Hair loss is a normal phenomenon, especially at the change of season. However, a thinning scalp and hair loss that does not regulate itself are often due to an imbalance in the supply of nutrients. To be strong and beautiful, hair needs need to be nourished from within especially when you notice that you’re losing … Read more
Adult acne, microcysts, hormonal acne, blackheads…. Even so, around 50% of 20-40 year-olds are prone to regular outbreaks. Acne affects women more than men, regardless of age. And it’s only natural! Pimples develop under the influence of hormones, a much more regular phenomenon in women. Teenage acne is mainly due to hormones. The sudden increase … Read more
Cilantro is one of the oldest aromatic herbs in the world . In Antiquity, the Romans were keen on it. The spice appears in more than 70 dishes from the collection of recipes of the gastronomic Roman Apicius . It is mentioned in Sanskrit writings, the Ebers papyrus , the Old Testament … without forgetting its use in China, more than 2000 years ago … This plant, in … Read more
Crohn’s disease is a transmural chronic inflammatory bowel disease . It usually affects the distal ileum and colon , but can occur anywhere in the digestive tract. Symptoms include diarrhea and abdominal pain. Abscesses, internal and external fistulas as well as obstruction of the intestine can occur. Extra-intestinal symptoms, including arthritis, may also occur. A little history The name of Burrill Bernard Crohn quoted thousands … Read more
Our hair says a lot about us: our personality, the image we want to give of ourselves, our psychology… but it also gives information about our state of health or even stress . The symbolism of hair is very strong in most cultures. Whether they are synonymous with strength, recognition, resistance or femininity, in our Western society, we attach an important … Read more
Much more used by popular medicine, milk thistle will have to wait until the beginning of the 16th century before therapists finally take it into consideration . However, from the eighteenth century, the virtues of milk thistle, as diverse as they are, were thrown away by practitioners. Whatever. The twentieth century will restore the image of this repudiated plant. A little history The name milk thistle … Read more
It’s a fact. Consumers are more and more demanding about the quality of the products they buy. For example, more and more of us are adopting organic products to take care of our body , and more particularly our skin. Likewise, manufacturers are also committing to formulas based on natural ingredients, more respectful of the body… and of the environment ! The soaps surgras are part … Read more
As everyone knows, lemon is a citrus fruit, a word whose etymological roots directly refer to its pungent and sour flavor . In the fifth century BC, Sophocles referred to the orange and the lemon under the same name of “golden apples” ( which for a long time suggested that these two fruits could indeed have some relation with apples. from … Read more
In infants, mild constipation may be a sign of inadequate insufficient water intake. This is the case, for example, when the breastfeeding mother does not drink enough, when artificial milk is insufficiently diluted or when a hot climate tends to dehydrate the child. Constipation can also be caused by an excess of flour or thickeners … Read more
Sun, sea, swimming pool … In summer, hair is subjected to multiple attacks which weaken and damage it. The sun dulls colorings : associated with seawater, colored hair can lighten up or last much less time (for example blond hair that turns greenish with the chlorine in the swimming pool). However, the sun dries out the hair . Exposing your hair to the … Read more
Benefit of the earth nicknamed “sovereign essence”, ginseng has been considered for millennia throughout the Far East as THE plant sent by the gods to help men since their creation. This vegetable gnome, this homunculus having captured telluric energies is, whatever the date of its first use, considered as a panacea (of the goddess Panakeia , daughter of Asclepius god of medicine, … Read more
The virtues of chamomile flowers have been known since the dawn of time. Although not of Roman origin, tradition has it that it was named so because a German botanist and physician Camerarius rediscovered it in the 16th century in Rome. The flower head is used in herbalism, traditionally to facilitate digestion . In liquorice, it gives a bitter flavor to aperitifs. The … Read more