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Strengthen
Yourself and Your Family Against All Kinds of Flu: By
Oxford Naturopathics and Wellness Centre!
Stay
at home - wear a silly mask over your face all day -
stock your fridge and cupboard up with food - keep your
kids isolated...........
What other scare mongering are we going to hear from
our dysfunctional health department and government?
We hear nothing about the 30,000 plus people that die
every winter worldwide from the normal flu do we? Only
about the sensationalism that surrounds bird and swine
flu so they can sell more vaccines and Tamiflu.
Let me explain what type of a virus the Swine Flu is.
It's known as the A/H1N1 virus. Between 1918 and 1920,
a H1N1 virus (known as the Spanish Flu) was responsible
for the death of between 50 to 100 million people worldwide
and affected approximately 1/3 of the world's population.
This type of virus also emerged on hog farms in the
US in 1998. Since then, various strains of the H1N1
virus have evolved and hybridized with other viruses
to form new strains, including the Swine Flu virus.
This virus can be spread between humans by coughing,
sneezing or touching a contaminated surface then touching
your eyes, nose or mouth. Pigs are central to the development
of the epidemic because they provide ideal conditions
for viruses to thrive and mix to create potent new viruses.
It is more than likely Swine flu was spread from direct
human contact with infected pigs. You don't get Swine
Flu by eating pork or pork products.
However, the Swine Flu seems to travel faster than the
last official pandemic, (the 1968 Hong Kong flu) and
appears to effect all ages, differing from the common
seasonal flu that mostly affects infants and the elderly.
It has already affected 64 countries, with a global
total of 18,965 infections so far, resulting in some
travel bans. Amazingly, we don't even hear about the
1.2 billion cases of normal flu worldwide. Most of the
cases of swine flu have been in North America and Mexico
and an overwhelming majority of the 117 deaths related
to the disease were in the elderly people of Mexico.
There is no cause for panic!!!!! The last time an outbreak
of a mutant Flu was predicted, it never eventuated.
Yet it resulted in massive vaccine campaign that caused
paralysis in hundreds of vaccinated people, and the
vaccine was also blamed for 25 deaths. We should learn
from the Bird Flu that not all viruses end up causing
widespread disease and death.
We do know, however, that the people most likely to
be affected by Swine Flu and other virulent flues are
those with weak immune systems. So take care of your
immune system, take reasonable precautions, and you
will have little to worry about.
Strengthen yourself and your family against all different
types of flu. To get prepared for the colder season,
I recommend that you increase your MetaZinc &C (1 tsp
morning and night) and purchase a box of our Homeopathic
Flu Preventer pills for $........
Call us on 07 3899 9155 and we will send them out or
put them aside for you to come in and pick up. This
offer is available as long as stocks last.
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Flourishing
with Flourish Remedies, Herbal Pharmacy: Q&A with Medical
Herbalist, Miriam Young!
Vanessa:
What is an herbal pharmacy and how is it different from
a standard pharmacy?
Miriam: An herbal pharmacy is herbal and natural
in the true sense of the words. Herbal and natural remedies
include a full Herbal Dispensary, Homeopathic Remedies,
Australian Bush and Bach Flower Essences, *Anthroposophical
medicines and Aromatherapy oils. Flourish Remedies also
has all natural supplements, plant based organic nutrition,
as well as a colloidal mineral range. This gives the
local community the opportunity to treat day-to-day
symptoms herbally, instead of with drugs. Normal pharmacies
have orthodox treatments, many of which are synthetic,
whereas an herbal pharmacy will use plants rather than
drugs. There are three ways of taking herbs; as liquid
tinctures that you mix with water or juice, in the form
of teas and powdered herbs in capsules. The herbal medicines
in my dispensary come from all over the world, including
Europe, South America, China and India. They have gone
through the strictest quality control practices in the
world in order for Herbalists to prescribe them in Australia.
Vanessa: What conditions can herbal medicines
treat?
Miriam: The full range of female gynecological
issues: such as period pain, endometriosis, ovarian
cysts, abnormal bleeding patterns, as well as menopausal
symptoms. Herbal medicine is more successful in treating
female hormonal complaints than any other modality that
I am aware of. Prostate symptoms can occur in men as
young as 30 years old. You can't beat herbal medicine
in this area! Herbal treatments are also very good for
bacterial conditions and treating viruses in the body,
whether it's Ross River Fever or a local flu virus,
whereas orthodox medicine really can't do a lot about
viruses. Herbal remedies are also great for digestive
problems, constipation, diarrhea, and toxic overload
and parasite infection. They say 95% of people are walking
around with some kind of parasite in their body that
shouldn't be there, and this causes all sorts of issues.
Weight loss, weight gain, loss of appetite, immune suppression,
bad breathe, moodiness, depression, tiredness, sugar
cravings can all be due to parasites in the body. Allergies
quite often aren't actually allergies - it's because
the body is toxic and can no longer carry out its duties
anymore in terms of digestion. Allergies are also more
often due to parasites or digestive problems rather
than having a particular allergy to a food or a substance.
Other chronic conditions such as: arthritis, diabetes,
heart complaints, and cancer respond well to my detoxification
programs, primarily using herbal medicine.
Here's what a recent client of Miriam's said:
"My kidneys were giving me a lot of pain just 2 months
ago. Since that time I have been following Miriam's
detox diet and taking a special herbal cleanse tonic
for my kidneys. After only a few weeks on this I started
to feel much more energized in myself and since last
week have had no pain in my kidneys at all. Whatever
is in that "Kidney Cleanse Tonic" works wonders and
I am usually very skeptical of such products. Miriam
has a deep understanding into how to bring the body
back into balance through the careful use of herbs and
proper diet which aid the body in its elimination of
toxins."
Vanessa: How can herbs help people through the
Winter Season?
Miriam: Every person is different; some people
thrive throughout winter and love the cold weather,
whereas others with a different constitution really
struggle during winter, so prevention is the best cure.
It's really important to say here that cold and flues
are not bad. It's not a bad thing for a human being
to experience a cold or flu once or twice a year, because
that is our way of resting, detoxifying and transforming
if you like. If you are a parent and you notice your
child experience a bad flu, when they recover it's like
they've changed and grown up or matured, so in children
and adults it can be a real transition time. Sometimes
the best thing to do is embrace a cold/fu and one of
the ways healing herbs can help is by the use of herbs
such as cinnamon, cayenne, ginger, garlic and nutmeg,
herbs that heat the body (even though the person may
have heat in their body already), so if you get the
person to sweat, you're helping the person to heal in
a natural way rather than suppressing it or pushing
it back down in to the body, so that's where hot lemon
and garlic drinks and hot baths can help. However, if
a person finds they are sick from the moment the weather
changes in autumn until it heats up in summer, then
there is probably an issue in their immune system. Again,
a person may decide to take an herbal tonic throughout
winter as a preventative measure! I know I do! Herbal
medicine is effective in strengthening the immune system
and very good for the elderly who may find it difficult
to shake a flu.
Vanessa: What is your top tip for staying well
during winter?
Miriam: Apart from green nutritional supplements and
colloidal minerals, my other health tip is have a good
breakfast; a lot of what you do in the morning sets
you up for the day, so here is my favourite morning
kick start: 2 raw eggs, oat milk, half a teaspoon of
cayenne pepper and two tablespoons of freshly ground
golden linseeds and a banana, blend and make into a
smoothie. I'm a vegetarian and quite tall and slim,
so the fat from the eggs and essential fatty acids from
the linseed is going to come into my system and protect
me, the cayenne pepper is going to warm my whole system,
boost circulation and put oxygen in my cells and oxygen
fights viruses and bacteria. Also, we will never be
100% well unless we are drinking pure water and the
body needs to be rehydrated in the morning at least
500 mills of water in the morning and why not try hot
water in winter!
Box out: Miriam's flu buster:
If someone in the office has the flu, one of your best
defenses is to chop up a piece of fresh garlic into
little pieces and then swallow like tablets before breakfast.
This will help you to prevent flu.
*Anthroposophical medicine is a holistic approach to
medicine focusing on strengthening the patient's organism
and individuality
Sonanne
Place Fig Tree Pocket / Noosa QLD
5449 1130/ 0413 024 901
http://www.detox4life.com.au/
The I.C.H.P Weight Control Program: by Peter McMahon!
The I.C.H.P. Weight Control Programme was developed
by Dr. Joe Keaney, Director of The Institute of Clinical
Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy. For more than twenty
years, thousands of people just like you have been gaining
permanent control of their weight through Dr. Keaney's
programme.
The I.C.H.P. weight loss programme has a very high success
rate because it enables you to achieve personal change
at a deep level in your sub-conscious mind. It is the
part of your mind, which governs your motivations, perceptions
and beliefs. I have conducted weight control programmes
both privately and for groups. I do not prescribe a
diet for you to try to follow and then eventually break.
However you will enjoy noticing your eating habits improving;
and you will feel good about yourself more and more
as you lose a moderate amount of weight each week. Some
people enjoy or require the structure of a prescribed
diet. In which case I work in conjunction with your
dietitian.
When you attend the I.C.H.P. weight loss programme,
you will learn effective techniques to change your perception
of different foods and will not experience the battle
of will power and calorie counting which you may have
experienced as a dieter. Your self confidence will improve
as you achieve your goal of a thinner, healthier you.
You will learn self-hypnosis and gain motivation to
enjoy moderate exercise. I teach you to recognize and
change unwanted eating habits and to become aware of
and overcome any blocks or internal conflicts which
may be preventing you from achieving your goal. To maximize
your benefit from the programme, I provide you with
a hypnotic audiotape, which you may use at home to reinforce
the suggestions.
Most people achieve permanent weight control by attending
the group sessions. The programme is four sessions spread
over six weeks. Some people prefer private sessions.
Seize the opportunity now to change your life for the
better because you deserve to have the healthy body
you want.
Eating Disorders - Bulimia, Binge Eating, Anorexia,
Emotional Eating.
Quite often over-eating and under-eating are some kind
of safety behaviour for a deeper, perhaps unknown problem.
In which case simple suggestion therapy will not be
sufficient on its own. We need to find the root cause
of the problem and also to provide you with tools that
enable you to make the permanent changes you want. For
eating disorders I use a combination of suggestion therapy
and analytical hypno-psychotherapy to help you overcome
you problem. Please phone me to ask any further questions
and to reserve your place in the up-coming weight loss
programme.
07 3833 6735 / 0404 136 553
Montserrat Day Hospital Level 2/ 35 Astor Tce
www.hypnotherapyqueensland.com
Hypometabolism
- a common cause of fatigue & weight gain:By
Nirala Jacobi, BHsc, ND ( USA)!
Your
metabolism is the rate of catabolism-breakdown of substances
such as foods used in cellular respiration, and anabolism-the
process of building up substances such as proteins in
your cells. Many factors play a role in regulating your
metabolism and often these pathways slow down when there
is an imbalance in this process.
Hypometabolism is a condition where reactions that occurred
rapidly in your body, have slowed down causing you to
feel extremely tired and to gain weight easily.
The thyroid connection
Health care practitioners often look to the thyroid
and the adrenal glands as the culprit for this combination
of symptoms. The adrenal glands will be the topic of
another article.
A brief course in thyroid physiology:
A gland in your brain secretes TSH, or thyroid stimulating
hormone that tells the thyroid to start producing more
Thyroxine, or T4. T4 is a storage form of thyroid hormone
but needs to be converted to T3 to be biologically active.
Depending on need, almost every cell in your body can
convert to the active hormone T3 that helps to speed
up cellular processes and regulate your temperature.
Under certain circumstances this process can go awry
and your cell instead makes something called reverse
T3, which is a biologically inactive molecule, robbing
your cell of the much needed active T3.
It is important to note that blood tests that only look
at TSH, T4 and T3 cannot properly assess your cellular
need of T3.
In other words, you can still be in need of T3 on a
cellular level, even though all of your tests are normal.
For example, some people who have been diagnosed with
low functioning thyroid, or hypothyroid, do not report
significant improvement in their symptoms when they
take prescription medicine for their hypothyroidism.
This is often due to the fact that T4 containing medicines
such as Thyroxine are improperly converted to T3 by
some people, especially those who convert a lot of the
thyroxine to the inactive reverse T3.
The iodine connection
Iodine is essential for thyroid hormone production.
Without proper iodine in our diet, we can develop a
goiter, or enlargement of our thyroid and frank hypothyroidism.
(Please note that auto-immune thyroid conditions are
usually not due to iodine deficiency)
Besides fatigue, weight gain, constipation, depression,
irregular periods, and many other symptoms, hypothyroidism
during pregnancy can cause cretinism in the unborn-a
condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth.
You may also be interested to know that Australia has
a very high incidence of iodine deficiency.
Why iodine deficiencies?
Relative low intake in the diet - iodine is abundant
in sea vegetables
Dairy
farmers used to sanitize their milk containers with
iodine containing betadyne that has now been switched
to chlorine-containing bleach so we no longer get iodine
from dairy products.
The
chemicals bromine, chlorine, fluorine, and iodine all
belong to the same group known as halogens. When we
are exposed to high levels of chlorine (such as swimmers)
or bromine (used to fortify bread) we can actually replace
iodine with these substances, causing us to be iodine
deficient
Summary
In my clinic in Paddington/Brisbane I often see clients
who complain about the inability to lose weight as well
as fatigue, depression, and menstrual symptoms. In regards
to hypometabolism I usually consider the following:
Hypothyroidism and/or adrenal dysfunction
cellular unavailability to T3/too much reverse T3
iodine
deficiency
What you can do
If you suffer from any of the abovementioned symptoms,
you may benefit from the following suggestions:
ask your doctor or natural health care provider for
a proper thyroid test: TSH, free T4, free T4, reverse
T3 as well as a morning urine test for iodine deficiency
consider assessing your adrenal using an Adrenal Stress
Index usually ordered by natural health care practitioners
make sure auto-immune hypothyroid-such as Hashimoto's
thyroiditis is ruled out
take your temperatures with a basal thermometer for
a week. Normal body temp is lowest during sleeping,
so take it just after waking and before putting anything
in your mouth. Oral or vaginal is better than armpit
(provided you have no infections as these can raise
your oral or vaginal temperature). Normal body temp
is around 37 degrees C. Lower than 36 consistently could
indicate hypothyroidism and/or hypometabolism. Remember
that there are normal variations in body temperature
particularly around ovulation.
Avoid chlorinated swimming pools, get a shower head
filter, and water filter to avoid chlorine and fluoride
from replacing the iodine in your body
Increase thyroid supporting nutrients: sea vegetables
like sea weed and brazil nuts for selenium
Hypometabolism is a treatable condition. Continue to
seek help if symptoms persist.
(07) 3368 1300
Bardon Counselling and Natural Therapies Center 151
Boundary Road Bardon Queensland
http://www.niralajacobi.com/
Will Holosync Make You Enlightened?:
Meditation Made Easy!
The mind, by its very nature, chops the universe into
separate things and events. This chopping is called
maya in Hindu and Buddhist thought. Maya comes from
the same root word as measurement, and it's the idea
that we take an essentially wiggly world and try to
"straighten it out," to explain it (ex-plane it, flatten
it out), to "square things away," to "iron things out,"
and so on.
If humans were in charge of clouds, for instance, they
would all probably have regular geometrical shapes.
The natural wiggly world is too complex for our simple
minds, so we try to simplify it by dividing it into
this and that, separate things and events, and create
simple representations of the exceedingly complex (actually,
infinitely complex) multi-dimensional goings-on of the
natural world.
For instance, if you tried to describe what happened
to you during the last five minutes whatever you said
would be a tiny fraction of what really happened, because
what happened actually included all your sensory impressions,
attended to or not, all your relationships with everything
else (ultimately) in the universe, all the cells that
divided in your body, all the heartbeats that happened,
all the muscle movements, and a whole lot more-and that
just can't be described. It would take an infinite amount
of time to explain all of this, since it's all happening
all at once. We live in a multi-dimensional universe
that just cannot be grabbed hold of, physically or mentally!
(It's been said about Reality, the Tao, that "You can't
grab hold of it, and you can't get rid of it.")
So the way out of this fragmented way of living and
seeing the world (a way of seeing that is the root cause
of the suffering in the world) is to stop mistaking
this chopped-up way of looking at the universe, through
the filter of the mind, for the real thing. And, to
do this, you first have to get out of the mind entirely
(though once you "get it" you can go back to using the
mind, but this time without being fooled that what it
creates is more than just a representation of reality).
Holosync (as well as traditional meditation, for that
matter) creates connections in the brain that gradually
allows you to see more and more how everything really
does go together, to see how everything is really one
big "thing-event", and how separate things and events
(especially the separate "me") are illusory.
This, of course, is the end-of-the-line ultimate realization.
As you know if you're using Holosync, this isn't what
happens during the first week. As you use Holosync,
though, you gradually see how things go together and,
as this happens, you relax. Things that bothered you
before don't seem to bug you as much. Seeing the world
as a conglomeration of separate things and events (that
aren't you, and are potentially dangerous) creates anxiety,
because it makes it SEEM as if you are separate from
the rest of the universe-and, as a separate self, that
you are in danger, or at least potentially in danger.
As you increasingly see how things go together your
anxiety diminishes, along with depression, anger, fear,
and other "negative" emotions (the emotions of separation).
At the same time, your various coping methods for dealing
with what seems like the danger of existence also calm
down-addictions, eating problems, withdrawal, projection,
behavioral acting out, and so on.
Most people don't, at first, see these changes as being
a result of seeing how everything goes together, because
that isn't apparent in the beginning-at least to most
people. But just a little bit, even if you aren't yet
consciously aware of it, is enough to change your experience
of life. The ah-ha, where you see that, yes, everything
is connected, and you are not separate, comes later.
And if you want to get there faster, use Holosync. I
recommend you try our free demo CD and special report
which explains more on how and why this can help.
http://www.meditate.com.au/
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Laughter
is the best medicine!
David
received a parrot for his birthday. the parrot was fully
grown with a bad attitude and worse vocabulary. every
other word was an obscenity. those that weren't expletives,
were to say the least, rude. david tried hard to change
the bird's attitude and was constantly saying polite
words, playing soft music, anything he could think of.
nothing worked. he yelled at the bird and the bird yelled
back. he shocked the bird and the bird just got more
angry and more rude. finally, in a moment of desperation,
david put the bird in the freezer, just for a few moments.
he heard the bird squawk and kick and scream-then suddenly,
there was quiet. david was frightened that he might
have hurt the bird and quickly opened the freezer door.
the parrot calmly stepped out and said "i believe i
may have offended you with my rude language and actions.
i'll endeavor at once to correct my behavior. i really
am truly sorry and beg your forgiveness." david was
astonished at the bird's change in attitude and was
about to ask what had made such a dramatic change when
the parrot continued, "may i ask what did the chicken
do?"
.Quote
of the week!
Each of us has characteristics we define
as ‘good’ and those we define as ‘bad.’ The parts of
ourselves that we continually reject want to be acknowledged
and loved. Until we honour these aspects, they will
continue to assert themselves. They will do whatever
they can to get our attention.
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