Archive for January, 2008

Color psychology as therapy? Do you believe that different colors have different healing capacities?

Yes it is true that colors make a positive or negative effect on you depending upon the circumstances you are in.

For example: when you enter a red colored room, the pulse and heart beat increases and when you enter into a blue colored room, your heart beat and pulse will come down to normal.

It’s silly to hear that colors can cure your diseases and can affect the systems in the body. But many psychologists and physiologists believe in color therapy and its effects on the bodies of diseased persons.

Physiological effects are the effects that are shown by the color on your body. Psychological effects are those, which let others know about you. Here are some of the colors and its effects

Red

Physiological effect: Stimulates body and mind by increasing the blood circulation. Stimulation of adrenal glands is shown so consequently that you become strong and increase your inner stamina.

Red color dispels the negative thoughts but some times make the person irritated. The negative effects of red are increase in blood pressure and heart beat.

Aromatherapy is an art of healing without hurting yourself.

Ever since this aroma therapy healing and medication came into picture, the first popular aromatherapy was skin care.

Aromatherapy skin care is attained by using natural oils and herbs to gain optimal skin health and beauty.

Aromatherapy skin care products are not made of any artificial elements which will damage the sensitivity of the skin. Every person has their own skin needs depending on age and skin type.

Aromatherapy skin care differs from person to person. So, some combination of oils is made to reach the need of the individual. The combination of oils is referred as aromatherapy skin care solution.

Starting the aromatherapy skin care treatment:

Before you start the aroma treatment on your skin, you need a small brush up i.e. the skin must be properly cleaned with a combination of vitamin E oil and seaweed (marine plant).

This combination helps to remove the make up on the skin and debris on the outer layer of the skin. This process is necessary to prepare the skin for aromatherapy.

The key to aromatherapy skin care is to match the individual skin type with the essential oils and enhance the beauty of the skin with these benefits.

“Colonic therapy cleanses and detoxifies the colon through gentle infusion of distilled water and minerals into the rectum at a controlled temperature and pressure.”

It is also referred as colonic irrigation or colonic hydrotherapy or colon irrigation.

No chemicals or drugs are used in the water, while injected into the colon via rectum; this process is used to flush out the waste accumulated in the colon.

To maintain good health, it is very much necessary to eliminate bodily waste. The colon (large intestines leading to rectum and ending with anus) is the end of the gastrointestinal (GI) track that starts from the mouth and end at anus.

Food entered from the mouth gets into the stomach, get digested there and the waste is directed into the anus. In this process of digestion, colon (large intestines) is important. This process of colonic therapy is irrigated to obtain and maintain colon health.

Why is colonic therapy done?

Colon together with kidneys, skin and lungs eliminates waste from your body in their respectable forms.

But, after a while colon may lose the ability to excrete waste from the gastro intestine. This is due to the improper fiber intake (which helps in digestion), poor diet, unbalanced life style and improper intake of drugs.

Ear acupuncture, also known as auricular therapy, is widely used for many conditions.

Your ear is the main focal point for many of the important organs of your body.

Therefore any ailments in your body can be easily cured with this auricular therapy.

Most of the chronic diseases are easily treated with the ear acupuncture.

Auricular acupuncture is also used for the treatment of arthritis problem, indigestion, headache, asthma, anxiety, hearing loss, weight loss treatment, and also cures hot flashes in women.

In ear acupuncture, suitable sterilized needles are inserted into your ear at particular anatomical nodes. These needles are dipped in methylated spirits. In this therapy, your ear is initially rubbed with cotton balls which are soaked in methylated spirit.

The tenderest region in the appropriate reflex area is selected with a tooth pick and then the needle is inserted and twirled into the ear up to 2mm depth.

How can ear acupuncture work in losing weight?

Ear acupuncture is mostly selected for losing weight. This is the easiest method of losing weight. It is very effective method in correcting certain factors which can lead to overweight.

Ozone therapy is the therapy which is used as one of the hottest new age healing systems.

If you use medical ozone therapy, you will receive all the positive effects and you will be satisfied by ozone therapy use.

Ozone gas is used in your body for cleaning large intestine, but you may be unable to retain the gas and release ozone gas after some time.

Then you can be able to retain the ozone gas by the treatment provided by ozone therapy.

You should absorb ozone gas into the blood stream, then transmit through the intestinal walls during rectal insufflations (gas blown into intestines through anus). Ozone gas is absorbed upto half liter of pure ozone for the desired cavity.

If large intestine is clean, then the ozone gas is carried through circulatory system. Then the blood is passed through blood stream from intestinal walls. This therapy has increased its importance because blood has been oxygenated and nourished.

The by product hydrogen peroxide is obtained during the ozone oxidizing process. Hydrogen peroxide is also used as alternative for your health.

Colon hydrotherapy is an alternate medical procedure which is sometimes associated with the naturopathy.

Colon hydrotherapy involves the introduction of pure water or sometimes infused with some minerals or some other materials like organic coffee into the colon (path for expelling toxins).

After some short period, the fluid is released and this process is repeated for number of times in the method of treatment.

Colon hydrotherapy is used in variety of illnesses caused due to the consumption of fecal matter into the large intestine.

Cleansing Methods for cleansing colon:

You can cleanse easily by using modern medications, but due to chemical reactions these medicines can add toxins. So, this is not the correct method for cleansing colon. By alternate treatment methods such as yoga therapy, you can cleanse colon, but it requires skill.

Enema is effective and easy method for cleansing colon. Enema is a natural method of cleansing and it is used as a remedy for bowel problems. Enema is also used for effective body detoxification, constipation remedies, hemorrhoid treatment, ulcerative colitis treatment and for maintaining youthfulness.