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COFFEE – MAKING SAUERKRAUT AT HOME (PART 2)
April 9, 2009
Of course, sauerkraut can be made without the onions. It is important, however, that the preparation is done in a warm room and that the cabbage it left to stand for two or three weeks in a room not under 20 °C (68 °F). After that, place the container somewhere cool so that there is no butyric acid fermentation, which could ruin the contents. If you prepare sauerkraut without salt, you must make sure that you exclude all air from the container and that everything is scrupulously clean so that it will keep well.
Formerly 1-2 per cent salt was used, in other words, 100—200 g for every 10 kg of cabbage (4-8 oz for every 20 lb). Nowadays, 0.5 per cent salt or less is considered enough, since it has been found that too much salt reduces the lactic acid fermentation, resulting in an inferior product.
*1088/28/1*
SUGAR – THE GOODNESS OF DATES (REFINED SUGAR)
While our children spoil their teeth with all sorts of sweets made from refined sugar, the children of those desert tribes have nothing but dates to satisfy their sweet tooth. It is not without good reason that dates are called the ‘meat’ of the desert Arabs. Their children eat a large amount of date sugar but still have healthy teeth, just like those of the Indian children who satisfy their desire for sweet things by eating green sugar cane or pilosillo, the condensed sugar cane juice.
What a pity that we are not similarly inclined and satisfied with simple natural things! If we could avoid the use of refined sugar, which contributes to tooth decay and many other degenerative conditions, our children’s teeth would be much better. What is more, refined sugar is now about three times dearer than it was just a few years ago. So there are many reasons why we should try to eliminate it from our diet as much as possible, substituting fruit sugar instead.
*1018/28/1*
HELPFUL DIETS FOR THE SICK A – FASTING (FEELING SICK)
Should you feel sick during the fast, you will be well advised to speed up the elimination by encouraging the skin function. Friction baths, vigorous washing and towelling or brushing down will stimulate the circulation, while deep-breathing exercises will likewise help to get rid of the feeling of sickness. Short walks in the woods and along country lanes, breathing in the aromatic air, will soon restore a feeling of health and well-being.
If you feel very hungry, chew a few raisins slowly and thoroughly. The Bedouins wandering in the desert often live on nothing but a few dates a day, because they obtain the full benefit from this frugal meal by chewing it thoroughly and so predigesting it properly. In the same way we can help ourselves during our special period of fasting. Spit out the skins of the raisins and just enjoy the grape sugar.
*947/28/1*
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.
*481/28/1*
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.
*367/28/1*
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.
*311/28/1*
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.
*254/28/1*
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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