Archive for September, 2007

Nausea and vomiting are common during pregnancy.

50-80 percentages of women experience morning sickness or some kind of nausea and sickness during pregnancy.

Alternative cure effectively helps for pregnant women who are suffering from nausea and vomiting.

Morning sickness usually starts around the 9th week of pregnancy and stops around the 20th week.

Morning sickness usually appears immediately after waking up and nausea can last throughout the day for most of the pregnant women.

Most of the pregnant women prefer alternative cure to help with their morning sickness. The most important three alternative cures are ginger tea, acupressure wristbands and vitamin B6.

Though they are alternative cure, but most of the women are complaining about mild and adverse reactions. The most common effect of these remedies is intolerability due to the strong taste of ginger and irritation due to the wristbands.

Here are some suggestions which help you in relieving from morning sickness.

• First identify what are the main triggers of nausea and then avoid them.
• Stay away from fried and fatty foods.
• Drink more and more fluids, especially in between meals.

Before going to take the treatment for your health condition, it is important for you to select an efficient alternative doctor.

It is an important decision that you make regarding your health.

When you are going to choose an alternative doctor, who practices complementary and alternative medicine discipline, that decision sometimes becomes complicated by the lack of licensing procedures and governing bodies.

Here is a check list that is adapted from a fact sheet developed by the national center for complementary and alternative medicine.

Generate a list of alternative doctors:

• Ask your health care provider whether he has knowledge about the complementary and alternative medicine. If so ask him to suggest some of the alternative doctors.
• If you belong to a support group, ask the members whom you trust for recommendations.
• If you find any school that teaches alternative therapies then ask for a list of alternative doctors.
• Check the telephone book or the list at your near by hospital.
• Go and check with a near by hospital. Most of them have list of CAM practitioners.
• Check with you state’s board or regulatory organization.

Chakra meditation is the meditation given to chakras. Chakras are some of the focal points present in our body for energy.

Chakras are affected either consciously or unconsciously in reality and realize the events which open out before you.

There are seven chakras present in the important parts of your body such as head or heart.

The seven chakras in your body are root chakra, naval chakra, solar plexus chakra, heart chakra, throat chakra, brow chakra and crown chakra.

Chakra meditation carried out by seven different chakras:

For doing chakra meditation, you sit erect such that your spine should be straight and head in alignment with your body. The place in which you do meditation technique should be comfortable and relaxed. Then you can start your meditation.

Meditation through Root chakra:

Root chakra is present in the base of spine. For doing this chakra meditation, first you have to take deep breath that reaches into very base of your spine. When you release air, the entire muscles, toes, feet and legs feel relax.

Meditation through Naval chakra:

Before knowing about Thai massage first you have to know about massage.

Massage is the method of applying pressure that can be either structured or unstructured.

The pressure can also be applied in the form of tension, motion or vibration either manually or by using any other mechanical devices on the soft tissues (muscles, connectives, tendons, ligaments, joints, lymphatic parts or any gastrointestinal system).

Thai massage is the massage done by passive stretching and gentle pressure of energy lines using an interactive manipulation of the body. These movements help to:

• Adjust your skeletal structure
• Increase your flexibility.
• In order to have relief on your joints and muscular tension.
• To stimulate your internal organs.
• To balance your body energy system.

If you want to have above conditions to your body, then you had to go for Thai massage. For preferring this massage you can be young, old, active, inactive, healthy or unhealthy.

Thai massage will give you relaxation and energy. This massage practice is same as doing yoga. No need of keeping much effort for doing this massage. It will provide treatments for acupressure.

Aromatherapy oils are very essential in giving relief to sore muscles. Aromatherapy oil massage is simple and easy treatment.

When you are stressed out because of heavy work, you can do massage with aromatherapy oils.

Aromatherapy oil massage is used to regain your energy.

Many of the aromatherapy oils are applied on skin. Some other essential oils head their way towards blood stream for maintaining physical and mental health soundness. You will get aromatherapy oils as natural products.

If you have no time for aromatherapy oil massage then you can seek the help of massage therapist or you can move to massage parlors. This massage will help you to isolate yourself from this busy life.

This massage gives you the experience of refreshment and energizing and will sooth every nerve in your body.

Aromatherapy oil helps you in bringing back your glow to the skin.  By doing massage with these oils to your feet, these oils will absorb heat from your body and keep you cool.

If you keep this oil on the eye lids while sleeping, even if you wake up early, your eyes will not feel pain. If you have dry skin, massage with aromatherapy oil avoids your skin from dryness.

Chiropractic (chiros and practikos are Greek words meaning done by hand) care is a health care profession that is used to diagnose and treat mechanical disorders of spine and musculoskeletal system.

Chiropractic care is based on the premise (basis) of dysfunction of spinal joint and in many different conditions of diminished health and can interfere with the nervous system.

Chiropractors use the term vertebral subluxation and concentrates mostly on the musculoskeletal components of spinal injury.

Subluxation is a medicine directly used for joints and associated nerves.

Chiropractic care will help in the following conditions such as headaches, back pain, jaw pain, neck pain, scoliosis, stress, hip pain, pinched nerves, joint pain and shoulder pain.

Different cases in which chiropractic care reduces the use of surgery and x-ray:

• Chiropractic care reduces the cost of treating back pain.
• Chiropractic care reduces hospitalizations among back pain patients.
• Chiropractic care reduces back surgeries.
• Chiropractic care reduces cost of medical imaging such as x-ray or MRI.

Chiropractic care is holistic, stressing the overall health and wellness. It recognizes many factors like diet, exercise, rest, environment and heredity that affect health. Chiropractic care recommends changes in life style such as eating habits, exercise and sleeping habits.

Diabetes treatment includes many elements like conventional, traditional and alternative diabetes treatment.

Even though there are considerable advances in conventional medicine, most of the people believe in alternative diabetes treatment.

Some of the specific alternative diabetes treatment methods which are helpful in those diagnosed with diabetes include:

Acupuncture:

It is an alternative diabetes treatment that can be useful in helping you to control pain and nerve damage if you are suffering from diabetic neuropathy.

Diabetic neuropathy is a related condition to diabetes. Acupuncture may trigger the release of natural painkillers.

Herbal medicines:

Herbal medicines effectively work as alternative diabetes treatment. These medicines have been used in treating diabetes for centuries. Herbs regulate the glucose levels in your body.

Some of the herbs those are safe and effective as alternative diabetes treatment:

• American ginseng
• Andrographis
• Bitter melon
• Bilberry
• Garlic
• Gurmar
• Ginger
• Green tea
• Indian cluster beans
• Onion

American ginseng lowers the blood glucose levels. It is most helpful in type 2 diabetes patients.

If you take Aloe Vera, it might reduce the blood glucose. It shows a great improvement in those who have type-2 diabetes.

Do you know what health alternative medicine is? In today’s world health alternative medicine has become very popular.

The healing methods which can be considered as ineffective by certain people of the world are now being used more and more frequently.

Most of the well known types of health alternative medicine include:

• Acupuncture
• Aromatherapy
• Herbal medicine
• Herbal tea
• Hydrotherapy
• Massage
• Meditation
• Spiritual healing

If your ailments and sickness can not be cured by your doctor then health alternative medicine is the best option and works well also. In recent days most of the people are now turning to the health alternative medicine that has worked for people thousand years ago.

Most of you are very conscious about your health condition. These are the people ho do not want to use prescription drugs. So to avoid this, herbal medicines have become as a substitute for conventional medicine.

Herbs also work same as conventional drugs, but they are better for you. They are completely organic.

Another fact about health alternative medicine in today’s society is that it is simply “the thing to do”. Some of the alternative treatments are being misused.