Showing posts with label malaria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label malaria. Show all posts

Friday, August 8, 2014

Effective Ways to Avoid Mosquito Bites

Who can stand against mosquitoes buzz all night? even mosquito bites cause itching and bumps on the skin. Although itching due to mosquito bites disappear relatively quickly, but the bite of certain mosquitoes can cause deadly diseases, such as dengue fever and malaria.

If you want to fight the mosquito bites, mosquito lotion or insect repellent spray is often an option. However, prolonged use of these materials can cause health problems. The good news, there are also ways to accomplish more natural mosquito attack and certainly healthier.

1. Planting plants attacker-mosquito

Many plants that are naturally able to repel mosquitoes. When you have a garden, then there you can plant mosquito, such as lemongrass, basil, lavender, peppermint, or rosemary.

2. Get rid of stagnant water

Mosquitoes are very attracted to standing water because they tend to plant their eggs there. Stagnant water is not only the former objects, but also on the vase, dispensers, pet drinking container, or bathtub. So, make sure to always close the water reservoirs.


Mosquito Bites
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3. Use light color clothing

Mosquitoes are attracted to dark colors as they naturally would regard as animal skins. Wearing light-colored clothing, mosquitoes tend to refuse to go near it.


4. Use lavender essential oil

Mosquitoes are not resistant to the scent of lavender. Therefore, applying some topical lavender essential oils can keep mosquitoes from you. So that the effect is felt throughout the room, then a few drops of essential oil on a piece of cloth, then hang the cloth at the window.



lavender essential oil
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5. Avoid perfume scented flowers

Nectar of flowers is always attractive to mosquitoes so that, if wearing perfume scented flowers, mosquitoes would prefer to be near you.

Now do not be anxious and confused in the fight against mosquitoes that interfere with sleep at night. Would be more comfortable sleeping without the taper mouth!

Friday, June 13, 2014

Amazing Health Benefits Behind a Bitter Taste of Mahogany Seeds

Mahogany (Swietenia mahogany Jacq) can be found growing wild in the forests of teak and other places close to the beach, or planted as a roadside tree protector. Plants are originally from the West Indies, can flourish when grown in brackish sand close to shore.

Like most drugs, mahogany is also a bitter taste. However, behind the bitterness of the stored natural properties for a variety of complaints, which among other things due to the flavonoid and saponinnya.

Here are the benefits and efficacy of mahogany seeds:

1. Mahogany seeds can be used to improve blood circulation

Mahogany seeds contain flavonoids that are useful for blood circulation, especially to prevent the blockage of the blood vessels. Cholesterol levels in the body will decrease. Also, it can also reduce bleeding, pain, and may be an anti-oxidant that patent to get rid of free radicals.

In traditional Chinese pharmacology and treatment of others mentioned, this plant has a bitter nature, cold, antipyretics (fever), antifungal, and can lower high blood pressure. The pharmacological effects obtained from the use of dried beans, finely ground, up into powder.
2. Helps in maintaining the blood pressure

Mahogany seeds are believed to treat high blood pressure. To treat high blood pressure, you could make a drink by way of seed mahogany brew with hot water. After that, water steeping grain mahogany filtered for drinking in the morning and evening.

Efficacy mahogany seeds, namely hypertension, blood sugar disorders, lack of appetite, fever, and helps maintain durability. How to cultivate it, seeds crushed or pulverized into a powder and brewed with hot water.

3. Reducing fat in the body

Mahogany seeds also contain saponins that can reduce fat inside the body, boost the immune system, can strengthen liver function, useful for preventing plague, improving blood sugar levels, as well as blood and slow the clotting process.

4. Treat malaria

Benefits and content of mahogany seed has long been known as a drug for treating malaria. How to consume is also quite easy. You can hang it to dry and mahogany seeds are separated from the chaff. Once dried, mahogany seeds can be processed into a powder that is ready to be consumed.



5. Regulates Diabetes

Plants that have the ability as an astringent (drying) may precipitate intestinal mucous membrane protein and forms a layer that protects the gut, thus inhibiting glucose intake and the rate of increase in blood glucose.

Unfortunately, Although the benefits of and content of mahogany seeds so much and can be used as medicine, but you also have to be careful with side effects that can be generated by the mahogany seeds. Saponi material contained in a mahogany seed does have good benefits but also have side effects that can make the risk of high cholesterol. In addition, the recommended dose to about 200 mg of flavonoids per day. Therefore, you have to be smart in taking the mahogany seeds.

Until now there are still utilizing mahogany seeds as raw material ingredients to treat a variety of diseases. Spread from mouth to mouth, mahogany herb powder was believed to have a property to help the healing process and vitality. In addition to powders, there is also a direct taking mahogany seeds after throwing flat-shaped outer skin.

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