Information on popular complementary and alternative medical topics

Fear and anxiety for another person without any self interest—fear lest the child of the neighbor may be over-run by a passing vehicle when crossing the street, or the anxiety of the mother if her son returns late from office, or an apprehension that the plane in which his father is coming may not be destroyed in the way, are a few examples of the negative Red Chestnut state that one comes across in everyday life. Mostly such a state is temporary and a few doses of Red Chestnut are capable of neutralising the ill-effects of the negative Red Chestnut state.
But in the case of out and out Red Chestnut types, which are very few, a prolonged treatment with the same remedy may be necessary to root out negativism from his constitution.
Few people realise the damage done by negative Red Chestnut state to all concerned—the person who is overanxious and fearsome for some one else or the sufferer himself.
If he is ill, he becomes worse; if he has some trouble, it aggravates and if he is convalescing, he retrogresses and if he is healthy, the worry and fear make him prone to disease.
But what happens to the person for whom anxiety and fear was expressed? He does not gain anything. Rather, his suffering is enhanced. If he is in pain, the anxiety and fear of his well-wishers will increase his pain. Similarly the progress in his convalescence is slowed, if his visitors wear a gloomy look when they go to see him. In fact the face of the visitor is the mirror in which the patient sees his own condition. If you meet the patient with a smiling face he thinks that there is nothing serious about him and he is on the road to recovery. But if you wear a gloomy and sad look when you visit a patient, the latter thinks that his condition is serious and his recovery becomes difficult. The human mind is capable of sending thought waves which can traverse any distance to reach another person where as the hopeful and encouraging thought waves of a positive Red Chestnut person affect the mental condition of the sick person in a positive way bringing hope and reassurance to him, the fear and anxiety of negative Red Chestnut type relative transmits only the anxiety and hopelessness to the afflicted person which makes his recovery very difficult.
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Negative Ions
Negative ions have a tonic effect on the nervous system and reduce histamine levels in the blood. As any allergy sufferer knows, histamine is strongly associated with unpleasant feelings. The benefits of negative ionization are becoming widely known, not only for cleaning the air, killing bacteria and viruses, but also as a treatment for asthma, bronchitis, migraine, burns, scalds and wounds. Sufferers from the Irritable Bowel Syndrome could also benefit from negatively charged air. An interesting book called The Ion Effect (Fred Soyka, Bantam, 1978) describes the effect of positive ions on the bowel.
Sunlight
While it is foolish to risk skin cancer or ageing the skin prematurely by baking in the sun for hours, it is equally foolish to be always covered in sun block and never allow the sun to reach the skin. Frequent exposure for short periods has many beneficial effects, including the production of Vitamin D. We look healthier after a little sun and this increases feelings of well-being, and sunlight also kills bacteria and fungus.
Fresh Air
Unless they actually have chest problems, it is often difficult to convince people of the benefits of good breathing habits, and even harder to impress upon them the dangers of continually filling the lungs with stale air. Air that is contaminated by smoke and fumes is recognized as being harmful; but there can be other causes of stale air that are not so well known.
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Terry was seven when she had her first grand mal seizure. The best way I can describe what it was like is to say, how would you feel if you could see your child dying in front of your eyes? I know now that she wasn’t in any danger, but that’s not what it seemed like at the time. Then, when the doctor told us she had epilepsy, I thought, how could this happen to us? We’ve never been a family to worry much about our health, but then you don’t appreciate it till you have to face the fact that someone’s ill. I thought, she’s going to have this for the rest of her life. She’s never going to be able to live a normal life, like other children. And me, I’m going to have to look after her. What’s it going to do to me?’

How do you feel when you discover that your child has epilepsy? Most parents are overwhelmed by all kinds of feelings: grief for their child, fears for his or her safety and doubts about their own ability to cope. It may feel as though the high hopes that you, like every parent, have for your child have been dashed. Anger is a common reaction: why did this have to happen to our family, to our child? You may even feel resentful at the disruptive effect the discovery has made on your own life and your own plans. And however irrational it is, you are very likely to feel guilty, as though the whole thing is somehow your fault, something that you should have been able to prevent.
These initial feelings are normal and natural, and you are likely to have them however much you love your child. Eventually they will lessen, especially if you have a doctor who is willing to answer your questions and give you the information and reassurance you need, and if as a couple you and your partner can help each other through this stage, sharing the worry and the responsibility.
It often helps to talk to other parents who have experienced what you are going through. Joining a support group can be very comforting and also a helpful and important source of information. The British Epilepsy Association (see Appendix) will be able to tell you if there is an epilepsy support group in your area.
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Numerous methods for the detection and estimation of Vitamin C are available, but only those simple tests suitable for immediate use in the doctor’s surgery, in a clinic or to test foods at home or where they are prepared will be described.

1. The Dip Stick is perhaps the simplest. Ames C-Stix are available from any chemist shop. The slip of medicated paper is dipped into a specimen of urine and after 30 seconds the color compared with a chart that shows the comparative concentration in the urine. To obtain a true estimation it is important that the specimen be tested as early as possible, as Vitamin C in urine is quickly oxidized and destroyed on exposure to air. Dr Glen Dettman of Oakleigh Laboratories, Mentone, Victoria, who has tested routinely over 6000 urine specimens in the last 3 years has found that if a random urine speci­men does not exceed the top color marker (40 mg%) there is either insufficient ascorbic acid in the body or the kidneys are not working well. Ames C-Stix can also be used to detect Vitamin C in foods and other fluids.

2. Mercks Pharmaceutical firm also make a similar dip stick, but this is not suitable for screening urine (so says their brochure), but rather for estimating C in food products, such as orange cordial and mixed dishes.

3. Lingual or tongue tests are used by Professors Cheraskin and Ringsdorf in their laboratories at the University of Alabama, and by Dr Archie Kalokorinos at the Redfern Clinic in Sydney. The test is simple and quick.

The tongue is cleaned and wiped dry and a small piece of paper infiltrated with a special indicator (Tillmans) is pressed against the tongue. The time taken in seconds for the blue color of the reagent to disappear after it touches the tongue indicates the ascorbic acid level in the body.

Optimum values — less than 20 seconds show normal Vitamin C status. Longer than 20 seconds indicates poor tissue ascorbic acid level. Each dye vial is sufficient for 70 individual tests and lasts 4 days after the solution is made.

A complete ascorbic acid testing kit can be obtained by writing to —

Medical Diagnostic Services Inc., P.O. Box 144,

BRANDON, FLORIDA. U.S.A. 33511.

Hospital wards might therefore not only test the urine of their patients if desired, but also Vitamin C intake includ­ing fluids such as synthetic orange juice, tomato juice and carrot juice. Infants Vitamin C ‘supplement’ may be readily oxidized if left for any time in our drinking water.

The following is a list of average values of Vitamin C in various foods tested with Ames C-Stix quoted by Drs Glen Dettman and Archie Kalokerinos in their paper to a Wollongong Conference of AIMT and ACBS April,

Values of Food estimated with C-Stix. (All in mg%) Where necessary juice was expressed from food to obtain results.

1973.

Typical Average Values (After Sebell/Harris)

Apples (temperature controlled)

Apple (old season, stored)

Apple (new season)

Canteloupe

Carrot (stored)

Cucumber

Cabbage

Celery

Green Peppers Grapes (small variety)
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Vitamin C is the most easily destroyed of all the vitamins and unless the foods which contain it are handled and prepared with care a great deal can be lost before it reaches our table.

In pure form ascorbic acid consists of white crystals, very soluble in water, but not in fats or oils. It is stable when kept dry and cool or in an acid solution, but quickly de­stroyed in alkaline solutions such as when baking soda is added to the water when cooking green vegetables.

Ascorbic acid is destroyed by exposure to oxygen in the air for any length of time and heat hastens this process.

Plants — fruits, vegetables and salads are our chief source of Vitamin C, but much is lost by keeping, drying, by crushing and in cooking.

Plant cells themselves when broken by crushing or cutting with a blunt knife release an enzyme, oxidize, which destroys their vitamin content. Fresh vegetables and fruits should not be squashed and bruised in transport and should be cut up and prepared with a sharp knife just before use. Many are better not peeled at all.

Beans, lettuce and cabbage shredded and stored in the refrigerator the day before use or soaked in water may still look crisp, but have already lost much of their Vitamin G value.

It is best to grow your own vegetables and use them fresh from the garden. When this is not possible choose those that are fresh, use as soon as possible and store in air tight containers in the refrigerator until used.

, Salads should be freshly prepared. Fruits peeled and eaten at once at the table.

Vegetables should be cooked in boiling water—not too much — and boiled fast for as short a time as possible with the saucepan lid on, to exclude the oxygen-rich air. The vegetable water should be kept and used in soups and gravies as it contains some Vitamin C, but is also rich in potassium and trace minerals as well.

Food kept hot in the oven for the late-comer loses most of its Vitamin C, and leftovers used next day cannot be relied on to contain any of this vitamin. 25 per cent is lost after 15 minutes keeping — 75 per cent after IV2 hours.

This is why most restaurant foods, take-away foods and meals served in institutions have been found to contain practically no Vitamin C by the time it is actually eaten.

As many fruits and vegetables cannot be obtained fresh but must be transported and stored far long periods — various methods of preserving them have been used — drying, canning and freezing are the main methods.

Until recently drying of fruits and vegetables resulted in a great loss of Vitamin C. Now the quick exclusion of air in airtight packs prevents the formation of destructive oxidize, and the addition of sulphite to preserve color and flavor actually favors the retention of Vitamin C. It is now possible to produce dried vegetables which still have 60-80 per cent of their original vitamin before cooking.

Modern methods of canning, with selection of top quality products, quick blanching and or freezing prevent oxida­tion taking place and most of the Vitamin C is retained. The cans are filled to the top before sealing so that air is excluded, and they are heated in a vacuum.

It is claimed that there is less loss of Vitamin C in canned fruits and vegetables than when the housewife buys vegetables that have been transported to the shop, exposed for sale, then taken home, stored, prepared and cooked for the home meal.

As frozen fruits and vegetables are originally top quality and are quickly blanched and frozen no destructive oxidize is formed and most of their Vitamin C is retained. Quick freezing conserves Vitamin C better than any other method.

Frozen foods, should, of course, be stored at freezing point, used at once after defrosting or vegetables thrown directly into boiling water and not defrosted before cook­ing.

Some fruits and vegetables retain their Vitamin C bet­ter than others as their skin prevents contact with the air. Potatoes, pumpkin and onions, although not especially rich in Vitamin C, are valuable for those who cannot obtain fresh fruits and vegetables rich in C, such as in the dry outback of Australia and on long sea voyages, as they do retain their vitamin for long periods.

Lemons can be smeared with vaseline and stored in dry sand to preserve their Vitamin C content.

However, as ascorbic acid itself is now available and inexpensive, it is not so necessary as it used to be to rely on these storage methods to preserve the natural vitamins and prevent scurvy.
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Ant bites

Some types of ants (e.g. bull ants) are highly aggressive.

Clinical features

If your child has been stung by an ant, he may develop pain and swelling at the site of the sting. Ants can inject a type of venom via their sting, and they are able to sting several times.

Some children may be allergic to ant venom, and may develop a widespread rash, or difficulty in breathing. Some children have even been known to collapse.

Treatment

If your child only has mild pain and swelling, paracetamol may be given in recommended doses to ease the pain. If your child has a severe reaction to the sting, take him to your doctor immediately, or to the nearest children’s hospital. Make sure you remove the insect carefully first and if it is dead keep it for later identification by your doctor.

Bee stings

Bee stings have barbs on the end of them and they stay in the skin together with the venom gland (the bee dies after injecting the sting).

Clinical features

Your child will complain of severe pain at the site of the sting, and usually marked swelling develops rapidly. Children who are allergic to bee venom are at great risk of severe reaction to bee stings, and may develop a widespread rash, difficulty in breathing and may even collapse.

Treatment

Remove the insect carefully and if it is dead keep it for later identification by your doctor. Do not try to squeeze a bee sting out, as this will inject more venom into the wound. Scrape it off if possible. If your child has a severe reaction to the sting, see your doctor immediately, or go to the nearest children’s hospital.

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“They wouldn’t let us if we wanted to.”

Now you are talking basic freedoms. You have the right to privacy, to do in private what you will with whom you will. If you feel inhibited by someone else’s encroachment on your life, you should act on that or ask for help to act on that. If any group of people deserves and has earned privacy, the dignity of continued personal and sexual development, it certainly is you. You have earned it much more than some thirteen-year-old in a parked car. Stand up for your sexual rights and the sexual rights of everyone in this room. Even if you don’t want to exercise those rights, they are yours for the choosing. Protect them.

“How can you have sex if you don’t feel good?”

How can you feel good if you don’t have sex? How can you feel good if you never touch and get touched, hold and get held? We have to stop thinking about aging as meaning not feeling good. Being sick is not automatically related to being older, and feeling active, alert, happy, and energetic depends much on behaving that way, and the same applies to sex. You will feel sexier if you keep on being sexual, and that in turn will help you feel generally better.

“Maybe you just don’t want to face it. Getting old means

getting high blood pressure, losing your memory, your ability to

get around and move around. It’s just a fact that you are trying to

romanticize away.”

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Turning on Your Sex Lights

I don’t know why we fell into the habit of making love in the dark. We aren’t shy or anything. Maybe we’re too lazy to turn the lights on and

off.

Husband

You will not to be reading in bed in this new program, so candles or soft, full-spectrum lighting is recommended. James Ott, in his book HEALTH AND LIGHT, states, “we have finally learned that light it is a nutrient much like food, and, like food, the wrong kind can make us ill the right kind can help keep us well.” The reason for ” healthy lighting in your place for intimacy is not just so you can the beauty of your sexual interaction. Making love exclusively ^ the dark or with artificial incandescent lighting deprives us a natural sexual stimulant to the brain, to the pineal and pituitary “lands. Try to create natural, soft full-spectrum lighting for your room. Let your sexual life see the light.

Sexual Soundproofing

The only soundproofing that would work in our house would be a gag for each of us and lots of oil for the squeaky bed.

HUSBAND

Just as we suffer from lack of natural lighting, so we suffer from the constant pollution of noise. Listen now as you read this paragraph and you will detect constant humming, clicking, rattling house noises and outside noises of traffic and day-to-day living. Ask any parents and they will tell you that the one thing they want more than anything else in their house is quiet.

It is as important to keep noise out of your private place as it is to keep your intimate communication private. The only approach that seemed to meet both of these needs was to suggest to my couples a music system. Pick a system that is of sufficient quality to reproduce the full range of sounds from your favorite music. The couples reported that music free of a strong theme, vocals, and changes in beat or rhythm was the most pleasing. Your own tapes are much better than the radio, because they are free of commercials and tailored exactly to your tastes. Make your own set of super sex tapes together.

Some couples added extra sound insulation for the bedroom and others tried “white noise,” a system that creates a background that masks noise. A little creativity and effort can help you to keep your own natural sex sounds in and distracting noises out. Super sex requires sound nutrition to match your natural lighting nutrition.

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