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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Eat dragon fruit

Sometimes we don’t like food that has no good taste without looking its health value. One of these foods is the Dragon fruit during my first taste of this fruit it did not give me too much attention due to its tasteless fruit, but after browsing over the web I found some tips about its medicinal and health value.

The dragonfruit is come from Central America. It is abundantly grown in Vietnam, Malaysia, and other places of the world. Dragonfruit or Pitaya fruit is one of the most rich nutrients and wonderful exotic foods. It has a mouth watering sweet taste and great color, shape, and adoring flower. Being a nutritional fruit Dragon fruit is best for all diets it has fiber supplements that are very good for liver and laxative. Some people having obesity, blood pressure and diabetes testified to the fruits benefits. For obese people it reduces weight naturally without health risk.

It is widely known that Dragon fruit poses antioxidants that prevent the formation of free radical that causes cancer.

Eating dragonfruit has great benefit and importance some of its benefits are:

Vitamins C is a very popular treatment for colds and flu’s because it is well known for boosting the immune system.Carotene that help maintain and improve eye sight
Fiber that reduces body fats and enhance digestive system
Vitamin B1, that helps production of energy and metabolize carbohydrates B2 that work as multi vitamin to recover and improve loss appetite and B3, enhance skin and lower bad cholesterol.

• Protein that help body metabolism
• Calcium that makes strong bones and teeth and phosphorous that help in formation of tissue.

Growing dragonfruit need a warm climate. It has a high prospect in growing many people have built trust in this fruit because of its nutritional value and health benefits, some people use this as juice and wine flavorings.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Ginger for Motion Sickness Treatment

There are medicines for this, but ginger is far better. Ginger is traditionally used to treat nausea, but also work well against motion sickness.
There are ways on how to use Ginger as treatment first make a Ginger tea, simply slice off a small amount of fresh ginger and put it in hot water for 30 seconds up to several minutes.
Another way is just take a half teaspoon of the fresh ginger and finely dice it with a knife and swallow it whole.
It has worked every time I have had the need for it. It is probably the most consistently effective herbal food that I have seen to work best.
Ginger is very potent, so taste it at regular intervals of about 30 seconds—it can get very strong fast!
To make a tea form dried herb, put about one teaspoon of the herb into a tea strainer and place it in a cup of hot water. Do not add sugar. For needing some sweetness, try a couple of drops of liquid stevia.
Today there are available ginger teas in the market. Every time I traveled with my kids I always bring some ginger or ginger tea.

Treat burn in a simple way


White flour
Our common practice when got burn is to place the affected area with something cold or soak with cold water, some people use vinegar, toothpaste or anything that we learn as cure.

One of the most effective treatments for burn is placing the affected area with ice it will help relieve pain and keep the burn from getting red or blistering effect.

I have a little info to share with you guys about a simple and most effective way to treat burns. Last week when I’m cooking a beef ribs and stuck my fork in the hot boiling water to find out if it got tender, my hands slip in to boiling water. I scream as it is very painful, I remember I have received an email on how to treat burn in a simple way. My mother is keeping a stock of white flour used in cooking. I pulled out a bag of flour and stack my hand in it for ten minutes. Yes I put my hands in flour for ten minutes.

After ten minutes I pulled my hand out from the bag and its miracle I have not even a red mark or blister and absolutely no pain.

Lesson Learn keep a bag of white flour in your home or cars for burn treatment.
Burn

Thursday, April 14, 2011

How to extract virgin coconut oil in the simplest way

Coconut oil is mainly used in cooking, the discovery of virgin coconut oil boast the coconut industry, in rural areas coconut grown abundantly. Coconut tree has a lot of uses from roots to leaves.

During my younger days my mother teaches me how to extract coconut oil in the simplest way.

·        How To Make Your Virgin Coconut Oil
·        Select only fresh and mature quality coconuts
·        Split coconuts and collect coconut water.
·        Grate coconuts and collect coconut meat

·        Place inside a plastic or aluminum basin

·        Find an ants house and get some soil from it

Actually I did not understand why we did not use ordinary soil. But my mother told me to follow her without any comments. By pressing and mixing the above mixture in a few minutes you will notice clear white substance coming from every press or stroke you have made.

And now you have a clear white and pure coconut oil.

Its true that is the simplest way to extract coconut oil try it in your home. 

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Cornsilk for your health

corn silk
Cornsilk is very abundant in farmland and people did not care or give attention to these.
It is silky threads that cover the corn. It is said to best when used as fresh, but it is also available in the market in powdered, capsule form or tea extract.

Health Benefits:

·                 Cornsilk juice is a powerful and effective diuretic, effective in all sorts of kidney related problems
·                 help remedy prostate inflammation.
·                 For diuretic effect is also very good for those people suffering from water retention, bloating whether due to kidney problems or PMS.
·                 rich source of vitamin K which makes it useful in controlling bleeding especially during childbirth.
·                 remedy for heart problem.
·                 help children and adults to stop wetting their bed.

It is beneficial in some conditions like gout, cystitis, urethritis, gonorrhea, hardening of the arteries, urinary tract infection, gall bladder Stone, mumps, etc.

Just drink atleast 3 times a day of boiled cornsilk preferably 50g of fresh cornsilk to 1liter of water.
corn silk