Looking for something to relieve your aches and pains? Look no further than your spice rack in the kitchen.Cayenne is the hot (literally) alternative to pain relief.

Cayenne contains a compound called capsaicin, which provides hot, mouthwatering (or mouth-burning depending on your taste buds) flavor and purported health benefits. In fact, capsaicin cream is sold as a nonprescription medication for the relief of nerve pain. It seems to work by reducing a chemical involved in transmitting pain signals to the brain.

Healthy Uses for Cayenne

Medical research suggests that cayenne may have the following health-promoting abilities:

• Relieving pain, such as pain from arthritis, post herpetic neuralgia (a late complication of shingles), back pain, diabetic neuropathy, and nerve pain following surgery.
• Psoriasis
• Reducing discomfort of minor digestion (oral use)

However, the most convincing evidence refers only to external use of cayenne for pain relief. If you have a chronic or serious medical condition, you should not simply self-medicate with cayenne.

How Much Do I Need and What

Kind Do I Take?

To treat localized painful conditions, try applying capsaicin cream (0.025-0.075 percent capsaicin) to painful areas four times daily. Do not apply the cream to the same location for more than 2 to 3 days at a time, to avoid excessive irritation of sensitive nerves.

Precautions When

Using Cayenne Medicinally

If capsaicin cream or cayenne irritates your skin or      stomach, stop taking it. Do not apply cayenne or     capsaicin cream to broken or irritated skin, or mucous  membranes.

Capsaicin cream may increase the risk of cough in   people taking blood pressure medications called ACE inhibitors.

Cayenne is spicy and can therefore cause irritation of the skin, eyes, and stomach (though it does not worsen duodenal ulcers). Wash your hands after handling cayenne or capsaicin to avoid getting it in your eyes.

If cayenne irritates your skin or stomach, stop taking it. Although cayenne and capsaicin are considered safe for use during pregnancy, check with your healthcare provider if you intend to use them medicinally during pregnancy or breastfeeding.

In the  East it is the main ingredient of every day dishes.

RESOURCES:

American Botanical Council
hulcersttp://www.herbalgram.org

American Herbal Products Association
http://www.ahpa.org

CANADIAN RESOURCES:

Pain Health Info
http://pain.health-info.org

The Arthritis Society
http://www.arthritis.ca

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LOKI (gourd)

Gourd (Loki) is a vegetable. Some are long in shape and some are round. It looks light green outside and white inside, It is bigger than cucumber but with softer skin and texture. It is quite watery. They grow on liana and shrubs. Gourds contain mineral salts, vitamins. They are easily digested. Sick people are advised to eat gourds. It removes constipation and thus makes the function of intestines normal.

Our respectable prophet Hazrat Muhammad sallallaho alaihewassalam loved to eat gourd. It purifies blood, maintains cholesterol and sugar level. Juice of gourds if taken early morning helps improve eye sight. It balances the immunity system because it helps all organs to work normally. It is more advantageous to eat in summer as it has soothing effect.

It is used in making different dishes like:

Raita: Loki boiled n mashed or grated raw mix with yogurt, mint leaves, chopped onions, salt and black pepper

Koftey: boiled Loki mashed and made balls cooked as curry

Cooked with mutton Loki IS very delicious and good for health 

Kheer:, grated Loki cooked with milk and sugar and sprinkled with chopped dry fruit makes it more tasty n beneficial.

 Loki Soup:

Take one Loki and remove skin and cut into pieces.   Add 1 glass of water. Add one tomato and salt, black pepper caraway seeds 1/4 of spoon. Cook in pressure cooker for 10 minutes. Mash it and strain. Add little bit of cream or butter before serving. Enjoy!

How to make Loki Juice:

The easiest way to make Loki Juice is to grate with home grater. Then put the grated Loki on tea strainer then squeeze it with big spoon or table spoon by putting pressure. Or instead of spoon squeeze it with clean hands. Collect the liquid in glass.

You can also add grounded black pepper or black salt to suit your taste. You can add honey or lemon to improve its taste. Don’t add sugar.

Loki Juice is best unknown medicine to the world. But now is getting more popular worldwide.  According to Ayurveda it is very good for health.

Below are the few benefits of Loki:

1. It is 96% water.
2. Excellent source of green nutrition.
3. Can easily be digested.
4. Very light on stomach
5. 100 Gram of Loki contains only 12 calories.
6. Helps treating urinary problems
7. Help to get rid of burning sensation in stomach
8. It helps remove excessive fat from body.
9. Very good for liver.
10. It can be cooked in many ways

11. It is good for controlling diabetes, High Blood Pressure all diseases.
12. There are no side effects
13. It takes 3 hours to digest

 Helps in loosing weight quickly if you just eat boiled/cooked in steam Loki without ghee/cheese/oils

   Use only good Loki, which is NOT bitter or has bad taste, Loki can be dangerous if it is bitter or has bad taste.
Tips: Don’t eat raw Loki it can cause problems in your stomach. It should be fresh small in size because Big Size Loki may have harmful chemicals to grow it big, so go for smaller ones.

Just taste little bit before cooking. If it’s bitter don’t use it.

Loki’s/ Loki/White Gourd and other names):
1. Kaddu in Punjabi
2. Tarkari in Marathi
3. Squash in English

Stay young healthy and active by eating, Loki the God’s one of the most useful vegetables!

Dictionaries are wonderful sources of information about meaning, origins, pronunciation, etc., of words. We have mono-, bi-, and multilingual dictionaries available in the market for reference. With the advent of internet, dictionaries were also reformed and digitised so that they could be used in computers in the form of software. Yet, guessing the things from the meaning, especially the ones which are not quite common in our context, is a bit difficult.

How do you take the idea of having picture dictionary online which you can refer to whenever you want to know what a particular thing is? Well, Merriam Webster, one of the leading names in ‘reference’ industry, present to you this visual dictionary online at http://visual.merriam-webster.com/.

Colourful and loaded with graphics, of course, at the site you can see what the words represent, along with their pictorial representation. On seeing the image that represents a word, you are more likely to remember its meaning.

There are two methods: to check the pictures of the things — enter the word and search, and choose from the already present themes. Astronomy, Earth, Plants and Gardening, Animal Kingdom, Human beings, Food and Kitchen, House, Clothing and Articles, Arts and Architecture, Communications, Transport and Machinery, Energy, Science, Society, and Sports and Games are among the themes.

Clicking the theme takes you to a page where you can narrow down the topic so that it may be easy to give you a set of pictures. Later on, you browse through interactive ‘labelled’ graphics and explore the real world of words and their meanings.

Though the site is quite useful as it reveals to us the world of many fields, the site’s layout could be improved as the present one gives a cluttered impression.

However, you would enjoy exploring, log on to http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

Hamdard enriched us with healthy, positive and progressing events and incidents. I have written Hamdard only and not Hamdard Public School because Hamdard is not limited to a school for primary students but its Madinat-ul-Hikmah (city of knowledge).

The two great Brothers Hakim Muhammad Said and Hakim Abdul Majeed spent their lives with impervious and industrious effort for promotion of health and education.

Hamdard Public School was a day dream of Hakim Said and Mrs. Sadia Rashid. Both of them saw a child running in HPS uniform while they were sitting and praying in front of Ka’aba. Both of them shared what they saw. That was the moment Hakim Sahib decided to set up Hamdard Public School.  This is how Allah granted us a chance to be associated with Hamdard —– the true and real dream that was realized!

The first badge of children may remember that there was no light and no water in the beginning. It was the passion and charisma of Hakim sahib’s persona that every one bore all hardships of electricity, water, broken road and security problems that prevailed that time in the city, very happily.

Today’s review is in memory of very devoted and loyal staff and students who passed away but left unforgettable marks in hearts and glorious footprints for the others to follow.

The ex-administrator Dr. Qazalbash was an institution in himself. He was greatly respected and loved by students for his expertise in English language and literature uniformly.

Miss. Samina Jafri was unrivaled in Urdu literature and sharp wit, died in childbirth.

Miss. Ghazala another gem of Urdu literature. She was a gold medalist too. She led a very disturbed and full of agony life led to heavens.

Miss. Noshaba the humane teacher of social studies also left us depressed.

Miss. Tarana a beautiful young teacher who proved her worth as English language teacher died of hepatitis C.

Mr. Abdus Samad a great human being and a very learned seasoned teacher passed away of acute gout and arthritis. He excelled both in Urdu and English.

Mrs. Raffat Sami’s daughter in law died in road accident. She was teacher for primary classes.

Mumtaz the young student of class five of Hamdard Village School died a tragic death by drowning in a poodle which had electric current due to heavy rains.

Ijteba the brilliant student of Hamdard departed to highway to heaven at such young age in accident too.

The loss of these precious lives is so big along with Hakim Said’s martyrdom can never be filled. We wish all of them the best of best place in heavens. Amen !

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Back to life———!
My father Babuji was very right in saying that, if you want to live long then eat less what ever you eat. Do not over load your stomach otherwise you have to bear the damage and bad consequences which will make you vulnerable afterwards.
The last week of 2011 was the worst ever for me.
I am 63 almost now but feel if not 16 then 26 
I was invited on dinner. It was cold night of 29th December 2011
There were friends and families who we met after very long.
Eating rich lavish food in jovial mood with friends was fun. Quantity of intake was more than my body actually needed. I completely forgot my sensitive digestive system having diabetes and blood pressure and most of all, my age. So the cramps n rumbling started gradually increasing so much so that I had to be taken to hospital early morning before the dawn broke by my children. Unfortunately I was not treated as it should be or the agony was pre-written in my fate so the pain increased to unbearable degree. I was taken to a bigger hospital where luck favored. The doctor detected my problem n diagnosed after all laboratory tests that all my intestines are in protest against me. They have stopped working rather better to say they have locked themselves up. No gas or stool could pass out. Thus the pain aggravated. I was put on circular intravenous injections with no oral intake. It was the most agonizing time of my life. I am scared to death of needles and injections but had to welcome them being pierced in my body willingly
I could hear the fireworks on New Year’s night with cramps n tears. Well this is life! No pain no gain!
Though I am out of danger now otherwise the doctor said that if my intestines ruptured then it would have been the end of 2011 for me, before it really ended
I am sharing all this to let the reader know t hat over eating can be so dangerous. So its better to take care of health before it disapproves.
Prevention is better than cure. Eat light, simple and healthy to live long beautiful life. We can’t increase the number of breaths granted to us by almighty Allah but we surely can maintain the value and quality of health to live life beautifully.
A sick can’t even enjoy the rain, rainbow, fragrance, cool breeze and other attractive countless blessings.
Message for today from the core of my heart is to value life
Eat less to live more
My deepest cordial thanks to my children who were beside me day night and my friends who visited me and who prayed for me.
Love you all!

Did You KnowDid You Know?

That—–

Eyes Are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain?
Eyes Are composed of more than two million working parts.
Eyes Can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
Eyes Under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
Eyes Contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge.
Eyes Utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.
Eyes Can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.
Eyes In a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.
Eyes The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
Eyes The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed — the front portion.
Eyes The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves “never” need rest. But please rest them!
Eyes Eyes are your most precious sense… care for them properly!

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