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Ad veri latine efficiantur quo, ea vix nisl euismod explicari. Dumping syndrome is a common side effect of stomach surgery. Anemia and osteoporosis are common secondary diseases of the dumping syndrome. Eat six to eight small meals per day and you should lay down for a half hour after meals. Prevention of dysentery requires attention to details of food storage, hygiene, self-discipline, and preparation. Fortunately, they have tablets that you can quietly carry with you on your errands.
Weak black tea, rice water, lime calcium carbonate water, chicken broth, or bouillon to replace electrolytes are indicated. To be sure, there are some dyslexic children who have true organic or biochemical brain injury I. Food allergies and sensitivities should be seriously investigated and dealt with i. To make a long story short, he was cured in two weeks by eliminating sugar, milk, wheat, and corn from his diet.
Treatment and prevention are closely intertwined. Digestive enzymes and betaine HC1 are essential to prevent progression of the problem as well as aid in onset of symptoms. There are many foods and food additives not excluded by the Feingold program that will set off some kids like skyrockets. We had one dyslexic child patient that did everything the Feingold Diet required except eliminate honey.
We found him on top of a foot dome! Rotation diets, allergy elimination diets, and autoimmune urine therapy should be aggressively pursued. The rewards are beyond your wildest expectations. The entire family needs to eat the same way as the dyslexic child if you want this to work. Sometimes the discomfort of dysmenorrhea is intense enough to be debilitating. There are a number of excellent commercial products that will dampen the pain but not deal with the basic problem—an abnormal prostaglandin metabolism.
Treatment includes B3 and B6 at mg t. Herbs such as blue cohosh Caulophyllum thalictroides and black cohosh Cimicifuga racemosa are the ideal natural approach to pain of dysmenorrhea.
Prevention includes reduced stress levels, exercise, healthful diet habits, and reasonable food volumes. An unforgiving event as we age is a decrease in stomach acid production, the main cause of dyspepsia in seniors.
Prevention in this case includes the regular use of digestive aids. Treatment of dyspepsia includes supplementation of mg betaine HC1 and pancreatic enzymes t. Herbal preventions and remedies include papaya Carica papaya , common barberry Berberis vulgaris , and bitters such as gentian Gentiana lutea.
In some cases, a glass of wine or several oz. Fever and discomfort are treated with demulcents and antipyretics i.
Treat as with any allergy including autoimmune urine therapy. Treatment includes alfalfa tablets at b. Avoid fried foods, margarine, sugar, and caffiene.
Do pulse tests and elimination diets to determine the culprits. This is not only a cosmetic problem as the same damage is occurring in the intestinal lining which can lead to malabsorption, lowered immune status, and chronic degenerative diseases.
Treatment includes avoidance of offending foods, betaine HC1 and pancreatic enzymes at mg t. The true basics of premature ejaculation, which happens to all men given the classic circumstances, include a mental state of high expectation, infrequency of sex, and too much friction. How absurd! How can you participate in the sex act and not be aware of sex? Who would want to?
Treatment and prevention of premature ejaculation are interrelated. Step number two is to have frequent sex. This is easier than it sounds when both are cooperating. The third aspect of preventing and curing premature ejaculation is lubrication. K-Y Jelly as well as apply some to the vaginal opening. This is one process that there are no short cuts for. Who would want any?!? Herbs, ginseng Panax spp. A prescription drug, Viagra, is available to help maintain an erection.
It is expensive, however, and does have side effects. Toddlers sticking bobby pins or keys into the outlet can have a fatal shock; radios or appliances falling into the bathtub can be fatal to adults as can electrical repairs without turning off the breakers. Treatment of electric shock includes shutting off the source of electricity or breaking the electrical contact with the patient and reestablishing the basic functions of life with CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation and oxygen.
EMESIS vomiting is a distressing event that may indicate overeating, cancer, excessive alcohol consumption, poisoning, food poisoning, food allergies, and infection i.
In infants, vomiting with lethargy unresponsive and fever can be an ominous signal indicating meningitis. You may wish to cause vomiting when a child or adult, for that matter consumes a noncorrosive poison i.
Seek emergency help here. Treatment of vomiting can be simply to not eat for several hours, suck ice, drink small amounts of peppermint tea, and drink small amounts of chicken or beef bouillon. Have the patient take in a large amount of water one quart for an adult and as much as one pint for a child and repeat the dose in 15 minutes if necessary. The endometrial cells are still sensitive to estrogen and therefore swell during high estrogen parts of the female cycle.
Any obstruction or damming of the normal vaginal flow pattern of the endometrial tissue and blood results in a retro-flow into the abdominal cavity, where the endometrial cells find nourishment from the serosal surface of the bladder, colon, uterus, ovaries, etc.
Treatment should include refraining from using tampons and refraining from having sex during the period. All 90 essential nutrients, including the use of wild Mexican yam natural progesterone source and herbs such as blue cohosh, black cohosh, and donqui will minimize the clinical discomfort. The use of Luperon prescription posterior pituitary hormone can shrink the maverick endometrial tissue to the size of a pea so it can be easily removed with endoscopic surgery.
Luperon produces temporary menopausal symptoms that reverse after withdrawal. Enuresis is, in fact, the result of food allergies i. Employ the pulse test and a six-hour GTT to get a complete picture of the cause. Treatment of enuresis includes eliminating the offending foods for food allergies, and eliminating sugar natural and processed including sweet juices, i. Use digestive aids i. These allopathic drugs will stop symptomatic convulsions.
Long-term administration can cause some numbness and tingling in the face or hands. High fat, high cholesterol diets are often helpful in resolving acquired seizure disorders not related to trauma. Treatment is specifically related to the cause. Blood test or axillary test for thyroid function, a glaucoma pressure exam and consideration of brain tumor orbital or eye is indicated.
Treatment of the eyes should be taken seriously. Pulling the upper eyelid outward and over the lower lid will cause enough tear flow to wash out small foreign bodies such as eyelashes and dust.
Herbs can be used for eye washes including eyebright Euphrasia rostkoviana , fennel Foeniculum vulgare , German chamomile Matricaria chamomilla , oak Quercus robur , pasque flower Pulsatilla vulgaris , and cornflower Centaurea cyanus. Plant derived colloidal minerals are of great value here as most of these children are severely depleted in trace minerals and rare earths. FARTING bowel gas is usually caused by digested but poorly absorbed food reaching the colon and being fermented by bowel organisms.
Some foods such as beans, garlic, and onions are legendary for their production of bowel gas. Food sensitivities to wheat, wheat gluten, and dairy can cause celiac disease type changes in the small intestine, which results in malabsorption.
The unabsorbed proteins reach the colon and are the source of sulfur that smells like rotten eggs. Treatment for pathological amounts of unpleasant bowel gas includes the avoidance of offending foods and betaine HC1 and pancreatic enzymes at mg t.
FATIGUE chronic fatigue syndrome, Candidiasis, Epstein-Barr Virus, cytomegalovirus, human herpes 6 virus, human B lymphotrophic virus, food allergies, hypoglycemia, diabetes, anemia, malnutrition is the disease of the 80s. See specific disease description. Treatment should be specific as described in appropriate section, and in addition, herbs may be of value including American ginseng Panax quinquefolius , lavender Lavandula augustifolia , rosemary Rosmarinus officinalis , sweet flag Acorus calamus , and pasque flower Anemone Pulsatilla.
Avoid all sugar natural and processed, avoid soft drinks, and avoid fried foods, margarines, and caffeine. Take all 90 essential nutrients as a daily supplement to ensure that there are no nutritional deficiencies. FERTILITY problems that are not related to physical blockage of egg or sperm transport systems are usually the result of some form of malnutrition, either overt i.
One also must be sure that the woman is cycling and ovulating properly i. Infertility usually means that the condition can be reversed whereas sterility usually means permanent nonreversible conditions. Do hair analysis and pulse test. My oldest daughter and her husband had desperately been trying to have a child for 12 years and tried all the in vitro techniques with no results. In just three months she was pregnant! It is amazing what a little nutrition will do.
Treatment of this form of infertility includes the base line nutritional supplement. Pay special attention to selenium deficiency in male infertility, betaine HC1 and pancreatic enzymes at mg t. FEVER or elevated temperature normal is Many enzymes, antibodies, and cell WBCs responses are more efficient in slightly elevated temperatures.
Elevated temperature during the day is not bad per se but should be reduced at night to allow comfortable sleep. Treatment of fever can include a number of commercial products including aspirin, Tylenol, Nuprin, etc. Ice packs on the forehead, running cool water over the wrists, cool baths, and herbs to include feverfew Chrysanthemum parthenium , meadow-sweet Filipendula ulmaria , sea buckthorn Hippophae rhamnoides , European holly Ilex aquifolium , white willow Salix alba , mugwort Artemisia vulgaris , and cinchona bark Cinchona succirubra can be used.
Obviously, all of the above are symptomatic treatments. The basic disease process i. There are no agreed upon nutritional preventions or nutritional deficiencies that cause uterine fibroids. Looking at the tissue, however, there are certain similarities between fibroid tissue and the early changes of arteriosclerosis in the walls of muscular arteries and fibrocystic breast disease, giving some clues as to best approach uterine fibroids naturally.
We know that eliminating caffiene and the supplementation of vitamin E and selenium enhance the healing process of fibrocystic breast disease. Treatment of uterine fibroids should include avoidance of fried foods, margarine, and caffiene, as well as supplementation with all 90 essential nutrients.
Crank up the magnesium level to 1, mg per day, vitamin E level to 2, i. If satisfactory results are not achieved in four to six months, one can consider the use of Luperon posterior pituitary hormone sold originally to dry up milk supply.
The fibroids will shrink sufficiently to remove them with endoscopic surgery without the need for a hysterectomy. The side effects of Luperon treatment include temporary induced menopause that reverses after withdrawal of the drug.
Cysts may vary in size from pea size to grapes and occasionally larger. Prevention and treatment are the same course of action.
Treatment of fibrocystic breast disease includes avoiding methyl xanthines i. It is a multiple deficiency disease caused by a high intake of fried foods and vegetable oils margarine, cooking oils, and salad dressing and deficiencies of selenium, vitamin E, and sulfur amino acids methionine, mysteine, cystene. Use Dr. Bluish fingernails indicate chronic lung conditions i.
Treatment of fingernail problems should include collagen Willamette Valley which is percent Kosher beef, diabetic Jello, or Knox gelatin— this is especially important for those who have been vegetarians for any length of time , essential fatty acids at 5 gm t. FITS see epilepsy can be caused by a variety of problems including epilepsy, high fever in children, low fat low cholesterol diets and certain poisons.
See epilepsy. Keep the telephone number taped on your telephone, especially if you have small children. In addition to the medications indicated for epilepsy, you may consider mullein tea Verbascum thapsus. Do the pulse test to see if any allergies are present that might cause celiac changes in the small intestine. Treatment of flatulence includes digestive enzymes at mg t.
FLU influenza, grip is a potentially fatal viral disease. Infants and elder citizens are susceptible to the most serious complications if they are poorly nourished, immune compromised, or have a serious respiratory ailment i. Flu typically occurs as a winter epidemic. Vaccination is very questionable for several reasons: 1 there are numerous strains and serotypes of flu virus perhaps thousands! Treatment for the flu includes antiviral agents such as Ribavirin at tablets q.
You will also want to include some protection against secondary bacterial pneumonia i. Staphylococcus or Pneumococcus such as echinacea Echinacea angustifolia or golden seal Hydrastis canadensis. Individuals with low immune status or severe respiratory disease may choose to take antibiotics rather than a pneumococcus vaccine which is usually used on seniors at risk for pneumonia.
Fluids i. The reason is that the celiac disease type changes they cause in your intestines will prevent the absorption of essential nutrients that are required to keep your immune system, as well as your various organs, maintained, repaired, and in tip top working order. Many of the maladies caused by food allergies are not a direct cause but rather an indirect cause by cutting off the flow of essential raw materials necessary for your body to repair itself. A list of symptoms of food allergies would perhaps fill ten pages of this book.
Suffice it to be said that if you have any chronic disease i. Incompletely digested proteins polypeptides getting into your blood stream cause food allergies. This happens to the fetus through the placenta i. The diagnosis and identification of specific food allergens takes quite a bit of work on your part to identify, but it is worth the effort as it will add years to your life and make an enormous improvement in your quality of life.
The easiest way to identify food allergies in yourself is the Coca Pulse Test. To perform this test, you learn your base pulse rate, then eat a single food i. An elevation in pulse rate of more than ten beats over the baseline pulse is an indicator that you are allergic to that food.
You must be serious and aggressive at this project because it takes time and effort. A second method of allergy diagnosis can be used in conjunction with the pulse test is the diet diary. This diary is especially useful when emotional symptoms and headache are associated with food allergies.
First, you eat a single food as you do with the pulse test noting the time on a pad of paper. The symptom will appear within minutes to a few hours of ingesting the offending food this includes hyperactivity and dyslexia.
Do a six-hour GTT as almost everyone with food allergies has hypoglycemia because the celiac changes in the intestine prevent the efficient absorption of chromium and vanadium. Treatment of food allergies includes religious use of the base line nutritional supplements be sure to use hypoallergenic supplements— no corn, wheat, soy, egg, or milk. Avoid vaccinations that have egg, blood, or beef origins.
It takes up to 90 days to repair the intestinal injury. IV hydrogen peroxide speeds up the healing process. Diagnosis of a fracture can be made by seeing a digit or limb at an abnormal angle, noticing severe pain at a specific place on the bone, and use a vibrating tuning fork to touch the suspected fracture site because the vibrations will be painful if there is a fracture present. X-rays in an emergency room may be warranted to differentiate between a fracture and a sprain or strain.
The use of the base line nutritional supplements Dr. The use of comfrey Symphytum officinale orally and over the injury site will speed healing of fractures as well as reduce pain and swelling. Freckles may be prevented or reduced by the religious use of sunscreens by fair skinned people.
Gallstones are composed of almost percent cholesterol and fat when they first form. On rare occaisions they become calcified after the passage of time. Prevention of gallbladder problems includes the faithful use of all 90 essential nutrients to assure optimal liver nutrition, glycyrrhizin an extract of the licorice plant, Glycyrrhyza glabra , and the base line nutritional supplement including 5 gm of EFA t.
Fried eggs are known to precipitate 93 percent of all gallbladder attacks, followed closely by fried onions, fried potatoes, and pork. Treatment of gallbladder disease and gallstones includes the use of high fiber diets i. Herbs to use include acrimony Agrimonia eupatoria , blessed thistle Cnicus benedictus , vumitory Fumaria officinalis , horehound Marrubium vulgare , licorice Glycyrrhiza glabra , peppermint Mentha piperita , wormwood Artemisia absinthium , artichoke Cynara scolymus , sweet coltsfoot Petasites hybridus , celandine Chelidonium majus , chicory Cichorium intybus , and dandelion Taraxacum officinale.
Geographic tongue is recognized by irregular denuded areas on the top surface and sides of the tongue. Do a series of pulse tests to determine what foods you may be allergic to. Geographic tongue is not painful, and taste may or may not be affected. Treatment of geographic tongue includes avoidance of any offending food allergens, zinc at 15 mg t. Gingivitis is totally preventable with proper nutrition and can very frequently be reversed with nutrition. The alveolar bone is very thin and fragile so minute losses in bone density are reflected more severely in the face and jaw than, in say, the femur thigh bone.
The truth would get rid of an entire specialty of dentist periodontists , so it is kept in the dental research literature. Complete dog and cat rations have been formulated to prevent this malady.
Again, the veterinary profession is treating their patients better than their human counterparts! Treatment of gingivitis includes the correction of the calcium-phosphorus ratio in the diet consider gingivitis and periodontitis as an osteoporosis of the face and jaw. Take calcium at 2, mg and magnesium at 1, mg t. Plant derived colloidal minerals make this aspect of prevention and treatment easy. This heavy supplementation of calcium will not cause kidney stones kidney stones are the result of raging osteoporosis.
Rinse the mouth with hydrogen peroxide tooth gel and mouth wash, take vitamin C to bowel tolerance, and colloidal silver and herbs may be used for mouthwash to relieve inflammation and pain. GLAUCOMA is caused by an increased pressure in the eye itself which causes a change in shape, obstructing the normal flow of fluid from the eye.
Food allergies are among the most common causes of increases in eye pressure. Do the pulse test to determine if you are allergic to any foods. Another common cause of increased eye pressure is muscular dystrophy or fibromyalgia of the eye muscles. You must do pulse testing and eliminate foods you are sensitive to, betaine HC1 at mg t. Nitrates are goiterogenic stimulate goiter formation ; they are found in luncheon meats, hot dogs, sausages, and a variety of prepared meat products.
Another source of goiterogens is the nitrates in fertilizers, which gets into well water. If you get your water from a farm well, have it tested for nitrates because they are carcinogenic as well as goiterogenic.
Cabbage, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts are also goiterogenic. Goiter is easy to diagnosis because the nutrient deficient thyroid gland enlarges times its normal size; it is located just below the larynx in the front of the neck.
Kelp is a good natural source of iodine. GOUT gouty arthritis is caused by deposits of uric acid crystals in the joints and surrounding tissues. These joints, classically the great toe of each foot, are very tender and may become deformed in chronic or long-standing cases.
Kidney disease and uric acid kidney stones may develop in chronic untreated cases. Treatment for gout should include an avoidance of alcohol, organ meats, seafood, lentils, beans, peas, and fructose sources. Growing pains are totally unnecessary and are red flags for one or more nutritional deficiencies. Prevention of growing pains includes the base line nutritional supplement rich in calcium, magnesium, selenium, vitamin E, and vitamin C including Dr.
Treatment of growing pains includes calcium and magnesium at 2, mg and 1, mg per day, selenium at meg b. GUMS bleeding, sore, pyorrhea see gingivitis. You may also wish to rinse mouth with colloidal silver or a tea from the root of the white pond lily Nymphae odorata. Treatment of hangnails includes flaxseed oil at 5 gm t. You may also wish to put vitamin E oil or aloe vera directly on the hangnail to soften it and reduce the probability of further tearing or infection.
Symptoms include headache, red itchy eyes, nasal congestion, and asthma. Treatment of hay fever includes autoimmune urine therapy after the first attack each year, commercial antihistamine products i. Allerest, Contac, etc. The faithful supplementation of all 90 essential nutrients including plant derived colloidal minerals often times will reduce or even eliminate clinical symptoms.
Food allergies the primary cause of migraines and hypoglycemia are major causes of headaches. Sinus headaches are often caused by allergies to pollens and milk products. Headaches can also be cyclic in PMS. Do a complete series of pulse tests and a six-hour GTT. Treatment for headaches comes in the form of a wide variety of commercial products i.
Avoid offending foods including all sources of caffeine. Use autoimmune urine therapy, vitamin C to bowel tolerance, B3 at mg time release q. Avoid simple carbohydrates, use proteins and amino acids for snacks. Herbs including feverfew Tanacetum parthenium , fleabane Erigeron canadense , balm Melissa officinalis , cowslip Primula veris , lavender Lavandula angustifolia , queen-of-the-meadow Filipendula ulmaria , valarian Valeriana officinalis , and white willow Salix alba can be helpful.
I used to have an office down the hall from a hearing aid retailer—this fellow was so honest, he would always send his clients down the hall so I could clean their ears before he would examine them for hearing loss and fit them for hearing aids; we saw many a miracle of hearing return!!!. Do a pulse test for milk allergies another common cause of deafness in kids.
Prevention is the name of the game when it comes to heart disease. Good nutrition means moderation in all things with no fried foods. The base line nutritional supplements are a must. Pay special attention to EFA, avoid as much of the polyunsaturated fatty acids as you can other than the essentials— i. Exercise in moderation i. Keep a minute oxygen tank in your house a two-hour supply if you live in a rural area , learn CPR, have nitroglycerin capsules or transdermal nitroglycerin patches on hand, obtain an IV infusion set and severed ml bottles of lactated ringers to set up an IV should a heart attack occur.
Be aggressive. Take two ounces of an oxygen supplement in the morning when you awake and two ounces before retiring. Take betaine HC1 and pancreatic enzymes at mg t. Remember 40 percent of all patients are in the hospital because of iatrogenic disease doctor mistakes in medication or surgery. Stress, salt restricted diets, and aging cause a decrease in stomach acid production which allows bacteria to grow in the stomach.
Prevention includes eating small meals, no fried foods, and drinking eight glasses of water each day to prevent constipation. Treatment should include betaine HC1 and pancreatic enzymes at mg t. Rolaids may be helpful. Herbs to try including peppermint Mentha piperita and angelica Angelica archangelica.
The cause of hemorrhoids is primarily a copper deficiency a breakdown of elastic fibers in veins , low fiber diets, the resulting constipation, and lack of exercise. The increased pressure needed to force out a constipated bowel movement causes ballooning of the hemorrhoidal veins. Bright red blood on the toilet paper after a bowel movement is usually from an irritated hemorrhoid.
Prevention includes high supplementation with all 90 essential nutrients, eight to 10 glasses of water each day, high fiber diets, and exercise. Treatment of hemorrhoids includes high fiber diets you may need to add oat bran at two heaping tbsp. Preparation H, etc. In daily use hepatitis refers to any of three viruses that attack the liver: 1 Hepatitis A is transmitted by fecal-oral contamination i.
In China, where there is an endemic hepatitis rate of 10 percent that is million cases a year! Prevention of hepatitis is fairly simple—follow good personal hygiene, wash your hands after using the toilet, and wash your hands before cooking and eating. By not washing their hands between patients, doctors and nurses cause two million infections each year in hospitals alone.
Follow the above simple rules and you will reduce your risk of contracting hepatitis by 97 percent. Diagnosis of hepatitis is difficult in the early stages but easy after a week or so. Loss of appetite, prostration, nausea and vomiting, and fever are the early flu-like signs; after days the urine will turn dark and jaundice yellow eyes and skin will appear.
The patient feels better at this point. Treatment of hepatitis includes bed rest and plenty of fluids including chicken soup. Avoid sugar, fat, margarine, and fried foods, and avoid alcohol.
This disease never goes away completely once infected, always infected. The best you can hope for is long term remission. Herpes lesions itch at the early stages and can be very painful and disfiguring. These viruses are transmitted by kissing and sexual contact.
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