Green Health and Complementary Medicine
Sleep is not something that “just happens” to the mind and body. Sleep is a definite chemical and mechanical process that depends upon the presence of certain essential substances in the brain before it can take place.
One of the ways in which you can improve your concentration is to stop doing several tasks at once. Develop the habit of doing one thing at a time. If you are writing a report for your boss for instance, your focus and attention should be entirely on the report.
This chapter heading was not intended to send you pell-mell to the optician’s for a pair of glasses. The purpose of this chapter is to make more people conscious of the fact that eyes are part of the body; not mere “windows” cut in the skull so the brain can see.
Have you ever experienced a sudden onset of dizziness after you sat up suddenly after lying down for a while? Or have you felt like you were going to faint after you stood up from squatting or kneeling on the floor? These are signs of one type of low blood pressure called orthostatic hypotension.
Caffeine is absorbed within 30 to 60 minutes after drinking a cup of coffee and the effect of caffeine lasts from 4 to 6 hours. Pharmacologically, caffeine acts as a central nervous system stimulator, a point that is well made by the coffee ad on TV which calls it “the think drink.” “Caffeine speeds up reaction time and improves automatic processing skills like doing arithmetic problems and proofreading,” says author Stephen Braun “But for more complicated tasks, like complex word problems, caffeine has also been shown to worsen performance.”
Anterior blepharitis affects the outside front of the eyelid, where the eyelashes are attached. The two most common causes of anterior blepharitis are bacteria (usually Staphylococcus) and scalp dandruff.
