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SESAME SEEDS – EXCELLENT FOR THE LIVER (TREATMENT)
April 7, 2009
No liver complaint should be treated lightly, but if the patient follows the advice given, he will soon be on the mend. Solidago, as usual, should be taken to stimulate the kidneys. Horsetail and witch grass root tea are alternatives. If the patient runs a temperature, and it is not unusual for it to reach 39 °C (102 °F), then Ferrum phos. 12x, diluted holly infusion, Aconitum 4x or any other good fever remedy is called for. A daily dose of one or two tablets of Podophyllum 3x, and according to the circumstances, three or four drops of Chelidonium 4x or the combination remedy Boldocynara should be taken. Condensed carrot juice, Biocarottin, is also beneficial.
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DO STARCHY FOODS CAUSE CONSTIPATION? (INTRODUCTION)
Many people suffering from constipation claim that a diet high in carbohydrates makes their condition worse or perhaps even causes it. Looking at this argument closely, we are inclined to agree, for in such cases the pancreas does not produce enough enzymes to break down starch. Hence it is indeed true that starchy foods can lead to constipation. Potato starch is particularly binding, so that it would be advisable to restrict one’s intake of potatoes or forgo them entirely until the pancreas is back to normal. Too many patients make the mistake of not finding out which foods are known to cause problems, in order to avoid them until a complete cure is achieved. They have the mistaken belief that there must be some kind of miracle cure that will do the job without any sacrifice on their part. But would it not be wiser to avoid all foods that could trigger the disorder instead of waiting until we have the problem and then depending on a remedy to overcome it? Abstinence from such foods is often the only action required to rectify the condition.
*425/28/1*
THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘SOUL’
If we are to understand the meaning of the word ‘soul’, we shall have to turn to the Book of Books, the Bible, and ponder over a marvellous passage in the account of the Creation: ‘God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground [one might say of the elements of the earth] and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul. . .’ or as another translator paraphrased it, ‘a sentient creature’. Elsewhere we read: ‘He poured out his soul to the very death’, and yet again, ‘the soul of the flesh is in the blood’.
If we pause to analyse these scriptures, we must conclude that the ‘soul’ (in Hebrew, nephesh and in Greek, psyche) refers to the whole person, with all his complex emotions and senses, not an immaterial entity within him or only his mind, or psyche, as defined by psychiatrists. In fact, with every pint of blood he loses, it could be said that he loses part of his soul and his sentience. If too much blood is lost, as in an accident, sentience and feeling progressively diminish, until life ceases altogether.
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HOW TO DETECT KIDNEY DISORDERS 2
Such observations turn an inspection of the uric sediments into a fascinating and meaningful study. Indeed, the trained expert can draw valuable conclusions from the pictures revealed by the microscope during a urine analysis. It is even possible to find out whether the patient has adhered to a prescribed diet. For example, if numerous sulphuric crystals are present, it is evident that the patient has eaten foods containing sulphur, such as eggs, beans, peas, lentils and radishes, even though he may have been instructed not to do so. If the test shows any oxalic acid crystals, the patient has been eating spinach, rhubarb, lettuce or sauerkraut. If a large number of creatinine crystals are in evidence, the patient obviously did not abstain from eating meat.
Thus, an analysis of the urine can be most informative, often more than even some doctors may think possible. We may learn something about metabolic disorders, certain organic diseases or other functional disorders.
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CIRCULATORY DISORDERS – GANGRENE
For an effective external treatment, add five drops of Arnica lx to a little warm water and use this to make a wet pack. Take the two remedies Echinaforce and Lachesis Wx in a little water; they should be taken separately on alternate days, in the morning and at night, over an extended period. Aesculaforce and Ginkgo biloba, if taken regularly, also give satisfactory results.
The patient should not expose himself to the cold and should wrap up warmly against the weather. He should also adopt a light vegetarian diet. These measures are not difficult to follow, when he takes into account that by doing so he can find a measure of relief from his unpleasant condition and be spared much discomfort.
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THE DANGERS FOR WOMEN WHO CONTINUE TO SMOKE
April 2, 2009
The bad news is that women are continuing to smoke, and younger women are taking it up more readily than did their mothers at the same age. Approximately 40 percent of teenage girls, but only 30 percent of teenage boys, are reported to be smokers.
For women who smoke, the facts are simple:
• Premenopausal smokers have three times the heart attack rate of their nonsmoker colleagues.
• Women smoking more than forty cigarettes a day increase their heart attack risk by twenty fold.
• Combining smoking with diabetes hugely increases the heart attack risk in women, well above that in similar men.
• Oral contraceptive users who smoke heavily increase their risk of thrombosis in the pelvis, legs, and brain. The risk rises very steeply from their mid-thirties onwards.
Surgery for Women with Angina
Women with angina who are offered a coronary artery bypass operation should accept the chance. Even though they tend naturally to have narrower coronary arteries than men, the results of bypass grafts in women and men are equally good. Women with angina who have never had a heart attack do even better after bypass surgery than similar men.
So go for it! Your doctors have been alerted to the fact that you have had a raw deal and need to be treated more vigorously.
For your own part, recognize that you are at risk by not ignoring that pain in your chest. Do not smoke—at all. Have regular health checks. If you have high blood pressure and /or diabetes, be meticulous about their control. And try to keep to a normal weight—not overweight, but not too thin, either. Finally, if you are menopausal or older, do consider HRT It could do your heart a lot of good.
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THE CARDIOLOGY UNIT: THE STRESS TEST AND THE HOLTER MONITOR
A stress test is done on a treadmill or stationary bike. The treadmill is a moving walkway, the speed and incline of which can be altered. The faster it moves and the steeper the incline, the more work it forces your heart to do. While you walk on the treadmill, your heart is monitored by EKG, which will show when the demand for oxygen by the heart is beginning to outstrip the supply through the coronary arteries. This is usually well before you feel any pain.
The EKG can show how much of the heart is affected, and which part of the heart. This helps to pinpoint which coronary artery is affected, and roughly where. It is a start on the road to defining what exactly your problem is, but it is too inaccurate to use as the sole basis of treatment.
As a rough rule of thumb, if angina or ischemic changes on the EKG start within two minutes of beginning the treadmill exercise, there is enough coronary disease for serious note to be taken. If you can go ten minutes without pain, and there is no silent ischemia on the EKG, there is little to worry about. However, many people fall in between these limits.
The Holter monitor is a portable computerized EKG machine that can be strapped to your chest for twenty-four or forty-eight hours. You wear it as you perform your everyday tasks and even when you sleep (some angina may occur when you sleep).
The Holter monitor records a continuous trace of your heartbeats throughout the whole time you are wearing it, and is programmed to pick up every abnormality during that time, from episodes of ischemia to bursts of abnormal rhythm, to the odd missed beat. It can compare the episodes of ischemia with your count of episodes of pain. The difference gives the numbers of attacks of silent ischemia, and gives an idea of the whole burden of ischemia your heart is carrying, day and night.
Treadmill testing and Holter monitoring can detect people who are at relatively high risk of a serious heart attack. Cardiologists now recommend that everyone with angina under the age of sixty-five years, regardless of whether their symptoms are mild or severe (remember they often bear no relationship to the severity of your blockage), should be offered these tests. For those aged over sixty-five, the decision to put them to such discomfort depends on their general fitness and on how much their angina is interfering with their quality of life.
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HELP YOUR ANGINA/EXERCISE: THE IMPORTANCE OF REST
Daily exercise is all very well, but rest is important, too. Some people find that exercise helps them to relax and reduce their stress, because they always feel good after vigorous physical activity. However, they must not exercise vigorously every day.
For muscles, including the heart muscle, to get the best out of exercise you should take two days of rest from it every week. Plan your week accordingly for two separate “do little” days between exercises. Professional athletes know this—and it is even more important if you have angina.
Rest is important at certain times in your exercise days, too. Don’t, for example, exercise vigorously for at least two hours after a main meal, or until an hour after a snack. Don’t exercise after drinking alcohol.
If you are ill, don’t try to keep up the exercise schedule, especially if you have a virus infection such as the flu or a cold. As you begin to recover, start with a few easy exercises at home—they will help your muscles to recover faster.
Don’t stick to just one exercise either. Mix your exercises with walking, swimming, cycling, running, golfing, tennis, badminton, or whatever you most enjoy. Keep it moderate, and not too competitive, and learn how to relax.
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REDUCING THE RISK FACTORS/TACKLING CHOLESTEROL:SUMMARIZING THE TRIALS
All the trials aiming to reduce the heart attack rate by lowering cholesterol levels have met with some success, but in most the success has been less spectacular than expected. The limitations have been partly caused by the design of the trials, that is, the control groups have often taken to healthier lifestyles as the news of the good effects started to spread.
A main problem with the cholesterol-lowering trials, however, has been their concentration on cholesterol only, and not on all the circumstances that contribute to heart attacks, such as high blood pressure, obesity, lack of exercise, smoking, and alcohol. In any doctor/patient discussion, all the risks would be put before the patient, and then doctor and patient would work together to reduce or abolish them. This was deliberately not done in many of the trials, as their aim was specifically to measure the effect of cholesterol lowering.
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RATES OF HEART DISEASE IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Countries vary enormously in the proportion of their populations with coronary heart disease. In 1986, Professor Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe of Dundee, Scotland, compared mortality rates from coronary heart disease in men aged forty to sixty-nine years from thirty countries. At the top of the list were Northern Ireland, Finland, and Scotland, with six hundred deaths per one hundred thousand men of that age range per year. England and Wales were next, followed by, in the middle, the United States, Norway, Canada, and Israel, with three hundred to four hundred deaths per one hundred thousand. Countries with much lower rates—around one hundred to two hundred deaths per one hundred thousand—were Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Spain, and France. Lowest of all, by far, was Japan, with a death rate of around fifty per one hundred thousand—less than one-tenth of the death rates of the three top countries.
The variations are not just between countries, but within them. Within lowland Scotland, coronary deaths are high in the west and low in the east—a twofold difference in populations living only forty or so miles apart. Districts within western Scotland vary by as much as twofold in their heart disease death rates.
Such regional and local variations in coronary disease have given the clues to its causes. One clue was given in the 1960s by the International Atherosclerosis Project, when investigators from fourteen countries in North, South, and Central America, the Philippines, Jamaica, South Africa, and Norway collected specimens of arteries from postmortem examinations of 22,509 people aged from ten to sixty-nine years.
They showed that atheroma was present in the arteries of all people, regardless of age, race, and geography. It was more common and more extensive as they aged. However, the severe form of the disease—in which there were raised plaques with roughened surfaces projecting into the bloodstream—was closely linked to death rates from heart attacks in the countries concerned. The environment was much more important than race or gender. The severity of the atheromatous changes was directly associated with average blood cholesterol levels in the various populations.
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