Category: Health Benefits

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15 Pumpkin Health Benefits

There a bunch of different ways that you can reap pumpkin health benefits. You can make with pie and other bakery with it, you can eat the seeds, put the fruit of the squash into soups, you can just eat it plain or with a bit of sugar and cinnamon.

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19 Aloe Vera Health Benefits

While this first tip is not quite a health benefit, it sure makes using the aloe vera gel easier. Aloe vera gel comes in bottles and in capsules. So if you need it for your skin, you can use the gel; if you need it for something else on the inside, you can take a capsule.

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14 Uses for Activated Charcoal

Activated charcoal is a black powder that can be made from a couple things. It can be made from sawdust, petroleum coke, bone char, peat, olive pits, or coconut shells. The ‘activated’ part comes in because of the high temperatures that the starting ingredient is put through. The high heat enlarges the surface area while reducing the size of pores.    

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19 Basil Health Benefits

Basil helps to lower the body’s inflammation by weakening the enzyme inhibiting compounds. By lowering the overall inflammation of the body, it lessens the chances of bowel issues caused by inflammation.

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42 Tea Tree Oil Health Benefits

Tea tree oil is derived from the leaves of tea tree plants. The tea tree is so-named because its leaves were used to make tea in the eighteenth century by sailors on the swamp Australian coasts. It is often confused with the tea plant, which is a different plant entirely and is used to create black and green teas.

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21 Turmeric Health Benefits

Turmeric has a number of health benefits and may, in fact, be one of the most beneficial spices around.

Colorful plant-based foods, like turmeric, are so good for our health because they have phytochemical properties. The yellow pigment in turmeric helps to tackle a number of brain and body dysfunctions through its oxidative powers.

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20 Lavender Oil Health Benefits

Rich families in ancient Egypt used lavender for embalming, medicines, cosmetics, and massage oils. A Greek physician by the name of Theophrastus wrote of lavender’s healing powers. It was the Romans that started to use lavender for cooking and keeping insects at bay, as well as an air freshener. The Romans also used lavender for health issues as well.   

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17 Ginger Health Benefits

Ginger is in the same family as the spices turmeric and cardamom. Ginger comes in a couple different forms and each form has a different thing you can do with it. You can consume ginger as a juice or oil, powdered, fresh, dried, or as a tea.

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29 Spinach Health Benefits

Quite simply, spinach is a superfood. It has this label because it’s loaded full of nutrients and minerals that help improve your health in a number of ways. This dark, leafy green is highly important for maintaining healthy skin, bones, hair, and general health. It’s been used to help aid health and medication for centuries by a range of different cultures.

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18 Dandelion Health Benefits

Dandelions have been used as a medicine since the tenth and 11th centuries. At those times- in Europe- dandelions were being used to treat diarrhea, fevers, liver congestion, eye problems, boils, skin ailments, and heartburn. In other places, namely India, China, and Russia, dandelion as used to assist appendicitis, breast cancer, digestive issues, and liver diseases.