parents, your friends, your teachers, your boss, your peers… basically anyone can affect your habits by influencing your thoughts. Once you have a certain thought in your mind, your mind will start to send signals to your emotion and hence you will take a certain set of action, which is your habits, to produce a certain results.

Unless something ‘bad’ happened, you’ll keep on cycling the same pattern over and over again. if you want to change your habit, you must create a new thought and emotion in your mind to replace the existing pattern.
It is not like computer, which you can simply press on the delete button to delete away files that you don’t want. Your mind works differently in ‘deleting’ negative thoughts or habits that you don’t want. you’ll have to start by replacing your old patterns with new ones.
Some people procrastinate all the time. They choose to watch TV instead of investing their time into reading development books. They get instant gratification of feeling joy when watching TV. This will reinforce their thought pattern that watching TV is good and reading books is something they don’t like.
This cycle will keep on going until one day, something forces them to change. Such as if they did not change their habits, they’ll be in dept. When this happen, they’ll forces themselves to take different set of action that will lead to different results.

So, This is how you can change your habits and behaviors...

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