Showing posts with label HEALTH. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HEALTH. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

DRAGON FRUIT (PITAYA)















Also known as the Dragon Fruit, the Pitaya is a stunningly beautiful fruit with an intense colour and shape, magnificent flowers and a delicious taste. The fruit, apart from being refreshing and tasty, contains a lot of water and minerals with many different nutrition ingredients. It tastes light sweet and it's good for liver, laxative, supplementing fiber and very suitable for diet. Besides, dragon fruit is also good for person who has a high blood pressure. According to popular experience, obese person who has eaten dragon fruit regularly can reduce his/her weight naturally and have a beautiful balanced body but it does not influence on his/her health. Moreover, eating this fruit can stop and reduce diabetes. Hence, dragon fruit is a favorite fruit of many people especially Asian people.


The dragon fruit tree. Looks like a cactus tree.

The Flower of the Dragon Fruit. The smell of the flower is sweet (like jasmine)

The tentacles or the tongue inside of the dragon fruit flower.

Insects were found inside of the flower. The sweet smell attracts the insects I reckoned.

The back of the flower, you can see the fruit taking it's shape.
After a a week or two the flower dried out and give way for the fruit to grow.

The effects after eating dragon fruit...your tongue & teeth will become red...don't worry it's only temporary once you gargled with water it will be gone.
(picture of my nephew Niels, he loves to eat the dragon fruit)

Monday, January 7, 2008

BREATHING THERAPY...it helps

Left nose, right nose breathing therapy. Our nose is for inhale and exhale but actually they are different, you can feel the difference, right side represents the sun, left side represents the moon. When we are having headaches, try to close your right nose and use your left nose to do your breathing, about 5 min, headache will be gone. If you feel tired, do it the opposite round, close your left nose and breathe through your right nose. After a while, you will feel your mind is fresh again.

Right side belongs to heat, so it gets hot easily, left side belongs to cold. Most females breathe with their left nose, so their hearts gets cold easily. Most of the males will breathe with their right nose, so they'll get angry easily. Do you notice the moment we wake up, which side breathes faster? Left or right? If left is faster, you will feel tired. So, close your left nose and use your right nose for breathing, you will get refresh quickly.

This can be taught to kids, but the effect will be better if applied by adults. This is a natural therapy,unlike medicine taking for long term will get side effect. So, why not try it out.