You’ve heard the term, maybe tried some yourself.

What is an aphrodisiac?

An aphrodisiac is any substance considered to heighten sexual interest. The term originates from the Greek with reference to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of sensuality and love. I would add to it that an aphrodisiac is a substance that helps get our body into a sexy state of harmony and balance.

Throughout history certain plants, drinks and foods have been considered natural aphrodisiacs. While some have been quick fads, others have long histories of use. Many have stayed with us for millennia, and remain an irrepressible testimonial to our fascination with enhancing the sexual experience.

Some foods that have long been considered aphrodisiacs include asparagus, banana, chocolate, figs, honey, and oysters, to name a few. Some have attained this lofty status from reputation. Others fall into the category of “law of correspondence” due to their suggestive genital shape. Still others are on the “A for aphrodisiac list” list because of their intoxicating aromas. Think almond, anise, jasmine, nutmeg or vanilla. Much has been written about the correspondences between sexual stimulation and food. Both these sites have interesting tidbits on the subject.

Why herbal aphrodisiacs?

Unhappy CoupleFor serious aphrodisiac hunters, this is where the rubber complies with the road. With the advent of Viagra, Levitra and Cialis, men’s desire to overcome erectile dysfunction, enhance potency, and increase libido become a marketing hit. That is until many of the side effects of these pharmaceuticals became known. That has pushed the marketing toward herbal solutions to increase libido.

Herbs are not only safe aphrodisiacs, but more complex aphrodisiacs. I mean that in a good way. In contrast to a synthesized component in a pharmaceutical, the herbs are a gift. They pass along their complex balance that has helped them survive and thrive as a living being in harmony with nature. Sexual vitality, pleasure and functionality for both men and women are also complex.

At the physiological level good libido includes good energy levels, balanced hormones, a strong flow of blood to the genitals, a balanced nervous system, and physiological relaxation. Looked at that way you could wonder how any of us 21st centuryists could possibly have healthy libidos. But we do, and generally those of us interested in aphrodisiacs already have good sex. We just want more frequency, or better sex, or an enhanced experience.

The Secret of Herbal Aphrodisiacs

The thing is, we all need to be “in the mood” for the good stuff to get rolling. Switching gears from a high stress job, taking care of kids, or being glued to a computer screen all day to the potent superman or femme fatale may work in the movies. Even in the early stages of a romance. But it’s hard on a day-to-day basis.

What aphrodisiacs do is help us make that switch by helping us relax. That’s actually the secret ingredient in aphrodisiacs. It’s the nervous system’s equivalent of dimming the lights, putting on soft music and clicking the champagne glasses together. Al that together helps you to increase your libido.

Everbody knows that blue pill Viagra was originally created to lower blood pressure. Then they noticed this other thing happening as well, and an industry was born. (You probably know that Viagra does actually not increase libido.)

If you look at the list of top natural aphrodisiacs they all share in common the ability to make us feel gooood. They soothe and relax the central nervous system. They get the blood flowing. They increase hormone levels of the happy stuff — like serotonin and dopamine. They relax muscles. They increase our health by getting our body into a sexy state of harmony and balance.

Biology demonstrates in most life there’s a all-natural propensity in the direction of Balance. Organisms arrange themselves into an order that is certainly extremely related at every level, from your molecules in the small finger to large eco-systems like the tropical rain forests. Life searches for harmony. Every organism works together to produce a harmonic whole. When it is in balance, when there is harmony, the organism is healthy.

Posted in Western Medicine

Most common symptom for skin cancer is the change in the color of skin or a new growth or sole that doesn’t heals.

BCC or Basal cell carcinoma looks like a raised smooth bump on the sun exposed parts of body like head, neck or shoulders whereby a central depression develops that crusts and bleeds. Sometimes small blood vessels appear with the tumor.

SCC or Squamous cell carcinoma can be identified as red, scaling or thickened patch on different parts of the body that bleeds and ulcerate. It develops into large mass if left untreated.

Melanoma are normally brown to black pigmented lesions and gives a warning sign if changes its size, shape, color or elevation of the mole. Men more often get melanoma on the trunk or on the head or neck whereas women get it on the arms and legs.

Preventive Measures for Skin Cancer

An easy to remember guideline or ABCD to identify melanoma is:

Asymmetry in the shape of the mole; Borders of the mole may be irregular or ragged; Color may be uneven or a mixture of black, tan, brown, blue, red or white; Diameter of such mole can change in size.

Causes of skin cancer

UV rays or Ultraviolet rays is the root cause for skin cancer but some other causes for skin cancer includes the following:
- Family history,
- Use of artificial form of UV radiation such as sunlamps and tanning booths is responsible,
- Impaired immune system, that protects the human body from foreign entities, such as germs or substances that cause an allergic reaction,
- Frequent exposure to high level of x-rays,
- Body contact with certain substances like Arsenic (lamb shearers, miners, and farmers),
- Hydrocarbons in tar, oils, soot (cause squamous cell carcinoma).

People with the following characteristics are more prone to skin cancer:

- Having someone in the family suffering from the disease,
- People having a fair complexion or skin type that freckles or is most suffered with skin burns,
- Someone who has light blond or red hair or green or blue eyes,
- Having some genetic disorders that deplete skin pigment,
- Has been already treated for skin cancer or having atleast one severe sunburn early in life.

Posted in Skin Management

Chronic pain reduces social and labor adaptation and leads to significant material, social and moral losses of society. One of the common causes of severe pain can be neuropathic pain, while which suffer nervous system.Its prevalence in the population reaches 1.5%, with the high severity that is why it is a topical problem of modern medicine.The development of this pain may be caused by a lesion and dysfunction of the peripheral or central nervous system. These are afferents of the peripheral nerves, sensory neurons of dorsal ganglia, dorsal horn nociceptive interneurons of spinal cord and sensitive nucleus of cranial nerves, afferents of the nociceptive system stem and cerebral cortex.

Neuropathic pain is diagnosed while polyneuropathies, such as diabetic, toxic, from the effects of local vibration, and while mononeuropathies and pleksopathies of various origins, phantom pain syndrome, radiculopathy, postherpetic neuralgia, facial neuralgia, spinal cord lesions, such as myelopathy, syringomyelia, neoplasms, while demyelinating diseases , acute disorders of cerebral circulation with the development of post-stroke pain.

Clinically, among symptoms of neuropathic pain can be named spontaneous pain, dysesthesia and paresthesia, allodynia, hyperalgesia and giperpatiya.Thus, chronic neuropathic pain requires treatment directed actions in the light of modern ideas about the mechanisms of its development and includes the following:relief of peripheral sources of ectopic impulses in the diseased nerve fibers, control of nociceptive afferent additional centers in the structures of the locomotor system, restoration of central inhibition and suppression of pathological activity of aggregates of hyperactive neurons, blockade of nociceptive flows at the level of the segmental and suprasegmentar relay stations by increasing the activity of the antinociceptive system and correction of the emotional and affective reactions and behaviors.

The main means of chronic neuropathic pain treatment includes antidepressants, anticonvulsants,antiarrhythmics and local anesthetics.In connection with this, in the treatment of chronic neuropathic pain are important non-drug therapies. Currently,the signs of neuropathic pain can be treated with the help of massage, physiotherapy, physiotherapy, biofeedback, and various forms and methods of psychological treatment, autogenic training, respiratory-relaxation training.

Posted in How to Manage Pain

Weight gain is a clinical diagnosis, which is characterised not only by fat and redundant kilos, but also including disorders of endoncrine and vein systems. The problem of weigh has become number one disease by its popularit, people who suffer from redundant weight suffer from illnesses in 3 time more, than people with common weight, in 2,5 times the have more chances to suffer from diabetes and disorders of carbohydrated metabolism. As you can guess that the problem of weight is rather complicated and it has more more reasons, than widely spread mesures of its treatment.

Prime weight gain is not connected with any diseases, but it is aroused by excess amount of calories in food. It is typical for the types of families, where everyone suffers from weight and where children were taught to eat well. Periodical attacks of bulimia, after which there is awareness that such behaviour is wrong and unacceptabl, however there is no such an opportunity to cope with that by yoursel. In this case it is necessary to apply for psychological help.Wrong ration of food can be also connected with lack of knowledge about diet and what is necessary to eat to keep constant and normal weight.

Heredity also plays an important role in weight gain, moreover lack of physical activity while a desire to eat well can lead to redundant weight without doubts. Among the most common weight gain symptoms can be mentioned lack of hormones of thyroid gland, redundant quality of suprarenal cortex or insulin, which is a hormone of pancreas,diseases of brain, heredity genetic factors, sometimes even birth control pills and steroid hornones can arouse redundant weight. Here should be taken in attention age, sex, professional factors, physiological states.

It is considered to be that signs of weight gain are mostly connected with wrong metabolism processes, and to be exactly hormonal. In this case is required medical treatment, in this case are used pills, which can help cope with fats, or they decrease the appetite or increase the processes in stomach. However at the same time the body is not involved in this process, here just happens struggle with signs or result of weight gain. There is also another kind of treatment when a person suffer from weight, than maybe he has psychological problems and here is psychological approach is required. It is important help a person get rid of his anxiety, fears or depression.

While weight gain treatment should be taken many factors which can arouse it, and according to this should be appointed a programme which would help a person become healthy again. Every treatment should be controled by a doctor, in other case it can make the state of a person only worse.

Posted in About Metabolic Diseases

Diabetic neuropathy is a combination of syndromes of nervous system.The main cause of diabetic neuropathy is hyperglycemia. The spread of diabetic neuropathy in both types of diabetes is about 30%. While diabetes of the 1st type after 5 years from the beginning of the disease it started to be noticed of 10% of the patients. The frequency of diabetic neuropathy in 2nd type of diabetes is about 6% of the patients per year. The most common variant is the distal symmetric sensorimotor diabetic neuropathy.

Sensorimotor diabetic neuropathy is expressed by complex of motor and sensory disorders. The most common symptom of this disease is paresthesias, which shows a sense of “crawling” numbness. Patients often complain on weakness of legs, although they are still warm to touch, actually it is a sign that distinguishes polyneuropathy from ishemic changes when the feet are cold to touch.While this kind of neuropathy can be seen dystrophy and degenerative infringements of skin, bones and joints. Lack of sensitivity leads to small microtraumas of a patient, moreover develops swelling, chronic purulent processes and locomotor system.

There are several types of autonomous diabetic neuropathy.The cause of cardiovascular type – is an infringement of the innervation of the heart-lung complex and large vessels. The vagus nerve is the longest nerve, according to this it is affected earlier than the others. As a result of the predominance of sympathetic influences develops tachycardia. Inadequate response to orthostasis is expressed by orthostatic hypotension and syncope.

Among the symptoms of gastrointestinal type of diabetic neuropathy is gastroparesis with delayed or conversely rapid gastric emptying, which may create difficulties in the selection of insulin therapy, because the time and absorption of carbohydrates vary indefinitely.For urogenital form of diabetic neuropathy is typical atony of the bladder and ureters, leading to urinary tract infections, erectile dysfunction, retrograde ejaculation.

Among the other diabetic neuropathy symptoms – infringement of the ability to recognize hypoglycemia, impaired function of the apple of the eye, infringement of the sweat glands, diabetic amyotrophy, numbness, decrease of muscles, infringement while indigestion, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness and faint while fall of blood pressure or change either horizontal or vertical position.

Examination of patients with diabetes should be conducted annually. At least it means carrying out tests aimed at searching for distal sensorimotor neuropathy. Treatment while any signs of diabetic neuropathy should include foot care, optimization of the glucose-lowering therapy, usage of neurotropic drugs, symptomatic treatment, such as pain relief, sildenafil for erectile dysfunction, orthostatic hypotension in fludrokortizon.

In the initial stages diabetic neuropathy can be treated on the background of stable compensation of diabetes. Diabetic neuropathy is defined at 80% of patients with ulcerative lesions and is a major risk factor for amputation of the feetwhile diabetes.

Posted in About Metabolic Diseases