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		<title>Симптомы астмы</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Симптомы астмы чрезвычайно многообразны и зависит от стадии, тяжести заболевания, активности воспалительного процесса в лёгких и возраста больного. Детям раннего возраста наиболее присуще течение болезни в виде бронхита, тогда как у взрослых астма протекает типично. Для симптомов астмы характерно наличие нескольких фаз, или периодов: предприступного, приступного, постприступного и межприступного. Предприступный период. Обычно это 1-2 дня, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Симптомы астмы чрезвычайно многообразны и зависит от стадии, тяжести заболевания, активности воспалительного процесса в лёгких и возраста больного.<br />
Детям раннего возраста наиболее присуще течение болезни в виде бронхита, тогда как у взрослых астма протекает типично.<br />
Для симптомов астмы характерно наличие нескольких фаз, или периодов: предприступного, приступного, постприступного и межприступного.<br />
Предприступный период.<br />
Обычно это 1-2 дня, которые предшествуют приступу. Иногда он бывает гораздо короче &#8211; всего несколько часов. Ярких проявлений в этом периоде может и не быть, но чаще всего они выражаются в повышенно раздражительности, страхе, беспокойстве, снижении аппетита. Иногда могут появиться предвестники &#8211; катаральные явления. У человека появляется острый ринит, выделения из носа носят водянистый характер, беспокоят чиханье, зуд в носу, появляется покашливание. При осмотре отмечаются: отёчность слизистой оболочки горла, миндалин, гиперемия зева, общий кожный зуд или усиливается зуд поражённых участков кожи (при экземе, нейродермите и т.д.).<br />
Приступный период.<br />
Наиболее часто приступы у больных разыгрываются ночью, но могут отмечаться и днём, особенно  после каких-либо волнений, после прогулки в сырую холодную погоду или если больной случайно получает пищу, содержащую аллерген.<br />
Обычно приступы протекают при нормальной температуре тела, если нет одновременного обострения сопутствующего заболевания (пневмонии, тонзиллита и др.) или если приступ протекает не на фоне острого респираторного заболевания. На первый план выступают признаки нарушения дыхания. Они обычно становятся шумными, свистящими, особенно бывает затруднён выдох. Частота дыхания быстро нарастает.<br />
Механизм приступа, по мнению большинства врачей, различный. Одни считают ведущим развитие бронхоспазма, другие &#8211; набухание слизистой оболочки бронхов, третьи &#8211; наличие большого количества вязкой густой слизи, которая может закрывать бронхиолы и бронхи. У подростков и взрослых больных ведущим является спазм бронхиол и бронхов, у маленьких детей чаще преобладают явления отёка слизистой оболочки и повышенная секреция слизи.<br />
Во время приступа отмечаются значительная одышка, затруднённый продолжительный «ступенчатый» выдох. У больных пневмонией, если обострение совпадает с возникновением приступа, эти явления выражены ещё более значительно, постепенно нарастает цианоз губ, носогубного треугольника, лица.<br />
При тяжёлых приступах первостепенное значение имеет нарушение дыхания. В связи с затруднённым выдохом мобилизуются вспомогательные мышцы &#8211; грудные, брюшной стенки плечевого пояса. Больной принимает наиболее удобную для себя позу, садится, упирается руками в край постели, мало двигается.<br />
Маленькие дети мечутся, т.к. не могут сразу найти удобное положения. Выражение лица у них страдальческое. Постепенно уменьшается шумное дыхание, и начинается мучительный кашель. Во время кашля нередко бывает рвота, выделяется слизь.<br />
В связи с нарушением бронхиальной проходимости возникает эмфизема легких, т.е. грудная клетка расширяется, межреберные промежутки увеличиваются. Постепенно нарастают проявления дыхательной достаточности &#8211; значительно снижаются жизненная ёмкость лёгких и резервные возможности аппарата внешнего дыхания. В результате кислородного голодания в крови возникает компенсаторное увеличение числа эритроцитов и гемоглобина. Снижается количество лейкоцитов (если нет обострения хронических очагов инфекции), уменьшается число нейтрофилов, эозинофилов и базофилов в периферической крови. Пульс учащается.<br />
Частые тяжёлые приступы могут вызывать судорожные припадки, нарушения координации движения и другие симптомы гипоксии мозга. У большой части больных в период приступа отмечаются подавленное, депрессивное состояние, вялая реакция на окружающее.<br />
Больные во время приступа отказываются от еды, нередко мучительный кашель сопровождается тошнотой и рвотой, в рвотных массах обнаруживается большое количество вязкой слизи, заглатываемой при кашле. Беспокоят боли в животе, связанные с напряжением мышц брюшного пресса при учащённом затруднённом дыхании и кашле. Во время приступов у некоторых больных отмечаются увеличение печени, лёгкая болезненность её при пальпации. Приступ может длиться от нескольких часов до нескольких суток, с периодами усиления и уменьшения одышки.<br />
Постприступный период.<br />
После снятия острого приступа в течение ближайших 2-3 дней самочувствие больного постепенно улучшается, но общее состояние остаётся среднетяжелым, определяются выраженные сдвиги в различных органах и системах. Больные в этот период требуют большого внимания и активного лечения.<br />
Межприступный период.<br />
Этот период может быть различным &#8211; от 2-3недель до нескольких месяцев. Обнаруживаемые в этот период симптомы заболевания и их выраженность зависит тяжести течения астмы, длительности заболевания и возраста.<br />
У больных с небольшим сроком &#8211; в стойком межприступном периоде могут полностью отсутствовать какие-либо признаки болезни.<br />
У больных с большими сроками заболевания отмечаются отставания в физическом развитии, деформация грудной клети, «бочкообразная» грудная клетка с широкими межреберными промежутками, с западениями в переднебоковых отделах, выбуханием грудины и, изредка, межлопаточного пространства и т.д.<br />
Нередко в межприступном периоде может развиваться: отёк Квинке, крапивница, дерматиты и т.д.</p>
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		<title>ALZHEIMER&#8217;S DISEASE</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term Alzheimer&#8217;s disease refers to a condition first recognized in 1907. In that year Alois Alzheimer reported in the medical textbooks that a woman of 51 had died of &#8216;dementia&#8217;. It wasn&#8217;t the &#8216;dementia&#8217; that caused the interest but the fact that this woman&#8217;s brain had been examined under the microscope and it showed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">The term Alzheimer&#8217;s disease refers to a condition first recognized in 1907. In that year Alois Alzheimer reported in the medical textbooks that a woman of 51 had died of &#8216;dementia&#8217;. It wasn&#8217;t the &#8216;dementia&#8217; that caused the interest but the fact that this woman&#8217;s brain had been examined under the microscope and it showed changes not seen before. In certain parts the brain fibres were tangled up and there were areas of clumping together of brain matter. As time went by, some more quite young people who had died of &#8216;dementia&#8217; were found to have brains that showed the same abnormalities. The condition was then called Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. At that time it was only described in younger people (before retirement age) and the dementia was called &#8216;pre-senile dementia&#8217;.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">It was then noted that the same type of dementia (with the same symptoms) occurred much more frequently in older people. Their brains when examined under the microscope showed the same abnormalities. Because Alzheimer had described his condition in younger people, the elderly were described as having senile dementia of the Alzheimer type or SDAT This tended to make things rather complicated, and as dementia in younger people is quite rare it is becoming increasingly common to call the whole group Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">The two words Alzheimer&#8217;s disease can&#8217;t convey the complicated set of symptoms that make up the condition, unless you personally know a suffer. A quick description often used is the slow onset of memory loss with a gradual progression to loss of judgment and changes in behaviour and temperament. A more complicated definition has been issued by the Royal College of Physicians:</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Dementia is the global impairment of higher functions, including memory, the capacity to solve the problems of day to day living, the performance of learned perceptuo-motor skills, the correct use of social skills and the control of emotional reactions, in the absence of gross clouding of consciousness.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">These definitions are only guides to the whole complicated condition called Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, so we need to work through some of the more common problem areas. The condition starts very slowly, so much so that close relatives and carers often do not notice that anything is wrong for a long time, then when certain things are pointed out they can often think back and realize that the dementia began a few years previously. It has been calculated that someone needs to lose about 80 per cent of their working brain cells before mild symptoms develop, i.e. problems occur late and the brain must adapt very well for a long time. It is useful to think of the condition having three phases: mild, moderate and severe -a sufferer does not always move on to the worst phase. A sudden deterioration usually means that an acute condition (such as a chest or urine infection) has occurred. A small group of sufferers do seem to have a more rapid and downwards course (like a malignant cancerous disease) and death can occur within a few years. For most however the decline is quite slow, especially if the person is well cared for and any other medical problems are tackled early and effectively. Many people with Alzheimer&#8217;s die of something else (heart attack, stroke and even old age).</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">The most common problems are those of memory loss, disorientation, loss of judgment, changes in personality, difficulty in communicating, loss of practical skills and changes in behaviour. Thus, it can be understood that Alzheimer&#8217;s disease is far more than just memory loss (as some of the definitions try to show) -eventually the condition affects all of the parts that make us an individual who relates and responds to other people. Even in the very late stages, however, a sufferer is able to show responses to kindness and gentleness, but early on part of the personality, the person&#8217;s individuality, is affected.</div>
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		<title>EYE CARE CONTROVERSIES: THE POLITICS OF THE EYEBALL</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Eyeball politics&#8221; is created by the struggle for potential patient attention among the three eye care professions. Confusion reigns, in particular for the patient, when he or she is forced to determine if eyeglasses and/or contacts should be purchased from the optician who designs, manufactures, and sells lenses and frames or from the optometrist who [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">&#8220;Eyeball politics&#8221; is created by the struggle for potential patient attention among the three eye care professions. Confusion reigns, in particular for the patient, when he or she is forced to determine if eyeglasses and/or contacts should be purchased from the optician who designs, manufactures, and sells lenses and frames or from the optometrist who not only prescribes such lenses but also has them made by prescription and sells them at profit.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Additionally, the patient must further decide if the optometrist he sees regularly for eyeglass prescriptions is I detecting eye health problems. Ophthalmologists say only al medical doctor can do this. Optometrists say they, as O.D.&#8217;s, have the training to catch a health problem and refer the patient to an eye surgeon, saving the patient an] extra professional visit.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Judith Doctor, M.D., an ophthalmologist practicing in Westport, Connecticut and affiliated with Norwalk Hospital (in Norwalk, Connecticut) says that eye doctors are the sole professionals licensed to use drugs that dilate the pupils, making it easier to spot the early signs of disease &#8220;Only a medical doctor has the training to give a complete medical exam,&#8221; she added.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Robert Ross, O.D., practicing optometry in Westport, responded that most people who see an optometrist regularly will get the necessary exams to catch eye health problems. He said, &#8220;Ninety-six percent of the patients visiting eye professionals have vision, not medical problems but any possible trouble could be detected by a good optometrist.&#8221; As an example he referred to a machine in his office that does a sophisticated test for high pressure in the eye, the sign of glaucoma.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Around  the  country optometrists are  lobbying  in state legislatures  for  permission   to  use  drugs  that  dilate  the pupils.  Such  lobbying  for  the  more  medically-oriented  effort has angered  ophthalmologists,  who  declare  that  only  those with  an   M.D. degree should be  allowed  to  administer drugs   to  eye  care  patients.  They argue that the dilating drugs   could   trigger a sudden glaucoma attack.   Eye physicians are unable to  tell  when a stimulus might set off an  unexpected  increase  in  eye  pressure,  which  may  build to  dangerous  levels,  according  to  Bernard  Singer,  M.D., chief of the section of ophthalmology at Norwalk Hospital.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">If an acute glaucoma attack should strike, it is essential that the patient have a medical doctor on hand to treat the disease, Dr. Singer said. Along with the blinding pain from an acute attack, Dr. Singer stated, &#8220;An untreated, undiagnosed acute attack can result in total blindness within twenty-four to forty-eight hours.&#8221; He added that many such victims will need immediate surgery.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Dr. Ross countered with the statement that the fears of an acute glaucoma attack are overrated. &#8220;These kinds of attacks are rare; I don&#8217;t think a patient should fear getting one when the eye is dilated,&#8221; Dr. Ross said. He added that the patient could always go to a local hospital with little risk of permanent eye damage.</div>
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		<title>KEEP YOUR CHILD’S HEALTH: STRESS AND RELAXATION</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children also suffer from stress in their daily lives. The bully at school may not sound like much of a problem to you, but your child may lie awake at night worrying about him. Children are often not consciously aware of their stress levels, and may need to be actively encouraged to relax. This does [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.medrx-one.me/order_cheap_20144_urso_rx_pills.php" title="Urso ( Ursodiol )"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Children also suffer from stress in their daily lives.</span></a><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt"> The bully at school may not sound like much of a problem to you, but your child may lie awake at night worrying about him. Children are often not consciously aware of their stress levels, and may need to be actively encouraged to relax. This does not mean that your child has to stand on his head and practise meditation (although this is one option). There are very simple and effective ways of helping a child to relax. These include cuddling, talking over problems, a warm bath, a warm drink, a bedtime story, or releasing excess physical energy by playing sport or dancing to music. Older children can find the time before exams particularly stressful. They may benefit from learning specific relaxation techniques, or perhaps yoga or meditation.<br />
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		<title>CHEMICAL BURNS – GENERAL INFORMATION</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Wash with water, plenty of it and keep it up. If it is an acid burn, a weak solution of bicarbonate of soda in water will neutralise the acid. If it is an alkali burn, like caustic soda, vinegar and water will neutralise this.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">For the eyes: Wash out with large amounts of water for 10 mintues before doing anything else. Do this at once where you are. Only after you have washed the eye for 10 minutes do you take the patient to the doctor. SUNBURN<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">This is often worse than you think, particularly in children. As treatment, allow plenty of rest; plenty of cooling fluids; moist compresses to the affected areas. Soothing creams, especially those containing a local anaesthetic, are helpful.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Ask your chemist at the beginning of summer what cream to use. Calomine lotion may be used. If major blistering occurs, see your doctor. PREVENTION OF BURNS<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">It is important for parents to consider prevention in relation to the safety of children.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">NEVER let a child play with matches.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">the glove box or cigarette lighter in the dashboard.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">DON&#8217;T have handles of pots and saucepans projecting from the stove. Little hands do reach up. Keep cups with hot tea and coffee in the centre of the table, not along edges!<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">NEVER run the hot tap in the bath by itself. Always have the cold one on as well; and do not leave small children in the bath by themselves. They could turn on the hot water.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Pay attention to the night attire your children wear. No night dresses — they look pretty but burn so easily. Tight-fitting pyjamas for boys and girls are best. WOOL IS BEST, it burns slowly. Cotton and flannelette are dangerous, and synthetics melt.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Be responsible . .. demand that your retailer stocks only approved, fire-resistant nightwear.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Check such things as radiators to see that they are adequately guarded. New products, initially, are often unknown quantities so far as safety for children is concerned. Sometimes their dangerous features are not recognised by the manufacturers until a few accidents happen.<br />
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		<title>GALLSTONES &#8211; ATTACKS OF COLIC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stone may lead to attacks of colic, severe pain usually felt under the ribs on the right and radiating around to the back and across to the left. Colic usually develops when one of the smaller stones attempts to move from the gallbladder down the duct which leads to the bowel. Smaller ones may [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The stone may lead to attacks of colic, severe pain usually felt under the ribs on the right and radiating around to the back and across to the left.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Colic usually develops when one of the smaller stones attempts to move from the gallbladder down the duct which leads to the bowel. Smaller ones may enter the duct and then become jammed.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">When this happens, there is a back pressure along the ducts and bile builds up in the liver and overflows into the blood and tissues, producing the yellow color known as jaundice. <a href="http://drugswatcher.com/product_info.php?cPath=56&amp;products_id=5419" title="Zofran is used for preventing nausea and vomiting">The larger stones are unable to enter the duct.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The diagnosis of stones may be suspected but an X-ray is necessary to confirm their presence. This is a cholecystogram.The patient usually has a preliminary plain X-ray. Only stones containing a lot of calcium will be visible on this film.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The person is given some tablets to take in the evening and an appointment is made for the next day. The tablets contain a radio-opaque dye which, excreted by the liver, passes in the bile into the gallbladder where, like the bile, it is concentrated and outlines this organ.<br />
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		<title>EXCESSIVE BODY HAIR &#8211; GRUGS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[These drugs are often taken by athletes to build up muscle tissue and improve performance in weightlifting and related sports. Women who take these may find that they have a virilising effect which interferes with their periods and leads to an increase of body hair. Some forms of the contraceptive Pill contain one hormone which, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">These drugs are often taken by athletes to build up muscle tissue and improve performance in weightlifting and related sports. Women who take these may find that they have a virilising effect which interferes with their periods and leads to an increase of body hair.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Some forms of the contraceptive Pill contain one hormone which, when broken down in the body, forms androgen and women on the Pill can develop both acne and excess facial hair. Other forms of the Pill are more oestrogenic and can reduce both acne and facial hair.<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.medrx-one.me/order_cheap_543_detrol_rx_pills.php" title="Detrol ( Tolterodine Tartrate )"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The drug phenytoin, widely used in epilepsy to control convulsions, may lead to an increase in body hair in some women.</span></a><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt"> The exact cause is unknown, although an increase in the activity of androgen or an over-sensitivity of the hairs to hormone is believed to be the reason.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Most women with hair problems do not consult their doctors, relying on self-treatment or the care of beauty salons or those who specialise in the removal of hairs. Those who do seek medical advice are usually concerned there might be a serious underlying reason for the hirsutism or because of a severe emotional reaction.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">*121/71/1*<br />
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		<title>RECIPES AND DIRECTIONS FOR SPECIAL EUROPEAN HEALTH AND LONGEVITY FOODS: HOMEMADE SOUR PICKLES</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Use only small, fresh, hard cucumbers. Place them in cold water overnight, then dry them well. Place cucumbers in a wooden barrel, or a large earthenware or glass jar. Place a few leaves of black currants, cherries, mustard seed and dill branches in with the cucumbers. Boil up a sufficient amount of salt water, using [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Use only small, fresh, hard cucumbers. Place them in cold water overnight, then dry them well.<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.d-store.net/?product=trental" title="PENTOXIFYLLINE improves blood flow"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Place cucumbers in a wooden barrel, or a large earthenware or glass jar.</span></a><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt"> Place a few leaves of black currants, cherries, mustard seed and dill branches in with the cucumbers.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Boil up a sufficient amount of salt water, using about four ounces of sea salt for five quarts of water. Let water cool down, then pour it over cucumbers. Cover with linen canvas, place a wooden board over it, and on the top a clean heavy stone. There should be enough salt water to cover the board. Keep container in a warm place for about one week, then move to a cooler place. Pickles are ready for eating in about three to four weeks. Every second week or so remove the stone and die covers and wash them well first in warm then in cold water, then replace them. Keep the top of the water clean from foam and mildew. When pickles are ready for eating the] can be placed in glass jars and kept in the refrigerator.<br />
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		<title>TEN-POINT DO-IT-YOURSELF PROGRAM FOR BETTER HAIR GROWTH</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a do-it-yourself program to stimulate your hair growth and prevent hair loss and baldness—and possibly even grow new hair on already bald heads! 1. H-Pantoten tablets are made in Sweden and are sold in every drug store, health food store and barber shop in Sweden and also in many other countries on the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Here is a do-it-yourself program to stimulate your hair growth and prevent hair loss and baldness—and possibly even grow new hair on already bald heads!<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">1. H-Pantoten tablets are made in Sweden and are sold in every drug store, health food store and barber shop in Sweden and also in many other countries on the European continent. Perhaps they will soon be available in the United States. If you can obtain them, take one to three tablets each day, preferably before breakfast. If you are not able to obtain H-Pantoten, use a natural, multiple high-potency B-complex vitamin formula. Health food stores have several to choose from. Select one which has all the B-vitamins present with especially large doses of those B-vitamins named in this chapter as being of particular importance for the hair and for improving blood circulation: inositol, choline, biotin, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, folic acid, riboflavin, and pyridoxine. Take B-complex formulas before breakfast and before dinner.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">2. Supplement your diet with a varied choice of the following B-vitamin-packed foods:<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Brewer&#8217;s yeast—one to two tablespoons a day.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Desiccated liver (important for Bi2) —five to ten tablets a day.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Lecithin—one to two tablespoons a day.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Wheat germ—two to three tablespoons a day.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Sunflower seeds, whole grains, raw nuts, beans. Sunflower seeds are extremely rich in the minerals and vitamins essential for hair growth: choline, inositol, vitamin E and D, and minerals phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">3. Take the following additional food supplements:<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•Wheat germ oil—two to three teaspoons a day.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Vitamin E—300-600 International Units a day. Start with 100 I.U. and add 100 I.U. each week. (In case of high blood pressure, consult your doctor.)<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Vitamin C—up to 1,000 mg. a day.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Bioflavonoids—20—100 mg. a day.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•Cold-pressed vegetable oils—use them liberally with your salads or in cooking.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Cod liver oil—one tsp. daily.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Kelp—one tablet with each meal.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">•Bone meal tablets, for minerals—five to ten daily. Where not suggested otherwise, food supplements should be<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">taken with meals.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">4. Eat a balanced diet of vital, natural, unrefined foods, with<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">emphasis on raw fruits and vegetables, nuts, grains, seeds,<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">and milk products.<br />
</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.d-store.net/?product=mestinon" title="PYRIDOSTIGMINE can help with muscle strength"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">5. Don&#8217;t overeat.</span></a><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt"> Hardening of the arteries, which often ac-<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">companies obesity, may be a contributing cause of impaired<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">blood circulation and diminished blood supply to your<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">scalp.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">6. Avoid salt, white sugar, white flour, and all foods made with them. Use sea salt moderately.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">7. Avoid alcohol and tobacco.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">8. Avoid excessive shampooing of your hair. Unless your hair<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">is excessively oily, do not wash it oftener than once a week.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Vigorous brushing twice a day for a few minutes will normally keep your scalp clean from dirt, dandruff, stale oils,<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">etc. The normal discharge of sebum, the oil from the sebaceous glands, is beneficial for your hair. Vigorous brushing is<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">extremely important for the healthy state of your hair and<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">for the prevention of baldness. It stimulates the sebaceous<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">glands and hair roots and increases the blood supply to the<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">hair follicles.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">9. Use finger or vibrator massage to improve blood circulation<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">in your scalp. Here&#8217;s how you do it: place both hands, all<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">finger tips, firmly on your head and, without moving the<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">fingers, push the whole scalp in circular movements for a<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">few seconds; then place the fingers in a new position and repeat. Cover the whole scalp, including the forehead, temples, and neck. For effortless massage use an electric vibrator, available at department stores for less than ten dollars.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">10. Use a slant board or headstand stool, both available at better health food stores. Lie on the slant board, with your head down at the lower level, at least twice a day for 15 minutes each time. If possible, do a headstand twice a day, one to three minutes each time. Both are extremely effective in bringing more blood to the blood-starving scalp. Many men have reported better hair growth and even new hair in completely bald areas after practicing headstands for a few months.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">Warning: If you suffer from high blood pressure, or if your blood capillaries are in poor shape and brittle, build up your condition and strengthen your capillaries with the vitamins C, P and the macrobiotic diet.<br />
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		<title>DISEASES OF KIDNEY</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kidneys show their signs at right iris 28&#8242;-30&#8242; and left iris 30&#8242;-32&#8242;, commencing directly against the iris-wreath and extending outwards to the fourth and fifth minor zones. The kidney is all the more healthy the less its area is indicated (Schulte). If both kidneys register, then in many cases it is a question of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">The kidneys show their signs at right iris 28&#8242;-30&#8242; and left iris 30&#8242;-32&#8242;, commencing directly against the iris-wreath and extending outwards to the fourth and fifth minor zones. The kidney is all the more healthy the less its area is indicated (Schulte).<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">     If both kidneys register, then in many cases it is a question of overstrain, suggesting that the system is overladen with poisonous substances and that one or several other organs (intestines, skin and lungs) show conditions of functional insufficiency. In such cases one also finds an early or closed weakness-sign, or darkening of the kidney area.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">     True kidney disease usually takes place in one kidney only, and the following signs may be seen:<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">1. Nephritis: inflammation of the kidney. In acute conditions, small white points, wisps or clouds, or also small white streaks are found in the kidney area, which take on a yellowish colouring as the conditions become chronic. With older damage, the iris-wreath in the kidney area is contracted inwards.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">     If the condition is one of cysto-pyelitis then sharp white lines or wisp signs are also found in the bladder area.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">2. Renal hypo-function: functional weakness of the kidney. The kidney area shows a dark weakness-sign, which is markedly widened in the muscle zone. Patients with these signs pass scanty urine and have high-domed finger nails.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">3. Contracted kidney: one finds in the kidney area dark to black points or streaks as signs of tissue disintegration. The condition is one of irreparable damage leading to progressive disturbance and renal insufficiency, with consequent uraemia. When these sharp black signs are seen, they are a reminder to be cautious (not dark wisps—these are signs of unresolved catarrh), and in addition to the customary urine analysis, to measure the blood pressure frequently, and also if possible to observe the fundus of the eye. Other signs of contracted kidney are a weakness-sign in the heart area, and in addition to the small black kidney signs a large suprarenal sign.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">4. Renal stone, nephrolithiasis: occurs more frequently than is generally accepted—it is not for certain established diagnostically in every case. For so long as concretions are retained in the renal pelvis no signs for stone can be found in the iris unless its presence results in inflammation of the mucous membrane—and this possibility is always there. When stimulation of the mucous membrane of the renal pelvis arises from concretions, one finds in the kidney area a small white streak (as distinct from the sign of inflammation arising otherwise: white clouds) close to the iris-wreath. These small white streaks disappear, however, when the inflammation recedes, and leave behind no sign of special significance. Such cases are only seldom seen by the irisdiagnostician, usually accidentally, when a patient comes on account of some other complaint. Generally, the condition is one of ureteral colic, without inflammation signs in the kidney or ureteral areas. Only a loosening of the iris fibres is to be seen in the organ area of the ureter: right iris 30&#8242;-35&#8242;, left iris 25&#8242;-30&#8242;.<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.medrx-one.me/order_cheap_543_detrol_rx_pills.php" title="Detrol ( Tolterodine Tartrate )"><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">     When a sharp-edged stone lodges in the renal pelvis a local circumscribed inflammation first arises.</span></a><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt"> This leads to the above-mentioned small white signs in the iris. If the condition in the renal pelvis results in damage to the mucous membrane and degeneration of tissue, then a small dark to black point-like sign develops in the white sign. These small injuries and inflammations heal quickly when the stone shifts to another position in the renal pelvis, so that from these repeated local injuries several small black points develop in the area for renal pelvis.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">     It would be untrue to infer that all such signs as have been discussed refer to renal gravel. My view is that a single stone can also give rise to such signs. Much depends upon the kind of stone, as to whether these signs will develop. These small point-like signs are not the only signs in the iris for stones. Sometimes we find several points surrounded by a thin white line, suggesting that frequent inflammatory response to stone damage of the renal pelvis has already occurred, and also that such has healed again.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">     One sometimes finds a black streak with a point on top. It looks like an upside down comma. Such a sign suggests that there is a large stone in the renal pelvis, which from its size and weight has resulted in an indentation of the renal tissues, destroying mucous membrane and connection tissues.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">     The signs described so far can exist without the patient complaining of, or having complained of painful symptoms in the kidney region. Where there are painful conditions one always finds a white sign (inflammation sign) by the black sign. According to the degree of inflammation, small white streaks or larger white clouds show, which may extend to the neighbourhood of the kidney areas. With extension of the inflammatory process, and destruction of the renal tissues, there will appear against the large white clouds several large, longish or zigzag black signs.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">((Black signs = tissue destruction = loss of substance.)<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">5. Hydronephrosis, renal stasis: arises as the result of pressure from inside or outside (stones, tumours, etc.), whereby the ureter is constricted and the urine collects in the renal pelvis, resulting in a considerable dilatation of the renal pelvis. In the iris the condition is recognised by a wide separation of the iris fibres in the kidney area, with many long black signs which appear between the fibres. In well marked cases, the iris fibres are observed to be running in large arcs which extend over the extremity area (30&#8242;) and extend through the region for inguinal, uterine and rectal areas: right iris 25&#8242;, left iris 35&#8242;.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">6. Floating kidney: is recognised by a displacement of the kidney areas in the direction of the abdominal area. One sees a distinct white arc which extends out from the iris-wreath into the lower temporal quadrant of the iris. In addition, one often finds a contraction of the wreath at right iris 45&#8242;, or left iris 15-20&#8242;, which arises through pressure of the displaced kidney upon the intestine.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">     Floating kidney and hydronephrosis have quite similar signs. They are easily distinguished by the long black signs (loss of substance) which are found with hydronephrosis but not with floating kidney.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Courier New; font-size:10pt">7.  It is important to draw attention to the close connection between lungs and kidneys. Thus, for example, there is no lung T.B. without kidney signs in the left iris. (Right iris: hereditary, left iris: acquired.)<br />
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