Nail Care

When we say someone has “bad nails” then they are weak and thin, they break or split. If a nail should be quite shortened, it is done with scissors first, and then it is files. It is better to shorten the nails regularly, using files than tools. Paper files are the best, and are of various qualities – from rougher to finer, and the cheapest is a rubbery one. Trimming is done using rougher files, and then a finer file is used to polish and shape the edges of the nail. Before you start with nail care, you should keep them in lukewarm water for about 5 minutes, where there is a liquid soap of neutral pH value dissolved.

It is not enough to rub a cream into hands skin several times a day! Nails need a cream for care, too. Such creams contain proteins, vitamins, minerals and amino acids that strengthen the surface layer of nails. Special creams make nails elastic and stimulate their growth. If you have thin nails special care is needed. For the nails to be healthier it is necessary to get enough calcium and vitamins B, D and E. In spring and autumn it is important that nails are provided with vitamins and minerals. When nails are dry they split. It is enough to keep them in lukewarm oil of plant origin (olive) for a few minutes once a week. Nails are filed from the edges towards the middle.

Brittle nails are not elastic because they are dry. The best sources of moisture for such nails are products with Aloe vera. Such nails are not to be filed for a long time. Weak nails should be provided with silicon better. Silicon strengthens the nail root and can improve their growth.

Nail Whitening

Lemon juice is used for nail whitening. It works as a peeling for the cuticle. Keep nails in lemon juice for two minutes. If the fingers skin is dry and nails split, an oil bath would be best for them. Heat olive, sunflower or sesame oil and then dip your fingers or entire hands. This treatment lasts for 10 minutes. Nails should not be filed in one direction. The skim at the bottom of the nail and cuticle do not have to be removed mechanically. A product applied to the cuticle chemically dissolves the skin, softens it in order to be easily pushed up so that we have a larger surface of nail. This product is first rubbed in circular moves and then cuticle is gently pushed by an appropriate tool. Do never cut them! After suppressing cuticle clean all up with alcohol to stop the chemical process and to disinfect.

Not only that a hand cream is used for skin care and making it sensitive, but also strengthens the nails. It is best to use creams that contain calcium and provitamin B5. Once a week you should apply the cream to your hands, put protective gloves and leave the cream to work overnight.

Nail polish is applied in two thin layers. Before that apply a clear nail polish or a foundation for it, and then apply the nail polish itself. In this way the nail polish will be kept on your nails longer. While painting your nails you should take care about how the nail polish is applied. It needs to be applied from the bottom towards the top of nails. The thin line with the nail root should remain free because in that way nails will be able to breathe.

As for removing the nail polish using acetone – it is not recommendable. Such product of highest quality is a nail polish remover without acetone. Acetone dries both cuticle and nails that therefore crack easily. Nail polish remover without acetone decomposes nail polish slowly, but protects nails. When the nail polish is removed, hands must be washed. Nail polishes that have dried up, dehydrated, become very thick, should not be thinned using acetone because acetone waterproofs them and they quickly crack on nails. There is a thinner for nail polishes that is dripped into the nail polish and then is good shaken.

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Mallow against Respiratory Diseases

Marsh-mallow has always been considered the best natural medicine against respiratory diseases, as it influences strong secretion of scum in colds, coughs, bronchitis. It soothes the irritation that occurs in inflammation, and it is especially effective in pulmonary catarrh. It is especially good as an additional remedy in treating bronchial asthma. Immerse three teaspoons of roots in a cup of cold water for at least eight hours, heat a bit and sieve. Teas of white mallow flowers or leaves are prepared in the same way. Tea is sweetened with honey and drunk in sips. It is an ideal disinfectant, for gurgling and rinsing the mouth mucosa. Tea made of marsh-mallow helps with the diseases of the urinary and digestive organs, particularly with painful urination and inability to hold urine. Mallow efficiently influences the inflammation of the uterus, excessive discharge and increased acid. Tea is drunk cold and unsweetened, in the sip.

Milfoil Prevents Menstrual Symptoms

During the period convulsion in the lower part of abdomen occurs, followed by pain, which can be extended to the back. Then it comes to the fall of hormone levels, uterus contracts and since it has not come to the fertilisation, mucous membrane is rejected and a new one is being formed. Convulsion of the uterus obstructs the flow of oxygen and that is what causes pain. Milfoil can prevent that. It contains a mixture of ingredients (camphor, cineol) that eliminate cramps. Drink three or four cups of tea made of milfoil daily between meals.

Ginseng for Mental and Bodily Energy

Ginseng increases the resistance and the vitality of the body. The Chinese have been using it for 5,000 years. Ginseng helps in the treatment of impotence, anemia, bronchitis, asthma, poor digestion, stress, insomnia, fatigue and poor circulation. Science has confirmed that it helps the body to absorb vitamins and minerals better, stimulating endocrine glands. You should take it before having a meal because it is the most effective then. Ginseng can be obtained in a natural form (as a root), in the form of capsules, tea and liquid concentrate. The older the root of ginseng, the more effective is, because it contains more effective substances.

St John’s Wort against Depression

Short days with little daylight affect the brain gland epiphysis. The less irritation reaches the gland over the nerves, the less melatonin it produces. Too many sleep hormones causes bad mood. The solution for this situation is St John’s Wort. Herbal substance hypericine soothe nerves, a combination of active substances regulates the secretion of melatonin and keeps the stress hormone (cortisol), which improves mood. Have one or two cups of tea in the morning and in the evening.

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I Day

Breakfast

Put one hard-boiled egg on a toast that you have previously spread with a thin layer of butter;

Lunch

Choose soup with vegetables or lentils; in addition to this have two oat cakes;

Dinner

Cooked vegetables, meat and pumpernickel bread;

II Day

Breakfast

Mix squeezed juice of one orange with 50g of lean young cheese and a teaspoon of honey. Add a spoonful of cornflakes and a teaspoon of chopped almonds;

Lunch

Mix 170g of tuna without oil, celery, lettuce, a tablespoon of diet mayonnaise and 80g of yogurt;

Dinner

Around 400g of mixed salad made of fresh vegetables spice with two teaspoons of olive oil and juice of half a lemon; along with that have 50g of boiled rice;

III Day

Breakfast

A slice of pumpernickel bread spread with 80g cream-cheese and pour the spices over (to taste);

Lunch

Make a soy steak; along with that have spinach with potatoes and black bread;

Dinner

Fruit or fruit juice;

IV Day

Breakfast

Put cornflakes into a cup, add a spoonful of seeds and berries and put two tablespoons of lean yogurt over;

Lunch

Prepare a portion of soup made of vegetables and 100g of chicken meat (without the foreskin);

Dinner

Have a piece of tuna with half a cup of brown rice and boiled broccoli, pour lemon juice over;

V Day

Breakfast

Chop one kiwi and one apple, add 50g of unsalted soft cheese and 1dl of orange juice; mix with 10g of cornflakes;

Lunch

Boil fish (salmon), along with that have 3 potatoes and rocket-salad splashed with lemon juice;

Dinner

Fruit;

VI Day

Breakfast

Make a sandwich of pumpernickel bread, a tablespoon of tuna, one cucumber and lettuce;

Lunch

Boil chicken meat; along with that have cauliflower, salad, pumpernickel bread;

Dinner

Fruit;

VII Day

Breakfast
Clean and chop grapefruit and mix with 25g of lean cheese; in addition have a slice of toast;

Lunch

Make a soup of chicken meat, serve with cooked carrot, salad and black bread;

Dinner

Cut 180g potatoes, 150g of vegetables and stew with one teaspoon of oil; Spice with herbs and a little salt;

Advice

Drink lots of water! Water stimulates the overall metabolism and carries the nutrients to the cells. Also, water stimulates the decomposition of fats. The greater the amount of fluid in the body, the faster transport of fatty acids from cells by blood is.

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Facial Cleansing

A product for facial cleansing is a true friend of the skin. Besides cleansing, it provides the protection necessary. A cleansing product should be enriched with moisturizing substances such as hyaluronic acid, herbal extracts and vitamins (E and C). These ingredients slow down skin aging and the appearance of wrinkles. Tonic removes previously applied skin cleansers from the skin. Some people believe that after cleansing tonic is unnecessary. But it is important because it helps dry skin to establish the natural pH value. Also, tonic eliminates dirt particles and impurities that remain on the skin even after cleansing. Lightly dabbed on the face, it gives the skin moisture and relieves from tightness.

Advice. Regardless of whether your skin is oily or dry, do not use tonic with alcohol. Alcohol excessively dries the skin. That is why oily skin will secrete even more sebum, and dry skin will respond by peeling and redness.

Proper Use. Apply a little bit of facial cleansing lotion. Massage gently, in circular moves, first the forehead, part around the eyes, and then nose. Bottom-up, in wide circular moves, massage cheeks and part around the lips. Do not forget the neck and cleavage. Rinse the face using a cotton ball or a special sponge soaked in lukewarm water, and then dry it by dabbing with a towel. Soak a piece of cotton in tonic and go over the face in gentle horizontal moves (from the middle towards the edges). Dry the face by dabbing with a towel.

Lotions. If you do not have problems with facial skin and you do not use a lot of makeup, a non-rinsing product for face cleansing is enough. Wet wipes (soaked in cleaner) are also practical.

Proper Use. Apply the lotion to a cotton ball. Lightly go over the face from the middle towards the edges. Make a circle around the eyes. Repeat if necessary.

Soap and water. Soaps that are used daily are alkaline. Soap ingredients wash grease and moisture from the skin that reacts by irritation and itching. These contribute to faster aging of the skin. For facial cleansing use only special soaps for sensitive skin that protect the natural acidity of the skin.

Proper Use. Get your face damped with water. Make mild foam and apply to the face. If you want to thoroughly cleanse face, massage your skin with a soft facial brush. Rinse face with lukewarm water.

A product for eye makeup removal. Cleansing products (lotion, oil, emulsions) are chosen depending on the type of makeup that is to be removed. When you remove makeup from the eyelids, it is important not to rub too much or you will damage sensitive skin around the eyes and small wrinkles will be created.

Proper Use. Soak a piece of cotton in lukewarm water and drain. Place a piece of cotton on closed eyes and wait several seconds to remove the makeup. Carefully pull the piece of cotton towards the outer corner of the eye (below).

Advice. If you wear contact lenses you should not use products that contain oils.

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Today more and more people deal with yoga. Some of them do it to limber up their body, some to relax their muscles, and others to achieve control over themselves.  Some 15 million people do yoga in the USA, 4 million in Germany, 3 million in England, a million in Italy.

There are different ways of practising yoga (faster or slower) that all generations do. Yoga is often practised in a group. In the Western world the most popular is so called “Hata yoga” with exercises suitable for stretching muscles and ligaments, improving circulation and massage of internal organs. At the same time breathing and relaxation techniques are applied.

Yoga relieves from stress, it is an excellent method for improving the general state of health, for balance and achieving inner peace. Yoga helps in the treatment of many health problems such as heart disorders, arthritis, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, Premenstrual syndrome and obesity.

Efficacy of yoga depends on frequent and regular exercise (even a short time but every day). It is normal that exercises begin with warming up. Warming up contributes to a better and longer training. Yoga exercises limber up all parts of the body and make them flexible; increase flexibility and are particularly good for slim body shape, because only one hour of exercise “consumes” 600 calories. Such exercises are beneficial for health, including those people who rarely limber up. Troubles such as pain in the shoulders can be solved even after several minutes of exercise a day. Regular exercise allows regular glands functions as well.

If you do all prescribed yoga exercises regularly, you’ll have better posture and walk properly, you will be more confident, and breathing exercises will have a beneficial effect on your overall health.

Yoga for Face

Among the numerous subvariants of yoga, yoga for face has recently been invented, and works as a lifting. Its technique is based on the standard postulates of yoga (proper breathing, which slows down the number of heart rate, reduces tension etc.).

Facial muscles may be tightened, too, as all other muscles. By constant repetition of some people grimaces (such as pouting the lips, as if you are kissing someone through the air etc.) strengthen facial muscles so that wrinkles are either prevented or removed in a natural way.

Exercises

Pellet

Alternately blow left and then right cheek and count each time until 30, then blow both and hold up to 60 seconds.

Ladybug

Imagine that you have a ladybug landed on your palm and you should blow it away. Blow with might and main for 60 seconds.

Cho Cho’s Dream

Stretch your face, from the corners of your eyes on one side, using the index and middle fingers of both hands. While you stretch your eyes, stretch your mouth, too, in a mild smile. Hold the pressure for 60 seconds.

Einstein

Press and stretch the skin of the forehead the strongest you can. Have your eyes goggled. Hold this position for 60 seconds.

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Regular Care

In order for breasts to be well cared, rub a nutritional body lotion after each shower. Once a week apply a nutritional mask the thickness of half a centimeter on décolleté. Leave for 20 minutes, and remove it. If you want your breasts to be firm, look for products that contain ingredients that tighten skin (silicon and herbal extracts).

Peels

In the area around the breasts there are few sebaceous glands responsible for the smoothness of the skin, and corneous flakes are not rare. For smooth breast skin have a soft peel twice a week. Apply a cream to damp skin and rub in circular moves (without pressing). Avoid sensitive nipples, because of possible inflammation. Rinse the cream under hot shower. In this way, skin is prepared for better absorption of lifting products.

Massage

Having a cold shower is simple and effective. Make circles 10 times around each breast with a jet of water clockwise. Cold water stimulates circulation and maintains firmness and elasticity of the skin. If you have a massage every day, you’ll notice the results.

For a warm shower: the same effect is produced by a gentle massage using a soft brush, if you perform it daily.

Advice – Do not use natural brushes. Natural hairs are hollow inside and bacteria can build up there. Artificial fibers are better because they are easy rinsed using a mild shampoo.

Exercises

Stand upright and tighten your stomach and buttocks. Get the ball between the palms, press and relax 5 minutes. Repeat 10 times. Do the same exercise behind the back and above the head.

Gift of Nature?

The size of ideal breasts is constantly changing. In ancient Greece small breasts and strong pectoral muscles were ideal, in the Middle Ages in Europe small and firm breasts were modern, in India – heavy and rich, and in the Renaissance – lush breasts. Today, there are more and more women with large breasts. However, small breasts have great advantages: they are lovely, retain their youthful appearance longer, and tend to defy the gravity and the aging process.

After all, if you are not satisfied with the appearance and volume of your breasts, an aesthetic surgeon can help you. It is particularly important to hear opinions of at least two aesthetic surgeons before the procedure, and consider well since there is always a risk during a surgery. Note that the new look of the body after the procedures is sometimes not identical to the expected one.

Fortunately, a surgery is no longer the only way of changing the shape and size of your breasts. It is long known that hop has a beneficial influence to the breasts, and scientists have used that knowledge to create a special alimentary addition. It is a dietary supplement, which increases, strengthens and embellishes female breasts. It includes integral wheat, hop, barley, spawn, malt, wild oats and corn (erdic). Also, many herbs stimulate the growth of breasts:

• Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum – graecum) – the herb whose flavour resembles maple, affects the growth of breasts. It contains phytoestrogens, herbal chemicals similar to the female hormone estrogen. Make tea. Pour two cups of water over one cup of fenugreek sprouts in a saucepan. Add a little basil, anise, caraway, dill, licorice and marjoram. When the tea boils, leave to cool. Add lemon juice and honey.
• Caraway (ordinary or black) – use daily as a part of your diet because it contributes to the increase of breasts.
• Wild yam (Dioscorea villosa) is also known for its estrogenic effects. You can increase breasts by balm of wild yam. Make a cream of the inner bark of the root in a blender.

Effective Tips

1. Alternately shower with hot and cold water accelerates blood circulation and makes your skin pink and tight.
2. Watch the proper posture – stomach in, breasts out.
3. Sleep on the back more – the neckline will be less wrinkled.
4. When doing sports always wear a sport bra.

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Body secretes various fluids. However, you need to know when this is normal, and when it is a change that requires a treatment. In the reproductive age all women, before or after the period, have normal, barely noticeable discharge from the sexual organ. After the period, the discharge is scant and clear, before and during the ovulation is clear and a bit intensified, and after the ovulation – a bit blurred. These changes in the appearance of the discharge are hardly noticed by a large number of women, but to those more careful and well-informed it can help in identifying the fertile days.

Vaginal discharge (fluor genitalis) is the discharge in the vagina, which exists regardless of a woman’s age. Normal discharge in the vagina of a healthy woman has various functions and the most important one is the protection of the upper parts of the genital tract from infection. Before the first period girls do not have discharge from sexual organ, and if it appears it is a consequence of poor hygiene, wearing of dirty clothes or scratching the intimate place. During the period the pH values rise and this favours the development of pathogenic bacteria. pH values rises even if it comes to the infection of the genital tract (endometritis, cervicitis, piometra) and also during some normal disorders. A long-term use of antibiotics, pregnancy, rinsing, and some foreign objects in the vagina are the conditions in which a woman is sensitive to infection. Irrational use of antibiotics and other drugs in the form of vaginaletes can destroy the vaginal flora, and thus represent the basis of natural defense against infection.

Under normal conditions vagina contains a benign Lactobacilli, which maintain its normal acidity, and in such an environment other microorganisms can not reproduce. In women throughout the adulthood estrogen hormones stimulate the proliferation of the surface layer of the vagina and thus it becomes resistant to many bacteria. When the vagina is endangered by some frequent irritations, such as frequent sexual relations (especially with multiple partners), medical interventions which hurt sexual organ, such as removing polyps, excision of suspicious tissue and the use of intravaginal cartridges or diaphragms used as a protection against pregnancy – it can be populated by different microorganisms.

Profuse and blurred discharge of unpleasant smell, followed by itching, or changes to the exterior of sexual organ indicates the inflammation that should be treated. What is first suspected is a trichomonal or fungal infection.

Trichomonal secretion is abundant, pussy and acidulous, foamy and has unpleasantly sweetish odour. Trichomonas vaginalis is a microorganism that causes inflammation of the uterus, bladder and urinary canal. It is transmitted by sexual contact, and both partners are treated.

Fungal infections are caused by candida (Candida albicans), and their development is favoured by the reducing of the acidity of the vagina. Those may occur in girls and older women, and diabetics, pregnant women and women who take large quantities of antibiotics for a long time often suffer from these disease. The infection is followed by the whitish discharge and the feeling of tingling and itching on the exterior of the sexual organ.

Bacterial infections cause the vaginal Lactobacilli to become replaced by some groups of bacteria. Causes of bacterial vaginosis are numerous: gardnerela vaginalis, Lactobacilli, bacterioides, peptosteptococci and others.

Gardnerela vaginalis is often the cause of bacterial vaginosis. It is followed by muddy discharge, and what can be seen under a microscope are cells of the vagina in the form hank around which gardnerelas are grouped. The sexual organ may be populated by the bacteria that do not cause any interference, and then bacterial vaginosis is not followed by discharge or other symptoms. One of such is Ureaplasma Urealiticum, which attacks the internal sexual organ and causes inflammation, which can be extended to the liver. A mild form of bacterial vaginosis often has no symptoms, and 20% of pregnant women who suffer from it do not have any interference, and give birth regularly. More serious forms of this infection cause more spontaneously. Human papilloma virus, HPV, causes the appearance of coilocites – these are the cells with a bright nucleus and a little blurred discharge. Small nipples (condiloms) may appear around the vent and the vagina as well, but less frequently.

In gynecology discharge is divided into 6 groups. The first group occurs in infants and represents the dominance of Doderline’s bacilli, gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, which are very small in amount. The second group may occur in girls before puberty, and involves a larger amount of Doderline’s bacilli. The third group appears in sexually active women, so according to the amount of bacteria and fungi that are found in secretions, it is divided into IIIb, IIIc and IIId. The fourth group is characterised by the presence of bacteria gonococci that causes gonorrhea. The fifth group is caracterised by the infection of flagellated parasite Trichomonas vaginalis. In the sixth group there is a fungus Candida albicans present.

Attention should be paid to the appearance of blood in the discharge from sexual organ. Even the least bleeding that occurs before or after the period is not normal. This may be a sign of the cycle disorder, or benign and malignant diseases. Blood in the discharge from sexual organ can occur due to some infections and injuries. Namely, it is the replacement of epithelium, and then single-layer cylindrical epithelium which covers the vaginal cervix is replaced by multiple-layer resistant epithelium which covers the outer part of the vaginal cervix, and therefore the vagina is more sensitive to irritations. After the appearance of such discharge, you should visit your gynecologist, who will do the check-up and determine the treatment.

In an intimate relationship avoid the use of alkaline soaps, because using them creates the conditions for the development of pathogenic bacteria. You must use the products for intimate care that, with their acidity (pH), create a dam to the infections of genital tract.

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Lips need special care if they are always dry and thus chapped. Solution: apply some of the products for lips protection, or Vaseline, a mixture of olive oil and meat. Use tissues to remove the excess fat and then put the lipstick.

Lip skin gets thinner by aging (as well as the rest of the facial skin). That is why lips do not have the fullness necessary. Solution: collagen and other products for filling soft tissue (Hyaluronic acid) can fill out the lips. The effect lasts up to four months. It is necessary to pay attention to the emergence of small lines above and below the lips. This phenomenon is a characteristic consequence of exposure to some harmful influences (sunrays, smoking). If you want to hide small wrinkles around the lips, apply transparent powder to the outer edge of the lips. This will prevent the spilling of lipstick.

The Selection of a Lipstick

Never try a lipstick on the hand skin as the colour of this part of the body contradicts the colour of the lips. It is best to apply a tester lipstick to the lips.

Use lipsticks in natural colours with a discrete shine or with a little pearl for the lips to look fuller. Lipsticks of pearly look are retained longer on the lips. However, regardless of the choice of the lipstick, draw the lips using a lip pencil first. In this way you make the basis for the lipstick and prevent the spilling of lipstick into small wrinkles. It is best to apply the lipstick sparingly. Although it is easier to apply lipstick directly to the lips, you will do it precisely by using the appropriate brush. The colouring of the lips with a brush provides the best mobility of the lips, as well as getting brighter shades if you apply the lipstick in a thin layer.

Soften your Lips by Using a Peel!

Make a peel with a teaspoon of corn flour, a teaspoon of honey and a little olive oil. Or massage the lips using a tooth brush, and then put some honey onto the lips. Rinse and remove honey after a few minutes.

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Interest in personal capabilities, feelings and inner world in general is noticed. Emotions are intense, and there is also emotional instability and impulsivity notices. Sometimes even parents cannot understand all this. But everything will settle down after some time.

The outburst of tears, feeling of sadness and loneliness are normal phenomena following puberty. In the age of puberty there is a feeling of discontent and shame due to the changes in and on the body. The structure of the skin is modified. Pores can increase and secrete sebum. Out of the excess sebum, dust and dirt blackheads are created. They widen the pores in which bacteria that cause infection and pimples get into. Spots are not to be squeezed out. Both boys and girls should maintain regular facial hygiene and apply an appropriate dermatological treatment. Physical activity and stay in the fresh air are good for the skin.

It is normal that at first the period is irregular, but after some time usually everything settles down.

The period is something quite normal and natural.

Puberty is the time when you learn to accept yourself and your body.

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Massage affects the nervous system, reduces anxiety and harmful hormones in the body. It is excellent for stress reduction and prevention of diseases. It improves blood circulation, releases the secretions from sebaceous and sweating glands and reduces subcutaneous fat, increases tissue oxygenation and lymph swelling. If it is done properly, massage relaxes the body, improves flexibility of ankles and intensifies circulation. Digestion is stimulated and facilitated, which is an important additional medium, but also one way of treating certain conditions. Massage and manipulative techniques include long-term and intense touching, pressing, pulling and rubbing. It is not advisable to use a massage if you suffer from some skin diseases, phlebitis, blood clot, infection, redness and burns. Massage is usually done by hands, but feet can also be involved. Find some sensitive places or painful points on the body and start rubbing them. When you massage someone avoid pressing that person directly on spinal vertebras. It is best to press on both sides. Techniques of massage are numerous. The best known are Swedish massage, acupressure, the sower and others.

The Sower Massage

Of all the Asian massages this one is the most popular with us. It is the gentlest form of acupuncture, and is performed without needles. It is based on the theory of meridian energy channels under the skin, where according to their learning life energy chi flows. Specific energy points (meridians) on the body are stimulated by fingers. When this is done to someone it is said that person is physically and spiritually healthy. The body is stretched by the fingers, elbows and feet and in this way energy is released. Everyone enjoys this massage, which is both pleasant and efficient.

Abhianga Massage

This massage is done by two persons that use sesame oil. It derives from traditional Indian medicine, and includes the massage of the whole body. Each touch they make affects the brain, because it frees the body of stress. Everyone can enjoy this massage. Novices can feel a bit unusual (and even feel bothered by it) because they are simultaneously massaged by two persons. This massage affects the detoxification of the body and is good for dry skin care.

Tao Massage

This type of massage is a combination of Eastern and Western techniques. At the same time it stimulates muscle relaxation and affects the chakras and energy points. For this kind of massage warm aromatic oils are used. Massage frees energy from the body and is great against the stress and after surgeries. Before you decide to try this massage, you should better consult your physician.

Tai Massage

This massage is different from the Tao massage. It is a combination of gentle movements, rhythmical acupuncture and stretching. It is implemented without any oil, using hands and elbows and the strength of the entire body. This is a very good massage because it removes energy blockade, stimulates blood circulation and metabolism, and increases the elasticity of the body. It is popular with athletes because some parts of the body can be treated individually. It is very popular with people who are too occupied with business commitments, people who suffer from the so-called managerial disease which is the cause of some damages on the back and neck muscles due to long and frequent sitting at the computer or curvature of the spine.

Ayurvedic Massage

This is one of the oldest techniques of massage. It represents only one segment of Ayurveda, Indian medicine, which suggests a natural and healthy way of life. This includes diet, yoga, breathing techniques and meditation. According to this philosophy, everyone has three vital powers: watts, pata and kapha. Every man has one of these energies prevailing. The goal of the massage is to achieve energetic as well as psycho-physical balance of these energies. A therapist who uses this massage has to recognize the type of a person and their condition and determine, according to the results, the technique and method of the massage, or body parts that need a special treatment. When performing the massage, specially prepared oils are used, such as olive, castor, sesame and others.

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