Food supplies energy and provides the building blocks needed to replace worn or damaged cells and the nutritional components needed for body function. Once ingested, food must be digested, so it is available for energy and maintenance of body structure and function Digestion begins in the mouth and continues in the stomach and intestines, with help from the pancreas.

Alcohol increases the stomach’s digestive enzymes, which can irritate the stomach wall, producing heartburn, nausea, gastritis, and ulcers. Even moderate drinking can still cause changes in gastric acid secretion, cause acute gastric mucosal injury, and also interfere with gastric and intestinal motility. Alcohol causes damage to the muscles that surround the stomach, and this damage changes how long it takes food to go through these organs. Read the rest of this entry →

Our body needs many minerals to carry out different functions, and so minerals are important. Iron is one such mineral needed by our body to perform a variety of functions. Iron is a part of all cells, i.e. part of the protein hemoglobin that carries oxygen from our lungs throughout our bodies.

Iron helps muscles store and use oxygen and is also a part of many enzymes. Being part of enzymes, it helps the body to digest foods. Along with the above mentioned functions it carries out many other cell functions, and deficiency of iron in the body can create malfunctioning in the routine body activity.

Aloe Vera is one of those ingredients that help in many health concerns. Its juice helps treating joint’s pain as explained earlier [link to previous article]. Aloe Vera juice is also used to treat digestive problems.

Digestive problems including heartburn, diverticular disorders and ulcers etc are well treated with it. Aloe Vera juice is anti-inflammatory, and so it has an effect when consumed.

Experts say “Medicinal uses of aloe Vera are many and can improve your health considerably. It’s important to note that it also prevents the causes for recurring yeast infections. It literally heals you completely”, so use Aloe Vera and have better health!

Herbal medicine have been in use for ages, and are still popular, reason being their long term effectiveness. They may not show results so quickly, but they work for long term. Hamdard’s Safi is one of such products. It’s a very good blood purifier. The best thing about it is that it’s very effective herbal oral treatment for many skin diseases and digestive disorders. A regular use of Safi can let you have a very active life, by correcting your all digestive disorders and making your skin fresher than ever.

It actually spurs the system on to start elimination of the accumulated morbid matter through the intestines, kidneys and skin, and corrects their functions. Another good thing about Safi is that it’s useful for both male and female, and for all ages.

If you’re having a digestive disorder, and or are tired of treating pimples on your face, just give it a try, and all will be well.