Mushroom poisoning – symptoms and first aid
Mushroom poisoning have become fortunately rare. But how to distinguish them from ordinary indigestion? Of the more than 5,000 large mushrooms in the local forests are only 150 toxic. Nevertheless, “mistakes” in mushroom picking are not harmless. Mushroom pickers should be able to distinguish edible from inedible or poisonous copies. Also in the preparation of some rules must be observed: Reheating is not getting mushroom dishes. This decompose certain proteins that are similar to those of a cause symptoms of food poisoning. Mushrooms spoil quickly and some people lack, genetic, an enzyme to digest fungi. In all these cases threaten abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhea. The comparatively harmless toadstools make itself a quarter of an hour to four hours after eating noticeable. With salt water, can cause vomiting. The symptoms normally disappear after a few days from final. Severe...
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10.11.2015: Day of Naturopathy
Alternative Medicine today are extremely popular, more and more people rely on appropriate therapies and use this – sometimes accompany – to conventional medicine. As part of each year on the second Saturday held in October Day of Naturopathy Naturopathic the American Federal Government informed with varying emphases on treatment options. While the naturopathy was practiced in ancient times as a folk medicine, it came as part of medical progress and corresponding achievements into oblivion. Modern diagnostic methods, genetic research and high-tech medicine, with its promising therapies took their place. However, the desire of many people for holistic herbal, homeopathic or anthroposophic medicine Engaged called gentle medicine again. In the focus of interest So has evolved from the once dismissed as mumbo jumbo therapies over the past decades a serious alternative or supplement: Even under conservative doctors working in...
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Mineral water: pure pleasure and healthy lifeblood
Bottled water, spring water, mineral water or medicinal water, that water is not just water, is at least clear the drinks shopping. Over 500 different mineral water available in USA. But when water is actually referred to as mineral water and where the many varieties differ? Every day our body requires 1.5 to 3 liters of fluid. An ideal thirst quencher is natural mineral water because it not only provides vital for our body fluid, but also many equally important minerals and trace elements. But not every water may be called natural mineral water. Only when certain limits for minerals and trace elements are complied with and the water is bottled directly at the source, it may be called mineral water. Only iron and sulfur may be removed or added carbon dioxide. Which mineral water in which life situation?...
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Herb Garden for Health
A remedy for sore throat from the garden bring? Place a soothing gastric herbal for yourself? With your own herb garden that is possible. And the good news is: A lot of space is not necessary. Those who opt for the popular and robust herbs, has a herb garden not much work and yet can harvest all year round. For your own garden are particularly suitable: Sage Basil Rosemary Oregano Melissa Chives If neck pain or inflammation in the neck and throat area, it is advisable to prepare a mixture of sage leaves and chamomile flowers a tea and cooled for gargling and rinsing to use. It is this tea is also effective for stomach/ intestinal problems soothing and beneficial when it is not used in this case for gargling or rinsing, but is drunk. The aromatic and medicinal...
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Healthy tea after the kite flying
Kite flying is now a popular pastime for families with children. After a day in the fresh autumn wind the little ones and their parents are often frozen back into the house. Now it’s time for one of the many delicious healthy tea, something like herbal. Healthy tea are in the supermarket, drugstore and pharmacy. The quality differences can be enormous. Are really delicious teas, which are even prepared. The ingredients can always collect himself, but is recommended for quality reasons and for the benefit of their own health, they acquire in the pharmacy. Stored in a dry, dark and airtight, they are durable and retain their fine flavor. For entry can be recommended: Coltsfoot St. John’s Wort Hops Lime blossom This leaves can also be mixed. A teaspoon is enough then for a cup of tea. But even...
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Acidification – the acid-base balance gets out of balance
Although acid to make fun, certainly not the case for acidification of the body. For a hyperacidity, medically referred to as acidosis, the body reacts with various symptoms. Sometimes even diseases can be result. But what exactly causes hyperacidity and what can you do about it? Usually located in the human body acids and bases in balance. For this, the body has various buffer systems which ensure a proper pH balance in the cells and body fluids. The pH itself is a dimensionless measure of the basic or acidic character.IIn the human body there are quite different pH values that are regulated via the blood, the lungs, the kidneys, the skin and the liver. Thus, the blood has, for example, a pH of about 7.3, the skin of 5.5 to 6.5 and the gastric acid of 1 to 1.5,...
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