Nail Care

When we say someone has “bad nails” then they are weak and thin, they break or split. If a nail should be quite shortened, it is done with scissors first, and then it is files. It is better to shorten the nails regularly, using files than tools. Paper files are the best, and are of various qualities – from rougher to finer, and the cheapest is a rubbery one. Trimming is done using rougher files, and then a finer file is used to polish and shape the edges of the nail. Before you start with nail care, you should keep them in lukewarm water for about 5 minutes, where there is a liquid soap of neutral pH value dissolved.

It is not enough to rub a cream into hands skin several times a day! Nails need a cream for care, too. Such creams contain proteins, vitamins, minerals and amino acids that strengthen the surface layer of nails. Special creams make nails elastic and stimulate their growth. If you have thin nails special care is needed. For the nails to be healthier it is necessary to get enough calcium and vitamins B, D and E. In spring and autumn it is important that nails are provided with vitamins and minerals. When nails are dry they split. It is enough to keep them in lukewarm oil of plant origin (olive) for a few minutes once a week. Nails are filed from the edges towards the middle.

Brittle nails are not elastic because they are dry. The best sources of moisture for such nails are products with Aloe vera. Such nails are not to be filed for a long time. Weak nails should be provided with silicon better. Silicon strengthens the nail root and can improve their growth.

Nail Whitening

Lemon juice is used for nail whitening. It works as a peeling for the cuticle. Keep nails in lemon juice for two minutes. If the fingers skin is dry and nails split, an oil bath would be best for them. Heat olive, sunflower or sesame oil and then dip your fingers or entire hands. This treatment lasts for 10 minutes. Nails should not be filed in one direction. The skim at the bottom of the nail and cuticle do not have to be removed mechanically. A product applied to the cuticle chemically dissolves the skin, softens it in order to be easily pushed up so that we have a larger surface of nail. This product is first rubbed in circular moves and then cuticle is gently pushed by an appropriate tool. Do never cut them! After suppressing cuticle clean all up with alcohol to stop the chemical process and to disinfect.

Not only that a hand cream is used for skin care and making it sensitive, but also strengthens the nails. It is best to use creams that contain calcium and provitamin B5. Once a week you should apply the cream to your hands, put protective gloves and leave the cream to work overnight.

Nail polish is applied in two thin layers. Before that apply a clear nail polish or a foundation for it, and then apply the nail polish itself. In this way the nail polish will be kept on your nails longer. While painting your nails you should take care about how the nail polish is applied. It needs to be applied from the bottom towards the top of nails. The thin line with the nail root should remain free because in that way nails will be able to breathe.

As for removing the nail polish using acetone – it is not recommendable. Such product of highest quality is a nail polish remover without acetone. Acetone dries both cuticle and nails that therefore crack easily. Nail polish remover without acetone decomposes nail polish slowly, but protects nails. When the nail polish is removed, hands must be washed. Nail polishes that have dried up, dehydrated, become very thick, should not be thinned using acetone because acetone waterproofs them and they quickly crack on nails. There is a thinner for nail polishes that is dripped into the nail polish and then is good shaken.

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Mallow against Respiratory Diseases

Marsh-mallow has always been considered the best natural medicine against respiratory diseases, as it influences strong secretion of scum in colds, coughs, bronchitis. It soothes the irritation that occurs in inflammation, and it is especially effective in pulmonary catarrh. It is especially good as an additional remedy in treating bronchial asthma. Immerse three teaspoons of roots in a cup of cold water for at least eight hours, heat a bit and sieve. Teas of white mallow flowers or leaves are prepared in the same way. Tea is sweetened with honey and drunk in sips. It is an ideal disinfectant, for gurgling and rinsing the mouth mucosa. Tea made of marsh-mallow helps with the diseases of the urinary and digestive organs, particularly with painful urination and inability to hold urine. Mallow efficiently influences the inflammation of the uterus, excessive discharge and increased acid. Tea is drunk cold and unsweetened, in the sip.

Milfoil Prevents Menstrual Symptoms

During the period convulsion in the lower part of abdomen occurs, followed by pain, which can be extended to the back. Then it comes to the fall of hormone levels, uterus contracts and since it has not come to the fertilisation, mucous membrane is rejected and a new one is being formed. Convulsion of the uterus obstructs the flow of oxygen and that is what causes pain. Milfoil can prevent that. It contains a mixture of ingredients (camphor, cineol) that eliminate cramps. Drink three or four cups of tea made of milfoil daily between meals.

Ginseng for Mental and Bodily Energy

Ginseng increases the resistance and the vitality of the body. The Chinese have been using it for 5,000 years. Ginseng helps in the treatment of impotence, anemia, bronchitis, asthma, poor digestion, stress, insomnia, fatigue and poor circulation. Science has confirmed that it helps the body to absorb vitamins and minerals better, stimulating endocrine glands. You should take it before having a meal because it is the most effective then. Ginseng can be obtained in a natural form (as a root), in the form of capsules, tea and liquid concentrate. The older the root of ginseng, the more effective is, because it contains more effective substances.

St John’s Wort against Depression

Short days with little daylight affect the brain gland epiphysis. The less irritation reaches the gland over the nerves, the less melatonin it produces. Too many sleep hormones causes bad mood. The solution for this situation is St John’s Wort. Herbal substance hypericine soothe nerves, a combination of active substances regulates the secretion of melatonin and keeps the stress hormone (cortisol), which improves mood. Have one or two cups of tea in the morning and in the evening.

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Today more and more people deal with yoga. Some of them do it to limber up their body, some to relax their muscles, and others to achieve control over themselves.  Some 15 million people do yoga in the USA, 4 million in Germany, 3 million in England, a million in Italy.

There are different ways of practising yoga (faster or slower) that all generations do. Yoga is often practised in a group. In the Western world the most popular is so called “Hata yoga” with exercises suitable for stretching muscles and ligaments, improving circulation and massage of internal organs. At the same time breathing and relaxation techniques are applied.

Yoga relieves from stress, it is an excellent method for improving the general state of health, for balance and achieving inner peace. Yoga helps in the treatment of many health problems such as heart disorders, arthritis, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, Premenstrual syndrome and obesity.

Efficacy of yoga depends on frequent and regular exercise (even a short time but every day). It is normal that exercises begin with warming up. Warming up contributes to a better and longer training. Yoga exercises limber up all parts of the body and make them flexible; increase flexibility and are particularly good for slim body shape, because only one hour of exercise “consumes” 600 calories. Such exercises are beneficial for health, including those people who rarely limber up. Troubles such as pain in the shoulders can be solved even after several minutes of exercise a day. Regular exercise allows regular glands functions as well.

If you do all prescribed yoga exercises regularly, you’ll have better posture and walk properly, you will be more confident, and breathing exercises will have a beneficial effect on your overall health.

Yoga for Face

Among the numerous subvariants of yoga, yoga for face has recently been invented, and works as a lifting. Its technique is based on the standard postulates of yoga (proper breathing, which slows down the number of heart rate, reduces tension etc.).

Facial muscles may be tightened, too, as all other muscles. By constant repetition of some people grimaces (such as pouting the lips, as if you are kissing someone through the air etc.) strengthen facial muscles so that wrinkles are either prevented or removed in a natural way.

Exercises

Pellet

Alternately blow left and then right cheek and count each time until 30, then blow both and hold up to 60 seconds.

Ladybug

Imagine that you have a ladybug landed on your palm and you should blow it away. Blow with might and main for 60 seconds.

Cho Cho’s Dream

Stretch your face, from the corners of your eyes on one side, using the index and middle fingers of both hands. While you stretch your eyes, stretch your mouth, too, in a mild smile. Hold the pressure for 60 seconds.

Einstein

Press and stretch the skin of the forehead the strongest you can. Have your eyes goggled. Hold this position for 60 seconds.

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Body secretes various fluids. However, you need to know when this is normal, and when it is a change that requires a treatment. In the reproductive age all women, before or after the period, have normal, barely noticeable discharge from the sexual organ. After the period, the discharge is scant and clear, before and during the ovulation is clear and a bit intensified, and after the ovulation – a bit blurred. These changes in the appearance of the discharge are hardly noticed by a large number of women, but to those more careful and well-informed it can help in identifying the fertile days.

Vaginal discharge (fluor genitalis) is the discharge in the vagina, which exists regardless of a woman’s age. Normal discharge in the vagina of a healthy woman has various functions and the most important one is the protection of the upper parts of the genital tract from infection. Before the first period girls do not have discharge from sexual organ, and if it appears it is a consequence of poor hygiene, wearing of dirty clothes or scratching the intimate place. During the period the pH values rise and this favours the development of pathogenic bacteria. pH values rises even if it comes to the infection of the genital tract (endometritis, cervicitis, piometra) and also during some normal disorders. A long-term use of antibiotics, pregnancy, rinsing, and some foreign objects in the vagina are the conditions in which a woman is sensitive to infection. Irrational use of antibiotics and other drugs in the form of vaginaletes can destroy the vaginal flora, and thus represent the basis of natural defense against infection.

Under normal conditions vagina contains a benign Lactobacilli, which maintain its normal acidity, and in such an environment other microorganisms can not reproduce. In women throughout the adulthood estrogen hormones stimulate the proliferation of the surface layer of the vagina and thus it becomes resistant to many bacteria. When the vagina is endangered by some frequent irritations, such as frequent sexual relations (especially with multiple partners), medical interventions which hurt sexual organ, such as removing polyps, excision of suspicious tissue and the use of intravaginal cartridges or diaphragms used as a protection against pregnancy – it can be populated by different microorganisms.

Profuse and blurred discharge of unpleasant smell, followed by itching, or changes to the exterior of sexual organ indicates the inflammation that should be treated. What is first suspected is a trichomonal or fungal infection.

Trichomonal secretion is abundant, pussy and acidulous, foamy and has unpleasantly sweetish odour. Trichomonas vaginalis is a microorganism that causes inflammation of the uterus, bladder and urinary canal. It is transmitted by sexual contact, and both partners are treated.

Fungal infections are caused by candida (Candida albicans), and their development is favoured by the reducing of the acidity of the vagina. Those may occur in girls and older women, and diabetics, pregnant women and women who take large quantities of antibiotics for a long time often suffer from these disease. The infection is followed by the whitish discharge and the feeling of tingling and itching on the exterior of the sexual organ.

Bacterial infections cause the vaginal Lactobacilli to become replaced by some groups of bacteria. Causes of bacterial vaginosis are numerous: gardnerela vaginalis, Lactobacilli, bacterioides, peptosteptococci and others.

Gardnerela vaginalis is often the cause of bacterial vaginosis. It is followed by muddy discharge, and what can be seen under a microscope are cells of the vagina in the form hank around which gardnerelas are grouped. The sexual organ may be populated by the bacteria that do not cause any interference, and then bacterial vaginosis is not followed by discharge or other symptoms. One of such is Ureaplasma Urealiticum, which attacks the internal sexual organ and causes inflammation, which can be extended to the liver. A mild form of bacterial vaginosis often has no symptoms, and 20% of pregnant women who suffer from it do not have any interference, and give birth regularly. More serious forms of this infection cause more spontaneously. Human papilloma virus, HPV, causes the appearance of coilocites – these are the cells with a bright nucleus and a little blurred discharge. Small nipples (condiloms) may appear around the vent and the vagina as well, but less frequently.

In gynecology discharge is divided into 6 groups. The first group occurs in infants and represents the dominance of Doderline’s bacilli, gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, which are very small in amount. The second group may occur in girls before puberty, and involves a larger amount of Doderline’s bacilli. The third group appears in sexually active women, so according to the amount of bacteria and fungi that are found in secretions, it is divided into IIIb, IIIc and IIId. The fourth group is characterised by the presence of bacteria gonococci that causes gonorrhea. The fifth group is caracterised by the infection of flagellated parasite Trichomonas vaginalis. In the sixth group there is a fungus Candida albicans present.

Attention should be paid to the appearance of blood in the discharge from sexual organ. Even the least bleeding that occurs before or after the period is not normal. This may be a sign of the cycle disorder, or benign and malignant diseases. Blood in the discharge from sexual organ can occur due to some infections and injuries. Namely, it is the replacement of epithelium, and then single-layer cylindrical epithelium which covers the vaginal cervix is replaced by multiple-layer resistant epithelium which covers the outer part of the vaginal cervix, and therefore the vagina is more sensitive to irritations. After the appearance of such discharge, you should visit your gynecologist, who will do the check-up and determine the treatment.

In an intimate relationship avoid the use of alkaline soaps, because using them creates the conditions for the development of pathogenic bacteria. You must use the products for intimate care that, with their acidity (pH), create a dam to the infections of genital tract.

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Interest in personal capabilities, feelings and inner world in general is noticed. Emotions are intense, and there is also emotional instability and impulsivity notices. Sometimes even parents cannot understand all this. But everything will settle down after some time.

The outburst of tears, feeling of sadness and loneliness are normal phenomena following puberty. In the age of puberty there is a feeling of discontent and shame due to the changes in and on the body. The structure of the skin is modified. Pores can increase and secrete sebum. Out of the excess sebum, dust and dirt blackheads are created. They widen the pores in which bacteria that cause infection and pimples get into. Spots are not to be squeezed out. Both boys and girls should maintain regular facial hygiene and apply an appropriate dermatological treatment. Physical activity and stay in the fresh air are good for the skin.

It is normal that at first the period is irregular, but after some time usually everything settles down.

The period is something quite normal and natural.

Puberty is the time when you learn to accept yourself and your body.

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