Herbal Remedies For Erectile Dysfunction

Ginseng - Powerful Cure For Erectile Dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction (ED) affects millions of men all over the world. Almost half of men over age 75 experience ED, according to the American National Institutes of Health.
Erectile Dysfunction is commonly called “impotence.” It’s a condition in which a man can’t achieve or maintain an erection during sexual performance. Symptoms may also include reduced sexual desire or libido.
These kinds of issues can happen at any time and to any man. Causes mainly include: fatigue, stress, relationship issues, performance anxiety, alcohol consumption.
Your doctor is likely to diagnose you with ED if the condition lasts for more than a few weeks or months.

According to experts on herbal medicine, Natural cure for Erectile Dysfunction is the best form of cure. Some of these cure are presented here.
Called the “herbal Viagra,” Panax ginseng (“red ginseng”) has solid research behind it. Researchers reviewed seven studies of red ginseng and ED in 2008. Dosages ranged from 600 to 1,000 mg three times daily. They concluded there was “suggestive evidence for the effectiveness of red ginseng in the treatment of erectile dysfunction.”
One small study also indicated Rhodiola rosea may be helpful. Twenty-six out of 35 men were given 150 to 200 mg a day for three months. They experienced substantially improved sexual function.

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a natural hormone produced by the adrenal glands. It can be converted to both estrogen and testosterone in the body. Scientists make the dietary supplement from wild yam and soy.
The influential Massachusetts male aging study showed that men with ED were more likely to have low levels of DHEA. Forty men with ED participated in another study published in 1999, in which half received 50 mg DHEA and half received a placebo once a day for six months. Those receiving the DHEA were more likely to achieve and maintain an erection.

L-arginine is an amino acid naturally present in the body. It helps make nitric oxide. Nitric oxide relaxes blood vessels to facilitate a successful erection. Researchers studied the effects of L-arginine on ED in 1999. Thirty-one percent of men with ED taking 5 grams of L-arginine a day experienced significant improvements in sexual function.
A second study showed that L-arginine combined with pycnogenol, a plant product from tree bark, restored sexual ability to 80 percent of participants after two months. Ninety-two percent had restored sexual ability after three months.

Though studies are mixed, many show positive results when acupuncture is used to treat ED. A 1999 study, for example, found that acupuncture improved the quality of erections and restored sexual activity in 39 percent of participants.
A later study published in 2003 reported that 21 percent of ED patients who received acupuncture had improved erections. Other studies have shown conflicting results, but this treatment has potential and may work for you.

Other alternative therapies thought to help ED may include zinc supplements (especially for men who are low in zinc), the herb ashwagandha (also called “Indian ginseng”), and gingko, but more studies are needed to know with certainty.
In the meantime, talk with your doctor about your options, and don’t give up. ED is a common condition that’s very treatable. With some trial and error, you’re likely to find what works for you and your partner.

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Slimming Tea: The Herbal Answer To Obesity

Do you want to lose weight quickly, without doing strenuous exercises and without going on a crash diet? Then healthy slimming tea, is what you need. Slimming tea has become the latest diet fad. It contains some useful herbs that are very effective for losing excess fat from the body. Slimming tea regulates the organic balance, fights constipation and decomposes neutral fat to give you a slim and trim body. Some of the popular benefits of slimming tea include:

1. Weight Loss:

Unlike other methods of weight loss, slimming tea fits into any lifestyle without the need of undergoing any major change.

2. Improves Metabolism & Reduces Abdominal Fat:

Drinking slimming tea on a regular basis speeds up the metabolism to increase fat burning rate in the body. It lowers calorie intake and prevents the conversion of carbohydrates and sugars into fat, to reduce fat deposits in the body. Catechins present in slimming tea also help to reduce abdominal fat without influencing the absorption of fat soluble vitamins.

3. Delays Signs of Ageing:

Slimming tea contains antioxidants and amino acids which help to combat free radicals, and protect our cells and molecules from damage. This facilitates healing and delays the signs of ageing.

4. Lessens Cancer Risks:

People who drink slimming tea on a regular basis are less prone to develop cancer. Catechins present in slimming tea prevent cell mutation, deactivate carcinogens and reduce the formation and growth of tumors. Besides inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, it also kills the cancer cells without harming the healthy tissues.

5. Stimulates Brain Functioning:

Caffeine, the key ingredient in slimming tea, stimulates the brain function by improving vigilance, reaction time and memory.

6. Combats Various Diseases & Sickness:

Slimming tea has natural properties which help to combat many types of diseases and sickness. This protects the body from degenerative diseases. It also aids digestion by breaking down fatty substances.

7. Kills Bacteria Causing Oral Problems:

Catechins and polyphenols in slimming tea helps to kill bacteria that cause tooth decay, bad breath and bleeding gums. Do not add sweeteners like sugar, honey and other artificial sweeteners, as it can negate these dental benefits.

8. Strengthens Bones:

The anti-inflammatory properties of slimming tea strengthen bones and decrease the risk of osteoporotic fractures. Its health-promoting properties suppress the breakdown of bone while increasing the amount and activity of bone building cells.

9. Maintains Heart Health:

Slimming tea helps to lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and reduces cholesterol in the body, to maintain your heart health. The polyphenols in slimming tea blocks the absorption of dietary fat and cholesterol by over 50%, to prevent heart attack and stroke.

10. Sheds away Excess Fat:

Two of the main ingredients which makes slimming tea effective, is polyphenol and caffeine. Polyphenols counter threat of excess triglyceride by activating a certain enzyme in our body, which dissolves excess triglycerides. This helps to shed excess fat from the body.

11.  Improves Glucose Tolerance:

In many cases, slimming tea reduces the amount of insulin in the body by improving glucose tolerance.

12. Stimulates Body’s Metabolism for Weight Loss:

Slimming tea contains epigallocatechin gallate or EGCG, which stimulates the body’s metabolism to speed up weight loss. Together with caffeine, EGCG stimulates the central nervous system and releases fat into the blood stream, so that the body can use the fat as fuel. This process is known as thermogenesis. This will lead the body to use carbohydrates at a slower rate. With more carbohydrates in your body, you can stay active for a longer period of time.

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Fibroid: Herbal Alternative To Surgery More Efficient - Expert

Fibroid is one ailment that many women dread. Fibroid has rendered potential mothers barren due to complications arising from surgery. However, herbal practitionals in Nigeria have come out with natural remedies for the cure of fibroid. There is a  list of herbs scientifically proven – by doctors, scientists and medical researchers – to reduce fibroids in size, and reduce the symptoms of fibroid rapidly.

Here’s what it’s all about:

It’s common knowledge amongst medical professionals that the key cause of uterine fibroids is hormonal imbalances. 

Clinical studies indicate that fibroids are aggravated by an excess of estrogen in the body, and that f ibroids can be shrunk effectively simply by getting the estrogen levels back into balance.

While there are many drugs on the market that work on hormone levels, they all have side effects.  Some of these side effects are dangerous such as increased risk of ovarian cancer with Clomid and Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome.

Thankfully, there are natural alternatives to these drugs.  Herbs that have been used for hundreds (and in some cases thousands) of years to help women with menstrual disorders such as heavy bleeding, painful periods, uterine cramping, and fibroids.

What’s more, modern research has confirmed that these herbs work, and double-blind clinical studies put the herbs through the strictest and most vigorous testing, and have also confirmed these herbs help you conceive faster.

In Nigeria, there are many herbal outfits with expert and herbal cure for fibroid. If you desire a genuine natural cure for fibroid, please call 07031040178.

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Enhancing Nigerian Healthcare With Traditional Medicine - Dr Bunmi Omoseyindemi

Lagos State government is growing traditional medicine to support its health care delivery system.
Chairman, Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board (LSTMB) Dr Bunmi Omoseyindemi made this known at a workshop for tradition medicine practitioners and health workers in the private sector.
The workshop was held in conjunction with a United Kingdom (UK) based organisation, Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) Partnership for Transforming Health Systems II (Part 2) at Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) in Ikeja.
Dr Omoseyindemi said DFID is contributing to effective and efficient use of the nation’s resources to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5.
He said: “The capacity building would help develop traditional and alternative medicine practice so that they would be able to support the healthcare delivery system in the state, as the Ministry of Health would need accurate data in planning some of its policies and improving on health indices.
“The workshop will also ensure there is improvement in the quality of healthcare.”
Five Local Government Areas (LGAs) would serve as the launch pad for health workers in the private sector. They are Amuwo-Odofin, Alimosho, Kosofe, Ibeju Lekki and Ikorodu LGAs.
Omoseyindemi said the baseline assessment of orthodox medicine practitioners, traditional birth attendants (TBAs), patent medicine vendors and community pharmacists have been conducted, adding, “the training needs of practitioners were identified based on the maternal death review report from secondary and tertiary hospitals.”
The LSTMB, he said, was supported to develop its electronic database for entry of community level data.
He said before the capacity training, the board and the Lagos State College of Health Technology (LASCOHET) have reviewed the curriculum for TBAs and community birth attendants’ training programme.
The Chairman also said the board had trained some practitioners on six priority diseases in West Africa as directed by the West African Health Organisation (WAHO). The diseases are hypertension, diabetes, sickle cell anaemia, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
The objective is to train practitioners on the use of herbs and preparation methods following the guidelines in the region’s Herbal Pharmacopoeia.
The Board, he said, also collaborated with a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in the United States, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) to train 1,115 TBAs on childhood diseases, such as diarhoea management.
“The objective was to empower them to become diarhoea champions in their various communities by educating mothers under their care on the proper use of zinc plus oral rehydration salt (ORS) for the effective management of the condition, which accounts for 11 per cent of childhood deaths. The programme was held in 20 LGAs across Lagos State,” Omoseyindemi said.
He added that his Board would continue to conduct further tranings for practitioners
“LSTMB and the state Ministry of Health organised training on Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) of childhood illnesses for TBAs, Pharmaceutical Medicine Vendors (PMVs) and community pharmacists.
“The TBAs have been linked to chlorhexidine gel for cord care and as such training on antenatal, maternal and newborn care were done. They were all sensitised on the importance of referral,” Omoseyindemi added.

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There Are Great Potentials For Nigerian Natural Medicine - Dr. Olu Adeola

Mr. Olu Adeola is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Abeokuta-based Globalherbs Natural Healthcare Product Company. In this chat with Financial Vanguard in Abeokuta recently, the Business Administration and Management graduate from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, speaks on why he ventured into natural/traditional medicine and why Nigeria has not been able to exploit her huge bio-resources potential.

Why natural medicine?
According to Adeola, he got into natural medicine because of its huge potential for Nigeria. "I have been in this business for over a decade. I was seconded from Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA).
I was in a collaborative venture with the agency and while there, they discovered the enormous potential in me and my ability for in-depth research into our traditional medicine because Nigerians as a people, only look forward but fail to look backward. You have to look at the past and move on in the present to project the future.
"What fascinated me in natural\traditional medicine is that it has a lot of potential in arresting most of the ailments especially in sub-Sahara Africa that orthodox medicine does not have cure for. As everyone knows, malaria is our major problem in Africa and for a very long time, we have depended on western countries for solutions to most of our problems.
This should not be the case because God has created us in this environment and has given us all that we need to survive under this environment but it is perhaps, our inability to look inwards that has made it impossible for us to unlock the potential within our environment.
Since I came into natural medicine, it has been a blessing to me, my family and mankind because over the years, I have been able to collaborate with the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) in Abuja in the research for drugs for diabetes, tuberculosis, malaria and other ailments."
Asked whether they have come up with any natural drug for diabetes, he said: "A lot of good things have been done by NIPRD and even the NNMDA, but you know, the problem in Nigeria is lack of funding. I know that at NIPRD, a lot of work has been done on that but as you know, research is not something you start one day and come out with your findings the next day. It takes about 10 years. In orthodox medicine, they have to do a lot of write-ups and carry out a lot of tests."
Some of the products developed:
"I developed a product called Valueplus, a dental drop and mouthwash. It is 100 per cent Nigerian product and it has been submitted to NIPRD for scientific investigation. It can help HIV-positive people against opportunistic infections like oral thrush as well as HIV negative people who want to preserve their dental health. Other products are Dr. Malaria, hyperherbs, combatol range of hair and skin products, bitters etc.
"NNMDA has been up and doing as it relates to most of the products I have developed because I have a good working relationship with the leadership of the agency. Also, the Director-General of the National Board for Technology Incubation, Dr. Mohammed Jibrin has been highly resourceful and supportive.
To most entrepreneurs at the Technology Incubation Centre, Abeokuta, it is like going back to the classroom because for every product you make, there is a mandate that you must be able to present it for external investigation. So it is not just to claim that you have done so and so, you have to defend it,"he said.
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Adeola who presently has three employees and hopes to employ more if he is able to access funds, appealed to the Federal Government to make the conditions for accessing loan from the Bank of Industry less stringent so entrepreneurs can easily access loans from the bank as that will help Nigeria move from a mono economy to diversified economy to enable her exploit the huge potential in bio-resources. "Nigeria has got it but the only thing is our inability to exploit it.
"All my raw materials are locally sourced except some of the packaging materials which we import because most of the companies that produce the packaging materials are not in the country so we resort to buying from outside the country. Aside that, virtually everything has been given to us in Nigeria free of charge."

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Go Ahead, Eat That Onion!

Onions are part of the allium family of vegetables and herbs, which also includes chives, garlic, scallions and leeks. Allium vegetables have been cultivated for centuries for not only their characteristic, pungent flavors but also for their medicinal properties. Onions can vary in size, shape, color and flavor. The most common types are red, yellow and white onion. Flavors can vary from sweet and juicy with a mild flavor to sharp, spicy, and pungent, often depending on the season in which they are grown and consumed. It is estimated that 105 billion pounds of onions are harvested each year worldwide.
The health benefits of consuming onions include lowering the risk of several types of cancer, improving mood and maintaining the health of skin and hair.

Onions are a nutrient-dense food, meaning that while they are low in calories, they are high in beneficial nutrients like vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. One cup of chopped onion contains approximately 64 calories, 15 grams of carbohydrate, 0 grams of fat, 0 grams of cholesterol, 3 grams of fiber, 7 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein and 10% or more of the daily value for vitamin C, vitamin B-6 and manganese. Onions also contain small amounts of calcium, iron, folate, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium and the antioxidants quercetin and sulfur.

Onions can be sautéed, roasted, grilled or caramelized, be used fresh as a topping for sandwiches or salads and added to salsas and dips.

Look for onions that are dry and firm with little to no scent before they are peeled.
Adding onion is a great way to add flavor to a dish without adding extra calories, fat or sodium. They are often a staple in many kitchens and pair well with most dishes.

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