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Sinusitis is the inflammation of the sinuses, which are hollow cavities within the cheek bones which are located around and behind the nose. Sinusitis can be acute or chronic and can last for months or years if not given care and treatment.
Sinusitis: its causes and how to cure naturally

The most common symptoms of acute sinusitis are:

• Headache.
• sinus pain.
• mucopurulent discharge constant.
• Fever.
• red nose.
• Halitosis (bad breath)
• Fatigue.
• Feeling swollen face.
• Toothache.
• Sore eyes.
• Watery eyes.
• Sometimes there is bleeding from the nose.
• General malaise.
• Cough (especially in children with chronic sinusitis.)
• hyposmia (absence of smell).
• Pain on chewing and hoarseness.

These signs may vary, or more acute or more severe depending on the severity of inflammation or infection.

Causes and types of sinusitis

There are two types of sinusitis: acute and chronic.

Acute sinusitis is usually caused by a bacterial infection and usually occurs by a late complication of respiratory viral infections, like colds or the flu (influenza) common. This is one of the most common causes of sinusitis. Read the rest of this entry »

The skin, hair and eyes are the most exposed to cold wind and the dryness of the atmosphere in the cold season, although not the only ones suffer, but the whole body, especially the airways, the which must adapt and acclimate to the cold weather to resent not severely. And to keep the body well nourished and with requertimentos needed for the cold season, it is necessary among other things, that our immune system estefuerte and healthy, so you can help the body adapt to the time necessary requerimento .

The winter diet

And the first thing is to start a good diet:

1. FATS: Fats are less dear friends from many diets because they believe they are harmful and only cause weight gain, cellulite and pimples. However, fats are essential for body functions, especially the heart and brain, and the cold season, fat is necessary for the skin and the hair will require more in this kind of weather. So what should you care is included in the diet of vegetable fats (charities) and those containing almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, olive oil, etc.. Read the rest of this entry »

Prostatitis and BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy, BPH) are conditions of the prostate that men often experience after 45. Such conditions are mainly due to malfunctioning of the system called hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular, where the hypothalamus produces hormones that act on the pituitary and regulate the production of testosterone and other hormones which regulate the functioning of male hormones the male body.

For these conditions to be prescribed and considered various remedies, especially when the symptoms begin to be really annoying and painful. Some conventional remedies are surgery, taking antibiotics, medicines, etc. However, before evaluating any of these remedies, it is important to revise these natural alternatives to help your prostate to regain their health. Remember that natural remedies, unlike conventional drugs, are under great advantage and help the body strengthen its self-healing ability, your immune system and make it stronger and resistant to all kinds of afeccions and contagion. Read the rest of this entry »

Cardamom or “grain of paradise” is the fruit of a plant with the same name. This plant, which consume only seeds, native to India and Sri-Lanka, contains several small seeds that were consumed before the Christian era, have very different uses both in health and in the kitchen, which makes it one of the most valuable species worldwide, but now its price has been reduced as a result of global overproduction. Read the rest of this entry »

Antioxidants are substances that slow the wear and tear of the skin, organs, tissues and others, ie, prevent premature oxidation of the cells exposed to the action of free radicals, molecules which are “unbalanced” running through our bodies trying to pick up an electron from the stable molecules in order to achieve its electrochemical stability, causing chain reactions that destroy our cells.

Antioxidants are great friends of the beauty and health to combat aging, degeneration and death of cells that produce free radicals and which we take from food because our body is unable to neutralize the radical libres.Además of the above, antioxidants are substances essential to prevent diseases like cancer.

Then we give you a list of foods that have a high percentage of antioxidants to be able to include them in your recipes and diet. Read the rest of this entry »

The body odor, which tends to focus especially in the area of the armpits, feet and genitals, is caused mainly by the action of microorganisms that take advantage of the humid conditions of these areas of the body to multiply. Are in these areas where a higher number of sweat glands. When it’s hot, accumulate bacteria causing the bad smell due to gases are vented.

Currently frowned upon someone who smells bad, so that there are many products on the market to prevent odor and reduce sweating. However, a product is not always the whole solution. Read the rest of this entry »

The Olive oil has excellent culinary reputation and ranks as one of the key elements of cardiovascular health in the Mediterranean diet.

However, their profits are higher, now new studies have found that olive oil is good for eye health, it appears to prevent in particular, macular degeneration, a disease that affects the retina of older people 60 years and is the second leading cause of blindness in the elderly, after diabetes

Olive oil has components that protect the blood vessels of the eyes and reduce the risk of vision loss, especially after age 50, experts added.

The results of two studies were published in the Archives of Ophthalmology “in May.

The study by researchers at the University of Sydney and the Centre for Eye Research in Australia, followed the track to 9.234 adults who had a Mediterranean diet rich in Omega 3 (found in fish, nuts and oil olive oil) and found that they were less likely to develop problems with the retina. We also know that these eye problems are directly associated with nutrition. Read the rest of this entry »

Protecting our environment starts at home. The following recommendations are designed to reduce air pollution through simple measures you can implement in your home.

Replace the five most frequently used lights in your house with light bulbs with the ENERGY STAR. In this way you will use less energy and do your part to reduce pollution from power plants. There are over 40 products with the ENERGY STAR, including lights, electronics, air conditioner and heating appliances.

Improving the performance of air conditioning system. Contact a licensed contractor for annual maintenance and remember to clean or replace air filters regularly. Use a programmab Read the rest of this entry »

Meditation is one of the main ways of “re-connection”, to calm the disorder of the mind and enhance our own qualities, “divine.” Furthermore, as a direct result, brings many benefits to our health, both physically and emotionally and mentally.

Previous studies have proven “empirically” its beneficial action on hypertension, cancer and even about the side effects from treatment of such chronic diseases, including AIDS.

A few years ago that is becoming more obvious the need to stop viewing the human body as a “single entity”, traditional medicine has chosen to take a broader, more complete human being, and in all its dimensions.

That stress, tension and negative thinking are great enemies of our health is not new. Although hard to admit, sometimes we are the architects of our own health, whether good or bad. Both from a conscious point of view as, in many cases also more difficult to detect, unconscious.

One of the most common or accessible in the Western world entering this maetría of meditation is through yoga. A study that was published some time in the Gazette of Medicine Association of the United States concluded that those patients who practiced this discipline earning profits on disease control, among whom were diabetes, arthritis or chronic stress tables.

Either way and despite not suffering from any serious disorder, yoga and meditation are ideal tools to stay calm, attentive and focused, and to prevent precisely this type of disease.

Another area in which meditation is often helpful is in reference to the care of heart, constant psychological stress is one of the clearest indicators of risk of cardiac complications, as assured by researchers at the Mayo Clinic (U.S. ).

Also, a study that conducted the Harvard Medical School (USA) revealed that heart attack victims who learn to remain calm during emotional conflicts halved the risk of having another similar episode.

The Heart Association of the United States, meanwhile, advises patients who suffer from hypertension treatment to complement conventional techniques of meditation. A study supported by this institution found that those who meditated at least twice a day for twenty minutes each session, managed to significantly reduce blood pressure.

More evidence: as other work done by researchers at the Faculty of Medicine, Morehouse University, Atlanta (USA), and presented at the XV International Interdisciplinary Conference on Hypertension and Risk Factors among Ethnic Groups held in Puerto Rico, meditation sessions have a positive impact on blood pressure, helping to normalize levels.