ONION (Allium sativum) is not only known as a spice in cooking the flavor, but it has long been used as a traditional herb for treating various diseases. Thousands of research also claims garlic able to overcome and prevent various diseases ranging from cancer to heart and blood vessels. Even so, not a few who claim that the efficacy of garlic has not been particularly significant in preventing and treating these degenerative diseases.

A study in Los Angeles, United States (U.S.) recently revealed new evidence that supports the benefits of garlic for the health of blood vessels. Garlic extract in pill form is believed to have great potential to prevent the occurrence of atherosclerosis or thickening of the blood vessel wall tissue.

Professor Matthew Budoff MD and Naser Ahmadi, MD of Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, which concluded through the results of preliminary research that garlic extract in combination with vitamin B-12, folic acid, vitamin B-6 and L-arginine can inhibit the occurrence of atherosclerosis.

In his research, Budoff involving 65 participants, average age 60 years and have a big enough risk of heart disease. Participants were divided into two groups namely the mengonsumi pill containing extracts of garlic plus vitamins, while the other group were given capsules containing a placebo.

Participants were followed for a year and at the end of the study participants, 58 still survive. Regularly every month, participants should be checked for cholesterol and other blood elements. They also must perform heart scans at the beginning and end of the study.

From the research revealed, the development of atherosclerosis appeared rapidly in those who ate garlic pills than those taking placebo. According to the researchers, the findings were not influenced by factors such as age, sex, degree of severity of atherosclerosis in early studies, high blood pressure, cholesterol levels and diabetes treatment.

Budoff and his team did not explain the content of what is really the biggest influence for the slowing of atherosclerosis. However, garlic extract is believed to provide major benefits reduce levels of homocysteine, an amino acid associated with increased risk of heart disease.

Budoff hope this research will continue to reveal the potential of garlic plus vitamins in slowing coronary artery calcification. Budoff The results were presented at the American Heart Association's 2008 Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Conference.

The study was funded by Wakunaga of America, the which makes the garlic pill Used in the study. Had Budoff full control over the study.

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Betel nut is a type of palm that grows in the Pacific, Asia and eastern Africa. The fruit, also called the nut, the fruit of plants that are traded. Betel nut is generally planted in the yard, garden, or grown. Pinang sometimes growing wild on the banks of rivers and other places.

During this nut is known as an ingredient for chewing is always used grandmothers. However, nut it can be used as medicinal ingredients. A number of diseases can be treated with areca nut, such as lower back pain.

That's because the nut has several properties that can cure the disease. Pinang, among others, are useful anthelmintica shed worms and adstringensia to shrink mucous membranes. Pinang also stimulates the (stimulant), stop the bleeding (haermostatica), and antisifilis.

Betel nut also contains alkaloid compounds contained in fruit and quite dangerous to the nervous system. When consumed, the fruit will cause nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, dizziness, and nervousness. To cope with this occurrence, drink decoction of the drug after a cold.

Example usage:
1. Lumbago
Pick areca leaf sufficiently, then washed and milled until smooth. Add coconut oil to taste. After that, heat briefly over a fire. In warm conditions, use to compress the waist the sick.

2. Wormy
Take 30 grams of powder of betel nuts, boiled in two cups water, boil slowly for one hour. Once cool, strain, drink well before breakfast.

3. Scabies
Take the nut seeds, then milled until smooth. Add a little water whiting until it becomes dough like mush. Use it to polish the affected body part scabies.

4. Ulceration
Take the nut, gambier, and whiting each about the size of lizard eggs. Take the tobacco of your thumb and a piece of fresh betel leaf. All the ingredients are mixed and milled until smooth. Smear at the scab that has been cleaned.

5. Dysentery
Take the areca nut bright yellow, then wash and soak in a glass of water for several hours. Drinking water immersion nut.

6. Cleaning and strengthen teeth and gums
Iris nut seeds thinly. Chew every day for a few minutes, then the waste is disposed.

7. Diphtheria
Choose a dry nut, then milled until smooth, brewed with ¾ cup hot water and one tablespoon of honey. Once cool, use to gargle's in the throat for 2-3 minutes and dump. Do it three times a day.

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As a medicinal plant, betel benefit no doubt. If all this time people are more familiar with betel leaf green with antiseptic content, now there is kind of red betel believed to have a more diverse health benefits. During this time, people familiar with the green leafy plant betel hereditary utilized to address a variety of complaints such as nosebleeds, red eyes, discharge, making a loud voice, and more. Efficacy of betel leaf has been clinically tested. Until now, research on this plant are also being developed.

Traditionally, the betel leaf is used as a supplement in traditional ceremonies such as marriage customs in Java. Betel leaf is also used for dental hygiene and mouth with shrinking  (chewing betel nut).

However, recent red betel plant (Piper betle L. Var rubrum), because the rise is believed to have medicinal benefits are far more diverse. The form was far more interesting than regular betel.

Although not yet known with certainty the origin of this medicinal plant, red betel frequently encountered in various regions. For example in environmental palace of Yogyakarta and the slopes of Mount Merapi, Papua, West Java, Aceh, and several other areas.

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In early 2002, in a village on the slopes of Mount Merapi, Bambang Sadewo herbalist, author of Exterminate Disease with Red Sirih, accidentally discovered this plant. Color glossy red bottom with no different leaf shapes from green leaves. Tamanannya panhandle elongated and segmented.
Sense of red betel leaves are very bitter. The aroma is more sharply when compared with green leaves.

Although the chemical constituents of this plant has not been studied in detail, the results are known krematogram red betel leaves contain flavonoids, compounds polevenolad, tannins, and essential oils. Effect of active substances contained red betel leaves to stimulate the central nervous and thinking power.

Red betel leaf has the effect of preventing premature ejaculation, antikejang, antiseptic, analgesic, controlling blood sugar, liver, diarrhea, increase endurance, and relieve pain. Also believed to be able to overcome pneumonia, bronchitis, gingivitis, bleeding nose or nosebleeds, and coughing up blood.

Red betel leaf extract is also able to kill the fungus Chandida albicans causes thrush. In addition, efficacious in the vagina, vaginal discharge and itching on the genitals, as well as a wound cleanser (antiseptic effect).

Empirically red betel leaf extract in a single use or formulated with other medicinal plants capable of limiting the variety of complaints. Examples of blood sugar disorders, acute inflammation in body organs, wounds difficult to heal, breast cancer and cervical cancer, leukemia, tuberculosis and hepatitis, hemorrhoids, heart disease, high blood pressure, and uric acid.

The results Andayana Puspitasari, Apt., Of Pharmaceutical Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, red betel contain flavonoids, alkoloid, polifenolat compounds, tannins and essential oils. Utilizing this red betel leaf, except in the form of fresh, you can also use the sun drying technique.

Bambang Sadewo herbalist explained, sliced red betel dauh has placed 60 percent dry winnowing covered with black cloth transparent. Closing with this fabric for the leaves do not obscure the wind.

Once properly dried, red betel leaf is inserted into a plastic bag or clear transparent bold. The goal, so the quality of red betel remains secure and can last up to one year.

Potions red betel, single or mixed
To draw on the red betel leaf, according to Bambang Sadewo herbalist, can be single or mixed with other medicinal plants. Here are some examples of red betel leaf ingredients for a variety of disorders:

1. Heart
Single herb: Take a betel leaf-sized pieces as much as 3-4 or 6-8 pieces of small size. Wash out, then sliced into small pieces. Boil the water as much as 4 cups (800 ml) to boiling and the remaining 2 cups, then strain. This herb is drunk while warm, two times daily before meals. Once drinking one glass.

Herb with other herbs:
- Prepare a medium-size red betel leaves as much as 3-4 pieces, 30 grams of acid leaf, 2 pieces of star fruit vegetables, tuber dry dea 3 grams of ginseng leaves 4 sheets. All material is washed, sliced into small pieces and boiled with three glasses of water (600 ml) until the remaining 1.5 cups. This herb is taken three times a day while warm. Can plus one teaspoon of honey. Once drinking half a glass.

2. Diabetes
Single herb: Pick three red betel leaves and a half old and the sixth or seventh leaf from the shoot. Wash all the leaves, then slice into small pieces. Boil the water as much as three cups (600 ml) to boiling and the remaining 1.5 cups. Drink three times daily before meals, to drink half a glass.

Herb with other herbs:
- Take three sheets of red betel medium size, 40 grams of bark that had been cleaned Gayam the outside, and 30 grams. These materials are brewed with 2 cups (400 ml) of water until boiling and the remaining 1 cup. Strain and drink twice a day every morning and evening before meals. Once drinking half a glass.

3. Mouth organ 

Fresh betel leaves as many as 5 pieces, washed and boiled in two cups (400 ml) to boiling and the remaining 1 cup. Refrigerate, and use to gargle three times daily.
Note: This herb is excellent for treating bleeding gums, canker sores, cavities, bad breath, and sore throat.

4. Coughing or appetite enhancer
- Prepare the red betel leaf that is not too old as many as 10 pieces, wash, then soak it in alcohol 70 per cent for 30 minutes for bacteria attached to the leaves die. Red betel leaves plus 100 grams of white sugar boiled with water 4 cups (800 ml) to boiling and the remaining one cup. Once cool, pour into a clean bottle and sterile. This herb can be taken three times a day, to drink a tablespoon.

5. Female organs
- Scarlet betel leaves by 8 sheets washed, then sliced wide as 1 cm. Boiled with 800 ml of water until boiling. After a cold, used to clean the female organs twice daily.

6. Sore eyes- Take the red betel leaves are rather young (fifth leaf from top) in 4 pieces, wash. Boil two cups water to boil and the remaining one cup. Once cool, the water used to soak a sore eye.

How to use: Eye clean (wash) and then soaked with boiling water to taste red betel using special glasses. Use no more than three times a day to avoid irritation to the lining of the eye.

Note: Before use, the cooking water should be deposited first. Use boiled water which nodes to avoid irritation to the eyes.

To obtain information on the research thesis titled Isolation Identification of Flavonoid Compounds From Red Betel Leaf (Piper betle L. var rubrum) Dewi Noer ATA please send email to hendi.burahman @ yahoo.com

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Germany's Federal Environment Agency (Uba), the German environment agency last week issued a recommendation to the parents who have infants with a history of allergies to avoid swimming in the pool is closed (indoor) because it can trigger asthma.

Environmental Agency states the potential for asthma comes from nitrogen trikrolida, known as trikloramin, which will be released when water containing chlorine reacts with urine, sweat or other organic compounds derived from the swimmers.

"It is not possible if damage to lung tissue at an early age can cause asthma. Trikloramin Moreover, data concerning the effect of this is lacking," they wrote in a statement.

They also suggested that parents who have babies younger than two years and have a family history of severe allergies to not bring her baby to swim. It is considered as a preventive until proven safe.

President Uba, Jochen Flabrth also ask the swimmers to pay more attention to cleanliness and the pool owners are advised to reduce risk by using the latest water treatment technology.

"Swimming is a healthy sport for kids and adults. Therefore, to prevent side effects trikloramin, each person should rinse his body with water before swimming," said Flasbarth.

A European study published in 2006 found a high incidence of asthma and wheezing cough in children aged 13-14 years when they use the pool closed.

Research carried out at the pool Britain in 2003 also found that a high protein in the blood triggers trikloramin young swimmers and also the parents who just sit in the pool area and not dive into the pool.

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The mind changes from time to time. The mind is a chain that has no beginning, like a river current is flowing continuously. State of mind before raising the current state of mind, which in turn produces the next state of mind, and so on.

The mind is a general name given to the experience of conscious and unconscious, each person is the center of the world of ideas, views, feelings, memories, and fantasies, all of this is mind.

The mind is not a physical tangible object that has the ideas and feelings, it is these experiences. Therefore, out of shape, the mind is different from the body, although the mind and body are interconnected and interdependent.

The conscious mind are brought into our bodies by physical energy are smooth, which also controls movement and body function. This relationship explains the "why?" for example, pain and physical discomfort can affect our minds, and why in turn, can generate a mental attitude as well as well as treat problems associated with the physical body.

The mind can be analogous to the ocean, and momentary mental events such as happiness, resentment, delusion, and boredom like waves that appear and disappear on its surface. As the waves can subside to bring calm seas oceans, so too might have to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal the nature of a pure natural clarity.

The ability to do this lies in the mind itself, and the key to the mind is meditation

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