Health benefits of Papaya fruit

                                     Papaya  is tropical evergreen plant native of Mexico and Central America. It is found throughout India. Papaya fruits contain protein, fat, fibre, carbohydrates, minerals such as calcium, phosphorous, iron, vitamin C, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and carotene, amino acids and citric acid.

Papaya fruits are nutritionally very rich with low calories. Ripe papaya fruits have stomachic, digestive, carminative and diuretic activities. Its unripe fruits have laxative, diuretic, antibacterial, abortificant, anti-implantation activity.

Papaya seeds for intestinal parasites

 Papaya seeds are edible and have pungent, peppery, bitter taste.  These contain glucosinolates, Benzyl isothiocynate and papaya oil. These are small in size but full of medicinal properties. These are used for expelling intestinal parasites naturally. This is very good, cost effective and without any side effect home remedy for treating intestinal worms. Papaya seeds are antibacterial, anthelmintic, anti-amoebic and effective against E.coli, Salmonella and Staphylococcus infections. These seeds can be air dried and used with honey in water as medicine against parasites.

General Information

Latin name: Carica papaya 
Common names: papaya, papaw, pawpaw, mamao,  tree melon, Papita

How to use Papaya seeds

§  Take ground papaya seeds (1 tsp).

§  Mix with honey.

§  Add in cup of warm water and drink empty stomach before breakfast.

§  Do this for four days.

§  For kids you can add one teaspoon of air dried papaya seeds in 20 ml of honey.

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Make Your Own Natural Eye Cream

Eye Cream for Puffy Eyes:

Boil some water in a kettle to make it pure and add some coffee to it. When it cools down, apply this coffee under your eyes when you are going to sleep and wash it off in the morning. This will get rid of the fluids. This is not exactly eye "cream" but creams are too heavy for puffy eyes in my opinion.

Eye Cream for Dark Circles:

Mix 1/2 tsp of turmeric with 1 tsp of lemon. Both ingredients are excellent to brighten the skin. Apply the paste under your eyes and keep it on for 15 mins. Then wash it away but be careful when you pat it dry, it may stain your towel due to tumeric.

Eye Cream for Wrinkles:

Simply dab some almond oil or take some oil from the Vitamin E tablets. Because you have wrinkles, just dab on your chosen oil. DO NOT rub it on your eyes. This helps to rejuvenate the skin and get rid of ageing wrinkles. I would say, just apply before you go sleep and wash it off in the morning.

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Top 3 Tips To Super Health

Tip #1 : Choose Super Foods!

Most foods today are nutrient poor and so are our diets. With the consumption of more refined food with less to sustain us, we often feel stressed, run down and lacking in vibrant health. To help ensure your optimal health, Super foods are key. Super foods are foods that contain a higher level and broader range of nutrients than other foods and thus, help you lower inflammation. They are nutrient dense foods that helpyou effectively maintain or lose your weight, fight disease, age slower and live longer.

Remember, you are what you eat. Whether you are eating a Snickers bar or a spinach salad..those foods begin working with your body and essentially become you.

Imagine a super food — not a drug — powerful enough to help you lower your risk of heart disease, cancer, help you age slower and put you in a better mood. Did I mention that there are no side effects? Guess what? These life-changing super foods are available right now in your grocery store.

Examples of Super Foods are:

Apples

Beans

Avocados

Blueberries

Broccoli

Chocolate

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Garlic

Pumpkin

Salmon

By adding super foods to your diet, you will be reducing your intake of refined and processed foods.

Tip #2: Move Your Body!

Fitness is key in creating super health. Exercise, such as cardio, strength training and flexibility, is not something that comes in a bottle or a pill. It comes from your mindset, your physical abilities and your energy level. This is why optimal nutrition is so vital to super health because without it, you will not have the clear mindset or energy to be effective.

There are dozens of reasons why exercise is good for you. Being fit reduces inflammation in your body. Exercise helps you lose and maintain your weight, extends your life span, and decreases your risk for a whole host of illness and diseases by reducing inflammation, controlling your blood sugar, maintains healthy bones and muscles, helps prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer and so much more. You cannot create super health without adding exercise to the equation.

It is vital to exercise with moderate – intensity most days of the week for a minimum of 30 minutes. However, there are options to shortening your workout times and create highly effective fitness with techniques such as HIIT.

High Intensity Interval Training or HIIT is a workout that will allow you to lose up to 9 times more fat than a similar cardio workout.

An example of HIIT: a runner would alternate 30-40 seconds of jogging or walking with 15-20 seconds of intense walking or jogging.

There is another form of HIIT called the “Little Method.” You perform 1 minute of intense exercise followed by 75 seconds of rest, then repeat 8 times. You train only 3 times a week and obtain gains similar to those who trained 5 times per week using steady cardio.

Many people think they don’t like to exercise – until they start doing it consistently. Remember that it is not as difficult as you think. Put conscious thought into getting enough movement into your daily life to keep you strong physically and mentally and soon it will become second nature.

Tip #3 : Hydrate!

Water is essential to vibrant super health. Our bodies are mostly water. The brain? 85% water! Every function in the body is related to water. When there is too much water outside our cells and not enough inside, you become dehydrated.

Do you know that most people are walking around mildly dehydrated and do not even know it? By the time you are thirsty, you are already 1-2% dehydrated. Dehydrated cells cannot function properly and thus, all processes slow down in the body creating fatigue, joint pain, weight gain, hunger, foggy thinking, pain, lethargy and a multitude of other health issues.

How much water should you drink? Take your body weight, divide it by two and the answer is the amount of ounces you need each day. For example, if you weigh 120 lbs. you would need 60 ounces of water each day. This does not include water lost due to exercise.

By applying these three tips consistently to your daily life, you will resist illness, disease, faster aging and create a quality life of Super Health!
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Neem Leaves Magic.

Neem, the “wonder tree of India,” is known in Ayurveda as a detoxifier, and, in traditional use, it is considered a multifaceted support for skin health. A cleanser and blood purifier, dexterous neem supports clear and healthy skin and promotes general well-being.

              Neem has long been treasured in India for its many benefits, and all parts of the tree are used to support various aspects of wellness. For centuries, Indians have juiced neem leaves to achieve glowing skin, chewed neem bark to clean their teeth, used neem leaves as a natural bug repellent, and drank neem tea as a powerful tonic. Neem, in a testament to its many uses, is commonly called the “friend and protector of the Indian villager” or simply the “village pharmacy.” Maharishi Ayurveda Neem is certified organic and non-GMO, vegetarian and cruelty-free, grown and processed without toxic and harmful synthetic chemicals.

            Neem leaf, increasingly found as an ingredient in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, is famous in the ancient Ayurvedic texts for having an almost magical effect on the skin. Beneficial for all skin types, traditional Ayurvedic remedies recommend utilizing neem’s purifying qualities: this is done by applying a paste of crushed neem leaves directly to problem skin.

Neem aids in cleansing deep toxins from the teeth and mouth.

          Neem bark especially supports dental health; in fact, its most common use is as a sort of natural, gnawable toothbrush. (See image below)  Ayurdent, a fluoride-free ayurvedic toothpaste, contains neem bark and is extra-effective when you brush just before bed. It helps heal sore gums and helps prevent tooth decay by strengthening the gums and teeth.

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Herbs for Weight Loss

Many different herbs have been used throughout time as weight loss remedies. Alfalfa, corn silk, dandelion, juniper, yarrow, parsley, and uva ursi are commonly known for their diurectic properties and have been used in tablet and tea form.

Green tea, cayenne, cinnamon, and guarana have long been known as thermogenic herbs, making your metabolic rate boost slightly, while bladderwrack and hawthorn berry boosts adrenal glands and improves thyroid function.

Certain herbs can actually trick the body into thinking that they’re full and suppress the appetite while the herb speeds up the body’s metabolism. Others, like buchu and uva-ursi, remove excess fluid from your body but only as long as the herb is taken regularly. If stopped suddenly, the weight will return quickly.

Cayenne, which brings your metabolism up at a healthy level, is just one of those. Some other safe herbs that can help you lose weight are:

Gallium aperine, a plant that grows wild in many parts of the world, was traditionally used as a lymphatic cleanser and a diuretic. It helps to clear toxins from the body, clear skin and rid the body of other conditions that are caused by toxins built up in the body.

Garcinia cambogia has been incorporated for centuries in Ayurvedic medicine as a natural appetite suppressant but has only lately gotten tons of media attention as a weight loss supplement.

Garcinia cambogia acts as a natural weight loss remedy because it inhibits fat storage, or lipogenesis, causes the appetite to be suppressed, boosts metabolism, and lowers glycogen production in the liver. It seems to stamp down the enzyme that turns carbohydrates into fat.

Yoga & Ayurveda

  

         

                            Yoga and Ayurveda are two “sister” practices that originated in India thousands of years ago. Now, a lot of us are familiar with yoga, and have experienced firsthand—through postures, breathwork, and self-inquiry—its profound benefits. Yet many of us are not as familiar with Ayurveda. We might have heard about it in conjunction with yoga, but are not quite sure how, exactly. In her R&R retreat workshop Yoga and Ayurveda, Senior Kripalu Yoga teacher Jurian Hughes points out that yoga means union in Sanskrit, and a definition of Ayurveda is the wisdom of life. Explored together, these complementary practices can offer us transformative tools that foster greater health and vitality.  And as Jurian also explains, integrating Ayurvedic principles into your yoga practice can create a deeper, richer experience on the mat that you can take with you off the mat as well.

                 “Ayurveda isn’t a one-size-fits-all philosophy,” Jurian says. “We’re constantly in flux throughout the day: our energy level and our mood, for example, are different first thing in the morning than they are at noon.” Ayurveda, then, is a personalized, intuitive health philosophy. According to Ayurvedic principles, each of us has a unique constitution governed by our physical and emotional makeup, as well as our lifestyle—the foods we eat, what time we go to sleep. These constitutions are called doshas, and they are linked to the elements. The doshas are vata (air and ether), pitta (fire and water), and kapha (earth and water).

Physiological Effects of Sleep

              Ayurveda places huge importance on getting enough sleep on a daily basis. Free e-booklet gives a good overview of the classical ayurvedic view of sleep. One of the less appreciated functions of sleep is the cleansing effect is has on the body’s tissues. According to ayurveda, vyana vayu (the aspect of vata responsible for circulation of all kinds) becomes more active in helping to collect wastes from our tissues and vital organs. This happens particularly between 2 and 6 am.
             Some recent research showing that the brain actually shrinks during sleep, and that the intracellular space increases. They have even discovered that the brain has its own special lymphatic system called the glymphatic system. While the theory is yet to be tested, speculation suggests that the brain uses sleep to help flush out wastes that accumulate during the day while it is busy in computation mode. Here is the link to the article: