Prophylactic Expositions On Health And Nutrition

Euphorbia hirta for Asthma What is Asthma? Asthma is a long-term respiratory condition, in which the air ways may unexpectedly and suddenly narrow, often in response to an allergen, cold air,hot air or heat stress, exercise, or emotional stress. Symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. Herbal Cure For Asthma Euphobia hirta , a potent antiasthma herb       For the cure of Asthma in alternative or herbal way without the use of conventional medicine, I will recommend this potent herb called  Euphorbia hirta  popularly called (asthma plant) which belongs to the largest genus Euphorbia (1600 species) in the plant family Euphorbiaceae, which is characterized by the production of milky white latex.      The plant is a small annual (ephemeral) herb. It has simple leaves that are displayed in opposite arrangement.    This plant derives its common name, (asthma plant) from its anti-as...

What is Asthma? An asthmatic patient being given inhaler Asthma is a long-term respiratory condition, in which the air ways may unexpectedly and suddenly narrow, often in response to an allergen, cold air,hot air or heat stress, exercise, or emotional stress. Symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. Its Microbiology :  Asthma is an hypersensitivity (a disorder) of the immune system to allergens, in which the immune system of a person suffering from Asthma reacts abnormally to the presence of allergens by producing biochemicals which cause respiratory impairment by making the smooth muscle to contract in the bronchioles. The arterioles dilate, which greatly reduces arterial blood pressure and increases capillary permeability with rapid loss of fluid into tissue spaces. These physiological changes can be rapid and severe enough to be fatal within a few minutes from reduced venous return, asphyxiation, reduced blood pressure, and cir...

  What Are Food Preservatives? Harmful food additives called food preservatives.       Food Preservatives are harmful chemical substances that are added to food called food additives to help prevent spoiling, improve appearance and/or maintain the food’s nutritional quality. Some preservatives come from natural sources like salt, sugar, vinegar and citrus juice. But the food preservative that I'm talking about are synthetic chemicals that are very harmful to human health which are added to processed and junk foods to prolong their shelf life. Soft drinks with their harmful preservatives Processed or junk foods laden with harmful preservatives Examples of the harmful chemicals that are used as food preservative are; • Benzoic acid • Calcium Sorbate • Erythorbic Acid • Potassium Nitrate • Sodium Benzoate • Ascorbyl Palmitate • Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA) • Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT) • Formaldehyde. What foods have preservativ...

Reasons Why You Should Use Herbal Medicine I take my facts from many incidents that I have been privileged to see, read, and experienced in life situations and also from the treatment of acute and chronic diseases. I would start from:  Malaria Fever Brimstone leaves(Morinda lucida): the  herb that was used to cure my former landlord of his malaria.       In Modakeke-Ife, Ile-Ife, Osun State Nigeria, I was privileged to take care of my former landlord who was down with Malaria Fever with a herb called Morinda lucida (Ewe oruwo-Yoruba language). This man had been overpowered and made temporarily impotent or enervated by malaria. He went into his bedroom and laid on the floor there and could not rise up- it is quite unusual for him to be in that state in day time. Seeing him in that state, I went out to the bush where I could lay my hands on the aforementioned herb , got back home and started the preparation of the herb: I washed the herbs thoroughly ...

    Processed foods with their harmful and toxic life-threatening processing chemicals  The topic of this blog may seem strange to us if I dive into it without letting the readers know what Inflammation is; what Autoimmune diseases are; what Junk foods really are, and the reasons why they go hand in hand or relate to bring premature death to human being. NOTE: concerning Junk foods ; some people really do not know the difference between nutritious foods(balanced food) and harmful foods( Junk foods ): they thought all foods are good to eat once they contain protein, carbohydrates, fat and oil, vitamins, and good seasonings and they satisfy the hunger of the body What are Junk Foods ?      Junk foods with their toxic chemicals     Junk Foods are refined and processed foods and their accessories such as sodas (soft drinks), white sugar, white flour, processed meat, HFCS(high fructose corn syrup), art...

Autoimmune Diseases: What Are They? Autoimmune Diseases: Malar rash typical of autoimmune disease. Neuropathy of the feet, an autoimmune disease.     An Autoimmune disease is an abnormal condition in the human body in which the human immune defense system fight against the human internal organs, tissues, and cells instead of pathogens or germs that cause diseases through a body defense mechanism called Inflammation . In a normal body/health state, Inflammation  is a normal process through which the human defense system use to protect the body against invaders called pathogens or germs that cause diseases.       Inflammation is a body defense mechanism which is activated when foreign agents like viruses, bacteria, parasites and or toxic chemicals enter the body or when any part of our body suffers injury. Whenever any of the two incidents mentioned above occurs, the body immune system sends out its first responders: infla...

Brimstone leaf, a potent herb for the cure of Malaria. What is Malaria Fever?       Malaria Fever is a disease condition caused by different species of Plasmodium parasite such as Plasmodium falciparum , P. vivax, P. ovale and P. malarie.It is a disease characterized by burning fever, shaking chills(cold) and sweating.      A mosquito taking a blood meal. Malaria is developed in the human body when mosquito (female anopheles) bites a human being to take a blood meal, while in the process of sucking blood from the bite site, it releases one of the species of Plasmodium e.g. Plasmodium falciparum into the blood stream of its victim through its blood decoagulating saliva. The Malaria disease condition now starts when Plasmodium parasite leave the blood stream and enter the liver(hepatic) cells, where it starts to multiply itself, all in the bid to complete the life cycle it had started in the abdomen of the female anopheles mosquito...