Flower Beauty Magazine: August 2009

Natural Home Remedies For Chapped Lips:

- Apply on the lips a layer of a greasy cream, leaving it to act for 2-3 minutes, then remove it with a towel or a soft toothbrush previously moistened in warm water;

- Olive oil applied to dry lips also has a beneficial effect, with calming effects and making the skin more supple;

- Buffer your lips 2-3 times a day with a mixture of rose water and glycerin (in equal amounts).This mixture has as effect reducing lips inflammation and irritation;

- Buffer your lips with a mixture of 2 drops of rose oil and 1 spoon of vegetable oil (olive or sweet almond);

- Vitamin E is very good for the skin, so you can apply the content of vitamin E capsule directly on the lips.

Preventive Methods:

Because the lips do not have sebaceous glands (glands that produce the fat substance),they are prone to drying and chapping if they are exposed to extreme weather conditions (cold, strong wind or excessive heat).

- In case of exposure to strong wind use lip balms and creams;
- If you expose yourself to strong sun you should use creams with filtering effect;

- Be sue only to use lipsticks with hydrant qualities, which help protecting your lips;

- During winter, if it is very hot in the house put pots of water on the stove to get some moisture in the air (especially at night);

- If you already have chapped lips, it would be wise to avoid wetting your lips with the tongue, because all saliva does is just making the situation worse.

Menstrual cycle disorders are common throughout the reproductive life of women, especially during puberty and before menopause. They are caused mostly by some hormonal disorders. However, the local, gynecological causes should not be neglected such as: uterine fibromatose, adenoids, erosion of the internal genital tract.

The hormonal Menomethroragyes are irregular bleedings caused by the partial and acyclic detachment of some portions of the uterine mucosa. After excluding the organic causes of the local bleedings, as in blood and vascular diseases with deficiency of haemostasis, it is given the diagnosis: functional neuromethrolagy.
During puberty, and before menopause they can get really severe, enough to complicate to a severely anemic syndrome. So because the cause of menomethrolagyes are hormonal, the syndrome benefit from medical treatment highly effective, based on the synthesis hormones: estrogen and progesterone. An environment without conflicts contribute to balancing the sick.

Adjusting the Menstrual Cycle Using the Shepherds Purse Plant

Shepherds purse is a herbaceous plant, annual or biennial that grows in sunny or semi-shadowed areas, on arid to very wet soils. On medicinal purposes we use the aerial part of the plant. Harvesting is done during April-May, during flowering and when fruits are rare.

Due to the hemostatic and uterotonic actions, they are used in uterine bleedings, as menstrual flow adjuster and as a calmant for abdominal pain caused by dysmenorea.

To regulate the menstrual cycle I recommend an infusion of 10g of shredded plant in 200 ml of boiling water, from which you take 4-5 tablespoons sweetened with honey or sugar daily; the treatment begins 10 days before the appearance of the menstrual cycle.

Adjusting and Calming the Abundent Menstruation Using Potentilla Anserina Plant

Potentilla Anserina Plant has an astringent and hemosthatic action and because it contains large amounts of tannin.

It has a spasmodic action due to flavonnoids. As an astringent, it encourages blood and mucosa clotting, the permeability of capillaries and cell membranes. The spasmolitic properties occur on the intestine's and uterus' smooth muscle as well as on the pilloric spasms of the stomach.

Potentilla Anserina Plant is mainly used in hypermenorea (regulates and eases pain in abundent menstruation). It is also used for: renal calculosis, enteritis, stomach cramps, diarrhea, anemia and convalescence.

Contraindications:

- chronic kidney or liver diseases.

Preparation and use:

Internally: as an infusion 1.5%, you take two cups per day every 12 hours; or as a decoction, a spoon and a half for 500 ml of cold water, boil it 15 minutes, drink warm in three parts, after the main meals.