‘Alternative’ Archives
The Kind of Alternative Medicine
In the alternative medicine there are some kind alternative medicines that can be used. First is mind and spiritual therapy. This therapy is used to balance mind and spiritual that can help this treatment success. In this therapy there are two kind of therapy that usually used. It is called hypnotherapy and psychotherapy. The second is physics [...]
Bee Sting Treatment Alternative
Indonesia is known with so many kind of alternative treatment. Beside herbal alternative treatment and so many kind of therapy, there are also alternative treatments that use bee sting to cure many kind of sickness. Alternative treatment bee sting can cure many kind of sickness like diabetes, hypertension, stroke, uric acid, migraine, vertigo, [...]
Alternative Medicine
Alternative medicine is a kind of alternative treatment beside medical treatment. Alternative treatment is used since along time ago. There is a perception that alternative treatment is related with prophecy and some people believe it. It is called alternative medicine or alternative treatment because this treatment uses traditional medicine or [...]
Herbal Medicines for Insomnia
In general, insomnia is a condition where people get some problems in maintaining a good rest, sleeping. This problem is occurred due to people’s unhealthy activities, such as bad eating habits, smoking, sleeping over night and many others. Almost all adults ever experienced insomnia in their life, so that the right action of treatment should be [...]
Exercise Therapy May Ease Knee Pain
Exercise therapy may help soothe severe knee pain more effectively than standard care, according to a recent study. Researchers focused on 131 patients (ages 14 to 40) with patellofemoral pain syndrome, a condition marked by pain at the front of the knee during or after exercise. For 12 months, 65 of the patients took part in a supervised [...]
Cranberries for UTI Prevention
A new study shows that taking cranberry supplements may help fend off urinary tract infections. Researchers recruited 10 postmenopausal women (ages 46 to 60) who had developed more than three episodes of urinary tract infection in the previous year (or more than two episodes in the past six months). For six months, study members took cranberry [...]
Fighting Infection With Vitamin D
Vitamin D may be crucial to fending off infection, according to a recent report. But as many as 70 percent of the U.S. population may be D-deficient, says report author Adrian Gombart, a principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. The report highlights vitamin D's role in inducing the expression of [...]
Tea May Help Prevent Diabetes
Sipping tea may help reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a recent analysis of 18 studies involving a total of 457,922 participants. The analysis also indicates that drinking coffee may protect against type 2 diabetes, a disease predicted to affect about 380 million people worldwide by the year 2025. (more...)
Green Tea May Benefit the Brain
A compound found in green tea may help shield brain health, a new study shows. For the study, researchers focused on amyloid plaques (substances known to damage brain cells and cause loss of memory, language, and motor function). Amyloid plaques are associated with the development of Alzheimer's disease. (more...)
Milk Thistle May Ease Chemotherapy Side Effects
Milk thistle may help curb liver inflammation in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, according to a recent study. An herb rich in the antioxidant silymarin, milk thistle has long been used in herbal medicine to treat liver disorders. For 28 days, 50 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (a type of cancer of the white blood cells) were [...]
