Body Talk:on the spot remedies

Your cough won't relent even when you're in the midst of an office meeting. What do you do? Try sticking your finger into your ear. Learn these and other tricks when your body threatens to give in.

YOU'RE DYING FOR THE LOO

Next time you get the call of nature in an awkward situation - say, while the boss has called you into his office for a chat - try rubbing the back of your leg.

Australian experts claim that doing this vigorously interrupts the message from your bladder to your brain and delays the urge to get to the loo.

Bum clenching works, too. "Clench your buttock muscles as tightly as you can and hold the tension for a few seconds," advises gynaecologist Dr Abraham Morse in The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies (Rodale). "Doing this several times in a row makes the urge disappear."

FEELING SICK

Whether you're feeling queasy from a few too many the night before or the rocking of the bus is making you nauseous, the panic that you're about to throw up in public only makes you feel worse.

Next time you fear this is about to happen start breathing slowly and steadily. "It's a fact of biology that you can't breathe and vomit at the same time," says Dr John Golding, who studies motion sickness at the University of Westminster.

PERIOD PAINS - AND NO NUROFEN

Nip stomach pains in the bud by grabbing your ankle. Try to find the Sanyinjiao acupressure point (about four finger widths up from the lumpy bone inside your ankle) and press it for six seconds. Release for two seconds. Repeat on that ankle for five minutes, then swap legs. Do this twice.

In recent trials, 87 per cent of women found this stopped the problem in its tracks.

"Acupressure invigorates blood circulation and vital energy which relieves cramping in the uterus," explains Chung Hey Chen, who studied the technique at Taiwan's Kaohsing Medical University.

FEELING FAINT BUT NOWHERE TO SIT

Cross your legs, put one ankle over the other, then tense the muscles of your hips, thighs and bottom. Fainting occurs when blood flows from your brain and into your legs. "This move relocates pooled venous blood back from the region under the diaphragm to the chest," says Dr Wouter Wieling from Amsterdam's Academic Medical Centre. The heart can then pump the blood more readily to your brain staving off the fainting feeling - at least till you can find somewhere to sit down and recover.

YOU'VE GOT HICCUPS

A few hiccups are funny - but if they keep on coming you can soon lose your sense of humour. Stop them quickly by putting something cold, like an ice cube or a can of cola from the fridge, against your throat for about 60 seconds.

"Hiccups occur when something irritates the diaphragm - normally air in the stomach from eating or drinking too quickly," says Washington State neurophysiologist Dr S Gregory Hipskind. "The body panics at this and the diaphragm spasms. But cold interrupts the firing rate of the nerves sending the initial panic signal and calms everything down."

YOU CAN'T STOP SNEEZING

Sneezing is the way your body eliminates irritating substances from your body fast. But there are some times - at the cinema or theatre - when you might want to stifle a noisy sneeze.

"In this case, bite your top lip or pinch the bridge of your nose," says Dr Ron Eccles from the Common Cold Research Centre at Cardiff University. "Both of these actions stimulate branches of the nerves that initiate sneezing. This confuses the sneeze centre in the brain and inhibits the real sneeze."

YOU'RE CLOSE TO TEARS

Your boss has just given you a real dressing down in a meeting and now you are on the verge of losing your cool completely and bawling your eyes out in front of everyone in the office. So how can you stop those tears in their tracks?

"Look up," explains Gladeana McMahon, who is co-director of London's Centre For Stress Management.

"Normally when you cry you look down and scrunch your eyes up, so looking up alters the muscle movement confusing your system."If you can, Gladeana also suggests moving your eyes around which distracts your mind from the emotions you're feeling, which will also make it less likely that you're going to weep.

VOMITING

Vomiting is a forceful expulsion of the stomach contents due to the contraction of stomach muscles. Vomiting is also known as emesis. Sometimes you may attempt to vomit but may not expel anything from your mouth. This is known as retching. Vomiting may or may not be accompanied by nausea.

Vomiting Symptoms

Some of the symptoms of vomiting are as follows Increased saliva, Dizziness, Light-headedness, Difficulty in swallowing food or liquid, Changes in skin temperature, Increase in heart beat rate.

Vomiting Causes

Some of the causes of vomiting are as follows Overeating, Drinking excessive alcohol, Pregnancy, Migraine, Infections, Flu, Stomach upset, Stomach virus, Food poisoning, Poisoning, Accidental poisoning, Acute gastritis, Reflux, Intestinal obstructions, Chronic digestive conditions, Peptic ulcers, Stomach cancer, Intestinal obstruction, Kidney failure, Cholera.

Home Remedies for Vomiting

Some of the effective home remedies for vomiting are as follows. Have a cup of ginger tea, Eat a mixture of honey and powder of 2 roasted cardamoms, Have a glass of chilled lime juice, Have a mixture of 1 tsp mint juice, 1 tsp lime juice, 1/2 tsp ginger juice and 1 tsp honey. Slowly sip a glass of honey water, Have one tsp onion juice in regular interval, Slowly sip a glass of chilled cola, Relax for some time.

Diet for the first twelve hours

For the first twelve hours after vomiting do not take any solid food. Limit yourself only to liquids like apple juice, carbonated juices, water and so on. Avoid citrus juices and dairy products for the first 24 hours.

Diet for the next twelve hours

During the next twelve hours gradually start eating banana, peeled apple, boiled potatoes, boiled rice and soup without cream.

Diet after 24 hours

After 24 hours you can have cottage cheese, non-fat milk, broiled chicken, lean meat and so on.

Other Suggestions for Vomiting

Once vomiting stops, do not rush to normal diet immediately. If vomiting continues then it is advisable to see a doctor as soon as possible.

The main causes of liver damage are:

1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main
cause.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food
coloring, and artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as
possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which
includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do
not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if
the body is very fit.
8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the
burden of liver.
Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried
veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not
store.

We should prevent this without necessarily spending
more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and
eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time
condition are very important for our bodies to absorb
and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to
"schedule."

The top five cancer-causing foods are:

1. Hot dogs
Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer
Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more
than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without
hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.

2. Processed meats and bacon
Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot
dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk
of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also
contributes to cancer.


3. Doughnuts
Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First,
they are made with white flour, sugar, and
hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures.
Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can
possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.


4. French fries
Like doughnuts, French fries are made with
hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures.
They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which
occur during the frying process. They should be called
cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams .

5. Chips, crackers, and cookies
All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even
the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats
generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.

IMPORTANCE OF SLEEPING & WAKING UP!

Evening at 9 - 11pm: is the time for eliminating
unnecessary/ toxic chemicals (detoxification) from the
antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration
should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If
during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed
state such as washing the dishes or monitoring
children doing their homework, this will have a
negative impact on health.
Evening at 11pm - 1am: is the detoxification process
in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep
sleep state.

Early morning 1 - 3am: detoxification process in the
gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 3 - 5am: detoxification in the lungs.
Therefore there will sometimes be a severe cough for
cough sufferers during this time. Since the
detoxification process had reached the respiratory
tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as
not to interfere with toxin removal process.

Morning 5 - 7am: detoxification in the colon, you
should empty your bowel.

Morning 7 - 9am: absorption of nutrients in the small
intestine, you should be having breakfast at this
time. Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30am, for
those who are sick. Breakfast before 7:30am is very
beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who
always skip breakfast, they should change their
habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late
until 9 - 10am rather than no meal at all.

Sleeping so late and waking up too late will
disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals.
Aside from that, midnight to 4:00 am is the time when
the bone marrow produces blood. Therefore, have a good
sleep and don't sleep late.
TAKE CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH