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Thought of the Week
How to Avoid a Compulsory Vaccination
If You Suddenly Stop Receiving Opt-In Ezines
Anything Goes in the Pet Products Industry

A toxic liver is very common today. Why?

Well, first anything toxic in your diet or environment goes straight to your liver so that your body can release it slowly and safely into your body for excretion.

When your liver becomes overloaded, then you start noticing the effects.

Lets look at some common causes of liver overload

• preservatives in your food, either directly or through the growing of the food
• medication, which generally suppresses your self healing abilities
  
• vaccinations which contain toxins (mercury, aluminium, formaldehyde to mention just a few)
  
• toxins in the environment which you breath in - fumes, those released from furnishings and building materials, etc
  

Now lets look at some symptoms of a liver in crisis.

• a sluggishness on waking, even after a good nights sleep
• coldness, especially extremities, with difficulty keeping warm, even in summer
  
• digestive upset in some form (bloating, pain, rumbling, constipation, diarrhoea, etc)
  

You can see from the above, that your liver is incredibly important. So too is your gall bladder, which lives near your liver.

In homoeopathy, the remedies that are used to help your liver are very often the same ones that help your gall bladder, too.

This week’s remedy is called China or Cinchona and is a top gall bladder and liver remedy. And it’s in most home prescribing kits.

China is famous for being the first remedy that the founder, German physician Samuel Hahnemann discovered, 200 years ago.

As you would expect with any liver complaint, you have suffered a drain on your system and may be weak as a result.

It might be from malaria (this is one of our top malaria remedies), or from a loss of body fluid. So you might feel weak after you’ve lost a lot of blood or after a serious bout of diarrhoea.

But, from your point of view, it’s the digestive symptoms that are important.

You might get bloated really easily. You might get a lot of rumbling gas which you expel frequently, either as burping or as flatulence. In some people, when they release the gas, it relieves the pressure of the bloating. But not so for those needing China. Passing the gas gives you no relief at all.

It’s also a good remedy for post operative abdominal pains, when gas has been used and no amount of belching relieves the pain.

Being a gallbladder remedy means it’s also a gall stone remedy. And it can also act on your spleen. Your spleen is situated under your last ribs on the left side. Pain there can indicate a spleen disorder.

Discomfort can occur after you’ve eaten fatty food, rather like Pulsatilla. Here, the differentiating symptom would be the tolerance of heat. Pulsatilla can’t cope with warmth, China is better from warmth.

Food poisoning may be apparent for anyone who has a liver disorder.

Old hands will recognise that any liver disorder tends to make you irritable or even angry. And those needing China are generally irritable or touchy. Very sensitive to being hurt, but aren’t sensitive to others, and easily hurt others feelings.

Another symptom which China is good at resolving is a headache, especially a throbbing headache which is relieved somewhat by hard pressure, very like Belladonna but without the heat. But you’d want to see the liver or gall bladder connection with the headache, for China to work.

The worse time for those needing China is around midnight or midday or anywhere in between - a bit vague, but probably night time is the worse time. So you can’t sleep.

So to recap, the main sphere of action for China is:

• any ailment (such as dehydration) as a result of loss of body fluids
• weakness (such as chronic fatigue) from drain on your system
  
• abdominal bloating not relieved by passing gas
  
• food poisoning
  
• liver, gall bladder, spleen, circulation remedy
  
• irritable, angry
  
• sensitive to hurt, but hurt others feelings
  
• better for warmth
  
• worse touch, middle of the night
  

Animals needing this remedy will have the same symptoms. Probably the ones you’ll notice most are the bloating, the intolerance of fatty food (most commercial pet food has a high fat content as it’s cheap), and a desire for warmth. They might be a bit irritable or short tempered, too. Not unlike the Pulsatilla picture, but with a few distinct differences.

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Thought of the Week

If you think you're too small to be effective you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
Bette Reese

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How to Avoid a Compulsory Vaccination

For aeons, humans have struggled to have the right to choose for themselves. Having arrived at a pretty impressive level of free choice, it seems others are determined to erode that right.

However, the law is still on the side of freedom of choice in most countries.

You might like to read these links for the best way you can retain your right to choose.
The first two articles on my swine flu webpage and my vaccination webpage.

What are your views on the swine flu? I invite your comments at my blog.

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If You Suddenly Stop Receiving Opted In Ezines

Periodically someone contacts me, complaining that they no longer receive my ezines. Servers are becoming more and more vigilant about preventing spam reaching your inbox. Even if you have gone through the process of the anti spam double opt-in process (sign up, then confirm by sending a follow up email), they may still bar its delivery.

Start by checking your spam/junk folder regularly. It’s surprising what I find in there, that shouldn’t be.

One of the best ways of ensuring delivery of my ezine is to whitelist me (put my email address into your address book). That usually works. My primary address is enquiries@twolegsandfour.com.au

If all else fails, you might complain to your server.

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Anything Goes in the Pet Products Industry

As far as pet products, including their food, goes anything can be used. There are no laws, at least no affective laws. A patient recently downloaded some disturbing information about pet products, for me to look at. She’d been on holiday and employed a pet sitter for the duration.

The pet sitter thought she’d do the right thing by washing the dogs just before their return. Nice gesture. But she used a proprietary dog wash which contained maldison, also known as malathion.

This is an organo phosphate. Many of you will know what a toxic pesticide this is. It has been banned for human use. But not for animal use. Or agricultural use.

My patient and her family, not to mention the dogs suffered terribly. And it was a while before they worked out what the cause was.

You might like to check out this link, too.
Specific Pesticide Directly Linked to Parkinson's Disease

Be careful what you buy. Always check the ingredients. If you don’t recognise an ingredient, find out. It’s so easy with the internet. Make sure you take responsibility for everything that comes into your house. Don’t expect the government, or anyone else, to protect you. All they protect is themselves.