THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP: NIGHTMARE TRIGGERS

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Nightmares are often triggered by stress and trauma. For example, studies focusing on combat veterans, victims of accidents or disasters, and Holocaust survivors find a high incidence of disturbed dreams, which are directly linked to the subjects’ past experiences. Such dreams can persist for decades after the actual event; the severity of their impact is directly related to the time that has passed since the trauma occurred. In one such study victims of a disaster at sea were found to relive the crisis on an almost nightly basis. Their REM periods were fragmented and interrupted; during their dreams of the disaster, they would cry out in fear and move about so violently that they sometimes fell out of bed. A man who had survived the Holocaust at the age of six continued to experience the same nightmare of persecution several times a night, during both REM and NREM sleep, nearly forty years after the event. When monitored by the EEG, long-term sufferers of nightmares are found to have shorter REM sleeps and longer REM latency than other people. Interestingly, the ability to recall our nightmares diminishes with the passage of time; perhaps such amnesia is the brain’s way of trying to minimize the damage or to compensate in some way for causing disturbed sleep.
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THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP: NIGHTMARE TRIGGERSNightmares are often triggered by stress and trauma. For example, studies focusing on combat veterans, victims of accidents or disasters, and Holocaust survivors find a high incidence of disturbed dreams, which are directly linked to the subjects’ past experiences. Such dreams can persist for decades after the actual event; the severity of their impact is directly related to the time that has passed since the trauma occurred. In one such study victims of a disaster at sea were found to relive the crisis on an almost nightly basis. Their REM periods were fragmented and interrupted; during their dreams of the disaster, they would cry out in fear and move about so violently that they sometimes fell out of bed. A man who had survived the Holocaust at the age of six continued to experience the same nightmare of persecution several times a night, during both REM and NREM sleep, nearly forty years after the event. When monitored by the EEG, long-term sufferers of nightmares are found to have shorter REM sleeps and longer REM latency than other people. Interestingly, the ability to recall our nightmares diminishes with the passage of time; perhaps such amnesia is the brain’s way of trying to minimize the damage or to compensate in some way for causing disturbed sleep.*301\226\8*

　　　　

CAUSES OF ALLERGIC RHINITIS: MYTHS ABOUT ALLERGY TO CATS AND DOGS

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The First Myth: “I’m Not Allergic to My Dog, But I Can’t Get Near My Neighbor’s Dog.” This is a comment usually made by people whose dog lives inside, and in close relationship with them. The observation is partially true: such a person may not notice that her symptoms are triggered by her dog. However, the fact that she does not notice them doesn’t mean that she isn’t allergic to her dog.
Dog-allergic people whose pets live indoors frequently have daily symptoms that wax and wane in severity. Such people either cannot identify anything specific that triggers symptoms, or they tend to perceive that “everything” causes symptoms. The truth is their symptoms have become a daily affair: They are exposed to dog allergen many hours out of each day because their dog lives indoors.
When this dog owner goes to her neighbor’s home, she becomes exposed to a different amount of dog allergen. If this exposure is more intense than what she gets from her own dog, she will experience a flare-up of symptoms. To her, it seems as if she is allergic to the neighbor’s dog and not her own, when, in truth, she is actually allergic to both her pet and her neighbor’s. The increased degree of exposure to dog allergen at her neighbor’s accounts for her increased symptoms while there.
The Second Myth: Short-Hair Dogs or Cats Cause Fewer Allergy Problems Than Their Long-Haired Counterparts. Remember this: Dogs is Dogs! Cats is Cats!
Also, in contrast to popular belief, dog and cat hair are far less important as causes of allergic symptoms than are shed skin cells and saliva. Therefore, don’t judge the allergy-causing ability of a dog or cat by the length of its hair.
The Final Myth: “I’m Allergic to Cocker Spaniels But Not to Labradors.” This statement implies that you can be allergic to one breed of dog, but not to another. This isn’t true, although it may seem to be. Be aware that some breeds of dog either shed more “doggy” allergen in their skin and saliva than do other breeds, or they simply shed a greater volume of skin cells and saliva. Either results in a greater exposure to allergen from one breed than another, and therefore, in more allergic symptoms. But doggy allergen is doggy allergen; it is not unique to any breed. If you hang around the breed you think you are not allergic to long enough, you will eventually expose yourself sufficiently to develop symptoms.
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CAUSES OF ALLERGIC RHINITIS: MYTHS ABOUT ALLERGY TO CATS AND DOGSThe First Myth: “I’m Not Allergic to My Dog, But I Can’t Get Near My Neighbor’s Dog.” This is a comment usually made by people whose dog lives inside, and in close relationship with them. The observation is partially true: such a person may not notice that her symptoms are triggered by her dog. However, the fact that she does not notice them doesn’t mean that she isn’t allergic to her dog.Dog-allergic people whose pets live indoors frequently have daily symptoms that wax and wane in severity. Such people either cannot identify anything specific that triggers symptoms, or they tend to perceive that “everything” causes symptoms. The truth is their symptoms have become a daily affair: They are exposed to dog allergen many hours out of each day because their dog lives indoors.When this dog owner goes to her neighbor’s home, she becomes exposed to a different amount of dog allergen. If this exposure is more intense than what she gets from her own dog, she will experience a flare-up of symptoms. To her, it seems as if she is allergic to the neighbor’s dog and not her own, when, in truth, she is actually allergic to both her pet and her neighbor’s. The increased degree of exposure to dog allergen at her neighbor’s accounts for her increased symptoms while there.
The Second Myth: Short-Hair Dogs or Cats Cause Fewer Allergy Problems Than Their Long-Haired Counterparts. Remember this: Dogs is Dogs! Cats is Cats!Also, in contrast to popular belief, dog and cat hair are far less important as causes of allergic symptoms than are shed skin cells and saliva. Therefore, don’t judge the allergy-causing ability of a dog or cat by the length of its hair.
The Final Myth: “I’m Allergic to Cocker Spaniels But Not to Labradors.” This statement implies that you can be allergic to one breed of dog, but not to another. This isn’t true, although it may seem to be. Be aware that some breeds of dog either shed more “doggy” allergen in their skin and saliva than do other breeds, or they simply shed a greater volume of skin cells and saliva. Either results in a greater exposure to allergen from one breed than another, and therefore, in more allergic symptoms. But doggy allergen is doggy allergen; it is not unique to any breed. If you hang around the breed you think you are not allergic to long enough, you will eventually expose yourself sufficiently to develop symptoms.*20/322/5*

　　　　

POLIOMYELITIS – TREATMENT 2

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October 6, 2010 · Posted in Herbal  

It is advisable to back up the treatment by means of natural remedies, such as Gelsemium 6x and Urticalcin, calcium always being valuable in such cases. Nux vomica 4x is helpful in counter­acting nausea. All these remedies contribute to improvement. As for the diet, fruit juices are indicated so as not to overburden the digestive organs. What is more, never lose sight of the necessity to rid the body of toxins, not only through heavy sweating, but also through the bowels and kidneys. Since this treatment has proved to be reliable and effective in practice, it should be tried first.

Polio epidemics occur periodically and regionally, although less so today than formerly. Hot and sultry weather seems to encourage the development of the virus, for the incidence of the disease is greater in summer than in winter. In tropical countries it continues all year round. Research specialists have found that a number of people, particularly children, although immune to the disease themselves, nevertheless are carriers of the polio virus. Among primitive peoples very few cases of polio are found and this would lead to the conclusion that the advantages and disadvantages of our civilisation are responsible for our predisposition to this disease and undermine our resistance to it. Our food and life-style, living in overheated houses, and so forth, no doubt play their part in our susceptibility.

So how can we protect ourselves from this dreadful affliction? In the same way that we should protect ourselves from all infectious diseases. The main requirement is a natural way of life. Healthy exercise is also important – and we should not become ‘soft’. Plenty of fresh air, light and sunshine should be our ‘companions’ whenever possible. Since it is now thought with reasonable cer­tainty that the polio virus attacks by way of the nose and mouth, do not neglect to paint your children’s throats with Molkosan when a threat of polio occurs in your locality. By doing so we can thus protect our children from infectious diseases and build up their resistance. However, should the infection have already taken place, remember the keynote to successful treatment: detoxify and eliminate – profuse sweating and elimination through the bowels and kidneys. This will help to avert the worst.
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POLIOMYELITIS – TREATMENT

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October 6, 2010 · Posted in Herbal  

Famous physiotherapists, with Sister Kenny in the forefront, have proved that a life can be saved if treatment is given without delay. It is the delay that enables the virus to destroy the nerve cells. Therefore, as soon as the first symptoms become apparent it is of the utmost importance that the patient be made to sweat. Use a steam cabinet, a steam bath, a sauna, a tub bath of gradually increasing temperature (Schlenz bath), or quite simply hot packs; whatever you choose the important thing is to produce copious perspiration – fast. By these means much harm can be avoided and paralysis may well be averted. If Sister Kenny’s treatment had been given, the boy mentioned previously might not have lost his life.

However conservative a doctor may be, he should not close his eyes to the good results obtained by new methods of treating polio. > The very first symptoms should galvanise us into action. They may suggest flu, with excessive tiredness, headaches, aching limbs, vomiting, lack of appetite, etc. Whether polio is diagnosed right away or not is of little importance. These symptoms are sufficient to warrant immediate treatment, the first of which is the above-mentioned inducement of perspiration. The effect will be beneficial even if it is happily discovered later that it was the flu and not polio.
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EFFECTIVENESS OF JUICE FASTING

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1.  During a prolonged fast (after the first three days), your body will live on its own substance. When it is deprived of needed nutrition, particularly of proteins and fats, it will burn and digest its own tissues by the process of autolysis, or self-digestion. But your body will not do it indiscriminately! In its wisdom – and here lies the secret of the extraordinary effectiveness of fasting as curative and rejuvenative therapy! – your body will first decompose and burn those cells and tissues which are diseased, damaged, aged or dead. In fasting, your body feeds itself on the most impure and inferior materials, such as dead cells and morbid accumulations, tumors, abscesses, fat deposits, etc. Dr. Otto Buchinger, M.D., perhaps the greatest fasting authority in the world, calls fasting – very pertinently – a “refuse disposal”, a “burning of rubbish.” The essential tissues and vital organs, the glands, the nervous system and the brain are not damaged or digested in fasting.
2.  During fasting, while the old cells and diseased tissues are decomposed and burned, the building of new, healthy cells is speeded up. This may seem unbelievable, since no nourishment, or only a limited amount of nourishment during a juice fast, is supplied. But this is nevertheless a physiological fact. During the famous Swedish fast marches, when first 11 and then 19 men walked from Gothenburg to Stockholm, a distance of over 325 miles, in 10 days while on a total fast, it was observed that the protein level of the blood (serum albumin reading) of the fasting people remained constant and normal {blood sugar levels also remained normal]) throughout the fasting period, in spite of the fact that no protein was consumed. The reason for this is that proteins in your body are in the so-called dynamic state, being constantly decomposed and resynthesized and re-used for various needs within the body. When old or diseased cells are decomposed, the amino acids are not wasted, but are released and used again in the process of new-building of young, vital cells.
3.  During a juice fast, the eliminative and cleansing capacity of the eliminative organs – lungs, liver, kidneys and the skin – is greatly increased, and masses of accumulated metabolic wastes and toxins are quickly expelled. For example, during fasting, the concentration of toxins in the urine can be ten times higher than normal. This is due to the fact that the alimentary canal, liver and kidney are relieved from the usual burden of digesting foods and eliminating the resultant wastes, and can concentrate on the cleansing of old accumulated wastes and toxins, such as uric acid, purines, etc., from the tissues. This eliminative process is evidenced by the following typical symptoms of fasting: offensive breath, dark urine, continuous and generous discharge from the colon with enema, skin eruptions, excessive perspiration, and catarrhal elimination of mucus.
4.  Fasting affords a physiological rest to the digestive, assimilative and protective organs. After fasting, the digestion of food and the utilization of nutrients is greatly improved, and sluggishness and further waste retention are prevented.
5.  Finally, the fast exerts a normalizing, stabilizing and rejuvenative effect on all the vital physiological, nervous and mental functions. The nervous system is rejuvenated; mental powers are improved; glandular chemistry and hormonal secretions are stimulated and increased; the biochemical and mineral balance of the tissues is normalized.
It is easy to see from the above why fasting is such an effective health-restoring and rejuvenative measure.
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FOOD SELECTION: CONSUMER CHALLENGES

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Many persons spend more money for food than for any other item. Today’s consumer faces great challenges in selecting food from the thousands of items available in any supermarket. Dietitians and nurses in their daily work and also in their neighborly contacts within their own communities are constantly asked about the comparative values of foods.
The tremendous rise in food costs in recent years means that the homemaker tries to be much more selective in her food marketing. She is anxious to know how one product compares with another not only in quantity per unit price but also in nutritive values. Many people are concerned about the additives in foods and want to know what protection they have that these additives are indeed safe and serve a useful purpose. Other individuals require modified diets. For example, someone who is allergic to wheat and eggs needs to be able to identify the products that are wheat-free and egg-free. Another person whose physician has prescribed a cholesterol-restricted fat-controlled diet is interested in the cholesterol and fat content of foods.
These and many other consumer problems are answered through knowledge of legislation that protects the quality of the food supply as well as the honesty of claims made for the product. The regulations for labeling will help consumers to make wise choices for nutritional values as well as ingredients. Finally, consumers need information concerning good choices within the several food groups.
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CHILD’S HEALTH/SKIN DISORDERS: PSORIASIS TREATMENT

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Treatment

No cure for psoriasis is yet available, but much can be done to improve the condition. If your child has a rash, it is advisable to see your doctor in any case, especially if there is a strong family history of psoriasis. Your doctor can advise you on the methods of treatment available, and may suggest referral to a paediatric skin specialist. The treatment will depend on the age of the child, and the severity of the disease.

A number of different ointments and creams, including cortisone creams and coal tar preparations, can be prescribed for psoriasis, and ultraviolet light (sunlight) may be beneficial.

When to see your doctor

See your doctor if your child has the symptoms described above.

Prevention

There is no way to prevent an initial attack of psoriasis.

Complications

Although complications are rare in children, adults with psoriasis sometimes suffer from an associated form of arthritis.

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CARING FOR YOUR BABY: WARMTH AND CLOTHING

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Newborn babies are particularly vulnerable to extremes of temperature. Their temperature mechanisms are not yet fully developed, so strict attention needs to be paid to their warmth and clothing. Keep the temperature of their room pleasant, but not hot (around 18-20°C). For winter outings cover your baby’s head with a woollen hat, hands with mittens and feet with warm socks or booties. When indoors remove this extra clothing to prevent overheating. In summer, do not overdress your baby, and choose loose fitting, light clothes. Cotton underclothes are the most comfortable for all weather, and should be changed every day.

Always choose clothing that washes easily, as you may be changing your baby’s outfit a few times each day at first, due to spills, messes and accidents!

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YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/GETTING FIXED UP SEXUALLY: THE SINGLE SIG

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Couples in the clinic program are asked to spend one weekend alone, away from the spouse, taking time to think about the relationship, their spouse, and their feelings about self in the context of the relationship. They are asked to be alone during the weekend or whatever two days are picked, and not to take friends along. If possible, they are asked to go to a place that the couple has visited together. This revisit seems to help in the contemplation and meditation about the meaning of the relationship.

A wife reported, “I hadn’t done that for a long time, really been alone. Even in college, I was always with someone. I felt like something was missing. It wasn’t like absence made the heart grow fonder, but that I seemed to see the relationship in a different way. It’s really something to be alone, not to call home, not to be a couple after being a couple for years.”

“I got kind of sad,” reported her husband. “On business trips, I am always with someone or busy or tired. I always call home.

This time, I went to the same fast-food store that we went to together in Toronto and I seemed to sense her absence strongly.”

Sometimes, marital therapists suggest formal or legal separation as a means of learning. I have never found this strategy effective and have seen partners learn only how to be even more distant from one another. The sexual sig I am suggesting here is not for separation, but for closeness, a chance to step back, just as one moves back to look into the partner’s eyes before an intimate kiss. This separation is not a test, but an opportunity to learn the impact of the partner when the partner is not physically close.

You might like to try “marital telepathy” during this single sig. Even though you don’t call, try sending messages. Set aside a mutually agreed-upon time of day and sit down for a few minutes. Try to send and receive, to sense and be sensed. Russell Targ and Keith Harary collected scientific research on such “sending,” and concluded, “Scientific evidence does strongly suggest that the ability to function psychically is a genuine human capacity which, for many people, seems to improve with practice.”

“I can tell you now,” said one husband, “I am convinced we are getting better at this sending thing. I lay there in bed and could almost hear her talking to me. When I got home, I asked if she sent a message, the names of our three children. Tell him what you said.”

“This is like the Twilight Zone, but, yes. I thought I would try it like you said. We picked the time and I sent the name of the three kids. He got them in the same order I sent them, which was not by age. It’s probably just coincidence, isn’t it? I mean, of course we would both think of the kids.”

Why would coincidence make it any less important?

Someone once said that a kiss is nature’s way of getting two people so close together they can’t see each other’s flaws. This sexual sig is an opportunity to be apart so that you may become even more aware of the bond that holds your marriage together.

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THE SEX PHASES OF COURTSHIP / RECEPTIVE PHASE: THE RECEPTION

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You don’t just say “Hey great, IVe been hoping you would ask me out.” It takes the challenge away, and without the challenge of the chase, there is no energy behind the whole thing. You still have to chase them until they catch you.

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Acknowledging that a bonding invitation has been sent to you is one of the riskiest steps in the bonding process. How can you trust your senses, even your own ears? Does he really mean it? Why would she be interested in me? Maybe he’s just being funny? Maybe she’s teasing? I’ll look like a fool if I take this seriously, but I hate to miss the chance just in case this is serious. All of these thoughts can occur almost simultaneously when a bonding invitation is perceived.

One of the thousands husbands recounted the following story. “She asked me up for a drink after the show. I have always had trouble with this ‘up for a drink’ thing. I sort of used to go into my ‘get ready for sex’ mode, but sometimes it just means up for a drink. It’s hard to tell. She told me to have a seat. That’s not an easy thing. Do you take a chair or the couch? She said, ‘Make yourself comfortable. I’m going to get real comfortable myself.’

‘ ‘Now I really went into sex mode two. How do you get yourself comfortable sitting for the first time in someone’s apartment? I took off my tie, unbuttoned my shirt, kicked off my shoes, and moved to the couch. I even rolled up my sleeves. I was getting aroused.

“She returned to the room and I felt like a jerk. ‘What do you think you’re doing, moving in?’ she said. She had changed to jeans and paint shirt. ‘I’m finishing sanding my old table. Get yourself a drink and let yourself out, will you? I don’t want to drag dust through the carpet.’

“I made up some cover lie. I think I said something like, ‘Oh, I just can’t stand that tight collar and jacket. I think I’ve gained a little weight and it’s all too tight.’ I even went into greater detail trying to save face. What a night.”

Just as proception requires vulnerability and directness, reception requires a lowering of defenses, taking major risks. It requires sufficiently resilient self-esteem to endure the knocks we all receive in the bonding process. We have to be arrogant enough to assume that someone wants us and humble enough to remember that many people would choose to have nothing to do with us. Is the other person sure? Am I sure?

Do you remember taking the risk? Do you remember allowing yourself to feel that someone you wanted really wanted you?

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