Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Significant hearing loss can be determined at birth, when a child is known to be at risk. Moderate loss can be determined within a few weeks, and slight hearing impairment can be diagnosed later. (more…)

There have been conflicting reports in the literature regarding the association of other malignancies with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

In this study by Beisland and colleagues, out of Norway, the association of RCC with other malignancies is again examined. (more…)

The Shape Up plan is based on high fiber foods, including complex carbohydrates, whole grains, fruits and vegetables balanced with lean protein and healthy fats. (more…)

Q.My ring finger is kind of frozen or clicks when I move it. I went to the doctor about this, and he said there is a nodule in the hand that is out of place and that I needed to get a cortisone shot, or I can get surgery. (more…)

Although most of you probably think of parsley as the green stuff nestled modestly between the mixed vegetables and the entree when you go out to eat, this undervalued herb has three times more vitamin C than citrus juice, more iron than most leafy greens, vitamin A, potassium, iodine, magnesium and other goodies that make it too good to leave behind when dinner’s over!

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The most well-known medicines are known to produce some hundreds of symptoms. These represent a particular selection from the total number of symptoms which can be produced by the mind/body system, which is vast. Each individual medicine, however, does not produce a completely different set of symptoms, but a distinctive selection from the common pool — and there is much overlap between the sets. To make an analogy, we could imagine that each symptom was represented by a different playing card, so that there were the usual “picture cards” as well as cards numbered one to many hundred, instead of one to ten. The significant symptoms of the Coffea patient could be represented by a Queen, an Ace (representing the most marked and unusual symptoms). (more…)

Every agent that acts upon the vitality, every medicine, deranges more or less the vital force, and causes a certain alteration in the health of the individual for a longer or shorter period. this is termed primary action….To its action our vital force endeavors to oppose its own energy. This resistant action is a property, is indeed an automatic action of our life-preserving power, which goes by the name of secondary action or counteraction. (more…)

If you’re pregnant and taking folic acid to prevent birth defects, you’re no more likely to miscarry than women who don’t take the B vitamin, says new research.

A link between miscarriage and the vitamin had been suspected, especially when previous studies suggested that women who took folic acid might have up to a 16 percent greater risk of miscarrying. (more…)

Further on we find that:

Gastrointestinal symptoms may include loss of appetite, nausea, diarrhea or constipation. Occasionally, an unexpected hypersensitivity to the drug may occur, and this is characterized by skin rashes, fever, photosensitivity, and deleterious effects on the blood. Other side effects include fatigue, tingling in various parts of the body, and, occasionally, jaundice. (more…)

What Is A Medicine?

In order to understand fully what Hahnemann is saying here, we have to transform our concept of what a medicine is from the conventional to the homeopathic view. For hundreds of years, physicians have characterized medicines in terms of the desirable actions they have upon the body, of their capacity to oppose the undesirable malfunctions of the body found in a particular illness, and to directly counteract or reduce illness symptoms. (more…)