For Headache & Tiredness
Sit straight & stretch both arms & place the hands on the knees with palm facing upwards.
Bend the index finger so that it folds under your thumb. The remaining 3 fingers should remain straight.
Let about 1/2 cm. of your tongue (i.e., tip of the tongue) be out of the mouth.
Relax your mind.
Sit in this position for 1-2 minutes. One should do this procedure 2-3 times in a day.
For Controlling Anger
1) One should chew food properly. One must devote atleast 20 minutes in chewing food.
2) Whenever one feels angry, one should fold hands to make a firm fist for a few minutes.
This would make 90% of anger disappear.
For High Blood Pressure
1) One should say the mantra, Om Shanti Shanti Shanti , everytime one eats meals or drinks anything.
One should say this mantra before, during & after eating/drinking.
2) Soak one raisin (kishmish) overnight in pure rose water. Eat it empty stomach the next day.
Soak 2 raisins on the second day, 3 raisins on the third day & keep on increasing the number for 21 days.
That means one should soak 21 raisins on the 21st day. If you do not get pure rose water, then prepare it at home by boiling 1 kg of rose petals (desi gulab) in 1 liter of water & then filtering it using a fine cloth.
To make sure that high blood pressure is cured permanently, one should repeat this course again after a month.
For Low Blood Pressure
One should say the mantra "Hari Aum..." several times at a fast speed. One should read satsang books that help one get rid of depression. Whenever one feels low, then one should fight back the negative thoughts
with the powerful positive energy of "Hari Aum...".
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For Diabetes/ High Blood Sugar
The following remedies have been taken from the book, Arogya Nidhi, published by Sant Shri Asaramji Ashram.
1) Methi seeds:
Soak 10mg of methi seeds in 100 ml of water in the night. In the morning rub this methi (crush them with your hand) and eat it. Also drink the remaining water.
2) Fresh juice of cabbage, carrots, coconut, karela & spinach is helpful for lowering the blood sugar.
3) Saunth Jal (Dry ginger water): Boil one whole saunth/dry ginger root in a large bowl of water till the water is reduced to half. When the water becomes cool use a thick cloth to sieve it (pani chhan lo). Do sieve it twice so that the threads of dry ginger do not remain in water. Use this water in the day time. After the sugar level becomes normal even then continue taking this water for some days.
4) Ajwain Jal:
Boil 1 litre of water with 1 tsp of fresh new ajwain (approx. 8.5 gms). Boil it till the water is reduced to half.
After the water becomes cool sieve it using a cloth and drink it.Note: This water is hot in nature.
5)Pani Prayog / water Therapy
TULSI For Tooth Problems, Enhance Memory &Prevent & Cure Jalodhar/Bhagodar
Chew 5-7 leaves of Tulsi & drink one glass of water empty stomach early in the morning. Tulsi should not be picked before sunrise, after sunset & on Sunday.
One should pick Tulsi in the day time.
Leaves of Tulsi remain fresh for 7 days.
This will cure tooth problems of children, prevent & diseases like Jalodhar/Bhagodar. This is also very helpful in improving memory.
For Curing & Preventing Kidney Problems
There is a vegetable grown in India called
(Punarnava) in Sanskrit,
(Saatori) in Gujrati,
(Saattaa) in Punjabi
& (Lunrak) in Sindhi.
This vegetable looks very similar to spinach.
* When suffering from kidney problems, one should take 50 gms. juice of this vegetable once everyday.
* In order to make kidney stronger than before, one should cook & eat this vegetable once in 10-15 days.
Note: The first P.M. of India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru had presented this plant to Queen Elizabeth of Britain
because of its great medicinal value
Harmful Effects of Cheese & Mava or Khoya
Any kind of cheese (or paneer) & condensed milk (mava or khoya) is very harmful for health.
These milk products are very difficult to digest & the body is not able to get rid of them & therefore
they act as poison for the body. These products lead to several health disorders like heart problems etc.
Vaayu (Gas) Problems
Taking 4-5 pieces of cashew after meals is very helpful in overcoming Vaayu problems.
Please note that eating more than 7 cashew pieces in 24 hours is harmful for health.
Potatoes are very harmful for people having Vaayu problems
Mandaagni (Not feeling hungry & weak digestion power
Take a few sliced ginger pieces dipped in lemon juice & sprinkled with salt 10-15 minutes before meals.
Simple Rules to Good Health
If we follow nature and our natural instincts sans the
defects of a regimented modern life-style, it is very
easy to look after, manage, reduce and even cure
completely various health problems like fatigue,
mental and physical depressions, body aches and pains.
The spinal column which joins the ‘Sahasrar Chakra” at
the top of the brain to the ‘Mooladhar Chakra’ at the
lower end of the spine, is the master-key to good
health. Simple relaxation techniques which are
ingrained in almost all the 84 lakh species including
human beings naturally reflex back the body to its
natural, God-given state.
Hence, to enjoy optimum health sans various common
ailments, try the following simple rules of simple
living and high thinking.
1. Eliminate or try to reduce to the minimum the five
well-known white poisons like sugar, salt, oils or
fats, refined flours such as maida, besan or similar
other food stuffs (which do not have the outer
covering like bran), eggs, too much of milk or milk
products as also non-vegetarian food which has lots of
cholesterol, fats and proteins.
2. Drink plenty of water to produce nearly two liters
of urine in 24 hours to keep the body clean and supple
without kidney problems.
3. Eat plenty of seasonal vegetables and fruits,
preferably by reducing other food to that extent. You
can eat plenty of salads as they do not contain
spices, and fruits instead of sugary desserts.
4. Avoid constipation at all costs; preceding paras
1,2 and 3 would help you in doing so. Constipation
creates and aggravates many ailments.
5. Try the following exercises before you come out of
the bed each time you sleep as they have a
rejuvenating effect:
a) Lie straight on your back on a hard bed with palms
under your head in place of the pillow. Join the big
toes and pull both the feet towards your head suddenly
without moving your heels which should remain where
they were i.e. at the same place on the bed. Wait for
a second and then drop down the feet back to their
earlie position and relax to enjoy the nice feeling.
Repeat it again 10 times or more, if you have more
time to enjoy.
b) Repeat by joining the toes and lifting the feet as
above. The circulate both the feet in a semi-circle,
right foot to the right and left to the left, joining
the toes back at the same point from where you had
started, to complete the circle and relax to enjoy.
c) Do the same exercise but in the reverse direction
and enjoy it for 10 times or more
d) Then keep your legs eight or ten inches apart, pull
both feet quickly towards you as you had done in a)
above. In all such cases, when you pull the feet
towards you keeping the heels where they were on the
bed, the knees too automatically and simultaneously
rise to that extent. Then jerk the knees together to
the extent convenient quickly but without force. Wait
for a second and drop both the legs to their original
position. It is very enjoyable. Repeat ten times or
more, time permitting, to enjoy as long as you want.
e) Pull both your legs and feet half way on the bed
with knees raised. Then jerk the feet up keeping the
heels on the bed only. Then while keeping the feet,
not the heels, in the raised position, jerk the knees
quickly but softly, wait for second and drop down the
feet with a slight thud on the bed to enjoy the
relaxation before you repeat it again to enjoy as many
times as you want to enjoy.
After completing the five simple exercises to be done
only with a view to enjoy, slowly slip back both the
legs slowly towards the end of the bed. After
straightening the body fully, stretch a little more to
induce what is called angdai in Hindi or alas-ghene in
Marathi. If done in that position, it will rejuvenate
you each time you do the exercises, feeling
fresh-like-a-flower each and every time.
If each exercise is done for about ten times, the
whole procedure would take two to three minutes. Hence
our good health slogan should be:
“Three minutes a day; keep the doctor away!”
And whenever too tired, do it again for a few
minutes to come out,
“fresh-like-a-flower”.
Author: S. M. Acharya, Founder President, Save India
Association (SIA) and Chief Director of the global
pain relief centre of the SIA, 155 St. Patrick’s Town,
Pune 411013, Tel: 91-20-26870204, cell: 91-9422314693,
Email: smacharya@yahoo.co.uk, Website: www.atbsnr.com.
NB: The author himself has been following these simple
rules for the last two decades or so although he had a
severe heart attack (MI) in 1982 and although many
cardiologists have had advised him to undergo by-pass
surgery. The author has since been doing much more
work after the heart attack but never felt any need to
go for a by-pass although he was 51 years of age when
he had the attack and now he is 76.
After the attack, he started holding free cure camps
for back pain etc. During the last 16 years or so, he
has held more than 600 such kepts with 30,000 or more
beneficiaries, most of whom had come to attend his
camps in the last resort after trying various
therapies. They come just to take one more chance if
something could help them to recover. Those who follow
these simple rules properly do recover to enjoy better
health than ever before.
He has tried to put most of the details on the
Internet at the abve-mentioned website and also the
exercises are given on YouTube to make it easy for all
to learn from there.
People seeking more info are also welcome to email
him at his above-mentioed emailID.
defects of a regimented modern life-style, it is very
easy to look after, manage, reduce and even cure
completely various health problems like fatigue,
mental and physical depressions, body aches and pains.
The spinal column which joins the ‘Sahasrar Chakra” at
the top of the brain to the ‘Mooladhar Chakra’ at the
lower end of the spine, is the master-key to good
health. Simple relaxation techniques which are
ingrained in almost all the 84 lakh species including
human beings naturally reflex back the body to its
natural, God-given state.
Hence, to enjoy optimum health sans various common
ailments, try the following simple rules of simple
living and high thinking.
1. Eliminate or try to reduce to the minimum the five
well-known white poisons like sugar, salt, oils or
fats, refined flours such as maida, besan or similar
other food stuffs (which do not have the outer
covering like bran), eggs, too much of milk or milk
products as also non-vegetarian food which has lots of
cholesterol, fats and proteins.
2. Drink plenty of water to produce nearly two liters
of urine in 24 hours to keep the body clean and supple
without kidney problems.
3. Eat plenty of seasonal vegetables and fruits,
preferably by reducing other food to that extent. You
can eat plenty of salads as they do not contain
spices, and fruits instead of sugary desserts.
4. Avoid constipation at all costs; preceding paras
1,2 and 3 would help you in doing so. Constipation
creates and aggravates many ailments.
5. Try the following exercises before you come out of
the bed each time you sleep as they have a
rejuvenating effect:
a) Lie straight on your back on a hard bed with palms
under your head in place of the pillow. Join the big
toes and pull both the feet towards your head suddenly
without moving your heels which should remain where
they were i.e. at the same place on the bed. Wait for
a second and then drop down the feet back to their
earlie position and relax to enjoy the nice feeling.
Repeat it again 10 times or more, if you have more
time to enjoy.
b) Repeat by joining the toes and lifting the feet as
above. The circulate both the feet in a semi-circle,
right foot to the right and left to the left, joining
the toes back at the same point from where you had
started, to complete the circle and relax to enjoy.
c) Do the same exercise but in the reverse direction
and enjoy it for 10 times or more
d) Then keep your legs eight or ten inches apart, pull
both feet quickly towards you as you had done in a)
above. In all such cases, when you pull the feet
towards you keeping the heels where they were on the
bed, the knees too automatically and simultaneously
rise to that extent. Then jerk the knees together to
the extent convenient quickly but without force. Wait
for a second and drop both the legs to their original
position. It is very enjoyable. Repeat ten times or
more, time permitting, to enjoy as long as you want.
e) Pull both your legs and feet half way on the bed
with knees raised. Then jerk the feet up keeping the
heels on the bed only. Then while keeping the feet,
not the heels, in the raised position, jerk the knees
quickly but softly, wait for second and drop down the
feet with a slight thud on the bed to enjoy the
relaxation before you repeat it again to enjoy as many
times as you want to enjoy.
After completing the five simple exercises to be done
only with a view to enjoy, slowly slip back both the
legs slowly towards the end of the bed. After
straightening the body fully, stretch a little more to
induce what is called angdai in Hindi or alas-ghene in
Marathi. If done in that position, it will rejuvenate
you each time you do the exercises, feeling
fresh-like-a-flower each and every time.
If each exercise is done for about ten times, the
whole procedure would take two to three minutes. Hence
our good health slogan should be:
“Three minutes a day; keep the doctor away!”
And whenever too tired, do it again for a few
minutes to come out,
“fresh-like-a-flower”.
Author: S. M. Acharya, Founder President, Save India
Association (SIA) and Chief Director of the global
pain relief centre of the SIA, 155 St. Patrick’s Town,
Pune 411013, Tel: 91-20-26870204, cell: 91-9422314693,
Email: smacharya@yahoo.co.uk, Website: www.atbsnr.com.
NB: The author himself has been following these simple
rules for the last two decades or so although he had a
severe heart attack (MI) in 1982 and although many
cardiologists have had advised him to undergo by-pass
surgery. The author has since been doing much more
work after the heart attack but never felt any need to
go for a by-pass although he was 51 years of age when
he had the attack and now he is 76.
After the attack, he started holding free cure camps
for back pain etc. During the last 16 years or so, he
has held more than 600 such kepts with 30,000 or more
beneficiaries, most of whom had come to attend his
camps in the last resort after trying various
therapies. They come just to take one more chance if
something could help them to recover. Those who follow
these simple rules properly do recover to enjoy better
health than ever before.
He has tried to put most of the details on the
Internet at the abve-mentioned website and also the
exercises are given on YouTube to make it easy for all
to learn from there.
People seeking more info are also welcome to email
him at his above-mentioed emailID.
Tomatoes as Medicine
"Tomato" has one of the highest "glutamic acid" contents so far. For
that reason, tomato is probably considered the most widely used
vegetable in cooking.
In addition, tomato is considered a medicinal food as it contains not
only various nutritious elements but also unknown substances that
prevent several kinds of bacterial diseases. Glutamic acid can make
your brain healthy. It means your brain will have better control of
your physical body in preventing bacteria, virus and other sick-
producing elements that take over your body.
So that's very good, but why tomato was not included in Traditional
Chinese Medicine? During the ancient time, people thought that tomato
was poisonous especially its inner red color part.
Today, tomato is always included in our snacks, dinners, and
available on every occasion. However, many housewives failed to cook
it as a tasty recipe among their delicacies.
Most housewives prepare to buy canned tomato sauce, tomato ketchup,
tomato paste, tomato juice, etc. in nearby malls. Don't you know that
if you know how to cook tomato well, then you may not need to use
other seasonings? That's right, tomato itself is as tasty as
seasoning.
Do you know that there are two kinds of tomato: one that floats on
the water, and one that sinks into the water? The tomato that sinks
into the water is tastier because it contains more sugar. Do not
judge it by color alone.
Also, do you know that if you bring a magnet near the tomato, the
magnet will repel? It is because tomato is 94% water, and water
molecules repel magnetic fields.
Now, I will let you know one of the easiest techniques for cooking.
At first, peel the tomato skin. Just pass to a hot water swiftly and
place the tomato to cold water. It will now be easier to peel off the
tomato skin.
You can even remove seeds with a tablespoon easily. Now, put the
remains of the tomato you are going to cook in a frying pan and
simmer it for about 20 minutes until the tomato forms a paste. Isn't
that easy?
You can place it in a sealable polybag and keep it in the
refrigerator for a week or two.
For making a tomato juice, mix it with water and sugar or honey and
ice. It's a healthy drink, especially during hot summer season. You
can mix it with red wine and ice, too. Red wine and tomato are also
good in preventing many kinds of cancer. Many health researchers
claim that tomato juice mixed with red wine is a cancer medicine. How
about breakfast or snack with tomato juice mixed with milk and some
fried oats chips in it? It's really a healthy food. You can find
various recipes with a homemade tomato paste.
The quantity of glutamic acid is about 86 – 140 mg per 100 g of
tomato. During harvest, the color and taste of every tomato is
different. As we can see, red-colored tomato looks tastier and
natural. The sweetness of it can be examined by means of placing
tomato in the water as noted previously.
TOMATO TRIVIA
* The smallest species of tomatoes are less than three-quarters of an
inch in diameter. There are both red and yellow varieties.
* Tomato juice is the official state beverage of Ohio.
* According to the 1996 edition of the Guinness Book of Records the
largest tomato ever grown weighed in at 7 pounds, 12 ounces.
* The largest tomato plant was 65 feet long.
* The tomato is the world's most popular fruit. Banana is second,
then apple.
* Botanically, tomatoes are a fruit. This is because, generally, a
fruit is the edible part of the plant that contains the seeds, while
a vegetable is the edible stems, leaves, and roots of the plant.
that reason, tomato is probably considered the most widely used
vegetable in cooking.
In addition, tomato is considered a medicinal food as it contains not
only various nutritious elements but also unknown substances that
prevent several kinds of bacterial diseases. Glutamic acid can make
your brain healthy. It means your brain will have better control of
your physical body in preventing bacteria, virus and other sick-
producing elements that take over your body.
So that's very good, but why tomato was not included in Traditional
Chinese Medicine? During the ancient time, people thought that tomato
was poisonous especially its inner red color part.
Today, tomato is always included in our snacks, dinners, and
available on every occasion. However, many housewives failed to cook
it as a tasty recipe among their delicacies.
Most housewives prepare to buy canned tomato sauce, tomato ketchup,
tomato paste, tomato juice, etc. in nearby malls. Don't you know that
if you know how to cook tomato well, then you may not need to use
other seasonings? That's right, tomato itself is as tasty as
seasoning.
Do you know that there are two kinds of tomato: one that floats on
the water, and one that sinks into the water? The tomato that sinks
into the water is tastier because it contains more sugar. Do not
judge it by color alone.
Also, do you know that if you bring a magnet near the tomato, the
magnet will repel? It is because tomato is 94% water, and water
molecules repel magnetic fields.
Now, I will let you know one of the easiest techniques for cooking.
At first, peel the tomato skin. Just pass to a hot water swiftly and
place the tomato to cold water. It will now be easier to peel off the
tomato skin.
You can even remove seeds with a tablespoon easily. Now, put the
remains of the tomato you are going to cook in a frying pan and
simmer it for about 20 minutes until the tomato forms a paste. Isn't
that easy?
You can place it in a sealable polybag and keep it in the
refrigerator for a week or two.
For making a tomato juice, mix it with water and sugar or honey and
ice. It's a healthy drink, especially during hot summer season. You
can mix it with red wine and ice, too. Red wine and tomato are also
good in preventing many kinds of cancer. Many health researchers
claim that tomato juice mixed with red wine is a cancer medicine. How
about breakfast or snack with tomato juice mixed with milk and some
fried oats chips in it? It's really a healthy food. You can find
various recipes with a homemade tomato paste.
The quantity of glutamic acid is about 86 – 140 mg per 100 g of
tomato. During harvest, the color and taste of every tomato is
different. As we can see, red-colored tomato looks tastier and
natural. The sweetness of it can be examined by means of placing
tomato in the water as noted previously.
TOMATO TRIVIA
* The smallest species of tomatoes are less than three-quarters of an
inch in diameter. There are both red and yellow varieties.
* Tomato juice is the official state beverage of Ohio.
* According to the 1996 edition of the Guinness Book of Records the
largest tomato ever grown weighed in at 7 pounds, 12 ounces.
* The largest tomato plant was 65 feet long.
* The tomato is the world's most popular fruit. Banana is second,
then apple.
* Botanically, tomatoes are a fruit. This is because, generally, a
fruit is the edible part of the plant that contains the seeds, while
a vegetable is the edible stems, leaves, and roots of the plant.
Everything about HEPATITIS
WHAT IS IT?
Your liver is your largest and-after your heart-your hardest working organ. It does about 5,000 vital jobs, from cleansing blood to helping digest food. You can't live without it.
The term hepatitis means your liver is inflamed and can't function well. There are many types of hepatitis. Some are short-lived and mild: Your liver repairs itself and suffers no lasting damage. But other types can lead to cirrhosis (scarring of the liver) and cancer. Some will progress to liver failure (in which case you need a liver transplant) or even death.
By far the most common is viral hepatitis, which comes from a group of highly contagious viruses that target the liver. The six main types of viral hepatitis are each named for a letter of the alphabet, in the order they were discovered.
Hepatitis can also be brought on by longtime heavy alcohol use, other diseases, drug reactions, or poisons such as industrial chemicals.
If you have hepatitis, you and your doctor can do a lot to preserve your liver function. A liver transplant is a last resort.
HEPATITIS: SYMPTOMS
Hepatitis is sneaky: You may have no signs at all when your liver is first attacked, or symptoms so slight you don't even notice them. Children with hepatitis tend to have slight symptoms.
If you do have symptoms, they are the same for almost any hepatitis and are much like those of a long-lasting flu. First you may notice:
Fever and fatigue.
Nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite.
Abdominal pain.
Less common symptoms, or signs of advanced disease:
Dark yellow or brown urine.
Clay-colored stools.
Jaundice-yellow eyes and skin.
Blood in your stool or the vomiting of blood.
All can be signs of some other virus or mild ailment. But call your doctor if you have these signs and have been exposed to hepatitis, have a form of hepatitis, or have had hepatitis before.
The specific types of hepatitis may have these specific symptoms:
Fecal-oral: These types come on quickly and may make you feel as if you have a mild flu or make you quite sick for a short time. Many people-chiefly children-have no symptoms. Nearly everyone with A gets better in about a month and is then immune and can't get it again. A vaccine can prevent it. Hepatitis E, which can last many months, has no vaccine. It can be deadly for pregnant women.
Blood-borne: As with HIV, you may have few or no symptoms when you are first infected. Many people feel better after a few months or with drug treatment.
Most people recover from B in three to six months, and some will get rid of the virus. C is a serious disease; it's known as a "silent" killer because liver failure may be its very first sign.
Some people remain able to pass the illness along to others even if they have no symptoms: 5 to 10 percent with B and up to 85 percent with C have it forever. Liver cancer rates are high with B and C, and hepatitis C is the single greatest cause of people needing liver transplants. It accounts for more than 30 percent of liver transplants in the United States today.
Hepatitis D infects only those who already have B and makes it more severe. Although little is known of the newly found hepatitis G, it does not appear to be a serious form of the disease.
Alcoholic: You may have no symptoms, or you may have nausea, vomiting, fever, and pain in the tender, enlarged liver. There is no treatment, but if you stop drinking alcohol at this stage, the liver may get well again. If not, the disease will progress to cirrhosis.
Chemical: You may have flu like symptoms, perhaps with headache,
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Think of your liver as a factory. It helps process food, makes proteins, and controls hormone balance and blood clotting; it stores vitamins, iron, and fat; it clears away used blood cells; and it filters drugs, alcohol, and other poisons out of your bloodstream.
All of this takes place in a three-pound organ roughly the size and shape of a football. It sits tucked up under your rib cage on the right side of your body.
When your liver is attacked by disease or weakened by poisons, it swells and becomes tender. The swelling stretches it, blocking proper blood flow and damaging cells. As the disease progresses, cells die and your liver function slows down or stops.
The decline in liver function can happen all at once when you first get hepatitis, or it can take many years. Some people first find out they have hepatitis only after much of their liver has been destroyed. Or they may find out they have viral hepatitis when they try to donate blood or semen.
Most kinds of hepatitis can't be cured. But if you get rid of the source of the damage soon enough, your liver can repair itself to some degree.
sleepiness, or fever.
WHAT CAUSES IT?
Your liver can be damaged in many ways, but the most common are:
Viral hepatitis, the major cause. These viruses come in two forms, according to how they infect the body:
Fecal-oral types A and E. These viruses are spread through feces; sewage-tainted food, seafood, or water; dirty-hand-to-mouth contact; or sexual contact. They're common in places with poor water and toilet facilities, mostly in developing countries. Hepatitis A is also common in this country: It sometimes shows up in day care centers with poor hygiene. Hepatitis E is common in India, Asia, and Africa but is rare in the United States.
Blood-borne types B, C, and D. These are spread through body fluids in much the same way that HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS) is: by intravenous (IV) needles, blood, childbirth, and sex. Hepatitis C is rarely spread by sexual contact.
Nearly a third of people with B or C don't know how they got it. Some may have been infected by blood treatments or transfusions more than 20 years ago, before blood was screened for the virus.
Hepatitis C can progress very slowly. Many people die of some other cause long before the hepatitis virus destroys their liver. There is no way to tell for sure how the disease will progress. Not knowing is often very stressful for those with viral hepatitis.
Nonviral hepatitis, meaning any other kind of liver damage:
Alcoholic hepatitis from years of heavy drinking, which often progresses to cirrhosis.
Other diseases, such as autoimmune diseases, in which the body turns on itself.
Drug-induced or chemical hepatitis from drugs or mixing drugs; poisons such as carbon tetrachloride, used in cleaning products; and poisonous mushrooms.
THINGS YOU CAN'T CHANGE
Random risk of hepatitis virus infections
Hepatitis is out there, in hundreds of millions of people of every race, culture, and social level. Good health habits, safe sex, and vaccination are your best defenses, but they may not be enough: About a third of all people with B or C don't know how they got infected.
THINGS YOU CAN CHANGE
Immunity from A and B
So far, we have vaccines only for A and B (but the B vaccine prevents D as well). If you don't get the vaccine, you are at risk for both.
Alcohol and medications
Your liver filters toxins from your blood. Alcohol is poisonous to a healthy liver and worsens hepatitis from other causes. Also, some prescribed and over-the-counter drugs-including acetaminophen (such as Tylenol) in large amounts or with alcohol-can damage your liver.
Risky behavior
Injected drugs, body piercing, tattooing, and unprotected sex can give you viral hepatitis-not to mention AIDS. Both diseases can be fatal. Also, eating some poisonous types of wild mushrooms destroys liver tissue.
Travel habits
Sampling street food can give you more than a bellyache, and so can intimate contact with strangers. When you travel in places with poor toilet facilities, you need to be extra careful.
Workplace hazards
Health-care workers are at risk from blood-borne viruses present in body fluids. Those in industry and the cleaning and building trades may be exposed to chemicals or to virus-tainted food or waste. Extra care-or a job change-can lower risks.
WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOURSELF
Get prompt treatment
If you know you've been exposed to viral hepatitis, see your doctor right way. Tests and treatments may prevent it in the early stages.
Get vaccinated
Once you get one of the hepatitis viruses, you can't get it again-but you can get another, so get vaccinated against those you don't have.
Get a vaccination for hepatitis A if you plan to travel or live in a place where it's widespread or that has poor water or toilet facilities, or if you have (or had) some other form of hepatitis. It takes two to four weeks for the vaccine to take effect, but you can get faster acting short-term shots.
Get a vaccination for B if you have some other form of hepatitis, have more than one sex partner, work in a health field, travel widely, or live with anyone who has B or who is from Asia, where it is widespread. The B vaccine is now given to babies at birth and is urged for all teenagers before they are sexually active. It also protects against D.
Don't drink alcohol
Don't drink alcohol, or don't drink much. Alcohol causes hepatitis and cirrhosis-and it makes a sick liver much worse. Some doctors say you can drink lightly after you have recovered from some forms of hepatitis; others insist no alcohol is good for you. Ask your doctor. If you have a drinking problem or are an alcoholic, get help right away.
Focus on a healthy lifestyle
Good overall health and health habits let an ailing liver try to repair itself. Avoid extremes of diet or activity. Rest as much as you need to. Eat frequent small, well-balanced meals. Drink at least eight glasses of water each day.
Don't smoke, exercise lightly (when you feel well enough or your doctor says it's okay), and avoid alcohol and drugs.
Be careful with medicines
Some prescribed and over-the-counter drugs can harm your liver, including acetaminophen (Tylenol) taken with alcohol, and aspirin. Ask your doctor about any drugs you may be taking. To avoid drug damage, be sure each doctor you see knows you have (or have had) hepatitis.
Stay optimistic
Hepatitis can kill-but it may take decades and most people who have it don't die of it. So you should live as normal a life as you can. If you have chronic hepatitis, accept it as part of your life and try not to worry. Join-or start-a support group.
Have regular checkups with a specialist
Stay in touch with a liver expert. A doctor who knows about the liver can look for patterns and changes in your illness and will know about new drugs and treatments as they come out. New treatments for viral hepatitis are being tested now.
Prevent Hepatitis
Protect others from viral hepatitis
Suggest testing for those close to you. Use a condom and practice safe sex to avoid getting another kind of hepatitis and to avoid spreading hepatitis to others if you are infected. Don't donate blood or semen if you're infected.
Hepatitis A and E
While in areas with poor sanitation, drink only boiled or bottled fluids and don't use ice cubes. Eat only cooked foods (above all do not eat raw shellfish) or fruits and vegetables that you peel yourself.
Wash your hands with soap and water after using the toilet or changing a diaper and before touching food or your mouth.
If you are infected with A or E, don't prepare or touch others' food. Take extra care to wash hands, clothing, and bedding.
Hepatitis B, C, and D
Use the same safeguards as for HIV: Take care with blood and body fluids. Use condoms and practice safe sex. Don't share IV needles, manicuring tools, razors, toothbrushes, or other items that can collect or hold blood.
Be sure that only sterile needles are used for acupuncture, body or ear piercing, or tattoos. Wear latex gloves when cleaning up others' body fluids.
Hepatitis from alcohol and poisons
Don't drink, or don't drink much-no more than two drinks per day for a man, one for a woman (a drink is 1 1/2 ounces of hard liquor, 5 ounces of wine, or 12 ounces of beer).
Take care when using toxic chemicals (such as carbon tetrachloride, in some cleaning products) at home, at work, or in the garden: Read and follow label warnings. Don't use poisons in closed places.
Don't eat any wild food such as mushrooms unless you're an expert at recognizing which ones are safe.
Get to a hospital right away if you have been exposed to poisons or have any symptoms of liver damage.
Be sure your doctor knows all the drugs you're taking. Read the labels before taking-or mixing-over-the-counter drugs.
WHAT YOUR DOCTOR CAN DO FOR YOU
There is no cure-yet-for any type of hepatitis, but today's treatments can slow the disease and protect your liver.
Tests
Your doctor may give you liver function tests to see how well your liver is working. If he or she needs more facts, you may be given a biopsy: A long, thin needle is slipped into your liver to sample a piece of tissue. Your doctor may repeat tests to check your progress.
Tests for viral hepatitis can tell whether you have it or have had it, which one you have, and whether you are a carrier.
Vaccines
See your doctor right away if you aren't vaccinated. Your doctor may give you gamma globulin for hepatitis A or immune globulin (HBIG) for hepatitis B to help prevent infection.
Treatment
Many cases of hepatitis need no treatment. You and your doctor decide how much rest you need. Most people don't need a hospital stay unless they have a severe illness or can't drink fluids or eat.
Hepatitis A, B, and E most often go away by themselves. But if a hepatitis infection lingers for more than a few months, you'll have to attack the virus with one or more powerful medicines.
The main weapon against chronic hepatitis B is lamivudine, a drug that keeps the virus from dividing. After three to six months of treatment, the virus becomes so scarce that it no longer shows up in blood tests. The infection can flare up if a person stops taking the medicine, but it won't be as dangerous as it was before. For this reason, some patients can safely stop taking the drug after a year or two.
Before the approval of lamivudine in 1998, a drug called interferon alpha 2b was the only available treatment for hepatitis B. The drug is effective, but unlike lamivudine it often causes serious side effects such as flulike symptoms, fever, depression, and muscle pain.
Interferon alpha 2b is still the best choice for treating hepatitis C. Patients can either take the drug by itself or combined with the antiviral drug ribavirin. In general, the two-drug combination is more likely than interferon alone to slow down the disease. Ribavirin doesn't cause as many side effects as interferon, but it can make a person anemic.
Alcoholic hepatitis has no treatment other than quitting alcohol and eating a balanced diet.
Acetaminophen overdoses have an antidote, and another drug may counter mushroom poisoning. Other types of poisoning may be treated by flushing the substance out of the body within 48 hours after exposure. If you have hepatitis from chemical exposure, your body can often repair the damage if you avoid the chemical.
A liver transplant is a last-chance treatment.
SOME WORDS YOU MAY HEAR
Acute: onset and first six months of a disease.
Ascites: abdominal swelling due to fluid buildup.
Interferon alpha 2b: antiviral drug for hepatitis B and C.
Bile: yellowish fluid made by the liver to aid digestion.
Bilirubin: yellowish fluid of broken-down red blood cells that in excess amounts causes jaundice.
Biopsy: removal of a tissue sample to check under a microscope.
Chronic: ongoing disease lasting six months or more.
Cirrhosis: scarring of the liver, which sometimes progresses to cancer or liver failure.
Contagious: able to be passed to another person.
Encephalopathy: swelling of the brain; a result of advanced liver disease.
Gamma (or immune) globulin: human blood product rich in antibodies given to protect those recently exposed to hepatitis A.
Gastroenterologist: doctor who treats problems of the digestive system, including the liver.
Hepatocellular carcinoma: a form of liver cancer.
Hepatologist: doctor who is an expert on the liver and its diseases.
Hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG): human blood product rich in antibodies given to protect those recently exposed to hepatitis B.
Inflammation: swelling, with redness, heat, and tenderness.
Jaundice: yellowed skin and whites of the eyes from liver disease.
Liver function test: a blood test for liver health that measures enzymes leaked by liver cells.
Liver enzymes: substance produced by liver cells to help the liver do its work.
Nonviral hepatitis: liver disease that is neither caused by a virus nor caught from others.
Toxin: poison or harmful substance.
Transplant: replacement of a diseased organ, such as the liver, with a healthy organ or tissue from another person.
Viral hepatitis: disease from the hepatitis viruses that can be caught from others. Types A, B, C, D, and E are the most common.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
Amantidine
Interferon and ribavirin may not be the last word in hepatitis C treatment. In 2000, Italian researchers reported that a triple-drug combination-these medicines plus the antiviral drug amantidine-seemed to be more potent than the standard two-drug treatment. In their study, 40 patients received all three drugs, and 20 took just interferon and ribavirin. After 12 months of treatment and 6 months of follow-up, each subject had a blood test to check for the hepatitis C virus. Half the patients on the three-drug treatment showed no signs of the virus; only 5 percent of the other patients had the same result.
Amantidine, already FDA-approved as a flu drug, is readily available and relatively inexpensive. If you're already taking interferon and ribavirin for hepatitis C, ask your doctor if it's right for you.
Living donor liver transplant
A different kind of breakthrough may help save the lives of patients with liver failure. Instead of waiting for a transplant, they can now receive a part of a liver from a healthy friend or relative. (In 1999, more than 1,000 people died while on a liver transplant waiting list.) In both the donor and the patient, the liver then grows to normal size in two to four weeks. By the summer of 2000, roughly 400 adult patients worldwide had received a "living donor" transplant.
CIRRHOSIS
Cirrhosis is the next disease stage after chronic hepatitis. Scar tissue replaces damaged liver cells, so blood can't flow as well through the liver. This kills even more cells, setting off a cascade of problems, including nausea, weight loss, jaundice, a tendency to bleed easily, fluid buildup in the stomach and ankles, confusion, cancer, and even coma. There may be no sign of cirrhosis until scars block veins and the backup pressure causes massive vomiting of blood-a serious warning of advanced cirrhosis.
Alcohol abuse and hepatitis C are the major causes of cirrhosis: One-third of people who take more than five drinks a day for 15 years, and about 30 percent of those with chronic C, get cirrhosis of the liver.
At this point, the damage can't be reversed-but treatment can slow or stop its progress once the cause is removed. Doctors may also be able to treat coma, fluid buildup, and bleeding, sometimes with surgery. Quitting all alcohol is a must.
LIVER TRANSPLANTS
In 1999, about 4,700 people in the United States received a liver transplant, the only treatment for liver failure.
Organ transplants have become more common in the last 20 years, with good quality of life afterward. Overall, 90 percent of children and 85 percent of adults survive surgery and the first year. Cost for the first year, including surgery and drugs, is $250,000 to $300,000 (covered by most insurers).
It's not a complete cure. Most people who get a transplant have to take drugs forever so their body doesn't reject the new organ, and the drugs have side effects. People with hepatitis B and C will reinfect the new liver, and a small percentage may face liver failure-and a transplant-again.
HEPATITIS EPIDEMIC
Viral hepatitis is a major public health problem, infecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
In the United States, one in three people has had the milder oral-type hepatitis A. Almost all recover and are immune. But about 4 million have the more dangerous blood-borne types B and C-and are carriers who can infect others.
Both B and C are spread through body fluids, much like the HIV virus that causes AIDS. In fact, hepatitis B is much more infectious than HIV-and more widespread (perhaps 900,000 Americans have HIV).
HELPING YOUR DOCTOR HELP YOU
Talk first about what worries you most. Get straight to the point, so you won't miss your chance.
Be specific. Don't just say, "I feel rotten." Describe symptoms as clearly as you can.
Tell the truth. Your doctor needs to know what you really eat, how much you really exercise, and whether you drink, smoke, or use drugs. Everything you say is confidential.
Ask questions. Bring a list to help you remember. If you hear any medical terms you don't understand, ask for translations.
Get the facts about each new treatment. If your doctor suggests you have a test or see another doctor, ask why.
Speak up. If something bothers you, say so. If you want a certain medication or procedure, ask whether it will work for you.
If you cannot follow your doctor's advice, say so. Be willing to negotiate. If your doctor advises a treatment with side effects you find hard to accept, say something like, "I'd find that hard to live with. Is there another option I could try?"
Don't leave what you've learned at the doctor's office. Write down what you want to remember or need to do.
MAKE SURE YOUR DOCTOR TELLS YOU...
What kind of hepatitis you have
How far your hepatitis has progressed.
What the usual outcome is for that kind of hepatitis.
What kinds of tests you have had and what other tests are suggested.
Details of your treatment plan-and any possible side effects.
Whether any medicine you're taking for something else might make your hepatitis worse.
How contagious you are to family members and others.
Whether those near you should be tested.
What changes in diet or lifestyle you and your family might make.
How you'll know you are getting better, or that your treatment plan is working.
The next step for you and your doctor.
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Your liver is your largest and-after your heart-your hardest working organ. It does about 5,000 vital jobs, from cleansing blood to helping digest food. You can't live without it.
The term hepatitis means your liver is inflamed and can't function well. There are many types of hepatitis. Some are short-lived and mild: Your liver repairs itself and suffers no lasting damage. But other types can lead to cirrhosis (scarring of the liver) and cancer. Some will progress to liver failure (in which case you need a liver transplant) or even death.
By far the most common is viral hepatitis, which comes from a group of highly contagious viruses that target the liver. The six main types of viral hepatitis are each named for a letter of the alphabet, in the order they were discovered.
Hepatitis can also be brought on by longtime heavy alcohol use, other diseases, drug reactions, or poisons such as industrial chemicals.
If you have hepatitis, you and your doctor can do a lot to preserve your liver function. A liver transplant is a last resort.
HEPATITIS: SYMPTOMS
Hepatitis is sneaky: You may have no signs at all when your liver is first attacked, or symptoms so slight you don't even notice them. Children with hepatitis tend to have slight symptoms.
If you do have symptoms, they are the same for almost any hepatitis and are much like those of a long-lasting flu. First you may notice:
Fever and fatigue.
Nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite.
Abdominal pain.
Less common symptoms, or signs of advanced disease:
Dark yellow or brown urine.
Clay-colored stools.
Jaundice-yellow eyes and skin.
Blood in your stool or the vomiting of blood.
All can be signs of some other virus or mild ailment. But call your doctor if you have these signs and have been exposed to hepatitis, have a form of hepatitis, or have had hepatitis before.
The specific types of hepatitis may have these specific symptoms:
Fecal-oral: These types come on quickly and may make you feel as if you have a mild flu or make you quite sick for a short time. Many people-chiefly children-have no symptoms. Nearly everyone with A gets better in about a month and is then immune and can't get it again. A vaccine can prevent it. Hepatitis E, which can last many months, has no vaccine. It can be deadly for pregnant women.
Blood-borne: As with HIV, you may have few or no symptoms when you are first infected. Many people feel better after a few months or with drug treatment.
Most people recover from B in three to six months, and some will get rid of the virus. C is a serious disease; it's known as a "silent" killer because liver failure may be its very first sign.
Some people remain able to pass the illness along to others even if they have no symptoms: 5 to 10 percent with B and up to 85 percent with C have it forever. Liver cancer rates are high with B and C, and hepatitis C is the single greatest cause of people needing liver transplants. It accounts for more than 30 percent of liver transplants in the United States today.
Hepatitis D infects only those who already have B and makes it more severe. Although little is known of the newly found hepatitis G, it does not appear to be a serious form of the disease.
Alcoholic: You may have no symptoms, or you may have nausea, vomiting, fever, and pain in the tender, enlarged liver. There is no treatment, but if you stop drinking alcohol at this stage, the liver may get well again. If not, the disease will progress to cirrhosis.
Chemical: You may have flu like symptoms, perhaps with headache,
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Think of your liver as a factory. It helps process food, makes proteins, and controls hormone balance and blood clotting; it stores vitamins, iron, and fat; it clears away used blood cells; and it filters drugs, alcohol, and other poisons out of your bloodstream.
All of this takes place in a three-pound organ roughly the size and shape of a football. It sits tucked up under your rib cage on the right side of your body.
When your liver is attacked by disease or weakened by poisons, it swells and becomes tender. The swelling stretches it, blocking proper blood flow and damaging cells. As the disease progresses, cells die and your liver function slows down or stops.
The decline in liver function can happen all at once when you first get hepatitis, or it can take many years. Some people first find out they have hepatitis only after much of their liver has been destroyed. Or they may find out they have viral hepatitis when they try to donate blood or semen.
Most kinds of hepatitis can't be cured. But if you get rid of the source of the damage soon enough, your liver can repair itself to some degree.
sleepiness, or fever.
WHAT CAUSES IT?
Your liver can be damaged in many ways, but the most common are:
Viral hepatitis, the major cause. These viruses come in two forms, according to how they infect the body:
Fecal-oral types A and E. These viruses are spread through feces; sewage-tainted food, seafood, or water; dirty-hand-to-mouth contact; or sexual contact. They're common in places with poor water and toilet facilities, mostly in developing countries. Hepatitis A is also common in this country: It sometimes shows up in day care centers with poor hygiene. Hepatitis E is common in India, Asia, and Africa but is rare in the United States.
Blood-borne types B, C, and D. These are spread through body fluids in much the same way that HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS) is: by intravenous (IV) needles, blood, childbirth, and sex. Hepatitis C is rarely spread by sexual contact.
Nearly a third of people with B or C don't know how they got it. Some may have been infected by blood treatments or transfusions more than 20 years ago, before blood was screened for the virus.
Hepatitis C can progress very slowly. Many people die of some other cause long before the hepatitis virus destroys their liver. There is no way to tell for sure how the disease will progress. Not knowing is often very stressful for those with viral hepatitis.
Nonviral hepatitis, meaning any other kind of liver damage:
Alcoholic hepatitis from years of heavy drinking, which often progresses to cirrhosis.
Other diseases, such as autoimmune diseases, in which the body turns on itself.
Drug-induced or chemical hepatitis from drugs or mixing drugs; poisons such as carbon tetrachloride, used in cleaning products; and poisonous mushrooms.
THINGS YOU CAN'T CHANGE
Random risk of hepatitis virus infections
Hepatitis is out there, in hundreds of millions of people of every race, culture, and social level. Good health habits, safe sex, and vaccination are your best defenses, but they may not be enough: About a third of all people with B or C don't know how they got infected.
THINGS YOU CAN CHANGE
Immunity from A and B
So far, we have vaccines only for A and B (but the B vaccine prevents D as well). If you don't get the vaccine, you are at risk for both.
Alcohol and medications
Your liver filters toxins from your blood. Alcohol is poisonous to a healthy liver and worsens hepatitis from other causes. Also, some prescribed and over-the-counter drugs-including acetaminophen (such as Tylenol) in large amounts or with alcohol-can damage your liver.
Risky behavior
Injected drugs, body piercing, tattooing, and unprotected sex can give you viral hepatitis-not to mention AIDS. Both diseases can be fatal. Also, eating some poisonous types of wild mushrooms destroys liver tissue.
Travel habits
Sampling street food can give you more than a bellyache, and so can intimate contact with strangers. When you travel in places with poor toilet facilities, you need to be extra careful.
Workplace hazards
Health-care workers are at risk from blood-borne viruses present in body fluids. Those in industry and the cleaning and building trades may be exposed to chemicals or to virus-tainted food or waste. Extra care-or a job change-can lower risks.
WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOURSELF
Get prompt treatment
If you know you've been exposed to viral hepatitis, see your doctor right way. Tests and treatments may prevent it in the early stages.
Get vaccinated
Once you get one of the hepatitis viruses, you can't get it again-but you can get another, so get vaccinated against those you don't have.
Get a vaccination for hepatitis A if you plan to travel or live in a place where it's widespread or that has poor water or toilet facilities, or if you have (or had) some other form of hepatitis. It takes two to four weeks for the vaccine to take effect, but you can get faster acting short-term shots.
Get a vaccination for B if you have some other form of hepatitis, have more than one sex partner, work in a health field, travel widely, or live with anyone who has B or who is from Asia, where it is widespread. The B vaccine is now given to babies at birth and is urged for all teenagers before they are sexually active. It also protects against D.
Don't drink alcohol
Don't drink alcohol, or don't drink much. Alcohol causes hepatitis and cirrhosis-and it makes a sick liver much worse. Some doctors say you can drink lightly after you have recovered from some forms of hepatitis; others insist no alcohol is good for you. Ask your doctor. If you have a drinking problem or are an alcoholic, get help right away.
Focus on a healthy lifestyle
Good overall health and health habits let an ailing liver try to repair itself. Avoid extremes of diet or activity. Rest as much as you need to. Eat frequent small, well-balanced meals. Drink at least eight glasses of water each day.
Don't smoke, exercise lightly (when you feel well enough or your doctor says it's okay), and avoid alcohol and drugs.
Be careful with medicines
Some prescribed and over-the-counter drugs can harm your liver, including acetaminophen (Tylenol) taken with alcohol, and aspirin. Ask your doctor about any drugs you may be taking. To avoid drug damage, be sure each doctor you see knows you have (or have had) hepatitis.
Stay optimistic
Hepatitis can kill-but it may take decades and most people who have it don't die of it. So you should live as normal a life as you can. If you have chronic hepatitis, accept it as part of your life and try not to worry. Join-or start-a support group.
Have regular checkups with a specialist
Stay in touch with a liver expert. A doctor who knows about the liver can look for patterns and changes in your illness and will know about new drugs and treatments as they come out. New treatments for viral hepatitis are being tested now.
Prevent Hepatitis
Protect others from viral hepatitis
Suggest testing for those close to you. Use a condom and practice safe sex to avoid getting another kind of hepatitis and to avoid spreading hepatitis to others if you are infected. Don't donate blood or semen if you're infected.
Hepatitis A and E
While in areas with poor sanitation, drink only boiled or bottled fluids and don't use ice cubes. Eat only cooked foods (above all do not eat raw shellfish) or fruits and vegetables that you peel yourself.
Wash your hands with soap and water after using the toilet or changing a diaper and before touching food or your mouth.
If you are infected with A or E, don't prepare or touch others' food. Take extra care to wash hands, clothing, and bedding.
Hepatitis B, C, and D
Use the same safeguards as for HIV: Take care with blood and body fluids. Use condoms and practice safe sex. Don't share IV needles, manicuring tools, razors, toothbrushes, or other items that can collect or hold blood.
Be sure that only sterile needles are used for acupuncture, body or ear piercing, or tattoos. Wear latex gloves when cleaning up others' body fluids.
Hepatitis from alcohol and poisons
Don't drink, or don't drink much-no more than two drinks per day for a man, one for a woman (a drink is 1 1/2 ounces of hard liquor, 5 ounces of wine, or 12 ounces of beer).
Take care when using toxic chemicals (such as carbon tetrachloride, in some cleaning products) at home, at work, or in the garden: Read and follow label warnings. Don't use poisons in closed places.
Don't eat any wild food such as mushrooms unless you're an expert at recognizing which ones are safe.
Get to a hospital right away if you have been exposed to poisons or have any symptoms of liver damage.
Be sure your doctor knows all the drugs you're taking. Read the labels before taking-or mixing-over-the-counter drugs.
WHAT YOUR DOCTOR CAN DO FOR YOU
There is no cure-yet-for any type of hepatitis, but today's treatments can slow the disease and protect your liver.
Tests
Your doctor may give you liver function tests to see how well your liver is working. If he or she needs more facts, you may be given a biopsy: A long, thin needle is slipped into your liver to sample a piece of tissue. Your doctor may repeat tests to check your progress.
Tests for viral hepatitis can tell whether you have it or have had it, which one you have, and whether you are a carrier.
Vaccines
See your doctor right away if you aren't vaccinated. Your doctor may give you gamma globulin for hepatitis A or immune globulin (HBIG) for hepatitis B to help prevent infection.
Treatment
Many cases of hepatitis need no treatment. You and your doctor decide how much rest you need. Most people don't need a hospital stay unless they have a severe illness or can't drink fluids or eat.
Hepatitis A, B, and E most often go away by themselves. But if a hepatitis infection lingers for more than a few months, you'll have to attack the virus with one or more powerful medicines.
The main weapon against chronic hepatitis B is lamivudine, a drug that keeps the virus from dividing. After three to six months of treatment, the virus becomes so scarce that it no longer shows up in blood tests. The infection can flare up if a person stops taking the medicine, but it won't be as dangerous as it was before. For this reason, some patients can safely stop taking the drug after a year or two.
Before the approval of lamivudine in 1998, a drug called interferon alpha 2b was the only available treatment for hepatitis B. The drug is effective, but unlike lamivudine it often causes serious side effects such as flulike symptoms, fever, depression, and muscle pain.
Interferon alpha 2b is still the best choice for treating hepatitis C. Patients can either take the drug by itself or combined with the antiviral drug ribavirin. In general, the two-drug combination is more likely than interferon alone to slow down the disease. Ribavirin doesn't cause as many side effects as interferon, but it can make a person anemic.
Alcoholic hepatitis has no treatment other than quitting alcohol and eating a balanced diet.
Acetaminophen overdoses have an antidote, and another drug may counter mushroom poisoning. Other types of poisoning may be treated by flushing the substance out of the body within 48 hours after exposure. If you have hepatitis from chemical exposure, your body can often repair the damage if you avoid the chemical.
A liver transplant is a last-chance treatment.
SOME WORDS YOU MAY HEAR
Acute: onset and first six months of a disease.
Ascites: abdominal swelling due to fluid buildup.
Interferon alpha 2b: antiviral drug for hepatitis B and C.
Bile: yellowish fluid made by the liver to aid digestion.
Bilirubin: yellowish fluid of broken-down red blood cells that in excess amounts causes jaundice.
Biopsy: removal of a tissue sample to check under a microscope.
Chronic: ongoing disease lasting six months or more.
Cirrhosis: scarring of the liver, which sometimes progresses to cancer or liver failure.
Contagious: able to be passed to another person.
Encephalopathy: swelling of the brain; a result of advanced liver disease.
Gamma (or immune) globulin: human blood product rich in antibodies given to protect those recently exposed to hepatitis A.
Gastroenterologist: doctor who treats problems of the digestive system, including the liver.
Hepatocellular carcinoma: a form of liver cancer.
Hepatologist: doctor who is an expert on the liver and its diseases.
Hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG): human blood product rich in antibodies given to protect those recently exposed to hepatitis B.
Inflammation: swelling, with redness, heat, and tenderness.
Jaundice: yellowed skin and whites of the eyes from liver disease.
Liver function test: a blood test for liver health that measures enzymes leaked by liver cells.
Liver enzymes: substance produced by liver cells to help the liver do its work.
Nonviral hepatitis: liver disease that is neither caused by a virus nor caught from others.
Toxin: poison or harmful substance.
Transplant: replacement of a diseased organ, such as the liver, with a healthy organ or tissue from another person.
Viral hepatitis: disease from the hepatitis viruses that can be caught from others. Types A, B, C, D, and E are the most common.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
Amantidine
Interferon and ribavirin may not be the last word in hepatitis C treatment. In 2000, Italian researchers reported that a triple-drug combination-these medicines plus the antiviral drug amantidine-seemed to be more potent than the standard two-drug treatment. In their study, 40 patients received all three drugs, and 20 took just interferon and ribavirin. After 12 months of treatment and 6 months of follow-up, each subject had a blood test to check for the hepatitis C virus. Half the patients on the three-drug treatment showed no signs of the virus; only 5 percent of the other patients had the same result.
Amantidine, already FDA-approved as a flu drug, is readily available and relatively inexpensive. If you're already taking interferon and ribavirin for hepatitis C, ask your doctor if it's right for you.
Living donor liver transplant
A different kind of breakthrough may help save the lives of patients with liver failure. Instead of waiting for a transplant, they can now receive a part of a liver from a healthy friend or relative. (In 1999, more than 1,000 people died while on a liver transplant waiting list.) In both the donor and the patient, the liver then grows to normal size in two to four weeks. By the summer of 2000, roughly 400 adult patients worldwide had received a "living donor" transplant.
CIRRHOSIS
Cirrhosis is the next disease stage after chronic hepatitis. Scar tissue replaces damaged liver cells, so blood can't flow as well through the liver. This kills even more cells, setting off a cascade of problems, including nausea, weight loss, jaundice, a tendency to bleed easily, fluid buildup in the stomach and ankles, confusion, cancer, and even coma. There may be no sign of cirrhosis until scars block veins and the backup pressure causes massive vomiting of blood-a serious warning of advanced cirrhosis.
Alcohol abuse and hepatitis C are the major causes of cirrhosis: One-third of people who take more than five drinks a day for 15 years, and about 30 percent of those with chronic C, get cirrhosis of the liver.
At this point, the damage can't be reversed-but treatment can slow or stop its progress once the cause is removed. Doctors may also be able to treat coma, fluid buildup, and bleeding, sometimes with surgery. Quitting all alcohol is a must.
LIVER TRANSPLANTS
In 1999, about 4,700 people in the United States received a liver transplant, the only treatment for liver failure.
Organ transplants have become more common in the last 20 years, with good quality of life afterward. Overall, 90 percent of children and 85 percent of adults survive surgery and the first year. Cost for the first year, including surgery and drugs, is $250,000 to $300,000 (covered by most insurers).
It's not a complete cure. Most people who get a transplant have to take drugs forever so their body doesn't reject the new organ, and the drugs have side effects. People with hepatitis B and C will reinfect the new liver, and a small percentage may face liver failure-and a transplant-again.
HEPATITIS EPIDEMIC
Viral hepatitis is a major public health problem, infecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
In the United States, one in three people has had the milder oral-type hepatitis A. Almost all recover and are immune. But about 4 million have the more dangerous blood-borne types B and C-and are carriers who can infect others.
Both B and C are spread through body fluids, much like the HIV virus that causes AIDS. In fact, hepatitis B is much more infectious than HIV-and more widespread (perhaps 900,000 Americans have HIV).
HELPING YOUR DOCTOR HELP YOU
Talk first about what worries you most. Get straight to the point, so you won't miss your chance.
Be specific. Don't just say, "I feel rotten." Describe symptoms as clearly as you can.
Tell the truth. Your doctor needs to know what you really eat, how much you really exercise, and whether you drink, smoke, or use drugs. Everything you say is confidential.
Ask questions. Bring a list to help you remember. If you hear any medical terms you don't understand, ask for translations.
Get the facts about each new treatment. If your doctor suggests you have a test or see another doctor, ask why.
Speak up. If something bothers you, say so. If you want a certain medication or procedure, ask whether it will work for you.
If you cannot follow your doctor's advice, say so. Be willing to negotiate. If your doctor advises a treatment with side effects you find hard to accept, say something like, "I'd find that hard to live with. Is there another option I could try?"
Don't leave what you've learned at the doctor's office. Write down what you want to remember or need to do.
MAKE SURE YOUR DOCTOR TELLS YOU...
What kind of hepatitis you have
How far your hepatitis has progressed.
What the usual outcome is for that kind of hepatitis.
What kinds of tests you have had and what other tests are suggested.
Details of your treatment plan-and any possible side effects.
Whether any medicine you're taking for something else might make your hepatitis worse.
How contagious you are to family members and others.
Whether those near you should be tested.
What changes in diet or lifestyle you and your family might make.
How you'll know you are getting better, or that your treatment plan is working.
The next step for you and your doctor.
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Curative Properties of Mango
Curative Properties of Green Mangos
The mango is well-known for its medicinal properties both in unripe and ripe states. The unripe fruit is acidic, astringent and antiscorbutic. The skin of the unripe fruit is astringent and stimulant tonic. The bark is also astringent and has a marked action on mucous membranes. Mango pickles preserved in oil and salted solution is used throughout India. However, these pickles, if extremely sour, spicy and oily, are not good for health and should be specially avoided by those suffering from arthritis, rheumatism,sinusitis, sore throat and hyperacidity.
The ripe mango is antiscorbutic, diuretic, laxative, invigorating, fattening and astringent. It tones up the heart muscle, improves complexion and stimulates appetite. It increases the seven body nutrients, called 'dhatus' in Ayurveda. They are food juice, blood, flesh, fat, bone marrow and semen. The fruit is beneficial in liver disorders, loss of weight and other physical disturbances.
The unripe mango protects men from the adverse effects of hot, scorching winds. A drink, prepared from the unripe mango by cooking it in hot ashes and mixing the pith with sugar and water, is an effective remedy for heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Eating raw mango with salt quenches thirst and prevents the excessive loss of sodium chloride and iron during summer due to excessive sweating.
Gastro-Intestinal Disorders
Unripe green mangoes are beneficial in the treatment of gastro-intestinal disorders. Eating one or two small tender mangoes in which the seed is not fully formed with salt and honey is found to be very effective medicine for summer diarrhea, dysentery, piles, morning sickness, chronic dyspepsia, indigestion and constipation.
Bilious Disorders
Unripe mangoes are an excellent fruit remedy for bilious disorders. The acids contained in the green mango increase the secretion of bile and act as intestinal antiseptic. Therefore, eating green mango daily with honey and pepper cures biliousness, food putrefaction i.e. when bacteria; urticaria and jaundice decompose proteins. It tones up the liver and keeps it healthy.
Blood Disorders
The green mango is valuable in blood disorders because of its high vitamin C content. It increases the elasticity of the blood vessels and helps the formation of new blood cells. It aids the absorption of food,iron and prevents bleeding tendencies. It increases body resistance against tuberculosis, anemia, cholera and dysentery.
Curative Properties of Ripe Mango
Night blindness
Ripe mangoes are highly beneficial in the treatment of night blindness in which one cannot see properly in dim light. This disease is caused by vitamin A deficiency. It is very common among children who are victim of malnutrition due to poverty. Liberal use of mangoes during the season will be very effective in such conditions. It will also prevent many other eye diseases that may ultimately cause total blindness. Eating mangoes liberally will also prevent development of refractive errors, drynessof the eyes, softening of the cornea, itching and burning in the eyes.
Common infections
All bacterial invasions are due to poor epithelium the tissue that covers the external surface of the body. Liberal use of mangoes during the season contributes towards formation of healthy epithelium, thereby preventing frequent attacks of common infections such as colds rhinitis and sinusitis. This is attributable to high concentration of vitamin A in mangoes.
To gain weight
The mango-milk cure is an ideal treatment for weight gaining. For this mode of treatment, ripe and sweet mangoes should always be selected. They should be taken thrice a day-morning, noon and evening. The mangoes should be taken first and then followed by milk. The mango is rich in sugar but deficient in protein. On the other hand, milk is rich in protein but deficient in sugar. The other makes up the deficiency of the one. Mango thus combines very well with milk and exclusive mango milk diet taken for at least one month, will lead to improvement in health, vigor and gain in weight. The quantity of milk and of the mangoes to be consumed in this mode of treatment should be carefully regulated according to the condition of the patient. For rapid gain in weight about 4 to 5 liters of milk should be consumed with 3 to 4 kg. of mangoes.
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The mango is well-known for its medicinal properties both in unripe and ripe states. The unripe fruit is acidic, astringent and antiscorbutic. The skin of the unripe fruit is astringent and stimulant tonic. The bark is also astringent and has a marked action on mucous membranes. Mango pickles preserved in oil and salted solution is used throughout India. However, these pickles, if extremely sour, spicy and oily, are not good for health and should be specially avoided by those suffering from arthritis, rheumatism,sinusitis, sore throat and hyperacidity.
The ripe mango is antiscorbutic, diuretic, laxative, invigorating, fattening and astringent. It tones up the heart muscle, improves complexion and stimulates appetite. It increases the seven body nutrients, called 'dhatus' in Ayurveda. They are food juice, blood, flesh, fat, bone marrow and semen. The fruit is beneficial in liver disorders, loss of weight and other physical disturbances.
The unripe mango protects men from the adverse effects of hot, scorching winds. A drink, prepared from the unripe mango by cooking it in hot ashes and mixing the pith with sugar and water, is an effective remedy for heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Eating raw mango with salt quenches thirst and prevents the excessive loss of sodium chloride and iron during summer due to excessive sweating.
Gastro-Intestinal Disorders
Unripe green mangoes are beneficial in the treatment of gastro-intestinal disorders. Eating one or two small tender mangoes in which the seed is not fully formed with salt and honey is found to be very effective medicine for summer diarrhea, dysentery, piles, morning sickness, chronic dyspepsia, indigestion and constipation.
Bilious Disorders
Unripe mangoes are an excellent fruit remedy for bilious disorders. The acids contained in the green mango increase the secretion of bile and act as intestinal antiseptic. Therefore, eating green mango daily with honey and pepper cures biliousness, food putrefaction i.e. when bacteria; urticaria and jaundice decompose proteins. It tones up the liver and keeps it healthy.
Blood Disorders
The green mango is valuable in blood disorders because of its high vitamin C content. It increases the elasticity of the blood vessels and helps the formation of new blood cells. It aids the absorption of food,iron and prevents bleeding tendencies. It increases body resistance against tuberculosis, anemia, cholera and dysentery.
Curative Properties of Ripe Mango
Night blindness
Ripe mangoes are highly beneficial in the treatment of night blindness in which one cannot see properly in dim light. This disease is caused by vitamin A deficiency. It is very common among children who are victim of malnutrition due to poverty. Liberal use of mangoes during the season will be very effective in such conditions. It will also prevent many other eye diseases that may ultimately cause total blindness. Eating mangoes liberally will also prevent development of refractive errors, drynessof the eyes, softening of the cornea, itching and burning in the eyes.
Common infections
All bacterial invasions are due to poor epithelium the tissue that covers the external surface of the body. Liberal use of mangoes during the season contributes towards formation of healthy epithelium, thereby preventing frequent attacks of common infections such as colds rhinitis and sinusitis. This is attributable to high concentration of vitamin A in mangoes.
To gain weight
The mango-milk cure is an ideal treatment for weight gaining. For this mode of treatment, ripe and sweet mangoes should always be selected. They should be taken thrice a day-morning, noon and evening. The mangoes should be taken first and then followed by milk. The mango is rich in sugar but deficient in protein. On the other hand, milk is rich in protein but deficient in sugar. The other makes up the deficiency of the one. Mango thus combines very well with milk and exclusive mango milk diet taken for at least one month, will lead to improvement in health, vigor and gain in weight. The quantity of milk and of the mangoes to be consumed in this mode of treatment should be carefully regulated according to the condition of the patient. For rapid gain in weight about 4 to 5 liters of milk should be consumed with 3 to 4 kg. of mangoes.
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Curative Properties of Banana
In the traditional medicine of India and the ancient Persia this golden fruit is regarded as nature's secret of perpetual youth. To this day, banana is known for promoting healthy digestion and creating a feeling of youthfulness. They help promote the retention of calcium, phosphorus and nitrogen - all of which then work to build sound and regenerated tissues Banana also contains invert sugar, which is an aid to youthful growth and metabolism.
Intestinal Disorder
The banana is used as a dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and blandness. It is said to contain an unidentified compound called, perhaps jokingly, 'vitamin U (against ulcer). It is the only raw fruit, which can be eaten without distress in chronic ulcer cases. It neutralizes the over-acidity of the gastric juices and reduces the irritation of the ulcer by coating the lining of the stomach
Ripe bananas are highly beneficial in the treatment of ulcerative colitis, being bland, smooth, easily-digestible and slightly laxative and they relieve acute symptoms and promote the healing process.
Constipation and Diarrhea
Bananas are of great value both in constipation and diarrhea as they normalize colonic functions in the large intestine to absorb large amounts of water for proper bowel moments. Their usefulness in constipation is due to their richness in pectin, which is water-absorbent and this gives them a bulk producing ability. They also possess the ability to change the bacteria in the intestines-from the harmful type of bacilli to the beneficial acidophilus bacilli.
Dysentery
Mashed banana together with little salt is a very valuable remedy for dysentery. According to Dr. Kirticar, a combination of ripe plantain, tamarind and common salt is most effective in this disease. He claims to have cured several cases of both acute and chronic dysentery by this treatment.' Ripe bananas are also very useful in dysentery of children, but they should be thoroughly mashed and beaten to cream before use in these cases.
Arthritis and Gout
Bananas are useful in the treatment of arthritis and gout. A diet of bananas only for three or four days is advised in these conditions. The patient can be given to eat eight or nine bananas daily during this period and nothing else.
Anemia
Being high in iron content, bananas are beneficial in the treatment of anemia. They stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood.
Allergies
The fruit is very useful for those who are allergic to certain foods and who suffer in consequence from skin rashes or digestive disorders or asthma. Unlike other protein foods, many of which contain an amino-acid which these persons cannot tolerate and which causes allergy. Bananas contain only benign amino-acids which in most cases are not allergic. The fruit, however, does cause allergic reactions in certain sensitive persons and they should avoid it.
Kidney Disorders
Bananas are valuable in kidney disorder because of their low protein and salt content and high carbohydrate content. They are useful in uremia, a toxic condition of the blood due to kidney congestion and dysfunction. In such cases, a diet of bananas should only be taken for three to four days, consuming eight to nine bananas a day. This diet is suitable for all kidney troubles, including nephritis. ( Those who are suffering from kidney failure because of its high potassium content should not take the fruit.)
Tuberculosis
Bananas are considered useful in the treatment of tuberculosis; the juice of the plantain or the ordinary cooked bananas works miracles in the cure of tuberculosis.
Urinary Disorders
Juice from Banana stem is a well-known remedy for urinary disorders. It improves the functional efficiency of kidney and liver thereby alleviating the discomforts and diseased condition in them. It clears the excretion organs in the abdominal region of toxins and helps to eliminate them in the form of urine. It has been found to be of great help in the treatment for the removal of stones in the kidney, gall bladder, and prostate. It is advisable to mix this juice whenever possible with the juice of ash pumpkin.
Menstrual Disorders
Cooked banana flower eaten with curd is considered an effective medicine for menstrual disorders like painful menstruation and excessive bleeding. Banana flower helps increase progesterone hormone which reduces the bleeding.
Burns and Wounds
A plaster is prepared by beating a ripe banana into a fine paste. It can be spread over burns and wounds and supported by a cloth bandage. It gives immediate relief. The young tender leaves of banana tree form a cool dressing for inflammations and blisters.
Precautions
Banana, taken as a table fruit, must be thoroughly ripe as otherwise it cannot be digested in the small intestine- which then ferments in the large intestine, often causing wind. The raw bananas contain 20 to 25 per cent starch. But during the process of ripening, this starch is almost wholly converted with assimilable sugar.
Bananas should never be kept in a refrigerator as low temperature prevents their ripening. Those who are suffering from kidney failure because of its high potassium content should not take the fruit.
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Intestinal Disorder
The banana is used as a dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and blandness. It is said to contain an unidentified compound called, perhaps jokingly, 'vitamin U (against ulcer). It is the only raw fruit, which can be eaten without distress in chronic ulcer cases. It neutralizes the over-acidity of the gastric juices and reduces the irritation of the ulcer by coating the lining of the stomach
Ripe bananas are highly beneficial in the treatment of ulcerative colitis, being bland, smooth, easily-digestible and slightly laxative and they relieve acute symptoms and promote the healing process.
Constipation and Diarrhea
Bananas are of great value both in constipation and diarrhea as they normalize colonic functions in the large intestine to absorb large amounts of water for proper bowel moments. Their usefulness in constipation is due to their richness in pectin, which is water-absorbent and this gives them a bulk producing ability. They also possess the ability to change the bacteria in the intestines-from the harmful type of bacilli to the beneficial acidophilus bacilli.
Dysentery
Mashed banana together with little salt is a very valuable remedy for dysentery. According to Dr. Kirticar, a combination of ripe plantain, tamarind and common salt is most effective in this disease. He claims to have cured several cases of both acute and chronic dysentery by this treatment.' Ripe bananas are also very useful in dysentery of children, but they should be thoroughly mashed and beaten to cream before use in these cases.
Arthritis and Gout
Bananas are useful in the treatment of arthritis and gout. A diet of bananas only for three or four days is advised in these conditions. The patient can be given to eat eight or nine bananas daily during this period and nothing else.
Anemia
Being high in iron content, bananas are beneficial in the treatment of anemia. They stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood.
Allergies
The fruit is very useful for those who are allergic to certain foods and who suffer in consequence from skin rashes or digestive disorders or asthma. Unlike other protein foods, many of which contain an amino-acid which these persons cannot tolerate and which causes allergy. Bananas contain only benign amino-acids which in most cases are not allergic. The fruit, however, does cause allergic reactions in certain sensitive persons and they should avoid it.
Kidney Disorders
Bananas are valuable in kidney disorder because of their low protein and salt content and high carbohydrate content. They are useful in uremia, a toxic condition of the blood due to kidney congestion and dysfunction. In such cases, a diet of bananas should only be taken for three to four days, consuming eight to nine bananas a day. This diet is suitable for all kidney troubles, including nephritis. ( Those who are suffering from kidney failure because of its high potassium content should not take the fruit.)
Tuberculosis
Bananas are considered useful in the treatment of tuberculosis; the juice of the plantain or the ordinary cooked bananas works miracles in the cure of tuberculosis.
Urinary Disorders
Juice from Banana stem is a well-known remedy for urinary disorders. It improves the functional efficiency of kidney and liver thereby alleviating the discomforts and diseased condition in them. It clears the excretion organs in the abdominal region of toxins and helps to eliminate them in the form of urine. It has been found to be of great help in the treatment for the removal of stones in the kidney, gall bladder, and prostate. It is advisable to mix this juice whenever possible with the juice of ash pumpkin.
Menstrual Disorders
Cooked banana flower eaten with curd is considered an effective medicine for menstrual disorders like painful menstruation and excessive bleeding. Banana flower helps increase progesterone hormone which reduces the bleeding.
Burns and Wounds
A plaster is prepared by beating a ripe banana into a fine paste. It can be spread over burns and wounds and supported by a cloth bandage. It gives immediate relief. The young tender leaves of banana tree form a cool dressing for inflammations and blisters.
Precautions
Banana, taken as a table fruit, must be thoroughly ripe as otherwise it cannot be digested in the small intestine- which then ferments in the large intestine, often causing wind. The raw bananas contain 20 to 25 per cent starch. But during the process of ripening, this starch is almost wholly converted with assimilable sugar.
Bananas should never be kept in a refrigerator as low temperature prevents their ripening. Those who are suffering from kidney failure because of its high potassium content should not take the fruit.
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AYURVEDA REMEDY TO CURE FEVER AT HOME
FEVER & KITCHEN .... FEVER.................CURE...... IN KITCHEN........
Fever or Jwar is one of the most comprehensively described entity in Ayurveda. Thirteen types of fever are described .
In Ayurveda - Vataja, Pittaja, Kaphaja, Vata-Pittaja, Vata- Kaphaja, Tridoshaj (intrinsic fevers), Agantuja (extrinsic fever), Kamaja (related to sex), Shokaja (anxiety induced), Vishama jwar (malaria), Krodhaja (anger induced) and Bhuta-vistha (of unknown origin). Depending upon the doshic involvement or other factors, additional symptoms besides elevation of temperature are observed.
The causative factors of fever are diverse and hence the management is equally varied. In majority of the fevers, the presence of mind and common sense in handling a situation goes in conformity with the laws of nature.
Ingredients:-
Black Pepper
Ginger
Holy Basil
Rose water
Common Recipes:-
Sponging the forehead and the body with cold water is a commonly recommended practice in high fever and in fever due to sun-stroke. For better results, add 1 teaspoonful of rose water to the cold water before sponging. You could even add the rose water to an ice-bag and use it for sponging.
Take about 20 fresh leaves of Holy Basil. Take a small piece of ginger and about 5 grains of black pepper. Boil them together in your tea and drink the warm liquid.
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Fever or Jwar is one of the most comprehensively described entity in Ayurveda. Thirteen types of fever are described .
In Ayurveda - Vataja, Pittaja, Kaphaja, Vata-Pittaja, Vata- Kaphaja, Tridoshaj (intrinsic fevers), Agantuja (extrinsic fever), Kamaja (related to sex), Shokaja (anxiety induced), Vishama jwar (malaria), Krodhaja (anger induced) and Bhuta-vistha (of unknown origin). Depending upon the doshic involvement or other factors, additional symptoms besides elevation of temperature are observed.
The causative factors of fever are diverse and hence the management is equally varied. In majority of the fevers, the presence of mind and common sense in handling a situation goes in conformity with the laws of nature.
Ingredients:-
Black Pepper
Ginger
Holy Basil
Rose water
Common Recipes:-
Sponging the forehead and the body with cold water is a commonly recommended practice in high fever and in fever due to sun-stroke. For better results, add 1 teaspoonful of rose water to the cold water before sponging. You could even add the rose water to an ice-bag and use it for sponging.
Take about 20 fresh leaves of Holy Basil. Take a small piece of ginger and about 5 grains of black pepper. Boil them together in your tea and drink the warm liquid.
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INDUCE APPETITE FROM KITCHEN
LOSS OF APPETITE
Common recipes:-------------
Extract about a cup of pomegranate seed juice. Add a pinch of rock salt and a spoonful of honey. Taking this solution slowly removes the bad taste from the mouth and increases your appetite!
Take equal parts of mustard seeds, asafetida, ginger, cumin seeds and black salt and grind the mixture to a fine powder. Add this mixture to a glass of buttermilk and drink it an hour before meals to enhance the appetite.
Mix well a spoonful each of Indian gooseberry powder, clarified butter and honey. Take this paste prior to meals to improve the appetite.
Ingredients: one part each of cloves, nutmeg and long pepper, 3 parts of Indian gooseberry and 8 parts of ginger. Grind the mixture to obtain a fine powder. Add sufficient sugar to make the taste palatable. Consuming a spoonful of this mixture twice or thrice a day helps in regaining lost appetite.
Mix in equal parts cinnamon bark, small cardamom, coriander seeds and fennel seeds. Soak the mixture in cold water overnight. Strain this blend with a tea strainer.
Drinking this cold infusion early in the morning helps in building an appetite.
Soak about 10 grams of tamarind in a cup of warm water for 30 minutes. Squeeze the mass to obtain tamarind juice. Add a pinch of table salt to suit your taste. Add about 2 grams of powdered ajowan seeds. Taken before meals, this juice improves appetite. Alternatively, you can dilute 1/2 a teaspoonful of tamarind pulp in one cup of water for this purpose.
Basil tea is an efficacious drink to enhance appetite. Take about 20 gms of Basil leaves and boil it in 250 ml of water till the quantity is reduced to half the original volume. Strain the liquid and mix an equal amount of milk, a pinch of cardamom powder and sufficient sugar to suit your taste. Consuming this tea twice a day helps to increase your appetite.
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Common recipes:-------------
Extract about a cup of pomegranate seed juice. Add a pinch of rock salt and a spoonful of honey. Taking this solution slowly removes the bad taste from the mouth and increases your appetite!
Take equal parts of mustard seeds, asafetida, ginger, cumin seeds and black salt and grind the mixture to a fine powder. Add this mixture to a glass of buttermilk and drink it an hour before meals to enhance the appetite.
Mix well a spoonful each of Indian gooseberry powder, clarified butter and honey. Take this paste prior to meals to improve the appetite.
Ingredients: one part each of cloves, nutmeg and long pepper, 3 parts of Indian gooseberry and 8 parts of ginger. Grind the mixture to obtain a fine powder. Add sufficient sugar to make the taste palatable. Consuming a spoonful of this mixture twice or thrice a day helps in regaining lost appetite.
Mix in equal parts cinnamon bark, small cardamom, coriander seeds and fennel seeds. Soak the mixture in cold water overnight. Strain this blend with a tea strainer.
Drinking this cold infusion early in the morning helps in building an appetite.
Soak about 10 grams of tamarind in a cup of warm water for 30 minutes. Squeeze the mass to obtain tamarind juice. Add a pinch of table salt to suit your taste. Add about 2 grams of powdered ajowan seeds. Taken before meals, this juice improves appetite. Alternatively, you can dilute 1/2 a teaspoonful of tamarind pulp in one cup of water for this purpose.
Basil tea is an efficacious drink to enhance appetite. Take about 20 gms of Basil leaves and boil it in 250 ml of water till the quantity is reduced to half the original volume. Strain the liquid and mix an equal amount of milk, a pinch of cardamom powder and sufficient sugar to suit your taste. Consuming this tea twice a day helps to increase your appetite.
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TOOTHACHE TREATMENT
TOOTHACHE
Good and healthy teeth are an amazing balance of aesthetic beauty and engineering .The main cause of toothache is decay of teeth which results from decomposition of food particles on them. It is basically a breakdown or destruction of the tooth structure by demineralisation.The sugars and carbohydrates that are present in the mouth produce acids as a result of microbial attackThese acids erode the teeth causing teeth decay.
Ingredients:
Alum
Clove oil
Ginger
Margosa (Neem)
Mustard oil
Common Recipes:
Dip a swab of clean cotton in clove oil and place it under the aching tooth. It relieves pain instantly. This remedy helps to decrease infection due to its antiseptic properties.
A mixture of ginger and roasted alum when applied to the aching tooth twice or thrice a day eases the pain.
To one teaspoonful of ginger and roasted alum, add a few drops of mustard oil to make the paste fairly consistent to apply. This ensures a speedy recovery and application of this paste at regular intervals eases the pain considerably.
Take about 100 gms of Neem (Margosa tree) root and coarsely powder it. Boil this in about one litre of water over gentle heat till the quantity is reduced to half of the original volume. Strain the decoction and add a spoonful of a table salt. Keep this lukewarm decoction in the mouth and retain it for some time before gargling. Repeating this relieves pain.
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Good and healthy teeth are an amazing balance of aesthetic beauty and engineering .The main cause of toothache is decay of teeth which results from decomposition of food particles on them. It is basically a breakdown or destruction of the tooth structure by demineralisation.The sugars and carbohydrates that are present in the mouth produce acids as a result of microbial attackThese acids erode the teeth causing teeth decay.
Ingredients:
Alum
Clove oil
Ginger
Margosa (Neem)
Mustard oil
Common Recipes:
Dip a swab of clean cotton in clove oil and place it under the aching tooth. It relieves pain instantly. This remedy helps to decrease infection due to its antiseptic properties.
A mixture of ginger and roasted alum when applied to the aching tooth twice or thrice a day eases the pain.
To one teaspoonful of ginger and roasted alum, add a few drops of mustard oil to make the paste fairly consistent to apply. This ensures a speedy recovery and application of this paste at regular intervals eases the pain considerably.
Take about 100 gms of Neem (Margosa tree) root and coarsely powder it. Boil this in about one litre of water over gentle heat till the quantity is reduced to half of the original volume. Strain the decoction and add a spoonful of a table salt. Keep this lukewarm decoction in the mouth and retain it for some time before gargling. Repeating this relieves pain.
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Health benefits of Apples
Apple, the Wonder Fruit
Most of us are familiar with the tale that originated from Switzerland of William Tell when an Apple was placed on the head of his son and Tell was ordered to split the apple with his arrow or lose his son. Of course Tell succeeded in piercing the apple into two and saved his son. Again we have heard of Adam's apple. The story goes that in the Garden of Eden, Adam ate a piece of the forbidden fruit that got stuck in his throat, and thus the term Adam’s Apple. An Adam's apple sometimes looks like a small, rounded apple just under the skin in the front of the throat, usually seen in boys. Now let’s have some interesting facts about Apples and how they aid in good health
The Greek and Roman mythology refer to apples as symbols of love and beauty but Apple contain vitamins like Vitamin C, Beta-Carotene, iron and potassium etc., The Vitamin C content may not be as good as Oranges but apples have very high mineral contents, pectins, malic acid which are good in normalizing the intestines. Apple is good for treatment of anaemia, dysentery, heart disease, headache, eye disorders, kidney stones and promotes vigour and vitality. Apple juice is good to overcome a liverish feeling, further, apples are unlikely to cause allergic reactions and are excellent means of providing essential fluids to the body.
A popular saying about apples is that apples combine the best attributes of something old and something new. A number of components in apples, have been found in studies to lower blood cholesterol with a reduced risk of ischemic heart disease, stroke, prostrate cancer, type II diabetes and asthma. A new study whose findings have been published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease is sure to bring cheers for people suffering from this strange disease.
This study suggests that eating and drinking apples and apple juice, in conjunction with a balanced diet, can protect the brain from the effects of oxidative stress- and that we should eat such antioxidant-rich foods. Apples are also good for treatment of the Acid reflux condition also called gerd (gastro esophageal reflux disease).
It is well said that we should have in our diet apart from vegetables, fresh coloured fruits like Yellow Apples, Green Apples, Red Apples etc., which are easily available considering that we have some of the best Apples coming from places like Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh etc., Of course imported apples like Washington apples and Australian apples are available at big departmental stores. Some of the well known apple varieties are Golden Noble, Bramleys etc., As in vegetables like carrot, the colours in fruits like Apples are indicative of good health as shown below:
Green Apples- Good for strong bones and teeth, aids in vision, anti cancer properties.
Yellow Apples- Good for heart and eyes, immune system, reduce risk of some cancers
Red Apples- Good for heart, Memory function, lower risk of some cancers and to maintain urinary tract health
So lets seize the opportunity to grab as much apples as we can in our diet for good health for the whole family.
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Most of us are familiar with the tale that originated from Switzerland of William Tell when an Apple was placed on the head of his son and Tell was ordered to split the apple with his arrow or lose his son. Of course Tell succeeded in piercing the apple into two and saved his son. Again we have heard of Adam's apple. The story goes that in the Garden of Eden, Adam ate a piece of the forbidden fruit that got stuck in his throat, and thus the term Adam’s Apple. An Adam's apple sometimes looks like a small, rounded apple just under the skin in the front of the throat, usually seen in boys. Now let’s have some interesting facts about Apples and how they aid in good health
The Greek and Roman mythology refer to apples as symbols of love and beauty but Apple contain vitamins like Vitamin C, Beta-Carotene, iron and potassium etc., The Vitamin C content may not be as good as Oranges but apples have very high mineral contents, pectins, malic acid which are good in normalizing the intestines. Apple is good for treatment of anaemia, dysentery, heart disease, headache, eye disorders, kidney stones and promotes vigour and vitality. Apple juice is good to overcome a liverish feeling, further, apples are unlikely to cause allergic reactions and are excellent means of providing essential fluids to the body.
A popular saying about apples is that apples combine the best attributes of something old and something new. A number of components in apples, have been found in studies to lower blood cholesterol with a reduced risk of ischemic heart disease, stroke, prostrate cancer, type II diabetes and asthma. A new study whose findings have been published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease is sure to bring cheers for people suffering from this strange disease.
This study suggests that eating and drinking apples and apple juice, in conjunction with a balanced diet, can protect the brain from the effects of oxidative stress- and that we should eat such antioxidant-rich foods. Apples are also good for treatment of the Acid reflux condition also called gerd (gastro esophageal reflux disease).
It is well said that we should have in our diet apart from vegetables, fresh coloured fruits like Yellow Apples, Green Apples, Red Apples etc., which are easily available considering that we have some of the best Apples coming from places like Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh etc., Of course imported apples like Washington apples and Australian apples are available at big departmental stores. Some of the well known apple varieties are Golden Noble, Bramleys etc., As in vegetables like carrot, the colours in fruits like Apples are indicative of good health as shown below:
Green Apples- Good for strong bones and teeth, aids in vision, anti cancer properties.
Yellow Apples- Good for heart and eyes, immune system, reduce risk of some cancers
Red Apples- Good for heart, Memory function, lower risk of some cancers and to maintain urinary tract health
So lets seize the opportunity to grab as much apples as we can in our diet for good health for the whole family.
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Okra - The Wonder Vegetable of Today
The world's most beautiful women, Cleopatra of Egypt and Yang Guifei
of China loved to eat okra in their diets according to the history
record.
When we visited the world's most productive land of okra, Kami rural
area in Kowchi Prefecture, Japan, young and old are all in smile and
look very healthy. When we asked the secret of their beautiful smile
and good health in that area, their answers were great grace of okra.
The history of okra seems to be very old and it was cultivated in
Egypt before the time of Cleopatra. The okra plant spread to many
parts of the world during the Atlantic slave trade. During WWII, the
shortage of coffee beans made them use okra seeds as a substitute for
coffee. This incident made the word "okra fever". Since then, okra's
popularity never disappeared from local markets to convenience stores
throughout the world and throughout the year.
NUTRITION INFORMATION
Okra contains vitamins A and C and is a good source of iron and
calcium. It also contains starch, fat, ash, thiamine and riboflavin.
No wonder, Cleopatra and Yang Guifei maintained their beauties.
Probably, you want to know more specifically. Here it is:
For 1/2 cup sliced, cooked okra
Calories 25
Dietary Fiber 2 grams
Protein 1.52 grams
Carbohydrates 5.76 grams
Vitamin A 460 IU
Vitamin C 13.04 mg
Folic acid 36.5 micrograms
Calcium 50.4 mg
Iron 0.4 mg
Potassium 256.6 mg
Magnesium 46 mg
For 1 cup raw okra
Calories: 33
Fiber: 3.2g
Total Fat: 0.1g
Protein: 2.0g
Carbohydrate: 7.6g
Vitamin A 660 IU
Vitamin C 21mg
Folate 87.8mcg
Magnesium 57mg
BENEFITS OF OKRA
1. The superior fiber found in okra helps to stabilize the blood
sugar by curbing the rate at which sugar is absorbed from the
intestinal tract.
2. Okra's mucilage binds cholesterol and bile acid carrying toxins
dumped into it by the filtering liver.
3. Okra helps lubricate the large intestines due to its bulk laxative
qualities. The okra fiber absorbs water and ensures bulk in stools.
This helps prevent and improve constipation. Unlike harsh wheat bran,
which can irritate or injure the intestinal tract, okra's mucilage
soothes, and okra facilitates elimination more comfortably by its
slippery characteristic. Okra binds excess cholesterol and toxins (in
bile acids). These, if not evacuated, will cause numerous health
problems. Okra also assures easy passage out of waste from the body.
Okra is completely non-toxic, non-habit forming, has no adverse side
effects, is full of nutrients, and is economically within reach of
most unlike the OTC drugs.
4. Okra fiber is excellent for feeding the good bacteria
(probiotics). This contributes to the health of the intestinal tract.
5. Okra is a supreme vegetable for those feeling weak, exhausted, and
suffering from depression.
6. Okra is used for healing ulcers and to keep joints limber. It
helps to neutralize acids, being very alkaline, and provides a
temporary protective coating for the digestive tract.
7. Okra treats lung inflammation, sore throat, and irritable bowel.
8. Okra has been used successfully in experimental blood plasma
replacements.
9. Okra is good for summer heat treatment. Okra is a supreme
vegetable for those feeling weak, exhausted, and suffering from
depression.
10. Okra is good for constipation.
11. Okra is good in normalizing the blood sugar and cholesterol
level.
12. Okra is good for asthma. Okra's vitamin C is an antioxidant and
anti-inflammatory, which curtail the development of asthma symptoms.
13. Okra is good for atherosclerosis.
14. Okra is believed to protect some forms of cancer expansion,
especially colorectal cancer.
15. Eating okra helps to support the structure of capillaries.
16. Some information shows that eating okra lowers the risk of
cataracts.
17. Okra is good for preventing diabetes.
18. Okra protects you from pimples and maintains smooth and beautiful
skin. We understand the reason why Cleopatra and Yang Guifei loved to
eat okra.
There are other medicinal uses of okra, like its protection against
trans fats.
I myself planted about 25 stems of okra in my backyard garden
throughout the year for over 20 years now. I can pick up about 20
pieces of okra pod every morning. All okra pods are consumed by my
family. There are hundreds of recipes that can be done. Cut it raw
and mix with vinegar and pepper; Cut it raw and mix with mayonnaise;
Steam, cut, with mayonnaise dressing; Cook with stew or soup. Okra
can keep you healthier.
Okra is easy to grow anywhere during summer season in cold countries
and throughout the year in tropical areas. You can even plant it in a
container garden at the terrace in condominium buildings.
To tell you the truth, I did not know that okra seed was used as a
substitute for coffee beans during WWII. I have about 500 grams of
okra seed, so I roasted one-half of it using an iron cast pan, and
pulverized it. I made okra coffee with it, and it tasted like real
coffee, although it was darker in color. When I offered the okra
coffee to my staffs and visitors who did not know the real thing,
they replied "Oh, you got a new blend of coffee, taste is good". I
blended it with real coffee, too. It tastes all right. We do not
know, however, what nutrients okra coffee gives.
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of China loved to eat okra in their diets according to the history
record.
When we visited the world's most productive land of okra, Kami rural
area in Kowchi Prefecture, Japan, young and old are all in smile and
look very healthy. When we asked the secret of their beautiful smile
and good health in that area, their answers were great grace of okra.
The history of okra seems to be very old and it was cultivated in
Egypt before the time of Cleopatra. The okra plant spread to many
parts of the world during the Atlantic slave trade. During WWII, the
shortage of coffee beans made them use okra seeds as a substitute for
coffee. This incident made the word "okra fever". Since then, okra's
popularity never disappeared from local markets to convenience stores
throughout the world and throughout the year.
NUTRITION INFORMATION
Okra contains vitamins A and C and is a good source of iron and
calcium. It also contains starch, fat, ash, thiamine and riboflavin.
No wonder, Cleopatra and Yang Guifei maintained their beauties.
Probably, you want to know more specifically. Here it is:
For 1/2 cup sliced, cooked okra
Calories 25
Dietary Fiber 2 grams
Protein 1.52 grams
Carbohydrates 5.76 grams
Vitamin A 460 IU
Vitamin C 13.04 mg
Folic acid 36.5 micrograms
Calcium 50.4 mg
Iron 0.4 mg
Potassium 256.6 mg
Magnesium 46 mg
For 1 cup raw okra
Calories: 33
Fiber: 3.2g
Total Fat: 0.1g
Protein: 2.0g
Carbohydrate: 7.6g
Vitamin A 660 IU
Vitamin C 21mg
Folate 87.8mcg
Magnesium 57mg
BENEFITS OF OKRA
1. The superior fiber found in okra helps to stabilize the blood
sugar by curbing the rate at which sugar is absorbed from the
intestinal tract.
2. Okra's mucilage binds cholesterol and bile acid carrying toxins
dumped into it by the filtering liver.
3. Okra helps lubricate the large intestines due to its bulk laxative
qualities. The okra fiber absorbs water and ensures bulk in stools.
This helps prevent and improve constipation. Unlike harsh wheat bran,
which can irritate or injure the intestinal tract, okra's mucilage
soothes, and okra facilitates elimination more comfortably by its
slippery characteristic. Okra binds excess cholesterol and toxins (in
bile acids). These, if not evacuated, will cause numerous health
problems. Okra also assures easy passage out of waste from the body.
Okra is completely non-toxic, non-habit forming, has no adverse side
effects, is full of nutrients, and is economically within reach of
most unlike the OTC drugs.
4. Okra fiber is excellent for feeding the good bacteria
(probiotics). This contributes to the health of the intestinal tract.
5. Okra is a supreme vegetable for those feeling weak, exhausted, and
suffering from depression.
6. Okra is used for healing ulcers and to keep joints limber. It
helps to neutralize acids, being very alkaline, and provides a
temporary protective coating for the digestive tract.
7. Okra treats lung inflammation, sore throat, and irritable bowel.
8. Okra has been used successfully in experimental blood plasma
replacements.
9. Okra is good for summer heat treatment. Okra is a supreme
vegetable for those feeling weak, exhausted, and suffering from
depression.
10. Okra is good for constipation.
11. Okra is good in normalizing the blood sugar and cholesterol
level.
12. Okra is good for asthma. Okra's vitamin C is an antioxidant and
anti-inflammatory, which curtail the development of asthma symptoms.
13. Okra is good for atherosclerosis.
14. Okra is believed to protect some forms of cancer expansion,
especially colorectal cancer.
15. Eating okra helps to support the structure of capillaries.
16. Some information shows that eating okra lowers the risk of
cataracts.
17. Okra is good for preventing diabetes.
18. Okra protects you from pimples and maintains smooth and beautiful
skin. We understand the reason why Cleopatra and Yang Guifei loved to
eat okra.
There are other medicinal uses of okra, like its protection against
trans fats.
I myself planted about 25 stems of okra in my backyard garden
throughout the year for over 20 years now. I can pick up about 20
pieces of okra pod every morning. All okra pods are consumed by my
family. There are hundreds of recipes that can be done. Cut it raw
and mix with vinegar and pepper; Cut it raw and mix with mayonnaise;
Steam, cut, with mayonnaise dressing; Cook with stew or soup. Okra
can keep you healthier.
Okra is easy to grow anywhere during summer season in cold countries
and throughout the year in tropical areas. You can even plant it in a
container garden at the terrace in condominium buildings.
To tell you the truth, I did not know that okra seed was used as a
substitute for coffee beans during WWII. I have about 500 grams of
okra seed, so I roasted one-half of it using an iron cast pan, and
pulverized it. I made okra coffee with it, and it tasted like real
coffee, although it was darker in color. When I offered the okra
coffee to my staffs and visitors who did not know the real thing,
they replied "Oh, you got a new blend of coffee, taste is good". I
blended it with real coffee, too. It tastes all right. We do not
know, however, what nutrients okra coffee gives.
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W a t e r
Water, water everywhere!
What’s the best to drink?
Over the years, I’ve promoted to all my students and clients that they should be drinking Distilled Water. Once in a while, one of them comes back with data from other sources insisting that distilled water is bad for you because it leaches minerals out of the body. Well, the amount of false data and bad information out there is staggering, so it’s about time I made a formal statement on the matter to clear up any misconceptions floating around.
The absolute best water you can drink is Distilled Water. It is true that distilled water will leach some minerals from your body, but the majority of these minerals are inorganic minerals that you don’t want there in the first place, such as Calcium Carbonate which builds up to form bone spurs. Any “good” minerals that might possibly be leached are more than replaced with a few grains of all natural sea salt or a small handful of raw nuts and seeds. Distilled water is empty. It has nothing in it. It is pure water. People should drink a minimum of 8 ounces per 50 pounds of body weight of pure water or other fluids daily. And YES! Drinking tea and other fluids count towards your daily water intake minimums. People who are doing a cleansing program should drink up to three times the above amount. You can get an affordable Water Distillery from Sears for a little under $200. I had one these that worked wonderfully well for many years.
Is Distilled Water better to use when you are making a tea or another drink???
Yes! Distilled water, because it IS empty, and not full of minerals or other junk, has the ability to pull all the goodness out of any herbs you put in the water. You get all of these nutrients by drinking the tea.
Reverse Osmosis is the next best but remember RO units have filters that need replacing ever so often, and they do not remove everything from the water. These units can be installed on your counter top or under your sink and work very well.
Spring Water Has it been polluted or contaminated? Your guess is as good as mine. I choose to leave it right there on the shelf.
Bottled Mineral Water has inorganic minerals that are not easily used or digested by the body. A good healthy diet provides plenty of organic, usable minerals every day.
City Tap Water Tap is crap! Most cities add poisonous Fluoride and other toxic chemicals to their city water supply. Do not ever drink city water under any conditions; never give it to pets!
There are some companies that promote the drinking of Alkaline Water and have expensive units for sale that create it. This water is good for emergency use to counter-act an Acidosis problem in the body, but they are far too costly for every day needs. There are far better, and more affordable ways to alkalize the body.
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What’s the best to drink?
Over the years, I’ve promoted to all my students and clients that they should be drinking Distilled Water. Once in a while, one of them comes back with data from other sources insisting that distilled water is bad for you because it leaches minerals out of the body. Well, the amount of false data and bad information out there is staggering, so it’s about time I made a formal statement on the matter to clear up any misconceptions floating around.
The absolute best water you can drink is Distilled Water. It is true that distilled water will leach some minerals from your body, but the majority of these minerals are inorganic minerals that you don’t want there in the first place, such as Calcium Carbonate which builds up to form bone spurs. Any “good” minerals that might possibly be leached are more than replaced with a few grains of all natural sea salt or a small handful of raw nuts and seeds. Distilled water is empty. It has nothing in it. It is pure water. People should drink a minimum of 8 ounces per 50 pounds of body weight of pure water or other fluids daily. And YES! Drinking tea and other fluids count towards your daily water intake minimums. People who are doing a cleansing program should drink up to three times the above amount. You can get an affordable Water Distillery from Sears for a little under $200. I had one these that worked wonderfully well for many years.
Is Distilled Water better to use when you are making a tea or another drink???
Yes! Distilled water, because it IS empty, and not full of minerals or other junk, has the ability to pull all the goodness out of any herbs you put in the water. You get all of these nutrients by drinking the tea.
Reverse Osmosis is the next best but remember RO units have filters that need replacing ever so often, and they do not remove everything from the water. These units can be installed on your counter top or under your sink and work very well.
Spring Water Has it been polluted or contaminated? Your guess is as good as mine. I choose to leave it right there on the shelf.
Bottled Mineral Water has inorganic minerals that are not easily used or digested by the body. A good healthy diet provides plenty of organic, usable minerals every day.
City Tap Water Tap is crap! Most cities add poisonous Fluoride and other toxic chemicals to their city water supply. Do not ever drink city water under any conditions; never give it to pets!
There are some companies that promote the drinking of Alkaline Water and have expensive units for sale that create it. This water is good for emergency use to counter-act an Acidosis problem in the body, but they are far too costly for every day needs. There are far better, and more affordable ways to alkalize the body.
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S u g a r
S u g a r --The GreatUniversal Poison!
Do you think I’m kidding???I’m not! I am being 100% sincere!!!
Refined sugar (white or brown) is the number one DRUG pushed by food industries throughout every nation.
It is the world’s leading addiction!!!
Beyond any doubt whatsoever products that have refined white or brown sugar in them create disastrous conditions when eaten. Sugar is the primary “PHYSICAL CAUSE” of: Diabetes, Hypothyroidism, Fatigue, Obesity, Impotence, Sexual dysfunction, Colds, Flus, Fibromyalgia, Immune System disorders, Liver and Kidney problems, and a thousand other negative physical conditions. When you add simple carbohydrates such as highly processed breads and pasta to the equation, you have the complete picture of this dangerous, life threatening situation.
The apparency is that these so called foods (they are poisons, not foods) give you energy, and yet this “boost” is very short lived and very destructive of the body. Sugar, and all these other simple carbohydrates do not build a body up whatsoever under any circumstances. They just don’t.
All they do is burn it up!
There is absolutely NO nutritional value to sugar! It doesn’t contribute the slightest amount of benefit at all. Sugar bypasses the body’s own production of sugar (the body’s natural ability to convert complex carbohydrates into glucose), and all but destroys the body’s ability to do so. Just like the spoiled little rich kid who never has to DO anything for himself and therefore never learns to CONTRIBUTE anything to life, society, and livingness around him, sugar ruins the natural bodily function of creating its own energy.
There are some excellent books out there on this subject, but the one I recommend above all others is: Sugar Blues, written by William Dufty. This book covers it all. The research is impeccable, and the conclusions are undeniable. It is such a vital work that it is the one book that is mandatory reading for all of my students.
So, let’s kick this addiction and get our families back on a real diet. OK?
Yours in Knowledge, Health and Freedom,
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A c n e
Acne, Black Heads, Skin Eruptions, and painful Boils can not only make you feel introverted and then mar your social life, but these skin conditions are usually an indicator of more critical underlying situations that if ignored could be seriously damaging over a period of time. They can be handled.
The three major causes of the above conditions are:
1. Poor functioning Kidneys. 2. A toxic bowel. 3. An Acidosis Condition. Most of the time it is a combination of all three.
Why is this?
Wellllll, your body will use your skin as a back-up elimination organ if the Kidneys and the bowels are not operating at 100%. Where an Acidosis condition exists, your skin can develop these problems simply because of the irritation caused by the excess acid exiting through the pores.
Completing a full Kidney Cleanse or Bowel Cleanse can be miraculous in getting rid of “bad skin”. By simply adding the Body Balance+ Remedy to your daily diet, an Acidosis problem can be completely halted and reversed. These are natural solutions that are extremely effective.
An aggressive approach would be to also add to the above an Exercise Program, and some hydrotherapy in the form of hot and cold showers. I’ve said this before, but if I was only permitted to use one therapy, it would be “Hot & Cold”. Nothing moves blood into and out of an area of the body like Hot & Cold. By doing Hydrotherapy and by increasing the blood flow to the area, you are moving toxins out and nutrition and vital nutrients in.
The best exercise one can do is Running! Due to various health conditions, this might be impossible, so the next best are Rebounding on a Mini-Trampoline and lastly, Walking. Exercise is a great method to help move blood, get more oxygen into the system, and get the acid out. These are simple solutions everyone can do.
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The three major causes of the above conditions are:
1. Poor functioning Kidneys. 2. A toxic bowel. 3. An Acidosis Condition. Most of the time it is a combination of all three.
Why is this?
Wellllll, your body will use your skin as a back-up elimination organ if the Kidneys and the bowels are not operating at 100%. Where an Acidosis condition exists, your skin can develop these problems simply because of the irritation caused by the excess acid exiting through the pores.
Completing a full Kidney Cleanse or Bowel Cleanse can be miraculous in getting rid of “bad skin”. By simply adding the Body Balance+ Remedy to your daily diet, an Acidosis problem can be completely halted and reversed. These are natural solutions that are extremely effective.
An aggressive approach would be to also add to the above an Exercise Program, and some hydrotherapy in the form of hot and cold showers. I’ve said this before, but if I was only permitted to use one therapy, it would be “Hot & Cold”. Nothing moves blood into and out of an area of the body like Hot & Cold. By doing Hydrotherapy and by increasing the blood flow to the area, you are moving toxins out and nutrition and vital nutrients in.
The best exercise one can do is Running! Due to various health conditions, this might be impossible, so the next best are Rebounding on a Mini-Trampoline and lastly, Walking. Exercise is a great method to help move blood, get more oxygen into the system, and get the acid out. These are simple solutions everyone can do.
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The Brain
Are you suffering from Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s Disease??? Or do you have a loved one who is???
Alzheimer’s: A progressive nerve disorder that attacks the cells of the Brain resulting in the loss of memory, the loss of language skills, and can bring about weird behavioral changes.
Parkinson’s Disease: Similar symptoms to Alzheimer’s and which also causes muscle twitching and physical slowness. Both of these conditions can eventually lead to Death.
Do you have serious OBESITY issues that have been plaguing you for years??? Does permanently losing weight seem to be such an impossibility that you’ve finally reached a point where you’ve just given up on the whole thing???
Regardless of which of the above you’re having problems with, I’d like to say right up front that you CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ! ! !
It is obvious that the first two conditions are difficulties in the Brain, but most people are not aware that Over Weight Issues also have a direct correlation to the Pituitary Gland which is located in the back center portion of the Brain.
And this is where my incredible Brain Formula comes in to play.
What does the Brain Formula do ? ? ?
The herbs in this formula feed the cell structures throughout the Brain, increase the blood circulation to the whole area, and cleanse the Brain cells by unclogging blood vessels within. When you use this herbal preparation, you’ll feel refreshed, more awake and alert. The Brain fog will simply be gone. Furthermore, this formula stimulates glandular secretions in the Pituitary, especially Human Growth Hormone, (HGH), which is the vital nutrient so necessary to permanent weight loss.
Additional Vit E supplementation is also essential for the Brain and 1200-IU a day of the highest quality Vitamin E is necessary for the manufacture of HGH in the Pituitary. This gland is the primary Communication & Control Center for the body and has the ability to straighten out Thyroid difficulties when they persist. I also recommend an all Organic non-foaming Shampoo as chemical additives have been proven to hurt the Brain.
My Brain Formula is an Extract of:
Gingko Biloba; Gota Kola; Kola Nut; Calamus and Rosemary which can kick-start an almost dead Pituitary Gland.
This formula is an absolute “must” for anyone who has Brain Cancer ! ! !
Using two dropperfuls, three times a day of this remedy, can reverse many conditions that have hitherto been very perplexing to so many millions of people. The end result of its use is to keep the Brain and the rest of your body in excellent operating order.! ! !
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Alzheimer’s: A progressive nerve disorder that attacks the cells of the Brain resulting in the loss of memory, the loss of language skills, and can bring about weird behavioral changes.
Parkinson’s Disease: Similar symptoms to Alzheimer’s and which also causes muscle twitching and physical slowness. Both of these conditions can eventually lead to Death.
Do you have serious OBESITY issues that have been plaguing you for years??? Does permanently losing weight seem to be such an impossibility that you’ve finally reached a point where you’ve just given up on the whole thing???
Regardless of which of the above you’re having problems with, I’d like to say right up front that you CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ! ! !
It is obvious that the first two conditions are difficulties in the Brain, but most people are not aware that Over Weight Issues also have a direct correlation to the Pituitary Gland which is located in the back center portion of the Brain.
And this is where my incredible Brain Formula comes in to play.
What does the Brain Formula do ? ? ?
The herbs in this formula feed the cell structures throughout the Brain, increase the blood circulation to the whole area, and cleanse the Brain cells by unclogging blood vessels within. When you use this herbal preparation, you’ll feel refreshed, more awake and alert. The Brain fog will simply be gone. Furthermore, this formula stimulates glandular secretions in the Pituitary, especially Human Growth Hormone, (HGH), which is the vital nutrient so necessary to permanent weight loss.
Additional Vit E supplementation is also essential for the Brain and 1200-IU a day of the highest quality Vitamin E is necessary for the manufacture of HGH in the Pituitary. This gland is the primary Communication & Control Center for the body and has the ability to straighten out Thyroid difficulties when they persist. I also recommend an all Organic non-foaming Shampoo as chemical additives have been proven to hurt the Brain.
My Brain Formula is an Extract of:
Gingko Biloba; Gota Kola; Kola Nut; Calamus and Rosemary which can kick-start an almost dead Pituitary Gland.
This formula is an absolute “must” for anyone who has Brain Cancer ! ! !
Using two dropperfuls, three times a day of this remedy, can reverse many conditions that have hitherto been very perplexing to so many millions of people. The end result of its use is to keep the Brain and the rest of your body in excellent operating order.! ! !
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The Liver
Are you feeling sick? Do you have any physical illness that’s been hanging around for ages?
If your answer to either of the above two questions is “yes”, then I can say without reservation that you have a problem with your Liver. I recommend at least one Liver Cleanse a year using my Liver Formula and Tea. Both of these support, and detoxify this vital organ.
The most important organ in the entire body is the Pituitary Gland which is located in the back central part of the Brain. This organ is responsible for keeping us fit and young, and is also the communications center that gives orders to all the other glands and pushes them to do their jobs. The Pituitary is the “Command Center” for the entire human body. But, it is also a very neglected organ, and I refer you to my article on “The Brain” to learn how to keep it healthy and in shape.
The second most important organ in the body is the Liver which is located just behind the lower right hand side of your rib cage. This is the organ that corrects and detoxifies all of the organs and glands in the body. It is the only organ that contributes to keeping the Pituitary in good shape. The two of them work hand in hand to “Establish & Organize” (the Pituitary) and “Detoxify & Correct” (the Liver). And even though the Pituitary may be the most neglected organ, the most abused is the Liver. More junk food is thrown at a person’s Liver on a daily basis than you would really care to confront. Soooooooo, when you keep consuming toxic laden foods day after day, the Liver gets to a point where it is just too busy trying to survive on its own, and no longer has the ability to correct all the other organs and glands in the body which is supposed to be its main job. The next thing you know you’re sick with one or more of a thousand diseases.
All the Pesticides, Hormones, Steroids, and Genetic modifications found in our commercial food products nowadays is nothing short of criminal and it is obvious that the FDA, in its worship of Big Pharma and the Buck, has long ago betrayed its trust to the American people. They are truly guilty of Treason at the highest level. Hundreds of thousands of people die each year because of their lack of responsibility, their suppression of the natural health movement, and their slavish devotion to the Giant Pharmaceutical companies and their own profits.
But where does the buck really stop??? Wellllllllll, you may not want to hear this my friends, but it actually stops with you. You are responsible for the condition you are in regardless of “what has been done to you”. Isn’t it time you grabbed the reins back and started taking charge of your own health? There’s no sense in playing the role of “victim” and blaming the medical doctors for the physical condition you are in. Who decided to go to them in the first place???
I never get sick! Never!!! But I eat right, exercise, and I do at least one Liver Cleanse every year while keeping my Pituitary in excellent condition. This Cleanse is part of the Total Body Cleanse I developed a decade ago. You can do one too. Why be sick if you don’t have to?
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If your answer to either of the above two questions is “yes”, then I can say without reservation that you have a problem with your Liver. I recommend at least one Liver Cleanse a year using my Liver Formula and Tea. Both of these support, and detoxify this vital organ.
The most important organ in the entire body is the Pituitary Gland which is located in the back central part of the Brain. This organ is responsible for keeping us fit and young, and is also the communications center that gives orders to all the other glands and pushes them to do their jobs. The Pituitary is the “Command Center” for the entire human body. But, it is also a very neglected organ, and I refer you to my article on “The Brain” to learn how to keep it healthy and in shape.
The second most important organ in the body is the Liver which is located just behind the lower right hand side of your rib cage. This is the organ that corrects and detoxifies all of the organs and glands in the body. It is the only organ that contributes to keeping the Pituitary in good shape. The two of them work hand in hand to “Establish & Organize” (the Pituitary) and “Detoxify & Correct” (the Liver). And even though the Pituitary may be the most neglected organ, the most abused is the Liver. More junk food is thrown at a person’s Liver on a daily basis than you would really care to confront. Soooooooo, when you keep consuming toxic laden foods day after day, the Liver gets to a point where it is just too busy trying to survive on its own, and no longer has the ability to correct all the other organs and glands in the body which is supposed to be its main job. The next thing you know you’re sick with one or more of a thousand diseases.
All the Pesticides, Hormones, Steroids, and Genetic modifications found in our commercial food products nowadays is nothing short of criminal and it is obvious that the FDA, in its worship of Big Pharma and the Buck, has long ago betrayed its trust to the American people. They are truly guilty of Treason at the highest level. Hundreds of thousands of people die each year because of their lack of responsibility, their suppression of the natural health movement, and their slavish devotion to the Giant Pharmaceutical companies and their own profits.
But where does the buck really stop??? Wellllllllll, you may not want to hear this my friends, but it actually stops with you. You are responsible for the condition you are in regardless of “what has been done to you”. Isn’t it time you grabbed the reins back and started taking charge of your own health? There’s no sense in playing the role of “victim” and blaming the medical doctors for the physical condition you are in. Who decided to go to them in the first place???
I never get sick! Never!!! But I eat right, exercise, and I do at least one Liver Cleanse every year while keeping my Pituitary in excellent condition. This Cleanse is part of the Total Body Cleanse I developed a decade ago. You can do one too. Why be sick if you don’t have to?
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Noni and Its uses
Noni is a Plant called as Morinda citrifolia,its sanskrit name is Aashyuka. Common name Indian Mulberry.
Why Noni Juice?
"It is a well-know fact that the body absorbs liquids faster and more effectively than solids. Absorption is a very important thing to consider when taking natural supplements."
Reasons to Drink Noni Juice by Dr. Neil Solomon M.D. Ph.D.
1. Prevent and Protect Against Cancer -- Morinda citrifolia might exert a preventative and protective action against cancer during the initiation stage, which is the first phase of the formation of the cancer. Many feel antioxidant activity is an important function of Noni juice and one of the reasons so many people have reported success with cancer while using the juice.
2. Alleviates Symptoms of Arthritis -- There are several ways in which Noni may alleviate the undesirable symptoms of arthritis. Pain is the number one complaint with arthritis. Because Noni has analgesic qualities, it can help relieve this pain. Morinda citrifolia has also been shown to contain scopoletin, which has anti-inflammatory and histamine-inhibiting effects, both of which are excellent for the promotion of smooth joint movement. The cellular-enhancing qualities of Noni may also minimize damage to the joints and other involved tissues.
3. Fights Heart Disease -- Noni juice can help with high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. Some scientists believe that Xeronine can help promote a healthy cell structure within the circulatory system. Noni juice can also lessen the symptoms of heart disease.
4. Lowers High Blood Pressure -- In my research, 85 percent of Noni juice drinkers reported decreased blood pressure while drinking Noni juice.
5. Strengthens the Immune System -- Noni juice boosts the overall immune system of the body and helps to maintain optimal health. Noni may help modulate a healthy immune system by either enhancing an already functioning system, by stimulating the components of a sluggish one, or by decreasing an overactive immune system. The mechanism by which Noni can do these different functions is called Adatogenisis.
6. Reduces Symptoms of Fibromyalgia -- Many people who suffer from fibromyalgia experience loss of energy. An increase in energy from Noni is a very positive side effect from the juice. Seventy0seven percent of people with fibromyalgia reported lessened symptoms after they began drinking Noni juice.
7. Fortifies Cell Structure -- Noni is believed to fortify and maintain cell structure. This can be accomplished by Noni helping the body heal itself and because Noni can aid "sick" cells in repairing themselves.
8. Helps Control Diabetes -- Noni can aid in the regulation of insulin secretion by the pancreas, helping control diabetes. Drinking Noni may also help relieve diabetic symptoms through its ability to stimulate the body's production of nitric oxide. Both may also be important factors in decreasing symptoms such as poor circulation and vision problems.
9. Reduces Symptoms of Asthma -- Noni may help in reducing the severity of the symptoms of asthma by boosting and modulating the immune system and enhancing the cellular structure of the bronchioles.
10. Fights Depression -- Noni's ability to modulate natural bio-chemicals such as brain hormones might be why many people have felt less depress after drinking Noni juice.
11. Offers Pain Relief -- Some scientists believe that Noni is associated with the body's production of a very important biochemical known as serotonin, which may involve the xeronine system that is believed to promote the body's ability to ward off pain.
12. Helps Promote Weight Loss -- Noni may help you lose weight by promoting better sleep, aiding in the regulation of blood sugar levels, and by boosting the number of antioxidants in the body.
13. Helps Control ADHD -- Noni may be helpful for this condition in both children and adults thought its ability to modulate the production of some of he chemicals in the brain as well as increase overall cellular health in the brain.
14. Helps Treat Migraines -- Preliminary results show that there is a non/serotonin relationship. Studies suggest that Noni juice was clinically helpful in the treatment of migraines.
15. Successful in the Treatment of Addictions -- Noni juice has been said to be successful in the treatment of addictions to heroine, cocaine, marijuana, nicotine, alcohol, prescription drug use and caffeine.
16. Protects Against Strokes -- Noni may help inhibit premature coagulation in the blood, preventing platelets form clumping together into clots associated with strokes.
17. Lowers Cholesterol -- Noni is a potent free radical scavenger that can contribute to lower cholesterol levels and prevents LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) from oxidizing.
18. Increases Memory -- Noni may be used by the brain to encode long-term memory and enhance blood flow to the brain.
19. Strengthens the Nervous System -- Noni functions as a "messenger molecule" that may allow nerve cells in the body and the brain to communicate effectively.
20. Encourages Detoxification -- Noni can increase the rate of liver detoxification by more than 50 percent.
21. Improves Skin Condition -- Noni can be used topically. Its anti-inflammatory and histamine-inhibiting effects can help fight allergies, skin conditions and inflammation
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Why Noni Juice?
"It is a well-know fact that the body absorbs liquids faster and more effectively than solids. Absorption is a very important thing to consider when taking natural supplements."
Reasons to Drink Noni Juice by Dr. Neil Solomon M.D. Ph.D.
1. Prevent and Protect Against Cancer -- Morinda citrifolia might exert a preventative and protective action against cancer during the initiation stage, which is the first phase of the formation of the cancer. Many feel antioxidant activity is an important function of Noni juice and one of the reasons so many people have reported success with cancer while using the juice.
2. Alleviates Symptoms of Arthritis -- There are several ways in which Noni may alleviate the undesirable symptoms of arthritis. Pain is the number one complaint with arthritis. Because Noni has analgesic qualities, it can help relieve this pain. Morinda citrifolia has also been shown to contain scopoletin, which has anti-inflammatory and histamine-inhibiting effects, both of which are excellent for the promotion of smooth joint movement. The cellular-enhancing qualities of Noni may also minimize damage to the joints and other involved tissues.
3. Fights Heart Disease -- Noni juice can help with high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. Some scientists believe that Xeronine can help promote a healthy cell structure within the circulatory system. Noni juice can also lessen the symptoms of heart disease.
4. Lowers High Blood Pressure -- In my research, 85 percent of Noni juice drinkers reported decreased blood pressure while drinking Noni juice.
5. Strengthens the Immune System -- Noni juice boosts the overall immune system of the body and helps to maintain optimal health. Noni may help modulate a healthy immune system by either enhancing an already functioning system, by stimulating the components of a sluggish one, or by decreasing an overactive immune system. The mechanism by which Noni can do these different functions is called Adatogenisis.
6. Reduces Symptoms of Fibromyalgia -- Many people who suffer from fibromyalgia experience loss of energy. An increase in energy from Noni is a very positive side effect from the juice. Seventy0seven percent of people with fibromyalgia reported lessened symptoms after they began drinking Noni juice.
7. Fortifies Cell Structure -- Noni is believed to fortify and maintain cell structure. This can be accomplished by Noni helping the body heal itself and because Noni can aid "sick" cells in repairing themselves.
8. Helps Control Diabetes -- Noni can aid in the regulation of insulin secretion by the pancreas, helping control diabetes. Drinking Noni may also help relieve diabetic symptoms through its ability to stimulate the body's production of nitric oxide. Both may also be important factors in decreasing symptoms such as poor circulation and vision problems.
9. Reduces Symptoms of Asthma -- Noni may help in reducing the severity of the symptoms of asthma by boosting and modulating the immune system and enhancing the cellular structure of the bronchioles.
10. Fights Depression -- Noni's ability to modulate natural bio-chemicals such as brain hormones might be why many people have felt less depress after drinking Noni juice.
11. Offers Pain Relief -- Some scientists believe that Noni is associated with the body's production of a very important biochemical known as serotonin, which may involve the xeronine system that is believed to promote the body's ability to ward off pain.
12. Helps Promote Weight Loss -- Noni may help you lose weight by promoting better sleep, aiding in the regulation of blood sugar levels, and by boosting the number of antioxidants in the body.
13. Helps Control ADHD -- Noni may be helpful for this condition in both children and adults thought its ability to modulate the production of some of he chemicals in the brain as well as increase overall cellular health in the brain.
14. Helps Treat Migraines -- Preliminary results show that there is a non/serotonin relationship. Studies suggest that Noni juice was clinically helpful in the treatment of migraines.
15. Successful in the Treatment of Addictions -- Noni juice has been said to be successful in the treatment of addictions to heroine, cocaine, marijuana, nicotine, alcohol, prescription drug use and caffeine.
16. Protects Against Strokes -- Noni may help inhibit premature coagulation in the blood, preventing platelets form clumping together into clots associated with strokes.
17. Lowers Cholesterol -- Noni is a potent free radical scavenger that can contribute to lower cholesterol levels and prevents LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) from oxidizing.
18. Increases Memory -- Noni may be used by the brain to encode long-term memory and enhance blood flow to the brain.
19. Strengthens the Nervous System -- Noni functions as a "messenger molecule" that may allow nerve cells in the body and the brain to communicate effectively.
20. Encourages Detoxification -- Noni can increase the rate of liver detoxification by more than 50 percent.
21. Improves Skin Condition -- Noni can be used topically. Its anti-inflammatory and histamine-inhibiting effects can help fight allergies, skin conditions and inflammation
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Noni and Diabetes
DEABETES MELLITUS and NONI By Dr.Rangadhar Satpathy
Diabetes Mellitus is a clinical syndrome characterized by hyperglycemia (increase glucose level above normal in blood) due to absolute or relative deficiency of insulin caused by the degeneration or hypo activity of the B-cells of the pancreas. That causes the following metabolic disturbances.• Depress the glycogenesis (formation of glycogen from glucose) and increases glycogenolysis (convert of glucose from glycogen). So glycogen contains from liver and muscles low down and in blood the glucose level raises.
• Glucose combustion (oxidation) is depressed in absence of insulin. So extra cellular glucose level rises
• The rate of gluconeogenesis (formation of glucose from other than carbohydrates) increases. Thus glucose level in blood rises.
• Depot fat mobilized and liver loaded with fats.
• Ketone bodies are produced at a faster rate and can cause ketosis and diabetic coma.
Diabetic can classified primarily in two types
1) Type-1- insulin dependant diabetes mellitus (IDDM).
2) Type-2 – Non-insulin dependant diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)
The cause of Type-1- IDDM is various. Those are
i) Genetic factor –HLA linked genetic predisposition.
ii) Some viruses like EMC virus, Mengo virus 2T that destroys the
Pancreatic B-cells.
Pancreatic pathology: In type -1 – IDDM the islet of langerhans is infiltrated with mononuclear cells like activated macrophages, T lymphocytes, Natural killer cells and B lymphocytes. That condition is called ‘insulitis’. It causes the destruction of more or less all insulin secreting B-cells. So body produces little or no insulin.
The cause of Type-2 – Non-insulin dependant diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) are:
• Faulty life styles, over eating, obesity, lack of exercise.
• Over weight predisposes the reaction in our liver and peripheral fat stores lead to pro-inflammatory and pro-Thrombotic (blood clotting) changes with elevated C Reactive Proteins (CRP), interleukin -6(Il-6), and fibrinogen (all made in the liver) plus platelet activation. These lead to hardening of the arteries, blood clots, HBP, heart attack, stroke and diabetes.
• Constant dwelling on severe stress full situation causes diabetes. Stress elevates epinephrine, nor-epinephrine, ACTH, cortisol and prolactin that acts as an antagonist to insulin.
Pancreatic pathology – In Type-2-NIIDDM deposition of amyloid on the islets tissues occur. But here very less no. of B-cells are destroyed. So in this case body produces enough insulin.
Here increased hepatic production of glucose and resistance to the action of insulin are main cause of NIDDM.
Insulin resistance may be due to
• An abnormal insulin molecule
• An excessive amount of circulating antagonist
• Target tissue defects.
ROLE OF NONI JUICE IN DIABETES
1. Xeronine in Noni juice helps to clear up the resistance to the action of insulin by the following way.
2. Xeronine combines with the inactive abnormal insulin molecule and help modify its rigidity to make it active.
3. Xeronine combining with insulin helps more glucose combustion (oxidation) in peripheral tissues and also helps to enhance the cellular permeability to glucose. So that extra cellular glucose level falls.
4. The habit of overeating in human being is the cause of obesity. The obese people generally feel hungry due to low serotonin levels. Obesity also causes the insulin resistance to glucose and hence the predisposing factors of Type-2-NIDDM. Noni helps to secrete more serotonin that eliminates the desire of eating more. So it indirectly prevents obesity and helps in preventing diabetes.
5. Noni helps to enhance the body immunity power by the synergistic action of its all components in cellular level. Thus by modulating the immunity power it may help to correct the ‘insulitis’condition of pancreas in Type-1-IDDM so that it prevents from destruction of B-cells in pancreas and also activate the B-cells to produce more insulin
6. Noni helps to reduce anxiety and lessens the stress response to some extent by elevating the serotonin level in blood.
7. Improves sleep.
Since the intake of sugar – even natural sugars – may be important to track in a diabetic’s diet, it is good to note that 4 ounces of Noni juice equals one fruit exchange.
(Please Note: Type-1-IDDM should never substitute Noni juice for insulin shot. This type of diabetes may be able to reduce his or her insulin by using a natural supplement such as Noni juice under the supervision of a doctor).
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Noni and Cancer
AN APPROACH OF ALTERNATIVE AND SUPPLIMENTARY ,THERAPY WITH NONI TO CANCER PATIENTS.
There are more than 300 alternative cancer treatments available to the public. Very few people know which of the 300+ alternative cancer treatments are the strongest. There is a very wide range in the effectiveness of these 300+ treatments. Among them Noni is in top ten rank.
It is absolutely true that natural substances from Mother Nature are highly effective against cancer than the highly condensed, highly potent synthetic molecules made by the drug companies. But we have been taught that chemotherapy drugs kill cancer cells far better than anything Mother Nature can put together. Why is there such a huge disconnect between the truth and what we hear almost every day of our life? Why is it that people are so hard to convince that some alternative cancer treatments are vastly superior to any orthodox cancer treatment that is currently in use?
Chemotherapy does not target cancer cells. In fact, chemotherapy kills far, far more healthy cells than it does cancer cells. What this means is that chemotherapy must be given in very, very low doses, spread out over long periods of time, and the therapy must include gaps between the treatments. This "pacing" of the drugs is because too many healthy cells would be killed if too much chemotherapy were given too fast. The reason conventional medicine treats cancer like a chronic disease is because orthodox treatments would kill the patient long before the treatments would kill the cancer.
Mother Nature's cancer treatments, called natural cancer treatments, or more commonly "alternative cancer treatments," generally do absolutely no harm to healthy cells. This is because the human body, which was made by Mother Nature, knows exactly what to do with Mother Nature's minerals and nutrients.
Virtually all natural treatments for cancer do not kill healthy cells - not a single one.
This is the key - because alternative cancer treatments do not harm or kill healthy cells, the items from nature that can kill cancer cells can be given in much higher doses than chemotherapy - without any gaps in treatment!!
Chemotherapy, radiation and surgery virtually destroy a person's immunity system. A well put together natural treatment will actually build the person's immunity system to make sure the cancer will not return.
But there are two key things we need to understand about alternative cancer treatments.
First, ninety-five percent of cancer patients who go with alternative cancer treatments have already been given up for dead by conventional treatment. In other words, they first went for conventional treatment, their body was destroyed by the conventional medicine, THEN they decided to go with alternative cancer treatments.
Second, very few alternative cancer treatments can cure people sent home to die by conventional medicine, very few of the cancer patients sent home to die,pick a treatment strong enough to give them a fighting chance. In other words, very few of these cancer patients pick one of the most potent alternative cancer treatments.
These two things create a severe disadvantage for alternative medicine. Alternative medicine has lost between 1 and 4 years to treat the patient and build their immunity system - because the patient was using conventional treatments.
In addition to that, after conventional treatments, the patient is in far worse physical and mental condition than they were when they were first diagnosed. This is why there are so few alternative cancer treatments that can achieve a true cure rate of 50% on these patients.
If we put all of this together we come to the following facts:
1) Almost 100% of all newly diagnosed cancer patients go with conventional medicine first.
2) About 97% of these patients die, or are sent home to die and later die, due to their cancer and/or their cancer treatment.
3) Only a very small percentage of the cancer patients sent home to die ever go with alternative cancer treatments, others they simply go home and die.
4) Of those who do go with alternative cancer treatments, only a very small percentage of them pick a treatment strong enough to give them a 50% chance of survival.
Is it any wonder that deaths from cancer continue to rise in spite of the power of some of the alternative cancer treatments?
Noni come under alternative and supplementary therapy for cancer and helps to cure cancer by several means. Yes it is true that a 4th grade cancer cannot be cured by any means. But when there is the chance of cure rate possible in preliminary stage by using the alternative way of treatment so why should not it be used for the betterment of humanity?
Other reason of not advising for alternative treatment for cancer by the oncologists is that they are not aware about the facts what it contains and how it helps to cure and prevent. Also they should be aware that in which stage and in which condition an alternative system of medicine in cancer treatment is most beneficial for both patient and doctor.
It needs a revolution.
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There are more than 300 alternative cancer treatments available to the public. Very few people know which of the 300+ alternative cancer treatments are the strongest. There is a very wide range in the effectiveness of these 300+ treatments. Among them Noni is in top ten rank.
It is absolutely true that natural substances from Mother Nature are highly effective against cancer than the highly condensed, highly potent synthetic molecules made by the drug companies. But we have been taught that chemotherapy drugs kill cancer cells far better than anything Mother Nature can put together. Why is there such a huge disconnect between the truth and what we hear almost every day of our life? Why is it that people are so hard to convince that some alternative cancer treatments are vastly superior to any orthodox cancer treatment that is currently in use?
Chemotherapy does not target cancer cells. In fact, chemotherapy kills far, far more healthy cells than it does cancer cells. What this means is that chemotherapy must be given in very, very low doses, spread out over long periods of time, and the therapy must include gaps between the treatments. This "pacing" of the drugs is because too many healthy cells would be killed if too much chemotherapy were given too fast. The reason conventional medicine treats cancer like a chronic disease is because orthodox treatments would kill the patient long before the treatments would kill the cancer.
Mother Nature's cancer treatments, called natural cancer treatments, or more commonly "alternative cancer treatments," generally do absolutely no harm to healthy cells. This is because the human body, which was made by Mother Nature, knows exactly what to do with Mother Nature's minerals and nutrients.
Virtually all natural treatments for cancer do not kill healthy cells - not a single one.
This is the key - because alternative cancer treatments do not harm or kill healthy cells, the items from nature that can kill cancer cells can be given in much higher doses than chemotherapy - without any gaps in treatment!!
Chemotherapy, radiation and surgery virtually destroy a person's immunity system. A well put together natural treatment will actually build the person's immunity system to make sure the cancer will not return.
But there are two key things we need to understand about alternative cancer treatments.
First, ninety-five percent of cancer patients who go with alternative cancer treatments have already been given up for dead by conventional treatment. In other words, they first went for conventional treatment, their body was destroyed by the conventional medicine, THEN they decided to go with alternative cancer treatments.
Second, very few alternative cancer treatments can cure people sent home to die by conventional medicine, very few of the cancer patients sent home to die,pick a treatment strong enough to give them a fighting chance. In other words, very few of these cancer patients pick one of the most potent alternative cancer treatments.
These two things create a severe disadvantage for alternative medicine. Alternative medicine has lost between 1 and 4 years to treat the patient and build their immunity system - because the patient was using conventional treatments.
In addition to that, after conventional treatments, the patient is in far worse physical and mental condition than they were when they were first diagnosed. This is why there are so few alternative cancer treatments that can achieve a true cure rate of 50% on these patients.
If we put all of this together we come to the following facts:
1) Almost 100% of all newly diagnosed cancer patients go with conventional medicine first.
2) About 97% of these patients die, or are sent home to die and later die, due to their cancer and/or their cancer treatment.
3) Only a very small percentage of the cancer patients sent home to die ever go with alternative cancer treatments, others they simply go home and die.
4) Of those who do go with alternative cancer treatments, only a very small percentage of them pick a treatment strong enough to give them a 50% chance of survival.
Is it any wonder that deaths from cancer continue to rise in spite of the power of some of the alternative cancer treatments?
Noni come under alternative and supplementary therapy for cancer and helps to cure cancer by several means. Yes it is true that a 4th grade cancer cannot be cured by any means. But when there is the chance of cure rate possible in preliminary stage by using the alternative way of treatment so why should not it be used for the betterment of humanity?
Other reason of not advising for alternative treatment for cancer by the oncologists is that they are not aware about the facts what it contains and how it helps to cure and prevent. Also they should be aware that in which stage and in which condition an alternative system of medicine in cancer treatment is most beneficial for both patient and doctor.
It needs a revolution.
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