Archive for March, 2008

By following alternative mental health, you will get better control of your decisions and can improve your self determination for your mental well being.

If you are mentally ill person, then you will get preventive, promotional, positive and non hazardous healing from alternative mental health.

The interrelationship between mind, body and spirit is focused by an alternative mental health care approach.

For your mental health care, there are many alternative mental health approaches such as self help, diet-nutrition, and pastoral counseling.

Before following these approaches, you have to consult the providers of health care for alternative mental health.

You can use alternative mental health treatments not only as the supplementary or supportive to medical treatment but also as stand alone treatments for psychological sufferings.

Alternative mental health approaches for mental health care:

Self help: This is one of the alternative mental health care approaches. You will get self help from meetings and groups. As the resource for recovery and empowerment, you can take help from self help groups.

• In the self group, all will have comparable needs.
• Survivor, consumer or any other lay person can facilitate the self help group.

In the ages between 45 and 55, menopause occurs. At this time, particularly in the progesterone and estrogen, menstrual cycles are finished and levels of hormones are dropped.

During menopause, you can feel the numerous symptoms that range from insomnia and moodiness to vaginal dryness and hot flashes.

You can face risk of heart disease and osteoporosis due to the reduction of hormone levels.

If you want to overcome the menopause symptoms, then proper exercise, diet and environmental related factors are important.

Some of the risks and symptoms which are connected with menopause can be healed with herbal remedy for menopause.

Some herbs and plants contain the compounds called phyto estrogens which will take off estrogen in a gentle way to prevent the symptoms of menopause.

You will get these phytoestrogens from the products of soybean such as tempeh, tofu and soy nuts, which are roasted.

Some of the Herbal remedies for treating symptoms of menopause:

Herbal remedy for menopause symptom - hot flashes

The successfully used herbal remedy for menopause is licorice. You can also get phyto estrogens from alfalfa, red clover and black cohosh. With the regular use of these herbs, you can reduce hot flashes.

The complementary energy therapy that can be used in combination with other alternate therapies or as a stand-alone treatment is healing touch.

Healing touch is not a type of massage.

When you take healing touch from some practitioner, their hands will not make direct contact with your body, they just float above your body.

By following healing touch, which involves moderate hard technique, you can re-pattern your energy field and can accelerate healing of mind and body. With the near body touch of healing, your energy system will be cleared, energized and balanced.

Hence this touch promotes the healing of mind, body and spirit. Healing touch program offers a series of techniques and these techniques helps in complete (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual) energy balancing, thus providing you complete well being.

Reiki healing touch - one type of healing touch:

Universal life force energy is provided by this healing. Reiki will provide best relaxation by its healing, loving and gentle touch. Optimum relaxation of this type of healing helps you to heal your body, spirit and mind.

Not only healing, but balancing and revitalizing is also possible. By practicing healing touch, you can reduce anxiety and can improve your mood.

Skin is one of your sense organs, which protect your internal organs from external agents.

Skin feels sense of pain, temperature, pressure and touch. Skin protects your body, so you have to take care of your skin.

Ayurvedic skin care is the one of the skin care treatments which protects your skin.

If the skin is neglected, it suffers from early aging, becomes dull and blemished.

Regular consumption of honey, yogurt and milk are good nourishment for skin and hence prevents skin from early aging. For following the holistic approach of Ayurvedic skin care, you have to know the type of your skin.

How do you know that your skin is perfect?

• Your skin is perfect when it is oily, thin, smooth, soft and lustrous.
• If your skin has scanty, thin, soft, black, oily and deep rooted hair then your skin is perfect.
• If you have smooth and black eyelashes and eye-brows
• You will have well differentiated pupils, cornea, sclera and eyes.
• You will have oily and unctuous lips, palate, tongue and mouth.
• Your wounds will heal quickly and you will not suffer from skin diseases.

The primary principle followed by homeopathic treatment is motivating your body’s self healing response.

Homeopathic treatment is used in different types of body conditions, even for beauty and hair.

Along with healing physical diseases, most recent version of homeopathy helps you in treating hair loss not on the scalp but internally. By using homeopathic medicines, you can manage your hair loss by 60% within 8 weeks.

How homeopathic treatment helps you?

Homeopathic treatment helps you not only for chronic diseases but also efficient in acute conditions. Homeopathic treatment helps you in the conditions (infectious diseases, epidemic conditions) which will not respond to the traditional medicines.

In treating critical conditions and in viral diseases emergencies, homeopathic treatment will help you. Homeopathic treatment will treat your hereditary disorders effectively with the help of homeopathy medicines.

By taking homeopathic treatment, you can prevent the elements that will affect your well being. Management of pain caused by fibromyalgia is done with homeopathic treatment. This treatment for arthralgia and myalgia is done by increasing pain at the entrance and reducing the swelling softly.

Physical therapy massage is the therapy, which provides provision of services and these services will help in restoring and maintaining maximum functional ability and movement throughout your life span.

It will provide rehabitalization, promoting, preventing and treatment by maximizing movement and identifying according to your body potential.

The treatment done using physical therapy consumes 30- 45 minutes. There is no any age difference for taking help of physical therapy massage.

AGI herbal gel for physical therapy massage:

For physical massage you can use AGI herbal gel. For external usage, you can use pure and natural vegetarian herbal gel i.e., AGI nerves active. This is prepared by combining various rare pesticides, effective essential oils and plant extracts which are present in mountain regions.

You can use this for energizing condition of your body condition and strengthening your immune power as this herbal gel ingredients comprise of valuable natural minerals.

AGI nerves active is used for definite body movement as it is an essential organic blend. This is used traditionally on motionless body by women, men and teenagers to aim mobility, muscular power and balance from distal to proximal.

Osteopathic medicine is based on the principle that human body has inherent ability in self-regulating and self-healing.

The benefits provided by modern medicine are provided by osteopathic medicine.

The modern treatments include surgery, prescribed drugs, and the use of modern technology to diagnose disease and estimation of injury.

Through the system of therapy called osteopathic manipulative medicine, osteopathic medicine offers extra benefits of hands-on treatment and diagnosis.

This medicine focuses on the education of health, disease prevention, injury prevention and assisting you to achieve superior level of wellness.

You can maintain total approach of health and prevention of disease by using this medicine. This medicine provides health care delivery system for the longevity, high costs care and chronic disease.

Osteopathic medicine uses all high-tech features of modern medicine such as surgery, x-ray, diagnostic testing and medication, hence providing you a most complete and comprehensive medical care.

Osteopathic medicine helps your wellness with below three philosophies:

Effects of Osteopathic on whole body:

Osteopathic medicine’s fundamental philosophy is that all systems which are in your body are interdependent and interrelated. So, the disturbances caused in one system affects the other systems.

Reiki is the energy healing system. Energy healing reiki is a type of universal energy.

The belief of the energy healing reiki is that thoughts have the power to direct energy.

Energy healing reiki is just like charging a battery. When the charging of a battery is low, then it will not function properly. It will function back properly only after recharging it.

In the same way energy healing reiki is like recharging our body. By practicing energy healing reiki, you can heal the cause of a problem as it works on you in multidimensional way. The cause of your problem can be present either in the level of body, mind or spirit.

By following this energy healing reiki, you can improve your natural self healing powers. For instance: If you are suffering from illness your energy will become low, so you will become weak and can’t do any work.

In this situation, you can restore your energy and can make your energy level to normal level by following this technique.