Archive for November, 2008
Homemade Cough Syrup: Natural Home Remedies for Persistent Coughs
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A simple homemade cough syrup using just two ingredients that can be bought at any grocery store. This is one of those great old fashioned cough remedies that work wonderfully and you can rustle up anywhere.
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Summary: A quick and easy way to sooth persistent coughs with just two ingredients that you can buy at any grocery store.
Homemade Cough Syrup Recipe: half a teaspoon of fresh ginger juice mixed with one teaspoon of honey. Try taking one teaspoon of the mixed syrup morning and night. For children, use half the quantity.
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3 Exercises to Help You Grow Taller Through Stretching
Increasing height through natural methods can be accomplished through a few different means, but the best method used to achieve this goal is exercise, specifically stretching exercises. Continually working on muscles has been proven to stretch out those muscles, increasing the length of people’s arms, legs, and back.
There are plenty of different exercises, of varying effectiveness and difficulty, that can be used to target these key areas, and we’ll examine three of them below.
Trunk Twist - This stretching exercise is great for working on your spine, and is very much like the standard sit-ups you’ve probably done many times in your life. This will help strengthen your spine and abs at the same time.
If you’ve done sit-ups before, you probably know the drill. Lie down on your back and anchor your feet beneath a solid object that can bear the force of your body. Unlike sit-ups, your feet must be anchored for this exercise, else balance is all but impossible to maintain.
You may be thinking this is like sit-ups where you touch your elbows to your knees in alternating fashion, but it’s actually quite different. What you’ll be doing is getting into a set position, halfway between lying down and sitting straight up. With your hands clasped behind your head, you now want to simply swing your body slowly to each side, as far as you can. Repeat this 4 or 5 times to each side for optimal results.
Roll Over Stretch - This one’s a little different, and requires some existing flexibility to perform adequately. Lying on your back arms flat at your sides, use your upper body to help lift your legs up into the air and over your body, coming down on the other side behind you. Once your feet have touched down behind you, lower your shoulders back down to the ground as much as you can to get into an ideal position to help stretch out your back. Hold this position for 20-30 seconds each time.
Wall Bridge - Find a position approximately two feet from a wall and stand with your back to it. You’ll need to test this out once or twice to get a good feel for the necessary distance. Now reach your hands up into the air and behind your head, all the way back until theyre touching the wall, with your back still to the wall. Now slowly use this leverage with the wall to walk down the wall with your hands, as far as you can go. Once you’ve reached your limit, climb slowly back up the wall with your hands, and then push off near the top to get back to a standing position. This is a tremendous workout for flexibility of the back.
These three exercises of varied difficulty all help target the lower back, where spinal disc compression through years of gravity weighing down on your body have caused you to effectively be shorter than you could otherwise be. These routines will help counter those effects for increased height.