How to Make Lavender Lemonade to Help Relieve Headaches And Anxiety

Headaches are very common and almost every person suffers from some type of headaches from time to time. Also, anxiety is a common mental health issue as well.

These problems are treated with various medications, but these often fail to deliver a positive outcome and bring about numerous adverse side- effects.

Lavender lemonade is one of the most delicious natural ways to treat headaches and anxiety.

If you spice up your lemonade with lavender, you will enjoy its medicinal properties and its pleasant aroma that relaxes the senses. You can use the flower or lavender oil, which is an extremely healthy essential oil. It is potent but gentle, so people who have tried it love it!

Its chemically complex structure consists of more than 150 active constituents. It has powerful antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antidepressant, antiseptic, detoxifying, analgesic, antimicrobial, antispasmodic, hypotensive, and sedative properties.

A study conducted in Florida has shown that lavender oil soothes anxiety and lowers pulse rates in nursing students before taking stressful tests.

Moreover, in hospital settings, lavender aromatherapy has been found to lower pre-surgery distress and to be even more calming than a massage.

Lavender essential oil helps in the case of insomnia, labor pains, hangovers, sinus congestion, and depression.

“Much prior research on lavender has focused on the administration of lavender via an olfactory route. The anxiolytic activity of lavender olfaction has been demonstrated in several small and medium-sized clinical trials. The efficacy of aromatherapy of lavender is thought to be due to the psychological effects of the fragrance combined with physiological effects of volatile oils in the limbic system.”

Due to these calming effects, lavender has been traditionally used for centuries.

The following examples contain findings from clinical trials on lavender aromatherapy:

1. Lavender aromatherapy, with or without massage, lowers the perception of pain and the need for conventional analgesics in adults and children.

2. People who were receiving lavender oil (10%) olfaction for 3 minutes felt greatly more relaxed and their anxiety levels were lowered, their mood improved, and their scores of alpha power on EEG (an indicator of alertness), and speed of mathematical calculations were enhanced.

Studies have shown that lavender oil aromatherapy has anxiolytic activity in patients in intensive care units. Patients were given at least 1 session of aromatherapy with 1% lavender essential oil.

In the first treatment, researchers noticed significant anxiolytic effects.  Yet, it was not that effective in the following two treatments.

4. A study of lavender oil in burner use on staff mood and stress in a hospital setting found that 85% of respondents believed that lavender aroma improved the work environment.

5. Studies have also shown that people claim that the aroma of lavender is very pleasant and is linked to changes in the autonomic nervous system.

A study which involved the effects of aromatherapy with lavender oil effects on depressed mood and anxiety in female patients treated with chronic hemodialysis.

They estimated the effects of aromatherapy using the Hamilton rating scale for depression (HAMD) and the Hamilton rating scale for anxiety (HAMA). Lavender aroma significantly reduced the mean scores of HAMA.

Here is how to prepare the lavender lemonade and enjoy its taste and health benefits:

Ingredients

1/4 cup dried lavender. dried, organic culinary lavender  ( or 1 drop lavender essential oil)

6 lemons, peeled and juiced

1 cup raw honey

5 cups pure water

Lavender sprigs for garnish

Instructions:

Boil half of the water in a pan, and then remove it from heat. Add the honey and the dried lavender. Leave it to steep for 20 minutes, strain, and pour it into a larger container.

Next, add the lemon juice and the rest of the water, and stir. Keep the lemonade in the fridge.

You can use lavender in other ways and improve your health as well:

Add 2 drops of Lavender per ounce of your favorite unrefined organic oil, and prepare a natural body oil which will relax your mind, keep insects at bay, help you sleep better, and improve your skin.

Add 5 to 6 drops of lavender essential oil to your bath water and hydrate your dry skin.

To naturally relieve stress, diffuse 10-12 drops of lavender into the air.

Weekend Detox Plan To Remove Every Toxin And Poison In Just 48 Hours

You probably have toxins overloaded in your organism if your body looks unwell, tired, your skin is to dry or you have dark skin under the eyes. You have less health shield from any infections or viruses if you are full of toxins. Your body has more energy and strength as you detox.

Today we will present you a weekend detox plan that will keep your body in perfect condition. It will totally cleanse your vital organs (intestines, lungs, kidneys, liver and lymph too). Potatoes, low fat items, meat and fluids are part of the detox plan. This plan should be practiced two times a year for 10 days in a row. The results will amaze you!

Consider workouts as gym, run, walk, swim and use nettle, birch and dandelion tea for best results!

WEEKEND DETOX PLAN

Drink 250 ml warm water after waking up in the morning.

SATURDAY

Breakfast: 200 ml almond milk or low fat yogurt, ½ cup of fresh blueberries, 250 ml water or green water, a cup of oat flakes with a spoon of linseed and warm water.

Lunch: 1 melon slice, small banana, Swiss chard with potatoes and olive oil, grilled hake 250 g, 2 cups of salad (green veggies, tomato, arugula), 250 ml water.

Snack: ¼ cup pumpkin seed, 180 ml plain yogurt, 250 ml water

Dinner:  ½ cup steamed veggies (broccoli or spinach), 150 g grilled tuna, pastry of integral flour, 2 cups salad + lemon juice + olive oil, 250 ml anise tea or water.

SUNDAY

Consume a cup of warm water

Breakfast: pear, 200 ml of diet yogurt or almond milk, a cup of oat flakes with a tsp of linseed

Lunch: 150 g pickles, 200 g chicken breast, veggie soup (celery, onion, carrot, beans, potato, pepper).

Dinner: nettle tea, integral pastry, beet and carrot salad + lemon juice over it.

Foods That Fight Diabetes 1 Onset

The autoimmune diabetes 1 is when immune cells are autoreactive T cells and they attack insulin making cells, hormone for blood sugar regulation.

The special CSIRO made diet together with Monah University experts and they said many foods like veggies and fruits even resist digestion and pass in the colon and bowels, then they are broken down from microbiota gut bacteria. This fermentation process makes acetate and butyrate that mixed make safety against diabetes 1.

The western diet damages microflora in the gut and makes short chain fat acids, said Dr. Eliana Marino.

She said their study said having a diet for gut bacteria and making high levels acetate/butyrate makes better gut lining and removes inflammation added Marino.

This had a huge effect on the diabetes 1 she said. The results attracted attention from Congress of Immunology in Melbourne and results got published in Journal Nature Immunology too.

Prof. Charles Mackay lead expert said natural approaches like diets and gut bacteria can affect autoimmune issues like diabetes 1.

The results said a new era for human illness starts and with medicinal foods too.

Materials used are easily digested  and natural daily items and resistant starches.

These diets release good metabolites and are superfoods all the way, he added.

Mackay also said is not all about fibers and veggies, also special foods managed from nutrition or clinic experts.

They hope to have funds and research more on diabetes 1. Mackay and Marino with experts of Australia expand the search for obesity diets and inflammations like heart issues, asthma, diabetes 2, food allergy and IBD.

This got support from JDRF, Diabetes Australia research trust, Australian national health, Medical research council.

See the full article title named “Gut microbial metabolites limit frequency of autoimmune T-cells and protect against diabetes 1’. This got published in Nature Immunology.