Catherine Howard

July 26th, 2013    Posted in News

First with Catherine of Aragon with whom he had a daughter, Maria. Then with Anne Boleyn, to who after accusing of adultery did perish decapitated, had another daughter, Isabel. His eldest son Eduardo VI was born to his third wife Juana Seymour. Then married Ana de Cleves, both are separated, Catherine Howard who died also decapitated by infidel and finally with Catalina Parr, who accompanied him until his death in 1547 and survived it. His son succeeded him on the throne Eduardo VI, minor via a Regency and his premature death, after a dispute with Juana Grey, granddaughter of Enrique VII, which proved fruitless, succeeds him in 1553, Maria I Catherine’s daughter, vigorous Catholic, who was known as the Bloodroot by your obsessed persecution of Protestants. At her death in 1558 came his half sister, the daughter of Enrique y Ana Bolena, who ascended the throne with the name Isabel I and was baptized by his subjects as the Virgin Queen. Catholics, who chased considered illegitimate as illegitimate.

This was the origin of the long religious struggles that resulted in the exile of the persecuted to the American colonies, which allowed faith depended on the discretion of the monarchs of the day. (6) It is the nearest representative of despotism in England by its intolerance and the rigor with which took its decisions. However his popularity was rising to defend the commercial interests of the middle class, became the precursor of the maritime power English to promote the construction of warships and merchant ships. It was ally of Emperor Carlos I of Spain in a principle and devout Catholic, but then he allied himself with Francisco I of France to confront the first giving beginning to an intermittent struggle which runs for almost three centuries. (7) The estrangement occurred as a result of a sentimental event. Henry VIII was married to Catherine of Aragon, sister of Juana La Loca, daughter of the Catholic monarchs and aunt of the Emperor Carlos V of Germany and I of Spain.

Arabic Oils

July 2nd, 2013    Posted in News

Nature provides us with plants to heal us.The aromatherapy resorts to the use of the properties of plants, through essential oils obtained from processing.Aroma means pleasant odor, fragrance and therapy is the treatment to cure.Until they know the fascinating world of modern aromatherapy; Let’s make a little history.Its use dates to approximately 3500 years before Christ and was used as a healing of the body, (healing, protective) element of evil spirits and in various ritualsIt was common that before a fight warriors clean up their bodies with blows of branch of albhaca, to ward off evil spirits.The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Chinese have contributed to the development of aromatherapy worldwide.In Rome to heal the wounded they were resorting to certain herbs, they were treatments transmitted from parents to children, in which mixing something of witchcraft.Grumbled about the patient strange formulas, and bad luck as he thought, obedient to the incantation was leaving. As in Rome, there were no pharmacies, the preparation of remedies went into the essential functions of the physician, as now happens in the homeopathic medicine; the more akin to ancient medicine.Regarding the prescription of the cure, the doctor had absolute freedom; instead on Egyptian medicine your doctor could not prescribe a treatment until after four days of experimentation.The Greeks took the Egyptian experiences, and how great alchemists, purified the distillation system preserving fragrance and purity of the oils, since for them the aromatic plants were a way of life that incorporabana their bathrooms, food, rites and magic; or in the form of ointment to preserve physical and mental health. The father of medicine Hippocrates, stated that bath and massages with essential oils, assuring the longevity.In the xI century the Arabs perfected the art of distillation to isolate active ingredients from plant oils, attributing to Avicenna, physician, astronomer, mathematician and Arabic philosopher), who introduced the system of refrigeration in the distillation process.With this discovery, the process of extraction of essential oils had less waste and greater strength.Aromatherapy starts in the modern world, when in the century XX Rene Maurice Gatefosse (French chemist), known as the father of modern aromatherapy incorporates it into natural medicine; as a result of severe burns suffered in one of his hands, which dipped in a bowl of lavender essential oil, checking the healing effects, soothing pain and avoiding infection without scars. Dr. Milan Paolo Rovesti, took away the anxiety and depressive States doing to their patients smell cotton soaked in essential oil.