Yoga to Cure Back Pain [with Pictures]

Back pain can result from poor posture, badly designed furniture, lack of exercise or even an injury.
Yoga is a great way to stretch and strengthen the muscles of your back. It can help maintain good posture, improve circulation and heal injuries. Try these basic postures to relax your muscles and release the tension in your back. Remember that yoga is best practiced under the supervision of an experienced teacher.

Here are a set of seven asanas that will strengthen your back and help straighten your spine. Before beginning ensure that you are wearing comfortable clothes made of natural material like cotton or linen, and that the room is well-ventilated. You should not be directly under a fan. Try to focus on the part/area you are strengthening or moving.

Advasan

Lie on your stomach with arms forward and heels joined. Focus your attention on your back and hold for seven counts.

Ardh Shalabh (left leg)

Lie on your stomach. Extend the right arm forward and the left one backwards. Lift the left leg (as much as you comfortably can), hold for seven counts and bring it down.

Ardh Shalabh (right leg)

Now, extend your left arm forward and the right one backwards. Lift the right leg and hold for seven counts before bringing it back down.

Bhujang

Lie on your stomach and place your palms on either side of your chest. Raise your upper body till the navel. Look up. Hold for seven counts and gently come down. (Repeat this entire set seven times.) Caution: People with heart conditions and high blood pressure must not strain while performing these asans. It is recommended that all asans be learnt and practised under the strict supervision of an expert.

Jyeshtika

Lie on your stomach and join the heels. Interlock your fingers behind your neck. Elbows should remain on the ground. Hold for seven counts.

Makar

Lie on your stomach with heels adjoined. Raise your body and support the chin/face with your palms. Elbows remain on the ground. Those with severe back problems can keep their elbows apart and as the back becomes better slowly bring them closer so that they ultimately touch each other.

Sarp asan

Lie on your stomach, with heels joined. Interlock your fingers behind your back. With your head parallel to the ground, raise your upper body. Pull your shoulders inwards. Hold for seven counts and lie back down.

Yaan

Lie on your stomach and extend your arms forward. Now keeping your head parallel to the ground raise your upper body and your legs from the thigh. Hold for seven counts and lower down.

7 Serious Heart Attack Tips

A serious note about heart attacks:

• 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.
• Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.
• Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting.
• Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.
• You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.
• Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive.
• A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to everyone they know, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.

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[Complete Guide] Drinking Water on Empty Stomach

Drinking Water on Empty Stomach is healthy as all of us know.

Diseases getting cure

Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and menstrual disorders, ear nose and throat diseases.

METHOD OF TREATMENT

1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x 160ml glasses of water

2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minute

3.. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.

4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for 2 hours

5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to 4 glasses per day.

6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life.

Number of Days of Treatment

The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to cure/control/ reduce main diseases:

1. High Blood Pressure (30 days)

2. Gastric (10 days)

3. Diabetes (30 days)

4. Constipation (10 days)

5. Cancer (180 days)

6. TB (90 days)

7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwards – daily.

This treatment method has no side effects, however at the commencement of treatment you may have to urinate a few times.

It is better if we continue this and make this procedure as a routine work in our life. Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active.

This makes sense. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals not cold water. Maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain.

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.

It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion.

Once this'sludge'reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine.

Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

Finger nail Disorders

Although most people have healthy, attractive nails, there are various fingernail disorders that can cause considerable distress. Dermatologists (skin specialists) are familiar with these disorders and can help with a diagnosis. The most common nail disorder, however, is probably fungal infection of the nail, or onychomycosis.

Onychomycosis can be broken down into different categories of toe- and fingernail diseases: those that are caused by dermatophytes, those that are caused by saprophytes, and those that are really yeast infections. Dermatophytes are fungi that actually prefer to grow on the nails, skin, and hair. Some of them are specifically adapted to humans, while others commonly infect animals as well. They cause skin infection, such as athlete's foot, and ringworm, as well as toe- and fingernail disorders.

The saprophytes are more accidental causes of fingernail disorders. Present in the environment, they generally live in damp decaying organic material and infect nails only when the opportunity arises. Although some of them are known to cause tissue infection from time to time, as well as fingernail diseases, they do not generally infect the skin. Because these fungi are not dermatophytes, drugs and remedies for onychomycosis may not be tested against them.

Finally, there are the yeasts, causes of toenail and fingernail diseases, as well as vaginal yeast infections, oral thrush, eye infections, and various other conditions. Chief among the yeasts infecting people is Candida albicans, although other species can also do it, particularly in a susceptible individual. Incidentally, we can also thank these organisms for bread and beer, so tissue infections and fingernail disorders are not their only claim to fame. Like the saprophytes described above, these causes of nail infection may require a different treatment approach.

Before choosing any type of treatment for fingernail disorders, sufferers are wise to see a professional - either a medical doctor or a dermatologist - to have the condition properly diagnosed. These professionals can also arrange for laboratory testing to confirm fungal infection, and to properly identify the fungus causing the problem. It may well be that many treatment failures can be attributed to the wrong initial self-diagnosis. Identification of fingernail diseases is best left in the hands of professionals.

Fat & Salt Kill Your Heart - Health Alert

Salt is Bad to You

The amount of salt you eat has a direct effect on your blood pressure.

Salt makes your body hold on to water. If you eat too much salt, the extra water stored in your body raises your blood pressure. So, the more salt you eat, the higher your blood pressure.

The higher your blood pressure, the greater the strain on your heart, arteries, kidneys and brain. This can lead to heart attacks, strokes, dementia and kidney disease.

Also, eating too much salt may mean that blood pressure medicines (such as diuretics) don't work as well as they could.

Salt and Heart Attack

The raised blood pressure caused by eating too much salt may damage the arteries leading to the heart.

At first, it may cause a slight reduction in the amount of blood reaching the heart. This may lead to angina (sharp pains in the chest when being active).

• If you continue to eat too much salt then, over time, the damage caused by the extra blood pressure may become so severe that the arteries burst or become completely clogged.
• If this happens, then the part of the heart that was receiving the blood no longer gets the oxygen and nutrients it needs and dies. The result is a heart attack.
• The best way to prevent a heart attack is to stop the arteries becoming damaged. And one of the best ways of doing this is keep your blood pressure down by eating less salt.

Different Make Ups for Eye

Close set eyes

The shadows of close set eyes are reversed, with the darker tones on the outer corners of the eyes. In this case, line only the outer half of the eye and use more mascara at the outer corner to create an illusion of width. Dab a little silver or pearly white shadow at the inner corner right next to the nose.

Wide set eyes

For women who have wide set eyes, you can visually reduce the range between your eyes if you apply a darker tint of eyeshadows from the outer corner of your eye to the middle of the eyelid. Apply a lighter eye shadow from the middle of your eyelid to the inner corner of your eye. Blend in different shades in the middle of the eyelid.

Wine set eyes

If you have deep set eyes, choose light and nacreous tints of eyeshadows, it would help to make your eyes appear visually bigger. Apply light eyeshadows on your eyelid from the inner corner of your eye to the outer and a bit further. Light colors should be applied in the middle of the lid, and darker colors – on and just above the socket line. Blend the darker shade up and out.

Down turned eyes

Since the eye structure is down turned, women under this category need to use the eye colour in strokes that go upward and out. Apply eyeliner close to the upper lash line and then blend in the shadow along the socket line in the outer two thirds of the eyes. For a better visual appeal, apply dense mascara.

Hooded eyes

In this type of eyes, the eyelids appear partially closed. Use a light highlighter on the brow bone, a medium shade along the entire lid and a darker contour shade towards the outer eye. Finish with liner and mascara and your eyes will display a beauty and exuberance most radiant!

[Professionals Way] Applying Lip Stick

Find the best shades of lipstick for your lips. For full lips, it is best to stick with medium tone colors and subtle shades. Stay away from pale shimmering colors, plums and dark brown shades.

Clean off the dry, dead skin from your lips using a dry, soft bristled toothbrush or a wet, warm washcloth.

Apply liquid foundation to your lips and let it dry. You can also brush some face powder onto your lips if you wish. 

A dusting of powder or bit of foundation beneath lipstick can maximize its staying power. Either can dry lips, though, so use a creamy formula lipstick.

Stretch your lips and starting at the center of top or bottom, glide color to corners. Blot, reapply and blot again for longer-lasting color. 

Lipstick staining your teeth makes you look extremely shabby. To avoid this, pucker your lips in an extreme ''O'' and then apply the lipstick.

Even if your lipstick smudges to the insides of your lips, wrap your finger with a tissue and put it into your mouth, and twist it slowly to eliminate any extra color.

You can also highlight your lips by using a light film of eye shadow color coordinated with your lip color in the center of the upper and lower lips.

First prime your lips with a good base of foundation and powder to remove all color from your lips.

Outline your lips with a lip pencil - The same shade or just a shade darker than your lipstick, Define the center curve on the upper lip with two precise strokes.

Continue the line of the upper lip, keeping your mouth closed and relaxed. Use short strokes, as they are easier than a continuous line.

On the lower lip, work form the center to the corners.

To make a small mouth look larger, apply a touch of foundation to your lips to smooth out the edges, add a little powder to make your lipstick last longer, then trace the outline of your lips with lip liner, enlarging the corners and thickness of your lips.

To make a large mouth look smaller, tone down the edges of the lips using foundation or concealer, retrace the inside edges of your lips, reducing the gap at the corners, then apply a soft shade of lipstick for a natural effect.

Lipstick will stay on longer if the whole lip is filled in with lip liner before lipstick is applied. If you decide to use this technique, be aware that darker lip liner will darken the look of your lipstick. And, if you are going for a light look use a light lip liner.

Now that lips are filled in, apply lipstick with a lipstick brush (using a lip brush will give you more control). When lipstick has been applied, with lips closed, lay a tissue across both lips to blot.

5 Home Remedies to Dark Circle under Eyes

Why Dark Circles

Test for Dark Circles

If the dark color below your eye disappears when you stretch the skin in that area, then you could be losing fat and need plumping. 

Visible blood vessels are the second type of dark circles and people with pale, translucent skin tend to get affected by dark circle problem. Fairer complexions tend to have thinner skin surrounding the eyes, which allows the blue vessels to peek through.

A Doctor Said "Unfortunately, the only thing you can do here is apply a concealer every day".

Simple Natural 5 Step Remedy to Dark Circle Below Eye

Cucumber Juice

Apply cucumber juice, for say, 10-15 minutes and then wash off your eyes with plain water. This will help in reducing eye-stress.

Tomato Juice

Drink tomato juice with a few mint leaves added to it at least twice a day and see the change.

Cool Tea Bags

Cool Tea Bags Over Eye

Cooled tea bags too help a lot in revitalizing the area under your eyes.

Almond Milk

Apply a paste of almonds mixed with milk on the dark area around your eyes. This will lighten up your skin.

Potato Juice

 

Applying a mixture of potato juice with cucumber juice proves quite effective in treating puffiness of eyes as well as dark circles.

Cool Tea Bags Over Eye

5 Celebrity style dressing

Halter neck

A halter neck one piece dress in absolute black, teamed with a chunky beaded neck piece and a funky looking clutch is set to make you feel and look gorgeous.

Single shouldered dress

Single shouldered dress, in a solid colour will also make the heads turn. Try a dark navy blue or a dark purple one-shouldered dress and wear neat looking stilettos or manolo to go with it. You can skip the neck piece as you don’t want the neck line to be jeopardized by any other accessory.

Little frock dress

You can also keep it casual with a little frock style dress. Get a shimmery dress, in frock style with plain cuts. Skip accessories, except for an attractive short half jacket and a smashing pair of pumps to go with it. Leave your hair open and carry a stylish envelope, minimal makeup and the right attitude to match the shimmering gold or silver dress.

Shimmery kurta over a skirt

Wear a long, well cut super shimmery kurta over a long skirt to make it look like a sharara. You can skip the dupatta and instead wear large golden hoops or danglers with a potli bag to complete the look.

Hot choli with long skirt

Want to go Indian? Wear that hot looking choli, with all the mirror work and shimmer and team it up with a plain flowy long skirt in any single solid colour with minimal work. Drape a contrasting shade of dupatta like a sari and look radiant and stylish enough to get wooed by every male in the party room.

Home remedy for Face / Skin Marks

What are Face Spots (Dark Marks) 

Face mark

Dark marks on face are a common skin problem faced by many individuals. These marks are also referred to as age spots and are caused by excessive exposure to the sun. Even though the condition of having dark spots on face is termed age spots, they can occur in individuals of any age.

Natural and Home remedies for Dark marks on Face / Skin

Lemon

One of the most popular remedies for dark spots is lemon juice. You can gently rub a lemon slice over the affected skin. You can also add some honey to the lemon juice and apply using a cotton ball.

Potato Juice

Lemon juice, potato juice and cucumber juice are regarded as excellent natural home remedies for Face Blemishes removal.

Jasmine buds and Bishop's weed

Applying a combination of juice extracted from Bishop’s weed and jasmine buds twice daily also serves as a good Face Blemishes home remedy.

Honey and Oat Meal

Boil the oatmeal in milk and then add honey. After it cools down, apply to the face and allow it to stay on for ten minutes.

Vinegar and Strawberry

Mix some vinegar with three mashed strawberries and apply this mixture on the affected area overnight. Regular application of this therapy for clearing Facial Blemishes.

6 Tips to STOP Belching Permanently

No Immediate Sleep

Don't lie down after you eat. Activity will force the burps out instead of letting them build up.

Say no to Hot Drink

Allow hot drinks to cool. Sipping a blistering drink like hot coffee may cause you to gulp lots of air.Dont Use straw.

Eat Slowly

Eat slowly. People who gulp down food and beverages are swallowing excessive amounts of air. They're also crowding the stomach with too much to digest, which causes a gaseous buildup.

Avoid Smoking

Don't smoke. Here is yet another reason to quit smoking. When you inhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, you swallow excessive amounts of air.

Drink Garlic

Garlic can help reduce belching. Swallow a garlic bud and drink a glass of water, preferably on an empty stomach.

Avoid Large Meals

Large meals can also cause belching, so you might benefit from eating six smaller meals instead of three larger ones.

Fruits make your skin glowing

Orange

Rich in vitamin C that improves skin texture. Like apple, orange too contains collagen that slows skin aging process. Rub the insides of orange on your skin to tighten the skin. Oranges can be dried and powdered and used as a natural scrub. Like lemon, oranges too help clear skin blemishes.

Lemon

Lemon juice is an important ingredient in most Indian recipes. This is also a fruit of all seasons and almost always finds place on your kitchen shelf or refrigerator.With its astringent properties, it can be used to lighten the skin tone and also diminish acne scars. Rub the inside of a lemon peel on your elbow remove dark spots. Mix lemon and honey and use it as a natural bleach on your skin. With its vitamin C content, its juice will keep your skin beautiful. A glass of warm water with a tsp of honey and a dash of lemon juice on an empty stomach every morning is a great skin cleanser.

 

Apple

An apple a day keeps the doctor away is cliched, but its health benefits are undisputable. Apple's antioxidant property prevents cell and tissue damage. Studies by nutritionists have shown that apples contain abundant amounts of elastin and collagen that help keep the skin young. Applying a mixture of mashed apple, honey, rose water and oatmeal can act as a great exfoliating mask on your skin.

Mango

Rightly called the king of fruits for not just its taste but also for health benefits. The soft pulpy fruit has an amazing effect on skin too. Rich in vitamin-A and rich antioxidants, it fights against skin aging, regenerates skin cells and restores the elasticity of skin.

 

Banana

This is one fruit that's abundantly available in India all through the year. We know it's a good source of iron, magnesium and potassium and helps reduce menstrual cramps. The effect of banana on skin too is not something that can be ignored. Bananas are rich in vitamin A, B and E and hence works as an anti-aging agent. A fresh mashed banana facial can do wonders for your skin.

Papaya

The benefits of this fruit on skin have perhaps been talked about since the time of our ancestors. Papaya is rich in antioxidants and contain a special enzyme called papain that can kill dead cells and cure skin impurities. A glass of papaya milk or just applying the flesh of papaya on your skin can do wonders to your skin.

6 Natural Way to get rid of Mouth Smell

Eat Apples

Apples are often called as nature’s toothbrush as they are known to eliminate many kinds of bacteria in your mouth that can cause bad breath. Be sure to chew well on your apples while eating them.

Brush with Baking Soda

Baking soda contains hydrogen peroxide which neutralized the acid present in your mouth. Acids make for a favourable environment for bacteria growth in your mouth. Simply wet you toothbrush and sprinkle some baking soda over it to brush your teeth.

Chew Mint Leaves

Mint leaves are one of the best natural remedies to combat bad breath. Mint refreshes your mouth and gives off a pleasing smell. Chlorophyll present in leaves also absorbs odours and leaves you with a refreshing breath.

Chew on Cardamom

If neem leaves are too bitter for you, then you can also chew on cardamom which is quite pleasing to chew. Cardamom also helps in eliminating bad breath from your mouth.

Drink More Water

Bacteria thrive better if your mouth is dry. Staying hydrated will help your body to regulate all biochemical process and get rid of waste and other toxins. Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day to get rid of bad breath.

Chew on Neem

Neem has powerful antibacterial and antifungal properties. If you can endure its bad taste, you can permanently eliminate all signs of bad breath by chewing on neem leaves.