Showing posts with label Natural Medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural Medicine. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Cure to Cancer with Vitamin C

Cure to Cancer with Vitamin C

When i came across this video to learn the impact of the vitamin C on our bodies, it was an eye opener and I started to wonder, how come this stuff is not more common taught to people ? Well i thought it was only right to share the info that can help people appreciate the value of this amazing vitamin.

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Vitamin C is commonly understood to be an antioxidant. The National Institutes of Health has replicated research done at The Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning which shows that very high blood levels of vitamin C can act as a pro-drug that forms hydrogen peroxide at doses lethal to cancer cells. This pro-oxidant effect is best achieved by intravenous administration of vitamin C. New findings suggest that high oral doses of vitamin C used in conjunction with "redox cyclers" may support and enhance the effect of IVC against cancer.

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Presenter:
Ron Hunninghake, M.D.


Here is some more info about this amazing vitamin that does great good to our bodies and how it's verified by numerous studies and sciences.

According to the government site the vitamin C is known to be a helper in the fight against cancer. here is a part of their findings.
High-Dose Vitamin C (PDQ®)

Overview

• Vitamin C is a nutrient found in food and dietary supplements. It is an antioxidant and also plays a key role in making collagen (see Question 1).
•High-dose vitamin C may be given by intravenous (IV) infusion (through a vein into the bloodstream) or orally (taken by mouth). When taken by intravenous infusion, vitamin C can reach much higher levels in the blood than when the same amount is taken by mouth (see Question 1).
•High-dose vitamin C has been studied as a treatment for patients with cancer since the 1970s (see Question 2).
• Laboratory studies have shown that high doses of vitamin C may slow the growth and spread of prostate, pancreatic, liver, colon, and other types of cancer cells (see Question 5).
•Some laboratory and animal studies have shown that combining vitamin C with anticancer therapies may be helpful, while other studies have shown that certain forms of vitamin C may make chemotherapy less effective (see Question 5).
• Animal studies have shown that high-dose vitamin C treatment blocks tumor growth in certain models of pancreatic, liver, prostate, and ovarian cancers, sarcoma, and malignant mesothelioma (see Question 5).
•Some human studies of high-dose IV vitamin C in patients with cancer have shown improved quality of life, as well as improvements in physical, mental, and emotional functions, symptoms of fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain, and appetite loss (see Question 6).
• Intravenous high-dose ascorbic acid has caused very few side effects in clinical trials (see Question 7).
•While generally approved as a dietary supplement, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the use of IV high-dose vitamin C as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition (see Question 9).

http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/vitamin-c-pdq


I know not many of us really know and understand how important vitamin C is and why more of us should consume it daily to stay strong, fit.
All vitamins have their important roles, but i never knew vitamin C was this influential. Cure to Cancer with Vitamin C

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

10 Medicinal Plants From The Philippines - Video and Info

  1. Bawang - Herbal medicine used to treat various skin problems
  2. Akabulko  - Treat various skin, stomach and lung problems. Taken as tea or used as ointment
  3. Bayabas - Treatment of diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, cough, cold, skin care. more
  4. Yerba Buena - Treatment of body aches, tooth aches, stomach aches, rheumatism. more
  5. Pansit Pansitan  - Treat gout, arthritis, fevel, abdominal problems and kidney problems.
  6. Laqundi - Treatment for skin, digestive, respiratory, pain relief
  7. Ampalaya -  Treatment for diabetes, HIV, coughs, skin diseases, parasiticide, antipyretic
  8. Niyog niyogan -Treatment for internal worms, parasites, headaches, some suggest even cancer
  9. Tsaang gubat - Stomach pains • Gastroenteritis • Intestinal motility • Dysentery • Diarrhea or Loose Bowel Movement
  10. Sambong - fever, arthritis, rheumatism and others.

Hope you enjoyed it and got value from the post..
We have much more to offer then beautiful culture, people, dance and tradition. Our history proves we have some of the best historic natural remedies used by modern sciences of today.

These plants are just a small example of the beauty and good from within the Philippines.

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Therapeutic Approaches to Natural Healing

Being online and always seeking sites and info to share with my readers. I came across a site intensive with info on the subject specifically related to Philippines medicine..

Natural medicine makes more sense in my opinion. It's not expensive and it literally grows around you, with out need for doctors, perscribtions and other issues that can come in your way to living a more healthier lifestyle.

Why do some people frown upon natural medicine, when they themselves are products of nature.

I cam across a vast site, loaded with info about all types and various herbs and wanted to share this excerpt below about  Therapeutic approaches to natural healing

In some rural areas, mythological creatures - the duwende, nuno, kapre, tikbalang - reign supreme, too often contributing to the conundrums of disease etiologies and pathologies. Lamang-lupa or earth dwellers are believed to inhabit the mounds of earth and the underground, and accidentally disturbing these places, not obtaining leave or failing to apologize may cause a gamut of complaints ranging from abdominal distress, headaches, body pains, even insanity. Other earth creatures believed to cause illness are the dwarfs and elves (duwendeng itim) - na-nuno, na-duwende.

Illnesses are also often attributed to sorcery (kulam, pang-kukulam), in its many forms, varying from region to region. Many of these creatures' boundaries of habitation are so geographically and ethnically defined, so that the Southern Luzon's kapre, tikbalang, nuno-sa-punso, and duwendeng itim are looked upon by the Northerners with amused incredulity as creatures of the Tagalog imagination, while the Southerners are as amused listening to the Northerners ways in driving away their evil spirits and other unwelcome supernatural beings with their bloodletting "kanyaw" ritual—the sacrificial chicken spurting and dripping blood from its gashed neck as it circles the grounds of the haunting habitues, and later to be shared as a poultry dish. In some areas, the initial approach to therapy is directed towards the creature-induced maladies.

Many believe that many of these illnesses are in the purview of the albularyo or the alternative specialists. Some believe that certain diseases, especially those caused by sorcery (kulam), can only be treated by an albularyo with an expertise in countering such illnesses, often compounded by a belief that also seeking traditional therapeutic interventions from a physician will make the alternative therapy fail, make the condition worsen or cause death. Therapeutic approaches draw from a very varied bag of Philippine alternative treatment modalities: herbal-infused, prayer-based, from way-out fringe to near-mainstream, colored by rural mythologies and a profusion of indigenous rituals. Some are in sole purview of the village healers, the albularyos and the specialists. There is a sundry of day-to-day complaints that rarely warrants a consultation with the village healers.

There is an accumulation of folkloric therapeutics, hand-me-down remedies and rituals, and a basic herbology that is utilized by parents or a knowledgeable kin. Many have "libretos" - a collection of prayers for use with bulongs and orasyons - for use in countering the common maladies caused by bad winds, spirits and earth-dwellers. Some treatments, dispensed or advised, are so absurd, way-out total-fringe, that it might even merit a bemused and amused frown, but at the end, there is tthe sheepish confession that "i tried it anyway." Suob, ministered by the hilot-midwife, is a ritual of rural post-partum care that incorporates modalities of herbs, prayer, smoke, heat and massage. Although traditionally rural, it has been occasionally used by the urban-burgis in a modified new-age form. The treatments for rabies and asthma, although quite fringe, are still utilized in some rural areas. Kudlit continues to be a mainstay in the rural management of of rabies and other 'poisonous' bites. Pasma, is a common rural malady attributed to the exposure to cold water, manifesting in a sundry of ways: tremors, numbness, and various rheumatic manifestations.

Despite new science for this sleep disorder associated with sudden nocturnal deaths, bangungot continues to be thickly wrapped in folklore. Both urban and rural belief systems still attribute these nighttime sleep deaths to excesses of alcohol and eating, and pancreatitis is still held on to as the familiar medical diagnosis. In the Ilocandia, the fat and vengeful batibat continues to threaten to sleep on the victims' faces. There are, too often, tragic stories; too late, realizing that the healers' treatment is not working, and too late, the harried effort to borrow money for the cost of the trip to the provincial hospital. And alas, in countless impoverished rural communities, there is no choice. For much of the marginalized poor, health care is not a right; it is lottery, healthcare-pachamba. Yet, bereft of health prevention, eking existences in the fringes of malnutrition, they survive. Perhaps, in the end, the bad-winds, the black elves, the earth-dwellers serve a purpose. They allow for the therapeutic mechanisms of placebo, tincture of time, and prayers. And when all else fails, the loss may be accepted as the doings of a spirit, more powerful than the healers' therapeutic modalities, beyond the ministrations of prayers, orasyons and rituals, and the last minute efforts of traditional medicine. And all else having failed, in the search for a final consolation, drawing on a matyrdom of faith, invariably: It was God's will.

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After going through a lot of the info I came across, I wish to point out it's important to keep this knowledge for the generations to come because natural medicine just makes more sense. If we can heal ourselves with vegetation around us, rather then a medicine cabinet. It can be very cost efficient as well.

Hope you enjoyed this info as much as I did

Hope all is well

Monday, March 30, 2015

Traditional Faith healers Philippines - Various Methods, Medicine and Faith

Philippines has today a vast various methods of faith healers, some stemming from ancient traditional methods via herbs, spiritual, masseuses, natural vegetation ( such as banana leaves ) and a great variety of mixed methods of modern medicine mixed with traditional ones. Some are pretty much whatever to find cures and you got to also be aware of the scammers out there..

Real authentic practitioners do provide results via psychological and physical. There are great reasons who when you get a messauge, your body feels refreshed and lifted. It's helps clearing blood streams from congestions and overall revive the body, and this is backed by studies on matter. It's important to point out. Medicine and doctors can cost money and the traditional method is simply much more cost efficient when a majority of the people cannot afford the modern prices, then it makes more sense to revert to methods that helped people before modern medicine.

This was a good find that I want to share with you that discusses "how does faith healing work"


In Asia there are few health services of the Western variety available for the majority of the people, but the services of a "doctor" versed in native medical lore and trained in the traditional Asian manner can be obtained without too much trouble. The average Asian doesn't visit a doctor's office. He must be very sick before he goes to the expense of calling a doctor - either Western or Asian. Doctors and medicine cost money and the ordinary Asian doesn't have money on hand for such an expense. Medical treatment may mean that someone goes hungry and that a whole family may have to eat less for a year for the sake of one ailing person. A doctor is often considered as a last resort. The tolerance level for pain is very high. I recall an elderly Filipina who came to our home seeking medical care. She was very ill, yet she didn't complain. She appeared stoic. We brought her to the hospital, where she died only a few days after admittance. We have seen many people with ugly sores walking down the street. The deformed, maimed and blind people are seen wherever one travels. Large cities in the Philippines like Manila and Cebu have up-to-date medical services, but the vast rural areas in the provinces suffer from an acute lack of modern medical services. Because the medical needs are so enormous and treatment so expensive, the ancient medical practices, whether in the Philippines or elsewhere, are still popular.

In Sri Lanka, for example, magical medical men are doing brisk business. These people call themselves "occult practitioners". The ministry of Cultural Affairs gives financial assistance to the legitimate practitioners of the magical arts. "Any such person," explains ministry secretary Nalin Ratnayake, "must have his application authenticated by the MP for his area." This is all it takes to be in business. These occult practitioners use a wide variety of methods. The most spectacular is the Yak Netum, or devil dancing, to appease the evil spirits, believed to bring various forms of illness. The proponents of the magical method maintain that their art is an arm of Ayurveda, the ancient South Asia medical discipline related to yoga and which relies heavily on herbal cures. D. G. Gabo Singho, president of the Sri Lanka Occult Practitioners Association, takes his work seriously. He comments: "Of course there are the charlatans who practice it for money. But any true Kattadiya (occult practitioner) is generally carrying, on an important family tradition. Money is not important. Many have gained a wealth of knowledge from ola (palm leaf) books preserved through the generations."
In the Philippines, there are basically three types of traditional healers: the Albularyo (herb doctors), the Baylan (mediums) and the Espiritista (spiritualists).

Albularyo

A herb doctor lives in a village and has an occupation. He may be a farmer, a plow maker or a carpenter. He is well sought after. He will not perform surgery, He will accompany his patient all the way to the hospital. But even there his task is not always finished. When the relatives of the patient feel that the hospital treatment is not adequate, they may still resort to the herb doctor. One such "doctor" said: "At times the parents or relatives still call me in. I remember several instances where I would be smuggled into the hospital posing as a visitor. When the doctors and nurses are out of the room I treat the patient, using herbs and oraciones (prayers)." The matter of treatment seems strange to the Westerner. If the herb doctor attributes a relatively mild case of fever in a child to the spirits, he may try to drive them away through the offering of prayers and food. Dr. Juan M. Flavier, president of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction in the Philippines, interviewed some herb doctors. He asked one, "What types of illness do you feel doctors don’t know about?” The herb doctor replied, "Those of the spirit and those that are unseen, as for example, the sickness of the soil." The "sickness of the soil" refers to being struck down with illness brought on by spirits living in the ground. The disease may take various forms. The herb doctor commented to Dr. Flavier, "No one can deny the existence of such spirits but doctors continue to deny them as causes of some diseases.

The Baylan

So called mediumistic healing, in one form or another, is found in many countries. In the Philippines, mediums are believed to possess extraordinary powers to cure sickness, to exorcise evil spirits from the rice fields, or out of the human body, and to intercede with good spirits for the petitions of the people. The mediums claim to have special knowledge of the environmental spirits. They perform all important rituals, chant prayers for the community when the barrio faces a crisis. How do mediums function? F. Landa Jocano, a Filipino scholar, witnessed numerous mediumistic experiences in a small, rural community in central Panay.

Espiritists

Plane loads of ailing Western tourists have made their way to Baguio City to seek healing from a "faith healer". Baguio City, a beautiful resort center, north of Manila, is frequented by rich Filipinos and Westerners during the hot dry season. It is well-known for its faith-healers. At least four faith-healers practice there. Some ten others operate in nearby Pangasinan province. These healers are called spiritualist, psychic or astral surgeons who claim to cut incisions with their fingers and perform other miracles of para-science.

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The power within us is something astounishing and just amazing. More people should connect spiritually rather the materialistically. Love and emotions can only be felt and not bought. Do you agree ??  Comment below

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