Laughter is a social lubricant that bonds people together and helps overcome stress. Humor is serious business and has remarkable neurological benefits.
When Saturday Review editor, Norman Cousins’ serious inflammatory disease worsened, he locked himself in a hotel room, took vitamin C, and watched Marx Brother’s films and episodes of Candid Camera. He reported that ten minutes of belly laughs calmed the pain for two hours. Within a few weeks he was in remission.
Robert Provine’s book, Laughter: A Scientific Investigation puts on paper his 30 years of fieldwork (but his wife doesn’t appreciate his humor).
Neurological/emotional entanglement for spontaneous laughter is a phenomenon. Provine’s pursuit was to analyze the frequency, amplitude, and length of each sample in his recorded bag of laughs. He learned that babies laugh 300 times a day while adults only laugh 20 times and outbreaks of laughter peak at age 5. He studied laugh patterns …
Category: Medicine
Humor and Smart Sugars – Medicine of the Future
How Relevant Is Cupping In Health?
Through several years of clinical and subjective experience and also with the help of natural applications for health, cupping has been generated. It came from an ancient practice in which a woman uses a cup to create suction in the skin and muscles for the purpose of pulling negative pressure. It has been in practice throughout European history when production of artificial medicine was also rampant. It was considered as the most convenient and natural process for households particularly women. The process is simpler and less complicated because you simply have to use a specialized cup accompanied with proper techniques and method from lymphatic to deep tissue release.
Despite the production of scientific model of medicine during this period, nothing can stop the application of cupping especially when it was discovered that such procedure creates therapeutic feeling and treatment to women’s bodies. Thus, its effectiveness was confirmed through the efforts …
Natural Treatment for Period Pain (Menstrual Cramps)
Menstrual pain is pain that occurs in the abdomen or pelvis during menstruation. This discomfort is not normal, but it is extremely common. Over half of all women suffer from pain during their period, and surveys show that a staggering 90{85749dbeb316c0c24e3d1d8256d88d9743ccf0cc93f2eb8c87e0d763618d2741} of adolescent girls are affected. The pain can range from mild to severe and can potentially interfere with the ability to perform daily activities.
During the first half of a woman’s cycle, the uterine lining is built up; when the period starts, this extra lining and blood is shed from the uterus. To aid this process, it is normal for the uterus to contract. However, if the contractions are too strong, this process becomes uncomfortable. This abnormal pain and discomfort during bleeding is known in medical terms as dysmenorrhea.
It is a good idea to see a gynecologist to rule out potentially serious underlying causes, especially if your condition …
How Acupuncture Could Help With Infertility
There’s a lot of mystery surrounding acupuncture for infertility and its techniques. First, there’s the idea of the needles being put into your body. Just the thought alone can bring to mind ideas of all sorts of painful stings and pricks. But lately, it’s become an increasingly popular alternative to standard medical practice.
Using acupuncture to treat infertility is a great way to get your body into its regular ovulation cycle and improve your health. It’s been around for thousands of years. Commonly used in ancient Chinese medicine, its practice has been used to treat many kinds of illnesses. One in particular is infertility.
Although considered a safe way to treat illness, this might not be for everyone. But if you are looking for a way to treat your infertility with an alternative method that has amazing results, you may want to give acupuncture a try.
First it’s important to …
The Major Advantages Of Alternative Medicine
There are major advantages to using alternative medicines other than an alternate way of taking medications. They are highly effective for fatigue, pain, and stress and other types of ailments. There are many illnesses herbal remedies can take care of if you know which ones to take. They are not drugs; they are a food for the body.
Herbal remedies are foods that augment your body’s immune system. They can help with all kinds of ailments such as weight loss, rashes, and skin problems. Alternative medicines are herbs from Western, Chinese, and Ayurvedic healing. Each herb or healing plant has properties or chemicals in them that augment the body’s cells, enzymes, and other fluids that keep the body healthy.
Healing herbs can help with digestive problems, acne and other skin problems, kidney, heart, and liver problems. Whatever the ailment there is an herb to help the body heal. Sometimes the …
Choosing Excellent Herbal Extracts for Optimal Health
Choosing a quality herbal extract is the key to resolving health issues affecting the body. A good quality herbal extract should have:
o Strength
o Clarity
o Color and Taste
STRENGTH OF HERBAL EXTRACTS
An often asked question is what herbal extracts are and why do they contain a natural or neutral alcohol. Herbal Extracts are an herbal food or combination of foods, diluted in liquids. The liquids used are:
o Distilled water
o Vinegar
o Wine
o Glycerin (sugar and fat compound most commonly derived from animal tissue, yet, vegetable sources can be obtained)
o A neutral alcohol
o Grain neutral spirits.
Herbal extracts are herbal plant foods that have been diluted in a liquid which dissolves and or suspends the herbs. Herbal extracts can be applied externally or used internally to heal any area of the body in crisis. Good quality extracts use distilled water and grain neutral …
Understanding the Process of a Healing Crisis
In this day and age we are faced with what I call the “modern man’s diet”, which is a way of life that promotes unhealthy eating plus other bad habits. Use morning as an example. Typically people are in a hurry to get to work or school, miss breakfast and therefore grab something on the way to work, often at a fast food restaurant. What implication does this have to our health? Most fast food is high in saturated fat, salt or sugar and generally not the healthiest breakfast you can have to start your day. The other side of the coin is eating fast and on the go, which plays havoc with the digestion.
On top of this we have the stress factor due to work, private life, environmental and unhealthy eating. All these contribute to a build up of toxins over time causing disease.
Many people are now …
Natural Relief From Migraine Headaches: Resolve Their Psychological Origin
In my work with people with chronic migraines, I have found a similar pattern that is consistent for all of them, and therefore I conclude that migraine headaches are caused by internal conflict. By internal conflict I mean that there is a battle going on inside the person with two or more major disputes seeming to attack each other.
The pattern for migraine headaches often begins in childhood. The child becomes conflicted in a major way and starts a pattern of inner conflict. This might result in headaches at a young age or they can develop later in adulthood. Either way, the childhood origin has to be resolved to resolve the headaches. Many people with severe health problems started the original cause in childhood, but other life events can begin the patterns just as well such a series of failures, divorce, difficult pregnancy, extreme stress, and so on. Severe migraines …
