Traditional Medicine Herbs

Every year, millions of people are tricked into buying slimming and diet supplements that work very poorly, if at all. You may have even been one of these people. These days, diet products are flooding the markets by the thousands. How can you ever choose the right one for you? The first thing you have to keep in mind is that ninety percent of the products out there don't work at all. In fact, they may be causing you more harm than good. Some of the more popular weight loss pills of the past decade contained harmful ingredients. Be especially wary of products that claim that they can help you lose an inordinate amount of weight in a short period of time. An advertisement that claims to help you "Lose 20 Pounds in Three Days!" may sound good, but weight loss at that rate is downright dangerous to your well-being. Most slimming supplements work by suppressing your appetite and blocking your body from processing carbohydrates. Both results are undesirable, and can have dam...

Do you know why you wnat to lose weight. Do you REALLY know why? You may think just shedding some extra pounds would be "wonderful." Of course, it would be nice to fit into smaller clothes. How nice to walk up stairs without getting out of breath. But if you want to lose weight you had better know the reasons behind it or you are setting yourself up to fail. Be warned that if you are going to lose weight for the wrong reasons, like many others before you, there's a good chance that either your diet will fail or that you will put theweight back on after your diet is over. There are both good and bad reasons to lose weight. Avoid the bad reasons and focus on the good ones. 3 bad reasons for wanting to lose weight: To make a bad relationship good To make someone proud of you To make someone like you 3 Good reasons for wanting to lose weight: To get fit To avoid health problems To improve your self confidence See the difference? If you want to lose weight for yo...

One of the most important parts of losing any weight is your own vision... can you see youself at the weight you desire? You literally can't lose weight if you see yourself overweight, or more importantly, not being able to lose weight... your mind won't let you. This is one reason so many struggle with weight loss... and keeping it off. This is called physcological reversal. You say you want something, but your inner mind says just the opposite. You say you want to lose weight, but your mind says "it's too hard", "I can't do that", "never been able to do it, why now" or any other belief you've let settle in to your mind the past. These beliefs in one way or another you've 'accepted' at some time in the past. You see, your subsconcious mind accepts anything you pass to it. It doesn't judge, analyze, reason, filter... nothing, it just accepts. If you've accepted in the past that it's too difficult to lose wei...

I hope that the following clause will help you to better understand this topic and may be of benefit in some way or another. I presume there actually is no “best way to lose weight” as such which will fit each and every person crossed the board. Since everyone is unlike and is unequaled in their own way, it can be safely said that each person will have a different necessity when it comes to weight release options. I think however, it can be said that there is in spades a best way to lose weight for every individual, and it is best if you can find this out for yourself and follow it. If you are not sure about how to go about this, to begin with, you always have the alternative of contacting a moderated nutritionist or dietitian who will be able to help you find the your own personal “best way to lose weight”. There are many options for weight loss solutions, you also have the option of reading through assorted books and literature useable on the subject of weight loss to find what ...

Menopause is a time of quite a few changes in a woman's body. It marks the end of the childbearing years, but the beginning of an adventure into a new phase in life. In menopause, all of the care you took to treat your body well in previous years will pay off: your strong bones and muscles will now keep you healthy in your middle years. The usual and very natural weight gain for pre-menopausal women is sometimes unnerving, but it is simply due to the body not needing as many calories to maintain itself. Even though quite a few will try to manage this weight gain with diet and/or exercise, it can be a frustrating process. A better solution is often sought after. It's always tough to lose weight, no matter what your age. But it can be even harder during menopause. Don't give up though! Instead, focus on eating a healthy, ba anced diet instead of succumbing to fads. Fill up on natural foods that are full of essential vitamins and minerals, instead of processed foods loaded...

The cradle lands of civilization furnish us with written texts illustrating the use of herbs. The Ebers Papyrus, dating from about 1600 BC, lists some 700 drugs, charms and incantations. The majority of these drugs were herbs. Ancient Babylonian tablets of clay list some 230 commonly used preparations. Finally, the Ancient Chinese during the Shang dynasty (around 1700 BC) were writing texts on herbal medicine. The most famous Ancient Chinese text was a distillate of these early works, written as Shen Nung's Herbal in 273 BC. The Classical Greeks were responsible for removing much of the magic from the practice of medicine. In particular, Hippocrates mentions some 250 useful herbs in his great works (or at least in the writings attributed to the great physician.) This was later extended by Dioscorides, a Greek physician of the first Century AD, who published his De Materia Medica, which contained over 600 medicinal plants. Hippocrates believed that the four elements, earth, air, f...

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to enjoy gourmet coffee all the time? If you were to try and get your hands on gourmet coffee, it might cost you up to five dollars a cup, but with the right knowledge and equipment you can make it yourself at home. Below you will learn some of the secrets to a great cup of coffee: 1. Get A Machine The trick to brewing great coffee is a great coffee machine. There are still the old- fashioned drip machines, that are one of the easiest types to use for beginners and coffee experts alike. Of course, for the hard-core experts we have the old-fashioned presses and hand brew machines, that are back in favor. Then you have the newest technology, the pod coffee machines. These are like a European coffeehouse machine, infusing hot water through coffee pads. Also, then for espresso lovers, there are pressurized steam espresso makers. Better yet is to use a French press or a pour-over filter using fresh water just off the boil. 2. Filters Make sure, wha...

If coffee is grown by Mother Nature, it is brewed by master blenders assisted by coffee tasters. However, notwithstanding this fact, the quality of coffee brew depends on several factors and parameters. Coffee making is an art and this art form is perfected by many factors like quality of coffee pods, roasting parameters, time since grinding the beans, time since roasting, and cleanliness with brewing equipment, bean quality and water quality. However, the final quality of brew is entirely dependant on the quality of coffee pods. The way in which the coffee pods are processed and stored has a profound impact on the quality of coffee. Though the quality of coffee is also a factor of the area of cultivation and the farming practice used, how you store the green beans is often the deciding factor. Experts believe that the moisture level of raw coffee beans is as important as any other parameter. As soon coffee beans or pods are harvested, they have a moisture level of around 90% and t...

Coffee beans are harvested when the fruits on the coffee plants are nearing for ripening. The color of the fruits is red when they are handpicked by the laborers. The collected coffee beans are sent for next processing. Green coffee beans have a large demand due to its quality of maintaining the freshness for a longer time. So is the demand for green bean coffee pods. The preference can be attributed to a number of factors. Coffee beans undergo a number of processes for its use the important being roasting. Usually, they should be of uniform size for the process of even roasting. Small beans may get roasted earlier than the larger ones giving differing colors of the roast on the skin. This results in the coffee beans getting roasted at different temperatures thus compromising on the flavor. It also shows that the beans have been picked from different cultivations and places, which the coffee graders cast doubt on their quality. The coffee beans have to be separated by their origins a...