Health

Cloves are famous among the spices used to add flavor to many recipes, but its health benefits as a pain reliever, especially for toothaches, are perhaps the most well-known.

The benefits of cloves stem from the fact that it contains many vitamins and minerals important for health, such as vitamin K, C, A, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, calcium, potassium and manganese.

Therefore, cloves are a treasure trove of health benefits, which can be reviewed in the following infographic.

Cloves are medicinal herbs that have been used for treatment since ancient times.

And the German magazine “Nature Artist” reported that cloves have many health benefits, as clove buds help treat gum infections and relieve toothache, by placing cloves in the cheek pocket or using them to massage the gums carefully, and chewing cloves refreshes the mouth and breath. Benefits of clove tea for health

The Journal of Alternative Medicine added that clove tea contributes to treating intestinal cramps and relieving symptoms of rheumatism.

How to prepare clove tea

To prepare clove tea, put half a teaspoon of cloves in a cup, then pour boiling water over it, then drink it following ten minutes.

Drink two to four cups of clove tea daily.

Baba Al-Majal series in Ramadan 2023, Mustafa Shaaban is promoting his new series Baba Al-Majal, in which a group of the brightest stars in Egypt and the Arab world participate in the work. Mustafa Shaaban presented many very successful dramas and proved himself, and Mustafa Shaaban is also keen to appear in the month of Ramadan with a new and distinguished work. Among the most prominent works of Mustafa Shaaban, which he presented, achieved great success and won the admiration of the audience.

Among his most famous works are the series The Fourth Wife, the Hajj Metwally Family series, the Shame series, the Good Mood series, the Doctor of Women’s Diseases series, the Fourth Wife series, the Ayoub series, the Mawlana al-Asheq series, and the Kings of Jadana series. The new work, Baba Al-Majal series, will be launched in Ramadan 2023. Stay tuned with us for details of the series, the date, and the transmission channels.

Baba Al-Majal series in Ramadan 2023

A few hours ago, the first promotional promo of the Bab Al-Majal series was published, starring Mustafa Shaaban, Nisreen Amin, Sawsan Badr, Jumana Murad, Bassem Samra, Muhammad Najati, Riyad Al-Khouli, Sama Ibrahim, Farah Youssef, Arefa Abdel-Rasoul, Ahmed Kishk, Mahmoud Hafez, Muhammad Radwan and Basma Dawood, directed and written by Ahmed Khaled Moussa, revolves around the story of the Baba Al-Majal series, set in a social and suspenseful framework, regarding a person who has been working since childhood and had the ambition to become a big entity, and indeed he achieved what he wanted and became the owner of the largest auto parts dealer and had competitors in the market and enemies who hated him. Because of what he has reached, and from here the conflicts begin. All of this and more, you enjoy when you follow the Baba Al-Majal series.

The date and channels of the Baba Al-Majal series

Baba al-Majal is one of the new works that are shown for the first time in the month of Ramadan on television, and therefore many people are looking for the official date for the show. That the series be shown on the screen of the ON E channel and on the ON Drama channel, and during the next few hours, the ONI network will announce the timing of the show, and you will also watch the Baba Al-Majal series on the Al-Nahar channel screen daily in Ramadan until the end of the month.

The mental health of populations in middle- and high-income countries has deteriorated little or not at all during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a large meta-analysis led by a team from McGill University. This observation, confirmed by the president of the Association of Psychiatric Physicians of Quebec, contrasts with the catastrophic portrait that has been painted in the major media and by the authors of various studies. Rather, this research reveals the great resilience shown by the majority of the population of these different states, the authors of the study point out.

This meta-analysis, which was conducted by a team of researchers from McGill, McMaster, Toronto and Ottawa universities and King’s College London, is published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The researchers only retained for their analysis studies that compared the mental health of a population during the pandemic – more precisely during the first year of the pandemic – with that observed before the health crisis. Of the 94,000 studies reviewed, only 137 met this scientific quality criterion. The selected studies, which covered a total of 134 different cohorts, were carried out in various middle- and high-income countries, including three in Canada.

The studies that were discarded represented “snapshots of a particular situation, in a particular place, at a particular time, and did not include a comparison with the state of the situation before the pandemic”, underlines the main author of study, Brett Thombs, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and researcher at the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital.

Women more affected

To the surprise of the researchers, the analysis of these 134 studies revealed no statistically significant change in the general mental health of the populations studied between the pandemic period and the period before it. Only symptoms of depression showed a change, described as “minimal to weak”, among people aged 60 and over, university students and people belonging to a sexual or gender minority. “It means that a few more people in these categories, only a few more, have experienced episodes of depression. But it was obviously not catastrophic,” says Thombs.

In a editorial Carsten Hjorthøj and Trine Madsen from the University of Copenhagen argue that this “minimal” worsening of depression symptoms might well have occurred in the absence of the pandemic.

The study did, however, highlight the definite, albeit “minimal to low” impact of the pandemic on women, whose symptoms of depression, anxiety and general mental health problems increased during the start of the pandemic. “Symptoms affecting the female subgroup have increased a bit. So you can extrapolate that probably more women suffered from mental health issues,” says Thombs.

This disproportionate effect of the pandemic on women can be explained by their often precarious situation which made them more vulnerable during the months of confinement. “Women are more often responsible for single-parent families. They often have more family obligations, especially in raising children, than men. They often have lower incomes. Many of them work in environments that have made them more vulnerable, such as health care establishments, CHSLDs, where it was a disaster. And studies have shown that domestic violence targeting women was more prevalent during the pandemic,” says Thombs.

Psychological distress

All these results come as no surprise to the D^re Claire Gamache, president of the Association of Psychiatrists of Quebec. “It’s been clear to us from the beginning that psychiatric problems, psychiatric diagnoses, have not increased during the pandemic, nor following. We haven’t had more depression, more anxiety disorders, more post-traumatic stress syndromes that have reached diagnostic levels. But in general, it is rather a certain psychological distress which has increased during the pandemic and which is slowly normalizing, ”she says while insisting on this important distinction which is only just beginning to be made.

“If you ask people if they have felt negative emotions during COVID-19, most will answer positively. You have to separate frustration, discomfort and sadness from mental health symptoms, anxiety and depression, which you can’t cope with,” notes Thombs.

Contrary to some public health studies and several media reports that claim that the pandemic has had a devastating effect on the mental health of adolescents and young adults, the data from the meta-analysis of the BMJ showed no increase in symptoms of depression, anxiety and general mental health issues during the pandemic in this age group.

“It’s normal, anxiety [chez les ados]. It is normal in a period of learning to adult life to experience moments of stress. We don’t have to make something pathological out of it. We are in adaptation mechanisms which are completely normal and which have probably been much more stressed during the pandemic, by the fact of homeschooling and losing regular contact with friends a little ”, replies the D^re Gamache.

There is, however, a pathological condition linked to adolescence which has increased during the pandemic and which has not clearly emerged in the study, namely that of eating disorders, she underlines. “There have been significant eating disorder issues due to more isolation, more pressure within the family, more social media among young girls, so more body image comparisons, and perhaps more need to find control over food when you felt a loss of control socially, due to loss of regular school attendance and friends, and you knows that anorexia is often an issue of regaining control over one’s life”, points out the psychiatrist.

Far from the general disaster

For Brett Thombs, one of the main messages of his study is that “even if we detected a slight deterioration in the mental health of women, we clearly did not find a catastrophe, a disaster, a tsunami of mental health problems, so many terms that have been used in the media and by certain authors of studies.

“Although in general we haven’t seen a lot of change, it was certainly catastrophic for some individuals because any mental health issue can be very devastating. But we want to emphasize that in many ways people have been really resilient. People found ways to support each other. They met virtually through Zoom. On the street I live on, a group of women started exercising outside, and three years later they are still continuing. Many people suffered a lot, had terrible experiences, others felt better. Some experienced less work stress, had more time than usual with their children. The pandemic has changed their lives and allowed them to refocus on their values,” he notes.

Although the researchers observed little or no change in the mental health of the population in their study, they nevertheless emphasize the importance of improving access to mental health services. “There is a crisis in Quebec and across Canada because people with mental health issues cannot get the care they need. We definitely need to do better. And for people who have developed mental health issues during the pandemic, it’s regarding making sure they get the care they need when they need it,” says Thombs.

“The pandemic has had a much more nuanced effect than we had been presented with so far,” he adds.

In support of this finding: the results of a large study on suicide that brings together data from 21 countries indicate no increase in suicide during the pandemic, and even show a statistically significant decrease in 12 of these countries or regions .

For help concerning your mental health or that of a loved one, do not hesitate to contact the Info-Social 811 service.

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