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Finding the right brush can prove really beneficial to the health and strength of your hair.

A Natural Hair Brush

Using a natural bristle like boar’s hair is a very good decision. The brittles in boar hair brushes are very similar to the keratin and absorb the dirt and oil just like your hair does. In addition the tips of the boar hair brush are rounded and gently massage your scalp and hair.

Kent hair brushes are available in boar hair. But avoid the Kent nylon hair brush if you want the best care for your hair. The nylon hair brush is not recommended since it is rougher on your scalp and is no where as good as the boar bristle hair brush. The nylon bristles are usually sharp and inflamed your follicles and break your hair when you use it.

Brushing Your Hair

To maintain good hair growth you need good circulation to your scalp. You need also need a clean scalp with little oil and dirt accumulating in your hair follicles. The boar hair brush helps you achieve this when you regularly brush your hair.

Brush your hair when it is dry. This prevents breaking of your hair. When you brush, the gentle pulling of your hair stimulates your scalp bringing in more blood to feed your hair. Also the slight pulling stimulates the release of oil from your follicles which lubricates your hair.

Brush your hair with a boar bristle hair brush twice a day for the best hair care – morning and night. For short hair brush for three minutes and for long hair brush five minutes.

By bending your head to the floor, when brushing, you will increase the blood circulation to your scalp. Now, brush from your neck forward to the front of your scalp, then, from sides to your crown. Lastly, brush from the front of your scalp to the neck.

Cleaning Your Boar Hair Brush

If possible, you should clean your brush every day. If you have two or more hair brushes then it will be easier to do this. Your boar bristle hair brush accumulates dirt and oils from hair when you brush. Without regular cleaning of your hair brush, this dirt and oil will redeposit onto your hair. Over time this added dirt and oil will plug up your hair follicles and lead to hair thinning or permanent hair loss.

You can clean your brush every day when you shower. Clean it with shampoo and scrub the bristles with your hand back and forth. After cleaning, you can dry the brush with a towel and let it sit until the next day. By the next day, it is ready to use and your other brush is ready to be cleaned.

Using natural hair brush such as a boar based brush is the best way to care for your hair. Gentle daily brushing invigorates your scalp and keeps you hair healthy. But remember to keep your brush clean, since your don’t want to put the dirt and oil on your brush back onto your scalp.

What happens to alcohol in your body?

The alcohol in your drink is absorbed into your body through the stomach and small intestine. Food slows down the rate of absorption – that’s why alcohol affects you more quickly on an empty stomach.

From here, it’s distributed via the bloodstream throughout the body, reaching your heart, brain, muscles and other tissues. This happens very quickly – within a few minutes. Usually, though not always, this has a pleasant effect.

Your body can’t store alcohol, so it has to get rid of it – mostly via your liver. First, the liver changes alcohol into acetaldehyde – a highly toxic substance. This turns into acetate, a harmless substance, which is passed out in the urine. Some alcohol is also excreted through the breath and sweat.

Your body’s ability to process alcohol depends on various things, like your age, weight and sex. Your body breaks down alcohol at a rate of about one unit per hour – and no, there’s no way you can speed this up!

A survey by formula milk manufacturer SHS International Ltd’s Act Against Allergy initiative found that a majority of doctors believe that milk allergy symptoms in babies were being confused with other conditions.

The poll talked to 500 doctors, and nearly 80 percent felt their colleagues were making the misdiagnosis because the symptoms of milk allergies were vague and common, usually consisting of things like skin rashes and diarrhea.

Milk allergies can be very distressing for a baby, and even fatal, but the poll found that many doctors do not know the best treatment for the condition, usually recommending a soy-based formula. Department of Health and British Dietetics Association experts noted that soy milk is rich in compounds called phytoestrogens, which mimic the action of the female hormone oestrogen and could hamper the long-term fertility of infants. Also, babies allergic to cow’s milk can often be allergic to soy milk as well, so they should be given special low-allergy or hypoallergenic milk like formulas based on amino acids.

According to the researchers, at least 10,000 babies are allergic to cow’s milk in the U.K., but some doctors argue that the condition is actually quite rare. Almost all of the doctors agreed that better information would help make diagnosing the condition in infants much easier, so the SHS taskforce — made up of pediatric health experts, including some on pediatric gastroenterology — has developed guidelines for doctors to be published next year.

“If a parent suspects their baby has a milk allergy then they should see their GP who can refer them to a pediatric dietician,” said Judith Moore, pediatric dietician and British Dietetics Association spokesperson. “If you take a good medical history then you can pick it up but it can be difficult to diagnose. The symptoms do vary so it can be hard to spot.”

Another obstacle is that many parents who do suspect their babies have allergies turn out to be wrong, which can discourage them from checking on symptoms. Unchecked food allergies can stunt infant growth, cause developmental problems, and even cause severe shock and death.

The World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding babies as much as possible for the first two years of life.

“Consumers need to realize that milk from bovine creatures is not nutritionally compatible with human biology,” said Mike Adams, a holistic nutritionist and author of the Honest Food Guide. “Cow’s milk is designed to turn a baby calf into an 800-pound creature as quickly as possible, with an emphasis on proteins that most humans can’t even digest properly. It’s no wonder the majority of humans are in some way allergic to cow’s milk.”

Remove price tags or stickers: Paint stickers with several coats of vinegar and let it soak in. Depending what you are removing them off, most will slide off easily but some may require a little heavier rubbing.

Glass cleaner: Mixed with water or simply sprayed full strength on glass and mirrors, vinegar does a great job quickly and easily. Spray on and wipe windows dry with crumpled-up newspapers, and watch your windows sparkle.

Clean drinking glasses: Soak cloudy drinking glasses in warmed white vinegar for a few hours to remove the film. Simply wipe clean, rinse and dry.

Car cleaner: Use vinegar full strength to polish car chrome with a cloth, and see it shine! Use it on your car’s windshield and windows, too.

Clean the washer: Periodically run a gallon of distilled vinegar through your washing machine to clean it thoroughly, get rid of soap scum and clear out the hoses. Run the machine through the warm water wash cycle empty and then add the vinegar during the rinse cycle.

Furniture polish: Make your own furniture polish with one part vinegar and three parts lemon oil or olive oil.

Clean paintbrushes: Simmer paint brushes in pure vinegar, then wash in hot soapy water.

Wash walls: Wipe down your walls with a vinegar-water mixture, which helps absorb odors and clean surfaces.

Remove spots from glass: Use a vinegar-soaked cloth to remove spots from glassware or crystal.

Unclog drains: Pour boiling white vinegar down clogged drains to remove the clog.

Clean jars: Remove odors and stains from jars by cleaning them out with vinegar.

Clean old lunchboxes: Soak a piece of bread in vinegar and let it sit in the lunchbox overnight.

Clean and deodorize the garbage disposal: Make vinegar ice cubes and feed them down the disposal. After grinding, run cold water.

Clean the tea pot: Boil a mixture of water and vinegar in the teapot. Wipe away the grime.

Clean the dishwasher: Run a cup of vinegar through the whole cycle once a month to reduce soap build-up on the inner mechanisms and on glassware.

Clean the iron: Pour vinegar into your iron’s water compartment and let the iron steam itself clean. Remember to flush it with water when you are done.

Clean the microwave: Boil a solution of 1/4 cup of vinegar and 1 cup of water in the microwave. This mixture will loosen splattered-on food and deodorize the microwave.

Remove smoke smells from clothing: Add a cup of vinegar to a bath tub of hot water. Hang clothes above the steam.

Clean eyeglasses: Wipe each lens with a drop of vinegar.

Remove stains from furniture and upholstery: Remove stubborn stains from furniture upholstery and clothes. Apply White Vinegar directly to the stain, then wash as directed by the manufacturer’s instructions.

Natural air deodorizer: Heinz Vinegar is a natural air freshener when sprayed in a room.

Remove rust: Soak the rusted tool, bolt or spigot overnight in undiluted Heinz White Vinegar.

Clean the toilet bowl: Pour in one cup of White Vinegar, let stand for five minutes and flush.

Natural cleaning wipes: A cloth soaked with vinegar sanitizes kitchen counters, stove and bathroom surfaces. This is just as effective as antibacterial products and does not promote resistant strains of bacteria like commercial products can. This is also a cheaper and greener way to protect your loved ones.

Remove lint from laundry: Add 1/2 cup of vinegar to the rinse cycle.

Brighten fabrics: Add 1/2 cup of vinegar to the rinse cycle.

Remove grease from suede: Dip a toothbrush in vinegar and gently brush over grease spot.

Remove perspiration stains from clothing: Apply one part vinegar to four parts water, then rinse.

Clean coffee or tea stains from china: A mixture of salt and vinegar will clean coffee and tea stains from chinaware.

Clean coffeepots and coffee makers: Vinegar can help to dissolve mineral deposits that collect in automatic drip coffee makers. Fill the reservoir with vinegar and run it through a brewing cycle. Rinse thoroughly with water when the cycle is finished.

Longer-lasting pantyhose: Add one tablespoon of vinegar to the rinse water when washing, and your pantyhose will last longer.

PERSONAL CARE TIPS WITH VINEGAR

Vinegar in the bath: Add one-half cup of vinegar or so to warm bath water when bathing and get double benefits: softer skin and a cleaner bathtub with less work!

Hair conditioner: Vinegar makes a simple, inexpensive conditioner for your hair and helps remove the sticky stuff shampoo can leave behind. About a tablespoon will do it.

Dandruff treatment: Simply pour a few tablespoons of vinegar on your hair and massage into your scalp. Wait a few minutes, then rinse and wash hair like normal. Try this for a few days until you see results.

Weight loss: Vinegar naturally helps to remove fat from the body. Apple cider vinegar is especially good for this. Drink some in a glass of water a few times a day. Add a little lemon or honey for a nicer flavor. This will also help reduce your appetite.

Hair cleanser: Use one cup of vinegar in some warm water to rinse your hair after you shampoo. Vinegar adds highlights to brunette hair, restores the acid mantle and removes soap film and sebum oil.

Dry skin repair: Smooth a little vinegar on cracked, dried skin to help it heal.

Clean dentures: Soak dentures overnight in Heinz White Vinegar, then brush away tartar with a toothbrush.

Facial spritzer: Mix apple cider vinegar and water in a 1:1 ratio in a spray bottle. Refreshing!

GARDENING & YARD CARE TIP WITH VINEGAR

Clean clay pots: Remove white salt buildup on old clay pots by soaking them in full-strength vinegar.

Kill grass: Undiluted vinegar kills grass between bricks and sidewalk cracks.

Deter ants: Spray vinegar around doors, appliances and along other areas where ants are known to gather.

Keep cats away: Sprinkle vinegar in areas you don’t want the cat walking, sleeping or scratching.

Kill weeds: Spray full strength on weeds, but be careful not to spray it on the surrounding grass because it will kill that, too.

Freshen cut flowers: Add 2 tablespoons of vinegar and 1 teaspoon sugar for each quart of water.

VINEGAR FOR HEALTH CARE

Soothe sore throats: Suffering from a sore throat? Mix a teaspoon of vinegar with a glass of water. Gargle with the mixture and then swallow.

Remove calluses: Try soaking your feet in a combination of white vinegar and warm water nightly, and watch your feet soften noticeably.

Sunburn and bee stings: Soak a washcloth in vinegar and gently apply it to sunburned skin for cool relief. Reapply as needed as it evaporates. Besides sunburn, vinegar also soothes the itch and irritation of bee stings.

Arthritis tonic: Take two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water several times a day.

Soothe an upset stomach: Drink two teaspoons of Apple Cider Vinegar in one cup of water to soothe an upset stomach.

Mosquito bites: Use a cotton ball to dab mosquito and other bug bites with Heinz Vinegar straight from the bottle.

Jellyfish stings: Dot the irritation with vinegar to relieve itching.

Sinus infections and head colds: Add 1/4 cup or more vinegar to the vaporizer.

Wart removal: Mix one part Heinz Apple Cider Vinegar to one part glycerin into a lotion, and apply daily to warts until they dissolve.

FOOD & COOKING TIPS WITH VINEGAR

Stretch ketchup: Only have a little ketchup left in the bottle? Add a bit of vinegar and give it a good shake — you’ll have a bit more!

Boiling eggs: Add a bit of white vinegar to the water you’re boiling your eggs in, and the shells won’t crack.

Cooking cabbage: Add a bit of vinegar to the water you’re cooking your cabbage in to remove that stinky cabbage smell.

Cheese storage: Cheese will last longer if you store it in a vinegar-soaked cloth.

Whiter cauliflower: Add a teaspoon or so of white vinegar to your cooking water while cooking cauliflower. It will retain a whiter color.

Fluffier meringues: Add 1 teaspoon of vinegar for every three egg whites, and you’ll have fluffier meringues.

Tenderize meat: Soak in vinegar overnight.

Unsticky rice: To cook rice without sticking, add a spoonful of vinegar.

Remove onion odors: Eliminate onion odor on your skin by rubbing vinegar on your fingers before and after slicing.

Disinfect and clean cutting boards: Clean and disinfect wood cutting boards by wiping with full-strength vinegar.

Make buttermilk: Add a tablespoon of vinegar to a cup of milk and let it stand five minutes to thicken.

VINEGAR FOR PETS & ANIMALS

Stop your cat’s scratching furniture: Sprinkle or spray vinegar on areas you don’t want the cat scratching.

Fish bowl cleaner: Eliminate that ugly deposit in the gold fish tank by rubbing it with a cloth dipped in vinegar and rinsing well.

Pet drinking water: Add a teaspoon of vinegar to your pet’s drinking water to encourage a shinier coat and reduce odor.

Remove skunk odor: Use vinegar straight to remove skunk odor from your pet’s fur.

How dangerous are parasites?

Parasites can pose a serious health threat. Parasitic worms may result in poor absorption of nutrients, and can contribute to fever, abdominal pain and anaemia. Disease-causing bacterial parasites (pathogens) include those causing tetanus, tuberculosis and syphilis.

How common are Parasites?

Most people are not aware of the danger to their health posed by parasites; nevertheless, if one looks in the right places, one can find a great deal of literature on the subject of parasites and the harmful effects they can produce.

Well over 80% of patients we check have some type of parasite or bacteria and the slight inflammation of the abdomen, and unrelated pains and aches, which indicate the presence of parasites.

In a pamphlet put out by a medical manufacturer in America, we read: “Colon therapy has an anthelmintic action (this means parasites are removed). We find that over 90% of the people we examine in our clinics have some form of parasites. The most common of all are tapeworms. Our skilled technicians report seeing green, brown, grey, yellow and white ones, and various combinations. Patients report seeing pieces of tapeworm in the toilet bowl, varying from a few inches to a few feet. (The longest one reported was 57 inches.) Various other parasites are seen, including hook worms pinworms, whip worms and many other exotic forms. Tapeworms are usually beef, pork or fish variety.

Many Vegetarians also have various parasites. Their eggs may be eaten with vegetables or fruit. Thread worms and hook worms may pass through the unbroken skin – they are sometimes picked up when one walks through the grass.”

In New Zealand, a large full-page advertisement for “Combantrin” (a commercial worm preparation), shows a small girl handing a pencil to a classmate. The caption reads: “The simple act of passing a pencil, sharing a book, using the same doorknob, or even sharing a house with untreated adults is all that is required for parasites to spread – No matter how clean your child may be, and no matter how careful you are. The symptoms caused by parasites may include: Loss of appetite, anal and vulval itching and scratching, disturbed sleep, occasional bed-wetting in younger children. These may seem like common occurrences in childhood, but unfortunately this is because the parasite problem is a common one.” We once told one of our patients that we thought her daily migraines were caused by parasites in her intestines. She was not surprised by this as she had just returned from Europe where she had taken her children to a doctor. The children had been restless and had indigestion. The doctor told her that he felt the children had pinworms, and it was the parasites that were causing the symptoms. She told the doctor that she thought it was impossible for her children to have parasites, as she insisted on the highest standard of hygiene. She had not seen any sign of worms in her children’s clothes or in their beds. But, the doctor insisted, and told her that over 90% of people in that part of Europe had parasites of one kind or another – so she should not feel ashamed or surprised that her children also had parasites.

Our diagnosis was correct, and when she took the herbs, her migraines and other aches soon disappeared. Yet, this patient had been to a number of doctors, and none of them had been able to do anything to relieve her headaches.

In an interview recorded in a health publication, Dr. William Kelley, famous cancer specialist says: “I find parasites in 92% of people. Everybody – rich and poor – the whole population have parasites. It is not restricted to lower classes at all. Pets are great carriers of parasites. Also, vegetables may carry parasitic organisms. “One day I had a lady who was a little over 5 feet tall and weighed 300 pounds! She was on a 400 to 500 calorie diet and starving to death. I said to her, ‘You’ve got so many worms, all you’re absorbing is the water!’ “This horrified her! Most people are upset at the thought of having worms. She started a bottle of special supplements I gave her, but nothing happened. So, she went to her family doctor who took a stool culture, but could not find anything. “The lady decided to finish the herbs by taking it regularly as directed. One night she was lying in her bed, and she felt a tickling in her throat and thought it is mucous. She went to the bathroom and coughed it up, put it in a Kleenex.  What they found in the tissue was the head and two more inches of a tapeworm that had come up in her throat. Many times, particularly in children, the tapeworm will come through the nose looking for food. “Parasites mimic many diseases such as heart trouble. I found this once in a nurse who had suffered with heart trouble and went to doctors for years, whenever she had these heart spells. I said to her “You should have gone to the vet.”  I said, “Because you have heart worms.”  She took her herbs and never had any more trouble. “Most stomach aches and colitis could have a parasite involvement. Liver damage may often be caused from parasitic worms. Sometimes a colony of worms will crawl up in the gall bladder and give you problems. This can be the trouble with overweight people. The worms are being well fed. The body is only getting the water and the calories but a fraction of the nutrients.”

In a Nutritional Almanac printed by McGraw-Hill and reproduced in part below, we read; “worms irritate the intestinal lining and therefore cause poor absorption of nutrients”  Signs of worms may include diarrhea, hunger pains, appetite loss, weight loss and anemia.

In “The Miami Herald” dateline June 25, 1978 (just 23 years ago!) an article appeared titled “Worms Outrank Cancer as Man’s Deadliest Enemy”. It reads: “One of every four people in the world is infected with roundworms, which cause fever, cough and intestinal problems. A quarter of the world’s people have hookworms, which can cause anemia and abdominal pain. Another third of a billion people suffer from abdominal pain and diarrhea caused by whipworms.”

Little research is being done on these parasite-related problems. The U.S. spends more than $US800 million a year on cancer research and all the nations in the world combined spend less than one twentieth that amount studying parasitic diseases.

Cancer researchers agree on one thing – that toxins and poisons in the body cause chronic irritation of tissues resulting in cancer.  Much evidence exists that cancer of organs and tissues is caused by chronic irritation of the cells by toxins in the body.

Almost all the books written by (so called) “quacks” claim that cancer can be cured by cleansing the body and ridding it of parasites and toxins. In other words, once the tissues stop being irritated by excessive quantities of toxins in the blood, the cancer not only stops proliferating, but may actually disappear altogether if the treatment is started in time. (Note that only the medical profession attempts to treat cancer by introducing more toxic drugs to the body.)

Vitaklenz contains all the herbs needed to rid your body of worms and parasites. Amoeba, Worms and other Intestinal Parasites Worms and Parasites

There are several types of parasitic worms which can live in humans, the most common being pinworms, tapeworms, hookworms, and roundworms.

Worms irritate the intestinal lining causing poor absorption of nutrients. Signs of worms often include diarrhea, hunger pains, appetite loss, weight loss, and anemia. Diagnosis can be made by examining the stools, or occasionally by inducing the vomiting of worms. The extent of intestinal damage can be determined by the type of worm, its size, and the number of worms present.

Pinworms are the most common parasitic worm in the USA. The chief symptom is rectal itching, especially at night. Pinworms are transmitted when the eggs, which lodge under the fingernails when a person scratches, contaminate food.

Tapeworms can be contracted from eating insufficiently cooked meats, especially beef, pork and fish. The most common tapeworm in the USA is the beef tapeworm, which can grow to a length of 15 to 20 feet in the intestines.

Hookworms are often found in the soil or sand. They can enter the body by boring holes in the skin of bare fee, or can enter the mouth if contaminated food is eaten.

Roundworms are most common in children. These worms can leave the intestines and settle in different areas of the body, causing diseases such as pneumonia, jaundice or seizures.   When a person is afflicted with roundworms, the body’s supply of all nutrients is depleted to the point that supplementation of all nutrients is necessary to restore normal health.

Dietary Deficiency

Although intestinal parasites are surprisingly common, there are no known studies showing the effect of dietary improvement on humans infested with them. It is known that a high intake of refined foods, particularly sweets, which supply little or no nutrient yet satisfy the appetite, cause individuals to become susceptible to pinworms which thrive on sugar.

Research indicates that in any type of parasitic infestation the diet should be unusually adequate and refined foods strictly avoided. Yogurt or acidophilus milk, or culture, appears to be especially helpful in cases of amebic dysentery and perhaps all intestinal infestations. Every effort should be made to maintain normal stomach acid, which destroys many parasites obtained from food.

Research had shown that parasites are particularly susceptible to a variety of herbs, which are lethal only to these organisms. To date, there is no known “cure-all” herb which kills all stages of a parasites larvae and eggs. As described, poisons and toxins in the body irritate the tissues, setting the stage for cancer. These same toxins also seem to allow the parasites to breed outside of their normal, natural, life cycle that usually involves leaving the host’s body. It seems that with the increase in environmental pollution, the parasites, in the presence of pollutants, can complete their life cycle within the host’s body.

Any anti-parasitic treatment must effectively kill all stages of parasite development, and must continue on beyond the normal incubation period of the eggs. Any short term treatment, (such as commercial preparations are) – cannot be effective. Commercial treatments usually focus on intestinal parasites, and adult worms only. As has been described above, parasites can crawl into the liver, pancreas, brain, lungs, heart, eyeballs – in fact any part of the body. Therefore, a total systemic anti-parasitic system of treatment is imperative. Such a treatment may involve electro-medical devices that destroy the parasite electrically, and pure herbal supplements known to kill all stages of parasite development.

CONCLUSION

There are two trains of thought on the matter and cause of cancers, leukemia, fibroids, HIV AIDS, and other diseases which modern medicine has yet to find a cure.

One train of thought is that modern medicine has the means to cure disease by introducing toxic and potent drugs, which are foreign to the physiology of any living body – human or animal. Or, surgically remove the diseased and suffering and dying organ.

The other train of thought is to harness the healing power of the body by removing the source of irritation, and providing nutrients for the body to build healthy new cells. By stimulating it with naturally occurring substances, such as are found in pollutant free, steroid free, hormone free, organically grown foods and herbs, and electricity – healing is naturally accomplished.