Figs Tree in Tiong Bahru Park

Figs Tree in Gim Moh

Arthritis and how to controls and Issues

That covers most of the claims regarding uric acid. There are some things that can help reduce the potential for developing gout that can be used in conjunction with drinking plenty of water and following a diet with lower levels of purine.


Exercise

First and most important is regular exercise. It seems like exercise is indeed the magic elixir for maladies and it helps with high uric acid levels as well. It may be the fact that exercise is related to lower levels of uric acid through weight reduction alone but it has been shown to be helpful.

Fruit & Vegetable Supplements

It also appears that celery and celery extracts can have a positive impact on uric acid levels. Celery can now be taken in a capsule form. Celery extract is perfectly legal and is available through a number of online herb shops. It looks like most sites are selling doses that run from 50 to 100mgs and the price ranges from $6 to $20 a bottle and most bottles contain anywhere from 50 to 100 capsules.

As with any drug, herb or extract, do your homework and check with your doctor to ensure that there will not be any dangerous conflicts with prescriptions you are currently taking and that there will not be any side effects that could also detract from the effectiveness of some of your prescriptions.


Eating Cherries

Finally, there is some late breaking research that shows that cherries might also contain elements that are effective in battling increased uric acid levels. The cherries have to be tart and they work by dissolving some of the uric acid crystals that build up in the joints.

Water

It also bears repeating that water is an essential ingredient for processing purines. The kidneys, and every other organ, for that matter need water to function. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day should dramatically reduce uric acid levels in the body in a short period of time.

Wonder of Figs Fruit

Figs on a branch arching over the water's edge.

Explains why there are so many squirrels on the Lower Peirce Trail.

Ficus auriculata

[Broad-leaf Fig, Elephant Ear Fig, Roxburgh Fig]

Figs (无花果)
If you are interested to use any of the image(s), please read the conditions carefully.
A Complete Guide to Growing Figs

Not too many people consider figs as a backyard plant, but growing figs is actually quite easy if you live in the right climate. In the United States, figs can be grown in the warmest USDA zones, down to around zone 8. Figs need two things to grow--the first is warm weather and the second is lots of sunlight. A fig tree needs at least eight hours a day of sunlight to produce fruit.

Growing figs is possible in the southern and western portions of the U.S. Figs come in many varieties though most of us only think of figs as the type you find in the middle part of a cookie. Figs are not terribly particular about the type of soil; just remember that they must be placed in a spot that is sunny all day long. An ideal spot would be the south side of a building.

Figs should be planted in spring while they are still in the dormant stage. It is always best to start with a small plant. If your fig plant was grown in a container, you can place it in its new home just as it is, but if you have a bareroot fig, you should remove the top fifty percent before planting.


Don’t prune your figs the first year, but in the spring of the second year, you can prune down to around four strong shoots, which you should choose to be leaders. After this you can prune back every spring before the fig tree starts its growth for the new year. Figs should be cut back by about one-third each year. Remove any shoots or branches that have died.

It is also possible to take a cutting from a fig plant. It should be in the 8-10 inch range with year-old wood. Suckers can also be planted right into the soil to start new fig plants. As for watering, fig trees should have in the neighborhood of one inch of water every week. They should not need any fertilizing unless for some reason the plants just refuse to grow in your location.

When growing fig trees, mulch in the summer to keep in moisture and in the fall for winter protection. They require a hefty four to six inches of mulch. Figs are ready for harvest when the fruit starts to droop. They also produce a milky-type liquid right before they are ripe. Some people who suffer from allergies might find this white secretion bothersome.

There are really very few diseases or pests which bother fig trees. The two biggest frustrations are that your plants fail to yield fruit or that they grow fruit and you have to battle with birds to harvest it. Birds love to eat figs. That’s why it is best to pick you figs before they get too ripe. You can cover the trees with nets to keep birds off the fruit.

Often people think their fig tree is just not going to produce any figs but you have to have a lot of patience with figs. It can take as many as three to four years before a tree sets with fruit. For others, sometimes the figs either do not ripen or the figs drop off the plant prematurely. If your figs fail to ripen, you may be fertilizing them too much. They require little fertilizer.

In the southern United States, the cultivars Celeste and Brown Turkey are the most popular ones. Celeste will always drop some fruit just because it is one of the plants characteristics.

Propagate A Fig Tree From A Cutting
There are actually several ways to propagate more fig trees for yourself or others. However, some methods are easier and have a higher success rate than others. For example, growing from seeds is very hard and often results in failure. Growing from cuttings from a healthy fig tree, on the other hand, has a 50% or higher success rate.

Step 1 – Choosing Your Tree

There are several things to consider about where you get your cuttings from. You may need to purchase some new fig trees from a nursery if you don’t already own them, or know somebody else with fig trees. If bought locally, you shouldn’t have too much trouble about picking an appropriate fig tree, but bear in mind that there are many varieties, each with their own climate and conditions that they will flourish in. A fig tree that grows superbly in Texas, for example, likely won’t grow at all in California, and vice versa.

Step 2 – Choosing Your Cutting

If you’ve purchased fig trees, you should wait about two years before getting your cuttings, to give the tree a chance to establish strong, vigorous and healthy growth.

Take your cutting from a vigorously growing stem. They should be rather woody and not entirely green, and have little to none of last year’s growth. Softer, greener stems are more likely to rot. The cutting should be about 6 to 8 inches in length, and about the diameter of a pencil.

Step 3 – Pot the Cutting

Remove most of the leaves, or at least the bottom leaves past the first 2 nodes. You can dip the cuts into a rooting hormone, but be aware some growers advise against it. Place the cuttings in a plastic pot, about 4 inches in size and filled with a light, airy soil. Moisten the soil and cover the cutting to hold in moisture. A 2 liter pop bottle with the bottom cut off and the cap still on makes for easy moisture insulation. Don't water the cutting again until it is extremely dry. Place it outside in mild sun, or under the shade of a mature fig tree.

Step 4 – Hardening Off the Cutting

In time, you’ll see vigorous growth with newly formed leaves as well as roots growing. Wait until a complete root system is formed, then you can begin to harden it off by bringing it outside uncovered for several hours a day, and bringing it back inside at night. It will take about two weeks to fully harden off and become accustomed to its new climate.

Step 5 – Transplanting

This entire process will likely start in the late summer or fall, and last until at least the following spring. Once a fig tree has hardened off, it is possible to transplant it permanently outside. However, some say that it should be left for another year from spring before transplanting.

Follow these steps, and before you know it, you’ll have a wonderful new fruit tree in your backyard!

Parsley

Years pass by and our kidneys are filtering the blood by removing salt, poison and any unwanted entering our body. With time, the salt accumulates and this needs to undergo cleaning treatments..


How are we going to do this?

It is very easy, first take a bunch of parsley and wash it clean

Then cut it in small pieces and put it in a pot and pour clean water and boil it for ten minutes and let it cool down and then filter it and pour in a clean bottle and keep it inside refrigerator to cool.

Drink one glass daily and you will notice all salt and other accumulated poison coming out of your kidney by urination. Also you will be able to notice the difference which you never felt before.

The herb contains no cholesterol; but is rich in anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber which helps control blood cholesterol levels, prevents constipation, protects body from free radicals mediated injury and from cancers.
The essential oil, Eugenol, present in this herb has been in therapeutic use in dentistry as a local anesthetic and anti-septic agent for teeth and gum diseases. Eugenol has also been found to reduce blood sugar levels in diabetics, however, further detailed studies required to establish its role.

Parsley is rich in poly-phenolic flavonoid anti-oxidants including apiin, apigenin, crisoeriol, and luteolin; and has been rated as one of the plant source with highest anti-oxidant activities.
The herb is a good source of minerals like potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, and magnesium. Potassium in an important component of cell and body fluids that helps control heart rate and blood pressure by countering the effects of sodium. Iron is essential for heme production inside red blood cells. Manganese is used by the body as a co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase.

It is also rich in many antioxidant vitamins including vitamin-A, beta-carotene, vitamin-C, vitamin-E, zea-xanthin, lutein, and cryptoxanthins. The herb is also an excellent source of vitamin-K and folates. Zea-xanthin helps prevent age related macular degeneration (ARMD) in the retina of the eye in the old age population through its anti-oxidant and ultra-violet light filtering functions.

Fresh herb leaves are also rich in many essential vitamins such as pantothenic acid (vitamin B-5), riboflavin (vitamin B-2), niacin (vitamin B-3), pyridoxine (vitamin B-6) and thiamin (vitamin B-1). These vitamins are essential during carbohydrates, fat and protein metabolism by acting as co-enzymes.

It is probably the richest of the entire herb source for vitamin K; provides 1640 mcg or 1366% of recommended daily intake. Vitamin K has been found to have potential role in bone health by promoting osteotrophic activity in the bones. It has also established role in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease patients by limiting neuronal damage in the brain.
清洗腎臟的簡單方法




Simple Kidney's Cleanser - Health Care

清洗腎臟的簡單方法

It is vegetables, should try it at home.

只用蔬菜，可以在家裡嘗試。

CLEAN YOUR KIDNEYS WITH LESS THAN $1.00

用不到 $ 1.00美金 就可清洗你的腎臟

Years passes by and our kidneys are filtering the blood by removing salt, poison and any unwanted entering our body. With time, the salt accumulates and this needs to undergo cleaning treatments.

多年來，我們的腎臟過濾血液，排除進入我們的身體的鹽，毒素及任何不需要的物質。隨著時日，鹽毒積累，必須進行清潔處理。

How are we going to do this?

我們要怎樣做呢？

It is very easy, first take a bunch of parsley and wash it clean .

非常容易，首先拿一把荷蘭芹，洗乾淨。



Then cut it in small pieces and put it in a pot and pour clean water and boil it for ten minutes and let it cool down and then filter it and pour in a clean bottle and keep it inside refrigerator to cool.

切成小塊，放在鍋子裡，注入乾淨的水煮10分鐘，冷卻後過濾到一個乾淨的瓶子，存放冰箱。



Drink one glass daily and you will notice all salt and other accumulated poison coming out of your kidney by urination. Also you will be able to notice the difference which you never felt before.

每天喝一杯，你會發現你腎臟裡所有積累的鹽和其他毒素都經由尿液排出體外。而且感覺身體和以前完全不同。

Parsley is known as best cleaning treatment for kidneys and it is natural!

人們很早就曉得荷蘭芹是最佳腎臟清洗劑，而且它是天然的。

Please forward to all your friends !

請轉寄給你所有的朋友！



荷蘭芹又名Italian Parsley(巴西利，洋香菜 , 香芹，法国香菜、洋芫荽 ）



别小看这个超级营养的香草植物， 它可去口臭及帮助消化，是维他命A,C, K的极佳来源，富含叶绿素，钙， 钠，镁及铁，可以巩固肾上腺，也对视力及脑神经有益。荷蘭芹的果实 (即种子)和根群中还含有利尿精油，其中含有类黄酮的成分，有利尿和防腐作用。果实中利尿精油的含量为2.6%，根中的含量为 0.1%～0.3%，所以果实的药效要比根的药效高。在西方国家，医学界把荷蘭芹推荐用于治疗膀胱炎和前列腺炎的蔬菜膳食谱中，或与利尿草药混合使用。

Healthy living and information.

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not
show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few
billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more
cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are
unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the
detectable size.


2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's
lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will
be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple
nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental,
food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and
including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and
also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow,
gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver,
kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and
damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce
tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not
result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and
radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence
the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and
become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer
cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by
not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one
important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like
NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is
harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses
but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make
it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and
substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is
acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef
or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and
parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains,
seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline
environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh
vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach
down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth
of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and
drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts)and
eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at
temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea
is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best
to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy
metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes.
Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads
to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from
or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of
cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence,Essiac,
anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own
killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E
are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's
normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and
positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger,
unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic
environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax

and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising
daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular

level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.