Healthy Life Journal

Lime (Citrus aurantifolia) has been known since long as a benefit-rich plants. The fruits taste bitter, sour and a little cold, but the benefits are extremely diverse.

According to Dr. Dalimartha Setiawan, a member SP3T (Development and Application Center of Traditional Medicine) DKI Jakarta, lemon juice can be used as a flavoring food, beverages, refreshments, citric acid preservative, and cleaning up the rust on the dirty metal and leather. Can also as a mixture of herbal medicine.

As a natural herb, lemon efficacious to remove blockages of energy vital, anti-cough, sputum peluruh (mukolitik), peluruh urine (diuretic) and sweat, and helps the digestive process.

Lemon oil containing limonene and linalool fly, as well as flavonoids, such as poncirin, hesperidine, rhoifolin and naringin. The content of the ripe fruit are synephrine and N-methyltyramine, other than citric acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins A, B1, and C. Sitratnya acid could prevent postoperative recurrence in patients with kidney stones.

Hj. Sarah Kriswanti, herbalist who lives in Bandung, and Dr. Setiawan Dalimartha from Hiptri (Traditional Medicine and Acupuncture Association of Indonesia), giving tips how to use lemon juice as an herb that helps cure the disease.

1. Haemorrhoid
A total of 10 ounces lemon tree roots washed clean, then boiled with 1 liter of water for half an hour, then filter. Warm drink three times daily.

2. Tonsil
Skin washed 3 limes, cut into pieces, then boiled with 2 cups of water until the water remaining 3 / 4, strained. Water is used to rinse out his mouth. Do it 3-4 times a day.

3. Anyang-anyangan
Two lime washed, spun and then given a sugar cube to taste and 1 cup hot water. Stir in warm, to drink at the same time once a day.

4. Cough
One lime washed, squeezed, mixed with 1 tablespoon honey _ and a little salt, mix well and then filtered. Drink 2-3 times a day. Or lime juice plus a piece of rock sugar and stir until the average, drink one a day until healed.

5. Cough Accompanied Influenza
Cut a ripe lime and contain enough water, then wring it out. Pour boiling water juice with 60 cc of hot water. Add 1 / 2 teaspoon of betel leaf, stirring evenly. Drink this mixture two times a day 2 tablespoons.

6. Body Odor
Mode 1:
Cut a large lemon into two parts, rubbing the slices with a thin layer of whiting. Apply to underarms after a shower. Let stand for 5 minutes then rinse, do every morning and evening.
Two ways:
Several strands (10) young leaves of lime powder, crushed into small pulung like a pill, eat three meals a day.

7. Kidney Stone
Two grains of lime juice diluted with 2 villages glass of warm water, drink after dinner. Do it every day for 10 days.

8. Diphtheria
Two lime washed, squeezed the water. Pour boiling hot water with 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon honey. Use to rinse for two minutes while still warm, and drink. Do it three times a day.

9. Fever or flu
Mode 1:
One washed and squeezed lime juice, add red onion 3 cloves that have been crushed and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil. Apply on the forehead of the patient.
Two ways:
One minute baked lemon, cut and squeezed, add one tablespoon of honey. Drink all at once.

10. Irregular Menstruation
Three tablespoons of lemon juice plus 1 tablespoon honey and 2 cups hot water mix evenly. Drink while warm. Do it three times a day

11. After Childbirth
One tablespoon whiting plus 2 tablespoons of eucalyptus oil and 2 eggs village lime juice, stirring until smooth, and apply on abdomen. Do it for three months each day after bathing, to avoid stomach wrinkles, keep it smooth and flat as in the past.

12. Pimple
A sliced lime and then rubbed on the skin.

13. Prevent Hair Loss or dandruff
Two lime cut into three parts, lubricate the scalp until blended. Wrap the head with a towel overnight, washed the next day. Do it three times a week.

14. Hair Melebatkan
A chicken egg yolk beaten with lemon juice 3 eggs until blended village. Rub on the scalp, massage-massage until evenly, leave for two hours only to be washed with shampoo stimulates hair shiny and thick. Stimulating shampoo made from a bunch straw, burned to a charcoal rather than ash, and let it soak in water overnight. Strain, and ready to wash the shampoo stimulates.

15. Stopping Smoking Habit
Slice a lemon, smoked and drank water. Do this several times a day.

16. Vertigo
Half handheld crushed lemon leaves. Add 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Rub into the neck, temples, and forehead. Perform 2 times daily.

17. Laryngitis
Cut 3 ripe lime fruit, then wring it out. Pour boiling water juice with 1 / 2 cup hot water, add 1 tablespoon of honey, stirring evenly. While warm, use this ramun to gargle for 2-3 minutes. Do it three times a day.

18. Mucus in the Throat
Cut 2 pieces of lime, squeeze the water, accommodation in a glass. Add a little salt, and mix well. This herb can be taken on an empty stomach.

19. Ringworm or the panu
Wash the roots of a handheld Landep (prionitis Barleria L.) to clean, then finely mashed. Add juice of 1 lemon, stirring evenly. And apply on the skin affected by ringworm or the panu, then bandaged with cloth bandages. Change bandages two times a day until healed.

20. Fever / Heat Currently Malaria
Provide three pieces of lemon leaves and leaf kendal (Cordia obliqua Willd.) (Blumea balsamifera L.), and 5 prasman leaves (Eupatorium triplinerve Vahl.). Boil these ingredients with 3 clean water glass until remaining 1 glass. Once cool, strain. Water filters are divided in two, drink morning and evening.
21. Dislocate
Three Fruit ripe lemon and lots of water is split into two. Enter into the pot and poured boiling water with 1 / 2 cup hot water, then closed. Having taken chilled orange and then squeezed and filtered. Add 2 tablespoons of eucalyptus oil and 2 tablespoons oil gandapura. This herb is used to massage the injured part. After that drinking 3 / 4 cups young green coconut water. Do it three times a day.

22. Stiff
Wash the lemon leaves, leaf ketepeng china, and bitter leaf (each third cell), 10 pieces of betel leaves, two fingers of papaya root, root kepayang two fingers, three fingers Moringa roots, and 10 Fruit cayenne pepper, and mashed until smooth. Soak herb in 1 liter of alcohol for seven days. Water juice can be used to rub and massage the sore body parts.

23. Toothache
Combine lime juice, black amethyst root mill and mill legetan warak each 1 tablespoon. Add 3 / 4 cup of salt water into it, and mix well. Furthermore, these herbs and strain the juice. Use water to rinse the filter for several minutes, then discard. Do it 4-6 times a day.

24. Body slimming
Add the juice of one lemon into a cup of green tea water. Drink this concoction every morning and evening. Do it every day.

25. Adding Stamina
Mix up a chicken egg yolk, juice of 1 lime fruit and a little slice of brown sugar. Stir until smooth, then drink. Do it once a week.

26. High Blood Pressure
Provide 20 flowers and lime leaves 30. Wash thoroughly, then add the fruit juice of two limes. Boil these ingredients in 3 clean water glass until remaining 2 1 / 4 cup. Once cool, strain. Water filters drunk three times a day 3 / 4 cup. Drink this mixture plus a little honey. Do it every day.

Most sat in the office can cause body aches and weakness. This condition often experienced by office workers who just tangent to the computer. Because of his job, the body becomes less mobile.

To expel sore, it’s worth setting aside time for us to do a little exercise. This activity and can be done in between jobs and not time consuming. For movement, you can start with a stretched out both hands.

You may continue by rotating forward and backward. More and more movement will be better. This movement could overcome the aches in the back area.

Another exercise that can be done is by moving the head to the left and right. The movement was useful to overcome stiff around the neck. In addition, you also can run a small street in the workplace. This little exercise we can eliminate boredom with the routine of the office, so the body becomes more relaxed.

- If it appears in places that can be easily seen certainly realized by the owner. However, many people did not know he has a mole when its presence in a location that hard look, like on the back.

Although not necessarily harmful, Dr. Rachael is okay to declare a person to check his body to determine whether there is a mole or not, whether it is in the face, ears, neck, chest, back, toes and hands, scalp, lips, eyes, even genitals.

Someone who was white, he explained, more prone to risk overgrown mole dangerous than a person who is black or dark with melanin content in the lower body.

Mole is at risk of cancer should be treated immediately before experiencing metastatic or spreading to other body parts. However, often people ask for shit lalatnya appointed only for the sake of beauty. He considered the existing mole disturbing appearance, so do not feel myself beautiful and uncomfortable about it.

“In fact there is also appointed droppings  only ask because according fengsui was not good,” he said. Nothing good is defined mole or not to bring hockey into trouble, so he feels always less fortunate or less abundant sustenance. Of course this depends on each person’s beliefs.

Advanced technology is rapidly evolving in the medical world today make mole removal becomes an easy thing. “The best technique is to remove moles using a laser beam technology. Also can be done in quick time, also no effect on the skin, including those who have sensitive skin,” he said.

After surgery, it took two weeks for recovery until the skin completely healed. Read the rest of this entry »

Various herbs in containers sold in grocery stores herbs in the Market Kebayoran Lama,  To protect cosmetics and herbal medicine industry in the country, the Ministry of Industry will implement the Indonesian National Standard (SNI) for medicinal and cosmetic products locally.

as a traditional medicinal herb native to Indonesia has not been treated in parallel with medical drugs. During the herbs are not yet integrated with the formal health system in Indonesia, it will not be able to host their own country.

Head of Research and Development of Health, said Agus Purwadianto, herbal medicine in the medical community still has not taken into account. In view of Agus, among doctors in Indonesia are still minded skeptical of herbal medicine.

“The doctor as a trusted medical community is often put herbs as non-medical drugs, because many doctors in Indonesia are impressed role as promotion and marketing officer of multinational pharmaceutical companies, so they do not want to treat patients with herbal medicine use,” he said when speaking at a seminar ‘Dissemination of Progress Results in Herbal Medicine Development “, in Yogyakarta, last Wednesday.

In addition, according to Agus, until now has not formed a community pharmacist herbal medicine specialist, and yet many hospitals have units of herbal medicine services. Read the rest of this entry »

has long been known as quintessence with chicken or chicken broth are known to have great benefit in maintaining stamina. No doubt, people of China are often made of chicken broth soup to treat patients with common colds. But it turned out, the properties of chicken broth is not limited to stamina but also improve a person’s memory.

According to research done Hajime Nagai and Satya Wacana Christian University in Salatiga, published in 1996 in the Journal of Psychological Anthropology Human Sciences stated, chicken quintessence useful in recovery from fatigue caused by mental fatigue. Consuming chicken essence can increase the power thought to be more responsive (faster) and improve short-term memory

The study involved 20 students who were divided into two groups. The first group ate 70 grams of essence of chicken, while the rest were taking placebo (milk protein) twice daily. Research conducted during the week, and on day seven of the participants take a test of mind and mood of psychology.

The result, the group who consumed chicken extract has a lower error rate in tests of arithmetic and short-term memory tests, compared to the group who consumed a placebo.

“This could happen because (essence of chicken) contain amino acids. And best of amino acids located in chickens than from any other source,” said dr. Philip Tsang, , at the Celebrate 175 Years’S Brand.

Natural amino acid or carnosine contained in the essence of chicken can be added carnosine in your body that decreases as the age. Carnosine itself has a nature boost immunity, reduce, and prevent cell damage caused by beta amyloid (the substance found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease).

“Carnosine in chicken essence adding antioxidants in the body. Free radicals can be detained by antioxidants so as not to damage the body,” said Dr. Tsang.

Consumption of chicken essence itself cater for all ages. Chicken extract was also no effect of dependence or side effects so that there is no limitation in consuming chicken essence. “Dependence effect usually occurs because the user becomes aware of his health was improving their health after consuming chicken essence,” said Dr. Tsang.

Consumption of chicken is also highly recommended is reformulated in the morning. If consumed at night makes it difficult to sleep. “Not because it contains caffeine but because his mind to work so not sleepy,” said Indra Laban, General Manager of Brand’s.

The easiest way to get the essence of chicken is to make your own chicken broth or chicken sariparti buy supplements that are available on the market. That distinguishes between the two, only in the fat content that has been omitted on the product is reformulated chicken supplements.