Herbal Health

For proper physical fitness, a balanced diet is essential. The body should be at the correct weight for height and age. All the essential food factors should be included in the diet.

Protein is necessary to build up body tissue and to replace wear and tear. Fat is necessary to provide essential factors. Carbohydrate provides a ready energy source but excess tends to accumulate as stored fat.

Minerals and vitamins are necessary in small doses. Bulk in the form of vegetable fibre is necessary for the proper functioning of the bowel.

Exercising three times a week is the bare minimum. Four or five times a week is better. People who are fit look better, feel better, work better, are sick less often and have less chance of developing a heart attack.

Don’t smoke, drink in moderation, eat a balanced diet and take proper exercise. Learn to relax and you may not only live longer but enjoy it more.

The message Life: Be In It applies to you. You should exercise as if your life depended on it.

It does.

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Chemotherapy, or the use of cytotoxic drugs to kill the cancer cells, is now part of the initial treatment.

As in other forms of cancer what is developing is a team approach to treatment, the surgeon, radiotherapist, and chemotherapist making joint decisions about the management of each patient.

The implantation of a silicone prosthesis to give the woman a new “breast” is now a regular procedure for many women unfortunate enough to lose their breast because of cancer. The construction of the new breast may be done at the same time as the initial operation of removal of the breast or may be delayed for some months.

If you find a lump go straight to the doctor. If it isn’t cancer you save months of worry. If it is, the earlier it is found and treated the better the result.

The breast is the commonest site of cancer in women, but the uterus or womb is the second.

Cancer may involve the cervix, or neck of the womb, or the body of the womb; and the age at which the cancers occur, the possible causes and their subsequent behaviors differ.

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There is another miracle food from the bees that has stirred the imagination of nutritionists and doctors alike—the royal jelly.

Royal jelly is the food produced by the worker bees to feed the queen bee. As you probably know, bees have a highly organized community life, with their own systems of mathematics, geography and communications. This community is so well organized and so effectively governed that it is able to collect incredible amounts of food—pollen and honey—during one short summer season. The queen bee is the mother and the sole ruler of the entire hive.

All bees are hatched from eggs, including the queen bee. For the first two or three days after hatching all eggs are fed royal jelly. Then one egg is selected to become queen and she continues to receive royal jelly throughout the rest of her life. The other bees feed themselves on honey.

Now, listen to this: although hatched from similar eggs, the bees fed on honey mature in 21 to 24 days, but the queen bee fed royal jelly is fullgrown in 16 days. The worker bees live an average of two to six months, while the queen bee may live as long as eight years! During this time she works hard at producing eggs. The queen bee lays as many as a quarter of a million eggs in a season, often more than 2,000 eggs in a single day—which is greater than her own weight! Since the queen bee and the worker bees are hatched from identical eggs, it is obvious that the only reason for the great difference in longevity and the marvelous fertility is the difference in the food they eat. Royal jelly must contain a powerful substance or substances able to give the queen bee this enormous energy, fertility and longevity!

Scientists have been trying to find and identify these substances for hundreds of years. So far their efforts have been unsuccessful. Royal jelly does contain all the usual vital factors, which can be isolated: proteins, vitamins, enzymes, etc. It has, however, less of some vitamins than pollen has; and some vitamins, like A for example, are totally missing. Also, little or no vitamin E was found in royal jelly; and the same was true of vitamin C.

However, royal jelly contains more pantothenic acid, one of the B vitamins, than any other known natural substance—up to six times more than brewer’s yeast and liver.” In experiments reported in the Journal of Gerontology, fruit flies were fed royal jelly and their life span was markedly increased. Researchers felt that it was because of the pantothenic acid in royal jelly.

Everyone agrees that royal jelly has marvelous healing and rejuvenating powers, but no one knows why. Feeding control animals all the known factors of royal jelly did not bring at all the effects of royal jelly. So, royal jelly obviously contains some other factors which science has not yet been able to detect. Researchers report that all attempts to analyze royal jelly have failed. About 97 to 98 percent of the total has been analyzed and isolated, but the real source of power may be in the remaining elusive two or three percent.

Prophylactic and therapeutic value of royal jelly

An extensive research on royal jelly was made in Czechoslovakia by Dr. Josef Vittek, biologist, and Dr. Jaroslav Kresanek, pharmacologist, at the Medical School in Bratislava. They conducted a five-year investigation and their results are quite remarkable.

They fed royal jelly in various amounts to test animals and found that it speeded up their growth and increased their resistance to disease.1

Royal jelly had an anti-bacterial and anti-virus action, particularly against streptococcus, B. Coli and staphylococcus.

Hens, fed royal jelly, increased their egg-laying capacity 20 to 100 percent!

Royal jelly accelerated the formation of bone tissue.

Topical application of royal jelly helped to heal wounds in half the time.8

Other researchers have reported on royal jelly’s preventive effect on cancer. A group of mice were inoculated with four different types of cancerous cells. Half of them were given royal jelly; the other half was used as the control group. While all the mice in the control group died of cancer, the animals fed royal jelly did not show any disorder at all!0

In the experiments on human beings, Drs. Vittek and Kresanek showed that royal jelly has a favorable influence on body functioning and healing processes in many conditions. Serum cholesterol levels were lowered by the administration of royal jelly for ten days. Royal jelly has shown good results in the treatment of diseases of aging, such as hardening of the arteries, vascular disorders and Buerger’s Disease. German doctors reported that royal jelly preparations showed “satisfactory results” in post-operative conditions. Researchers agreed that royal jelly has a stimulative action upon the functioning of various organs and improves “their associative and coordinative faculties.”

However, in spite of some enthusiastic researchers, mostly in Europe, medical science at large has remained skeptical of royal jelly, and virtually no research is being done now to determine its prophylactic and therapeutic possibilities. In the meantime, there are thousands of people, both here and in Europe, who use royal jelly regularly and are satisfied that they benefit from it.

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Fasting is considered by most biological medical doctors as the fastest and the most effective therapeutic method of remedying high blood pressure. At the Buchinger Clinic in Bad Pyrmont, Dr. Otto Buchinger stated that high blood pressure is the one ailment for which fasting practically never fails to bring about a complete cure.

He stressed, however, that tobacco is highly injurious to the patient with high blood pressure and advised a total abstinence from smoking.

In Swedish biological clinics practitioners have had the same experience. Ebba Waerland has supervised hundreds of fast cures and reports that high blood pressure is “cured automatically” through fasting and Waerland dietetic therapy.

A case history of lowered blood pressure

Here is one case from Sweden. Mrs. E. P., 44, suffered from high blood pressure for 15 years. In spite of various medical treatments, her pressure continued to climb, and in 1966 it was up to 240. She started her biological treatments in July, 1966, with a ten-day fast on the alkaline juices of fruits and vegetables and vegetable broth.* While fasting she was given an enema morning and evening, plus colonic irrigation twice a week. After ten days of fasting, she was given a salt-free diet of fresh fruits for breakfast, and raw vegetable salad with homemade soured milk and boiled potatoes for lunch and dinner. Bread, butter and cheese were not allowed, except small amounts of fresh homemade cottage cheese. After two weeks on this diet she was again put on juice fasting for ten more days. I met Mrs. E. P. on the ninth day of the second fast. Her blood pressure had been checked the day before and was down to 137. It had been at that level a whole week. She told me that she felt great, and planned to leave the clinic and go home the following week. She enjoyed her new lacto-vegetarian diet and planned to continue with it at home.

Also in the United States many clinics and nature-cure practitioners have employed fasting very successfully in the treatment of high blood pressure. At Pawling Health Manor, in New York, Dr. R. Cross reported 54 high blood pressure cases treated by fasts between 1957 and 1963. Of these, 38 cases recovered completely and 16 improved. Dr. James McEachen, of Escondido, California, has supervised 141 fasts on patients with high blood pressure at his sanatorium, and reported that all 141 cases were remedied or improved— also a 100 percent result. Similar results are reported from Herbert M. Shelton’s Clinic in Texas and Dr. W. L. Esser’s Clinic in Florida. Dr. Shelton reported one case in which three weeks of fasting dropped the systolic pressure from 295 to 115.

The general opinion of all practitioners who employ fasting in the treatment of high blood pressure, is that patients who do not respond to the customary treatments, do respond to fasting. Moreover, the cures accomplished by fasting tend to be lasting—provided that good nutritional habits are maintained after the fast.

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5. The Mouth-Hand line. If a line is now drawn midway between the nose and throat lines in the upper medial quadrant, continuing to the outer iris margin between the neck and diaphragm lines in the lower lateral quadrant, we produce a connection between the mouth area in the upper medial quadrant, and the hand area in the lower lateral quadrant. This line is called the

Mouth-Hand line, also Nutrition line. Registrations in this location signify that the patient suffers nutritional defects. These patients will not change their eating habits. If this line shows in the right iris, it suggests that the ancestors suffered from diseases of the stomach. If in the left iris, then the patient has always eaten that which he is unable to digest.

6. The Forehead-Ovary line. If commencing with the forehead boundary in the upper medial quadrant, which lies midway between the Vertex and Nose lines, a line is projected to the margin of the lower lateral quadrant between the Foot and Diaphragm lines, we have the

Forehead-Ovary line. Registration of the line indicates disturbance of sex life with effects upon the brain, in this case the emotional nature. Women with ovary signs and short stubby finger nails have much head pain, and also usually have many children.

7. The Cerebellum-Uterus line Cerebellum-Rectum line. A line drawn in the right iris from the margin between the Vertex and Ear lines, through the upper lateral quadrant, commences with the Cerebellum. In the lower medial quadrant the line runs midway between the Foot and Bladder lines to the area for uterus. If there are registrations of this line in the right iris, then the patients are noisy and incline to hysteria. Vertex headaches are then predominant.

In the left iris we have the Cerebellum-Rectum line, which as the name implies, does not run to the uterus area but to that for the rectum and anus. Registration of this line suggests conditions terminating in hypochondria. Such patients are quiet, and have little to say.

8. The Axilla-Loin line. This line is drawn midway between the Ear and Neck lines through the upper lateral quadrant. Here we have the area for axilla and clavicle. In the lower medial quadrant the line is drawn midway between the Bladder and Throat lines, and so demarcates the area for Loins. This line is the Axilla-Loin line, or Endurance line. Patients showing this line are very sensitive. One must not demand too much of such patients. They can neither bear nor endure much.

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Once you’ve found a doctor whose medical ability you trust, there are practical steps you can take to maintain a good working relationship between the two of you.

For instance, when you call the doctor’s office because your child is sick, you may not talk to the doctor but to a professional nurse practitioner who acts as the go-between in your communications with the doctor. You can have the same confidence in the nurse that you do in the doctor. The nurse is a qualified medical professional in his or her own right, and is well able to handle many of your questions. This means you don’t have to wait for the doctor to get through with a patient before he or she can talk to you. Of course, if your child’s condition does require the doctor’s attention, the nurse will have the doctor talk to you on the phone, or help you set up an appointment to see the doctor.

Whether you talk directly to the doctor or to the nurse when you call the office, be prepared to give the following information:

• Your name and the child’s name.

• Your child’s approximate weight; this is important because medications are prescribed by body weight, and the dosage that is appropriate for a 55 kilos teenager is very different from that given to a 11-12 kilos toddler.

• Your child’s temperature; whether or not the child is running a fever – and if so, how high a fever – is a clue to the child’s condition. Use a thermometer to take the child’s temperature. A guess based on flushed cheeks or a hot forehead isn’t good enough.

• Information on any illnesses the child has been exposed to recently.

• Details of medications the child is allergic to.

• The name, phone number, and business hours of your pharmacist so that the doctor can phone in a prescription if necessary. (Although the nurse can handle many of your questions and perform some examinations and medical procedures, only a doctor can prescribe medication.)

Be sure to have a pencil and paper at hand so that you can write down any information or instructions the doctor or nurse gives you.

When you call the doctor’s office you probably have an idea as to whether you just want some advice on the telephone, or whether you want to bring the child in to see the doctor. So tell the doctor or nurse what you have in mind – don’t expect them to guess. If the doctor or nurse feels it’s not necessary to bring the child in, you’ll be told the reason for that advice. However, the decision is yours, and if you still want a personal consultation you’re entitled to insist.

Another way to stay on good terms with your child’s doctor is to plan ahead so that both you and the doctor know what an office visit is intended to achieve. A common cause of communication breakdown between parent and physician is the parent’s complaint that the doctor was too busy, didn’t answer questions, or cut the visit short.

To avoid this, at the time you make the appointment also tell the receptionist what the visit is for. If you feel you’re going to need extra time with the doctor, make a point of saying this so that your request can be included in the doctor’s schedule. And, when you see the doctor, do not confuse the issue by trying to get a complete update on other family members’ problems in the course of one appointment. Let the doctor examine your child and deal with the reason you brought the child into the office. If you have other concerns not directly related to the present one, make an appointment to come back another time.

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If you are bottle-feeding, you must have clean water and refrigeration available. Be sure to clean the top of the can before you open it, and follow the directions carefully when you’re preparing the formula. Some formulas are concentrated, so you must add water. Others are “ready to feed,” and if you dilute this type the baby will not get enough to eat

Bottles and nipples must be cleaned and sterilized through the baby’s fourth month. After that, only the nipples must be sterile. To sterilize, clean the nipples with soap and water, making sure the hole in the top is not clogged with dried formula. Then boil them in water for 15 minutes. Bottles should be cleaned first and then sterilized. After four months, the bottles can be washed in hot water or in a dishwasher.

Hold and rock the baby when you’re bottle-feeding. Do not prop the bottle up and leave the baby alone to eat. Human contact is important to the baby’s development, so don’t rush the feeding time. However, try not to spend more than a half-hour to 45 minutes on each feeding.

Whether you are breast-feeding or bottle-feeding, remember that your baby’s appetite is generally a reliable measure of how much he or she needs to eat. A characteristic, demanding cry will let you know when the baby is hungry. After a few weeks or months you’ll probably be able to identify that hunger cry.

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It is no coincidence that snoring only occurs during sleep. The very process of lying down introduces new forces on the contents of the chest wall and abdomen which, for the overweight patient, may interfere with the normal functioning of the diaphragm. Furthermore, and more significantly, there is a deterioration of the finely tuned muscular control of the upper airway during sleep. This loss of control, however, is not peculiar to snorers. Loss of tone, or hypotonia, is a feature of the human upper airway common to both snorers and non-snorers and in general, the effect is more pronounced in deeper sleep. For the purpose of studying sleep disorders, a system of sleep staging has been developed to avoid vague terms such as “light” and “deep” sleep. Each sleep stage is commonly defined by measuring the electrical activity of the brain (an electro-encephalogram or EEG), muscle tone, usually of the jaw (an electro-myogram or EMG) and eye movement (an electro-oculogram or EOG). There are two broadly defined sleep states: Rapid Eye Movement sleep (REM) and Non Rapid Eye Movement sleep (NREM), the latter being subdivided into stages 1, 2, 3 and 4. The progression from “light” to “deep” sleep corresponds with the progression from NREM 1 to NREM 4 and then to REM.

The sleep of a normal adult consists of variable sleep cycles with a gradual drifting from one sleep stage to another, but occasionally punctuated by abrupt changes from one level to another, such as stage 1 to REM and vice versa. The cycle is repeated several times a night with REM sleep occurring at approximately 90 minute intervals. During sleep, particularly during REM sleep, breathing patterns are different to that of the awake state. REM sleep is characterized by irregular breathing; at times fast and at other times slow. The combined effects of irregular breathing and minimal upper airway tone make this a critical period of sleep for snorers and for many with underlying lung disease.

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As we have seen, the vast majority of preventive medicine in the nineteenth century was done by way of public health measures, but preventive medicine is really a link between environmental health on the one hand and personal medical care on the other.

True preventive measures probably started with diseases of children. In 1892 Pierre Budin, a Parisian obstetrician, asked women to come back when their babies were 6 months old for a post-natal check-up. He was amazed at the number of children who had already died by this age and started to think about what could be done to prevent this awful toll. Preventive and health-maintenance services for children started in Britain in 1908 and the Boston Lying-in Hospital started an ante-natal programme in 1912.

Once the idea of prevention caught on it spread rapidly, and industrial and occupational medicine quickly became a valued part of the system too. But popular though they were, there was (and still is in the US) a reluctance on the part of preventive services to do anything creative, for fear of treading on the toes of the curative doctors. In the US, for example, community health centres sprang up before World War I but confined themselves to education and prevention and many were in slum areas. They were almost always separate from hospitals. In fact many such clinics had a motto:

No prescriptions given; no sickness treated.

Preventive medicine then became associated with the business of keeping people healthy while ‘real’ doctors got on with treating the sick. As the years went by it became apparent that public health and preventive medicine had chalked up some remarkable successes and reluctantly the medical profession accepted that prevention had a place. Much of this is still lip-service though, as can be seen from the curriculum of any teaching hospital on either side of the Atlantic. Preventive medicine and its concepts rank so low as to be almost invisible. Over the last twenty years or so doctors have realized that whilst they can do little for many of their patients, detecting disease early can produce truly dramatic results in conditions such as: glaucoma (a person’s sight can be saved if the condition is caught early); obesity; depression (suicide deaths can be greatly reduced by treating the depression); hypertension (treatment reduces the incidence of strokes); and so on. The examples are numerous.

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Oestrogen and Progesterone

But the placenta also produces other chemicals in conjunction with the ovaries. Oestrogen and progesterone are produced, together with other hormones which affect all parts of the system. In fact, everything is now geared to the safe development of the baby and to his needs after his birth. For this reason, the breasts commence development very early in pregnancy under this hormonal influence.

They become larger, the nipples more supple and bigger. The milk glands enlarge and after a while start to produce fluid. This is very thick, yellowish and creamy at first, and is called colostrum. But soon after birth, a regular, highly nutritious milk supply quickly becomes established. This fulfils baby’s needs, and may continue on for many months.

Development of the Foetus

To give an indication of how the foetus looks during the early weeks of pregnancy, the following table sets out some of the features of development.

Where a miscarriage has occurred in early pregnancy, a casual examination of the foetus will reveal many of these features.

It is pointed out that many conceptions terminate in miscarriage (which is technically called an “abortion”—this word in medical discussions has no illegal overtones as it frequently has in lay connotation).

Recent work indicates that perhaps as many as 60 to 80 per cent of all pregnancies may end prematurely, often in the first weeks. It is now understood that many congenital defects can take place, and it is considered to be nature’s way of maintaining a healthy race.

By eliminating a new life well before it means too much to the parents, and certainly many months before birth, gross defects or deficiencies, both physical and mental, can be rectified by this normal and natural means. It has often been likened to nature’s way of maintaining “quality control” of the human race.

Nature (and in effect, God) is trying to be kind. This avoids headaches and heartaches. Caring for physically and mentally abnormal children (and adults) is a major problem today. This is one way in which it may be checked, normally and naturally. Therefore, women undergoing a miscarriage should never be too upset. By considering the possible alternatives, they are invariably being done a favour by nature. Never forget this.

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