After posting my last article on How Often to Have Sex to Stay Healthy, I received requests if I could make recommendation on premature ejaculation treatment. This is perhaps the most common and stressful predicament experienced by men in the bedroom. It is a mental letdown, especially for men, when they cannot control and delay ejaculation to a desirable time. Premature ejaculation treatment can be all natural. Unlike erectile dysfunction where one can take a pill just before the intercourse, one has to be mentally prepared to stick with a long term (matter of 4-6 weeks) treatment strategy.

Causes:
The most common cause of premature ejaculation is excitement, anxiety, fear, or stress. As you can tell all of them are related to the mind, emotions, and nerves. However, wrong lifestyle with alcohol and drugs can further worsen the problem. A shift in mental attitudes is a must and will require patience. The following treatment recommendation will provide physiological support while you concurrently work on your psychological.

Treating Premature Ejaculation with Natural Remedies
For natural remedies to be effective, make sure to remove any external life style causes like stress, alcohol, or drugs. In addition, practice to keep your mind calm in present by clipping the worries or fear from the past and anxieties of the future. Along with practicing self control, the natural diet and herbs will treat premature ejaculation in 4 to 6 weeks. Assuming you are healthy in all other areas, then be patient and stick to the following regimen:

• Take out excess saturated fat and add 1 table spoon of ghee in your diet
• Remove all “hot” chili-spices from your diet
• Take 500mg of Nutmeg for the first 3-4 days. Take it with warm whole milk. Nutmeg has calming and sedating effect. Increase the dosage in steps up to 1000mg per day. Cut back the dosage, if you start to feel the sedated effects. Continue this for 4-6 weeks
• Take Vital Man as directed. You can take this for 3 months and longer if you feel good with it. For additional overall health support, add Amrit Nectar and take as directed.
• Add alternate nostril breathing yoga exercise in to your exercise routine (form a routine if you don’t have one). Also practice meditation (read its true purpose)

The above steps will bring about slow but steady progress. Keep in mind premature ejaculation treatment is best by patiently staying with a course for some time. Be Well!

Hemorrhoids, also known as piles, are a very commonly occurring problem. Hemorrhoids are basically varicose veins. There are simple and natural cure for hemorrhoids which are only effective if you first understand the causes and remove them and second provide direct application of natural oils to the swollen area of rectum, varicose veins, to soothe the pain and subsequently eliminate the swelling.

Types of Hemorrhoids: There are bleeding hemorrhoids and non-bleeding hemorrhoids.  The bleeding result from bursting of the varicose veins and it is more come in when the hemorrhoids are in the inside of rectum. You should note the blood color; if it is bright red then it just came out of the busted vein while the stool was passing.  The non-bleeding hemorrhoids are typically external varicose veins just outside the rectum and are often more painful when passing the stool. Natural creams and oils can be used to reduce the swelling and promote comfortable passing of the stool.

Typical Causes for Hemorrhoids: The main cause of hemorrhoids problem is chronic constipation which is dry hard stool and difficult to pass. In the beginning one can press hard and pass but over time the rectum’s lining gets thinned, this creates varicose and often inflamed veins in or just outside the rectum. The swollen veins further restrict the passage of stool thus resulting in pain and possible bleeding. Other causes of hemorrhoids are:

• Extended periods of sitting or standing or physically hard work
• Obesity
• Pregnancy
• Mental stress that can lead to rushed and pressured passing of the stool
• Hereditary factor (weak rectum muscle lining)

Natural Cure for Hemorrhoids: First and foremost, the cause of constipation in the diet must be removed.

• Note meats, dry, processed food, and cold foods often contribute to hard stool.
• Initially to relieve pressure on the varicose veins, for 5-7 days take fruits and cooked vegetable diet that will form soft stools and that will reduce the size of hemorrhoids.
• You can also take natural stool softeners but do NOT make a regular practice of taking these softeners.
• The best natural method is to take soaked figs in the morning and in the evening  for 4 weeks and add boiled beet root to your diet.
• Make sure to drink 8- 10 glasses of water per day.
• Avoid hot spicy foods.
• Take 1000mg  of Turmeric after each meal and 1000 mg of Triphala with warm milk before bedtime.

Second natural cure for hemorrhoids is exercising. Exercising of the abdominal area and muscles is very important to tone the muscles around rectum area. Among others Sarvangasna is probably the best yoga posture for hemorrhoids to drain the blood from varicose veins and release pressure.

Third, support your cause removing efforts with direct application of hemorrhoids healing natural oil proven to reduce swelling, soothe pain, and eliminate hemorrhoids. Combination of all these methods offer natural cure for hemorrhoids in 4 to 6 weeks and promote health and wellness naturally.

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Cancer is an ultimate imbalance of all three energies (Air, Fire, and Earth) in our body.  The effect of these imbalanced energies results in irregular formation of cells (cancer). First these cells accumulate to form an unrecognized and non-functional growth, second the growth is “cooked” (cells mature and increase in numbers), and third the irregular cells spread- leave their original location and are carried to other locations in the body.  Today the most popular method to destroy these cells is Chemotherapy.  Unfortunately, along with destroying cancer cells, it also destroys good cells plus generates excessive toxins and unwanted side effects. So it is important to support the body during chemotherapy with a right chemotherapy diet that would not only assist the body to throw out the toxins, but also would not create additional toxins.

Ayurveda Cancer Research done in India discovered such a chemotherapy diet that showed very promising results. While flushing the toxins can be accomplished with this diet, but it is not certain exactly how much this diet helps in NOT growing new cancer cells.  After the chemotherapy, in some cancer patients the growth stops and in some others it doesn’t.  This remains an unknown.  But please note here, physical factors are not the only ones influencing the cancer cells growth, there are psychosomatic factors that are unique to each person are also influencing the cancer manifestation.

The chemotherapy diet guidelines provided here are specifically for during and for 4-6 months after the chemotherapy.  With some adjustments based on person’s unique condition & mind-body constitution, this diet for chemotherapy can be used as a base for building a new diet which may prevent cancer in future and promote natural health and wellness for many years to come.

Detailed Outline of Chemotherapy Diet During and After

General diet suggestions:

AVOID: Heavy oily, Sugar rich, Ice cold drinks and Junk fried food, Alcohol.

Do Emphasize on warm nourishing very little spice foods, only vegetables – lightly sautéed or steamed.   Always consume warm water.

Specific Food Selections:

Grains: Oats, Quinoa, Barley, Basmati Rice (baked, steamed, boiled or roasted)

Vegetables: Bitter Melon, Pumpkin, Snake Gourd, Cabbage, Okra.  Above vegetables ALWAYS COOKED (No Raw) mix with radish, and/or carrot, and/or beetroot. Cook with  fresh ginger, coriander, black pepper and ghee (use ghee in little amount)

Salads: Radish, beetroot, cabbage, leafy greens, carrot + lemon juice, Rock Salt, & Black pepper.

Legumes:  Moong Beans boiled with ginger, cumin, black pepper, rock salt, and ghee. (use ghee in little amount- no more than 1 teaspoon in one meal)

Non Vegetarian Soup only: (Only if you must have non-veg and can digest during chemo, otherwise after chemo) Liver soup, Goat or lamb bone marrow soup

Spices: Rock salt, fresh ginger, coriander, black pepper, garlic, turmeric.

Fruits: Avoid Sweat fruits.  Limited on Sour fruits  More on Bitter and Astringent tasting fruits like Pomegranate, cranberry, berries, Apples, Apricot, cherries, Dry Fruits-Rasins, Prunes, Figs, Dates

Oils: Sunflower only

Teas:   Make grated ginger (1/2 teaspoon) + lemon grass 1 leaf + basil leaves 4-5 + 2 cups water Boil it to half and drink morning and evening

Beverages: ½ whole milk + ½ water + ginger powder, or buttermilk with pinch of ginger powder and salt

Juice everyday: 2 carrots thoroughly scrubbed & washed, cup of apricot juice, ½ teaspoon lime juice, 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger, and 3 mint leaves

Note: Take all fruits and fruit drinks 30 minutes before the meals or 90 minutes after the meals.

30 days After the Chemotherapy if the appetite is back or wait till appetite returns:

Add 2000mg of Triphala each with lunch and dinner

Note a patient must consult and monitor their situation with their physician and consult with the Ayurvedic practitioner before making diet changes.