Thursday, April 21, 2011

Rice cooked in tea can control diseases


In India, tea is the most popular drink. But doctors particularly Ayurvedic doctors who are calling Vaidya, always appose it. They believe it is harmful to our body. But, quite the opposite, in China, they believe that tea is useful to body. Here are some interesting facts about Chinese people’s obsession about tea. This may be, because of the fact, that tea is first found in China. Anyway whatever the reason is, knowing this is not only interesting but useful too.

In china, rice is the family food. Chinese People usually like to eat new harvested rice, not old rice like it is popular in India, because new rice contains rice mellowness. Actually, in order to eat the fragrant rice, which is also a type of rice and popular in China, it is not necessary to use the new rice. Cooking with tea can make rice get color, smell and taste. The most amazing fact is that tea may have the benefits of cleaning mouth, digesting food and disease prevention. According to nutritionists research, often eating rice, cooked with tea can prevent four diseases.

Cardiovascular disease: In tea, polyphenols is a most important substance; water extracts it up to about 70% to 80%. Scientific evidence shows that tea polyphenols can enhance the flexibility of capillaries, and prevent capillary from rupturing and bleeding. Moreover, tea polyphenols may reduce blood cholesterol, slow down atherosclerosis. Elderly, often eating tea rice, it can soften blood vessels, reducing blood fat, preventing cardiovascular disease.
Stroke: One reason of stroke is lipid peroxide formation in the human body, so the loss of vascular wall elasticity. And the tannins in tea can suppress the role of lipid peroxide formation, and it can effectively prevent stroke.  
Cancer: Tea polyphenols in the body can block the synthesis of N-nitrosamines. Amines and nitrite are widespread in food substance; they are easy to produce N-nitrosamines at 37 temperature and with appropriate acidity circumstances. Overall, tea rice can easily prevent the formulation of nitrosamines and can be effective in preventing the gastrointestinal cancer.
Dental desease: Tea contains fluoride, which is very important and indispensable for dentin material. If we keep a small amount of fluoride immersed in teeth, it can strengthen the flexibility of the teeth and enamel to prevent caries.
Rice-tea cooking is simple. 2-4 grams of tea, with 500-1000 ml. of water to soak for 8-10 minutes, take a sieve, tea will be ready after filtering; then put rice into another pot, wash, then put tea into the pot, cook and serve. If the water is not enough, may appropriately add.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

microbes could defeat us!


Health fraternity has been ringing the alarm over resistance to antimicrobial for so long, but all falls on deaf ears. You may surprise to know that resistance to antibiotics was identified even before the wonder drug of Fleming, going to market. The first clinical application of penicillin came 70 years back, but the discovery of a bacterial enzyme which is capable of destroying penicillin came a few years earlier that wonder drug. The microbes are always one step ahead. The microbes are always one step ahead. In 1960s it was cleared to the public that over use of antibiotics was driving the emergence of resistant species.
The interesting fact is, we already knew that how to combat the problem, which is to control the use of antimicrobials, and above all, ensuring that the patients are completing their courses, of antibiotic. But despite repeated appeals, we couldn't compete with doggedness of microbes. In 2010, resistant bacterial infections killed more than one lac people.
It is believed, that this danger started arising in 2008. When Klebsiella pneumoniae’s unusually tough strain was secluded, from a 59-year-old Swedish patient, who had been treated in a New Delhi hospital. The bacteria were unresponsive to even our most powerful antibiotics. To make it worse, the genes, which gave it this superpower, were found on a small ring of DNA that could be easily traded among different species of bacteria.
Since then, this so called New Delhi metallo beta lactamase (NDM-1) has turned up in more than 16 countries across the world. A study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases today shows the resistance factor has been spread to 14 different species of bacteria, including pathogenic varieties which are responsible for dysentery and cholera. Most bacteria holding the NDM-1 plasma Id is resistant to all, but the few of our most hopeless, atrocious antibiotics. One strain is immune to all of them. In a report published in 2010, the US Institute of Medicine described the antimicrobial resistance as global health and environmental disaster, while the WHO called the rise of so called NDM-1 a doomsday situation, where the world would be without antibiotics.These are not empty words. Without antibiotics, we have few options left. New antibiotics take around 10-20 years to develop, and of course, there are few in the pipeline. Vaccines are the most obvious alternative, but vaccination is not possible even in the most industrialized societies.
Scientists are not sitting quiet, they are trying to train viruses to chase down bacterial cells, for years, but Georgia is the only country in the world, which gives license for such bactiriophage therapy. An experimental procedure using a jet of ionized argon gas seems positive, though it can treat external infections only.
After a flooding of dramatic headlines, media’s interest in NDM-1 cut down. After all, in a world well-stocked with superbugs like MRSA, MDRTB, C diff, what was the use of another acronym? Media is tend to train their gun on highly pathogenic diseases, particularly those that kill in no time flat, they are not interest in such untreatable diseases, which are far less dramatic. The trouble with superbugs like NDM-1 is that once they get a foothold in hospitals, even minor surgerical procedures would be burdened with a much higher risk of serious postoperative complications.
Although previously campaigns in France and America, have achieved considerable declining in the prescription of antibiotics, their uncontrolled use in other countries has diluted those successes. Even if we control our habit of taking antibiotics, NDM-1 is here to stay. That may be enough to timely action called for by health fraternity 50 years back, but it's next to impossible, for us to shake the thinking that the microbes could defeat us.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Unnecessary use of Antibiotics would be dangerous!


This Year's World Health Day is focused on the intensifying threat of bacteria resistance which is developing against antimicrobial drugs, particularly against antibiotics.

In this era of medical breakthrough, where every now and than a new wonder drug comes to treat diseases which were considered fatal a few decades ago, or even a few years ago in the case of HIV/AIDS. WHO has launched a worldwide campaign for World Health Day 2011, to conserve these medicines for future generations.

 Antimicrobial resistance is spreading globally and threatening usefulness of today’s several medicines’ which are in use to treat the diseases. At the same time, the risk of jeopardizing the significant progress being made against the major infectious killers.

Today’s World Health Day theme is Antimicrobial resistance and it’s spreading on the whole world. It is focused on the need for governments to implement the policies and practices to prevent and counter the emergence of highly resistant microorganisms. Drug resistance is also known as the resistance to infection, caused by microorganisms, antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs, including the standard treatment, fail to respond to the long illness and death could result in greater risk.

Last century’s several drug breakthroughs could be lost because of the spreading of the antimicrobial resistance. Consequently, one day a lot of infectious diseases may become uncontrollable and could rapidly spread all over the world. That’s why WHO has planed to bring attention to the urgent need to fight drug resistance by intensify the actions to deal with the threat.

Unnecessarily popping antibiotics at random is resulting in antibiotic bacteria resistant to first line antibiotics are, forcing doctors to prescribe stronger, and more toxic and more expensive drugs to treat the disease. For example, the drugs needed to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), are 100 times more costly than regular drugs. To cop with the situation, over the counter sales of antibiotics must be stopped and the use of antibiotics as growth-promoters in livestock must be curtailed. To help this, the government, the medical fraternity, and the public have to lend a hand.

World Health Day

Today is World Health Day, and I am starting this blog for your World’s Health. You may think what is this CUROPATHY, you have listened Allopathy, Homeopathy, Naturopathy etc, but what is this CUROPATHY? This is the pathy, which consists all the pathies that can cure you and make you health. So, always read this blog and be healthy.