HEALING PROPERTIES OF GREEN TEA

Tea is a popular healthful drink. It was distributed worldwide. You can see them almost every commercial stores, pharmacies and distribution centers. It was produced in large scale. Plantations are like mushrooms sprouting in every corners of the world. It is a profitable business aside from its healthful benefits.

Te has different varieties but they were from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. The varieties were categorized as green, black and oolong, the most popular kinds of tea. There are still many of its kinds raised somewhere with the same benefit and effectiveness.

They plucked leaves that were healthy without blemish may either be fermented or to remain to its natural form during the processing. Green tea was not fermented. The active constituents remained fresh and unaltered while black and oolong tea were prepared through followed the fermentation process.

Tea was used as medicinal and social drink. It is medicinal because it has healthful benefits against many diseases. Socially, it was used in gatherings as refreshing drinks.

The chemical properties of tea contain volatile oil, caffeine, vitamins and minerals. It has primary constituents (chemical compound) of polyphenols. Catechin is polyphenols. It was the reason why tea has the ability to promote good health and better alternative to put all the body systems on the go.

It was shown that green tea can lower total cholesterol level in mild capacity. It decreases (LDL) bad cholesterol and increase (HDL) good cholesterol to higher level. It makes the platelets in the blood less sticky promoting good cardiovascular system.

It can give full protection from cholesterol damage due to oxygen. It increases the anti-oxidant activity in the blood those gives better protection against the damaging effect of free radicals. It prevents atherosclerosis as it control the oxidative damage to LDL cholesterol.

The polyphenol is responsible for anti-cancer prevention. It inhibits uncontrolled spread of cancer cells in the skin. It has the ability to prevent other types of terminal cancers.

It reduces formation of plaque and dental carries. It stimulates the production of new cells in the immune system. Its anti-bacterial constituent is good in the prevention of many kinds of bacterial infection.

It protects the liver from any damage due to modern lifestyle. It prevents bacteria in the gut and minimize odor of fecal waste. Tannin in tea prevents iron absorption. It minimizes headache due to stress and other emotional disturbance. Too much fatigue can cause body pains. Green tea gives relief to pains in limbs and muscles.

It promotes better digestion and calm troubled stomach due to gas production. It enhances the ability of the immune system to protect the body from many diseases. A weak immune system makes progression of certain disease fast and deadly. It has detoxification effect and removes various toxins in the body. It energizes the body to full power. It can withstand the many stresses during the day.

Constant drinking tea found to prolong life.

The recommended dosage for taking green tea:

-Take 3 cups of green tea per day (minimum).

-Take 10 cups of green tea per day (maximum).

If fresh green tea is to be used, mix it with 1 cup boiling water and steep for 3 minutes. 

There is decaffeinated green tea sold in the trade. It is good to use as it was processed to remove caffeine.

Taking tea with caffeine will cause anxiety and insomnia.

Drink tea (w/out caffeine) for healthy body and healthy life.

HEALING PROPERTIES OF ONION

Onion was one of the spices in past centuries. It was used in many parts of the world. A menu is not complete without it. It was now become part of our meal preparation dueing the day. Many farmers entered into full production to sell to the market. It is profitable in raising onion. The demand is high because of its popularity among kitchen users. 

Sometimes the price goes higher than the normal price especially if there is shortage in supply due to changes in weather condition that most farmers feared reducing their expected harvest or there is total failure in planting.

Aside from being the best spices for food production, it was found that it has herbal benefits in some common illness of men. Each plant has each unique chemical compound. The chemical properties were the reasons for healing specific disease.

Its active sulfur compounds are allyl propyl disulphide and flavonoids (quescetin). The strong scented oil was due to sulfur. The tearing sensation (tears in the eyes) during the cutting of the onion is due to the compound called thioproanal S-oxide or lacrimatory factor.

Due to its anti-oxidant ability, the onion and its oil constituents can kill many kinds of microbes. Our body was resided by many forms of bacteria it may be good or bad. Most bacteria concentration can be found in the lungs and in digestive tract (intestines). The damaging microbes caused disease. Only better and potent kinds of medicines or herbal alternatives can neutralize its population and eradicate the threat.

The severity of the diseases depends on the degree of bacterial control to the human body. It can only be protected if the shield against various threats is effective. If the immune system is weak, damaging free radicals will invade. The immune system is the only protector for the bacteria to be neutralized. It is where onion is helpful for the added protection.

Allyl Propyl disulphide has the ability to block the breakdown of insulin by the liver. It stimulates insulin production by the pancreas. Such chemical interaction increases insulin and reduce the sugar levels in the blood those controlling diabetes.

It was the same sulfur compound that contains anti-inflammatory effect by inhibiting the formation of thromboxanes. It also inhibit the action of platelet-activity factor.

Onion can be prepared by the following:

-Direct application to skin inflammation and other skin diseases.

-It can be prepared as syrup acted as cough suppressant.

-It can also be prepared as herbal tincture.

Onion has the ability to relieve pain from insect stings. It neutralizes the venom. As anti-inflammatory, it has healing effect on boils.

To kill the germs from dog bites, it can be used as initial treatment so that the rabies, if there’s any can be suppress to enter into the interior of the wounds until such time that the victim is brought to the hospital for final treatment.

Onion has pungent smell. It is not good to be taken fresh in the mouth. It can cuse smelly breath. The usefulness of onion was already tested. The continuing research will uncover additional benefits of onion not yet discovered.

The popularity of onion will remain in our heart. We always remember it every time we are in the kitchen because the food we prepared has the taste of the spice we can’t forget.

HEALING PROPERTIES OF BLACK COHOSH

It is a wild shrub-like plant. A herbaceous perennial plant, smooth with large compound leaves. It has underground rhizomes that can reach the height of 60 centimeters. Its basal leaves are broad, coarsely toothed margin. The leaves reach up to one meter in length. It has repeated sets of three leaflets. The stem will reach height of 250 centimeters.

The flower does not have any petals (sepals). The flowers are in tight clusters with white in color. It has sweet fetid smell. The fruit contains dry follicles. One carpel has several seeds. It has black roots.

It grows best in moist place with heavy soil. The dried roots, rhizome becomes an alternative herbal medicines for many diseases. Herbal extracts serves as analgesic, anti-inflammatory and has sedative action. It found to have the ability to treat gynecological disorders of women (dysmenorrheal, memorrhagia), pre-menstrual tension, menstrual cramps. It can relieve sore throat and other respiratory infection.

 It consist property that benefits kidney and other urological disorder. It can treat psychological and mental problem like depression, anxiety and stresses of life. It relieves painful muscles, rheumatism and arthritis including nervous disorders. It is the alternative source to produce and increase production of breast milk. It is best source of dietary supplements. It is good source of calcium for better bone health and treats osteoporosis and other age-related disorders.

It can treat symptoms of hormonal imbalance and other hormonal deficiency. Phytocrine, a chemical compound to boosts the ability of women to balance estrogen in the body. It gives promise for breast cancer prevention, the terminal disease of women. It induce normal menstrual period. It can induce labor during childbirth easy for pregnant women to give birth to a child and prevent sluggish labor pains that cause tiredness, weakness, physical fatigue and lack of uterine power to give birth.

It prevents pregnant women to feel restless, muscle tension, menstrual cramps, stomach pain and body pains during the period of her pregnancy. It has the ability to prevent premature delivery that results to miscarriage. It is used as muscle relaxant and best tonic to the nervous system.

The plants contains many chemical compounds like triterpene glycosides and isoflavones, aromatic acids, resins, tannins, starch, fatty acids, sugars, acetin, formononetin, 27-deoxyacterin, caulophylline, laburnine, magnoflorine, saponins (steroidal). It was found to have symptomatic relief of hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, irritability and nervousness.

Take the plant with caution. It cause minor damage to the liver in individual that cannot tolerate the herbal effect of black cohosh. Other side effect known especially if taken over the required dosage (overdosage) or used in longer period of time are headache, seizures, dizziness, diarrhea, sweating, nausea, abdominal pain, constipation, vomiting, sweating. It causes low-blood pressure and slow heartbeat. It has effect on weight.

It should not use in lactating mothers or pregnant women. It may affect its breastfeeding or her pregnancy. Over-dosage may affect condition of stomach especially the intestines. It causes high blood pressure. It affects menstrual cycle of women beyond the normal condition. It may cause allergic reaction to those having allergy of the plant like swelling of the lips, face and tongue.

Herbal tincture can be taken in the dosage of 4ml 3 times daily for period not more than 6 months. The herbal extract can be taken 40 mg 2 times a day. Use dried roots or rhizomes 2,000 mg per day. Use herbal decoction 1 gram of powder with boiling water 3 times daily. Use herbal infusion about 30ml every 2-4 hours.

HEALING PROPERTIES OF BACOPA

The plant grew in marshy land and other watery areas. It is a water plant commonly used in fish aquarium. Most of plant parts were found to have benefits in treating disease.

Bacosides and saponins are chemical compounds found in leaves of the plant that has therapeutic action against human diseases. It has diuretic or tonic properties that benefit the heart and nervous system.

It shield against the attack of convulsion. It was found to the problem of getting sleep or having insomnia. It leads to improvement of mental alertness and memory retention. Memory loss is common to people in old age. But with Bacopa it refreshes the abnormality of memory acquisition and enhances the ability to remember things that has long forgotten.

Bacopa has great promise for epileptic person by reducing the attack mode of the disease. Stress can damage the physical and mental health but with Bacopa the brain can withstand the damaging effect of stress and other emotional disturbance.

Inattentiveness and forgetfulness may be sign of deteriorating capacity of the brain to maintain alertness. Bacopa can change the way the brain works. For those having Alzheimer’s disease, Bacopa has great promise to alleviate the effect of the disease. It reduces the risk of cognitive impairment (age-related) especially dementia. It has rejuvenating effect for brain and nerve cells. It is used as natural sedative for increased emotional stress.

Being neuro-protective natural herbs, it influences the action of the nervous system preventing neural malfunction as the result of cognitive deficiency. It has anti-oxidant property to protect the brain against damaging free radicals. Likewise, it becomes the protector against harmful toxins. It helps to reduce anxiety and depression by calming the brain from emotional upset.

The herbal extract relaxes the muscles that control the blood vessels and the distribution of blood to the different body systems. It also relaxes the muscles in the airways of respiratory system. It has the ability to treat and heal ulcerative disease in the stomach.

It is bitter astringent. Other phytochemica properties are bacosides, glycosides, flavonoids (luteolin, apigenin), alkaloid and saponins.

The herbal extract is more useful to invigorate the mind, enhances the ability to learn and improves poor concentration. There is peace and calmness in the mind improving mental processes to lessen the effect of emotional disturbances, working under heavy pressure affect the clarity of thought and reducing better performance of the job.

Excessive use of the plants may result to muscle fatigue, nausea and dryness in the mouth. There is mild gastro-intestinal discomfort.

It is supportive to increase resistance of the body against different stressor chemically, physically and biologically. It induces the production of neuro-transmitter serotonin beneficial to the performance of the brain. It has positive action to have healthy neuro-transmitter balance.