Sexual Holistic Healing
Holistic medicine is that which treats the body as a whole, as opposed to its separate parts. For example, traditional medicine will tell you to take ibuprofen for a headache, while holistic medicine will tell you to sit in a quiet location, calm your mind, and meditate, to relieve the stressors causing the headache.
Holistic healing focuses on altering your physiological state without the help of medication. This multi-faceted approach can be just the ticket for women who have difficulty becoming aroused or achieving orgasm. Because there are many different causes of sexual dysfunction, there are several different options when it comes to alternative healing techniques.
1) Alter your diet. Eat foods that have been proven to enhance sexual drive and function. These include foods rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, such as tuna, walnuts, and canola oil, because these increase circulation. Pumping up your zinc consumption is also known to increase libido, so try eating more whole grain bread, brown rice, and lean red meat.
2) Utilize the Fertility Awareness Method. The Fertility Awareness Method, or FAM, is a technique used to chart your monthly cycle. It takes into account a variety of factors, including waking temperature, cervical fluid changes, and estimated dates of ovulation. By getting familiar with your body’s cycle, you can also determine the days when you will be most fertile, and thus the most biologically prepared for sex.
3) Get your blood pumping before sex. Instead of waiting until you’re in the bedroom to get active, try going for a walk or run before your partner comes home. Any type of activity that gets you moving will dramatically increase your circulation, making it quite easy to get aroused and achieve orgasm.
4) Try Ginkgo Biloba supplements. Ginkgo Biloba has long been hailed as a way to improve memory, but it has recently come to light as a beneficial herb for sexual dysfunction in both women and men.
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If you have a Headache and you sit in a quiet location, calm your mind, and meditate, to relieve the stressors causing the headache, as you say, you still gonna die when your aneurysm burst inside your brain and bleeds out . So yor Hollistic medicine is BS.
Kind regards
October 3, 2009 - 6:26pmThis Comment
...Because all headaches cause brain aneurysms. I like the research that you've done! Got the sources in APA format?
Kind regards to you, too.
October 8, 2009 - 7:17amThe headache example was a weak one. People all have degrees of severity with headaches; some tolerable, some not, other brain aneurysms like Dr. Brilliant pointed out above.
The example I like to use to describe how holisitic medicine works involves arthritis. Conventional "solutions" for this problem typically rely heavily on NSAIDs and other anti-inflammatories. While these may help with the pain experiences they do NOTHING to address the underlying reason that causes this joint inflammation. For instance, is this person overweight? Are they consuming foods that they are allergic to (for some reason wheat and dairy seem to cause people a lot of joint pains, as do the Solanaceae family, tomatos, peppers, tobacco, eggplant)? Lack of anti-inflammatory foods in their diet, including turmeric, wild yam (more specific for muscle), frankincense, and others.
In addition to addressing diet/lifestyle a holisitic practitioner may also include some supplements that are useful for reducing inflammation, a personal favourite of mine is MSM and the herbal anti-inflammatories I mentioned earlier (turmeric, frank... etc.), but there are literally hundreds of other natural health products/medical products out there that can help everything from Traumeel, to Tiger Balm, to Wobenzym. The key is that holistic medicine treats the PERSON, not the symptoms and is therefore individualized.
Too lazy to get articles but feel free to research the herbs and MSM as they have a sh*t-ton. Cheers.
October 16, 2009 - 8:34amwow.... this person is giving advice on headaches, not brain aneurisms. I really think that display of hateful negativity was uncalled for.
November 21, 2009 - 8:04pmThe point is that a headache could be secondary to a brain aneurysm, duh...
January 4, 2010 - 1:10pmHolistic medicine: serving to remove the gullible from the gene pool since 1975.
October 28, 2009 - 10:21amlol high five to that
November 9, 2009 - 2:28pmwhy 1975? from my research it's been around a lot longer than conventional medicine...
November 9, 2009 - 2:32pmInteresting debate!
December 31, 2009 - 12:45pmThis Article totally misses the point that some women simply dont know what arouses them. Some experimentation in masturbation is probly needed. Take some time to figure out what you like....
Other factors that significantly decrease libido is relationship stress. If they partner is continually doing things that frustrate you, then chances are you probly arent going to be in the mood. Communicating those things to your partner is very important.
Orgasms are as much a mental battle as they are a physical one. So being distracted by anger toward your partner really hurts. Even being frustrated about not being able to have an orgasm can be the thing that prevents you from having an orgasm. its a little insidious.
January 8, 2010 - 2:28pm