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Besides being a good source of antioxidants, lowering cholesterol and blood pressure, pomegranates can also reduce inflammation. A preliminary study showed that pomegranates can prevent some complications of kidney disease patients on dialysis due to infections and cardiovascular events.

Batya Kristal, MD, FASN, along with Lila Shema, a PhD candidate, studied 101 dialysis patients who received pomegranate juice or placebo at the beginning of each session of dialysis, three times a week for one year. (more…)

Resveratrol, a compound found in grape and red grape skins, contain antioxidants and anti-inflammatory, so it can suppress inflammation in humans. This is the findings based on experiments by endocrinologists at the University of Buffalo, USA.

The results were published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, July online version and will be published in the printed edition. (more…)

Minor injuries such as shoulder pain after playing tennis, golf, badminton, or pain in the shoulder after carrying heavy groceries from the supermartket, and heel pain after a long walk or jog, are all classified in acute nerves and joints pain.

There’s also acute pain due to sleeping position or a wrong working position. One sleeping position causes neck and houlder pain and stiffness. Here are some tips to overcome the acute pain that can occur in the nerves and joints: (more…)

Suffering from sprue or stomatitis apthosa is really torturous. Inflammation occurring in areas such as oral mucosal white patches that can make you lazy to eat and even to talk.

There are various ways to heal sprue. One of them is with herbal drug from sage plants.

This plan is a wild plant species that live in the bush or usually used as garden plants. Sage plants, especially leaves and roots, contain protein, A, B1, B6, C vitamins, calcium oxalate, glisirizin, flisirizinat, polygalacturomic acid, and pentosan. (more…)

It is still not proven yet to cause cancer

It is true that there has been some research on the relationship powder that causes ovarian cancer. For several years now, the focus of scientists is on the use of powder, because these products which are commonly used in infants, especially in the groin and intimate organs.

The bottom line is still a need for much more research, because until now no studies that prove that the powder became one of cancer-causing culprit in the baby.

The parents should not give powder to the baby’s vagina. Because the powder that goes into it will be treated as foreign objects. While the entry of foreign objects into the vagina either intentionally or not can cause inflammation of vulva ( holes outside the vagina), or in the vagina which can then lead to something abnormal. (more…)