Saturday, January 25, 2014

6 'No Medicine' Cures!

6 'No Medicine' Cures!

Whether you've got a headache, are suffering from a nasty flu bug, or are trying to lower your blood pressure, sometimes you don't want to pop some meds and call it a day. In fact, sometimes you don't need to. Try these science-backed natural cures and you'll be on your way to feeling better: 

#1: Stop a headache with sex. 
Bang it out: 60 percent of migraine sufferers who hit the sack during an attack reported that sex helped improve their symptoms, with most saying they experienced moderate or complete relief, found a 2013 German study.

#2: Ease back pain with a walk.
Don't lay on the couch: Walking two or three days a week for 20 to 40 minutes help strengthen lower back muscles to ease pain associated with back injury, showed a study in Clinical Rehabilitation.

#3: Beat the flu with garlic.
Take two 600-mg capsules of aged garlic twice daily. In a study in Clinical Nutrition, people who popped about that much when they were sick had less-severe symptoms and missed fewer days due to illness compared to a placebo.

#4: Relieve IBS with peppermint.
Taking two peppermint oil capsules twice daily for four weeks can help relieve irritable bowel syndrome symptoms--bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea, gas--by over 50 percent, found a 2007 study by Italian researchers. 

#5: Quell heartburn with gum.
So you ate a chili cheese dog--and now you have acid reflux to pay for it. Pop a piece of sugar-free gum. In one study in the Journal of Dental Research, chewing gum for a half hour after eating helped neutralize acid in the esophagus, so you won't feel the burn.

#6: Reduce blood sugar with cinnamon.
In a 2013 meta-analysis of 10 studies, eating about a teaspoon and a half of cinnamon per day helped reduce fasting glucose, total cholesterol, and triglyceride levels, which can help you manage diabetes. 

 

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