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Learn about the botanical ingredients that cure your ills, add to your health, restore beauty and generally make life a more pleasant experience. New posts coming all the time, so be sure to return often…
Aphrodisacs and Natural Sexual Enhancements
Ready for the wild ride of herbal sexual stimulants? Check out these articles to get started and find out what you can do with plants to stimulate all sorts of things…
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Here are some tools and tips for enhancing your energy naturally, without harmful chemicals. Is guarana really so bad? What about vitamin B12? Does chocolate increase energy? All this and more…
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1 comment October 11, 2008
Why Take a Green Drink? Seven Reasons for Adding a Green Drink to Your Diet
Not everyone takes a green drink for the same reason. And to argue that there is only one formula or “set of criteria” that defines a good green drink is completely absurd. The fact is, there are many reasons for adding a green drink to your food choices and each has its advantages. Plus, a green drink is only one part of a healthy diet program — not the entire thing. So you need to COMBINE your green drink with the other supplements and food choices you make.
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Add comment October 11, 2008
Comparing Green Superfood Products
UPDATED July, 09 2008
The number of green superfood powders that have sprouted up lately is astonishing. It reminds me of the tea craze in the mid-1990s that saw countless small herbal tea companies trying to duplicate the success of the Tazo brand (and that was before it was purchased by Starbucks). It’s doubtful that green superfood products will ever reach the popularity of herbal tea, but the activity in this arena is promising. At the least, it indicates that more Americans are trying to get more nutrition and improve their diets.
8 comments July 9, 2008
Jacuzzi Hair Treatment, Free Heat Conditioning Treatment
If you are suffering from split ends, take advantage of your jacuzzi or sauna moments to restore health to your hair. Just pass coconut oil through your hair before entering these heated environments and you’ll give your hair a hot-vapor conditioning treatment for free. Even if your hair gets wet, the oil will still enter.
Add comment March 23, 2008
Roses On Your Skin, Natural Skin Treatment
Here’s a recipe for a lovely skin cleanser and moisturizer made with roses: Take two tablespoons of dried calendula, two tablespoons of white roses, one tablespoon of liquid glycerin and ½ liter of distilled water. Put the ingredients together in an amber jar and leave it in the refrigerator for three days. Afterward, mix and strain out the particles. You can use this on your skin as often as you like. It keeps for about three months.
Add comment March 23, 2008
Healthy Babies Form Healthy Habits
Did you know that babies formulate their food tastes in the first year after birth? If you give your baby sugary, sweet foods and juices in this period, your child will likely crave sweets for the rest of his or her life. Look for juices and baby foods that are not sweet — whether naturally or (especially) artificially.
1 comment March 23, 2008
Antioxidant Juices, Red Berry Superfood Drinks, and The Fight Against Free Radicals
This is the first of a series of articles on Red Berry Antioxidant Drinks and how they form the second major pillar of a successful natural health diet (the first pillar being green superfood drinks). Return here for more articles, product comparisons and tips on finding, buying and using red superfood drinks.
Fighting Free Radicals
The best way to prevent free radical damage to your cells is with a diet rich in antioxidants. Antioxidants are positively charged molecules that combine with negatively charged and oxidized free radicals
Add comment March 22, 2008
Copaiba: The Healing Tree
Copaiba (scientific name, Copaifera officinalis), aside from being a beautiful and noble hardwood, also gives us an oil that has a surprising number of medicinal properties. Copaiba (pronounced koh-pah-ee-bah) is from the Amazon region and is encountered in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia and Columbia.
1 comment March 16, 2008
Aspartame-Free
Most health conscious people are aware of the dangers of aspartame, the artificial sweetener in most diet soft drinks. But what you might not realize is that some products that are not even sugar free contain the stuff — just look on the label the next time you purchase breath mints or chewing gum. It’s a real shame that non-diet products include this poison!
Add comment March 16, 2008
Natural Anti-Fungal
Did you know that one of the strongest anti-fungal remedies you can find is oregano oil? Spread some on your athlete’s foot or other skin fungus for fast results. It also helps avoid infection from acne and other skin abrasions. Other great natural anti-fungals include teatree oil, raw garlic, and pine oil.
Add comment March 16, 2008
Stinging Nettles for the Scalp
Stinging Nettle is known for making you itch, but it’s also a great beauty herb. In many countries, it’s known as a hair tonic and strong anti-flaking remedy. Here’s a home-style recipe: Boil 5 Nettle leaves in two cups of water and let cool. Later, massage the tea infusion into your scalp. Rinse after 15 minutes. Repeat as much as twice per week.
Add comment March 16, 2008
Avocado Hair Restoration
Avocado is fantastic for restoring dry and broken hair. Take 1/2 an avocado, two tablespoons of plain natural yogurt, 1/2 teaspoon of liquid vitamin A, and one teaspoon of honey. Mix all ingredients and apply to your damp hair and leave-in for 30 minutes. Later, wash and condition your hair normally. You can do this once per week to restore damaged hair.
Add comment March 16, 2008
Green Superfood Products: How to Read the Labels
How to Judge the Quality of a Green Superfood Product
There are more and more green superfood products hitting the market all the time. What you should know as a consumer of these products is that the quality of these products varies greatly and it can be difficult to judge one from another just by looking at the label.
Add comment March 8, 2008
Jaborandi: Don’t Sweat It
When you talk about healthy hair and stimulated hair growth in Brazil, you are probably talking about a plant called Jaborandi (pronounced djah-bohr-ahn-djee), or in scientific terms Pilocarpus jaborandi Holmes. This plant is native to the Amazon region and has been used by the people of Brazil since colonial times, and before that by the native Tupis people. The word jaborandi comes from the Tupi language and means, “plant that makes the mouth water.”
Add comment March 1, 2008
Caju: The Forgotten Fruit
I’ll never forget visiting the Northeast Region of Brazil and walking under the shade of Brazil’s largest Caju tree, which is actually more like a grove, since it consists of many entangled trees, all sprouting from the same root structure. The fruit dangles from the branches like golden Christmas ornaments.
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Catuaba: Stimulate Your Immune System…and a Whole Lot More
When we speak of aphrodisiacs or natural sex enhancement in Brazil, the word that comes to everyone’s lips is Catuaba. Catuaba (scientific name, Trichilia catigua) is known all over the world as the Brazilian Viagra without the harmful side effects. In Brazil, Catuaba has such a following that we have a saying about it: “up to sixty years old, a father’s children are his own; after sixty, they come from the Catuaba.
Add comment March 1, 2008
Ora Pro Nobis: Give us this day our daily…hedge clippings
In the month of May, there is an interesting festival in the interior of Brazil in the state of Minas Gerais, called The Festival of Ora Pro Nobis. The name is Latin meaning “pray for us,” but this is not a religious festival by any means. On the contrary, it’s a festival of food, specifically in regional dishes made with the leaves of the Ora Pro Nobis plant — not to mention all the beer and caipirinhas one can drink. Ora Pro Nobis — pray for us.
Add comment March 1, 2008
Acai: The Amazon’s Original Energy Drink
Ahh, a bowl of chilled Acai; that’s what’s becoming a hit on the beaches around the world, from Hawaii to Barcelona. But there was a time when this special treat was available only in Brazil. Now it’s everywhere. In the United States, Acai juice is hitting the big time. But Acai is served much differently in my home country.
Add comment March 1, 2008
Carqueja: Cleaning the Body and the Back Yard
Whenever I hear the name carqueja, I remember my childhood in the interior of Brazil and going outside with my grandmother to search for the special plants that would be dried and bound together at the end of long sticks to make brooms. That’s how carqueja is known in the countryside of Brazil. And it’s used by the people of the region for sweeping their dirt paths and backyard areas.
Add comment March 1, 2008
Boldo do Chile: A Cure for the Common Hangover…and More
Boldo do Chile is one of the most well known herbs in Brazil, although due to its horribly bitter taste, it’s not necessarily one of the most popular. In the southern half of Brazil, you can find a boldo bush growing in the back yard of just about any rural or suburban home. It’s a hearty plant that is easy to grow and cultivate. And as much as Brazilians love to party — it’s good to have this natural hangover remedy close at hand.
Add comment March 1, 2008
Flaxseed Hair Gel
If you regularly use a fixing gel in your hair, you can substitute a natural gel instead and protect your hair from excess drying. Just take a cup of raw flaxseeds and boil them in about 3 cups of water for ten minutes. Let cool and remove the seeds. What’s left is a natural gel for your hair.
Add comment March 1, 2008
C is for Hands
For soft hands, add vitamin C to your hand lotion to help protect against drying and aging. You can use vitamin C gel caps or powder.
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Baby Face
For skin that looks like a baby’s, try mixing one tablespoon of cold plain yogurt with one tablespoon of turbinado sugar crystals and rub the mixture gently onto your face, then rinse.
Add comment March 1, 2008
Hangover Remedy
If you end up over doing it in the alcohol department, try this mixture to get your body back into good running order: Start with a glass of tomato juice or vegetable juice and add a teaspoon of spirulina, liquid vitamin B complex, and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Next empty two capsules of Milk Thistle, two capsules of garlic extract, and two DHEA capsules and drink up.
1 comment March 1, 2008
