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Headache is probably the most common complaint, yet it is difficult to define or treat accurately, that is why in the medical world very often it is repeated that treatment of headache is quite a headache for the doctor. Even though a good majority of headaches are quite harmless, a few ones may indicate a grave disorder like a brain tumour. As such one should consult a competent doctor, in case the headache is continuous and not responding to common remedies.

Hair fall and greying of hair at an early stage of life can be very embarrassing, especially for young girls and boys who develop a feeling of social stigma. The main causes of hair fall and hair greying in the lower classes is inadequate nutrition. Sometimes even a partial lack of B Vitamins and folic acid leads to hair fall and baldness. In such cases hair regrows after treatment with vitamins. Stress, worry and anxiety are the important psychological factors, especially in youngsters for these disorders. Chronic diseases like anemia, cold, flu, syphilis, tuberculosis, and radiation therapy also account for hair loss and baldness. Conditions like psoriasis, dandruff and other fungal infections also cause hair loss considerably. Sometimes a hereditary factor runs in the family members, which remains unresponsive to any kind of treatment. Herbal Remedies for Hair fall and Greying of Hair:  1. First and foremost, the scalp of the affected person should be energetically massag...

Goitre refers to enlargement of the thyroid gland resulting in swelling in the front part of the neck. Goitre is caused by deficiency or increase in iodine content of food items. Thyroid tumors some times occur due to medicines or during pregnancy. Signs and Symptoms of Goitre: These depends on the cause and the type of goitre. The thyroid gland in such cases may be functioning less than normal or more than normal. The goit in many cases due to it's large size, may produce problems in speech, respiration and swallowing of food. Herbal Remedies for Goitre: 1. Old rice should be used once a day in food. 2. Barley is another home remedy. Barley water can be taken daily and twice a day. 3. Cucumber is also good for goitre patients 100gm of it can be consumed daily as salad. 4. Exercise of neck is useful in this condition. Sour and heavy foods are contraindicated.

The term frigidity is generally used to describe a long term lack of s*xual drive and response. It can affect both male and female either teenagers or adults but it is more usually applied to women. The causes of frigidity (low s*x drive) are religious beliefs, hormonal imbalance, diets, anxiety about performance is also a major turn-off when it comes to coitus. In terms of anxiety about s*x performances, nearly everyone has occasional worries, but these can become exaggerated when one places too much emphasis on the physical, as opposed to the emotional side of lovemaking. Conflict within the relationship is another important factor. If a couple is always arguing or one partner is resentful of the other, it can lead to problems in bed. Equally, if one is very tired or worried about other things in life, it can affect affect libido. Other causes of frigidity includes having been s*xually abuse as a child, or over dependence on parents, depression, fear of pregnancy and other healt...

Raise body temperature is known as fever. In medical terms it is called 'Pyrexia'. Fever is a symptom for many diseases. The normal body temperature is 37 degree Celsius (98.4 degree F) but may vary slightly from individual to individual. It also varies half a degree or so throughout the day and is usually at its lowest in the morning. The minimum body temperature occurs between 2 AM and 7 AM and the maximum occurs between 4PM and 6PM of the day. In very hot weather, the body temperature may rise a little more. Usually a rise in temperature of a degree or more is caused by some form of infection. Signs and Symptoms of Fever:  A temperature over 37.4 degree Celsius or 99.4 degree may be considered as fever. The person's face will probably be flushed, the eyes may glazed, the body, hot to touch. The person may either feel hot or cold depending on the rise and fall of temperature. When the temperature is dropping, the body often sweats profusely. Herbal Medicines and...

Everyone experience a feeling of complete exhaustion and absolute tiredness occasionally due to excessive and prolonged durations of work or exercise. This feeling is known as fatigue or tiredness. The causes of fatigue in our body includes so many factors which are too many to mention. Doing heavy work for prolonged period of time, overworking your mental activity, stress, exercise or anything you do that involves burning energy. Signs and Symptoms of Fatigue:  Tiredness or weariness of the body, slight giddiness may also be felt and then body pains is another symptom. Herbal Medicines for Fatigue:  1. Fruits: Fruit juices are generally helpful in this condition. Grape juice is specially useful as it immediately brings in stamina. 2. Dates or Khajura are great sources of instant energy restoration. These should be taken regularly along with a glass of milk. 3. Nutritious food should be taken and fried while junk foods should be avoided. 4. Exercise: Improvement ...

Facial paralysis is a common problem that involves the paralysis of any structure of the facial nerve. A condition where the facial muscles are paralyzed. The muscles of the face are supplied with nerves which control their actions. These nerves starts from the brain and via the skull enter the different parts of the face. Sometimes the facial nerve may be compressed due to inflammation giving rise to paralysis of the facial muscles. Causes:  The cause is not yet known, but it is often caused by exposure to cold wind and improper diet. Some doctors said facial paralysis can sometimes be caused by a lacunar infarct affecting fibers in the internal capsule going to the nucleus. Signs and Symptoms:  Initially the patient feels the face to be stiff and experiences difficulty in moving it. Taste on the affected side is sometimes affected. The patient cannot close his eyes completely and tears come out. There may be difficulty in eating food and drinking water. Herbal Medi...

Epilepsy is refer to a neurological disorder in which the person has a tendency to have seizures or fits. A seizure is due to abnormal electrical activity of the brain. Causes of Epilepsy:  The causes and symptoms of epilepsy vary greatly from one person to another. It can results from injury to baby during delivery, delay in delivery with decreased oxygen supply to brain. Hydrocephalus excessive fluid in the brain. Infections of the brain-meningitis, encephalitis. Tumors, tuberculosis, parasites in the brain. Drugs e.g. Pencillin chloroquine, medicines for depression, angina. Signs and Symptoms of Epilepsy:  A typical fit involves movement of one or both limbs of the body with or without loss of consciousness. During the fit some patients lose control of urine and stool. The patient after regaining consciousness, is confuse, may have headache and go to sleep. Herbal Remedies for Epilepsy:  Treatment for epilepsy may involve surgery or serious medication, if ...

There are numerous skin diseases that are inadequately treated using modern medicine, and eczema is no exception. Eczema is a general term for many types of skin inflammation and it is also known as dermatitis. The skin disease called eczema means a boiling over of the skin and is characterized by spontaneous eruptions with mild to severe itching, redness, flaking and tiny blisters. In chronic cases, the skin affected becomes thickened and appears like the back of a tree. Have you got this skin disease called eczema? Or are you seeing some signs of eczema appearing on your skin? Do not be troubled, you can use this natural home remedies to get eczema out of your skin. Causes of Eczema: The causes of eczema are extremely wide and sometimes unknown. Allergic reaction, irritants, inherited stress and genetic factors are believed to be related to the development of Eczema. Some other common cause of contacting eczema is by sharing clothing's with an infected person. Signs and ...

Diarrhea is define as passage of loose, watery stools with increased frequency. When it is associated with vomiting with or without fever it is called gastroenteritis. Diarrhea is common in all age groups but children are more vulnerable. It is more common in poorly nourish children living in poor sanitary conditions. However, as there are so many medications for treating diarrhea, there are also natural effective herbal remedies for treating diarrhea regardless of the cause. Causes of Diarrhea:   Diarrhea has a number of causes which includes bacterial infections, poor eating diets, stress, bowel disorders and more. Most cases of diarrhea are due to infection in the alimentary canal by viri, bacteria, parasites and fungi. Milk allergy and allergy to certain food substances can also give rise to diarrhea.  Certain medicines like antibiotics pain-killers and medicines for cancer can give rise to diarrhea too. Excessive, indigestible food substances and emotional ...

Are you suffering from common cough ? In a simple words, cough is a reflex mechanism to expel any irritant from the trachea or wind pipe. A cough can be harmless, but sometimes it can also be a symptom to a more serious illness. The reasons while we cough is simply to expel some unwanted materials which may includes irritating fumes, dust or food particles that finds their way into our wind pipe. This conditions results to a brief cough but if they migrated into a persistent cough , then chances are that, it might be a signal to a more serious illness like tuberculosis , flu or pneumonia . In this case, if herbal remedies can not cure the cough, then go see a doctor immediately.  Causes of Cough: Coughing can be due to a number of conditions like colds and flu to more serious conditions like chronic bronchitis , asthma and whooping cough .  Signs and Symptoms: Generally cough are worse in the morning and one may find that, he or she is bringing up some thick ye...

Constipation is known as costiveness or dyschezia. It is the commonest complaint in elderly people, and sometimes young persons, affecting seven out of every ten persons. Constipation refers to bowel movement that are sometimes hard to pass, failure to pass stool or gas. Constipation can also be treated with herbal remedies or mere changing of diets can help. Causes of Constipation:  Constipation results mainly because of lack of good eating habits like absence of green vegetables in adequate quality and fruits in regular meals. This residue material is essential to form the base of the stool. Sufficient quantity of water must be drunk to keep the stool soft as the bulk of the stool is due to its water quantity.  Reasonable time should be given for passing stool.   Most people because of a fast life schedule, give very less time for proper defecation. People staying in crowded flats, where there is only one toilet for 5 to 10 persons, also are prone to this ...

Opacification of the lens of the eye or its capsule (covering) sufficient to interfere with the vision is called cataract. Cataract is a clouding of the eye lens that causes blur vision. It is progressive and painless. The cataract becomes thicker as time goes until it blinds the eye. This is one of the major causes of eye blindness in the world today. Senile cataract is the most common type of cataract and it affects older people of 60 years and above and most cataract infections are cured with herbal remedies . Causes of Cataract. Cataract may be caused due to following factors which includes malnutrition, vitamin A or B deficiency, High myopia (short-sight), diabetes , old age infection of the eye. It is also caused by free radicals that affects the eye lens. Frequency X-ray causes the formation of chemicals reactive fragments in the eye and this results to cataracts.  Signs and Symptoms. Initially patient complains of blurring vision in the early stages of the d...

Vitiligo is a common white spot on skin disease that affects the pigment cells on the skin. It can be easily identified by white patches on the skin of the affected person. According to wikipedia, Vitiligo is a condition that causes depigmentation of sections of the skin. It occurs when melanocytes, the cells responsible for skin pigmentation die or are unable to function. The affected areas are distinguished by white patches on the skin and it is said that, approximately one percent of the world’s population has vitiligo and the former king of pop Micheal Jackson was not an exception. The autopsy report revealed that the late Jackson suffered from vitiligo. The cause of Vitiligo is yet unknown, but research suggests that it may arise from autoimmune, genetic, oxidative stress, neural or viral causes. Can this skin disorder be cured with herbal medicines ? Signs and Symptoms of Vitiligo The most common signs and symptoms of Vitiligo is depigmentation of white patches on...

Skin boils are painful, red pus-filled swellings that are formed in any part of the body as a result of infection of  a hair follicle. These skin inflammation can can be treated with herbal medicines . Skin Boils are caused by a type of bacterium that lives silently on the surface of the skin. People who suffer from eczema or any problem that affects the structure of the skin’s surface are prone or susceptible to skin boils or carbuncles. Carbuncles are simply large boils or a collection of boils joined together. Causes of Skin Boil. Skin boils are basically caused by bacteria, (staphylococcus) which enter the sweat glands or follicles. They are sometimes caused by blood impurities. The boil first appears when the bacteria start to multiply under the skin and produce toxic chemicals which inflame the surrounding area. In an effort to combat these chemicals, more and more white blood cells rush to the spot of the infection until a pocket of pus is formed in the skin. This...

Epistaxis is the medical term for bleeding from the nose. Nose bleeding can be frightening especially during an accident but fortunately, these can be managed at home using herbal medicines . That is if there are no major injuries sustained from the accident otherwise medical intervention should be necessary. Herbal medicines are one of the best first aid given to a patient at home. All synthetic drugs are made from herbs so there are no reasons why one shouldn’t resort to these home treatments in times of illness or injury. It is assume that one out of every seven person will surely develop nose bleeding at sometime in their lives. Nose bleeding often occurs during winter months, cold climates and dry weather condition. In Nigeria, nose bleeding occurs mostly during the harmattan dry season. Note that, nose bleeding can affect any person irrespective of your age or sex. Causes of Nose Bleeding. The most causes of epistaxis in young people are not known unless as a result of...

Bed wetting is the act of urinating in bed involuntarily at night. Children generally at the age of 3-4 years have control over the bladder, but in some children, the mechanism some how is not strengthened and they pass urine in bed involuntarily. This phenomenon continues even up to 15-20 years of age, putting teenagers in an embarrassing situation. Boys outnumber girls in this bed-wetting problem. Bed-wetting is an issue almost every family face. It is extremely common among young kids but it can last into the teen years.  But there are few home remedies that can be used to cure this problem if it has become too frequent to bear. Bed-wetting usually goes away naturally but a herbal remedy can be use when it is becoming to embarrassing. Causes of Bed-wetting. Bed-wetting can happen due to physical and emotional causative factors. Infection in the urinary system that is, in the bladder or kidney or a structural defect in the tract, or sometimes thread worm in the sto...

Back-ache or back pain also known as "dorsalgia" is a pain felt in the back that usually originates from the muscle, nerves, joints or bones. Back pain is one of the most commonly prevalent complaints among people, more especially in women. Many back pain problems have no immediate obvious cause, but it does occur occasionally after some kind of hard work or labor. It is a very common complaint and about 80% of people experience back pains in one particular age or the other. Although Back pain is not a serious disease but it is mostly uncomfortable and sometimes a sign of a developing disease. Experts explains that, Back pain is associated with the way our bones, muscle and ligaments in our back work together. Below are the types, causes, symptoms/signs and herbal remedies of back pains. Types of Back Pains: 1. The facet: Joints linking one vertebra to the next one can also be damaged or strained.  2. Lumbago: A pain in the lower or lumber region of the ba...

Asthma is one of the most prevalent ailments in people. Asthma is a condition where the patient has repeated attacks of wheezing, which usually clears up completely with medical treatment. asthma attacks produce a variety of disabilities from mild distress to sever incapacity. Asthma can develop at any time in life but mostly starts in childhood . An asthmatic attack is refer to asthmatic triggers. first attack is usually set off by a lung infection. subsequent attacks are brought about by similar infections as even as an ordinary cold. Drugs which a patient is allergic to may also set off an attack. Exercise, emotional trauma like anger, sorrow, over excitement etc including sudden fluctuations in weather and temperature is one of the know cause of asthmatic triggers. Causes: Why a person suffers from asthma. In asthmatic patients, the bronchial tube muscles which takes air to the airspace in the lungs become narrow due to contraction, and air cannot move freely in or out o...

Erectile Dysfunction (ED) and Premature Ejaculation are the most common sexual disorders experienced in men. Erectile Dysfunction which is also known as impotence is define as the general inability of a man to get and maintain an erection while having coitus. Premature Ejaculation on the other hand is the ejaculation that occur earlier than desired which can either occur during foreplay, before, on or soon after penetration. This can be so embarrassing to both couples especially when the man is inexperience in sexual intercourse. But do you know that this is a common problem that can be solved with herbal supplements? A series of factors are responsible for developing and maintaining an erection. Sexual arousal causes nerves in the brain and spine to signal arteries in the penis to swell up with blood. The spongy tissues in the penis expand and it becomes erect. Any interference with this process, whether physical or psychological, can prevent an erection. As men grow old, change...