Couver Health Journal

Archive for August, 2009

We all know that certain herbal remedies can pose a health risk. Some of them (including the most used) are usually contraindicated in children or pregnant women or in people with certain diseases due to side effects that they may have.

But things get more complicated if we interfere with conventional medical treatment introducing herbal medicine to complement without physician endorsement, something that complicates the case of dual treatments for cardiovascular disease because of how delicate they are.

A recent research has shed light on this, and warns against the use of medicinal plants widely used in herbal medicine in the case of treatments for heart disease, because they can interfere negatively with the action of drugs.

Thus, St. John’s wort can increase blood pressure or cholesterol increase in people taking cardiac medications, and ginkgo biloba and garlic may increase the risk of internal bleeding.

It is therefore recommended that patients resort to cardiovascular disease physician before taking herbal extracts, as his health is at serious risk.

When its pregnancy opens a new chapter in the lives of women. The joys associated with it are remarkable, but there are also some bad. One of them is the pains that the physical changes of pregnancy occur, one of the most significant back pain caused by the weight of the fetus.

This is very common in many pregnant women, and often accentuated mostly in the lower back. This is where the counter increases, and also in the pelvis, which also suffers from pain. To avoid pregnancy and live normally, acupuncture is an excellent solution.

Publishing in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, a group of researchers worked with 159 pregnant women were divided into three groups: one received treatment for ear (ear acupuncture); another who received acupuncture treatment at points of fake body, and one received neither. Read the rest of this entry »

After buying food at the market and spend any amount for dinner, it is clear that the surplus, still fresh and raw, must be preserved in some way to use it in the future is here when the question arises of how to conserve food.

The best known and perhaps the oldest is freezing, put food at very low temperatures for their decomposition process becomes much slower. While this method may be useful for small amounts are not practical when storing food in large portions, so it is advisable to distribute the food in separate containers to store food more comfortably.

A piece of good-sized meat can be cut into several smaller ones, for example in those who consume at each meal for a week. Thus less exposed to the elements of the environment, which further delayed the decomposition by preventing the action of freeze-thaw-freeze the same portion. Read the rest of this entry »