Delicious Home Remedies For Common Health Conditions
September 6, 2007
You don’t have to pop pills every time you are under the weather. There are many varieties of food and drink that can easily cure simple ailments and trust me they are delicious as well. Here is a list of common health conditions which we all may suffer occasionally and its yummy cures:
1) How To Quit Smoking: New research found that dairy products including milk, cheese and yoghurt make cigarettes taste dreadful. Thus making it easier for the smoker to quit this habit. It is believed that the film that the dairy product leaves in the mouth alters the taste.
2) How To Manage Gout: Gout tends to be associated with old men but young men and women can be affected by it as well. Researchers have made a break through when they discovered that sufferers who ate 40-odd cherries for their breakfast regularly felt less pain. When a person suffers from gout, crystals of naturally occurring chemical called uric acid accumulates in the toe joint, causing pain. Cherries stimulate the release of uric acid which stops the aches.
3) Cure Colds: Cold symptoms liked blocked noses and clogged lungs aren’t caused by the cold virus itself, but inflammation causing cells called neurophils that your body sends to fight it. Drinking hot water with lemon or lime juice and ginger juice works wonders.
4) Release From Constipation: Chemical laxatives cure constipation by stimulating the bowel nerves. But using them too often causes the nerves to become desensitized. A safer way to clear the system is to increase is to add 12 prunes to your diet.
5) Managing Blood Pressure: A daily dose of dark chocolate cuts high blood pressure by enough to reduce your risk of dying of a stroke by 8 percent and heart disease by 5 percent in just over 4 months. It is said that the ingredient called phenol in the chocolate increases the amount of substance called nitric oxide in the body. Nitric oxide causes blood vessels to widen which leads to lower blood pressure. All it takes is 30 calories of chocolate a day.
6) Aching Muscles: Pain after exercise is caused by a chemical called adenosine. But caffeine stops this being released. This prevents the aching of the muscles considerably.
7) Backache: Dehydration thins the discs in the spine making them more prone to discomfort and damage. If you pump them up with fluid, then the symptoms will stop. Extract of this article taken from Daily Mirror.
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