More Secrets for Treating Infections Without Antibiotics
Cholesterol Facts
What Happens When Doctors Go On Strike?
Mobile Phones Linked to Brain Tumours?

This week, we’re still on the them of treating wounds that may go septic or have already gone septic, without the use of antibiotics.

For my last two e-letters on this subject, please click on my Archive detailed in the right hand panel.

There are many injury remedies and they will all prevent or heal infections from the injury sustained, as long as they ‘fit’ you or your injury. So the remedies I’m selecting for you are not the only ones, just the top home prescribing ones.

I make no apologies for repeating this week’s remedy. Sometimes, we need to see something from another angle to ‘get’ it. I know I do.

As a society, we tend to think we have to heal every little thing, every small malady that arises. The truth is, your body is capable of healing everything, if it’s in a healthy and balanced state. The more unhealthy or unbalanced you are, the less likely your body will be able to heal itself.

And that’s not just on a physical level. If you’re not coping mentally or emotionally, you body will eventually let you know. But even in an unbalanced state you can heal yourself of many things, just by doing any one or more of the following:-

• resting

• eating well - fresh fruit and veggies preferably raw, no dairy, little flesh, little or no sugar, NO fast or processed food

• listening to your inner voice

• changing your mindset

• taking responsibility for your health

So you don’t need to treat everything. Sometimes, it’s better to wait and see what happens. The trick is to know what needs treating immediately and what can be left.

Not easy.

This week’s remedy is about treating an infection that has already developed.

It might be an abscess, a boil or carbuncle that is suppurating (pus building up or discharging), so there is a soft swelling which is growing and/or may be leaking pus.

The pus can be bloody.

The most characteristic symptom of this remedy is the over sensitivity.

To everything, but particularly to the pain and someone approaching you to treat it. Not unlike Arnica, but much more so.

A animal who needs this remedy is likely to bite you if you try to treat the wound, because of the sensitivity.

The pain is splinter-like.

You can feel as if there’s a draught blowing on the affected part.

Suppuration usually has a putrid smell, and the one most commonly associated with this remedy is like old cheese. So if the abscess is leaking and it smells like your dad’s favourite Gorgonzola cheese, you know which remedy to use....

High sensitivity to all impressions means you may find little things worsen the pain, such as cold, touch, blowing your nose, washing, any slight cause that doesn’t bother you normally.

It’s not just a wound remedy, this remedy works really well on any suppuration with high sensitivity. So ear problems, dental abscess, swollen glands, coughing with a lot of thick, yellow mucus vaginal discharges, cracked or unhealthy skin, ulcers, croup, the list goes on.

This remedy is called Hepar sulphuris, Hepar or Hepar sulph for short. It was created by the founder of homoeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann 200 hundred years ago, by burning the white interior of oyster shell with pure flowers of sulphur.

The oyster shell interior is a calcium salt and homoeopathic Calciums (calcareas) are very fearful and sensitive. Sulphur is well known for healing wounds. So you can see where the combination comes from. But it does differ from Calcarea sulphuricum, although that too can be a suppuration remedy.

The keynotes of this remedy are:-

• abscess from wounds (but not exclusively)

• boils, carbuncles

• highly sensitive to pain and all impressions

• pains can feel like a splinter

• as if wind is blowing on the affected part

• discharge smells like old cheese

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So getting back to having left a wound a bit too long, you can see that homoeopathy comes to the rescue, with little fuss or fanfare.

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Cholesterol Facts -  Ellison, Shane. Hidden Truth about Cholesterol Lowering Drugs.

Cholesterol is a versatile compound that is vital to the function of the human body and just like everything else; cholesterol levels differ greatly among individuals. In humans, cholesterol serves 5 main functions: 

1. Cholesterol is used by the body to manufacture steroids, or cortisone-like hormones, including the sex hormones. These hormones include testosterone, oestrogen and cortisone.

2. Cholesterol helps the liver produce bile acids. These acids are essential for digestion of fats and ridding the body of waste.

3. Cholesterol acts to interlock "lipid molecules," which stabilize cell membranes. Therefore, cholesterol is the vital building block for all bodily tissues.

4. Cholesterol is an essential part of the myelin sheath. The myelin sheath, similar to the coating on copper wire, ensures that the brain functions properly by aiding the passage of electrical impulses. Without the myelin sheath, it is difficult to focus and we can lose memory.

5. And finally, cholesterol has beneficial effects on the immune system. Men with high cholesterol have stronger immune systems than those with low cholesterol, as can be seen by the fact that they have more lymphocytes, total T-cells, helper T-cells and CD8+ cells.  Many strains of bacteria, which cause us to get sick, are almost totally inactivated by LDL cholesterol.

In closing, lowering such a vital molecule might be considered suicide in slow motion. To illustrate, imagine that your house represents your body and the nails holding it together, cholesterol. Now start pulling just a few nails out of the house. What happens? The house turns to a pile of rubble. The same is true for the human body.

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Health Science Institute
When doctors in Israel took industrial action and went on strike back in 2000, it highlighted a strange phenomenon...

When doctors go on strike, the death rate plummets!

In this particular instance, the death rate FELL by nearly 40% over the strike period. But it’s by no means an isolated example. 

Back in 1973, Israeli doctors went on strike for 4 weeks and deaths fell by a staggering 50% in that month.

The same happened in Los Angeles in 1976, which saw an 18% decline in deaths during industrial action by doctors. When the strike ended and the medical machine started grinding back into action, the death rate returned to usual levels.

The same thing in Bogota in 1972. Doctors withdrew all treatments apart from emergency care. 

And guess what? The mortality rate went down by 35%.

It would therefore appear that the more we can avoid medical intervention in our lives, the more chance we have of living longer and healthier.

As Dr Robert Mendelsohn, the renowned Chicago MD put it, as far back as 1979: “If doctors reduced their involvement with people and only attended emergencies, there’s no doubt in my mind that we’d be better off.”

Medical errors now account for an estimated 40,000 deaths each year in the UK, and have officially become Britain’s third biggest killer behind cancer and heart disease.

That’s the equivalent of a Jumbo jet-full of passengers perishing every week of the year.

In addition, serious reactions to a prescription drug are also believed to be responsible for a further 250,000 Britons being hospitalised each year, with aspirin, diuretics, warfarin and NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) - commonly used for treating such things as arthritis – being the main offenders.

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Why Brain Surgeons Are Avoiding Cell Phones
Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told CNN interviewer Larry King that they did not hold cell phones next to their ears. Dr. Keith Black, Dr. Vini Khurana, and CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta all maintained that the practice could be unsafe....