Healing Infection and Pain From Injury
Quote of the Week
Cholesterol Myths Exposed - part 1
Medical Tests Set Out to Discredit St John’s Wort

Last we were talking about preventing infection without the use of antibiotics. The fact that you are teaming with bacteria, and that it is essential to your good health may come as a surprise to you. But, the fact remains so.

So you can imagine the havoc that antibiotics wreck on your body, indiscriminately killing off bacteria. No wonder you can take days or weeks to recover from a stay in hospital where you’re pumped full of antibiotics regardless of your affliction.

So this week, we’re again going to look at infection from injury.

Most people are introduced to homoeopathy through the use of Arnica, the supreme remedy for any injury. It is the most widely used and sold homoeopathic remedy in the world, and even those who don’t think homoeopathy works, accept the marvels of Arnica. (No, don’t try to figure that one out....)

Most people know that the external use of Arnica cream helps with bruising.

But the internal use of Arnica is far deeper than just bruising.

If you take the remedy orally, then your body can work out which is the most important place to start work on, which may not be where you think it is.

If you take Arnica within minutes of an injury, it can prevent any chronic effects of that injury, as well as prevent any bruising. If bruising down occurs, then you didn’t take enough.

Pain from injury quickly vanishes if this is the right remedy for you. If the pain remains, either you’re not taking enough or you need to move on to another remedy.

If your skin is broken from an injury, it is possible that infection can get in.

As long as the other symptoms (pain, bruising) are being dealt with by Arnica, then it will also deal with the potential of infection, although in the case of a wound from a pointed object, I’d be inclined to take Ledum or Hypericum as well.

If an infection does occur, the smell of it is putrid, like rotten eggs, a sulphurish smell.

Arnica is a great remedy for

• pre- and post-operation, including dental, work to prevent pain and infection
• labour pains and post partrum bruising
• when you work new muscles and they ache
• lack of ability to sleep because of shift work
• to prevent blood clots from lack of movement, such as when flying long distances or when incapacitated
• heart attacks (the heart is a collection of muscles)

The mental symptoms of someone needing Arnica is that you don’t want anyone near you (in case they hurt you more). And that everything you sit or lie on feels hard and uncomfortable, not surprisingly because you’re so bruised.

Arnica is also a great cold remedy, when you feel achy and bruised.

And a great fever remedy, too when your body is cold, but your head is hot.

Arnica is a great remedy for arthritis and rheumatism too, when the symptoms agree.

It isn’t just an acute remedy for injuries, it has a great sphere of action on chronic illnesses too.

The keynotes of Arnica are:-

• no 1 remedy for any injury
• chronic effects of injury, even years ago, including strains, sprains, concussion
• bruising
• pain of injury
• infection from injury
• offensive discharges from infection of an injury
• colds, flu with aching
• fever
• feels worse in the cold

It’s really quite hard to stop writing about what Arnica can do, as it seems endless. One of my books has twenty pages of symptoms, so you see my dilemma...

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Quote of the Week

"The first Wealth is Health"
- Chinese proverb.

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Cholesterol Facts

Lower Your Cholesterol and Prevent Heart Disease (Atherosclerosis)!

Medical Doctors, drug manufacturers and nutritional supplement companies make billions of dollars browbeating us to believe this statement. Despite the exuberance with which it is made, this statement is a health myth. The redundancy of this myth has handicapped health logic among some of the most respected health experts in the world.

Most people insist that because their new statin drug (i.e. Lipitor, Pravachol, Crestor) or nutritional supplement (i.e. red yeast rice, policosanol) plummeted their total cholesterol level from 225 to 180 mg/dL they are safe from the pandemic killer heart disease. Never mind their sugar addiction, insulin resistance (pre-diabetic state) and excess fat.

Low cholesterol does not prevent heart disease and can lead to a myriad of problems. Stop right here and please repeat that sentence before going any further...

In accordance with science, the higher the cholesterol, the longer we live. The cholesterol lowering myth is proof that “when everyone is thinking the same thing, nobody is thinking.”

Logic should bury the cholesterol myth. The human body is diverse. To verify, measure male anatomy and you’ll find that some men have longer ones than others. Similarly, not everybody on the planet will meet the recommended standards set by the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) and adhered to by the American Heart Association (AHA) - not without the influence of medicine, natural or synthetic. This excites drug and supplement companies. Logic is a poor defence for cholesterol; western medicine rarely adheres to it. We’ll have to move on.

Autopsy results from heart attack victims should bury the myth. If low cholesterol levels prevent heart disease, then we would see high cholesterol levels among those who die early from it via heart attack. This is not so. Half of heart attack victims (those who suffer from heart disease) have low cholesterol. This logic is too simple. Highly educated folk will totally miss this one.

Drug company research on cholesterol lowering drugs should definitely bury the myth. If low cholesterol prevented heart disease then studies would show a correlation between drug-induced low cholesterol and prevention of heart disease. The earlier cholesterol lowering drugs, known as “fibrates,” did not. The U.S. General Accounting Office recognised this and intervened. In their report to congress, entitled Cholesterol Treatment – A Review of the Clinical Trials Evidence, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) stated:

“With respect to total fatalities - that is, deaths from CHD [heart disease] and all other causes - most meta-analyses show no significant difference and thus no improvement in overall survival rates in the trials [using fibrates] that included either persons with known CHD or persons without it.”

This did not shake the pharmaceutical grip on medical doctors. Doctors prescribe the newer cholesterol lowering drugs, statins, to anyone with a heartbeat. This must be why all medical doctors carry a stethoscope around their neck. Still though, like the earlier “fibrates,” these drugs show no correlation between low cholesterol and the prevention of heart disease. Looking at 5 major statin drug trials, these being PROSPER, ALLHAT-LLT, ASCOT-LLA, AFCAPS and WOSCOPS, statin drugs provided an Absolute Risk Reduction in total mortality of 0.3%, which equates to NO LIVES SAVED.  These facts will go ignored as well.

Prescription drug addiction takes precedent to science, at least in the United States. Therefore, medical doctors and drug companies will obfuscate the truth with complexity and obscurity via statistical contortionists. Don’t be fooled, hold steady to logic.

The ubiquity and importance of cholesterol to the human body should bury the myth. Cholesterol acts to interlock “lipid molecules,” which stabilise cell membranes. Therefore, cholesterol is a vital building block for all bodily tissues. Lowering such a vital molecule is absurdity. To illustrate, imagine that your house represents your body and the nails holding it together cholesterol. Now start pulling each and every nail out of the house. What happens? The house turns to a pile of rubble. The same is true for the human body.

And finally, studies among populations that live the longest show them to have "high" cholesterol.  You read that right. Cholesterol levels of 400 were better suited for survival than those of 200! High cholesterol saves lives because it is protective, not deadly.

Adhering to the cholesterol myth is akin to crossing a two-way street while looking only in one direction: you are bound to get run over. Getting hit by a car is not an accident, neither is heart disease. The true cause of heart disease is the result of a nutritional deficiency and being a fat cow. To ignore this is to commit suicide, in slow motion. Seek health education not drugs.

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Flawed St. John's Wort Study on ADHD Failed to Use Active Form of Herbal Extract
On the heels of shocking revelations that top psychiatric research Dr. Joseph Biederman secretly took $1.6 million from drug companies while conducting psychotropic drug experiments on children, it has been learned that Dr. Biederman is now one of the key collaborators behind the latest efforts to discredit St. John's Wort. In a study published in the...