Health Benefits Of Honey And Water

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 Honey water is a remarkable drink, brimming with nutritional ingredients that will give your body energy and a health boost early in the morning. The best part is that all you need to make it is a tablespoon of honey and a cup of lukewarm water.

1. Watch as Your Weight Drops
Drinking honey water can help you lose weight, despite the sweetness of the drink. The natural sugar in the honey is much healthier than the processed white sugar or corn syrup that is used in soft drinks, and is a healthier source of calories. By replacing soft drinks with honey water you'll see a difference, although not overnight.

2. Maintain Healthy Bowels
Some people are shy about this topic, but there's no shame in discussing it. One cup of honey water a day will help your digestive system and keep you regular. The antibacterial properties of honey help prevent stomach aches and indigestion, and help the body strengthen your stomach's lining.
 3. Boost Your Immune System
Honey is a natural antibacterial substance, and is also full of enzymes, vitamins and minerals – all of which help protect your body against germs, particularly organic honey. Several studies have shown that Manuka honey, a unique honey made from a plant in New Zealand, can kill even antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and can be used as a natural cure for Helicobacter.
 4. Reduce Allergy Symptoms
Studies have shown that eating locally-produced honey helps the body get accustomed to the local pollen, reducing allergy symptoms. If you suffer from seasonal allergies, drink a cup of water with local honey.
 5. Healthy Energy Boost
Even mild dehydration can lead to you feeling tired, so imagine what a cup of water and honey can do to your energy levels. Unlike coffee, the energy boost doesn't subside. Instead, the body remains energized for a prolonged period of time.

6. Say Goodbye to Sore Throats
Every grandmother will tell you that honey is the perfect remedy for a sore throat and coughing. Drinking honey water will create a type of coating around your esophagus, which will calm any coughing and pain, creating a smooth, pleasant sensation in your throat.
 7. Detox
Honey water helps flush toxins out of your body, both by helping your colon, as well as by its antibacterial properties. Detoxing your body regularly helps you feel better and prevents infections. To boost the detox, add some freshly squeezed lemon to your honey water. Lemons too contain antibacterial properties, are diuretic, and aid liver functions.

8. Less Bloating
Feeling bloated and gassy? A cup of honey water will help neutralize the gas, reducing the bloated sensation. It's highly recommended that you drink it after a big meal.

9. Keeps Your Heart Healthy
Above all of its other advantages, honey water helps in raising your "good" cholesterol (HDL) levels. Furthermore, it prevents the body from producing stress hormones, which put pressure on the heart and cardiovascular system.

Top 10 health benefits of tulsi

Tulsi also known as basil leaves, is a fairly common plant in Indian households. Considered holy by many religions, the tulsi plant is revered for its divine properties.

Besides praying to the plant, a number of people advice including the leaves and roots of the plant in various medical decoctions.

With immense benefits right from clear skin to dissolving kidney stones, tulsi is tonic for the entire body. Here are the top 10 benefits of tulsi.

Cures a fever: Tulsi has very potent germicidal, fungicidal, anti-bacterial and anti-biotic properties that are great for resolving fevers. It has the potential to cure any fever right from those caused due to common infections to those caused due to malaria as well. In ayurveda, it is strongly advised that a person suffering from fever should have a decoction made of tulsi leaves. In case of a fever boil a few leaves of tulsi with powdered cardamom in half a litre of water( The proportion of tulsi to cardamom powder should be in the ratio 1:0.3). Let it reduce to half its total volume. Mix this decoction with sugar and milk. Sip every two to three hours. This remedy is especially good for children.

Beats diabetes: leaves of holy basil are packed with antioxidants and essential oils that produce eugenol, methyl eugenol and caryophyllene.  Collectively these substances help the pancreatic beta cells (cells that store and release insulin) function properly. This in turn helps increase sensitivity to insulin. Lowering one’s blood sugar and treating diabetes effectively. An added advantage is that the antioxidants present in the leaves help beat the ill effects of oxidative stress.

Protects the heart: Tulsi has a powerful anti-oxidant component called Eugenol. This compound helps protect the heart by keeping one’s blood pressure under control and lowering his/her cholesterol levels. Chewing a few leaves of tulsi on an empty stomach everyday can both prevent and protect any heart ailments.

Beats stress: According to a study , tulsi helps to maintain the normal levels of the stress hormone – cortisol in the body.  The leaf also has powerful adaptogen properties (also known as anti-stress agents). It helps sooth the nerves, regulates blood circulation and beats free radicals that are produced during an episode of stress. People who have high stress jobs can chew about 12 leaves of tulsi twice a day to beat stress naturally.

Dissolves kidney stones: The holy basil being a great diuretic and detoxifier is great for the kidneys. Tulsi helps reduce the uric acid levels in the blood (one of the main reasons for kidney stones is the presence of excess uric acid in the blood), helps cleanse the kidneys, the presence of acetic acid and other components in its essential oils helps in breaking down kidney stones and its painkiller effect helps dull down the pain of kidney stones. To relieve kidney stones one must have the juice of tulsi leaves with honey, every day for six months to help wash out the stone from the kidney.

Beats cancer: With strong anti-oxidant and anti-carcinogenic properties tulsi has been found to help stop the progression of breast cancer and oral cancer (caused due to chewing tobacco). This is because its compounds restrict the flow of blood to the tumour by attacking the blood vessels supplying it. Have the extract of tulsi every day to keep these conditions at bay.

Helps to quit smoking: Tulsi is known to have very strong anti- stress compounds and is great to help one quit smoking. It helps by lowering the stress that may be involved in trying to quit smoking, or stress that leads to the urge to smoke. It also has a cooling effect on the throat just like menthol drops and helps control the urge to smoke by allowing the person to chew on something. Ayurveda relies heavily on tulsi leaves as a smoking cessation device. Keep some leaves with you and chew it whenever the urge to smoke arises. Another plus is that the antioxidant property of the leaves will help fight all the damage that arises out of years of smoking.

Keeps your skin and hair healthy and glowing: The holy basil has powerful purifying properties. When eaten raw, it purifies the blood giving the skin a beautiful glow, and prevents the appearance of acne and blemishes. Its anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties are very effective in preventing breakouts on acne prone skin. Ayurvedic doctors say that this herb can cure difficult skin conditions like those caused due to ring worms and even leucoderma. Apart from all this, it helps in reducing itchiness of the scalp and helps to reduce hair fall. Mix the powder in coconut oil and apply regularly to the scalp to prevent hair fall. Eating tulsi leaves, drinking the juice, or adding its paste to a face pack can help cure skin and hair conditions.

Heals respiratory conditions: Tulsi has immunomodulatory (helps to modulate the immune system), anti-tussive (suppresses the cough center, reducing the amount of cough) and expectorant properties (helps expel phlegm from the chest), that make it a great relief for coughs, cold, and other respiratory disorders including chronic and acute bronchitis. Another great property of this leaf is that it has anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties that help to beat the infection causing the respiratory problem. It also relieves congestion since it contains potent components like camphene, eugenol and cineole in its essential oils. Its anti-allergic and anti-inflammatory properties also help to treat allergic respiratory disorders.

Cures a headache: Tulsi helps to relieve headaches caused due to sinusitis, allergies, cold or even migraines. This is because it has pain relieving and decongestant properties,  that help relieve the pain and resolve the root cause of the condition. If you are suffering from a headache, make a bowl of water that has been boiled with crushed tulsi leaves or tulsi extract. Cool the water till it is room temperature or bearably hot. Place a small towel in it, wring out the excess water and place this on your forehead to treat a headache. Alternatively you could dip a towel in plain warm water and add a few drops of tulsi extract to the towel for immediate relief. 

These are just some benefits of the plant, other benefits include treatment for common colds, itchiness of the skin, treatment for insect bites, curing common conditions of the eye and as a herbal remedy for bad breath. So the text time you feel ill, try having a few leaves of tulsi. To know more about the health benefits of various everyday ingredients, check out our natural remedies page.

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A unique antibiotic may kill anthrax

Researchers have discovered a unique antibiotic in the sea-

floor mud off California's coast that may potentially kill 

anthrax. A team has discovered the new chemical 

compound from an ocean microbe, a finding that could one 

day set the stage for new treatments for anthrax and other 

ailments such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus 

aureus (MRSA).

As reported, the research group first collected the micro-

organism that produces the compound in 2012 from 

sediments close to shore off Santa Barbara, California. 

Researchers used an analytical technique known as 

spectroscopy to decipher the unusual structure of a 

molecule from a microscopic species known as 

Streptomyces. Initial testing of the compound, which they 

named anthracimycin, revealed its potency as a killer of 

anthrax, the infectious disease often feared as a biological 

weapon, as well as MRSA.

"The real importance of this work is the fact that 

anthracimycin has a new and unique chemical structure, 

said a researcher, who added that the finding is a basic 

research discovery, which could lead to testing and 

development, and eventually a drug.

"The discovery of truly new antibiotic compounds is quite 

rare. This discovery adds to many previous discoveries that 

show that marine bacteria are genetically and chemically 

unique," he said . The discovery provides the latest evidence 

that the oceans, and many of its unexplored regions, 

represent a vast resource for new materials that could one 

day treat a variety of diseases and illnesses, researchers 

said.

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Ward off colds with yoghurt

Start bolstering your immune system for fall and winter by downing a cup of probiotic-rich yoghurt every day. Those good bacteria strengthen your immunity and have been associated with a 42 percent lower risk of getting upper respiratory infections, such as colds. The strains of probiotics are found in fermented dairy products such as yoghurt and kefir. And while you’re downing those, lay off the excess sugar, antibiotics, and stress, all of which can kill good bacteria in your gut and make you more susceptible to cold-weather ailments.

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HONEY HELPS TO KILL VIRUSES

Unpasteurized honey is packed with natural antibiotics and healing enzymes, and nibbling it when you’re ill can cut three days off your sickness, say  researchers. It also kills the bugs that cause sinus infections and other cold complications,” says a Dr. “I take two teaspoons daily when I’m sick, and it soothes my sore throat, reduces coughing and speeds my recovery -- something over-the-counter cold meds never did.”





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HOW ANTI-BACTERIAL PRODUCTS' HARM

CONTAIN- triclosan

concern- animal studies have shown that the chemical can disrupt sex & thyroid hormones essential for normal development & reproduction. They may also cause resistance to anti-biotics.

Remedy- stick to plain soap & water to clean hands. They kill just as many germs & are more eco-friendly.

Sex 'superbug' feared to be 'more infectious than AIDS'

Health officials are warning that two cases of a so-called 'sex superbug' have been confirmed in Hawaii.

Hawaii News Now reports that the 'sex superbug' is a resistant strain of gonorrhea.

The 'sex superbug' called H041 was first discovered in Japan in 2011. It spread to Hawaii, and has now surfaced in California and Norway.

Doctors are warning that an antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhoea, now considered a superbug, has the potential to be as deadly as the AIDS virus.

 

Gonorrhea is the second most commonly reported sexually transmitted infection in North America.  

This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and will affect more people quickly.

Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days,’ said a Dr. ‘This is very dangerous.’ 

Although no deaths from HO41 have been reported as yet, experts say avoiding the disease completely is the best course of action.

People need to practice safe sex, like always. Anyone beginning a new relationship should get tested along with their partner. 

The way gonorrhea works, not everyone knows they have it. And with this new strain it's even more important than ever to find out.

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease that has been known since medieval times. Sometimes known as ‘the clap,’ the infection can result in painful sores and genital discharge, and is associated with ectopic pregnancies and sterility in both men and women. 

Left untreated, gonorrhea can lead to a host of complications including pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, and blood stream infections.

It also raises the risk for HIV because the lesions permit the AIDS-causing virus easier access to the bloodstream.

Gonorrhea is especially common among people between the ages of 15 and 24.

The disease became curable in the 1940s when penicillin and other antibiotics were introduced. Since then, the medical world has created more new drugs that killed the ever-mutating gonorrhea bacteria.

Cephalosporin, the last available class of antibiotics recommended for the treatment of gonorrhea, has been failing worldwide and there is the very real prospect that all types of gonorrhea will soon become untreatable.