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How Natural Treatment Method Can Complement Conventional

March 4th, 2010

My Health

Though the advancements in medical science have brought us breakthroughs that have solved many problems in medicine including that if treating various illnesses, there are still those who continue and advocate the practice of alternative medicine and natural healing. It involves primarily methods of healing similar to those early days as compared to treatments done in conventional medicines such as administering synthetic drugs and performing surgical operations.

Common natural treatment methods would include the use of botanical extracts from herbal plants, naturopathy healing methods such as acupuncture, aromatherapy, nutrition, physical natural treatments, meditation, massage, relaxation and a lot more as long as they deviate almost totally from the practice of conventional medicine.

Among the most commonly practiced natural treatment methods are the following: homeopathy, herbal remedies, aromatherapy, acupuncture, diet and nutrition and spiritual wellness methods.

Homeopathy also known as homeopathic medicine is a natural treatment method anchored on the philosophy that we can stimulate the bodys intrinsic ability to heal itself by administering very small doses of highly dilutes substances that in bigger doses will produce illness or symptoms. This is called like cures like healing method. Developed in the 1700s in Germany, this natural treatment method has been practiced in the US since the early 19th century.

Herbal remedies are of course the most commonly used natural treatment methods. Since time immemorial, botanical extracts have been used by ancient civilizations to treat various diseases and even modern medicine has recognized it and a lot of medical practitioners now incorporate with conventional medicines the use of drugs that were manufactured using extracts from herbal plant sources. Aromatherapy is another alternative treatment method that utilizes the scent of liquid plant materials known as essential oils and other aromatic elements from plants used for the purpose of affecting ones moods and health through the healing aroma or scent.

Chinese and Oriental medical practice uses primarily the natural healing method of acupuncture. This is a natural healing method whose technique uses the inserting of fine needles to some specific points in the body referred to as qi or chi, which according to ancient Chinese medicine, is where the vital energy of the body flows. Nutrition is also used as natural method of treatment through which diet and the proper food intake play a vital role in maintaining our bodys physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Examples would be foods that are sometimes touted as brain foods such as those that are protein-rich. There are also those that are mood-altering foods and are thus recommended to fight the disabling effects of diseases. The adage An apple a day keeps the doctor away best describes the role of proper nutrition in natural healing.

Other famous natural treatment methods that stem from ancient and traditional spiritual practices where the mind is used and is made to go through a relaxed state sometimes coupled with massage and aromatherapy believed to soothe and take away stress are meditation, hypnosis, and self-awareness practices.

Because most of these natural treatment methods are far from totally declared effective through scientifically proven efficacy, most medical practitioners would recommend that they be used alongside conventional medical methods as assisted by medical professionals. Medical science either has not discovered all treatments and solutions to diseases and even before its advent, ancient medicine has already relied from the most available solutions that nature can offer and how the body can naturally heal and maintain itself.

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How Conventional ‘Wisdom’ Prevents You From Curing Your Acne

February 9th, 2010

My Health

Do a Google search for ‘acne myths’ and you’ll see what I mean. You’ll end up with an almost endless list of articles about acne myths – all parroting the same old things. Let’s take a fresh look at some of these acne myths and how the ‘conventional wisdom’ may have prevented you from curing your acne

The so called acne myth 1: Acne is caused by diet

This is one of the most common ones. Internet seems to be full of ‘experts’ quoting studies from the 60s saying that no scientific link has been established between diet and acne. That’s true, but it’s also equally true that it’s nearly impossible to study such a link.

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Consider the following quotes by different doctors: (Dermatology Times – 5/1/2003)

“There are still a lot of people around who claim that if they eat a lot of chocolate, they break out worse. I don’t know that there are any good, scientifically controlled studies.” -Lee J. Vesper, M.D

“Teen diets vary so widely, you have to have a very controlled study, and how can you do that with teens? You can’t trust teenage boys. There’s no way you can dictate a diet for any length of time that would have an impact on the skin.” -David M. Spencer, M.D.

“A number of years ago, there was a study that said chocolate was not a factor in acne. That was funded by the Hershey Corporation. Some studies had college students eat a certain diet, and offered compensation for that, but they were never really hard, double-blind studies because, how do you do that with food?” -Dennis D. Knutson, M.D.

“I do think the issue needs to be re-looked at, because there have never been very good studies.” -on the subject of diet and acne, Dennis D. Knutson, M.D.

And that’s just from one issue of one magazine!

The truth of the matter is that there are no scientifically valid studies to prove a point in either direction. Just use your common sense.

Ok, what’s your average Western diet compromised of? Potatoes, bread (mostly wheat), meat, milk and other dairy products, sugars and fats.

Now, what do all those things have in common? They are hard to digest and take long time to digest and/or don’t digest properly. They sit long time in your stomach giving all the millions of bacteria there time to putrefy them. When something putrefies in your stomach you know it’s not good. You can smell it once the stuff comes out.

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Point being, that all those foods create a lots of toxic or acidic waste during metabolism that needs to be eliminated. Your liver is your primary organ for doing that, along with colon and kidneys. However, those organs have only a finite capacity for handling that stuff.

What happens when they reach that capacity? Your body pushes all those toxins out through secondary channels (your skin and lungs, for example).

Now, guess in what kind of environment all that ‘bad’, pimple producing bacteria thrive? Yes, they like acidic/toxic environment. And you just discovered that your body is doing a hell-of-a-job in providing your skin just that.

Could this contribute to acne?

The so-called acne myths 2 & 3: Stress, sex/masturbation causes acne

Let’s deal those together since the mechanisms are basically same.

Levels of certain hormones affect your sex drive. Having sex causes your body to release hormones. Your body responds to stress by releasing hormones. Simple, we all know this.

Once those hormones have served their purpose your body needs to process them to less active stuff and expel them. You probably guessed already that your liver is responsible for processing most of the hormones.

Now your liver is probably already fully booked with all the stuff that you eat. So it needs to push some of the toxics, that it would have otherwise processed, out through your skin to deal with the extra load.

Those hormones alone are probably not enough to cause acne. Combine them with a bad diet (which 90% of the Western population has) and they can make things worse.

The so-called acne myth 4: There is no cure for acne

If you keep on with the life style that caused acne then this acne myth is true. Acne is an effect not a cause. As long as you maintain the cause (overload of toxins/acids) nothing will permanently remove the effect (acne). Clean up your system and acne will be gone all by itself.

Don’t let your hopes down because of some ‘debunkers’ whose only intention is to continue selling you ineffective acne products that will never cure your acne.

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Conventional and Alternative Cancer Treatment

January 18th, 2010

My Health

Cancer is a widely known disease and its treatment has been known to be very expensive. Cancer can affect any person at any age and the risk of getting cancer increases with age. According to statistics obtained from the world health organization for 2006, about 13% of human deaths worldwide is caused by cancer. Most cancers can be treated or cured depending on the diagnosis, the type, location, and stage of the cancer.

In the Philippines, the conventional method of treating cancer is through surgical procedure with a gamma knife. This method is a form of radiation therapy since the gamma knife is a radio-surgical tool that uses ionizing radiation to kill cancer cells. Radiation therapy is known to destroy the cells in the targeted area by damaging their genetic material. It would make it impossible for these cells to continue to divide and grow. While the normal cells are also damaged with the cancer cells, the normal cells can recover from the effects of the radiation and function properly again.

The Leksell gamma knife, which was invented by a Swedish neurosurgeon in 1967, is being used to treat brain tumors and other various diseases in the brain by using radiation therapy. The gamma knife is also being used as an alternative treatment to tumors as well as brain tumor, vascular malformation, Trigeminal Neuralgia, and other conditions of the brain that used to be treated with open surgery in the past.

One of the other alternative treatments being used to treat cancer is Enzyme – Immune – Cell (EIC) therapy. This method uses a combination of 18 metabolic and integrative medicine modalities that provide a powerful and non-toxic cancer therapy. Medical tourism centers can provide information on EIC therapy centers. EIC therapy centers in the Philippines have a critical part in the care for cancer patients in the Philippines. EIC therapy center provide immunotherapy, hormone therapy, tests and other services.

In selecting the treatment, it depends on the type, location and stage of the cancer that can be found out through diagnosis. Once the diagnosis is done, the patient is selected with the possible methods in treating the cancer. In choosing the best possible facility for the cancer treatment, contact medical tourism centers like Wellness and Health Services Asia Inc (WAHSA). WAHSA can guide you to affordable health services with their experienced chaperones.

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Organic Yields Are Better Than Conventional, Including GM Crops

November 27th, 2009

My Health

There are many claims being bruited about that organic farming yields can never produce enough to meet the food demands of the growing global population. This is a myth.

At the turn of the century, a New Scientist editorial declared that organic farming methods, using natural fertilisers and natural means of pest control, were increasing harvests from poor farms worldwide by at least 1.7 times more than the original yields using conventional methods.

University of Essex professor Jules Pretty says there is ample evidence gathered from 20 countries that more than 4 million hectares are being farmed through organic techniques and produce enough food for at least 2 million families.

In Kenya, for example, AusAID has helped the poor Makuyu community produce organically grown maize at yields that are 1.6 times higher than maize crops grown in comparable farms with chemical nutrients. Where food production was never enough before when they were using chemical fertilisers, they can now produce a surplus which they sell and the profits ploughed back. Professor Pretty has more examples of farmers in Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and other countries experiencing yield increases when they shifted from using synthetic chemicals to organic farming techniques.

But, it may be argued, this experience comes only from impoverished communities and small farms. Does it hold true for the large-scale farms of the developed world?

In fact, it does. Wheat organically grown with manure in the UK has produced higher harvests year after year than wheat conventionally grown with chemical fertilisers, writes Professor George Monbiot in the Guardian. In a Washington State University comparative analysis of conventional, integrated and organic farming systems utilised in apple production, the researchers found that organic systems produced equivalent yields to the other systems. The big difference was in the period needed to reach break-even point on investments in the farm: organic farming system had a break-even point of nine years, while conventional farming had 15 years and integrated farming had 16 years. Organic farming also had better impact on the environment than the other systems.

In trials conducted by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, researchers found that organically grown wheat had a yield of 3.23 tonnes per hectare while conventional wheat had only 2.22 tonnes.

In a separate study involving large farms in seven industrialised countries, Professor Pretty found that when a farm switches from conventional to organic farming, yields initially go down by around 10-15 per cent but these soon increase and continue rising. He observed that in the United States, the top 25 per cent of organic farms produce consistently higher yields than comparable conventional farms and yet have much better environmental outcomes.

What about genetically modified (GM) crops? The performance of organic farming practices is superior even compared to GM crops. A study on GM crops in Europe by London’s Institute of Science in Society observed so much variation in crop results that the inescapable conclusion was GM crops could not really be relied upon to produce stable yields. In Argentina, which is among the top three GM-crop producers, the focus on GM crops resulted instead in soaring foreign debt partly due to dependence on imported agricultural inputs required to support the crops.

There is much evidence that organic farming practices produce higher — and more sustainable — yields than crops grown with chemical fertilisers or from GM seeds. Many experts now believe the only way to feed the increasing population is through sustainable, organic agriculture.

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Helen M. Disler
Farming Secrets
http://www.farmingsecrets.com/
Email: info@farmingsecrets.com

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Organic Farming versus Conventional Farming System

November 24th, 2009

My Health

If you are one of the 81% of farmers still farming conventionally and using chemicals and synthetic fertilizers it is completely understandable.

Why?

Because for decades that’s what has been advocated to the farmer by the industry.

There is so much “proof” – research, trial work, field trials, scientists advocating the merits of conventional farming and you are constantly given proof that you can’t farm profitably without these commercial aids.

Just pick up most farm journals and papers and you’ll find there are reports and editorials which continually reinforce the use of conventional farming products and practices as the only viable way to farm. Sometimes there are reports tossed in to discredit natural farming as being uncommercial and unrealistic. We are told time and time again that conventional industrial farming is the only way we can feed the growing world’s population. Organic farming has lower yields, is more expensive and there is no extra nutritional benefit in the food produced.

At Farming Secrets we completely understand the disbelief that you may have that you can farm without chemicals and synthetic fertilizers and natural biological farming is not viable.

It’s not your fault. It is very hard to give up the trust you have had or still have got in the conventional system and no doubt you have much support in following the system.

However there is a better way for healthier and more profitable farming. “Farming Secrets Club” members are encouraged to:

Trust your eyes. See for yourself.

Trust what other farmers who have made a change have done.

Trial some aspects yourself.

Listen to the new breed of professionals who have witnessed the fantastic turn around farmers have achieved and are achieving. There is a better way to farm and you can see the proof for yourself every month as we take you on our “Walk the Talk” video of these farmers. Also you can view the results for yourself from the Farming Secrets library of DVDs and CDs. Hear from experts like

Dr Elaine Ingham

Dr Maarten Stapper

Dr Arden Andersen

Jerry Brunetti

These are no pseudo agricultural theorists. They are all scientific experts who have looked at the conventional system and have been provoked to look further. They understand the importance of allowing and assisting Mother Nature to provide a healthy balance and now work with real, small to large scale farmers to get outstanding, profitable results naturally.

Tell me what you would sooner do? Spend hours upon hours, dollars after dollars, year after year spraying, drenching and using deadly toxic products that keep going up in price? It’s awfully costly and time consuming and worst of all damaging to you, your precious soil and to animal health.

Or do you choose to take time to understand once and for all how to reduce, or better still, never have to use so called essential chemicals and synthetic fertilizers again?

For More Info:

Helen M. Disler
Farming Secrets
http://www.farmingsecrets.com/
Email: info@farmingsecrets.com