Home remedies to Lighten Dark Elbows and Knees by Kiran Zahra

Home remedies to Lighten Dark Elbows and Knees

If you have tried all the means to conceal darkened elbows and knees. And it has limited your options of having your desirable wardrobe. Here are few simple home remedies for the flawless skin.

Mint Application
Mint contains certain essential oils that makes mint a potent breath freshener. It also has antiseptic and anti- inflammatory compounds whose essential oils helps in synthesis of white blood cells and collagen in the body. It also functions to clean away the scar tissues from within.

Combination of mint and lemon oil helps make skin fairer and is good bleach for the skin. Boil ½ cup of water with a handful of mint leaves. Squeeze half lemon juice into the mint water. Soak a cotton ball in the mixture and apply it on your knees and elbows. After 15-20 minutes wash it with warm water.

Lemon And Sugar Scrub

Lemon has super healing properties that heal the scars and bleaches the skin. Sugar granules combined with lemon exfoliates the dry dead skin and aids to form a new softer skin layer.

Before taking a bath rub a slice of lemon with sugar crystals in circular motion till the sugar crystals dissolves.

Scrubbing With A Towel

Mix ½ teaspoon of lime juice and 1 teaspoon of coconut oil together and apply it evenly on the affected area. Leave it on for 15-20 minutes, then scrub it by using a towel soaked in hot water. Coconut is rich in essential fats and Vitamin E that nourishes the skin and makes it soft and supple. If regular scrubbing is done the skin can become more fairer within few days.

Yogurt And Vinegar

Yogurt and vinegar contain lactic acid and acetic acid respectively which helps in lightening skin color.Darkened knees and elbows , scars and pigmentation can be effectively treated with a combination of yogurt and vinegar.Apply it on the affected area and let it sit for approximately 20 minutes and then wash it off with water.

Magic Of Garlic And Onion
Cut a clove of garlic and an onion and rub it directly on your elbows and knees for approx. 10 minutes and then wash it dry. Garlic and onions are herbaceous plant with numerous minerals and volatile oils. Both are oftenly used in phytotherapy due to presence of vitamin C and their essential oils.They are good remedy to lighten up darkened body
parts especially elbows and knees.
Gram Flour And Curd Pack

Gram flour contains a large number of vitamins , minerals ,and proteins, that acts like a natural exfoliant. Its whitening properties aids to eliminate pigmentation and blemishes.

Apply a smooth paste of curd and gram flour on the affected area.After it dries, scrub it off in circular motions and wash it off with water.

Honey And Aloe Vera Mask
Honey is sticky in texture and possesses large number of phytochemicals , enzymes and organic acids.It acts as a natural
moisturizer for your skin whereas saponins and lignins present in aloe plant go deep in the skin and clean it effectively.
Apply aloe vera gel and honey on the knees and elbows and wash it after half an hour.

Lubrication After Shower

Mustard oil has anti bacterial oil with linoleic acid,oleic acid and erucic acid.These volatile acids helps to lubricate the skin, maintain its color and protect it thoroughly.It also helps to retain its  melanin pigment.It is better to rub mustard oil on the affected areas right after taking a bath for best results.Let it be for 15 minutes then wash it with warm water.

Writer: Kiran Zahra

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My Dream of becoming a Nurse is Not Unworthy - Rasool Bux Sarang

“I so want to be a nurse that each day after my school, I go to a clinic nearby my place and serve as a volunteer. People tell me, I should be a doctor, but I want to be a nurse! A career in which I can serve, change and save lives.”

This is a fragile yet determined, young girl, Shahneela’s tale, at the Indus Hotel in Hyderabad, who had come to collect her certificate for completing ‘Youth Development Programme’ – an opportunity for entering the nursing profession. It is a partnership between the Government of Sindh’s Community Development Programme under the Planning and Development Department and the Aga Khan University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Thanks to this partnership, nurses no more have to be simply  diploma holders as they can enroll themselves in Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) , and can hold a degree in something people don’t even take to be a “good enough” profession so far. It’s about time we bring the featured nursing values of compassionate patient care and front-line, hands-on caring experience under professional ambit.

Not just that, but the fact that nobility around nursing should not be discounted as being any inferior to the doctors. It’s only common to find out that when patients recover after their taxing treatments and are released from the hospital, they remember the comfort, the compassion and the security they received from those irreplaceable fountains of strength and care, Nurses.

Without nurses, there would be no real regard for the holistic care. The compassion and empathy of the nurse is what ensures the quality of life that a patient lives with the even with the most incurable, terminal diseases. While doctors maintain the mechanics of the patient’s life; that only includes attending the patient for a very brief span of time, a nurse makes sure that those mechanics are brought to action, along with the altruistic emotional sustenance she lavishes on her patients that strengthens them to fight back their illness.

Where the role of nurses used to be eclipsed in the past and only a few people would join in, times have perhaps changed in Pakistan.  An Intermediate student of the Government Girls Degree College in the impoverished Matiari district, Shahneela would travel 25 kilometers from her home in New Hala to Hyderabad every Sunday for three months to attend the course. And her father, who is a construction contractor by profession, has been fully supportive of his daughter’s endeavors.

However still, when I talked to some of the 126 other participants, most of them wistfully told me that they still could not convince their families about opting for nursing as a profession. “The real challenge is to change the pre-set mindset which says that if you are smart with studies, the only real options you have are either medicine or engineering,” said Fareeda Jatoi of Zubeda .

But for Dr Keith Cash, Dean, AKU School of Nursing and Midwifery, nursing as a profession in Pakistan has progressively evolved; that is there’s far more willingness to join it than before and the teaching standards here are acceptable globally.

“Nursing offers exciting career opportunities as there is a worldwide shortage of graduate nurses, and modern and effective healthcare needs highly qualified nurses if it is to be successful,” he asserted.

According to him, nursing is no longer an underpaid, thankless job. “For instance, just like students of medical colleges, graduates of our four-year nursing bachelors have to undertake a mandatory one-year internship and they are provided a reasonable stipend during this period,” Dr Cash explained.

Speaking in the similar vein he elaborated, “At the conclusion of the five years, students are eligible to licensure as a Registered Nurse. This qualifies them to undertake nursing practice and education in healthcare nationally and internationally.”

For Shahneela, nurses are the heroes of healthcare. She is arduously waiting for the day when her dream to become a nurse will come true, and she returns to her hometown with a nursing degree in hand, to serve her people the best way she can.

Author: Rasool Bux Sarang

Source: www.thenews.com.pk

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