Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Skin tags and remedies to remove them


Are you plagued with unsightly skin tags? Here's excerpts from two excellent sites that include remedies other than the basic remedies such as using scissors/clippers and floss.

Skin Tags Home Remedy
Vitamin E: Open a capsule of vitamin E and mix the contents with crushed garlic and apply it to the skin tag. Then cover the area with an adhesive tape. This will make the skin tag fall off.


Apple cider vinegar: Another equally effective skin tag home remedy is to soak the area with the skin tag in warm water for 15 - 20 minutes, dry it, and using a cotton ball apply apple cider vinegar to it. After 20 - 25 minutes wash the skin to free yourself of the skin tag.
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Another website suggests using a "far less intrusive, involves creating a mixture of castor oil and baking soda. Mix these two ingredients together to form a thick paste and apply it frequently, several times a day, to remove skin tags. Eventually, within two weeks, the skin tags will dry up and disappear." 
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Visit www.skintagtags.com for descriptions, photos, and remedies.

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What successful remedies or products have worked for you?

Friday, March 12, 2010

Birthmarks: Types, Locations, and Folklores

Capillary haemangioma or strawberry birthmark....Image via Wikipedia
Were you born with a birthmark? Does it have a prominent shape? Is it an embarrassment? Is it attached to an explanation or omen? My mother had a most unique birthmark: two dolphins on her stomach. She always said her mother had a fascination with dolphins.
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Let’s begin with the folklore/superstitions surrounding birthmarks. Here’s a brief sampling:
Your mother had an x-ray while she was pregnant.
A mouse touched your mother when she was pregnant.
A pregnant woman craving a food she didn’t get, so her unborn baby developed a PWS, often in the shape of the food she craved.
Your mother liked jam sandwiches when she was pregnant!
Your mother was wishing for wine when she was pregnant. She wished so hard you were born with port wine spilled on your face.
Your mom spilled wine on herself when she was 6 – 9 months pregnant.
Your mom smoked when she was pregnant and held the smoke in too long.
Read the rest here.
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Types
  • Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)
  • CafĂ© au lait Spot
  • Cavernous Hemangioma
  • Congenital Pigmented Nevi
  • Hemangioma
  • Lymphatic Malformation
  • Mongolian Spot
  • Port Wine Stain or Nevus Flammeus
  • Salmon Patch or Nevus Simplex
  • Strawberry Hemangioma
  • Venous Malformation
  • Venous Stain
Read the descriptions of each type here. 
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Meaning of different birthmark locations:
Abdomen – The person is greedy and selfish
Ankle – For a man it represents refinement. For a woman, it stands for energy and independence.
Arm – If it is on the right arm, it means success. It represents financial problems if it is on left arm.
Back – An honest person with an open mind with some arrogance and sensuality.
Breast – Birthmark on the left side of the breast stands for success, on the right side of the breast extremes of fortune and at the center of the breast the person will not enjoy luxury.
Cheek – A birthmark on the right cheek predicts a happy marriage. If it is closer to the mouth, then the person will have great wealth and happiness. If it is on the left cheek, the person will get into financial difficulties.
Chin – A birthmark on the chin, the person will be successful.
Foot – A birthmark on the right foot represents love for traveling and a person with birthmark on the left foot is an intellectual.
Forehead – If the birthmark is on the right side, then the person has great mental power and if it is on the left side, the person likes to spend a lot of money. If the birthmark is right in the middle of the forehead, the person is attractive to the opposite sex and has many love affairs.
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