kukui oil

Benefits of Kukui Oil

Kukui Nut Oil has been widely used in Hawaii, Polynesian islands and Indonesia, however it has only just recently  become known to the rest of the world. The oil is cold pressed from the Kukui seeds to produce a light non greasy oil that has  numerous skin benefits including being beneficial for skin conditions such as eczemaand psoriasis. The Kukui Tree is Hawaii’s official state tree, and Kukui means ‘enlightenment' in Hawaiian. Itis valued for its  rejuvenating and soothing effects upon the skin, without leaving a greasy or oily film. Kukui Nut Oil is invaluable  providing moisture and nourishment to dry, mature, and sun damaged skin. Traditionally, babies in Hawaii  were anointed with Kukui Nut Oil to protect their skin from the sun, salt and other elements. In addition, it was  used on skin irritations, wounds, and burns.

Benefits of Kukui oil  Kukui oil is known to help skin conditions such as Psoriasis and Eczema.  It is rich in EFA’s which makes it especially beneficial and nourishing for  the skin, it is high in linoleic and linolenic acids which are essential  fatty acids, vital for the metabolism of healthy skin.

Kukui Oil is a fabulous moisturiser, and quickly penetrates the skin leaving a silky-smooth non-greasy  feeling. It is often used for dry or damaged skin, immediately relieving symptoms because of its quick  absorption into the skin. It can leave even the roughest and driest skin feeling smooth, soft and hydrated.  Kukui Oil contains Vitamins A, C, E and F, providing anti-oxidants that help to protect from the skin.  Kukui nut Oil is good for anti aging, revitalising and especially restoring sun damaged skin. This unique  oil is able to penetrate into the deepest skin layers, while creating a protective shield that locks in  moisture. It is a hugely popular natural sun relief oil and perfect to take on sun drenched holidays as an after sun oil to replenish and soothe the skin  Kukui oil is prefect for those with sensitive skin, aging skin helps in preventing wrinkles when included in your daily beauty regime. It’s high content of antioxidants are beneficial for fine lines  and crows feet, while gently massaged in daily as a moisturiser.. It is also beneficial for the burns – including: sunburn, windburn, radiation burns, and heat induced burns. This wonderful oil can also be used as for an oil treatment on dry hair and scalp, or add a few drops to  your bath water for a luxurious treat. Fushi’s Kukui Nut oil is organic and cold pressed and sourced from sustainable sources in Indonesia. Guess who is using Kukui oil in her new products? Yes it's me coming soon. Please check out my store www.bydenazdezign.com     it is growing more every week. Beside JUICING it is my passion... Anything you put  on your skin CHEMICAL FREE . I'm changing things every day. I'm product line will look different soon. I'm switching  to brown Apothecary bottle ...

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to brown Apothecary inspired bottle and labels. Looking some what like this.

Or thisI've always been a sucker for  Antiques,,old bottles.. So I'll 

enjoy this even more. Trying to make the label look as close to the old ones as I can will be fun.

black pepper oil

Believe me when I say never knew of this oil. I learn something new every day. So let me pass it on.

Health Benefits of Black Pepper Essential Oil

The health benefits of Black Pepper Essential Oil can be attributed to its properties like digestive, diaphoretic, carminative, aperient, anti spasmodic, anti rheumatic & anti arthritic, anti bacterial, anti oxidant etc.

Black Pepper is a condiment (spice) which is very common and popular worldwide. It is extensively used in culinary. It tastes hot and has a nice appetizing aroma. Black Pepper is the dried fruit of pepper plant, whose scientific name is Piper Nigrum.

Once upon a time, it was considered sacred and even used as currency. It was so valuable that it was traded in exchange with gold (gold was considered cheaper to Black Pepper) and was one of the most priced trade items exported fromIndia to the rest of the world. The main components of its essential oil are Limonene, Pinene, Myrcene, Phellandrene, Beta Caryophyllene, Beta Bisabolene, Sabinene, Linalol, Pinocarveol, Alpha Termineol, Camphene and Alpha Terpenene. Apart from them, black pepper is rich in minerals and vitamins like Calcium, Manganese, Iron, Vitamin-K, Beta Carotene, Phosphorus, Potassium and Selenium. Let us see what health benefits Black Pepper Oil has in store for us.

• Digestive: It is remarkably beneficial for digestion. It stimulates the whole digestive system, right from the salivary glands in the mouth to the large intestine, promoting secretion of digestive juices like acids and bile into the ingested food, thereby facilitating digestion. Black Pepper can be safely used as a spice to the food of those who are on a bland diet or otherwise forbidden to have chilies (those suffering from ulcer of the mouth of the digestive system or jaundice or extreme acidity are forbidden to consume chilies).
• Carminative: Black Pepper Oil is carminative and helps remove gases and prohibit gas formation in the stomach and in the intestines. It also helps inhibit bacteria which are responsible for formation of gas.
• Aperient: The Black Pepper oil has mild purgative properties and it is safe too, unlike other purgatives like Castor Oil. It helps clean the intestines and at the same time, cure infections in the digestive and the excretory system.
• Anti Spasmodic: It is an effective anti spasmodic and gives good relief in cases of cramps, muscles pulls, spasms, convulsions etc.
• Anti Rheumatic & Anti Arthritic: These are two of the best qualities of the Black Pepper oil. It is warming, stimulating and improves circulation, thereby giving immediate relief in rheumatism and arthritis, particularly in winters when the symptoms aggravate. It is also effective in removing toxins like uric acid from the blood, thereby benefiting people suffering from chronic rheumatism and arthritis, gout etc.
• Diaphoretic & Diuretic: Black Pepper oil, when ingested, increases sweating and urination. Both of these properties play an important role in removal of toxins from the body, clearing of the pores in skin and also disinfecting the body. Sweating and urinating help lose extra water and fat from the body, thus reducing weight, lowering blood pressure and making the body relaxed. These properties are also helpful in reducing inflammation.
• Anti Oxidant: This is yet another beneficial property of Black Pepper oil. It protects the body from damages done by oxidants (free radicals) and also helps repair them. It also delays adverse affects of aging such as vision loss, macular degeneration, wrinkling of skin, degeneration and loosening of muscles, loss in mobility of joints, nervous disorders, memory loss etc.
• Anti Bacterial: It has good anti bacterial properties and that too, without side effects. It is very effective in curing bacterial infections in mouth, colon, digestive system, urinary tract etc. It also disinfects food stuffs in which it is added and protects them from bacterial infections for long.
• Other Benefits: Black Pepper oil is rich in certain very useful minerals and vitamins too. For example, there is vitamin-A (Beta Carotene) in it, which is very beneficial for ocular health as well as is a very good anti oxidant. It has vitamin-K which is essential for maintaining proper circulatory and metabolic functions, muscles, bones etc. Then it has calcium, potassium and selenium. While calcium is good for bones and potassium for regulating blood pressure, selenium is essentially required for proper formation of bones, nails, hair, follicles and teeth and for proper functioning of brain.

Few Words of Caution: As such, there is nothing to be scared about Black Pepper oil, except that if taken in large quantity, it may cause uneasiness, unrest, vomiting, loose motions, irritation and inflammation of the intestines, sleeplessness etc. being hot and pungent. But there is nothing serious about these symptoms.

Blending: Black Pepper Oil can be blended with Lemon, Lime, Lavender, Sage, Sandalwood, Mandarin, Ylang-Ylang, Juniper, Bergamot, Clary Sage, Clove, Ginger, Geranium, Coriander, Grapefruit, Fennel and Frankincense Oil.

This article was contributed by Aparup Mukherjee

Wow I am in the middle of making dinner let me go add more black pepper to it. My son should love me. LOLO

traditional chinese medicine

Here something interesting I found. I will be investigating this more. I believe it may help with detoxing. There may be areas after a juice fast and body detox that may need more attention. This may help with clues. 

If a person has never fasted or detoxed. This may be enough to help them decide it is time.

In traditional Chinese medicine, emotions and physical health are intimately connected. Sadness, nervous tension and anger, worry, fear, and overwork are each associated with a particular organ in the body. For example, irritability and inappropriate anger can affect the liver and result in menstrual pain, headache, redness of the face and eyes, dizziness and dry mouth.

A diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine is highly individualized. Once an organ system is identified, the unique symptoms of the patient determine the practitioner's treatment approach.

Using the liver again as an example, breast distension, menstrual pain, and irritability during menses are treated with certain herbs and acupuncture points, and migraines headaches, dizziness, and inappropriate anger with redness of the face point to a different type of liver pattern and is treated in a different way.

What does the liver have to do with migraines? Organ systems in the traditional Asian sense may include the Western medical-physiological function, but are also part of a holistic body system. The liver, for example, ensures that energy and blood flow smoothly throughout the body. It also regulates bile secretion, stores blood, and is connected with the tendons, nails, and eyes.

By understanding these connections, we can see how an eye disorder such as conjunctivitis might be due to an imbalance in the liver, or excess menstrual flow may be due to dysfunction in the liver's blood-storing ability. Besides emotions, other factors such as dietary, environmental, lifestyle, and hereditary factors also contribute to the development of imbalances.

Spleen

• Emotions - worry, dwelling or focusing too much on a particular topic, excessive mental work
• Spleen Function - Food digestion and nutrient absorption. Helps in the formation of blood and energy. Keeps blood in the blood vessels. Connected with muscles, mouth, and lips. Involved in thinking, studying, and memory. 
• Symptoms of Spleen Imbalance - Tired, loss of appetite, mucus discharge, poor digestion, abdominal distension, loose stools or diarrhea. Weak muscles, pale lips. Bruising, excess menstrual blood flow, and other bleeding disorders.

Lung

• Emotions - grief, sadness, detached.
• Lung Function - Respiration. Forms energy from air, and helps to distribute it throughout the body. Works with the kidney to regulate water metabolism. Important in the immune system and resistance to viruses and bacteria. Regulates sweat glands and body hair, and provides moisture to the skin.
• Symptoms of Lung Imbalance - Shortness of breath and shallow breathing, sweating, fatigue, cough, frequent cold and flu, allergies, asthma, and other lung conditions. Dry skin. Depression and crying.

Liver

• Emotions - anger, resentment, frustration, irritability, bitterness, "flying off the handle".
• Liver Function - Involved in the smooth flow of energy and blood throughout the body. Regulates bile secretion, stores blood, and is connected with the tendons, nails, and eyes.
• Symptoms of Liver Imbalance - breast distension, menstrual pain, headache, irritability, inappropriate anger, dizziness, dry, red eyes and other eye conditions, tendonitis. 

• Emotions - lack of enthusiasm and vitality, mental restlessness, depression, insomnia, despair.
• Heart Function - Regulates the heart and blood vessels. Responsible for even and regular pulse. Influences vitality and spirit. Connected with the tongue, complexion, and arteries.
• Symptoms of Heart Imbalance - Insomnia, heart palpitations and irregular heart beat, excessive dreaming, poor long-term memory, psychological disorders. 

• Emotions - fearful, weak willpower, insecure, aloof, isolated.
• Kidney Function - Key organ for sustaining life. Responsible for reproduction, growth and development, and maturation. Involved with lungs in water metabolism and respiration. Connected with bones, teeth, ears, and head hair.
• Symptoms of Kidney Imbalance - Frequent urination, urinary incontinence, night sweats, dry mouth, poor short-term memory, low back pain, ringing in the ears, hearing loss, and other ear conditions. Premature grey hair, hair loss, and osteoporosis. 

Kidney

Heart

lymphatic class 101

LYMPHATIC SYSTEM:

The lymphatic system is perhaps your most important link in staying well. It is a circulatory system with more lymph fluid than you have blood, and more lymph vessels than blood vessels. Yet it has no central pump like a heart to make this fluid move. Only the movements of your tissues cause the pumping action of the lymph vessels. Here is the single most important health principle you can learn about the human body: If it is moving, it can heal. If it stops moving, it will die. It really is that simple. This is why exercise is often called the “number one physical doctor.” Movement brings in air, food and water. Movement distributes nutrients to the cells, movement delivers nutrition into the cells, and movement collides molecules with each other to cause chemical exchange. Movement sends waste out of the cells, movement carries the waste into the lymph and movement pumps the lymph back to the blood stream to be neutralized by the liver and sent to the colon, skin, kidneys and bladder to be moved out for elimination. Rather a moving experience, wouldn’t you say?

While moving the waste, the lymph attacks infectious agents and foreign bodies with specialized cells generated in its own organs such as the tonsils, adenoids, thymus, spleen, appendix, pyres patches, cisternachyle, and various lymphoid clusters throughout the regions of the body. When the lymph vessels are congested we literally drown in our own waste and die.

The other main function of the lymph system is to produce specialized antibodies and distribute them throughout the body to kill invaders and mutant cell growth or cancer. The lymph system is both a garbage disposal system, and an immune delivery system. It is a critical step in detoxification so that the cellular waste can return to the blood stream, be processed by the liver and eliminated through the colon. No matter what disease or condition you have, on a cellular basis, you die from lymphatic congestion causing cell death, leading to tissue and organ death, and finally your death.Now that you have a basic understanding of the elimination systems of the body we can move on into how to properly detox with the least amount of stress to the body.

kidney/bladder class 101

KIDNEYS & URINARY BLADDER:

The urinary system is composed primarily of the kidneys, adrenals and bladder. The kidneys filter and re-circulate the blood after balancing the nutrient content to help maintain the balance of the body. In their upper section known as the adrenals, they produce many hormones or substances to chemically run or influence the body from the pituitary gland in the brain, to the thyroid, on down to the gonads, and from regulating the blood pressure and heart to reproductive health and much, much more. However, it is the main kidney body which is involved in elimination of excess or toxic fluids and a small amount of solid matter. The urinary bladder is a holding reservoir for the fluids to be excreted. If the bladder becomes overloaded, the wall stretches too far and the waste material leaks into the surrounding tissues, feeding back into the blood stream to be shunted to other eliminative organs and back to the kidneys. This process can lead to urinary infections as waste products are what the viruses and bacteria feed upon. As with the colon, regular elimination as soon possible when urged by the body is your best health habit here.

liv-er class 101

LIVER & GALL BLADDER:

The liver is definitely the most vital organ. In Chinese medicine the heart pumps the blood, but the liver is the body’s primary distributor of the blood. Via the vascular bed network, the liver responds to the demands of the body by shifting blood to the area of demand such as the stomach when eating or the legs when running a marathon. The liver also stores glycogen (blood sugar) and insulin (produced by the pancreas) and releases them as needed and signals the adrenal glands to regulate blood sugar and blood pressure. It regulates the hormones in the blood and the cycle of menstruation. It regulates fat metabolism and manufactures cholesterol. There are hundreds of chores the liver has in the body. However, its primary function is to filter the poisons in the bloodstream, neutralize them and send them on to the other organs of elimination. If the other organs are not properly functioning, it causes an overload on the liver and the poisons have to pass through the liver a few more times to be neutralized. This allows for a great deal more damage to the cells of the body by repeated exposure until the liver neutralizes the poisons. This extra strain reduces the liver’s capacity for its other jobs contributing to imbalanced levels of cholesterol, hormones, blood sugar, blood pressure and more that can develop into serious and often fatal degenerative diseases, like cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, etc. This could be why it is called the “liv-er.”

lungs class 101

LUNGS:

Lungs not only filter the air we breathe, they also expel many contaminants and moist vapor as we exhale, sneeze, or cough. The lungs receive used and toxic gases of the body from the blood stream and expel them in the exhale. The lungs are the most vulnerable place in the body to disease invasion from the outside. A study in Lancet (a British medical journal) demonstrated that speaking in a normal voice, breath travels at least 38 feet carrying various viruses and bacteria in all directions. Anytime you are in a public place, you are constantly breathing other peoples’ viruses and bacteria. The first line of defense is how well the lungs are working. Many communicable diseases are highly concentrated in the fluid of the lungs of those suffering and it can be taken into your lungs when you are around them and directly enter your bloodstream - kind of like a blood transfusion without the needles. Without properly functioning lungs, we dramatically increase our chance of disease

colon class 101

LARGE INTESTINE (Colon):

The colon receives solid wastes from the entire body. Like all tissues, it must be properly hydrated and cleaned to work. When the colon function is reduced, waste begins to back up into the blood stream and overload the liver, skin, kidneys and lungs’ capability to function, as they have to do the extra work the colon can’t. This back up of dead material is what viruses, bacteria, molds, funguses, and parasites live on and cause infections with their overgrowth. This is why in Naturopathy we say: “disease begins in the colon.”

When the immune system attacks the invaders with white blood cells, the “battle damage” or pus is transported to the skin because the colon can not handle it. As pus oozes from the pores, surface bacteria dine upon the waste and spread over the skin setting up pockets in nearby pores and the condition is called acne. As the bloodstream becomes overloaded with the backed-up waste it is unable to dump, the waste is transported back into the interstitial space poisoning our cells, overloading the lymphatic system, and altering our immune response ability.

This waste accumulation suffocates the cells by preventing absorption of nutrients leading to cellular dysfunctions such as mutation, impaired reproduction, poor enzyme interaction, and finally cellular death or necrosis. When the waste accumulation reaches certain levels, the surrounding bacteria and viruses are activated to feed upon the waste and break it down to be eliminated by the immune system. Histamine is released to flush out the waste through the organs of elimination previously disrupted via the pathogens (germs, viruses, etc.). This is often manifested in runny nose, watery eyes, coughing, sneezing, vomiting, sweating, and diarrhea. The body will also raise the temperature with a fever (inflammation) to kill off the excess pathogens. In deep-rooted waste, the body will use chills to help dislodge and move out the waste and pathogens. These are disease symptoms to be encouraged, not suppressed. If we suppress the symptoms, we suppress the functioning of the immune system and allow the waste to build to even greater levels resulting in more chronic and grave degenerative diseases.

As the interstitial spaces around the cells are filled with increasing backed-up waste, the blood cannot get nutrients in to operate or rebuild new cells, and your tissues die. The only other thing the tissue can do to survive is revert back to a state before cell-differentiation and begin rapid reproduction geared to living on the waste. We call this process cancer. This way of creating cancer has been known since the 1940’s. A doctor named Otto Warburg won a Nobel Prize in medicine for the work demonstrating this and other processes involved in cancer. Nowadays, we even know the genes responsible for this “switching” on and off of rapid reproduction thanks to genetic research scientists. However, it will be a long time before drugs will safely reset these switches, so let’s get and keep our cells healthy so it won’t be an issue. An extra caution here about drugs would be that of the problem with antibiotics. Suppressive antibiotics complicate the issue further by destroying the germs that are trying to help detoxify our bodies especially in the small and large intestines. This allows more buildup of waste, the poisoning cycle starts over again, and now the immune system is suppressed from the antibiotic leading to recurrent infections that get closer together in occurrence.Antibiotics should only be used in rare life-threatening situations under the supervision of a licensed physician. Regular cleansing of the eliminative mechanisms of the body serves to prevent disease while regaining and maintaining health. If a condition is advanced, and needs direct treatment of the disease, methods like homeopathy and nutritional pharmacology can be used first with a higher level of success than antibiotics.

skin class 101

SKIN:

Your skin is your largest eliminative organ and it receives some of the gases, liquids, and solids for elimination from inside. Proper washing and dietary nourishment is an absolute requirement for lasting good looks. Anything you put on your skin, you are probably eating!

That’s right, the skin absorbs as well as eliminates and if you would not put something in your mouth to eat, do not put it on your skin! In fact it can be worse by putting it on your skin as it will travel through the blood stream damaging tissues before it gets to your liver to be neutralized. Think about the medication patch craze. I’ve read that it only takes 1/400th of the oral dosage in a patch for hormone replacement to get the same effects as a single pill.

The best thing a person can do for skin health is to properly hydrate the body, wash it about every 24 hours with a organic castile (olive oil) soap and a textured cloth or sponge (face every 12) and only use products free of toxic substances upon the surface. Skin brushing can also help speed the detoxification from the skin.

Showering in tap water puts more toxic materials into the bloodstream than drinking it. The skin will absorb the chlorine from water in milliseconds and much damage occurs to many of your tissues before it gets to your liver. The average shower uses 30 to 50 gallons of water with the majority of these voluminous poisons entering you. Additionally, the warm or hot shower produces chlorine and fluorine gases (and many other harmful gases) that you breathe and go straight to the brain and many other parts before the liver can work to neutralize some of the poisons. Your shower/bath increases the toxic load intake by about 600% and potentially increases the damage from it by several thousand times. The EPA lists the shower water as the main source of bladder, kidney, and colon cancer. To get a better idea, think about this: When chlorine combines with decaying organic matter it forms what are called trihalomethanes (THM’s.) They are some of the single most toxic cancer causing substances known to man. Guess what? Our body is full of decaying organic matter and we are adding the chlorine in our shower to make the body a cancer factory! This fact is not factored in the EPA research stated above. Imagine how much higher the percentage would be if they did!

The first thing I would filter in the house is the shower, then the tap, then the main line to the house. The main line whole house filter will save a lot of money. Seldom will a plumber be needed anymore as the hot water tank, pipes, sinks, toilets, dishwashers, washing machines and faucets won’t fill with the harmful mineral deposits as before, saving many thousands of dollars over the years. Clothes and dishes will be cleaner and no longer be such a source of contamination to the body. Washing your hands and brushing your teeth will be a healthier experience. (See Pure Water in our Products/Online Store.)