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Feel good and look great with this essential handbook of helpful herbs.
Do you want to use more natural methods to treat everyday ailments but feel unsure where to start? In Helpful herbs for health and beauty, Barbara Griggs guides you through the bewildering array of herbal remedies on offer, telling you the most useful herbs to have in your medicine chest, how they work, and how to use them safely. For a wide range of ailments from acne and constipation to stress and sleeplessness, Barbara suggests simple but effective remedies, and even lets you in on a few herbal beauty secrets.
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Its normal to feel tired at the end of the day. But if you feel tired all the time, if you even wake up tired, youre in trouble.
If you suffer from this kind of chronic, day-after-day fatigue, you should check it outwith your doctor. There could be good medical reasons for your fatigue anaemia,diabetes, an under-active thyroid, to name just three and you need propertreatment for them.
There are some pretty amazing herbs which can help boost your energy, increaseyour resistance, and raise your spirits, but before you start spending good money onherbal remedies, you need to check out just whats going on to cause your fatigue.There could be a dozen different causes. Youre not eating properly. Youre workingtoo hard. Youre a born worrier; you cant stop even at bedtime. Youre not gettingenough exercise. Youre bored with your job, or miserable in your love life, orstressed-out by ongoing money anxieties. All or any of these factors can bring on anaching, miserable tiredness that takes all the fun out of living, so study lifestylefactors first and work out what needs fixing.
Too much stress can leave you worn out and exhausted. Step forward the great adaptogenic herbs so-called because they help you adapt to stress by increasing your general resistance and vitality, and so help you cope better with both physical and mental stress. Siberian ginseng is the star in this field, following dozens of studies in the USSR: Russias athletes and cosmonauts are among its biggest fans. An ideal all-round energy tonic, says UK herbalist Penelope Ody, ideal to take whenever extra energy is needed before a particularly busy period at work, during exams, or before longdistance air travel, for instance. You can take it for up to six weeks at a time: then you need a fortnights break. Dont use in an acute infection or if youre on digoxin. Another great herbal tonic comes from Russian folk medicine. For centuries the roots of Rhodiola rosea or Arctic root, were chewed to stave off fatigue and exhaustion, and boost general endurance. Studies carried out by modern Russian researchers have demonstrated this useful property in among other subjects sleep-deprived doctors, hardworked army cadets and students facing key exams.
Heres an idea for you... If youre burning the midnight oil, if you need to stay sharp and focused for an exam or if youre battling a long demanding job, guarana is the herb for you. This extraordinary tonic from the Amazon rainforest (its gathered sustainably by local people) can help keep you going cheerfully for hour after hour, with a clear mind, even on minimal sleep though when the job is done, youll need to crash out in earnest. Dont drink coffee when youre taking it. Faced with an implacable deadline for delivering a book, I once sailed through three days of intensive....
