Gentle Reader, If you hesitate to take aspirin or other over the counter drugs for arthritis pain, you may be interested in anti-inflamatory plants as an alternatives Two plants have been used in the East for centuries. Their properties have been annalized and verified by Western medicine. Their potency has been standardized by a few companies and …
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Alternative pain relief
Plants for Alternative Pain Relief Boswellia serrata Extracts of Boswellia serrata have been clinically studied for osteoarthritis and joint function, particularly for osteoarthritis of the knee. Positive effects of Boswellia in some chronic inflammatory diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, bronchial asthma, osteoarthritis, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease have been reported. A Boswellia extract marketed under the name Wokvel has undergone human efficacy, comparative, …
Tai-chi for fibromyalgia
Gentle Reader Tai-Chi for Fibromyalgia: Should You Try It? If you have fibromyalgia and experience musculoskeletal pain, poor sleep quality and depression, you might try tai-chi — a martial art form combining meditation with slow, gentle, graceful movements. A small but important study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) suggests that tai chi may help …
tennis elbow and fatty acids
Gentle Reader, Fatty Acids, Antioxidants May Help “Tennis Elbow” Are you plagued with tennis elbow? Other inflammed joints? Perhaps this Danish study on the use of fatty acids to reduce tennis elbow inflammation will be of interest. FREDENSBORG, DENMARK (Reuters Health) – A combination of essential fatty acids and antioxidants appears to be an effective …
One woman’s asthma story
I am the woman who spoke about asthma at the Diane Petosky seminar. Here are the changes I made that alleviated my asthma symptoms: 1) Get rid of commercial fabric softeners 2) Use Shaklee Basic-L laundry product, as well as Nature Bright fabric brightener and Softer-than-Soft fabric softener. This eliminated all of the irritants in the other laundry products …
Asthma
Asthma Worldwide, the incidence of asthma is increasing rapidly, almost certainly a result of worsening air pollution from cars and industry. Nearly one in five of Chicago’s children suffer from asthma. A recent study estimated that 17 percent of students in public and private schools have been diagnosed with asthma. This is one of the …
Vitamins plus Lifestyle
Gentle Reader, Vitamins plus Life style, two topics that come up often. I was hiking with my friends on Wednesday, enjoying spring in the nearby foothills of the Cascade range. We just wait patiently for the high mountains to clear of the late spring snows. We had a rather heated discussion about vitamins and supplements for …
Memory loss test
A self-test for dementia… Are you struggling to find the right words in a conversation? Do you get confused while balancing your checkbook? Are you forgetting things that used to be easy to remember? Are you worried that these memory “slips” might be a sign of dementia? Now there’s a simple screening test for …
lower Cholesterol
Cholesterol Reduction Complex†† First: A few facts on Heart Health Next: Sterols and stanols and how they work Followed by: HDL VS. LDL Concluding with: The Shaklee’s Difference & TLC Would you like to lower Your Cholesterol Naturally? Are YOU Among the Millions of Americans with High Cholesterol? One in three adults in the U.S. has …
Lose Weight
Why do you want to lose weight? Perhaps you have been carrying a few–or a lot of–extra pounds for years. Or you have been on every diet out there. Maybe you have always maintained a healthy weight until you hit the post menopause slow-down and now look. Where did the belly roll come from? What is …