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MORE ABOUT COMMON VITAMINS: VITAMIN С
Ascorbic acid. Cevitamin acid. Usually measured in milligrams (mg.). In Europe, occasionally in Units: 1 mg. equals 20 Units.FunctionsEssential for the healthy condition of collagen, “intercellular cement”. Involved in all the vital functions of all glands and organs. Necessary for healthy teeth, gums and bones. Strengthens all connective tissues. Essential for proper functioning of adrenal and thyroid glands. Promotes healing in every condition of ill health. Helps prevent and cure the common cold. Protects against all forms of stress: physical and mental. Protects against harmful effects of toxic chemicals in environment, food, water and air. Counteracts the toxic effect of drugs. Has been used successfully in rattlesnake bite, and as a general natural antibiotic. Specific against fever, all sorts of infections and gastrointestinal disorders. General detoxicant. Specific protector against toxic effects of cadmium.Deficiency symptomsDeficiency may lead to tooth decay, soft gums (pyorrhea), skin hemorrhages, capillary weakness, deterioration in collagen, anemia, slow healing of sores and wounds, premature aging, thyroid insufficiency, lowered resistance to all infections and toxic effect of drugs and environmental poisons. Prolonged efficiency may cause scurvy.Natural sourcesAll fresh fruits and vegetables. Particularly rich sources: rose hips, citrus fruits, black currants, strawberries, apples, persimmons, guavas, acerola cherries, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes, turnip greens and green bell peppers.MDR (minimum daily requirement):Official recommendation: 30 to 70 mg. Therapeutically used in large doses, from 100 to 10,000 mg. a day. In acute poisonings or infections, 1,000 to 2,000 mg., preferably in injection form, can be given each 1 1/2 or 2 hours. Vitamin С is non-toxic, even in massive doses.*153/103/5*General health General health -
MORE ABOUT COMMON VITAMINS: VITAMIN B17
Nitrilosides. Amygdalin. Known as Laetrile when used in medical dosage form. Measured in milligrams (mg.).FunctionsSpecific preventive and controlling anti-cancer effect, as proposed by its discoverer, Ernst T. Krebs, Jr.Deficiency symptomsProlonged deficiencies may lead to diminished resistance to malignancies.Natural sourcesMost whole seeds of fruits and many grains and vegetables, such as apricot, peach and plum pits; apple seeds; raspberries, cranberries, blackberries and blueberries; mung beans, lima beans, garbanzas; millet, buckwheat and flaxseed.MDR (minimum daily requirement):Vitamin B17 is not accepted officially as a vitamin, and, thus, no need in human nutrition has been established. Therapeutic doses are determined by doctors who use it in cancer treatment. If apricot and other fruit pits are included in the diet for preventive purposes they should be used only in small amounts, only a few pits a day. It is considered that if the diet contains an abundance of whole seeds, grains, nuts, beans and other foods mentioned above, deficiency of this factor will be unlikely.*152/103/5*Online pharmacy compare service
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CHILD’S HEALTH: PNEUMONIA
Pneumonia is an infection of the smallest airways of the lungs (alveoli). It can affect children of any age.
Cause
Pneumonia is usually caused by a virus, but can be caused by a germ.
Clinical features
The most striking features of pneumonia in children are a moist cough and a high fever. Sometimes the child is short of breath too and may complain of sharp pains in the chest on breathing deeply. Younger infants may just look very ill and breath rapidly, without having any other symptoms.
Investigations
Pneumonia can usually be diagnosed on clinical grounds, but your doctor may suggest a chest X-ray to confirm the diagnosis. Sputum and blood tests may also be helpful.
Some types of pneumonia are due to bacteria which are responsive to antibiotics. It is difficult to distinguish between a viral and a bacterial pneumonia, so sometimes antibiotics are given just to be safe. If the illness is relatively mild, your child can be treated at home with oral medication, bed rest and paracetamol to lower the fever. Use a humidifier in your child’s room to make his breathing easier. Also make sure that your home is smoke-free.
If your child is very ill, admission to hospital may be advised, so that antibiotics can be given intravenously or by injection. Once treatment is commenced, recovery is usually rapid and complete.
When to see your doctor
• if your child has a cough and a high fever;
• if your young baby is listless and breathing rapidly;
• if there is no improvement after 3 days on antibiotics.
Take your child to hospital immediately if his lips look blue.
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SUPER MARITAL SEX OPPORTUNITY
There is no way for persons who have no serious impairment to know what it is like to attempt to return to sexual intimacy following the insult of disease or injury. To help you and your spouse communicate about this issue and to broaden the range of your sexual interaction to include a small degree of imposed interference in sexual behavior, spend one love session with one partner blindfolded. Make sure there is plenty of light for one spouse while the other partner experiences the absence of one sense. Change the opportunity around on a different night. Talk about the experience both from the blind position and the sighted position in making love. Notice how you must accentuate your other senses, learn to love beyond the limits of light, and modify your sexual system and roles within that system. How adaptive were you? How adaptive was your marital system?
Some of the couples in the clinic invented their own opportunities to understand about impairment and sensory compensation and enhancement. One couple taped large wads of cotton under their arms and behind their knees, just enough to restrict movement. They wondered together about a time when their own movements might be restricted by the aging process. Some couples extended the sensory deprivation and compensation opportunity outside of the lovemaking sessions to daily living, with one partner wearing the blindfold or cotton all day while being helped by the spouse. There is a big difference between seeing and perceiving, “knowing” and experiencing, and super marital sex depends on a depth and range of adaptive sensuality, a sex strong enough to survive the most catastrophic of times. If we are able to learn this lesson and teach it to our children, we have provided them with an important love legacy. The next chapter discusses love education for super relationships.
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YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/WHY HUSBANDS DON’T HAVE ORGASM: THE HUSBANDS’ ORGASMIC INVENTORY
The next test is one of the most controversial tests taken by the couples, the Husbands’ Orgasmic Inventory.
SCORING: 3—ALWAYS 2—USUALLY 1-SELDOM 0—NEVER
1. I feel responsible for the sexual experience. Whether the interaction is good or bad depends on me.
2. Once I ejaculate, I have to rest. I feel less energetic and have to recuperate.
3. When I begin to feel very good sexually, I know I am getting very close to “coming” or’ ‘climaxing.” The better it feels, the sooner I know I will come.
4. It is better if my wife is relatively still during the act of intercourse. If she moves too vigorously, it tends to make me come sooner.
5. When I ejaculate, I feel a few strong throbs in my penis at the time of ejaculation.
6. I seem to come much sooner when I have not had sex for a long time.
7. I feel a numbness or insensitivity in most of my body just after I come. This is particularly true in my genitals.
8. I need to take a PON (post-orgasmic nap) or even a POS (post-orgasmic sleep) after I come.
9. I notice that my wife really seems to get much more intensely involved in her orgasms than I do in mine. She seems to almost be “gone”.
10. I feel that ejaculation is essentially the same thing as orgasm. If I don’t ejaculate, then I know I haven’t come.
11. My orgasms are essentially the same no matter. what type of sex I am having (coitus, oral sex, masturbation). Whatever the source of stimulation, I essentially come the same way.
12. I have noticed as I get older that my orgasms are less intense than they used to be. The throbbing is less intense and there are fewer of them.
13. I have sex mostly at night. It sort of allows me to release the tension so I can sleep.
14. My sexual patterns with my wife are essentially “turn-taking.” I try to help her have an orgasm before I try to have mine.
Before I come, I feel as if I would have loved to have sex all night. After
15 I come, I seem to lose interest.
I usually get to the point that no matter what happens, there is nothing I
can do to stop my ejaculation. Even if all stimulation is stopped, I ejaculate
anyway.
17 I try so hard to time my ejaculation that I cannot ejaculate at all during intercourse.
18 I am a quiet person during sex. I might moan or groan, but I do not intentionally say much.
19 If I have masturbated, I tend not to want to have intercourse several hours after I have masturbated.
20. When I am having sex, everything seems to be focused in my genitals. I notice very little about any stimulation to any other part of my body.
TOTAL POINTS
If you score thirty-five or more points on this test, it is very likely that you are experiencing the physiological reflex of orgasm emphasized by the first three perspectives of sexuality but are not experiencing psychasm, the ability to enjoy a full emotional and cognitive dimension to the sexual experience. The idea is not to replace the quest for orgasm with a quest for psychasm. The idea instead is to open up new options for sexual interaction free of the artificially imposed limits of a mechanical, gender-assigned model of sexual intimacy.
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THE JOY OF PERFECT HEALTH: HOW TO KEEP YOUR MIND PURE
Let people do their mistakes. In most cases it is their best lesson. Help them only if they ask you for it. Note, that it works even with children. They learn faster. You just need to predict excessive danger sometimes. People make mistakes because they do not understand, and/or do not want to listen. Note, that you see mistakes of others better than you see yours. We question everyone and everything except our own ignorance. Once I was like that too.
Eliminate envy and jealousy from your mind They are totally useless and severely paralyse your intellectual capacity. Try an unconditional love instead. Do not shout about love. Just replace all those nasty negative feelings in your own mind, for yourself.
Learn to listen to your own higher mind – listen to the silence between thoughts. The best information and advice, tailored exclusively for you at any given instant is there. All talented people without exception access such a state naturally. All their ideas spring from there.
No words could possibly describe the connection with your own higher mind. In comparison to the language of your higher mind, our spoken and written languages are actually quite a primitive form of communication.
For example, the higher mind can communicate a book, musical symphony or a scientific discovery, with all the minute details in a “flash” lasting only a second or two. It may take many days or even years to “consciously” reconstruct and translate such messages into text, music or mathematical formulae, which others can then understand. Many people experience the state of euphoric joy, just by remembering such an instance of connection with their own higher mind.
Your higher mind does not only communicate books and science. The above was just one example. In fact it can help any of us in all imaginable aspects of our lives. We just need to learn to listen.
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LIVER – DESCRIPTION
The liver is a remarkable organ. It is like a compact factory, performing a variety of seemingly unrelated tasks all at once.
The liver has an enormous reserve of function and a great capacity to regenerate itself, so it can stand a lot of abuse.
Worn-out red blood cells are broken down in the liver, their iron content stored for future use and the pigment excreted in the bile.
The bile runs down two ducts, one from each lobe of the liver. These ducts join and then a small side channel leads to the gall bladder. This hollow organ lies tucked under the liver and stores and concentrates the bile.
The gallbladder contracts, usually under the stimulus of a fatty meal, and the concentrated bile flows back into the common bile duct and down to run into the duodenum or first part of the small bowel. At the point where it enters the duodenum, it is joined by a duct carrying digestive juices from the pancreas.
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BOWEL CANCER – BLEEDING AS A SIGN
There are many normal bacteria present in the bowel, and many of these perform a useful function for the host.
They may produce certain vitamins which the host absorbs and uses.
The type of diet influences the type of bacteria present.
Some of these may act on the breakdown products of meat and fat in the diet and form cancer-causing substances.
Perhaps a high fibre diet, because of the bulk it produces, tends to dilute these cancer-causing chemicals — carcinogens — or else limits the contact between them and the bowel wall by hastening their progress through the gut.
A study in the U.S. shows a link between beer consumption and death from bowel cancer.
How beer drinking can lead to large bowel cancer is not clear.
Bowel cancer can occur in the young although it becomes more common after the age of 40.
Bleeding is the earliest and commonest sign.
Although bleeding may often be due to piles, all cases of bleeding need investigation, to exclude the possibility of cancer, as the two conditions may co-exist.
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CHILDREN’S HEALTH: INSECT AND SPIDER BITES AND STING
Emergency symptom
Allergic reaction: hives; difficult breathing
Emergency treatment
Take the child to the nearest hospital if he or she has an allergic reaction.
Symptoms: swelling, itching, stinger left in wound (honeybee), small, dark bumps (ticks), weakness, difficulty in breathing (ticks).
Home care
- Relieve swelling by applying ice.
- Apply calamine lotion to relieve itching.
- Give a nonprescription antihistamine to relieve itching and swelling.
Precautions
- Protect children with appropriate clothing and insect repellents. Use mosquito netting if necessary.
- If your child is allergic to certain insect and spider bites or stings, make sure your doctor tells you what to do if the child is bitten or stung.
- Find out which insects are common in your neighborhood and how to protect your child against them.
- Clear away all rubble and rubbish from near the house – it can harbor funnel web spiders.
- If your child shows signs of a general physical disturbance after being bitten by a spider or insect take the child to the nearest hospital. If you believe the bite was from a funnel web or red back spider go in any case; take the spider if you can, so that it can be identified.
- The bites of most insects and spiders and bull ant and jumper ant bites may be very painful. Some bites however can cause serious conditions.
- Funnel web spiders can inject venom powerful enough to kill a human being. Red back spiders can make a child very ill, although death is unlikely. Bush ticks can cause paralysis and death in a child just as they do in animals.
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SOME TIPS TO PREVENT FLUID RETENTION
• Wear elastic stockings if your legs swell.
• Do the same in pregnancy and in both cases use every opportunity to take the weight off your feet. This greatly helps reduce the swelling.
• Come off the Pill and use another method of contraception.
• Prevent allergies by eliminating foods and other allergens from your diet and surroundings.
• Take vitamin B6. This seems to affect the balance between oestrogen and sodium. Taking 200 mg a day pre-menstrually has been shown to prevent fluid retention. B6 is especially good in pregnancy. Never take more than 200 mg a day.
• Take vitamin Ñ-it seems to enhance the action of vitamin B6. It also has a diuretic effect of its own.
• Drink more water – additional 4-6 glasses a day on top of what you currently drink. This increases the excretion efficiency of the kidneys.
• Take less salt. Some people are exceptionally sensitive to salt and as little as 1 g can produce swelling in them. One large pickled cucumber, for example, contains 2 g salt.
• Eat only complex carbohydrates (as found in fruit, vegetables and whole grains)-no refined ones. Sugar is a major culprit when it comes to water retention, and we consume quantities of sugar without being aware of its presence. Look for anything with the suffix ‘ose’ on the label (fructose, lactose, dextrose, maltose etc) and avoid it.
• Include in your diet natural diuretics, such as pineapple, cucumber, parsley, alfalfa, strawberries, apples, grapes, beetroot and chamomile tea.
• Ensure that you eat plenty of calcium-containing foods, especially if your fluid retention is a part of your pregnancy symptoms, as there is a link between the amount of calcium in the diet and fluid retention during pregnancy.
• Take more exercise. Any exercise that improves the tone of blood vessels will help.
• Try to lie down flat at least once a day for twenty minutes or so, as urine production is increased in the horizontal position.
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