The major organs of the urinary system are the kidneys and the bladder, attached to each other and the outside of the body by tubes. Strictly speaking, however, the process of urination, the removal of wastes from the body, begins at cellular level. As all cells function, converting food into energy and repairing body tissue, [...]
Should we reserve judgement about the effectiveness of St John’s Wort pending the conclusion of the latest studies ?
There does not seem to be much merit in this argument. In the use of St John’s Wort to treat depression, the Europeans have been leaders for over 350 years. Since the publication of Commission E in [...]
The taking of a medical history also reveals the difference between ours and the traditional approach. Traditional medicine is centered on the body and its various organs. It is called anthropocentric, or body-centered, medicine. A traditional doctor is mainly concerned with treating the body and focusing primarily upon the most distressing physical symptom or “chief [...]
The bleeding from an injured tongue, even when it merely results from an accidental self-inflected bite, is often prolonged and alarming. Usually though, such bleeding can quickly be brought under control, without stitches or help from a doctor, if the victim firmly holds something over the site of bleeding to compress it. A wet handkerchief [...]
Symptom: Pain in legs or feet occurring only while the child is resting or sleeping
Home care:
Massage or apply heat to painful muscles.
Give aspirin or paracetamol for pain.
Having the child wear sturdier shoes may reduce the frequency or severity of the pains.
Growing pains can be quite severe and it’s important to reassure and comfort the child.
Precaution:
If [...]
Many people believe that they will be healthier, and live a longer life if they can get their cholesterol as low as possible. Drug companies would have us believe that the lower we can get our cholesterol levels the better. This is false and is no more than a plot to sell more cholesterol lowering [...]
Hormonal Harmony
Nature has designed your reproductive system to work in harmony, each hormone dependent on the other and all working together as a whole system. Any imbalance in any part of this delicate process will affect the production of hormones and with it the chances of conceiving or staying pregnant once fertilisation has occurred. It [...]
Mountain climbing in Nepal. Scuba diving in Honduras. Gorilla watching in Rwanda. If you don’t travel, you’re reading only one page in the book of life.
But if you do travel, you’re at risk for diseases virtually unheard of in the good old United States. “Of the 20 million Americans who leave the country each year, [...]
Although self-starvation in men is rare, it does occur. In fact, a paper published in 1694 by the physician Richard Morton-generally recognized as the first unequivocal description of anorexia- describes two cases, one of whom was a sixteen-year-old boy. As the author stated:
[The boy] fell gradually into a total want of appetite, occasioned by his [...]
For most of her life, Cindy Arvayo was an active person. Then, she started climbing the corporate ladder at an electronics firm in pressure-packed Silicon Valley. “With that came all the stress,” says Cindy, age 45. “I got into the habit of numbing out with food.”
After about 13 years, her weight had crept up to [...]