Pumpkin is a powerful source of vitamins, especially A, important for the health of the immune system, skin and eyesight, E, which fights aging processes, K, which is essential to allow blood to clot ...

Food combinations and cooking methods, the pumpkin Part 2

How many creams rich in ingredients we apply on our skin every day, often without reading the INCI, the label that, by law, must contain the substances that make up a cosmetic product. However, it is ...

Natural cosmetics, like kings and queens Part 13, the wisdom of India

Pumpkin is the fruit of several plants of the Cucurbitaceae family. The pumpkin, depending on the type, may have a round or elongated shape, a smooth or lumpy skin and a more or less sweet pulp with i...

Food combinations and cooking methods, pumpkin Part 1

Oats, scientific name avena sativa, are a very special cereal grain, rich in fiber, vitamins, especially E and group B, proteins, fats and minerals. From oats a flour is obtained that is not only used...

Colloidal oatmeal, a cuddle of beauty

Grapes are the fruit of the grape vine, vitis vinifera, juicy, sweet and tasty, have been a part of human life for thousands of years. There are different types of grapes, sweeter or more sour, smalle...

Black grapes

The auricularia auricula judae, also known as wood ear or jelly ear, is an edible mushroom characterized by a particular ear-like elongated shape. This fungus grows on tree trunks, especially elder, a...

Auricularia

The tonic of the Queen of Hungary is a cosmetic around which incredible legends have been born that describe it as a miraculous lotion able to restore strength, health and youth. Beyond the myth, the tonic contains the benefits of the herbs used to prepare it and that give it anti-aging, healing, antioxidant and soothing properties demonstrated by science. Today we’ll prepare together this cosmetic and we’ll try to revive the story of the woman who gives her name to the tonic, Queen Isabella of Hungary, who, according to the tradition, in later life and burdened with pain, after applying for a year this lotion given to her by an alchemist, regained youth and beauty so much that she was asked to marry the young Carlo Alberto, Grand Duke of Lithuania!

Tonic of the Queen of Hungary, the elixir of youth for the skin

Today we see a pilates sequence based on the side plank that will help, if practiced with constancy, to slim the waistline, improve breathing and circulation but also to strengthen the arms, wrists and shoulders. Lie down on your right side, place your right forearm on the mat and keep your upper body raised. Bend the right leg, place the left foot on the ground and lift the pelvis. The left hand looks towards the ceiling. This is the facilitated version of the side plank. Do on the other side too. Get on all fours, raise the knees and remain for a few seconds in the position. Breathe and lift your pelvis, try to bring your chest closer to your thighs. Then bring the pelvis back towards the mat but do not lean your knees on the floor, keep them raised. Repeat this sequence a couple of times. Stay with the pelvis raised and go in plank. Slowly raise the left hand from the floor and bring the weight to the right. The torso rotates while the left hand goes towards the ceiling and, if possible, the feet are one over the other. Here it is the side plank. Then return to the plank and do on the other side too.

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