Important Uses of Weeds in the Lives of People

January 15, 2008 by admin  
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It is so nice to live in a place where the environment is clean and pleasing to the eyes. This is because it does not just invite clean neighborhood but a clean living as well.

Many people would want to prefer a place wherein they could breathe freely without any hesitation that it was a filthy air. Some would want a home with a garden full of different kinds of flowers.

If you are not this type of person, why not start to become one today? Let your small garden have daisies, dandelions and nettles. The only secret to control your weeds in your small lot is not to let them sow and multiply their group. Instead, you should pick them during the flowering stage so that they will not get the chance to multiply on the other parts of the garden.

Why do we need a weed patch?

It is always great to see something wild in a clean and orderly garden. However, there are other reasons why…

Flowering weeds will persuade bees to your garden and they for sure will pollinate on your plants. Weeds are purely wild flowers. They have a huge variety of therapeutic and nutritional substances.

Gather a number of these weeds in any combination:

• Dandelions • Blackberry • Nettles • Lawn daisies

Compress your flowers and its leaves together and put them in a 20 sq. cm. of muslin. Raise the edges shape a bag and bind them safely.

On the other hand, if you have some young nettles, they have vitamins and minerals and can be added in salads, consume as your green veggies, or drink it for your tisane. The entire plan can be utilized to make a green coloring for wool.

On the one hand, brambles also possess rich Vitamin C. It also has natural diuretic substances. You can make a scented tisane as your alternative to your regular tea. Tea made up of brambles is also useful to battle colds and flu.

Dandelions, as a flowering weeds are also good to put in salad. The saps of dandelions can be used as a great cure for warts and verucas.

The flowers of the dandelions are one of the main ingredients of a traditional French recipe. The idea of the recipe is to get at least 365 flowers of it. They use the flower of the dandelions as an alternative to the fruit used to make a jam recipe.

If then, you are fond of picking weeds for no important purpose then, cut that habit. Instead, think of the good things they can give to you.

Prostate Herbs – a Natural Prostate Cure

January 12, 2008 by admin  
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From the age of around 45 years, a majority of men begin to experience changes in their ********* patterns. In varying degrees, the experience can be a subtle change or can become a very distressing painful and in some cases embarrassing experience. This is the age at which the prostate gland begins to change and may swell around the urethra and constrict the flow of urine. This may mean an increase in the urge to urinate more frequently as the restriction inhibits emptying of the bladder. In extreme cases the restriction may be extreme and result in painful slow elimination. Kidney problems may follow.

Most pharmaceutical products have limited if any effect and so, more and more men are turning to herbal alternatives with some promising results. Most recent prostate studies show that herbal remedies are a more effective treatment method than drugs.

The most common herbs used successfully are;

1. Saw Palmetto,

2. Stinging Nettle,

3. Rye Pollen,

4. Pygeum, and

5. Lycopene.

Lycopene is one of the more promising recommended substances. It is a component of tomato and is only present in cooked tomato products. European diets where tomatoes are widely used have been associated with low incidence of prostate enlargement.

Erectile dysfunctions and painful ejaculations are associated with drug based treatments and so men are naturally very wary of this. Herbs on the other hand have few if any harmful effects. Herbs are also more affordable.

Combine Herbs For More Effective Treatment

Saw Palmetto Berry, stinging nettle and Pygeum Africanum, are often used in combination to produce a more potent and effective treatment for prostate problems.

The Saw Palmetto berry contains both serona repens and serrulata. Together these make a powerful combination, making it no surprise that this berry has been in use for hundreds of years. It is also an aphrodisiac which increases the production of ***** and increases sexual prowess.

On the other hand Stinging nettle has been recorded as an effective treatment of arthritis but also prostate disease.

The African Plum or Pygeum is another popular herb used to treat the prostate.

Whilst all these are effective in the treatment of prostate conditions, it is imperative to visit your doctor at least six monthly to check for changes in the size of the prostate. It is a case of early intervention as well as prevention may win the day.

Nettles – Therapeutic Recommendations

January 6, 2008 by admin  
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Big nettles and small nettles are species which can be found all over the world. In same tropical and subtropical areas, nettles can be as 13 feet high and it has wooden stem.

Nettle is known for a lot of time, since antiquity, as textile and medicinal plant. Young stem and leaves from both species can be used as food, which appear in early spring.

Nettle contains protides formed from a great number of amino acids, glucidic substances, vegetable hormone, volatile oil, B1, B2, C and K vitamins.

Therapeutic recommendations:

Internal:

In old literature and in traditional medicine the therapeutical recommendations are varied. Recent studies have confirmed a part of these recommendations which refer to homeostatic (K vitamin), homeopathic, light hypoglycemic, diuretic actions. Experiments proved that the watery extract restrains the evolving of different pathogenic agents as Shigella, Staphylococcus, and Pasteureis.

Diuretic actions manifest itself trough removing the uric acid, chlorides and urea. Based on this action it’s justified the empiric use in edema, gout, rheumatism and as purifier of conjunctive tissue.

In young phase, when it contains a low level of substances, it is considered a good food and medicine. It stimulates eating. Its high percentage of secretin situates the nettle on the same level as spinach, stimulating gastric, intestinal and pancreatic secretions, justifying its use in gastro-intestinal and pancreatic insufficiency.

External:

The chlorophyll extracted from the nettle is used in cosmetic industries, in toothpaste and shampoo making and in dermatology. Nettle root tincture, combined with other plants tinctures, is used against hair loss.

In traditional medicine, fresh nettles leaves are used against rheumatic disease.

How to use it:

? ? ?As infusion from dry leaves (nettle tea): 3 tea-spoons for a mug. You can drink 2-3 mugs a day foe at least 1 month.

For hair loss you can boil 250g of roots or bits of leaves in 1 liter of water, ¼ liters of vinegar and 100 ml of alcohol at small fire for half an hour. With the obtained lotion wash your hair once a week.