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:
 

Hidden Secrets Of fruits

             There are varities of fruits available in different parts of the world with different tastes,shapes colour and sizes.Some belong to melon types,some are berries,some are drupe and so on.Today i will deal with the nutrition and the benifits of eating right amount of fruits and what are its effects on the systems.

Banana:

      

-rich in potassium and zinc

-act as general body tonic

-helpful in constipation and diarrhoea also

-help ful in weight gaining

-complete source of nutrition for small kids

-when eaten after food helps or aid the process of digestion

-rich in Vit-A,C,D,E even contains vitamin B to a little extent

-it has 75% of water in it.

-in case of reduced appitite ,banana's are adviced with tamarind waterand salt

-helps in dyscentry.here banana i.e 1 should be mashed thoroughly and must be made as a paste and given to the kid

-helps in gastric ulcer ,gastritis and ulcerative collitis also.

-as banana is rich in calcuim and other minerals and salts helps in building up strong bones in young ones

-rich in iron so helps in anemia and even jaundice

-helps in heart pain.mash banan's and blend it with honey and give to the patient having chest pain at times may even save life too.

Grapes :

Its generally used as an appitizer and gives a refreshing effect as is the instant souce of glucose

-enhances the activity ob bodies excretory system.

-it acts as a diuretic

-good for skin as it bestows normal clear complextion to the skin

-good laxative and increases appitite

-helps to boost up body's defence mechanism,acts as general tonic also

-helps in skin deaseases and even in helpful in respiratory tract disorders.

-Draksharista helps in increasing blood and hb level,acts as a general tonic,helpful in dry cough,helpd in weight gain also

-rich source of vitamins,minerals salts helps in anemia

-acts as a laxative,helps in constipation,bronkitis and kidney disorder

-rich source of iron and glucose

-grape juice taken daily acyts as a general tonic and keep person fit and energetic

-dried grapes soaked in water when taken early morning before food helps in increasing HB level and also purifies the blod.it also helps in contipation and clearing the achenes and leaves the face witha nice natural glow.

Avacado :

  

rich sources of vitamins

-contains vitamin A,Band E

-good for skin and hair

-acta as a natural conditioner

-studies have proven that it can even help in early stages of cancer.

-helps in detoxification

-good for body and skin

-increases memory power also

-rich soure of iron and minerals .hence helps in aneamia. 

-conatains good fat that is helps in reducing cholestrol level in the blood

Dates: 

 

-rich source of iron.helps in boosting heamoglobin levels in case odf anemia.should be soaked in water or milk overnight and then taken in empty stomach daily for 1 wek to see exelant results.

-helps in dry cough

- helps to increase body weight

-it increases vigour and vitality.also increases semen .

-acts as tonic

-5-6 dates evry day followed by 2 glass of milk,then a bit of exercise helps or acts as a rejuvinator.this should be done for atleast 1 month to see the proper effect.

-dates with milk acts as general tonic and gives stamina.

-In case of constpation, drink milk boiled with 4-5 dates every day at bed time.this will help to getrid of this problem

-increases resisitance power ,mainly against virus and bacteria

-rich in vit-A,B,protiens,calcium,phosphorus

acts as a rejuvinator as it contains pectin in it.

-provides strength to heart,liver ,kidney and pancreas.

-has effect over central nervous system

-increases appitite

-if taken in excess causes throat and chestas it increases mucus

-they maintain alkali balance inthe body[intestine]

-it purifies and even strenghten's the blood by increasing hb level.

they also keep body warm in winters