The key to addressing excessive body sweating is to know what causes it. For people with secondary hyperhidrosis (or the sweating is caused by another medical condition), the solution is pretty straightforward: deal with the bigger illness and the sweating will subside.

However, the picture gets a little complicated for those born with excessive body sweating (or primary hyperhidrosis). While the condition will not go away immediately, there are ways to effectively manage and reduce it:

Iontophoresis is a series of treatments that involves low levels of electrical impulses to block the sweat glands with water minerals. The procedure is currently used to treat sweating localized at the head, feet, hands and armpits.

Specialized medications, like Oxybutynin have been found to reduce the amount of perspiration. Also available in the market are antiperspirants with higher doses of aluminium chloride and especially made for excessive sweating.

Botulinum Toxin Type A, or Botox injections work by disabling the sweat glands for as much as nine months. This procedure is a common alternative for those suffering from excessive sweating in the face.

Surgical solutions often involve removing some of the sweat glands. Another procedure, known as Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy (ETS) entails cutting a nerve that triggers the sweating.

Many are concerned with the side effects and cost of using medicines and surgery to reduce the sweating. For them, alternative and natural solutions show results in a longer period of time but they are proven to be safer.

These solutions include controlled breathing, meditation and other yoga techniques to help calm the body and reduce sweating. Homeopathy, or the use of special herbs, have certain solutions either taken as teas or included in the bathwater. Others also find that eating a balanced diet free from coffee, colas, alcohol and spicy food help reduce sweating.

Excessive body sweating may often be physically harmless but it can hamper one’s social life. However, there’s more than one way to manage and even cut down the perspiration.

We often feel comfortable and relaxed when near a beach listening to the soothing sounds of the waves. But imagine the same sounds beating against your eardrum constantly make the story become completely different. Tinnitus or ringing of ears is the name of that lullaby which takes away the peace from your life. Are you suffering from tinnitus? Are you in search of remedies for tinnitus? Here are a few methods that will help you to get rid of your illness. Read the rest of this entry »

Hatha Yoga is good but Pranayama is 10 times faster at releasing Energy Blockages which stop the Enlightenment process.

Pranayama, or advanced breathing techniques, is good but Meditation is 10 times faster than even that at releasing Energy Blockages which stop the Enlightenment process.

Meditation is good but Samadhi Samyama is 10 times faster than even that at releasing Energy Blockages which stop the Enlightenment process.

Samadhi is good but Samyama is 10 times faster than even that at releasing Energy Blockages which stop the Enlightenment process.

Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation, Samadhi and Samyama are part of the Eight Limbs of Yoga in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Samyama is talked about from over 5000 years ago in the Third And Fourth Chapter of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Read the rest of this entry »

For many years, I was always curious about meditation. It seemed to me to be linked in some perplexed way, to somewhere I was a little scared to go. I don’t know if this was because of something I had read or heard, or just fear of the unknown.

My first taste was when I was introduced to Yoga – what a fabulous ‘Haven’ for exercise, relaxation, stress relief, balance and vigor this has been for me. Both meditation and Yoga)

Meditation is easy to learn and can be an important component to improving your mind and body. One of the 15 minute tools from The 15 Minute Life Coach series for women, is this 15 minute exercise to revitalize your mind and body: Read the rest of this entry »

Every year, we are witness to ever-increasing numbers of Americans who die from strokes, heart attacks and other stress-related ailments.

This tells us several things. For one, it tells us that our everyday lives are filled with all kinds of pressures that take their toll on our physical well-being. For another thing, it tells us that we have not yet learned to deal with stress properly or to take measures that can bring down the daily stress levels of our lives.

There’s no doubt about it – living in the modern world can be a stressful thing. We worry about traffic and pollution. We encounter stressful situations everywhere, from our homes to our offices and through a dozen or so other irritants caused by people we meet in the course of daily life. We work longer hours, consume less healthy food and hardly undergo any exercise. Read the rest of this entry »