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Homeopathy is a treatment method that is based on the principle of similarity: similarity between the toxicological power of a substance and its healing power.

Substances that are used in large doses cause illness, while if used in very small doses (infinitesimal) cure symptoms similar to those they have caused.

Homeopathy is also characterized by the individualization of treatment. Homeopathy For no diseases but sick, so treatment is always dependent on how the patient reacts.

“Homeopathy does not override conventional medicine (allopathy).
- The Homeopathy Allopathy does not cancel. The treating physician determines that your patient need when acute or chronic.

THE MANUFACTURING:
- Homeopathic medicines are manufactured from substances of vegetable, mineral or animal.

The basic substance undergoes a number of dilutions-dynamic. The dilutions are then impregnated on granules or globules, most characteristic forms of homeopathic medicines. They can be prepared as well, as drops, tablets, ointments, etc.. Read the rest of this entry »

The phrase “this does not save or Chinese doctor” is the result of the successes in the performance of traditional herbal medicine made by Dr Cham Bom Bian of the city of Cardenas, Matanzas province, in the nineteenth century.

Herbal medicine or phytotherapy is a therapeutic practice that different preparations of plants used to treat diseases. It is considered one of the first systems of healing and continuing today.

In Egypt since the 1300s B.C. and cultivated plants collected for medicinal purposes by the papyri of the time. A builder of temples and pyramids were given garlic to keep them healthy. Some papyri, such as Smith, account for more than 400 raw materials, both animal and plant for the treatment of disease.

In Babylon the king Mardukapaolidine II (772-710 BC) built a garden for growing medicinal plants for which he became famous. Read the rest of this entry »

Based on their level of dependence

Hard Drugs
The “hard” drugs are those that cause physical and psychological dependence, is altering the psychic and social behavior of addicts, as opium and its derivatives, alcohol, amphetamines and barbiturates.

Soft drugs
That create only a psychological dependence, among which are the derivatives of hemp, such as hashish or marijuana, cocaine, lysergic acid, better known as LSD, as well as the snuff.

This division into “soft” and “hard” is questioned by many scholars of the subject and consider that it might be suggested to her that the “hard” are bad and therefore “soft” are good or less bad and is not well as from certain doses and in the form to be administered, the “soft” drugs can have harmful effects such as “hard”.

Keep in mind that as the dose of certain drugs called “soft” can have harmful effects such as those considered “hard”.
Dependency is the state of the individual through which constantly creates and maintains a desire to ingest any substance. Please keep this wish by metabolic mechanisms and lack creates a withdrawal syndrome is called physical dependence.

If the dependency is maintained by psychosocial mechanisms, often defined as mental or psychological dependence.
From a pharmacological standpoint, drugs are divided into narcotics Read the rest of this entry »

How do you know if you have bird flu?

In the HongKong outbreak in 1997, patients had symptoms of fever, sore throat, cough and, in some fatal cases, severe respiratory distress secondary to viral pneumonia. Were affected previously healthy adults and children, and some people with chronic medical conditions.

Since then, the tests for all strains of flu virus that affects animals and humans are rapid and reliable. Many laboratories worldwide network of WHO flu have high security facilities and reagents as well as considerable experience, to carry out these tests.

It also offers Rapid bedside tests for the diagnosis of human influenza, although such tests lack the precision of the most comprehensive analysis currently required to understand the most recent cases and determine whether human infection is spreading, either directly from birds or from humans. Read the rest of this entry »

What is healthy lifestyle?

Healthy lifestyles are a global strategy, which is part of a modern trend in health is basically framed in disease prevention and health promotion perhaps the key moment of this trend or the beginning of this trend was 2004 and were generated by a declaration by the world health organization, to improve risk factors such as unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle, healthy lifestyles are related to eating and physical activity to prevent such diseases metabolic, cardiovascular, today we are facing an epidemic quoted or unquoted, an epidemic of these diseases and in whom obesity is perhaps more relevant is that since late figures of overweight and obesity in different countries the world both developed and developing towards increasing dangerously.

Recommendations of a balanced diet to maintain a healthy lifestyle:

There are several recommendations, but perhaps there are two points that are key to three points are key, the first is that in all societies there is a deficit in current consumption of fruits and vegetables Read the rest of this entry »

The main features of good health are: cheerful, slim waist, straight teeth, strong body, clean and white, sharp appetite: the good digestive system, the ability to do hard work without exhaustion, a mood for work , the stamina to cope with hot weather and cold, the healthy parts of the body, soft skin, no dry face, no cracking of the lips, eyes bright, sharp sight, clean pink tongue, his broad chest, no stomach pumped, soft hair, deep breathing freely foul odor, dreamless sleep, sweating toilet, mouth restored, no spitting or coughing frequently, regular stool, sensation of morning freshness, speed, hot stomach, head cool, pink nails, health and so on.

good essential to life because only a healthy person can enjoy the blessings of life. Read the rest of this entry »

What does it mean to be hungry?

When someone says “I’m hungry” can mean two things. The most common in our country wants simply mean that someone who has not eaten hungry. But in many countries around the world suffer from hunger is chronically hungry.

In the first case it is only a short-term hunger, while the second is a problem in the short, medium and long term, often related to the unavailability of food but also lack of access available food because of poverty.

Can hunger become a disease?

It is not by definition but may become so if we do not give your body the nutrients it needs. The common feeling of hunger is simply a response to your body when you are in need of food. It is a physiological response. Read the rest of this entry »

MAPUTO .- Hunger and disease are the new threats they faced yesterday more than one million flood victims in Mozambique, after the start of the fall of water in some areas of the country.

Sources from the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of the rapid emergence of epidemics of cholera and malaria among the refugees, who remain in precarious conditions and their number is greater than hitherto had been brought.

The range of aid agencies has been extended north of the worst affected regions, the valleys of the Limpopo and Save rivers to reach downtown areas of the country where famine has also emerged.

The crops and most of the cattle have been lost in the provinces of Gaza and Inhamban, which according to unconfirmed reports, raise a million and half the number of those affected by the disaster. Read the rest of this entry »

There are still some things that we know about HIV and AIDS.

For example, do not really know why it is that HIV and AIDS are both so common in some African countries but not in Europe or America, although we do have some theories.

Factors that may contribute include the much higher prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases not covered in Africa (which usually increases the likelihood of HIV transmission) and, quite possibly, differences in HIV subtypes.

Also, people who have a poorer general health (including those with malaria or tuberculosis) are more likely to have higher amounts of HIV in their body fluids, making them more likely to transmit the virus. Read the rest of this entry »

Before we can start looking for a cause, we need first to clarify exactly what kind of disease we are talking about.

In early 1981, several physicians in New York and California began to report some strange new disease outbreaks.

In both places, previously healthy young men appeared with rare diseases including Kaposi’s sarcoma (a type of tumor) and PCP (a type of pneumonia), something hitherto unprecedented in this type of people.

Within months, dozens of similar cases were reported in 23 states across the U.S. and the UK, representing the beginning of a massive and unprecedented epidemic. 5

Doctors quickly discovered a distinctive feature of these cases. More than anything, these men lacked a particular type of white blood cells essential to a healthy immune system. Read the rest of this entry »