Alternative, complementary and holistic health care

March 8, 2010

Medicinal Mushrooms from China

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 10:58 pm

Medicinal Mushroom Products from China

Whole dried mushrooms,powders,extracts

Shiitake,Reishi,Maitake,Zhu ling and others

Good Prices, High Quality.

Looking for wholesale orders.

Contact

Tradeware
Box 406
White Marsh, VA 23183
Phone 804-693-2239  FAX 804-693-7122
73614.2…@compuserve.com

calm, cool, collected

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 10:57 pm

Does anyone know of something natural that works like vallium?  (I’ve never
taken vallium, only heard about it)  I notice that upon rising in the
morning, my skin is "calm, cool and collected" but as soon as daily life
kicks in,  problem  skin rears its ugly head and the "calm, cool and
collected" is gone!   What can I do to keep my skin feeling "calm, cool and
collected"??  This info isn’t necessary only for my skin, it’s necessary
for general sanity!!!   Life  in New York City can be one big frenzy!  
Thanks in advance, — Alex

end of message from: ALEX YONG ay…@pipeline.com
http://www.geopages.com:80/Broadway/1877/

OPINIONS ON DISTILLED WATER?

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 10:57 pm

anybody out there with opinions on the value of drinking distilled water?

somebody recommended that I switch, as distilled water is the healthiest,
but is it really OK for long-term use as drinking water?

thanks

colloidal silver?

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 10:56 pm

any information on colloidal silver and its properties would be
appreciated.  also, any information on using a mild electrical current to
treat hiv.     thank you    

test

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 10:56 pm

March 7, 2010

Potassium supplements

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 7:44 pm

Potassium supplements.

   How much elemental potassium per day is optimal?

   Which form of potassium supplementation is most effective?

Thank you.

– Brad Pierce —                                  9/Nov/1995

magot therapy for wound debridement

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 7:43 pm

this is from:

ST-31-91B
US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES MEDICAL HANDBOOK
SEPTEMBER 1982

CHAPTER 22     PRIMITIVE MEDICINE

22-3/4
  MAGGOT THERAPY FOR WOUND DEBRIDEMENT

a.   Introducing maggots into a wound can be hazardous because the
wound must be exposed to flies.   Flies, because of their filthy
habits, are likely to introduce bacteria into the wound, causing
additional complications.  Maggots will also invade live healthy
tissue when the dead tissue is gone or not readily available.
Maggot invasion of healthy tissue causes extreme pain and hemmorrhage,
possibly enough to be fatal.

b.   Dispite the hazards involved , maggot therapy should be
concidered a viable alternative when, in the absence of antibiotics, a
wound becomes severely infected, does not heal, and ordinary
debridement is impossible.

        (1)   All bandages should be removed so that the wound is exposed to
circulating flies.  Flies are attracted to foul or fetid odors coming
from the infected wound; they will not deposit eggs on fresh clean
wounds.

        (2)   In order to limit further contamination of the wound by disease
organisms carried by the flies, those flies attracted to the wound
should not be permitted to lite directly on the wound surface.
Instead, their activity should be restricted to the intact skin
surface along the edge of the wound. Live maggots deposited here
and/or maggots hatching from eggs deposited here will find their way
into the wound with less additional contamination than if the flies
were allowed free access to the wound.

        (3)   One exposure to the flies is usually all that is necessary to
ensure "MORE" than enough maggots for thorough debridement of a wound.
Therefor, after the flies have deposited eggs the wound should be
covered with a bandage.

        (4)   The bandage should be removed daily to check for maggots. If  no
maggots are observed in the wound within 2 days after exposure to the
flies, the bandage should be removed and the wound should be
re-exposed. if the wound is found to be teeming with maggots when the
bandage is removed as many as possible should be removed using forceps
or some other sterilized instrument or by flushing with sterile water.
Only 50 – 100 maggots should remain in the wound.

        (5)   Once the maggots have become established in the wound, it should
be covered with a bandage again, but the maggot activity should be
monitored closely each day.  A frothy fluid produced by the maggots
will make it difficult to see them. This fluid should be "sponged out"
of the wound with an absorbant cloth so that all of the maggots in the
wound can be seen.  Care should be taken not to remove the maggots
with the fluid.

        (6)   The period of time necessary for maggot debridement of a wound
depends on a number of factors, including the depth and extent of the
wound, the part of the body affected, the number of maggots present in
the wound, and the fly species involved.  In a survival situation an
individual will be able to controll only one of these factors– the
number, and sometimes not even that; therefore the exact time to
remove the maggots cannot be given in specific numbers of hours or
days. However it can be said with certainty that the maggots should be
removed immediately once they have removed all the dead tissue and
BEFORE they have become established in healthy tissue.  When the
maggots begin feeding on normal healthy tissue, the individual will
experience an increased level of pain at the site of the wound as the
maggots come in contact with "live" nerves.  Bright red blood in the
wound also indicates that the maggots have reached healthy tissue.

        (7)   The maggots should be removed by flushing the wound repeatedly
with sterile water.  When all the maggots have been removed, the wound
should be bandaged.  To ensure that the wound is free of maggots,
check it every four hours or more often for several days. Any
remaining maggots should be removed with sterilized forcepts or by
flushing with sterile water.

        (8)   Once all of the maggots have been removed, bandage the wound and
treat it as any other wound.  It should heal normally provided there
are no further complications

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

 I hope this answers some of the questions about maggot therapy.

John Faherty
X-army medic

.

Zantac while pregnant?

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 7:43 pm

Hello,

I’m 5 months prego and when I visited my doctor he became concerned that
I was still having trouble with nausea/vomiting/indigestion — all the
regular stuff.  I believe the concern is with the relative slow rate of
weight gain and potential dehydration.  He has prescribed Zantac, which I
always think of as ulcer medicine. I’ve never taken it before, and since
I’m the type that won’t take Tylenol unless I have to, I am concerned
about its effects.

I don’t know how it works, whether it is appropriate, whether there any
alternatives etc.  Normally these are questions I would ask the doctor,
but when I do he seems to get impatient and give broad general answers.  
I’m looking for another high-risk OB :-( .

If anyone has advice/anecdotes etc, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks,
Ghina

Any Health Alternatives for ADD- Ritalin?

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 7:43 pm

Hi:

Just inquiring whether anyone has knowledge of natural
herb/vitamins that would be close to the medication of
Ritalin used for ADDers.  I have inquired about such products
as DMAE and Ginkgo but I am specifically wondering about anything
available in Canada.  Canada and U.S. have very different FDA
regulations.  So what might be readily available in the US, no
doubt won’t be in Canada.  

There is one particular product named Laratone Jr. made by a
company called Ives Ponroy from France.  It’s ability to aid
in regenerating and reactivating weak nerve tissue in brain cells
helps in memory enhancement.  Apparently part of the composition
contains cerebral phospholipids (spelling?).  Anyone have any
info on this.

A healthfood store in the area is presently waiting for their next
shipment of it and in the meantime, I would appreciate any input
anyone has on this product or any other Canadian available products.

Thanks.

Jan McIntyre
Jan.McInt…@Dal.Ca

Re: Lymes cures? (was — Re COLLOIDAL SILVER)

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 7:42 pm

caMel <ca…@winternet.com> wrote:
>And nearly all
>forms of silver react with the hydrochloric acid in the stomach to
>make silver-chloride (a harmless and VERY insoluable product).

        What about taking the CS a minute or so after downing a good
        stiff sodium bicarbonate solution?  That would neutralize the
        stomach acid for a while.  Question is will it do it enough
        and for long enough to allow the CS to pass into the lower
        GI.

        And then there is the idea of the colloidal silver enema…

>(Gold is also highly insoluble except in a combination of hydrochloric
>and sulfuric acids — called "aqua regia". I don’t know how gold
>reacts in the gut because, well, I’ve not asked enough questions. :)

        True but gold is also nonreactive with stomach acids as far as I
        know, so might not colloidal gold be helpful?

        Speaking of CS, anyone know the precise process by which this is done?
        I tried last night using an anodizing setup I have at home and the
        resulting solution sure did taste like silver but I have no idea how
        large the particles were or to what concentration I’d made the solution.
        If I can get this down correctly, I should be able to knock out CS at
        just about any concentration desired for a few pennies per gallon rather
        than the 10-15 bucks per ounce which is typical in health food stores.
        Shoot, if I could do this I’d GIVE it away if it made folks better.

        Any ideas would be appreciated.

        -Andy V.

        "I have a high art; I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me."

                        -Archilocus, 650 BCE

« Newer PostsOlder Posts »

Powered by WordPress