Thyme is a vegetable that is rich from nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that are needed for the health and development of the body.

Thyme comes from the mint family. There are more than 350 kinds of thymes in the world. In Southern Europe and in the Mediterranean region it is used in meals to give a taste.

Let’s have a look at the benefits of thyme. Thyme involves thymol and carvacrol. It is proved that carvacrol decelerates the growth of the tumor. It also prevents the growth of cancer cells. It fights against cancer. Thymol is antiseptic and antifungal. It is rich from potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, selenium, and manganese. All of them are needed for body functions. On the other hand, it is from B complex vitamins, Vitamine B, Vitamine K, Vitamine C, and folic acid.

Here is a healthy tea to strengthen your immune system and to protect yourself from cancer.

1 dessert spoon of thyme

1 dessert spoon of green tea

250cc boiling water

Put green tea and thyme in a glass cup. Add boiling water on it. Close the cup and soak it for 10 minutes. Drink three cups in a day.

As you know, nowadays the world is fighting with the corona virus. The best way to fight with it is to strengthen your immune system. Consume Vitamin C every day and this tea which I gave the recipe above is one of the beneficial teas for you to strengthen your immune system. I recommend you to drink it every day.

Thyme is rich from Vitamine A which dissolves in oil and it is anti-oxidant. It is needed to protect and support the healthy mucus membrane and the skin. So, thyme supports better seeing.

It cures influenza, coughing, and throat ache. Thyme is a perfect medicine for influenza and coughing with its characteristics of antibiotics and antiseptic. It is also used in the treatment of bronchitis. Thyme oil is one of the strongest natural antimicrobials so it is generally used in the treatment of throat ache. It involves carvacrol and this is the reason that it is one of the main essential oil which is used for throat ache. Thyme oil is a strong microbe killer and has an effect on anti-oxidant. It prevents the harmful effects of free oxygen radicals. It increases the resistance against diseases. It delays the signs of aging.

It is a disinfectant. Usually, the benefits are proved in upper respiratory infections. It is an antioxidant. It prevents cell damages.

Thyme is also used in the treatment of acne. It has perfect antibacterial characteristics. Thus, it is very effective for fighting with the bacteria that causes acne. Thyme eliminates the bacterias that cause many skin problems. It helps to protect the skin health.

There is a good recipe for your face with thyme. Here it is,

1 dessert spoon of thyme oil

1 dessert spoon of water

Mix water and thyme oil. Use it as a tonic on your face. This tonic is used for firming mature skins.

It supports hair growth. It has vital importance to give nutrients to the hair follicles for hair growth.It hastens the blood circulation on the scalp. On the other hand, it prevents hair loss, and also because of its anti-bacterial characteristics it is used in the treatment of scurf.

For healthy hair:

2 soup spoons of thyme oil

2 soup spoons of pine oil

A shampoo

Put thyme oil and pine oil in your shampoo and wash your hair with this shampoo. you will see the health on your hair.

This cure will nourish your hair. This will support the healthy growing of your hair.

Thyme is rich from vitamin K, iron, calcium, and magnesium. These minerals play a vital role in bone health. It supports bone growth and decreases the risk of bone defects. Thus, thyme helps to prevent bone diseases and protect powerful and healthy bones.

Thyme helps to prevent cardiovascular diseases. The combination of inflammatory and anti-oxidant features of thyme helps to prevent chronic inflammation which is the main reason for cardiovascular diseases. Especially thyme oil is known with an antispasmodic feature that protects heart health. It maintains the regular working of the heart valve. It relaxes veins and artery. It reduces blood pressure and strengthens the heart.

Thyme helps to control blood pressure. Thyme leaves are rich from potassium which is an important component of body and cell liquids in controlling blood pressure and heart rate.

Thyme has a perfect anti-inflammatory feature which is very effective in the treatment of menstrual and other cramps in the body. Thyme tea is often recommended in the treatment of PMS for women.

It has perfect anti-bacterial features, for this reason, generally, it is used to fight with diseases and infections which is caused by bacterias and fungi like Ecoli. The studies have proved that thyme oil has fighting power against different bacterial kinds. It can kill bacterias inside and outside the body. On the other hand, thyme tea is used in the disinfection of skin and surfaces.

Thyme prevents anemia. It is a good source of iron. Iron plays a vital role in the growth of red blood cells in the body. For this reason lack of iron can cause anemia. If you take thyme in your daily diet, you will help to prevent anemia.

This is a very useful plant. It is like a miracle. I recommend you to keep and use it every day in your daily diet. I gave some information about thyme to you. I hope you will use this information in your daily life for your health.

Resource: Dr. Aktaş, Ümit: Life Without Medicines.Hayykitap,İstanbul,(2014)

Humans have minerals in their bodies. Stones also involve minerals. Diseases are a result of a lack or excess of minerals. Healing stones should not be used according to the zodiac, it should be used according to the lack of minerals of your body. For example, a person who has high blood pressure should not use onyx. You should know the healing stones well before using them.

AMETRYN:

Hardness degree: 7

Chakra: Top

The Benefits of Ametryn:

• Ametryn cures skin diseases. It is good, especially for allergy.
• It helps to clean the blood.
• It helps to strengthen the immune system.
• It strengthens the brain functions and hastens the learning.
• It helps to eliminate the digestion problems and losing weight.
• It gives vitality to your body.
• It cures chronic fatigue syndrome.
• It has a healing characteristic of physical and psychological health problems.
• It cures DNA damages.
• It helps to be safe from cancer.

APATITE:

The Hardness Degree: 5

The Benefits of Apatite:

• Apatite increases the ability of learning.
• It forms self-confidence.
• It strengthens the muscles.
• It balances the high blood pressure.
• ıt increases the motivation for working.
• It increases the ability of coordination.
• It eliminates the feeling of hunger.
• Apatite increases logic power, the endurance of the body, and performance.
• Yellow and golden apatite is good for bone loss and other bone problems.
• Light blue apatite is good for stutter.
• Blue apatite is used for the treatment of hyperactivity and autism.

AVENTURINE:

Hardness degree:7

Chakras: Heart, forehead, solar plexus.

The Benefits of Aventurine:

• It eliminates heartthrob, it has positive effects on heart health.
• It prevents vessel stiffness
• It is good for psychological problems. It eliminates anxiety disorders and fears.
• It is beneficial for a panic attack
• It is beneficial for sciatic
• It can be used against stress
• It is accepted as fortune stone.
• It helps to cure the intense.
• It affects body fat and lowers high cholesterol.
• It cures acne and allergy.
• It is also called as ‘happiness stone’. It gives calmness and joy of living.
• It activates the thymus gland and it strengthens the immune system.
• It regulates metabolism.
• It eliminates nauseation.
• It prevents the formation of inflammation.
• It has balancing effect. It is good for depression
• It is good for concentration.
• It is good for sinus.
• It lowers fever.

THE CARE OF AVENTURINE:

This stone can be used for mediation. You should use it for long time. Hold it under flowing water once a week. Then put it under sunshine to recharge it.

MOONSTONE:

Hardness degree: 6-6,5

Chakras: Solar plexus, third eye

It is beleived that this stone finds out the power of moon.

The Benefits of Moonstone:

• Moonstone is used to solve the problems of reproductive organs. It is good for exility. It helps pregnant during their labor.
• It balances hormones.
• It eliminates troubles during periods.
• If puerperal hold it on their body, it will activate the mammary gland.
• It balances the estrogen hormone and keeps ovary healthy.
• It affects the thyroid glads and hastens the metabolism.
• It regulates the digestion
• It is effective against greed.
• It is good for cramps and food ache.
• It regulates the emotional balance.
• It is good for the pancreas
• It helps you in losing weight. Osculate the moonstone on your body for ten days. After ten days let in the ground for a day. This keeps you in the same weight.

The care of Moonstone:

Put it in a bowl that is full of hematite. If you have a bigger stone put it under flowing water after every use. And put it under the moonlight to recharge it.

Healing stones are important but you should know how to care for them and you should know which stone is used for what. I will continue to inform you about healing stones in the next articles.

Human has different characteristics from other living organisms in the world. Everything in the earth serves to humans. Everything in nature has a cause. The universe is a pharmacy and we benefit from this pharmacy. In this article, I will inform you about the benefits of ruby zoisite, amazonite, and amethyst.

RUBY ZOISITE:

Hardness degree: 6,5-7

The Benefits of Ruby Zoisite:

Ruby zoisite strengthens the immune system.
It renews the cells.
It changes negative energy to positive energy around you.
It strengthens the memory.
It has positive effects on DNA.
It helps people to find hidden talents.
It encourages mental talents.
It relaxes the psychology.

AMAZONITE:

Hardness degree: 6-6,5

Chakras: The third eyes, thymus, crown chakra

It is called amazonite because its shape likes the Amazone River. It is a classical treatment stone. You can drink the water from it.

The Benefits of the Amazonite:

It calms excessive excitement, anger, and other emotions. It eliminates negative energy and stress.
It helps to find creative ideas.
It increases the mental power and ability to understand.
It gives the ability to work together with other people in harmony.
It eliminates heart spasm.
It balances the calcium in the body. It eliminates the lack of calcium in the body. It prevents tooth decay.
It protects from eye diseases. It is effective in the treatment of them.
It is effective for inflammatory diseases.
It is effective in pain for childbirth.
It increases communication skills for love.
It is useful for all the chakras. It removes energy blocks.
It regulates the metabolic activities.t is good for general health.
It balances the lead in the body.
It helps people to accept the changes in your life.
It is good for muscle pains. It solves throat and back spasm problems.
It helps to cure diseases like rhythm disorder in heart, digestion disorder, headache, and migraine.

It hastens metabolism. It balances the nerve system. It is also good for the brain.
It cures the aches in your body. Put the amazonite on aching part of your body and wait for a time.
It maintains the mental balance and brings harmony to our life. It strengthens personal expression.
It helps you while coping with problems
ATTENTION! If you want to see the effects of it you should hold it on you for a long time.

THE CARE OF AMAZONITE:

Put it under flowing water once a week. Then, put it under sunshine to install it.

AMETHYST:

Hardness degree: 7

Chakras: Forehead, crown

The benefits of Amethyst:

Amethyst involves lithium mineral which increases the level of TSH. Thus, thyroid patients should not use this stone.
If you put amazonite under your pillow, you sleep well.
In the situations of migraine and stress, it relaxes cramps.
It is very effective in skin diseases. It firms the skin. If you put raw amazonite in the water and wash your face with it, it curs acne, pringle, and black spot. If you gargle with this water, it cures mouth sores and gingivitis.
It is good for lung diseases, allergy, and varicosis.
It balances high blood pressure and low blood pressure.
It strengthens the immune system and endocrine system.
It eliminates the formation of cancer.
It balances blood sugar.
It cleans the blood and gives energy.
Healing power is high. It turns negative energy into positive energy.
It increases concentration.
It plays a balancing role in tics and neurotic situations.
It is good for depression.
When it is used with pink quartz, it strengthens the mind and protects the heart.

Dark purple and light-colored amethysts especially luminous amethysts have the strongest energy.
It reduces the effects of menopause.
It prevents abortion.
It functions pituitary.
It is believed that it protects from sorcery.
It has characteristics of getting rid of smoking, alcohol, and drug addiction by using it with the other healing stones.
It is used for varicosis, lung diseases, epilepsy, and venereal diseases.
It forms harmony and balance on a person who has focused on the energy of it.

The care of Amethyst:

They are known as a luck stone. It has males and females. For using of treatment, you should use the opposite sex. You should not leave it under the sunshine. Put it under flowing water once a month. You can wash it with salty water or seawater. Sometimes put it underground. You do not install it because it is a very strong stone.

Resource: Belgin Dal, Healing Stones, Aurum, 2015.

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In order to understand the effects of healing stones, it is important to know minerals. The minerals in fruits and vegetables have may effects in our bodies. The same effects are shown from the minerals of healing stones.

In this article, I will give some information for some healing stones.

ONYX-AGATE:

Hardness degree: 7

Chakras: Root, heart, lower stomach

Onyx is one of the favour stone among healing stones with its different colours and rings. Its name comes from the Achates River from Sicilia. Onyx and agate are two different types of the same stone.

THE BENEFITS OF ONYX-AGATE:

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• It cleans out the negative energy or much energy from the body.
• It has an anti-stress effect
• It provides clotting, and it is styptic
• It is very important for the urine system
• It is used for painkiller
• It is good for skin diseases
• It strengthens the willpower
• It strengthens the veins
• It develops the ability of good talking and writing
• It is used for the treatment of epilepsy and sleepwalking
• It is recommended for pregnant women. It gives health to baby and pregnant woman
• It helps you to live in harmony with people around you
• It protects the health of tooth and bones
• It refreshes your energy
• Red onyx is good for heart and blood circulatory system
• Blue onyx is used for throat problems. It affects throat chakra
• It is recommended for eye health
• It gives positive energy when you feel bad
• It helps to gather attention
• Onyx symbolizes success. It protects you against negative energy and increases courage. It is recommended to use onyx as a ring. When you use it as a ring it increases self-confidence.
• Orange onyx increases physical vitality and eliminates laziness. It strengthens your vocation on the topic you want to focus on.
• Blue lace agate strengthens dispassionateness and self-confidence.
• Onyx settles, it increases self-confidence if you will give a speech to the community
• Blu onyx is also used against blink
• Moss agate gives you eternal love and increases mental progress
• If you feel bad, it gives you to look positively to events
• If you are affected by negative behaviors of people, onyx takes negative emotions from you and makes you feel better.
• BE CAREFUL! If you have high blood pressure, do not use onyx. You can use it if you have low blood pressure.

THE CARE OF ONYX:

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Onyx is a hard stone. You can hold it under warm water once a month to discharge it and put it under sunshine to increase its energy.

THE USAGE OF ONYX:

The chakras in the body of onyx are heart, lower stomach, and root chakras. Touch the onyx on your heart for ten days. Then put it in the ground. If you have high blood pressure, do not use onyx.

AQUAMARINE:

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Aquamarine means sea water. Its colour is light blue or sea blue. The most beautiful aquamarines are found in Russia.

Aquamarine is the birthstone of March. And also it is the most suitable gift for the 19th wedding anniversary.

THE BENEFITS OF AQUAMARINE:

• It is effective on the pituitary gland and thyroid gland which maintain the hormone balance of our body
• It keeps you away from smoking and alcohol. If you want to stop smoking carry it between your throat and chest. From the first day, you will not feel the taste of cigarettes. You should put the stone on the ground for the first day for a night. The next day you can use it. You should change the ground frequently in order to renew the minerals.
• It is good for the digestive system. Put aquamarine in a ceramic glass and put water on it. Drink this water. This cures stomach disorders like reflux and gastritis.
• It is a very effective curative for breathing systems.
• It heals asthma, bronchitis patients, and it is good for joint and throat ache colds.
• If you have bleary eyes put the aquamarine on your eyes for 30 minutes every day
• It has a positive effect on vein blocks, bone structure, and forgetfulness so this is very suitable for elder people.
• It increases self-confidence
• It is believed that aquamarine gives courage against death
• It gives the possibility to regulate your life
• Sailors believe that it brings luck because of its color. Also, they called it ‘prophet stone’ because they believe that prophets see the future from this stone.
• Be careful if you are thyroid, goiter, or nodule patient, you can not use it.

THE CARE OF AQUAMARINE:

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If it is possible, use it by touching your skin. You should hold it under cadent water for energy discharging every day. During the night put it in a bowl which is full of hematite stones to charge energy. If you use it every day, you will put it under sunshine once a week.

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In this article, I gave you valuable information about onyx and aquamarine. I will continue to inform you about healing stones. Do not forget healing stones are alternative curing methods, you should continue to take the advice of your doctors. You will see the benefits of healing stones.

Resource: Belgin Dal: Şifalı Taşlar, Aurum Yayınları, 2015

Stress became a part of our lives. Some of us can success to cope with it but some of us can not. Stress is attacking which comes to our bodies or our minds from outside. According to the American Psychological Association, 25% of Americans are under high stress.

For John Medina, our brain can cope with stress only for 30 seconds. In his book ‘Brain Rules’ he mentioned that our brain was not designed to cope with stress in the long run. It gives harm to the brain and memory functions. If we face stress in the long run, this will affect our immune system and we will get ill easier. Also, it will affect our sleeping routine. If you are under stress your body will excrete cortisol hormone. This hormone helps us to cope with problems when we are under threat ( it is an escape or fight reaction) but if you excrete this hormone much, you will awaken your neurons and by the time your neurons will die.

Since we do not want to wane our brain we should learn how to cope with stress. Here are some ways of coping with stress.

• Your diet is very important. It must be under control. Healthy foods are important. Add vegetables and fruits to your diet. This will also make your immune system stronger. In your diet, you should add five portions of different colors of vegetables and fruits. Vegetables and fruits involve potassium which balances your blood pressure. Surveys tell us that fruits and vegetables are good options to decline your blood pressure. And also do not consume salt very much.
• Do not drink alcohol and smoke while coping with stress. This will not help you. Smoking will threat your stress because of its ingredients.
• Do exercises regularly but do not fight with yourself while doing exercises. Especially do ponderous sports. Walk, ride a bicycle or dance. When you are active physically you excrete a hormone which makes you feel happy. This makes you lessen your stress and your blood pressure. World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends exercising at least twice a week. This will support your health.
• Allow time to yourself to rest. Resting is very important. Also, sleep well. If you can not sleep well this will affect your state of mind and your energy. If you control your sleep this will lessen your stress.
• Know your responsibilities. Do your responsibilities on time in order not be panic later.
• While targeting your objectives be realistic. You can not do everything perfectly. Do not forget you are a human being.

• Do meditation. Mediation is one of the best ways of coping with your stress.
• Learn breathing techniques. True breathing techniques will make you feel more comfortable. Sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes. Breath deeply from your nose and full your lungs with air. wait for a second and then give your breath by your mouth. Breathing techniques are accepted as a kind of mediation and in recent years it is very popular. Do this exercise 1-2 minutes in a day. According to surveys, breathing techniques reduce stress, depression, and aches.

• Yoga is also a good way of coping with stress. It is proved that people who do yoga are more calm people and have a more optimistic point of view against life.
• Music is another important thing in our lives of coping with stress. Listen to music and if you can play a musical instrument. This is also a way of lessening stress. Also, other kinds of art like painting will make you feel better. Painting is another way of telling yourself to others by using your emotions and abilities. It is a way of relaxing.
• Meet with your friends. Meeting with friends will make you feel better. If you can, organize days to meet and enjoy time with them. During these times, forget everything and just live the moment. Do not bring your problems to every place you go to.
• Feed animals. Animals are a good way of coping with stress. Touch them, feed them, talk to them, You will feel the difference after you began to look after a pet.
• Help people. If you help people you will live positive emotions about life. When you begin to help others you will forget your own problems and maybe you will understand that your problems are not so big in life. You will see how you can change a person’s life by helping him/her and this will make you happier.

These techniques will help you to give fewer reactions to stress so you will be more relax and calm during the day. Your attitude will change against life. These are relaxing techniques. By these techniques, you will feel better. Just give a break to apply these techniques and do not forget to smile.