Avocado body scrubs

Avocado body scrubs

• One of the best avocado body scrubs you can try out to remove the dead skin on your body is avocado paste and rock salt. 
• You need half a cup of paste mixed with 4 tablespoons of rock salt. Massage your body gently with this scrub once in a week. 
• Mix a cup of avocado paste and yogurt to make a body scrub with a spoon of salt added to it. This will give you smooth and soft skin if done twice in a week.
• If you have tan lines on your body, make an avocado body scrub with lemon and baking soda. Massage your body gently in circular motion once in two weeks.
• To tighten your sagging skin, make an avocado body scrub along with honey and massage in horizontal motions over the sagging skin.
• Make an avocado body scrub along with coffee granules. Use this scrub to help get rid of stretch marks on your body.

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Sukhi Dal Chana

Sukhi Dal Chana

Ingredients:

• 1cup chana dal, washed and soaked in water for 4 hours
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• whole spices
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 2 cloves
• 1 bay leaf and 1/4 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 2 tsp finely chopped corainder
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 5 tsp clarified butter
• Salt to taste

Method: Cook Dal with salt and turmeric powder.Keep aside.Heat clarified butter in a pan. Add all the whole spices.Fry until they crackle. Add onion and fry until golden brown.Add Dal and let it boil for a few minutes.Garnish with chopped coriander.Add lemon juice and stir well.Serve hot.

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Angel wings

• Common Name: Angel wings
• Scientific Name: Caladium bicolor
• A tuberous-rooted perennial most often grown as an annual or a houseplant, ‘White Queen’ has large frosted looking white leaves that have green margins and bright red veins that “bleed”.
•  A great plant for full shade, it can also be grown in sun if provided with consistently moist
  soil.
• Noteworthy characteristics: Large white leaves with green margins and prominent red veining. Contact with the plant may cause skin irritation and stomach upset if ingested.
• Care: In the garden, grow in moist but well-drained soil that is rich in humus and slightly acidic, in partial to full shade
  Propagation: Divide in spring and dust cut tubers with fungicide. Plant tubers 1 inch deep.
• Fertilizer: Fertilize monthly
• Pests and Diseases: Insect pests include spider mites, nematodes and aphids. Tuber rot, blight and leaf spot can affect your angel’s wings plant.
• Problems: Tuber rot, Southern blight, leaf spot, rootknot
  nematodes. Aphids and spider mites can bother plants indoors.

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Recipe for sore throats and chest colds

Recipe for sore throats and chest colds :

Makes about 2 cups 

• 2 lemons thoroughly cleaned and sliced 
• 2 piece of ginger about the size of your pointer and middle finger together sliced into coin size pieces 
• Honey (about 1 cup-maybe more) 

Procedure:
1. In a clean 12 oz mason jar (2 cup size) distribute lemon slices and ginger. 

2. Pour honey over it slowly. This may take a few tries to let the honey sink down and around the lemon and ginger slices. Make sure when the honey has filled in all the voids, there is enough to cover the top of the lemon slices by a smidge. 

3. Close jar and keep refrigerated. The mixture will form sort of a loose honey.

Close jar and put it in the fridge, it will form into a Jelly. It can be Stored in fridge  for 2-3 months. 

 How to use : Add a spoonful with some hot water and drink as a tea.

 For Adults Only - Add shot or two of Whiskey to your mug, 

Good for chest colds.

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Brighten Tired Eyes

Tired eye is another term for what is commonly known as eyestrain – when eyes feel achy, weak, or heavy due to intense use. It is not a disease, and does not require medical treatment – but it never hurts to know how to prevent it.

• Tired eyes can come from any number of activities. Some of the most common include working on the computer for too long, poor lighting conditions, driving a car for prolonged periods of time, reading for long periods, or any other activity that may require the eyes to maintain intense focus for long periods of time.
• Common signs and symptoms of eyestrain include:

1. Soreness of the eyes
2. Dry eyes
3. Watery eyes
4. Back, neck, and shoulder pain
5. General overall fatigue
6. Feeling of heaviness in eyes

Treatments:

Tired eyes are an annoyance more than anything. There are a few ways to prevent eye strain if they don’t work you may want to talk to your eye care professional. Sometimes, there is an underlying medical cause for eyestrain that requires additional treatment.

Some common practices that can reduce the effects of eyestrain are:

• Check your lighting: a high amount of contrast will put more strain on your eyes, so whether you’re reading, watching TV, or working on the computer, make sure you have the room lit evenly, so your eyes don’t have to work as hard
• Take breaks: give yourself regular short breaks from near work tasks, whether this is using a computer or doing fine embroidery
• Ensure that your glasses or contact lens prescription is up-to-date — the prescription of the eye has natural changes over time
• Don't smoke always apply a sunscreen around the eye area
• Apply a moisture to the eye area every night
• Vitamin A cream-Retinoic acid can be added to daily skin care regimen which helps to prevent wrinkles and improve existing lines
• To calm puffy eyes , place cold spoons , slices of cucumbers, chilled tea bags, or even a package of frozen peas under eyes.

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