DECIDING TO COME OFF DRUGS: YOU CAN’T DO IT ON YOUR OWN.

Posted by admin2011-01-23T10:10:51+00:00"> – January 23, 2011

It is a statistical fact that very few addicts or alcoholics manage to give up drugs or alcohol without some kind of support system. Drugs or drink have been so important in their lives that when they stop using them there is a great gap in their way of life. Something has to take its place.
‘I stopped lots of times,’ recalls William, a recovering addict who has been clean and happy for three years. ‘Each time stopping became harder, and the gaps between not using and using became shorter. I found that as the withdrawals got worse, I got more practised at handling them.
‘But it was after the withdrawals – that was the worst. There was a sort of black hole in my life, a feeling of “What the hell’s the point?” I’d get two or three weeks clean of withdrawals and be such a mess as a person that I’d go back to using.’
Addicts or alcoholics who try just to carry on, without putting anything in the place of drugs or alcohol, eventually fail. Sooner or later almost all of them go back to drugs or drinking.
After all, if chemical dependence is an illness, it needs some kind of extra care. If you went into hospital for an appendix removal, it would be madness to discharge yourself directly you came to after the operation. You simply wouldn’t be well enough to plunge straight back into normal life. And besides, it would be crazy to try and take out the stitches yourself.
It is just the same with drug dependence. You are going to need proper after-care.
So if you want to get well, you are going to need help.

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BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: THE NEGATIVE SCLERANTHUS STATE

Posted by admin2011-01-16T10:10:05+00:00"> – January 16, 2011

All actions of a negative Scleranthus man are delayed. By his very nature he delays and postpones work. Even when he knows that he has to do a work, he cannot make up his mind whether to start the work now or a little later or still a little later. Such people are usually what they call as “late Lateefs”. One of our patients who was a professor in a college had to resign her post because she was always late in reaching the office, and could never keep an appointment.
When he lies down in bed to sleep, all sorts of disorderly thoughts jumble in his brain and make him sleepless. If he falls ill, his temperature fluctuates—sometimes going up sometime, going down, his symptoms are every changing. So that the doctor cannot make head or tail of his symptoms— his physical condition is as unreliable as his mind.
Memory eludes him at the right moment. A student goes to the examination hall fully prepared for the examination. As he looks up the question paper, he is confident that he knows the answers to all questions. But when he starts writing the paper, his memory fails him, and he does the paper rather badly. He walks out of the examination hall thoroughly disgusted with himself. Once out of the examination hall, the memory comes back and he knows the correct answer to every question set in the paper—a case of memory delayed or postponed, a peculiar case for Scleranthus Remedy.
He may postpone an essential work and give priority to a non-essential work which is of interest to him. A boy may go on reading a novel till late in the night, but as soon as he holds a text book in his hand he starts yawning.
A young girl is late in starting to menstruate, a child is late in cutting teeth, in starting to walk or starting to talk-all functions are delayed.
At the time of coition the male organ ‘sleeps’ and at other times there are erections. At period time the bleeding starts from mouth or nose, instead of uterus.
Metastasis, the disease changes its form i.e gout when suppressed may turn into heart trouble, a suppressed catarrh may turn into headache and suppressed menses may take the form of chorea.
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BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: HORNBEAM REMEDY – MRS. SAHNI’S CASE

Posted by admin2010-12-26T10:09:07+00:00"> – December 26, 2010

“Doctor Sahib, when a son was born to me after many prayers, I had vowed that I would get the child named at Gurdwara Hazur Sahib. The child is now 4 years old and is still being called by his nick name. I desparately want to honour my vow and take the child to that holy place immediately, but cannot summon enough mental strength to undertake this long journey. In the past whenever I made a programme to undertake this tour, a doubt assailed me whether I would be able to complete this mission without mishap, and I had to drop the programme”.
To help Mrs. Sahni to get over this predicament, a combination of HORN BEAM (to strengthen her mind) and GENTIAN (to remove uncertainty & doubt) was given T.D.S. for I week, after which she undertook her long journey with confidence and returned home after completing her mission happily.
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CHILDREN AND DREAMS

Posted by admin2010-12-12T10:08:23+00:00"> – December 12, 2010

Earlier I mentioned the differences in content between the dreams of men and women. Your age also affects the way you dream, especially during childhood. Between the ages of two and three, for example, children do not report dreams as a rule. At four and five they may report dreams about 15 percent of the time; these dreams are somewhat like a scrapbook of photographs—still images with no story line, which appear briefly, usually feature animals rather than humans, and have little emotional content. From age five to seven the incidence of dreaming doubles to about 30 percent; dreams at this stage depict events in a series and feature physical and social activity with family and friends in familiar settings. Girls of this age are more likely to describe dreams involving friendly encounters, pleasant feelings, and happy endings; boys, on the other hand, have more unhappy dreams involving conflict. Not until ages eight and nine do dreams become animated, or more like a movie, with character, plot, and action, usually focusing on active participation by the dreamers. Gender differences in dream content are not discernible at this stage. About 43 percent of children of eight and nine report having dreams, compared to 80 percent of older children and adults. Dream recall declines with age, until by age 70 reports of dreams drop to about 43 percent.
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WHY YOU CAN’T STAY AWAKE: MANAGEMENT OF APNEA – APNEIC PATIENTS AND THERAPIST

Posted by admin2010-11-28T10:06:29+00:00"> – November 28, 2010

Suppose you come to me as an apneic patient. My first step is to eliminate any agent that may be contributing to your problem—specifically, sedative drugs, hypnotic drugs, or alcohol. Since smoking can also contribute, I’ll ask you to stop. If obesity is a factor, I will encourage you to lose weight (unless you have heart arrhythmias or hypoxemia). In many cases weight loss alone helps more than anything else; studies have found that even small amounts of weight loss can improve the oxygenation of the blood and reduce the incidence of daytime sleepiness. In one group of patients who weighed an average of 234 pounds, loss of 22 pounds caused the patients’ disordered breathing and daytime symptoms to disappear. Effective weight reduction, however, is very difficult unless you are highly motivated; toward that end I will arrange for adequate supportive therapy. If you are of normal weight, I may suggest ways to vary your sleeping position as the night progresses. Studies show that patients who sleep on their backs have twice as many apnea attacks as those who sleep on their sides.
If the problem continues, and I am unable to spot the cause, I will probably refer you for analysis by a sleep laboratory, a process described later in this book. Depending on the clinical findings, a number of therapeutic options may be called into play. Some of the following options are remedial, not curative; that is to say, they improve your condition without eliminating it.
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профилактика астмы

Posted by admin2010-11-17T19:22:05+00:00"> – November 17, 2010

«Первое – это не нужно постоянно думать о своей болезни, – говорит Евгения Матвеева – Я не очень-то задумываюсь о своей болезни. Конечно, астма – тяжёлое и неблагодарное испытание, но я принимаю жизнь такой, какая она есть. Ну что случится, если я буду всё время убиваться по-поводу своей болезни? Да ничего. Поэтому для себя я всё давно решила – раз я астматик, буду принимать лекарства. Но это совсем не значит, что я обязана вести неактивную жизнь, не заниматься спортом. Ничего подобного. Никакая астма меня не заставит вступить с ней в сделку, — улыбается Евгения. — Мне нравится активно жить, и я буду это делать».
Многие пациенты, говоря о своей болезни, используют слово «контроль». Самым главным своим достижением они считают умение контролировать астму. «Если я её не буду контролировать, тогда она будет контролировать меня, – говорит Ефросинья Дымова. – Управлять астмой довольно легко. Принимайте лекарства, придерживайтесь определённого режима, и тогда вы вполне сможете справиться с астмой. И в этом случае, я не вижу причин, по которым вам, не следовало бы радоваться жизни».
Когда борцу Николаю Юркову поставили диагноз «астма», он, посчитав себя инвалидом, сразу же прекратил занятия спортом. «После окончания колледжа я чувствовал себя ужасно. Я всё время думал о своей болезни, убеждал себя в том, что я человек конченый, и не видать мне спорта, как своих ушей. Так продолжалось до тех пор, пока один преподаватель не посоветовал мне с помощью тренировок проверить свои возможности, узнать, что мне можно делать, а что – нельзя. Честно говоря, начинал я с дрожью, но постепенно втянулся, и сейчас могу сказать, что контролирую астму на девяносто девять процентов. Сейчас у меня всё в порядке, и единственное, что мне противопоказано, – это длительные занятия в закрытых помещениях».
Можно долго перечислять людей, которые научились контролировать астму и, тем самым, обрели возможность вести полнокровную, активную жизнь. Но, лучше всего повторить слова — человека, прикованного к инвалидной коляске, сказавшего нам: «Ни в коем случае не давайте астме взять вас за горло и навязать свой образ жизни. Боритесь! И не считайте себя больным, даже если вам приходится постоянно принимать лекарства. Больше читайте об астме, изучайте её. И тогда она уже не покажется вам такой страшной, а беспокоить будет не больше, чем эпизодическое покалывание в спине»

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MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Posted by admin2010-09-15T07:42:11+00:00"> – September 15, 2010

The management of multiple sclerosis (MS) involves changing one’s diet and lifestyle and also taking specific supplements. This regime can help someone with MS improve, rather than get worse. Evening primrose oil is a very important nutritional supplement in the management of MS.
In particular, the kind of fat which someone eats seems to have a strong bearing on MS.
The geographical distribution of MS
One of the most marked features of MS is its geographical distribution. MS is a disease of temperate zones, and is virtually non-existent in the tropics. One of the key differences between areas of high and low incidence of MS seems to be the food that people eat.
In those places where MS is commonest, people eat a lot of dairy produce. In those places where MS occurrence is lowest, people eat more fish and vegetable oils. The difference between an area of high MS and low MS can be as little as a few miles. So some of the starkest contrasts in MS distribution are in Norway where MS is high in inland areas where dairy farming is practiced and low in coastal areas where people eat a lot of fish. Similarly in some Scottish islands, the rates of MS can fluctuate from very high to very low according to the main diet of the local people – high in areas of dairy farming and low in fishing areas.
One of the first doctors to look at the world map of MS was Professor Roy Swank, now based in Portland, Oregon, USA.
He first developed his famous Swank Low Fat Diet in 1948. Swank noticed several important clues. First, the amount of saturated fat in the typical American diet was rising dramatically. And as the consumption of saturated fat increased, so did the incidence of certain diseases – particularly MS, heart disease and stroke.
There were further clues for any medical detectives on the look-out during World War II. It was noticed that young American soldiers who had died of heart attacks during training and battle showed a greater degree of hardening of the arteries than their Oriental counterparts who ate mostly vegetables and rice.
In occupied Norway, fat consumption fell by 50% during food shortages. At the same time, there were significant reductions in death rates from heart attacks, and the rate of MS dropped too.
In the UK today, 40% of our diet is saturated fat. Around the world, tipping the balance of saturated/unsaturated fat in favour of saturated fats has coincided with an increase not just in MS, but also in cardiovascular (heart and stroke) diseases.
The amount of sugar we eat has increased enormously in the same period of time. Some nutritionists believe that humans were not designed to thrive on a high saturated fat plus high sugar diet. The rise in chronic disease coincides with these radical changes in diet in the western world.
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BURNING FEET

Posted by admin2010-09-14T15:43:49+00:00"> – September 14, 2010

This stubborn and infuriating condition afflicts many men and women in their fifth and sixth decades of life. Accounts of burning feet appeared in The War Diary of Weary Dunlop, who cared for Australian prisoners of war in Japanese concentration camps. The prisoners burning feet related more to Berri Berri and the absence of Vitamin В1, than it did to the paucity of calories.
Thiamine deficiency in contemporary Australia occurs frequently in alcoholics who drink an appropriate quantity of calories; but insufficient vitamins. Burning feet and loss of power in the lower legs of alcoholics are clear signs of thiamine deficiency that is reversible by the prescription of Vitamin В1.
Burning feet without an excess of alcohol may still relate to unbalanced nutrition. More often it can be a sign of arthritis or disc degeneration in the lower spine. In such cases arthritic joints pinch the nerve roots running to the feet, frequently at the lower levels of the lumbar spine.
Home Remedies
The consumption of Vitamin В1 is mandatory for all persons drinking more than two pots of beer a day. Non drinkers or drinkers with burning feet and without excess alcohol consumption still find Vitamin B1 useful; and for unknown reasons some gain relief from Vitamin B6. Attention to posture and lumbar support when sleeping or lying will sometimes improve the burning in those who suffer nerve root irritation consequent to a degenerative disorder of the lumbar spine.
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ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES

Posted by admin2010-06-01T12:05:53+00:00"> – June 1, 2010

Because the behavior this disease produces can be so difficult every person caring for a dementia victim sometimes feels at loose ends. But people who actively work at solving problems are better off than those who just throw up their hands. While handling alarming symptoms is hard, it is a skill that can be learned.
Psychologist Steve Zarit and his colleagues devised these steps to help caregivers find workable solutions to problems that might otherwise leave them gnashing their teeth. Though it is much better to have a trained counselor help you, you might try this approach on your own.
Identify the reasons for the behavior. The best way to do this is to keep a log recording the upsetting behavior, when it happens, your reaction, and anything else relevant to understanding its cause. For instance, your log might read: (1) “Those same questions a million times an hour” – “Happens after I have left her; worst nights when I leave for the day – Attention-getting mechanism? Way of keeping me in the room? Attempt to entertain me?” (2) “Night wandering» – “Worst when she has not gone out during the day. Sure to happen if she takes a nap.”
List several possible solutions. Brainstorm, coming up with several ways of stopping the behavior. Some solutions should flow logically from what you have noted in the log. For instance, if you are grappling with problem 1, you might write: “(1) When I go out for the day, I’ll ask Mary to come over. (2) Would it be so bad to take her on some of those trips? (3) Look into a day hospital so she won’t be so lonely on the days I do go out.” If you are struggling with problem 2, this might be your strategy: “(1) Never let her nap during the day! (2) Ask the doctor about changing that sleep-inducing medicine from after lunch to before bed. (3) Take an evening walk with her.”
Arrive at a best plan. Evaluate how feasible each solution is, weeding out alternatives that are less likely to work: “It would be hard to keep her with me or always invite people in; the day hospital seems the best choice.” “I cannot hover around to prevent her dozing off, but we might both enjoy a brisk evening walk.”
Carry out the plan in fantasy. Mentally walk through the plan to anticipate and get around possible roadblocks: ‘ ‘This is the way I will go about finding a day hospital and getting her in. I will sell her on the idea by methods X, Y, and Z so she doesn’t reject it out of hand.”
Carry out the plan in reality. Then act. If your plan doesn’t work, try another. Do not conclude that what is happening is uncontrollable – that you cannot change things.
Zarit emphasizes that sometimes modifying your feelings may be the answer, even if the person’s actions do not change. Behavior tends to be hardest to tolerate when it appears premeditated – when someone seems to be annoying or difficult on purpose.
When abilities fluctuate, the natural interpretation is that the person could do better with some real effort. Not true! For unknown physiological reasons, people with dementia have good and bad days. Another intensely irritating symptom that merely appears premeditated is insulting accusations. If your wife who has Alzheimer’s disease accuses you of stealing her money or her keys, remind yourself her real target is not you. Seeing you as the villain protects her from admitting the unthinkable: “I am losing my grip on life.”
When you are confronted with upsetting behavior, school yourself in this idea: the illness is responsible. People with dementia cannot help how they act.
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ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: GETTING SUPPORT FROM FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Posted by admin2010-06-01T12:05:04+00:00"> – June 1, 2010

Since other people are not dealing with the person daily, it is normal for them to misunderstand what is going on. Alzheimer’s disease is frightening. When people are afraid, they shy away from confronting the truth; they tend to criticize. You may be told the problem is too little mental stimulation; Dad should be stuffed with vitamin B. You may be pressured to choose a nursing home when you do not want to, or relatives and friends may berate you for choosing this option, not understanding that it may be the best choice.
Another natural reaction to fear is to beat a hasty retreat. Relatives no longer call; friends don’t come around. Understand that anxiety – not lack of interest – is probably driving them away. If you want their support and involvement, enlighten them. Send articles that explain the disease; more important, consider inviting family and friends to visit and see what is going on. While you may want to shield other people from “the bitter truth,” a dose of reality is unlikely to be much worse than what they are already imagining.
Visits may perk up the person you are caring for, too. Even if you think your husband is too confused to know or get any pleasure from the grandchildren, you might be surprised. We all can guess, but we never know exactly what glimmers of understanding remain in anyone’s mind.
Or if visiting is genuinely too threatening, educate loved ones and help them rally around via a more formal route. If your doctor is involved and knowledgeable, ask him to set up a family meeting to explain the illness. Coming from a neutral third party, your need for support and understanding will penetrate loud and clear. You may be surprised how even alienated family members may reach out in sympathy once they understand what you are coping with.
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