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CHICKEN AS A STYPTIC

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:34:52 +0000

The doctor, who had formerly been a country practitioner for many years and had often obtained valuable information from his patients, did not ignore such words but asked, ‘Well, what would you say was good for stopping bleeding?’

‘Chicken would help, Doc, but it must be put on absolutely fresh and warm,’ replied the peasant, and the conversation ended there.

However, the doctor did obtain a chicken before the operation, although perhaps more out of curiosity as to what would happen if he actually used it. After collodion treatment and everything else had failed to stop the bleeding, as a last resort, he cut a piece from the chicken and laid it while still warm on the patient’s small incision, which was still bleeding. As if by magic, before the unbelieving eyes of the other doctors, the bleeding stopped.

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VARIOUS DIETS AND TREATMENTS – PAPAIN – ITS ORIGIN AND USES (PAPAYASAN)

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:28:38 +0000

Papayasan contains papain in combination with the ingredients of the whole plant. It can therefore act in the same way as the whole plant provided by nature and taking it is the equivalent of eating the unripe fruit with its rich papain content.

Every doctor, nature practitioner and pharmacist, as well as every caring mother, will no doubt be glad to know that there is at last a worm medicine that is absolutely safe. According to the third edition of Professor Eichholz’s Pharmakologie (Pharmacology), even experts regard the usual worm medicines as risky and far from harmless, for he writes: ‘The toxicity of all anthelmintic medicines should prompt the prescriber to consider whether it is preferable to tolerate the presence of parasites, rather than to take the risk of poisoning the patient.’ If this is of concern to pharmacologists and pharmacists, how much more should it make the patient think. However, with a papaya preparation no one need fear, for it is beneficial to the digestion, assisting in the assimilation of proteins, and is absolutely harmless – even for pregnant women and people with weak constitutions.

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VARIOUS DIETS AND TREATMENTS – SEA-BATHING (ONE OTHER RULE)

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:22:44 +0000

And there is one other rule you must observe: go to bed early during your stay by the sea. That means that you must cut out any kind of night life and remember instead that the early morning hours are the best. In fact, after an early and restful night it is easier to wake up, then go for a walk along the beach, feeling fully refreshed and fit. Remember, early to bed and early to rise, makes a man (and woman) healthy and gloriously hungry for breakfast! What better ingredients could you have for this meal than a delicious fruit muesli, wholegrain or wholewheat (wholemeal) bread with honey, and fruit-cereal coffee (Bambu Coffee Substitute)]

If you are able to organise your days by the sea properly, you can expect to benefit as much from them as you would from a holiday in the mountains. If we provide the body with all its needs, we will reap the desired health benefits irrespective of where we spend our holidays. However, just lazing around in the sun and heat is of no benefit anywhere. Instead, move around and exercise in the unpolluted air, breathe deeply and get plenty of rest during the night. If you eat healthy natural food at the same time, you will return to your duties after the holiday feeling rested, refreshed and optimistic.

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SEASONINGS – CULINARY HERBS ARE MEDICINES – LEMON BALM

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:16:23 +0000

Lemon balm is often grown in kitchen gardens, its pleasant aroma not only attracting humans but also bees which feed on its nectar. It makes a fine tea, and if your nerves are frayed and need calming, a cup at bedtime, sweetened with honey for an even better effect, will help you sleep since it is mildly soporific. Many women like to drink the tea because it is good for menstrual problems and cramps. In days gone by, balm tea was recommended for tobacco poisoning. And in the seventeenth century the Carmelite monks in Paris prepared an excellent ‘balm spirit’ that soon became famous. The ingredients were lemon balm, betony leaves, lemon peel, a little coriander, cloves and cinnamon.

Although you may know lemon balm mainly for its use as a tea, it can also be added to food for flavouring. It may also be true that few people know of another application of balm; the fresh leaves can be crushed and gently rubbed on bee or wasp stings. This has a soothing and healing effect, similar to that obtained by applying crushed ivy leaves.

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WILD FRUITS AND BERRIES – JUNIPER BERRIES (FRUCTUS JUNIPERI) – IRRITATING THE KIDNEYS

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:08:31 +0000

Be careful how you use them, however; too much may irritate the kidneys, and this is easily done if you take the juice or extract. If someone suffers from nephritis or similar kidney conditions, he should take juniper only in homoeopathic doses, Juniperus communis Ix or 2x.

For cases of asthma, and particularly the excessive mucous catarrh that may result from the disease, juniper extract is most beneficial and its use should be alternated with that of barberries and rowan berries.

Oedematous conditions (excessive accumulation of fluid in the body) and acute inflammation of the bladder (cystitis) will respond to juniper in the form of an infusion, essence or extract.

Eat juniper berries every morning before breakfast, one berry the first day, two the second day, and so forth until you reach twenty and then go back, reducing the amount day by day to just one. This is very good for stimulating the appetite and strengthening the stomach and will benefit the glands.

Moreover, if you tie some juniper needles in a muslin bag, and place this under the hot tap when you run a bath, you will have a good remedy for rheumatism and gout.

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