Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Top 10 Remedies for Depression

Depression is a state of mind when one feels dejected and bored accompanied by a feeling of hollowness from inside. It could be equated with a condition of mental disturbance, typically with lack of energy and difficulty in maintaining concentration or interest on anything.

Symptoms of Depression
1. If you feel sad without any visible reason: this is the first step towards depression, if you have started feeling sad without any visible reason.
2. Inability to feel happiness: most of the people who are suffering from depression don't feel happiness in normal situations where normal people feel happiness they don't feel anything.
3. Loss of interest in hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed: dejection from hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed by you
4. Decreased energy level: feeling lethargic and sleepy without any obvious reason is also a symptom of upcoming depression.  
5. Insomnia: when you start feeling difficulty with sleeping. If you have to pop a pill in order to have a peaceful sleep, then probably you are on the danger end depression.
6. Oversleeping: Sleeping all day long without talking to anyone.
7. Eating disorders: eating too much or too little can also be a symptom of upcoming depression.
8. Digestive Issues: having problem with digestion of food can also be linked up with depression because depression causes release of some harmful hormones which could cause problem in digestion.
9. Weight gain & loss: frequent weight loss or weight gain can also be a result of depression. 
10. Forgetfulness: depression directly affects your memory and concentration which results in forgetfulness.

Remedies for Depression
1. Do Meditation regularly: Meditation has numerous benefits on our body and soul. Meditation is especially helpful in keeping your mind healthy keeping it away from stress and depression.
2. Avoid alcoholic drinks: generally people think alcohol helps in keeping stress away, but conversely all it gives us stress and depression.
3. Do physical exercise daily: Apart from the physical health, physical exercise is also necessary for maintaining your mental health.
4. Don't confine yourself in within four walls: Sometimes sitting alone for long hours without interacting with anyone can also cause depression like conditions.
5. Talk to your friends: talking to friends is always helpful, perhaps hanging out with friends would be the best to combat stress.
6. Keep yourself busy: don't let your mind to wonder over past memories, always keep your mind busy in present.
7. Compliment yourself: Everyone should have to do this thing it is really helpful in combating stress.
8. Eat healthy: Rightly said "As is the food so are your thoughts" so, in order to keep your mind peaceful and calm, eat healthy food and  avoid junk food.
9. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones: whenever you have a negative thought in your mind just replace it with a positive thought.
10. Visit a therapist: and in case if above mentioned things are not working for you then you are supposed to visit a therapist immediately. 

Friday, 26 July 2013

Remedies for Overweight and Obesity


Obesity and Overweight has become a global problem in last one decade. With changing food habits and working environment, people of  developed countries are most affected by it. 
Obesity could be understand as a condition in which a person gains excess fat with increase in his body mass.

Prevention is the biggest cure: Because its easy to gain weight but its really hard to lose weight, once you have accumulated fat in your body.

Remedies for Overweight and Obesity
1. Drink a cup of hot water after meal: drinking a cup of hot water after meal has various health benefits along with decreasing fat content in your body, it also aids in digestion process.

2. Drink Amla & Aloe vera Juice: Amla and Aloe vera juice has lots of benefits including reducing your body weight. Drinking Amla & Aloe vera juice boosts your immunity, it is also helpful in reducing ones glucose level in blood.

3. Avoid eating fast food: We all eat fast food to save time and because it feels tasty to us, but in long term all it gives us is illness and excess body fat.

4. Keep check on your calories intake: We generally eat without thinking about, how much calories this food is going to give us. If you will eat excess calories than that of your body requirement, then it will certainly going to be deposited in your body as a extra fat.

5. Increase fiber content in your diet:  eat lots of fruits and add whole grains to your diet. It has two benefits, eating fiber is good for your stomach health and it will also control weight by reducing your food intake.

6. Drink a glass of lemon + honey: take a glass of warm water, add two table spoons of lemon juice to it and add 2 table spoons of honey to it, stir this mixture, drink this mixture everyday in morning on empty stomach.

Saturday, 13 July 2013

Top 8 Remedies for diabetes

What is diabetes?
It is a disease characterized by high levels of blood sugar (glucose) in the bloodstream, either because of inadequate insulin production, or because the body do not respond properly to insulin, or both.


Remedies for diabetes 
1. Fenugreek(Methi) seeds: Fenugreek seeds or Methi is helpful in various illness along with high blood pressure & diabetes. All you need to do is, just take out powder of these seeds and take a spoon of this powder twice a day with water.
2. Amla(Indian Gooseberry): Amla or Indian Gooseberry has many health benefits along with curing diabetes, high blood pressure and hair problems. Antioxidants present in it boosts your immunity. Minerals and vitamins present in it are beneficial for our whole body.
3. Drink sufficient water: Water is important for everybody, but it is  especially more important for diabetes-patients, because when you have high blood sugar your body draws water from your tissues , making you feel dehydrated. And even a small decrease of the hydration-level could cause serious health problems for diabetics.
4. Aloe vera: Drinking one cup of aloe vera juice in the morning can give potential benefits to the diabetic persons.
5. Jambul(Jamun): low on calorie, high on minerals and vitamins. It is also rich in proteins with carbohydrates and traces of calcium. And most importantly most of the sugar in ripe Jamun comes in form of fructose.
6. Do Meditation daily: Meditation could be treated as a medicine to all illnesses. Doing meditation for few minutes in morning and evening can give revolutionary results. 
7. Neem leaves: Neem leaves are traditionally used for curing diabetes. It has also been scientifically proven effective in treating and preventing diabetes. Neem is also known for its blood purification properties.
8. Karela( bitter gourd): It is a vegetable which tastes very bitter, but has lots of health benefits behind its bitterness along with lowering of blood sugar level. Like Neem leaves bitter gourd is also effective in treating illnesses associated with contamination of blood.

Top 10 Remedies for High blood pressure

High blood pressure or Hypertension is one of the world's commonest illness, generally if you got it for once, you will have to suffer with it forever. It hardly shows any symptoms, but one can get idea of it, if he starts feeling fatigue & headache without any visible reasons. Developing high blood pressure is really dangerous as it increases your chances of getting a stroke or some kidney diseases. Obese people are at a greater risk of developing high blood pressure.  

What is high blood pressure?
It is a term given to, when pressure in your arteries(which carries blood to & from the heart) exceeds a certain level.

Remedies for high blood pressure.
1. Reduce consumption of salt from your diet: Eat foods which have less salt content in them, avoid salty chips and other such food items which have high salt content in them.
2. Avoid spicy and oily food: The reason behind avoiding spicy food is that, it has lots of salt in it and reason behind avoiding oily food is that, it increases one's weight.
3. Do meditation on regular basis: Meditation has numerous benefits along with keeping your blood pressure normal by calming your mind.
4. Avoid alcoholic drinks: There are many potential hazards of drinking alcohol in addition with increasing blood pressure. So, one should have to avoid drinking alcohol to maintain his blood pressure.
5. Do exercise regularly: Just start doing some physical exercises for a week and see the differences in your blood pressure  before and after.
6. Maintain your body weight: Its been seen in many cases, often blood pressure increases with increase in weight. So, one should maintain his weight in order to maintain right blood pressure.
7. Eat a diet rich in potassium: Potassium helps in keeping your blood pressure normal, it helps our kidneys to work them properly.
So, one should eat foods which have good potassium content in them like banana.
8. Avoid smoking: Along with other harmful effects of smoking, it also increases one's blood pressure and increases the risk of heart diseases.
9. Eat Cinnamon: Now, it has been proved by various researches that  eating cinnamon on daily basis helps in reducing blood pressure and diabetes.
10. Eat fenugreek seeds:  It is one of the most effective method of reducing blood pressure, all you need to do is, just make powder of these seeds and take this powder twice a day in morning and evening with water on empty stomach.

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Top 15 Home remedies to cure acidity

Its one of the most common problem associated with digestive tract. People suffering from acidity are ready to do anything just to curb its unpleasant sensation. Here, i am stating some of the home remedies that can help you in prevent this problem.

As we know, our stomach secretes Hydro Chloric Acid to help us during digestion of food. But if this secretion of HCL exceeds a certain limit, it starts creating problem to us, possible symptom could be burning sensation in stomach, heart burn and excess secretion of saliva in your mouth.

Remedies to cure Acidity
1. Avoid spicy & oily food: The reason behind avoiding these food is simple. Spicy good acts as fuel to the fire, when you are having problem of acidity.  
2. Drink plenty of water: Reason behind drinking water is, water dilutes the acid & hence lessens its effect. 
3. Basil leaves: Eating some 6 to 7 basil leaves after meal is really effective in curing acidity.
4. Cold milk: If you want an instant relief from acidity all you need is a chilled glass of milk, drink it slowly and it is definitely going to help you.  
5. Chew Mint: Just like basil leaves chewing mint leaves is also effective in curing acidity. 
6. Avoid alcohol & tobacco: If you want to get rid from acidity, you will have to leave behind all the acidic foods and turn towards alkaline foods. Alcohol & tobacco both are acidic, so should be avoided.
7. Yogurt and butter-milk: Eating yogurt or butter-milk cools our stomach providing a relief in acidity.  
8. Include fiber in your diet: Diets having fibers in them are easy to be digested by stomach & hence reduces the chance of having acidity.
9. Do exercise: doing little bit of exercise before taking meals is really effective in curing acidity.
10. Avoid tea & coffee: A person with problem of acidity should have to avoid all the acidic food items and tea & coffee are both acidic in nature. So, they both needs to be avoided. 
11. Use pillow while sleeping: If you are suffering from hyperacidity then using pillow at night will help you to sleep peacefully.
12. Avoid eating non-veg food: Non-veg should be avoided as it is highly acidic in nature & it also takes longer time to digest.
13. Don't sleep just after eating: Walking after eating food helps in digestion process removing chances of creating acidity.
14. Chew cinnamon & clove: Chewing of cinnamon or clove helps in curing acidity problem.
15. Eat Jaggery after meals: Its in Indian tradition to eat something sweet after meals. And the best sweet thing to be eaten after meals is jaggery. It helps in digestion process & hence lessen the chances of creating acidity.