All digestive problems should be investigated by your doctor. If your doctor has found nothing wrong with your stomach and has given you antacids, if you don’t respond to these it might be up to you to consider some other causes of poor digestion in the stomach.Nervous StomachWorrying over anything can have a very bad effect on the stomach, but worrying over what you are actually eating can cause a great deal of problems – at the time when the digestive juices should be flowing you are stopping this natural process by negative thoughts -’Can I eat this?/Dare I eat that?AVill I suffer after this?’ and so on. The pleasure from eating is replaced by anxiety over what can be digested without discomfort, and so more and more foods are refused which further affects the nervous system and the immune system, already compromised by poor nutrition. People often see refined carbohydrates as foods that are easier to digest. If the diet is lacking in protein and roughage it might take quite a lot of refined carbohydrate to satisfy the appetite, with the result that a person with poor digestion can become both overweight and undernourished.If on the other hand the appetite is poor, the ‘Tea and Toast Syndrome’ can develop.It goes without saying that if tension and worry are affecting your digestive system, relaxing more will improve matters. Here is the experience of a young woman who in her own words became a ‘food phobic’.My life had been a nightmare for two years before I admitted it was simply stress and my own reactions to food that were causing my digestive problems. It started (although I only realize this now) when I was promoted at work. I was very keen to show my worth in the new position and often worked late or during my lunch break. I started to feel discomfort after my evening meal and always blamed what I had eaten. The range of foods I thought I could cope with dwindled. I lost weight and all pleasure from cooking and eating disappeared. I dreaded invitations to eat out. It was very embarrassing just picking at the food on my plate.Last summer I went for an organized walking holiday in Wales. I was very nervous about my digestive problems, not only because I had to eat with 20 strangers but because I was also having difficulty getting off to sleep. It proved to be one of the best holidays I have had and gave me total insight into how I had become so neurotic about what I could and could not eat. I worried about food and did not sleep for the first couple of days, and then I think the fresh air and exercise must have taken over. I slept like a log and was hungry for the first time for months. I ate everything that was put in front of me without any discomfort at all.My stomach still complains occasionally but I’m no longer fearful about this and can always see it is because I am trying to do too much.*28\326\8*

Some people now consider any recurrent seizures, even two or more febrile seizures, to be epilepsy. However, most people think of epilepsy as recurrent seizures that are not provoked by fever. Febrile seizures do not cause epilepsy. The chance of epilepsy developing is slightly higher in a child who has had a febrile seizure than in one who has not, but not much greater.Of children who have had a febrile seizure, more than ninety-eight out of 100 will never have epilepsy.The “risk factors” for later epilepsy developing in a child who has had a single febrile seizure are:• If the first febrile seizure is prolonged (more than fifteen minutes), if the seizure was one-sided or focal, or if there were two or more seizures during that initial episode;• If there is a family history of epilepsy;• If the child has a neurologic disorder, such as cerebral palsy, or if his development had been delayed before the seizure.A child who has a febrile seizure but none of these risk factors has approximately one chance in 100 of later epilepsy. A child with one factor has a 2,5 percent chance, and a child with two or more risk factors has a 5 to 10 percent chance of epilepsy.Thus, in the worst situation, a child who has all three risk factors would have only one chance in ten of epilepsy.”Isn’t there anything that can be done to reduce even these small risks?”There is no evidence that the risks of epilepsy increase, even if your child has more febrile seizures. There is also no evidence that placing your child on medication after a febrile seizure will reduce the risks of later epilepsy.*37\208\8*

It is practically impossible to avoid exposure to the myriad of toxins and noxious vapors present in our technological society. We encounter them daily in industry, agriculture, and the home. Many of these agents either have been proved harmful or are strongly suspected of causing many illnesses, including headache.
One group of chemicals particularly likely to produce headache is the organic solvents. Included in this group are turpentine, carbon tetrachloride, benzine (used in gasoline), and benzene (used in leather processing, motor fuels, dyes, glue, paints, and linoleums). Mild exposure to these substances may bring on only a headache, but long or daily exposure can cause serious medical problems.
Formaldehyde is another substance that can cause headaches as well as other symptoms if exposure is prolonged. Headaches have been reported in people whose homes were recently insulated with insulation containing formaldehyde.
The metal lead—not graphite, as in “lead” pencils—can cause serious neurological impairment.      Lead is particularly harmful to children. Excessive ingestion causes convulsions, brain swelling, and coma. A major reason for lead intoxication in children is ingestion of
lead-containing paint chips from walls or toys. In adults as well as children, lead ingestion can come from contact with the chemicals in lead batteries, dabbing an art brush dipped in
lead-containing paint on the tongue, or drinking moonshine whiskey when lead pipes or lead solder was used in the tubing system. Drinking from glazed pottery not properly baked or living near air- and water-polluting industries may also cause excessive exposure to lead. Children and adults with unexplained headaches should have a test for lead intoxication.
Carbon monoxide gas is a poisonous, odorless substance, and it can be a source of headaches. Thus, if headaches develop in auto mechanics, roadside toll booth operators, people who drive on expressways for long hours, or anyone who might be exposed to carbon monoxide fumes, this cause of headaches should be considered. Similarly, during the winter months, when furnaces are on, unexplained headaches may be caused by faulty furnaces emitting carbon monoxide gas.
Headaches caused by carbon monoxide usually improve when exposure to the gas is altered. In cases of mild intoxication, permanent injury does not occur, but brain damage as well as death can result from prolonged or intense exposure.
Many medications, including some used to treat headaches, can themselves cause the head to ache. Among these medications are various drugs used to treat epilepsy and a variety of drugs used to treat hypertension, including any that contain the blood-pressure-lowering agents reserpine, hydralazine, or certain diuretics. The antidepressants, particularly the monoamine oxidase, may also cause headaches in some people, but they are used to treat headache conditions in others.
Indomethacin (Indocin), a drug used to treat arthritis, may be quite effective in controlling certain types of headaches, even though one of its side effects is headache. Nitroglycerin and other nitrite-containing substances as well as medications that dilate blood vessels are capable of triggering headaches. Dilating medications are used to treat heart pain (angina pectoris) and other circulatory problems due to arteriosclerosis (atherosclerosis [hardening of the arteries]). Amphetamines, as well as other stimulants, ephedrine (a decongestant), some asthma drugs, and diet pills can and do produce headaches in some people.
Caffeine is added to many over-the-counter and prescription medications. Caffeine acts as a stimulant and affects the blood vessels, constricting some and dilating others. In small doses, caffeine can be helpful in relieving some headaches, although its proven efficacy remains in doubt. But when too much caffeine is consumed, preexisting headaches can be worsened. Too much caffeine can cause headaches even where there was no headache before. Overconsumption of caffeine can easily result from taking caffeine-containing medication, such as Fiorinal, Cafergot, Darvon Compound, Norgesic, Excedrin, Anacin, Vanquish, and others, together with the daily intake of foods and beverages that contain caffeine, such as coffee, tea, cola, and chocolate.
In addition to causing or intensifying headaches, caffeine can produce headaches if withdrawal from it occurs after an individual has become dependent on it. We believe that when there is a background of consuming an overabundance of caffeine during the day, some morning headaches are withdrawal headaches, created by withdrawal of caffeine during the eight or more hours of sleep. If you abuse caffeine (the term “abuse” is appropriate because caffeine is a drug) and if you have headaches, you might get substantial relief by gradually reducing your total caffeine consumption.

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Most of the drugs offered by traditional medicine have been tested by a scientific method that starts with studying the drug in a test tube and ends an average of twelve years later after studying the drug in thousands of people. The results of those tests are analyzed statistically, to see if some apparent benefit is actually due either to simple chance or to “outliers,” those rare and exceptional cases that lie far outside the average case. Such analysis is especially important in a disease like HIV infection, because people vary so enormously in the rate at which the disease progresses and in the types of opportunistic illnesses they get. Once the test is completed, but before the drug is sold to the public, the results are reviewed by the FDA and usually sent to a medical journal for publication. The medical journal sends the results out to experts in the field, who determine if the performance and results of the trial are sound enough for publication. Physicians become aware of new treatments when the results of these trials are published in reputable medical journals or presented at medical meetings.
This process for approving drugs turns out to be extraordinarily expensive, often bureaucratic, and frequently frustrating to those who use it. Major criticisms are: the drugs cost too much, there are too many regulatory agencies, and the FDA requirements for approval are
unnecessarily arduous and time-consuming. In many ways, HIV infection has called attention to these defects in the system, and as a result, the FDA now speeds up the evaluation of new drugs for HIV infection.
Despite traditional medicine’s ills, its accomplishments are worth celebrating. Many of the infectious diseases that once were major epidemics—as HIV is now—are no longer problems. The worst epidemic in the history of medicine, bubonic plague, claimed twenty-five million lives in the fourteenth century, and is now virtually eliminated. Other once-serious diseases now largely controlled in the Western world are cholera, polio, measles, mumps, and typhoid fever. Smallpox, once a devastating disease, has been eliminated from the face of the earth. All this is to say that traditional medicine does work, and that the litany of breakthroughs is likely to continue.
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Negative WHITE CHESTNUT is not limited to uncontrolled repetitive thoughts only. It encompasses repetitive physical action also, provided the same action is repeated the same way in the same sequence.
Thus persistent yawning, persistent eructations, winking of eyes, persistent itching etc all call for WHITE CHESTNUT remedy.
Doctor Krishnamoorty in his lectures detailed the following conditions, calling for White Chestnut Remedy.
(1) When the patient loses his mental balance and starts mental arguments with himself and repeats the same thing over and over again.
(2) When the same thought keeps on churning in the mind all the time or repeats in the mind again and again.
(3) Any physical action which has become a chronic vice due to persistent repetition as jerking the head in a particular way again and again.
(4) Start counting from 1 to 100 and go on repeating it.
(5) Preparing very elaborate plans without executing any, Plan may be good but its execution is very poor.
(6) Excitement causes nervousness, trembling. Any complaint that is aggravated by mental exertion or anxiety or excitement even if it is due to joy – an examinee fully prepared for the examination finds his mind suddenly becoming blank in the examination hall.
(7) Delusions, illusions and hallucinations.
(8) All spasmodic pains, jerking of ljmbs in the same direction, cramps, involuntary shaking of head.
(9) Constant headache, constant itching of skin, hiccup or whenever a person is constantly thinking of his complaints.
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I believe we are here to love and learn – that is all we depart with, after all.
It is hard for me to talk about the soul without going back to the human energy field. The energy field (for which there is firm scientific evidence) surrounds the body in layers. These are sometimes called the etheric or heavenly bodies. I believe that the energy field is the ‘physical’ link with our soul or higher self. Observations from my own ‘hands on’ and Therapeutic Touch work and information from people using similar bioenergetic therapies leads me to believe that relaxation and pain relief are not the only benefits. Clients repeatedly report spiritual insights (although no reference of this possibility had been made by the therapist) and a feeling of inner strength. It is often a great surprise to people who consider they have their feet firmly on the ground. Many people report that this new awareness of themselves as spiritual beings frees them from the fear of death which they have carried for years.
My feeling is that our soul-consciousness stays in Heaven, the Universe (or whatever name we want to give it) when we are born, and through life is always concerned for our well-being and for us to complete the life-plan we chose before birth. Our spiritual progression depends on this and I believe this evolves through many lifetimes.
We hurt our soul by not loving ourselves, by not listening to oui intuitive feelings or to the promptings of dreams, and by seeing th< pain of life as terrible misfortunes instead of the tools we have chosen to carve out our chosen path. Salvation comes when we acknowledge the Divine in us, when we learn to forgive and love ourselves as vulnerable human beings. Only when we do this can memories be healed, can we be freed from negative emotions and treat those around us with the same gentleness.
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Nowadays, we all know that a diabetic diet, in common with any diet, should have a high fibre content and not include too many saturated fats. It should also contain the correct number of calories to maintain your body weight at the acceptable average for your height, sex and age, or to achieve this level if you are overweight.
The diabetic diet is fundamental to the treatment of diabetes and should be one of the first lessons learned by all new diabetics, whether it is their only treatment or whether they also need oral hypoglycemic pills or insulin injections. However carefully you manipulate your insulin or oral hypoglycemic treatment, lack of attention to diet can lead to poor glucose balance both immediately and in the long term.
If you have non-insulin-dependent diabetes it is likely that you are overweight. This makes your body resistant to the action of insulin. The most important part of your treatment is to return to the ideal body weight for your height and stay there, by eating healthy high fibre foods and avoiding sugary foods and excessive amounts of saturated fats.
Nowadays, we all know that a diabetic diet, in common with the diet advised for the whole country, should contain lots of starchy carbohydrate with plenty of fibre, very little saturated fat or sugar and some protein. You should eat the amount needed to keep your weight within the acceptable range for your height. This weight should give you a body mass index of about 22. You can calculate this from your weight in kilogrammes and your height in metres. (1 kg = 2.2 lbs. 1 inch = 2.54 cm.) The body mass index (usually abbreviated to BMI) is your weight divided by your height squared. Thus John who weighs 15 stone (95.5 kg) and is 6 foot (1.83 m) tall has a BMI of 95.5/1.83×1.83 = 28.5. He should weigh 73.7 kg.
At least 55 per cent of the total calories should be starchy carbohydrates or pulses, with over 30g fibre a day, fat should account for less than 35 per cent of the total calories (10 per cent saturated, 20 per cent polyunsaturated or monounsaturated), and between 10-15 per cent protein. Sugar should be less than 4 teaspoons of sucrose or the equivalent, added salt less than 3g daily.
Many of you will have been taught to weigh your food and to count exchanges of carbohydrate, and even of fat or protein. If you feel comfortable with this then continue, but nowadays dietitians are moving away from such rigid dietary control. I once met someone who dipped a urine testing strip into everything she drank to see if it was too sugary. She felt she needed an extremely strict diet to manage her diabetes and became very distressed when she was away from home and unable to calculate her exchanges exactly. She had become a prisoner of her diabetic diet.

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A diet deficient in niacin produces pellagra in humans. At one time, pellagra was endemic in Europe and America because the main diet consisted of cornmeal, molasses, and pork fat almost exclusively. Niacin performs the following functions:
Niacin converts food to energy.
It prevents pellagra, a disease that affects the central nervous system, skin, and gastrointestinal tract.
It reduces cholesterol and triglyceride levels and has been shown to be beneficial to cardiac patients. The Coronary Drug Project Study showed a decrease in mortality of 11 percent in cardiac patients given niacin.
Those using niacin should take only the immediate-release form. The timed-release form can damage your liver. Do not exceed 1,500 milligrams of niacin per day. Take it with food to decrease flushing. Niacin may aggravate diabetes, gout, and stomach problems.
Rarely is a human diet ever deficient in this important vitamin, because pantothenic acid is distributed in almost all plant and animal tissues. It has the following functions:
It is required in almost all energy-producing reactions in the body involving fats, carbohydrates, and proteins.
It is required for the formation of some hormones and nerve-regulating substances.
It helps to regulate the blood-sugar level.
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Every decent health chart always recommends fruit. Oranges, grapefruit, pineapple, etc., all are needed to give the body vitamins and minerals. We agree. But why don’t the charts show the difference between the methods of consuming fruit? The value sworn to on the charts is changed when you switch from eating raw fruit to drinking it in juice form. The point we are making is that charts are incomplete in their information.
Charts neglect to take any notice of what ailments a person may be suffering from. You may have some special physical condition which will alter the totals published on charts.
A pregnant woman, for example, may need more fruits than are normally listed for the average person. (Incidentally, obstetricians highly recommend juices for expectant mothers.) My research indicates, however, that sharp fruit juices withdraw oils of all types from the skin. Juices contribute to the loss of elasticity of the skin, and lead to the appearance of stretch marks. Therefore, we recommend that during pregnancy—in fact, for all people, always—fruits should be eaten, not poured in.
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How to stop-Just stop. There are no dangerous withdrawal reactions to stopping LSD.
Withdrawal symptoms-You will feel only the normal psychological withdrawal symptoms experienced by all addicts.
Advice-Get to as many meetings of Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous as possible.
In the first few days after stopping LSD, addicts may not feel much desire for the drug. This is likely to come a little later, so be prepared to resist these feelings.
Do not drink or substitute other drugs.
PCP or phenocyclidine-Just stop. There are no withdrawal symptoms, other than the psychological symptoms common to all addicts. Get to Narcotics Anonymous meetings and be careful not to substitute other drugs or drink.
Tranquillisers and sleeping pills (not barbiturates)
How to stop-First check exactly what you are taking by reading the name of the drug from the bottle in which it has been prescribed. Nowadays most tranquillisers and sleeping pills are from the benzodiazepine family of drugs.
But if you have been taking the same tablets for years and years, your doctor may still be prescribing barbiturates for you.
If you are taking benzodiazepine tranquillisers or sleeping pills, do not stop abruptly: it is dangerous. You will need to cut down the drug over four to six weeks – or longer if you are taking a very high dose.
Doctors are becoming more knowledgeable about tranquilliser dependence (which is not necessarily tranquilliser abuse), and the doctor who is prescribing you the pills will probably help you cut down your dose. But if you are unlucky enough to have an out-of-date doctor, he may simply suggest you switch from one kind of tranquilliser to another. This will simply prolong the illness of tranquilliser dependence.
Withdrawal symptoms-These include insomnia, anxiety, panic attacks, muscle pain, depression, seeing or hearing things that are not there, dizziness, abnormal sensitivity to noise, touch and smell, a feeling of weakness, heart palpitations, dry mouth and a feeling of having an enlarged tongue. There is also the sensation that you have a tightening band round your head.
Some of the symptoms seem to be minor ones, but they are nevertheless rather strange. Some people have a metallic taste in the mouth, or experience the feeling that buildings are going to fall on them or that the ground under their feet is not solid. Muscles may twitch uncontrollably.
If this sounds a horrifying list of symptoms, take heart. Most people only suffer from three or four of them. The problem is that the withdrawal symptoms can confuse you into thinking the old anxiety (for which you were originally prescribed the pills) is back again.
It isn’t. Though the symptoms can last for several weeks (even months if you have been on the tablets for years and years), all the anxiety and confusion of withdrawal will settle down eventually.
Advice-Get to Narcotics Anonymous or Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and find somebody who has been through the same experience. That way, you will get the understanding you need.
Be careful not to substitute drink or any other drug for tranquillisers.

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