Dr John Anne

Vitamin C- Ascorbic Acid Benefits, Deficiency and Sources

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is a water-soluble vitamin. It is the most sensitive of all vitamins to heat. Man, monkey and guinea pig are perhaps the only species known to require vitamin C in their diet. Sources: The main dietary sources of vitamin C ar... Read >

Vitamin B2 - Riboflavin Benefits, Deficiency and Sources

Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) is a member of the B-group vitamins. It has a fundamental role in cellular oxidation. It is a co-factor in a number of enzymes involved with energy metabolism. Sources: Its richest natural sources are milk, eggs, liver, kidney ... Read >

Vitamin B1 - Thiamine Benefits, Deficiency and Sources

Thiamine (vitamin B1) is a water-soluble vitamin. It is essential for the utilization of carbohydrates. Thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP), the coenzyme of cocarboxylase plays a part in activating transketolase, and enzyme involved in the direct oxidative pathw... Read >

Vitamin B1 - Thiamine Benefits, Deficiency and Sources

Vitamin A covers a pre-formed, retinol, and a pro-vitamin, beta-carotene, some of which is converted to retinol in the intestinal mucosa. Sources of Vitamin A: Vitamin A is widely distributed in animal and plant foods -in animal foods is preformed vit... Read >

Vitamin A Deficiency, Prevention and Treatment

Deficiency: The signs of vitamin A deficiency are predominantly ocular. They include night blindness, conjunctival xerosis, Bitot's spots, corneal xerosis and keratomalacia. The term ‘xerophthalmia" (dry eye) comprises all the ocular manifestations of V... Read >

Home remedy for eczema

Eczema Symptoms and Causes: One of the most common of all skin diseases, eczema consists of an inflammation of the skin of a catarrhal character. It is attended with papules, vesicles or pustules, attended with more or less discharges, and with itchin... Read >

Home remedy for diabetes

Diabetes Mellitus Information Diabetes, or Diabetes Mellitus to give it its proper medical name, is a disorder of assimilation. When the pancreases become inactive or atrophied and cease to produce insulin, the body is unable to convert the sugar into ... Read >

Home remedy for conspitation

Conspitation Causes and Symptoms: Constipation is a condition in which the bowels are opened too seldom or incompletely. The patient may pass infrequent and hard, dry stools. The main symptoms is the desire to void the stools but the inability to do so. I... Read >

Home remedy for common cold

Common Cold Causes and Symptoms: Call it corya or catarrh of the nose; a common cold is a very irritating condition. It may be caused by a variety of factors, the most common being a sudden chilling because of a change of temperature, coming out of th... Read >

Home remedy for acidity and ulcers

Symptoms of Hyperacidity The presence of the gastric juices help in digesting the food. If the hydrochloric acid present in the stomach increases in quantity, the condition is known as hyperacidity. It is this condition which gives rise to gastric (in... Read >

Home remedy for acne

Acne Symptoms: Acne is a skin disease affecting the sebaceous gland (glands which produce an oily secretion). These glands are especially large upon the nose where there openings from pits that are clearly visible. There appears to be an individual predis... Read >