Tips For Overcoming The Effects Of Cold Weather

Action Plan For Overcoming The Effects Of Cold Weather:

* If you wash your face, do so at least half an hour before
   you go outdoors. This gives your skin a change to dry
   thoroughly. If your face is slightly damp, the wind has
   an extra-drying effect.  

* Wear a richer moisturizer.

* Apply night cream to replenish moisture lost from the
   skin during the day.

* If your skin is flaking, avoid abrasive scrubs. Use a very
   gentle complexion exfoliator.

* Remember to take care for your hands and nails, too,
   as the skin here can also suffer in cold weather.

* Always apply waxy lip salves or balms to your lips which
   are especially vulnerable to dehyration.

* Add oils and moisturizing gels to your bath and apply
   body-lotions every day.

* Never come in from ice cold weather and immediately
   roast yourself in front of a hot fire, as you will dry your
   skin excessively;  the rapid contrast in temperature can
   also break capillaries, leading to red thread veins.

* If you are skiing or are outside in sunny, but cold weather,
   apply protective lotions on every part of exposed skin.

Boils - Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

Boils

The boils, known as furuncle in medical parlance, are tender
swelling in the skin surrounded by large red areas. They are
infections of the sweat glands or hair follicles of the skin.
They commonly occur during summer. 

Symptoms

* Boils can occur anywhere on the body, but they appear most
   often on the face, eyelids, back of the neck, upper back, and
   buttocks.

* Boils occurring round the eyes and nose are especially serious
   because their poisons can spread to the brain.

Causes

* Boils are mainly caused by stapphylococcus germs which enter
   the sweat glands or hair follicles.

* They can be transmitted from one person to another .

* The essential cause of this disorder is thus bacterial.

Treatment

* A thorough cleansing of the system is essential to the treatment
   of boils.

* Take exclusive diet of fresh juicy fruits for two or three days.

* A warm-water enema should be administered daily, if possible,
   during this period to cleanse the bowels.

* Avoid tea, coffee, starchy, and sugary foods especially, cakes,
   pastries, sweets, chocolates, white sugar, and white bread.

Home Remedies For Boils

* The use of garlic and onion has proved most effective among
   the several home remedies found beneficial in the treatment of
   boils.

* The juice of garlic or onion may be applied externally on the boils
   to help ripen them and also to break them and evacuate the pus.

* Bitter Gourd is an efficient home remedy for boils.  A cupful of fresh
   juice of this vegetable, mixed with a teaspoon of lime juice,
   should be taken, sip by sip, on an empty stomach daily for
   few days in treating this condition.

* Cumin seeds (jeera) are beneficial in the treatment of boils. The seeds
   of black cumin should be ground in water and made into a paste.
   This paste can be applied to boils with beneficial results.

Home Remedies For Pimples

* Rub fresh garlic on and around pimples. Pimples will disappear without

   a mark with regular applications.

* Apply juice of raw papaya (including the skin and seed) on swelling pimples.

* Mix lime juice and rose water in equal portions. Apply on affected area.

  wash it off after 20-30 minutes with lukewarm water.

* Apply ripe tomato pulp on pimples and keep upto 1 hour, then wash.

* Grind nutmeg with unboiled milk and apply on affected area.

   This works as a magic. Pimples disappear without leaving a mark.

* Make orange peel paste by grinding it in some water. Apply on and

   around pimples.

* Mix 1 tablespoon groundnut oil with 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice to prevent

   formation of blackheads and pimples .

* Apply fresh mint juice over the face every night for the treatment of pimples.