Dogs can suffer from many of the ailments we humans do. Motion sickness affects many pooches and anyone who has been stuck on a four hour long journey with a travel sick dog will support me when I say it can make an already long tiring journey very stressful. Dogs don’t really get a choice about traveling but it could put you off taking your pet with you in the car and therefore limit you and your canine friend significantly.
Your largest organ is the liver and it is plays an important role in detoxifying the body of waste and toxins. If for any reason your liver were to fail your body could only survive a few days. The liver handles everything we ingest be it food, medicines or alcohol. Everything received into the digestive tract makes it way to the liver were it is processed into a form that is easier for your body to use. This multi-functioning organ generates energy by extracting vitamins, iron and sugar. It also balances blood sugar levels and blood clotting agents, produces chemicals, enzymes and hormones, detoxifies the body and can even regenerate itself.
Conjunctivitis is relatively common and is inflammation of the clear membrane that covers much of the eye and eyelid. Symptoms include the white part of your eye appearing red or pink, watering and itching. If it happens along with a cold sore check with your doctor that the virus herpes hasn’t infected your eye. If it’s a bacteria rather than virus you will experience a yellow-green discharge as well as an angry inflamed eye.
Osteoporosis can completely invalid a perfectly vital person if they get a leg or hip fracture as a result of the illness. You may also notice that some women as they get older seem to shrink in terms of height or become hunched – these too are signs of what is also known as brittle bone disease.
Today we often suffer from hectic schedules and a juggling family, career and social lives on a daily basis. It’s no wonder that we can at times feel enormous strain and pressure and that this in turn can have an effect on our emotional and physical well being.
Sometime nothing else will satisfy other than a soothing cup of tea or coffee. However we are hearing more evidence of the far reaching ill effects of too high a caffeine consumption with nutrition gurus like Patrick Holford recommending we cut out coffee completely and reduce tea to just two weak cups a day. Caffeine increases the production of stress hormones and long term this can throw out the fine balance of the body’s hormone system and create many health issues.
If you are one of the many people that suffer from allergies throughout Spring and Summer you will be accustomed to the sneezing, watery eyes, snuffling and heacahes associated with some of these allergies. It can make these warm months more of a nightmare that a joy to extreme sufferers and a beautiful display of Summer blooms can make you want to run for cover rather than coo over their colours and scents.
Herbs can be added to your box of remedies to help you through the balmy months and give you relief of some of the symptoms.
If your visiting a hot, tropical climate you run the risk of developing some form of gastrointestinal illness. This can be caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites. Some of the buglike culpirits are salmonella, shigella, E Coli, staphylococci, campylobacter jejuni, hepatitis A and cryptosporidiosis. The biggest danger is ingesting infected food or water. Icecream is a no no; watch out for cocktails served in reused coconut shells, ice, raw seafood and buying food from street stalls. A moment of carelessness can completely ruin your holiday and leave you spending most of your time in the hotel loo.
The aromatherapy oil Melissa is otherwise known as Lemon Balm. The name is taken from the Greek language meaning honey bee as the flower was traditionally planted next to bee hives to produce a particularly delicious honey. Of all the Aromatherapy Oils Melissa is regarded by aromatherapists to be one of the most medicinally powerful oils in their arsenal. It has a sweet, uplifting aroma.
Be careful when buying Melissa as many of the oils out on the market are actually a combination of citronella and lemon balm.
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