KOMPAS.com - Do you often gargling with salt water to relieve sore throat? Or drink a glass of hot milk to help you sleep? Natural remedies may have a medical effect that can treat you from some minor ailments.According to Dr Rob Hicks, general practitioners and hospital doctors in his book Old Fashioned Remedies From Arsenic To Gin said, many of these home remedies really seem to have a positive effect. "If science can not prove that home remedies can work well, but if it will not harm you, the treatment was worth a shot," said Dr. Hicks.
Here are tips Dr. Hicks on home remedies are wont to do, and is considered the most effective:
1. Breath odor : Eat tomatoes two to three pieces a day to prevent bad breath or
halitosis. Beraoma breath odor is actually caused by foul-smelling sulfur compounds produced by bacteria that thrive in low oxygen environments, such as the back of the tongue. While the tomato contains a compound called ionones, which is considered to neutralize the sulfur compounds.
Yogurt: Eat a small cup of yogurt every day for the active bacteria in yogurt can inhibit odor-causing bacteria.
Carrots: Eat raw carrots if you think your breath smells. Bad breath is often caused by decaying food particles and trapped between teeth. If you chew a carrot it will stimulate saliva production, which helps remove food particles. Fibers from carrots also act like a toothbrush on the teeth and gums.
2. Bruising : Soak the bruises on cold vinegar and let stand from 10 to 20 minutes. Bruising occurs when there are bumps own blood vessels and leakage of blood under the skin that causes swelling, discoloration and pain. Vinegar is to improve the function of blood flow near the surface of the skin and helps to remove the blood clot in the area of bruising.
Onions: Mix grated onion with a little salt and place it on the bruise for 10 minutes. Quercetin-rich onion, pigment in plants that anti-inflammatory effects that can reduce the swelling around your bruises.
3. Body odor : First radish juice with a food processor, then place the juice in a cloth tied like a bundle. After bathing, rub bundles containing turnip juice into armpits and legs and allow it to dry. Radish itself contains anti-bacterial and anti-fungal.
Bicarbonate of soda: Use baking soda to neutralize and eliminate body odor. Bicarbonate of soda to absorb sweat, fluids, and other substances associated with body odor. Can also be used on sweaty feet as well.
4. Constipation : juice of this plant contain chemicals called glycosides antrakinon, which can help reduce constipation by stimulating the bowel.
Cucumber: Eating a quarter of a cucumber a day. Plants and fiber-rich liquid has a mild laxative effect that helps overcome the action of the bowels in a sluggish stomach.
Liquorice: Chew and swallow this mixture of liquorice tea with warm water and drink. This drink is also known as a laxative.
5. Cough and cold : Gargle with thyme tea (made by pouring boiling water, put some tea and leave to cool slightly). Heat derived from thyme tea will help to release the active ingredient thymol which is a strong antiseptic.
6. Dandruff : Massage into the scalp with coconut oil and leave overnight, and then rinse. Repeat as needed. Many cases of dandruff are caused by fungal infections and an aura of coconut oil and caprylic acid, which has anti-viral and anti-fungal.
7. Diarrhea : Grate the unpeeled apple on a plate and leave for 15-20 minutes until it turns brown, then eat. Pectin in apples may reduce inflammation. It also contains malic and tartaric acids that can regulate stomach acidity. Allowing the fruit to brown compounds needed to make more widely available.
Brown Sugar: Drink a solution of 1-2 teaspoons brown sugar mixed with warm water to relieve diarrhea. Molasses in brown sugar seems to have disinfectant properties that help kill the infecting organism so that diarrhea occurs.
8. Eczema : Mix coconut oil with turmeric powder and lay out in the affected area for five minutes. This can be repeated two to three times a day. Turmeric itself contains a chemical called curcumin, which is believed to have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant.
Tea: Boil 4 tea bags in boiling water for 10 minutes. Let cool, then squeeze and grab the fluid and describe in the affected area using a cloth. Tannin in tea is useful as an agent to reduce inflammation.
9. Joint pain : Drink tea made by pouring boiling water on a handful of basil leaves twice a day. Eugenol oil of this plant will appear to block the effect of the enzyme cyclooxygenase, an enzyme that triggers inflammation and pain.
Quinine: Drink several glasses per day. Quinine is thought to have anti-inflammatory effects and pain relief.
Turmeric: Boil saffron in boiling water, when you can just lay out in the cold sore area covered with plastic and let stand for 20-30 minutes, twice a day. The active ingredient of turmeric, namely cucumin, has anti-inflammatory effects.
10.Sindrom premenstrual syndrome (PMS) : Cut lower abdominal pain by placing cabbage leaves directly from the freezer on the stomach. They will have the same effect as a cold compress.
Shallots: Eating half a clove of garlic every day on the days before menstruation. Hormones fluctuate over time and chromium in onions believed to have a neutralizing effect.
Brown sugar and ginger: Add the fresh ginger and brown sugar until warm water and drink twice a day. Ginger is a natural painkiller. And nutrients in the brown sugar-tranquillise also reduce pain in the nervous system.
11. Stress : Bathroom with a few drops of clove oil. Oil, which has pain killing properties will naturally seep into the skin, increase circulation to relax muscles.
12. Toothache : Grate a small turnip and describe the gums near a sore tooth. Radishes contain a compound called allyl isothiocyanate is used as a synthetic topical anesthesia.
13. Uric Acid : Compress the affected area of uric acid with lavender decoction until it cools. Lavender works off the pain and anti-inflammatory and anti-rheumatic.
14. Headache : Mash banana peeled and put it in the area of headache to 15 minutes (repeat as often as needed). Headaches are caused by changes in blood vessels. Bananas high magnesium, which can help to relax blood vessels.
Onions: Put the pieces of raw onion in the back of the neck as a cold compress to relieve neck tension that can cause headaches.