Chafing

Chafing is a skin irritation caused by repeated rubbing. It is often found on armpits, nipples, inner thighs, and areas around the groin or any part of the body that are in close contact with each other. People who are overweight or working athletes and experienced chafing took it a sign of weight loss. Everyone can experience chafing so the best way treat it is by prevention itself.

Symptoms

There is a reddening around the affected area accompanied by stinging pain and burning sensation.

Causes
The friction produced when two body parts were rubbed against each other or against other objects causes chafing. Moisture caused by perspiration will make it worse.

Home Remedies
Cotton clothes: Keep yourself dry by putting on proper clothes such as those made from 100% pure cotton to avoid too much perspiration that causes friction between body parts.

Water: Drink plenty of water to hydrate yourself and allow natural perspiration.

Talcum powder: Apply talcum powder on body parts that are prone to excessive perspiration. Wear clean and dry clothes.

Lubricants: Apply lubricants on the affected area during exercise, jogging or walking. It is highly recommended to use non-staining or petroleum-free products, although petroleum jelly is acceptable. Lubricants are also useful in preventing blisters on your feet or toes.

Diets
Have a diet consisting of foods that are rich in vitamin A, C and Zinc to help prevent chafing.

Other Treatments
Wash the affected area with soap and lukewarm water before applying antibacterial ointment of antiseptic spray. Finish by covering it with band aid or sterile gauze.

Cataract

Cataract is an eye disease wherein the normally transparent crystalline lens of a person’s eye has become whitish and opaque, thereby not allowing any light to come in which results to blindness.

Symptoms
First sign of cataract is blurred vision wherein the patient has trouble seeing things clearly. As it goes on, the patient may acquire double vision or seeing spots. The patient can see better in the dark because the pupils are dilated and it allows more light to go in the eye. However, on extreme cases, the patient may not be able to see anything aside from specks of light, and there is a visible grayish-white discoloration in the pupil.

Causes
3 factors that causes cataracts are: malnutrition of the lens which lowers the vitality and resistance of the delicate lens fibers, acid and salt deposits between the lens fibers which irritates the lens tissues, and gradually destroys it; and lastly, disintegration of lens fibers which cloud the entire lens in the absence of appropriate measures.

Faulty diets and lifestyles will contaminate the blood stream with toxins, making the lens vulnerable to infection. Prolonged eye exhaustion and irritation will eventually lead to cataract.

Various other causes are as follows: stress; nervous tension; excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks, sugar and salt; smoking; gastro-intestinal or gall-bladder infection and diabetes; vitamin deficiencies; intolerance for fatty acids; ageing; exposure to radiation; and side-effects of drugs.

Home Remedies
Carrots: Eat plenty of carrots everyday or drink 2 glasses of fresh carrot juice in the morning and in the evening.

Garlic: Eat 2 or 3 cloves of raw garlic everyday and chew it slowly. Garlic helps to clean the crystalline lens of the eye.

Pumpkin: Pumpkin flowers juice will prevent further clouding of the crystalline lens of the eye. Use it as eye drops daily.

Aniseed: Mix an equal quantity of aniseed and coriander powder with 1 teaspoon of brown sugar. Take a dose of 12 gm in the morning and evening.

Honey: Use pure, unprocessed honey as eye drops is an effective remedy used by ancient Egyptians to cure and prevent cataract.

Almonds: Ground 7 kernels of almonds and mix it with ½ gm of pepper (or kali mirch) and 1 teaspoon of sugar candy for flavoring into half cup of water. It helps the eyes to regain their vitality.

Diets
Undergo a diet consisting of foods rich in vitamin B complex, vitamin C, D, E and pantothenic acid. Deficiency of these nutrients will lead to the onset of cataract.

Orange juice: Have an orange juice diet mix with water for 3 days for a thorough cleansing of the body. Follow with a diet consisting of seasonal fruits for breakfast; raw vegetable salads with olive oil and lemon juice dressing, soaked raisins, figs, or dates for lunch; and steamed vegetables and few nuts for dinner. Do this for 2 weeks. Don’t forget to exclude potatoes in your meals.

Well-balanced diet: After the 2-week diet, eat plenty of fresh fruits and raw vegetables along with seeds, nuts and grains. Follow again with a juice diet. Repeat the pattern every 3 months.

Foods to avoid: white bread, sugar, cream, refined cereals, rice, boiled potatoes, puddings and pies, strong tea or coffee, alcoholic beverages, condiments, pickles, and sauces.

Other Treatments

Warm-water enema: Administer a warm-water enema everyday while taking the juice diet.

Epsom salt: Take a hot Epsom salt bath twice a week. Soak the patient from 25-35 minutes in the bath until he/she starts to perspire. Let the patient dry slowly. Wash the exteriors of the eyes with hot water mix with Epsom salts.

Do some eye exercises. Let the eye rest when overworked.