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BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: HOLLY REMEDY

Posted by admin on May 23, 2011
Posted under Herbal

Hatred, jealousy, suspicion, envy.
When choice of remedy suitable in the case of an active person is difficult, it is advisable to start the treatment with “Holly Remedy”.
‘HOLLY REMEDY embodies the principle of Love—the Divine Love, the universal love which encompasses everybody in its fold, giving a feeling of universal human brotherhood, a sense of one-ness with everybody else. Love is the greatest enobling quality of the Soul. Love is GOD. It is the biggest unifying force in man’s society. With love, the family remains united, the business firms and the partnerships continue to work unhindered, and they progress.
With Love as the dominant force in the world it would be “Ram Raj”, a Utopian world with peace and prosperity for one and all.
But, alas, it is not so. What we witness in this world today is the very anti-thesis of Love.
Bereft of love, there is hatred, jealousy, suspicion, fear and envy all around. The family, the society, the countries and the whole human race is disintegrating in the absence of love. “Survival for the fittest” is the order of the day.
“Everything is fair in Love & War” is another slogan coined by unscrupulous persons and used often to justify an unbecoming act. What a shame that love and war should be equated in one sentence.
Love is the positive side of HOLLY. According to Dr. Bach “HOLLY protects us from everything that is not Universal Love. It opens our heart to unite with Divine Love” It invokes in us a feeling of oneness with the other person -a feeling which raises us to a pedestal where petty ideas of jealousy, hatred, fear, envy etc do not touch us, and we consider other person as a brother having equal rights to enjoy the gifts of father GOD, in his own way. In the negative HOLLY state, man becomes the selfish creature with very strong feelings of jealousy, hatred, revenge, malice and envy.
Not that these feelings of jealousy are limited to human mind only. A pet dog of a childless couple did not take it easy when the couple were blessed with a child and started loving the child. The dog bit the child—reason jealousy. It was only after giving the dog HOLLY Remedy that he could shed-off his jealousy towards the child.
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EPILEPSY AND ITS SPECIAL FORMS/EPILEPSY SYNDROMES: STURGE-WEBER SYNDROME

Posted by admin on May 13, 2011
Posted under Epilepsy

Sturge-Weber syndrome is not inherited. It is an abnormality of blood vessel formation occurring early in the development of the fetal face and brain. Children with this disease are born with a red birthmark (“port wine stain”) on the forehead and, at times, extending over the eye and lower face. Birthmarks that do not appear on the forehead are not associated with Sturge-Weber syndrome.
In this disease, blood vessel malformation causes atrophy (shrinking) of the underlying brain, leading to seizures and paralysis of the opposite side of the body. The seizures that accompany this shrinkage are usually one-sided and may be difficult to control with medication. Children with Sturge-Weber syndrome may be of normal intelligence but are often progressively handicapped by mental retardation, by the seizures, and by paralysis. Surgery to remove the affected portion of the brain is sometimes indicated and should be done early in treatment.
Laser surgery for the facial birthmark (hemangioma) shows promise of alleviating this disfiguring problem.
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LIVING WITH DIABETES: DEFINITIONS AND TYPES OF THE DISEASE

Posted by admin on May 5, 2011
Posted under Diabetes

Diabetes has been around for a long time. The ancient Egyptians recognized the disease, and so did the Romans, who even developed some crude treatments for it. In ancient India, “physicians” recommended exercise as a treatment for the condition we know as diabetes. Amazingly, in modern time we strongly recommend that same exercise programme.
The name of the disease comes from the Greek word “diabetes”, which means to siphon or flow through, and the Latin word “mellitus”, which means honey or sweet.
In Europe during mediaeval times, physicians diagnosed diabetes by tasting the urine of the afflicted patient. If the urine was sweet, the physicians confirmed the diagnosis. Unfortunately, these physicians could not effectively treat the disease.

Definitions
Diabetes mellitus refers to the condition that results in an above-normal level of glucose in the blood, which sometimes spills over through the kidneys into the urine.
There are two major types of diabetes mellitus:
• Type I diabetes, in which the person does not produce any insulin and thus is dependent on injections of insulin to sustain life and to regulate blood glucose levels.
Type I diabetes usually occurs in children and adolescents but has been known to occur in adults. About ten per cent of all persons with diabetes have Type I. The onset of Type I diabetes is rapid, has characteristic symptoms, and often is dramatic.
• Type II diabetes, in which the person may not produce enough insulin or may be resistant to the action of the insulin produced. This person may be able to regulate blood glucose levels by diet and exercise alone; by diet, exercise and an oral anti-diabetes drug; or by diet, exercise and insulin injections.
Type II diabetes usually occurs in adults over the age of forty, those who have a family history of diabetes, those who are overweight or obese, and women who have given birth to babies weighing over four kilograms. It is possible that a woman who gives birth to a big baby had diabetes during her pregnancy (called gestational diabetes), which may not have been diagnosed.
About ninety per cent of all persons with diabetes have Type II. About eighty-five per cent of people with Type II are overweight or obese.
The onset of Type II diabetes is gradual and often without symptoms. A blood test ordered at the time of a routine physical examination often is the only way for a person to detect that he or she has this disease.
More than half of the people with Type II diabetes don’t even know they have the disease.
Since you have just been diagnosed as having Type II diabetes, you should consider yourself to be quite lucky. You’re fortunate because you can do something to control this disease and make your life happier, healthier and perhaps even longer.
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