Herbal Medicine and Medical Advices

What is the H1N1  influenza virus (swine flu
human)?

The H1N1 influenza virus  is a disease breathing caused by  influenza virus type A. It is reported that these  viruses are transmitted person to person, but in  the past, the infection was reduced.

What are the signs and  symptoms of virus H1N1 influenza in humans?

The symptoms of H1N1  influenza virus in humans are similar to those of  ordinary flu and include fever, cough, sore  throat, body aches, pain headache, chills and  fatigue. Some people have diarrhea and  vomiting associated with flu
swine. In the past, serious (pneumonia and  respiratory failure) and deaths were caused by  virus influenza H1N1. Like the seasonal  influenza, avian swine may result in  worsening of underlying chronic  diseases.

How is the H1N1 flu  virus?

It is considered that the  H1N1 influenza virus was transmitted in the same  way that influenza seasonal. The influenza virus is  transmitted mainly from person to  person through the coughing or sneezing. Sometimes people may become infected by  touching their mouth or nose after contact with  surfaces or objects infected.

How long an infected  person
can make someone else?

Those infected can infect  others a day before symptoms  appear and up seven days or more after  contracting the disease. This means you can infect  another person before they know they are  sick and during the disease. It is possible that  children, especially smaller ones, getting  sick for a longer prolonged. This means that those who deemed to have symptoms,  they should wash their hands, cough or sneeze  into your mouth and consult your doctor.

“The people of Ontario  should use chinstrap
to avoid contracting the  H1N1 flu virus?

<!–more–>Ontarians should continue  with the usual precautions, as  they would in the case of a common cold. It is not necessary that  the Chinstrap general public  use to protect against H1N1 influenza  virus. Tests indicate that the use of  chinstrap does not prevent the spread influenza among the  population. Often Chinstrap used  incorrectly, or contaminated to place or remove, thus  increasing the risk of infection.

What can I do to avoid  infection?

At present, no vaccine  against the virus H1N1 influenza. You can take some precautions in everyday  life to help prevent
the spread of germs that  cause respiratory illnesses  like influenza. Here some precautions you can  take every day to
protect your health:
- Wash hands with soap  and water, repeatedly, especially  after coughing or sneezing. It is also Cash rubbing their hands  with some product containing 60 to  90% of alcohol.
- Sneeze or cough covering her mouth and nose.
- Avoid touching your  eyes, nose and mouth, and germs to spread this way.
- If you get AIDS, do not  go work or school and avoid  contact with others.

What is the best way to  avoid the virus spread by coughing  or sneezing?

If you are sick, avoid  contact with others as much as possible. Do not go to work or to  the school. When coughing or  sneezing, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue, thus  avoiding infect others. Dispose of tissues used in a wastebasket. If you do not have a  tissue use the sleeve of his  garment when coughing or sneezing. Then, wash your hands,  and repeat this procedure every time you  cough or sneeze.

What is the best  technique for washing hands and avoid getting the  flu?

Wash your hands often  will help protect you from germs. Wash with warm water and soap for 15 or 20 seconds  or wipe them hands with an alcohol  based product.

What should I do if I get  sick?

If the symptoms typical  of influenza (fever, body aches, runny  nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting  or diarrhea), consult your health professional.

Can I get influenza H1N1  virus if consumption or cook pork?

No. If properly cooked  products pigs, kill the virus. Make sure the pork is cooked through  and no pink in the part of a thermometer to  ensure centro. Utilice that the cooking  temperature of pork has reached 71 º C (160 º F).

Healthy Food: Honey

Honey is the perfect food for bees, but the popular belief that sugar is also a natural and a healthy and nutritious food for humans does not correspond with reality, if we consider that the content of fatty that is secreted by bees to make it keep a product not recommended for our health.

The honey is obtained from the mixture of pollen ingested stomach bees with formic acid, Manica and others. After this mixture is deposited in the cells of wax and dehydrated by the movement of the wings of many bees.

Without the preservation process immediately Fermentario honey and they would not be useful as food for bees is only a food reserve that will allow them to survive through the winter until spring, good weather allowed back out to collect pollen .

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Healthy Food: Ginger

Ginger (Zingiber officinalis) is a cultivated plant that grows in warm climate countries such as India, Australia, Jamaica, China and Nigeria.
The edible part is the underground stem or rhizome sprouting roots of the plant. It has a shape comparable to that of a hand with a middle and round or irregular fingers and stocky. The skin, smooth and light brown silver wraps a juicy pulp and ivory color.
Minced fresh ginger fragrance offers a pleasant, warm, spicy and refreshing, reminiscent of lemon and pepper. However, in the West is best known dry ginger powder with a pungent aroma.
The health benefits offered by the ginger is not due to an input of nutrients in the form of minerals, vitamins, protein or carbohydrates, but biologically active substances it contains, as gingerol, and zingerone shogaol.

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Indonesian Healthy Food

Tempeh is another prized product that is produced from fermented soybeans and is a very nutritious food mainly for their protein intake, often included in the vegetarian diet to replace animal protein such as tofu, also developed product with soybeans, but for milk clotting.
The origin of tempeh in Indonesia is the staple food on the island of Java, was soon adopted by other Southeast Asian countries, but is currently very popular in the West. Unlike other fermented soy products like miso or soy sauce, tempeh is made from cooked soybeans after fermentation goes fast at about 30 ° C with spores of the fungus Rhizopus oligosporus. Mold develops a filamentous hyphae that bind soybean seed.

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What are the herbal remedies?
Do you consider herbal remedies a form of complementary and alternative medicine?

Throughout the centuries, man has gone from a simple diet consisting of meats, fruits, vegetables and grains to diets rich in fats, oils and complex carbohydrates. Nutritional excess and nutritional deficiency have become problems in today’s society: both leading to certain chronic diseases. Many approaches to dietary and herbal attempt to balance the nutritional well-being of the body. The Dietary and herbal approaches may include dietary supplements and medicines herbal. Read more…

For centuries in China, or Pu Erh Red Tea was reserved exclusively for emperors. For this reason it is still called the “tea of the emperors. For some years we can find in any market and is well known slimming its fabulous property.

We can also add other features to promote the acceleration of liver metabolism and promote the reduction of body fat and cholesterol. It is also a great debugger, detoxifying and even a mild antidepressant. Stimulates digestive secretions facilitate digestion.

Advised to drink a cup of tea after every meal. To experience your property must be respected slimming diet based on vegetables-raw, steamed or boiled, and fruits. It is recommended to follow any diet under the supervision of a nutritionist or dietician.
It is recommended that you consume children, pregnant women and persons subject to continued medical treatment or heart rhythm disturbances. Nor is recommended for patients with ulcers, anemia, insomnia or nervousness.

To make a cup of Red Tea infusion of 3 g are sufficient. adding the almost boiling water, steeping for 2 to 5 minutes. They often come in sachets or packets that facilitate this process.

Synonyms

2metoxi4 (2propenil) phenol, Caryophylli, Caryophylli atheroleum, Caryophylli Flos, caryophyllum, caryophyllus, Caryophyllus aromaticus, cengkeh,Craven, Craven, smell, cuisoare, ding heung, ding xiang, dinh huong, dok chan, dried clove,..

Characteristics

A tree that takes about twenty years to develop, with a height from twelve to fifteen feet, and can keep producing fruit until fifty years. Its leaves are quite similar to those of the laurel, the flowers have yellow petals.

The nail has a strong flavor, hot and rich, the taste is spicy, sour, strong and bitter and leaves a final sense of cold in the mouth. When cooking softens its impact. It accompanies very well the sweet and savory dishes, cold chicken pie and stewed rabbit, pickled herring, ham glaze, roasted bananas, apple pies and puddings and also in the spiced bread.

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Vitamin E is closely related to the antioxidant powers of aging wrestlers, cancels the negative effect of free radicals in the skin, but if a defect of this vitamin can be harmful, just as excessive as well, so it is recommended Drug taking vitamin E only under medical supervision.

Vitamin E was discovered in 1922 and has since gone unnoticed until they discovered their cell renewal rejuvenating qualities that are revolutionizing the world of cosmetics and health foods.

Benefits of Vitamin E

This vitamin works as an antioxidant, ie helps prevent some of the daily effects of oxidation caused in part because we breathe oxygen and partly because we are exposed to powerful oxidizers such as ozone, cigarette smoke, etc..

Oxidation of our body is basically “that are damaging our tissues are sometimes almost imperceptibly, but this damage accumulates and ultimately causes disease,” said Dr. Amabile. The idea of using vitamin E is in a preventive way for us to reach maturity with better health.

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The low-calorie sweeteners are calorie free and does not raise levels of blood glucose. Do not count as carbohydrates, fats or any other exchange.

SACCHARIN
Saccharin can be used to sweeten foods hot (is stable at high temperatures) and cold. It has a relative sweetness of 300 to 500 times more than sucrose (sugar). Used as a tabletop sweetener in drinks, juices, ice creams, jellies, chocolates, pharmaceuticals and others.
In 1977 security was questioned for its link to cancer, but then conducted scientific research has been shown that there was no risk.

His problem is that by interacting chemically with sulfonamides may cause hives in people allergic to these products and because it crosses the placenta other sweeteners are recommended during pregnancy.

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The dessert is no longer prohibited
Experts say that sugary foods can be eaten if they are considered food in the same way as any other carbohydrate.
The use of sweeteners, both natural and man-in replacement of sugar is catching on as usual in the daily use of food.
There are many reasons to stop using sugar, the main one that although glucose is the basis for our immediate use calorie sugar is just sugar crystallized and the benefits of consumption are much smaller than the harm it causes .

In fact it is largely the source of obesity, diabetes and many other nutritional problems that make it increasingly greater number of people leaving the consumption of sugar, pure and simple and look for alternatives.

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