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Magnesium Citrate A Miracle Medicine To Offer Relief From Severe Constipation As Well As Stress

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Health is wealth and to care of our health is necessary if we want to lead a happy life. There are many factors that directly affect our life but the most important of them all is our lifestyle. Lifestyle brings many changes in our life and however seemed small earlier these changes highly affect our health. In todays time when we all have very little time to take care our body and health, its not uncommon to suffer from disease like stress and constipation.

Stress has become a common problem in the life of common man. There are many reasons to cause stress to a person but sometimes it just happen because of any other problem in our body, which we generally ignore. The fact that most of the people suffer stress in their life just because of their disturbed digestive system also makes it necessary that we take our body first and for this it is necessary that we take proper diets. Healthy diet is essential for healthy body and so for the healthy mind. And it comes to healthy diet; we talk all minerals & nutrients along with carbohydrates, fats, protein, water etc.

Minerals and nutrients are essential for our body because they however present in small amounts in our body, take big parts in the proper functioning of our body. One such important mineral is Magnesium that has innumerable miracle property to help maintain proper body functioning. Although magnesium is a natural mineral, found in almost every food on earth, its small amounts make it very difficult to get sufficient amount from just food only. In most of the cases, its deficiency is compensated with supplementary Magnesium salts. Magnesium Citrate is one such supplement of magnesium that give relieves from the many symptoms of the magnesium deficiency.

Magnesium Citrate, also known as the Milk of Magnesia, Citrate of Magnesia, Citronesia, and Citroma can do miracle in case of severe constipation, where it not only give Constipation Relief but also relieves stress.

Magnesium Citrate is also beneficial to control typical medical situations like Eclampsia, the third highest cause of maternal mortality after abortions and pulmonary embolism. The mineral is not only effective for early Eclampsia prevention but also ensure stress-free pregnancy. There is no doubt that magnesium supplements are best available mineral supplements in the medicine world that enhance our daily intake of minerals without causing any adverse effect to our body. Safe for all human beings, these supplements are sure way to live a healthy and long life.

Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy,and Plant Spirit Shamanism,

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Listening to the Plants Nature is Talking to us.

The shamans say that plants connect us with nature because they take their nourishment directly from the earth, as well as the sun’s rays, the air, and water. They allow us to know and recognize ourselves. A shaman must know this and must love his people to heal them. Here are just a few of the plant healers.

Jergon Sacha (Dracontium peruviuanum)

My first exposure to this plant came about quite accidentally, when one day walking through the rainforest studying the properties of the plants, the maestro Javier queried why I always walked around with a machete. I jokingly replied it’s against anacondas!. He paused in thought for a moment and beckoned for me to follow him, a few minutes later we came across this tall stemmed plant. He proceeded to cut it down and then whip me around the body paying attention to my legs and the soles of my feet.. He then said no more problems, you are protected against snakes. I asked him why this plant was used in this way, and he indicated the pattern on the stem which looks identical to the snakes in the forest. Later as I started to investigate this plant even more, I discovered some interesting correspondences; this is a plant which is widely used as an antidote against snake bite venom in the Amazon.

This is accordance with the doctrine of signatures’ concept. This doctrine is at the heart of homeopathy, folk medicine, and plant shamanism. The doctrine was revealed by the great alchemist and physician Paracelus who lived in the 16th Century. The underlying principle was that the healing properties of the plant are not only in the outer physical’ form, but also in their inner or spiritual nature. The Doctrine of Signatures holds that this inner nature can be revealed by it’s outer physical form or signatures. This plant is a clear demonstration of the outer form indicating the inner qualities. It’s use is directly related to it’s physical appearance, the patterns on the tall stem closely resembles the skin patterns of the highly venomous pit viper known as Bushmaster’ or Jararaca which is indigenous to the Amazon.

The large tuber of the plant is an well known and highly effective antidote for the bite of venomous snakes. The tuber is chopped up, and immersed in cold water and then drunk. Also the chopped tuber is placed in a banana leaf and used as a poultice which is wrapped around the bite area. These procedures are repeated every few hours. Of course the deal here is that it works, and as it not possible to store anti-venom vaccines in the rainforest without refrigeration, this plant has exceptional life-saving importance.

Mocura / Mucura Petivera Alliacea. This plant can be taken orally or used in floral baths to raise energy, or take you out of a saladera (a run of bad luck, inertia, sense of not living to the full). Gives mental strength and you can feel its effects as also with Ajo Sacha, both are varieties of false’ garlic and have a penetrating aroma.

One of it’s qualities is that on a personal psychological level it can boost one’s strength. For example it is considered good in countering shyness, and can strengthen one’s own sense of personal value and authority. One of it’s properties is to help people overcome irrational’ fears & fearful memories

Medicinal properties include asthma, bronchitis, reduction of fat and cholesterol. This plant grows widely in the lower Amazon, and it is used widely in purification (floral baths) .

Pion Colorado Jatropha gossypifoilio

Has short lived effect after drinking but helps lucid dreaming later on when you go to bed. Can be used as a planta maestra and it is a plant that maestros can take when being during their initiation. Can also take with tobacco.

The plant’s properties on the physical level relate to problems such as, burns, swellings, intestinal parasites , Insect bites and stings, vaginal infections, and bronchitis. It is possible to take the resin which is much stronger but toxic if too much ingested. The resin can be applied directly to the skin.

Piri-piri, (Cyperaceae). Native people throughout the Amazon cultivate numerous varieties of medicinal sedges to treat a wide range of health problems, the native peoples for example, use sedge roots to treat headaches, fevers, cramps, dysentery and wounds as well as to ease childbirth. Special sedge varieties are cultivated by Shipiba women to improve their skill weaving and to protect their babies from illness.

Teresa a Shipiba craftswoman who joins us on our Amazon Retreats, told me that it is customary when the girls are very young for their mothers to squeeze a few drops of the piri piri’ seed sap into their eyes in order to give their daughters the ability to have visions of the designs that she will make throughout her life.

The men cultivate special sedges to improve their hunting. Since the plant is used for such a wide range of conditions, it was once dismissed as being mere superstition. Pharmacological research has revealed the presence of ergot alkaloids, which are known to have diverse effects on the body from stimulation of the nervous system to constriction of blood vessels. These alkaloids are responsible for the wide range of medicinal uses. Apparently the ergot alkaloids come not from the plant itself but from a fungus that infects the plant.

Chanca piedra Stone Breaker (Phyllanthus Niruri)

This is a hybrid name chanca meaning to break in Quechua and piedra meaning stone in Spanish. This herb from the Amazon has been used by the indigenous peoples of the Rainforest for generations as an effective remedy to eliminate gall, and kidney stones. The plant has demonstrated its effectiveness against many illnesses including, kidney problems , urinary problems, colic, dysentery, jaundice and numerous other conditions. This herb has become widely used in South America as the herbal remedy for gall and kidney stones, and can typically be bought in capsule or leaf form from many stores. This plant is used only for its pharmaceutical properties, and is not a planta maestra. As a note, this plant is also starting to become known in Western Medical circles, as when I brought some back for my mother to help her with her kidney stones, her doctor was apparently familiar with this herb, but he still didn’t want her to use it due to possible contra-indications with the prescribed pharmaceutical medicine.

Reflections.

On reflection plant medicine is totally different than pharmaceutical medication which only affects one whilst it is being taken; these kinds of plant medicines seem to have a permanent effect in some way metaphorical or otherwise altering one’s consciousness or “DNA”. Paracelus, is still a source of inspiration to all those who work with the healing properties of herbs, and the plants.

One of the great revelations that we can experience in working with the plant spirit or consciousness is that we are not separate from the natural world. In our culture we perceive ourselves to be separate beings with our minds firmly embedded within our physical being (typically our head). The plants can show you that this way of being is an illusion and that we are all connected, all of us and everything else is a discrete element in the great universal field of consciousness or spirit.

Robotics In Medicine Improving Procedures And Reducing Costs

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Find out how robotics is a rapidly expanding portion of medical treatments.

Robotics in medicine is producing great results in many ways, especially in the area of surgery. The term robotics means the use of a robot to perform various functions. A robot has movable physical structure, a power source, a sensor system, and a computerized brain to control activities.

Surgeons of the future will use robotics to perform surgical tasks. Robotics still requires the expertise of the surgeon to operate, but the instruments used by robotics improve the control, the precision, as well as often minimize the invasiveness of surgical procedures.

Robotics is being used for things like gall bladder surgery, endoscopy, and many other surgeries. Basically, here’s how robotics surgery works. The surgeon looks into a viewfinder to see images being sent by a camera that’s inside the patient. Images show the surgical site and the surgical instruments. Controls, much like a joystick are used by the surgeon to manipulate the instruments and perform the surgery.

Patients with robotics surgery have smaller incisions, shorter hospital stays, and normally faster recovery time. This reduces costs and gives the patient the ability to return to normal activities in a much shorter time span.

Surgical procedures aren’t the only place robotics can be used in medicine. Developers are continuously working on new ways to allow robotics to perform tasks. One area that’s especially promising in the control of disease and the prevention of diseases being spread. Areas that could be harmful for hospital personnel can be sterilized by using robotics. Some other types of procedures are sterilizing floors, delivering lab specimens, pulling patients on stretchers to rooms.

Advocates of using more robotics in medicine feel that the benefits far outweigh any negative constraints. However, in some instances the question of the patient’s emotional state has been questioned. Most people feel more secure when being transported by a human than having a robot transport them. There are other instances where human interaction can have a positive effect on the patient.

How far will the loss of human interaction go in the medical community? At this point, it seems there will be little attention paid to the humanistic side of using robotics in medicine. Obviously, in areas where the patient is virtually unaware, as during surgery, there is little reason not to employ robotics.

Personalized Medicine Will Revolutionize the Medical Field and Provide Transformative Fortunes

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Many of the big transformational technologies set to change the science of medicine are based on single simple concepts. These include stem cells and RNA interference (which is a system within our living cells that takes part in controlling which genes are active and how active they are).

There is another transformational change coming that involves a huge array of technologies related to personalized medicine. There will be huge profit opportunities in many of the enabling technologies for those that are positioned and invest accordingly.

Currently, medicine is, to a large degree a “one size fits all” proposition. Doctors watch for adverse effects and check personal and family histories. Medical technologies, however, are designed for the general population, not individuals.

That is about to change.

We know that many current treatments work on some people, yet not others. Some drugs are safe for many people but have dangerous side effects for others. This is because all of us have individual differences in our genetic code based on heredity and environment. Even slight differences can lead to very different reactions to medications.

This has created serious regulatory problems. Drugs are denied regulatory approval not because they do not work, but because some fraction of the population suffers adverse effects. As a result, we are often denied incredibly effective therapies simply because they are not universally effective.

This shockingly primitive state of affairs exists because, until very lately, we simply have not had the tools to get to the genetic roots of disease. Scientists and pharmaceutical companies havent precisely known how a particular drugs chemical profile interacts with a genetic one. Medical science, in turn, has been unable to tailor drugs to work with a specific genetic makeup.

This is rapidly changing. Just a few short years ago, the human genome was first mapped. The genome is the entire collection of genetic code that defines us at a biological level. Now scientists are studying single genes and their individual expressions.

It is meaningful, from the investors perspective, that Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the Human Genome Project, was selected by the Obama administration to head up the National Institutes of Health. Collins has long been a prominent champion for using the knowledge gained from human genome to accelerate personalized medicine.

This is important because institutional forces, with lobbying clout, always resist change. Much of Big Pharm, and its regulators, are vested in the “one size fits all” model. Many of the old players fear personalized medicine because it threatens the existing hierarchy. Collins presence at the top of the NIH will help counter this institutional resistance.

Incidentally, Collins has stated that genomics is currently where the computer industry was back in the 1970s at the beginning of a technological revolution. While he was speaking in scientific terms, we should remember that the 70s was also the right time to begin investing in a diversified portfolio of breakthrough computer technologies. Those who did so, despite claims that it was too risky or early, were made rich.

As a brief side note, we have to be very careful in our push to a national healthcare plan referred to as Obama Care. Canada and much of Europe have squelched innovation in their countries by nationalizing health care. Rather than allowing drug companies the profits they need to fund future medical technologies, government officials are mandating cheap care. If Americas pharma prices and profits are controlled by the same people who run the Post Office and Medicare, it will not be good for R&D. Most likely, the R&D will continue in Asia as at a recent confab of CEOs, most of the CEOs of important breakthrough medical companies indicated they are constantly being recruited by Asian investors who have the blessings of their political leaders.

Lets get back to understanding the molecular keys to the new medicine.

In Greek mythology, Proteus was the son of Poseidon, who could change his shape at will. From this comes the adjective “protean,” meaning versatile, flexible and adaptable. It is not coincidence that this also describes the proteins expressed by our genes.

By now, the public is somewhat aware of genome progress. Now that the code is cracked, however, we know that it was simply the first step in the process of developing truly personalized medicine.

Though our genome contains the basic information that determines our biology, our proteome is the entire domain of protein chemistry that regulates the structure and functioning of our individual cells. By extension, the proteome determines how each of our bodies function. Everyones proteome is unique, because each of us has a unique genome and has been exposed to unique environmental factors.

The human genome contains a staggering amount of information. If it were a book, it would contain a billion words. Yet consider this: Each individual gene can determine the cellular manufacture and function of many, many proteins. Genes are merely the instructions for making proteins. Unlike our genome, which stays mostly the same over time, our proteome is always in a state of flux.

Proteomics concerns itself with these proteins and their interactions. These interactions determine the course of nearly all human diseases. They also open up entire new avenues of treatments and investment.

One important proteomic avenue is cancer chemotherapy. A recent study of personalized medicine by Scottsdale Healthcare showed that when cancer patients were individually profiled at the molecular level, treatments were more successful. Tumors that had resisted shrinkage using several courses of conventional chemotherapy were successfully treated when the patients individual genetic makeup was used to customize treatment.

We have already seen big investor successes in this arena. Early investors in Genentech struck gold. Genentech, now owned by Roche, was the first company to develop a targeted proteomic cancer therapy when it brought the breast cancer drug Herceptin to the market in 1998.

Building upon this approach, the next breakthrough technology company in the field of personalized medicine is using nanotechnology to target drug therapies for maximum therapeutic effect.

One such company has a patent protected technology in a toaster oven-sized diagnostic platform that can personalize medicine to the individual genetic profiles. A test by this device typically takes only 45-90 minutes. In addition, the technology is 2 to 3 orders of magnitude more sensitive than the current enzyme-based diagnostic technology. This technology can change the whole diagnostic market by moving diagnostics from centralized labs closer to the point of care, which are typically community hospitals and emergency rooms.

Physically, the diagnostic device consists of a reader, a processor and a cartridge. The cartridges are single-use items that are specific to the kind of test desired. New cartridges are being developed for different tests and are on their way to market. These replaceable components will, of course, produce continuing revenues.

Being simple and inexpensive enough to be used by a typical health care provider, this type of system reduces or eliminates the need to send the samples out to diagnostic testing providers. This eliminates the need for dozens of different pieces of equipment, all of them requiring specialized training.

One small device can do all of it.

This type of flexible diagnostic platform puts this company on track to becoming the IBM PC of the medical diagnostics industry. The behemoths of the diagnostic services industry are as obsolete as mainframes. As new diagnostic tests are created for the platform, it will become ubiquitous in health care facilities all over the world.

This company is a truly transformational company that will decentralize the whole medical diagnostics industry and empowered personalized medicine. It will certainly empower it in hospitals and emergency rooms at the point of care. Just moving from all the Quest Diagnostics of the world to community hospitals is just a huge change. It is game-changing in terms of the business.

Just as the potential of personalized medicine is finally beginning to bear fruit, so too are advances in being able to control our aging process.

As mentioned in a previous post on this blog, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN, has reported that “Practical Immortality may now be within our grasp.”

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What Comprises the Ayurvedic Medicine for Hair Reduction

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Ayurveda is one particular with the celebrated varieties of orthodox medicine not simply within the eastern hemisphere but also inside western entire world. This type of holistic treatment method consists of three varying factors with the system. They may be collectively known as because the doshas, which work hand in hand to stop the manifestations of entire body imbalances. Hair loss is one of those manifestations; ayurvedic medicine believes that hair loss is triggered by the imbalance inside the pitta dosha, otherwise called the fireplace factor of our system. Ayurvedic medicine holds that the hair reduction would be the result of anxiety overload as manifested within the pitta dosha of somebody. That is believed for being an psychological outrage or burst of anger as a result of pressure. When ayurvedic medicine for hair loss is utilized by a person, hair retention, likewise being a noticeable normalizing of blood stress and nerve perform, is to be expected.

Inside observe of ayurveda, the medical professionals of this type of medicine consider that hair reduction can only be taken care of by focusing for the root result in of your difficulty: the white blood cellular production of the bone marrow. They researched and found out that when the system produces normal stages of white blood cells, the human body has the perfect control through pressure and diseases, which would lead to a healthier hair and usual hair follicles and scalp. Even so, they also think which the destruction of hair may also be related on the genes of a person. It is why obtaining healthy bones and sturdy immune methods will not guarantee that you may have a hair that’s usually in excellent condition.

What are these ayurvedic treatment options for hair reduction and the way do they actually get the job done? In ayurveda, the doctors prescribe all all-natural treatment plans which include suitable and well-balanced weight loss plan, acceptable crucial oils, aromatherapy and scalp restorative massage, enough relaxation and pressure unwinding, likewise as meditation. Since strain is regarded because the worst contributing issue for the emergence of disease, ayurvedic solutions like yoga exercise workout, relaxation and therapeutic massage are often prescribed to patients struggling from hair loss. These treatment plans, as what was mentioned previously, target the hair follicles at their foundation in order to facilitate good blood circulation and eradicate debris and toxins that inhibit nutritional vitamins and mineral to travel to the hair for nourishment.

Aloe vera is a key component of ayurvedic remedies for hair loss. It produces a soothing sensation that may be believed to possess the power to quiet along the “angry fires” in the pitta dosha or fireplace ingredient. All you’ve got to complete is drink cup of aloe vera juice every day, or restorative massage aloe vera oil or gel with cumin onto the scalp and hair follicles to facilitate greater hair regrowth and make the brand new hair develop into stronger, shinier and more attractive than ahead of.

An additional critical part of ayurvedic medicine for hair loss is scalp therapeutic massage. Hair loss is believed to get the result of inadequate blood and oxygen flow around the underlying scalp. When someone suffering from hair loss begins to therapeutic massage his or her scalp on a regular basis, the blood circulation to the scalp improves and oxygen reaches the hair follicles, foremost on the advancement of new hair.