Cucumber Detox Water for Diabetes, Heart, Blood pressure, Bones, Muscles

Cucumber is extremely beneficial for weight loss, but this wonderful cucumber drink will provide many other health benefits as well. 

This wonderful low calorie drink has more nutrients to offer than just water & electrolytes. 

Cucumber contains no saturated fats or cholesterol. It is an excellent source of potassium, a vital intracellular electrolyte.

Cucumber Detox water recipe

This recipe also known as ‘Cucumber infused water’ or ‘Cucumber detox water’. Making cucumber infused water is pretty simple:

1. Slice a cleaned, peeled or unpeeled cucumber. Trim and discard ends.

2. Combine these cucumber slices in glass of clean water.

3. Allow to marinate for at least 1 hour.

4. For best results, you can leave it to marinate overnight in the refrigerator.

Note: The cucumber slices will float on the water, so top with some ice to keep them submerged. If you don’t want to use ice, then try a fruit infused water pitcher which holds the cucumber slices in an infusion section.

Health benefits of Cucumber Detox water

1. Detoxification

This cucumber infused water is very effective detoxifying drink, as it contains high amount of fiber and water, hence it efficiently eliminates the toxic buildup in the body and fights free radicals.

2. Blood Pressure, heart, kidney

Healthy and normal blood pressure is very important as it helps keep you away from diseases such as heart attack, stroke, kidney disease and vision loss. Drink cucumber water to stay hydrated, and maintain your blood pressure.

3. Healthy Bones

Osteoporosis is a serious ailment that leads to back pain, fragile bones and joint pain. This detox drink will significantly strengthen your bones, as it is rich in vitamin D & K.

4. Chronic diseases

Cucumber is rich source of antioxidants which helps in diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, improves the brain function, reduces stress, prevents age related diseases and eye diseases.

5. Helps Your Muscles

A daily consumption of glass of cucumber infused water can make a great contribution to the overall health of our muscles and body in general. The silica in cucumbers makes our muscle tissues healthy. This recipe contains vital nutrients that will be beneficial for our muscles. To enlarge your muscles, drink at least one glass daily. It will be a great choice if you are doing weight exercise and muscle building work outs.

6. Anti-Cancer properties

Cucumbers has anti-cancer properties, it also contains vitamin A, B, C and D, minerals, nutrients like cucurbitacins which helps you stay healthy long-term.

7. Skin nourishing

Cucumber is rich source of silicon, which is exceptionally useful in the treatment of acne, pimples and blemishes; as a result this drink will moisturize and soothe your skin. Additionally it contains high amount of antioxidants which protects the skin, and makes it clean and glowing. This drink will treat your skin from the insight; it keeps you hydrated and makes skin supple and smooth.

8. Helps Hydrate You

Cucumber infused water helps you staying hydrated, and maintains the right body temperature, gives you more energy. It also strengthens our cardiovascular system, and cleanses toxins.

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Never sleep with your head facing North direction! Sleeping Directions Ideal tips

Why sleep is important?

Comfortable, Sound, and timely sleep is one of the most important thing which everyone need every day. 

During sleep, the subconscious carry out repair work on our body, during sleep our brain starts to store information, cleanse body off toxins, consolidates short and long-term memories and makes decisions.

On an average, a human spends one-third of their life sleeping, that’s about 25 years.

Vaastu Sasthra and science highlight that our sleeping direction and the environment plays a significant role in determining the quality of our sleep as well as mental health. 

Positive-negative energies

Energies, either positive or negative are always around you, whether you want them or not. Moreover, we continuously get and radiate energy; therefore it is essential to sleep in a correct place with positive, harmonious and balanced energy to have sound, comfortable and peaceful sleep. Vastu sleeping directions are tips & guidelines to sleep in a way so that you receive positive and encouraging energies and reject negative ones.

Recommended sleeping direction

According to vastu shastra and science, you can sleep with your head in any direction except north. Nevertheless, sleeping with head in different directions has different influences on sleep quality of people. Let’s see how different directions impact your lifestyle and sleep.

Head in East

It is best to sleep with your head facing the East to get a good restorative sleep. Sleeping with head in East direction increases good health, memory, concentration, retention power of brain and inclination towards positivity. The sun’s early morning magnetic field enters earth through the east direction and enters our head and exits through our feet, leaving our head cool and calm to get a good sleep.

Head in North

Never sleep with your head in North direction and your feet to the south. It will suck out your healthy and positive vibrations while you sleep. 

According to science, human body is considered to be a small magnet with the head and feet as North and South poles. In the similar way, the earth is considered as a huge magnet with North and South poles.  

When we sleep with our head facing north direction, and naturally, like poles repel each other and unlike poles magnetize (attract) each other, your head also resists electromagnetic force of earth and because earth has superior magnetic force, it wins and we end waking up with a feeling of grogginess and irritation. 

Head in South

Sleeping with head towards South direction increases health, happiness and prosperity. In south direction, our body is in synchronizes with the electromagnetic energy of earth which facilitates energy to flow from head to feet (south pole to the north pole) efficiently because there is a common attraction of the electromagnetic energy of the earth and our body which gives you undisturbed sleep and you wake up full of energy, vibrant and positivity.

Head in West

According to vastu shastra, sleeping with your head in west brings bad dreams and disturbed sleep. Oppositional magnetic fields will make you feel miserable when you wake up. Emotional instability, Irritability and frustration and are the general side effects. It can also result in headaches and high blood pressures. It causes major sickness and poor sleep, your physical & mental health will suffer.  

Quick look

Head in North: bad dreams, ill health and improper sleep

Head in East: gain of knowledge

Head in South: Soundless sleep, improves health

Head in West: bad health

Follow these simple and effective vastu tips for sound sleeping and good health. Sleep Tight!

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30 minutes hair mask will leave you breathless. Revive thin, brittle, dull, dry hair

This olive-cinnamon hair mask will moisturize, nourish and make your hair smooth, shiny and easy manageable. It will hydrate your hair and scalp. It also prevents hair fall, dandruff and repairs the damaged hair ends naturally. Ingredients of this hair mask are extremely beneficial, because they are high in essential nutrients. It treats all types of hair, especially brittle and dull hair.

Cinnamon helps restore brittle and dull hair and makes them grow much faster. Cinnamon improves the blood circulation and provides shine and elasticity to the hair. It contains powerful antioxidant, which prevents hair loss due to various negative influences, such as stress, temperature, ultraviolet sunrays etc.

Ingredients

Honey - 1 tsp

Cinnamon - 1 tsp

Olive oil - half cup

Instructions

Heat half cup olive oil in small deep pan for 3 minutes, remove it from the heat and place it into a bowl. Then add honey and cinnamon to it and stir well to mix all the ingredients thoroughly.

Application

1.  Apply this mixture to your hair, ends and scalp (massage your scalp for 4-5 minutes using this mixture).

2. You can use brush to apply this mask.

3.  Leave this hair mask for 30-60 minutes and then rinse it off with herbal/mild shampoo, and apply regular hair conditioner in the end.

Bottom line

Apply this mask once or twice a week and to experience unbelievable effects. This mask effectively prevents dandruff and hair loss, and gives you healthy, shiny, flexible and gorgeous hair in few days!

Cinnamon benefits for hair

Vitamin A: helps to restore split ends

Vitamin C: gives shine and strength

Vitamin B1: reduces inflammation, irritation and has a calming effect on the scalp

Vitamin B2: activates blood circulation, hence stimulate hair growth

Vitamin B6:  removes dandruff

Vitamin B9 (folic acid): protects from high temperatures, ultraviolet radiation

Vitamin E: regenerates skin cells

Beta-carotene: prevents hair loss

Choline: moisturizes the scalp

Vitamin K: gives healthy scalp, strengthens blood vessels

Vitamin PP: returns natural shine to hair

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Homemade hair oil for Dry, Dull, Frizzy, Damaged hair

Dull hairs are so lusterless that they make the person also look dull. Hair becomes dull or lifeless for a wide number of reasons - regular hair wash with hot water, hot climate, excess use of irons or blow-dryers, coloring, straightening, intense brushing or drying, dry winter weather, salt or chlorine water and exposure to sun etc. It's all about how we treat our hair that makes it drier than a dry twig. So here is simple homemade oil trick which you can try at your home according to your schedule to infuse your hair with new life.  

What we need?

10-15 hibiscus flowers
2 tbsp fenugreek (methi) seed powder
1 tbsp henna powder
2 tbsp aloe vera gel
150 ml olive oil

Preparation

1.  Grind all the ingredients well together except aloe and olive oil.

2.  Add 2 glasses of water to this mixture.

3.  Boil it on low flame till water reduces to 1 glass.

4.  Now add olive oil and aloe vera gel to it.

5.  Again keep it on low flame till all water evaporates. 

6.  Filter it by using strainer or filter cloth.

7.  Store this oil in an air tight container

8.  Use it and always keep it in morning sunlight to absorb vitamin D from sun.

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10 Summer Hair Masks: Repair Dry, Damaged Hair, scalp

Hot weather and hot hair styling apparatus, summer can be rather ruthless when it comes to our hair. But instead of spending lots of money in the salon to recover from the damages and dryness, you must check out what’s in your own kitchen first. Try following hair mask to protect your hair from getting dry and damaged during summer.

1. Banana Honey Hair Mask

The banana contains vitamins, potassium, antioxidants and natural moisture, which rejuvenate dry, damaged hair. It also strengthens hair follicles and promotes healthy scalp.

Ingredients

1 ripe banana

Honey – 2-3 tbsp

Plain yogurt – ½ cup

Mash banana to make smooth paste, you can blend it with yogurt using blender until you have a smooth yet thick consistency. Then add honey to this paste, mix well and apply to your hair for 40-60 minutes. Wash it off with normal or lukewarm water. Follow this 2-3 times a week.

2. Deep conditioning mask for shine & moisture

Take half cup of olive oil, 1 cup of mayonnaise, and 2 egg yolks in a bowl. Mix it properly and apply it to your hair and scalp, especially the ends. You can wrap your hair in a towel or leave it open for about 40 minutes and then rinse it off using normal water. This hair mask will protect your hair from damage.

3. Olive oil- egg hair mask

Olive oil moisturizes brittle ends, dry hair and strengthens hair to prevent further breakage as it is a rich source of Vitamin E.

Ingredients

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp white or apple cider vinegar

1 egg

Mix the ingredients all together and coat it on your hair for 30-40 minutes, then rinse well.

4. Avocado-honey hair mask

Honey and avocado has incredible softening and moisturizing properties. Avocado contains Vitamins A, B, D, E and natural oils that gives shine and prevents hair loss due to dryness.

Ingredients

1 medium-sized avocado

2 tbsp honey

Mash the avocado to make a fine puree, and then add honey to it. Apply the mixture on hair and scalp and massage your scalp for 5-10 minutes to promote stimulation. Leave it on for more 40-60 minutes to fully absorb into the hair and then wash it off with normal water. It will nourish your damaged hair and works as a great scalp treatment,

5. Egg and mayo to recover dry- damaged hair

The egg has rich amount of protein, so it helps to recover from damaged hair. Take 1 egg white, half cup of plain yogurt and ¼ cup of mayonnaise. Mix the entire ingredients one after the other and apply it to your hair. 

Spread the mixture as hair mask evenly all over your hair and scalp. Leave the mask for 45-60 minutes and wash off with normal water.

6. Coconut milk overnight hair mask

Coconut milk is well known for its natural moisturizing property, which nourishes hair, especially dry and brittle hair. This mask strengthens sun-baked strands.

Ingredients

Fresh coconut milk - 2 tbsp

Lavender/almond oil - 5-6drops

Take fresh coconut milk and add 5-6 drops of lavender or almond oil to it. Apply this combination from root to tip, making sure that hairs are properly coated. Leave it overnight and wash off using herbal or mild shampoo and/or conditioner in the morning to moisturize your hair.

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Menopause: Home Remedies for Hot Flashes, Night Sweat, Depression

Menopause or cessation is a natural and compulsory transition in women that occurs at the age of 45-55 years, it is a normal experience and not a disease. But in some cases premature Menopause has been noticed in women below the age of 40. The premature menopause is more possible in women who have never been pregnant, smoke too much, or live in high altitude regions. It indicates the ending of the female reproductive period of life, which begins at teenage years. In this transition the menstrual cycle (periods) ends and sex hormone levels decrease.

Symptoms Menopause or cessation

Women experience a many symptoms, since hormonal imbalances are associated with menopause. Some women experience very little or not at all by following symptoms

Depression

Headaches

Low sex drive                   

Night sweats

Insomnia

Physical heaviness

Hot flashes

Blood clotting

Memory loss/forgetfulness

Sleep disturbances

Anxiety, Irritability

Salt and fluid retention

Urinary tract infections

Increase in body fats, weight gain

Heart disease

Breast cancer

Stress

Slowness

Following natural home remedies for Menopause focuses on strengthening and rejuvenation of women’s reproductive system. These home remedies can regulate the hormones, boost immunity, reduce mental stress and maintain proper digestion in body.

1. Black cohosh

Black cohosh can control night sweats and hot flashes, by reducing blood levels of luteinizing hormone (LH), which expands blood vessels and drive heat to the skin. Black cohosh has also been used to lower blood pressure, alleviate arthritis pain, regular menstrual periods, menstrual cramps, sore throat, and indigestion, muscle pain, and cough and to stimulate labor. Use cohosh for the short-term, less than 6 months for menopause symptoms, hot flashes etc.

Black cohosh can control the menopause symptoms, such as: hot flashes, sleep problems, night sweats, nervousness, vaginal dryness, depression, headaches, irritability, restlessness, mood changes etc.

1.  Take 5-8 milligram of black cohosh in tincture form 2-4 times a day. To make it more edible, add the black cohosh tincture to glass of fruit juice.

2.  Women suffering from menopausal symptoms should consume 20-40 milligram tablets of a standardized black cohosh extract for menopause relief every day with water or fruit juice. For best effect, take it at the same time every day.

For maximum benefit and relief in menopause period, ­take black cohosh for 5 weeks regularly, then stop consumption for 2-3 weeks, then again start consumption of it. Repeat this cycle again.

Caution: More than 700 milligrams a day of black cohosh is considered an overdose. Never consume black cohosh for more than 6 months at a time to avoid side effects.

2. Sage/salvia

Sage leaves and tablets have traditionally been used for the relief of menopause symptoms and hot flushes. Around 60-80 percent women suffer from night sweats in menopause. Night sweat is one of the most upsetting symptoms of menopause because not only it disturbs women’s sleep, but also causes stress, fatigue, mood changes and irritability. 

Consumption of sage reduces tension, prevents night sweating and provides estrogen. Sage/salvia has many therapeutic properties, such as anti-inflammatory, antifungal, antimicrobial etc.

1.  Consume 1 tablet daily on same time with glass of fresh fruit juice.

2.  To get relief from night sweats, add 5-10 drops of sage tincture in cup of fruit juice or water or warm tea, mix well and consume it. Repeat this 2-3 rimes a day.

3. Aloe Vera

Aloe Vera activates estrogen in the body, which is very crucial in menopause. It prevents night sweats, hot flushes, and vaginal dryness and also helps proper digestion in menopause.

1.  Mix 1 tablespoon of fresh aloe Vera gel/juice in glass of lemon juice or any other fruit juice. Do this twice a day for several weeks.

2.  Mix fresh aloe Vera juice.gel with 1 teaspoon of ginger paste and 1 tablespoon of honey, mix well and consume this mixture twice a day after heavy meals.

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