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Massage : The Alternative Medicine
Massage is the practice of applying structured pressure or vibration- by hand or with mechanical aids- to the soft tissues of the body, including muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, and joints, to accomplish a beneficial response.
A form of therapy, massage can be applied to parts of the body or successively to the whole body, to heal injury, relieve psychological stress, manage pain, improve circulation and relieve tension.
Where massage is used for its physical and psychological benefits, it may be termed "therapeutic massage therapy" or manipulative therapy..
A form of therapy, massage can be applied to parts of the body or successively to the whole body, to heal injury, relieve psychological stress, manage pain, improve circulation and relieve tension.
Where massage is used for its physical and psychological benefits, it may be termed "therapeutic massage therapy" or manipulative therapy..
Free Diet Recipes
Seafood
Chez Lorraine's Baked Salmon
4 salmon steaks (about 1 ¾ pounds)
4 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon dill weed
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh chives
Lime wedges
Place individual salmon steaks on pieces of aluminum foil large enough to wrap each steak. Pour a tablespoon of lemon juice over each steak, sprinkle with dill and seal each steak in an aluminum pouch. Put the aluminum sealed steaks in a Pyrex dish and bake at 350 F for 30 minutes or until the fish flakes easily with a fork. Serve salmon with sprinkled chives and lime wedges.
Grilled Cod with Cayenne Citrus Marinade
¼ cup fresh orange juice
1 ½ tablespoon lemon juice
3 tablespoons lime juice
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 minced garlic cloves
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 lb cod filets
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh chives
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh thyme
Combine orange, lemon and lime juices in a bowl with cayenne pepper, garlic, olive oil and 1/3 cup of water to make the marinade. Place fish in a flat dish and pour in the marinade and then marinate the fish 15 minutes. Light your grill and add the fish – grill fish 3 to 4 minutes per side, basting often with the marinade. Serve the fish with a spoonful of marinade and sprinkle with chives and thyme.
Red Snapper Azteca
4 red snapper fillets (4 ounces each)
¼ cup fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 plum tomato coarsely chopped
4 green onions, sliced in ½ inch sections
½ cup chopped Anaheim pepper
½ cup chopped red bell pepper
Cilantro for garnish
Place red snapper in a shallow baking dish. Combine lime juice, lemon juice and chili powder in a measuring cup. Pour over snapper. Marinate 10 minutes, turning once or twice. Sprinkle onions, tomato and peppers over snapper. Cover. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or just until snapper flakes in center. Let stand, covered, 4 minutes before serving. Garnish with fresh cilantro.
Toad in the Hole Almond Trout
6 fresh trout
1 cup sliced almonds
¼ cup raisins
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 shallots
½ bunch parsley
½ teaspoon pepper
¼ cup olive oil
Lemon, parsley, and seedless red grapes for garnish
Rinse and dry trout and rub body cavity with olive oil. In a bowl, mix almonds, raisins and olive oil with chopped shallots, parsley and pepper. Stuff the trout with this mixture. Put ¼ cup olive oil in a skillet and sauté each trout for about 8-10 minutes on each side until nicely browned. Serve with a garnish of lemon, parsley and seedless red grapes.
From: Loren McHuron's Toad in the Hole Restaurant, Hollywood, CA
Parsley, Lemon Filet of Sole
1 pound sole fillets
¼ cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 small onion, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
Cut fish into serving-size pieces. Place in an un-greased baking dish. Drizzle with lemon juice and oil; sprinkle with pepper. Arrange onion slices over fish; sprinkle with parsley. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes. Bake at 350 F for 20 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
Poached Halibut Steaks
2 or 3 green onions, cut into 2 inch long pieces
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 red onion, cut lengthwise into thin slices
1 carrot, cut into thin matchstick pieces
2 Halibut steaks (½ pound)
2 lemons
Heat oil in a deep skillet over medium heat. Add onion and sauté three minutes. Add carrot and cook three more minutes. Stir in green onions. Spread vegetables evenly over bottom of skillet. Lay halibut steaks on the vegetable bed in the skillet. Add a small amount of water just to cover the bottom of the skillet. Cover and cook until the fish flakes easily with a fork – about 10 minutes. Transfer the fish to a serving plate and top with vegetables and lemon juice.
N'Orleans Broiled Catfish Fillets
1 teaspoon paprika
4 catfish fillets
½ teaspoon dried thyme
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon black pepper
¼ teaspoon oregano
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
¼ cup lemon juice
Mix spices together in a shallow dish. Put lemon juice in a bowl. Dip fillets in the lemon juice and then coat lightly with seasoning mixture. Preheat broiler. Spray rack of unheated pan with nonstick spray. Put fish on rack and broil 4 inches from heat until fish flakes easily with fork (4 to 6 minutes). Turn once while broiling.
Barbecued Juneau Shrimp
¼ cup virgin olive oil
3 garlic gloves minced
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon of cayenne paprika
Dash of cayenne pepper to taste
Shelled shrimp with tail left on (2 ½ pounds)
Lime wedges and parsley
Mix olive oil, spices and lemon juice in a bowl. Fire up grill. Brush shrimp with mixture, place on hot grill, turn (1-2 minutes per side) at once and remove. Garnish with lime wedges and parsley.
Shrimp Stuffed Avocados
3 medium sized avocados
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 ½ pound small or medium sized shrimp, cooked, shelled, deveined and chilled
Cut avocados in half; remove seed and skin. Stuff with shrimp; add lemon juice.
Luscious Lime Shrimp
3 Tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 green onion, chopped
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
1 teaspoon minced, seeded jalapeno peppers
1 teaspoon olive oil
½ teaspoon minced garlic
20 large shrimp (about 1 pound) peeled and deveined
1 tablespoon minced red peppers
20 cucumber slices
Stir together lime juice, green onion, cilantro, jalapeno peppers, oil and garlic in medium bowl. Toss the shrimp with two tablespoons of the dressing in another medium bowl. Cover and refrigerate shrimp for 30 minutes. Preheat broiler or grill. Broil shrimp about 3 inches from heat for 1 ½ minutes per side or until opaque. Immediately toss hot shrimp with the remaining dressing and red pepper and cool to room temperature. Arrange shrimp on cucumber slices.
Trout Simmered in White Wine Sauce
2 trout
2 tablespoons of olive or canola oil
1/3 cup minced shallots or onions
2/3 cup minced carrots
2/3 cup chopped fresh mushrooms
1 cup white wine
1 tablespoon fresh thyme
3 tablespoons fresh parsley
Sauté the shallots, carrots, and mushrooms in oil until the shallots are soft. Add wine and seasonings. Simmer for several minutes. Add trout and cook about 6 minutes per side.
From: Artemis Simopoulos, The Omega Plan
Dill and Lime Crab
2 Large Dungeness crabs, cooked, cracked and shelled and chilled (yield ¾ to 1 pound)
Lime juice
Paprika
Dried, ground dill weed
Lime wedges
Parsley
Boil fresh crab, prepare the meat and chill it or buy cooked crab. Drizzle meat with lime juice and sprinkle with paprika and dill. Serve with lime wedges and garnish with parsley.
More Info : Free Diet Recipes
4 salmon steaks (about 1 ¾ pounds)
4 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon dill weed
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh chives
Lime wedges
Place individual salmon steaks on pieces of aluminum foil large enough to wrap each steak. Pour a tablespoon of lemon juice over each steak, sprinkle with dill and seal each steak in an aluminum pouch. Put the aluminum sealed steaks in a Pyrex dish and bake at 350 F for 30 minutes or until the fish flakes easily with a fork. Serve salmon with sprinkled chives and lime wedges.
Grilled Cod with Cayenne Citrus Marinade
¼ cup fresh orange juice
1 ½ tablespoon lemon juice
3 tablespoons lime juice
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 minced garlic cloves
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 lb cod filets
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh chives
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh thyme
Combine orange, lemon and lime juices in a bowl with cayenne pepper, garlic, olive oil and 1/3 cup of water to make the marinade. Place fish in a flat dish and pour in the marinade and then marinate the fish 15 minutes. Light your grill and add the fish – grill fish 3 to 4 minutes per side, basting often with the marinade. Serve the fish with a spoonful of marinade and sprinkle with chives and thyme.
Red Snapper Azteca
4 red snapper fillets (4 ounces each)
¼ cup fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 plum tomato coarsely chopped
4 green onions, sliced in ½ inch sections
½ cup chopped Anaheim pepper
½ cup chopped red bell pepper
Cilantro for garnish
Place red snapper in a shallow baking dish. Combine lime juice, lemon juice and chili powder in a measuring cup. Pour over snapper. Marinate 10 minutes, turning once or twice. Sprinkle onions, tomato and peppers over snapper. Cover. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or just until snapper flakes in center. Let stand, covered, 4 minutes before serving. Garnish with fresh cilantro.
Toad in the Hole Almond Trout
6 fresh trout
1 cup sliced almonds
¼ cup raisins
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 shallots
½ bunch parsley
½ teaspoon pepper
¼ cup olive oil
Lemon, parsley, and seedless red grapes for garnish
Rinse and dry trout and rub body cavity with olive oil. In a bowl, mix almonds, raisins and olive oil with chopped shallots, parsley and pepper. Stuff the trout with this mixture. Put ¼ cup olive oil in a skillet and sauté each trout for about 8-10 minutes on each side until nicely browned. Serve with a garnish of lemon, parsley and seedless red grapes.
From: Loren McHuron's Toad in the Hole Restaurant, Hollywood, CA
Parsley, Lemon Filet of Sole
1 pound sole fillets
¼ cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 small onion, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
Cut fish into serving-size pieces. Place in an un-greased baking dish. Drizzle with lemon juice and oil; sprinkle with pepper. Arrange onion slices over fish; sprinkle with parsley. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes. Bake at 350 F for 20 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
Poached Halibut Steaks
2 or 3 green onions, cut into 2 inch long pieces
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 red onion, cut lengthwise into thin slices
1 carrot, cut into thin matchstick pieces
2 Halibut steaks (½ pound)
2 lemons
Heat oil in a deep skillet over medium heat. Add onion and sauté three minutes. Add carrot and cook three more minutes. Stir in green onions. Spread vegetables evenly over bottom of skillet. Lay halibut steaks on the vegetable bed in the skillet. Add a small amount of water just to cover the bottom of the skillet. Cover and cook until the fish flakes easily with a fork – about 10 minutes. Transfer the fish to a serving plate and top with vegetables and lemon juice.
N'Orleans Broiled Catfish Fillets
1 teaspoon paprika
4 catfish fillets
½ teaspoon dried thyme
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon black pepper
¼ teaspoon oregano
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
¼ cup lemon juice
Mix spices together in a shallow dish. Put lemon juice in a bowl. Dip fillets in the lemon juice and then coat lightly with seasoning mixture. Preheat broiler. Spray rack of unheated pan with nonstick spray. Put fish on rack and broil 4 inches from heat until fish flakes easily with fork (4 to 6 minutes). Turn once while broiling.
Barbecued Juneau Shrimp
¼ cup virgin olive oil
3 garlic gloves minced
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon of cayenne paprika
Dash of cayenne pepper to taste
Shelled shrimp with tail left on (2 ½ pounds)
Lime wedges and parsley
Mix olive oil, spices and lemon juice in a bowl. Fire up grill. Brush shrimp with mixture, place on hot grill, turn (1-2 minutes per side) at once and remove. Garnish with lime wedges and parsley.
Shrimp Stuffed Avocados
3 medium sized avocados
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 ½ pound small or medium sized shrimp, cooked, shelled, deveined and chilled
Cut avocados in half; remove seed and skin. Stuff with shrimp; add lemon juice.
Luscious Lime Shrimp
3 Tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 green onion, chopped
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
1 teaspoon minced, seeded jalapeno peppers
1 teaspoon olive oil
½ teaspoon minced garlic
20 large shrimp (about 1 pound) peeled and deveined
1 tablespoon minced red peppers
20 cucumber slices
Stir together lime juice, green onion, cilantro, jalapeno peppers, oil and garlic in medium bowl. Toss the shrimp with two tablespoons of the dressing in another medium bowl. Cover and refrigerate shrimp for 30 minutes. Preheat broiler or grill. Broil shrimp about 3 inches from heat for 1 ½ minutes per side or until opaque. Immediately toss hot shrimp with the remaining dressing and red pepper and cool to room temperature. Arrange shrimp on cucumber slices.
Trout Simmered in White Wine Sauce
2 trout
2 tablespoons of olive or canola oil
1/3 cup minced shallots or onions
2/3 cup minced carrots
2/3 cup chopped fresh mushrooms
1 cup white wine
1 tablespoon fresh thyme
3 tablespoons fresh parsley
Sauté the shallots, carrots, and mushrooms in oil until the shallots are soft. Add wine and seasonings. Simmer for several minutes. Add trout and cook about 6 minutes per side.
From: Artemis Simopoulos, The Omega Plan
Dill and Lime Crab
2 Large Dungeness crabs, cooked, cracked and shelled and chilled (yield ¾ to 1 pound)
Lime juice
Paprika
Dried, ground dill weed
Lime wedges
Parsley
Boil fresh crab, prepare the meat and chill it or buy cooked crab. Drizzle meat with lime juice and sprinkle with paprika and dill. Serve with lime wedges and garnish with parsley.
Clear Your Disease of the skin - Naturally!
Most folk who suffer from disease of the skin go out and spend nice money on common over-the-counter disease of the skin treatment products. The truth is, most of these products are full of chemicals that can actually slow down the healing of acne, and irritate your skin, deed farther breakouts.
When an disease of the skin product has 20 ingredients listed on it, it can be hard to cognize if one of those ingredients is actually stopping you from having success. It can be even as harder once you can't pronounce the ingredient, more less cognize what it is and how it is going to affect your skin. Most thought disease of the skin treatments are not only more much costly than common home items, but they as well don't always activity as well either. With that in mind, I wish list several basic home items that can activity wonders on clearing up your skin.
Baking soda ? A really cheap cook ingredient that most folk have in their homes already, baking soda can be used as a great scrub. The intention of a scrub is to exfoliate the skin, removing dead skin that can eventually clog pores and lead to disease of the skin spots. To start off, you'll want to mix a small figure of baking soda with several water for form a paste. Baking soda is really effective as a scrub, so you want to be sure to be extra careful once applying it to your face. Gently massage the paste into your skin for ten to fifteen seconds. Then rinse the baking soda off, and pat your face dry with a clean towel.
Apple Beverage Vinegar ? Tho' most folk that use vinegar to treat disease of the skin use the apple beverage form of vinegar, you can as well use plain old regular vinegar. Regardless of which type you use, vinegar can be really helpful with it comes to clearing up acne. It can kill off disease of the skin deed bacteria, balance your skin's pH, and absorb extra oil on your skin.
Starting with clean, dry skin, apply diluted vinegar (eight parts water to one part vinegar) directly to your skin with a cotton ball, and leave it on. If you want, you can as well use a stronger vinegar resolution (say, 2 or 3 parts water to 1 part vinegar), and apply it directly to problem areas, remotion it off after ten minutes.
Lemon or lime juice can as well be substituted for vinegar. Some of these juices are rich in acid acid, and can exfoliate your skin really well, halting the growth of disease of the skin spots, as well as weakening previous, non-active disease of the skin quicker.
Egg Whites ? Rich in protein, egg whites can be used as a mask to heal and build your skin. It can as well help to absorb excess oil from your skin. To start off, crack an egg, removing the food so that simply the egg whites are left behind. Beat these egg whites, and apply them directly to your face. Let it sit for fifteen minutes, and then rinse the egg off.
Oatmeal ? As odd as it may seem, oatmeal can absorb unwanted oil and draw out impurities which reside deep in your skin. Cook several plain oatmeal like you would-be for consumption. Let it cool off, and rub it over your clean skin. Let it sit for a while, like you would-be a mask, and then rinse off. If you do this on a regular basis, you should begin to start noticing results soon.
Tea Tree Oil ? TTO is a ordinarily used all-natural home antiseptic, which you can pick up at most drugstores or supermarkets. You can apply TTO directly to disease of the skin spots to kill bacteria, or, if you powerfully dilute it with another oil (such as jojoba oil), over your entire face. Tea tree gel can be easier to apply than the oil, and many a are ready-made for applying over large areas of skin, so they aren't quite as strong as straight TTO and do not need to be diluted.
Pantothenic Acid (Also best-known as Vit. B5) ? Pantothenic acid can be taken in large quantities for the benefit of disease of the skin reduction. B5 works by serving your body to metabolise fats which would-be otherwise be later turned into secretion (oil) and excreted through the skin. Small amounts of B5 won't help though, and it has to be taken several times a day.
To help with acne, you wish need to take 2.5 grams of pantothenic acid (the powder form is more easier to take), 4 times per day, for a total of 10 grams per day.
Aloe Vera ? Succulent Vera has been used for many a years in kitchens for topical application to burns. Another benefit of succulent is that it can prevent scaring, fade marks and help heal disease of the skin spots.
You now have an idea of several basic home items you can use on your skin, that activity better than many a OTC disease of the skin products, and are more cheaper to use. Since we have only actually covered basic disease of the skin treatments, you can always take this to another level and take all natural, internal disease of the skin treatments.
This sums up our basic list of natural alternatives for chemical based disease of the skin treatment products. You can take this a step farther by offensive your disease of the skin from the inside out. Disease of the skin has been shown many times to be really closely affected by the biological process system, so keeping your entire biological process system working as smooth as possible can help reduce acne. I wish help give you a basic idea of several all natural products you can take to help clean up acne.
Cucumber, lemon and carrot juice, brewer's yeast, and active charcoal pills are all capable of serving the biological process system function normally. Since the biological process system is closely related with the health of the skin, they should help reduce disease of the skin breakouts. Flax seed can as well be extraordinary for serving your skin heal faster.
Ryan Bauer is a former disease of the skin sufferer who writes health articles and runs his acne treatment website, Disease of the skin Elimination.
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