(Citrus aurantifolia [Christm.& Panz.] Swingle)
This kind of lime (also called acid lime or sour lime) is not to be consumed raw because of its extreme sour bitter taste. Sour lime has been used for many purposes, such as a cleaning agent (it removes fat in dishes and stain in metal utensils), fresh beverage, as spices in many cooking recipes, and not least as an alternative medicine.
As an altenative medicine, lime is good to cure cough, remove phlegm or mucus (mucolitic) or simply to make our body fresh as it clears blockage in our vital energy channel. Lime can also function as dieuretics and helps digestion.
More specifically, lime (the fruit) can be used to cure the followings health disorders:
1. Influenza and cough
Get one ripe lime fruit. Half and squeeze it to get the extract. Add some 60cc hot boiled water. Then add ½ teaspoon of quicklime (Ind. kapur sirih) and mix them well. Drink it twice daily, two tablespoons each.
Tips: to get more extract out of a lime, before you half the fruit, squeeze the fruit against the table with our palm, until the fruit becomes soft. This way. More juice can extracted.
2. Cough (not followed by influenza)
Extract one lime fruit into a glass. Add approximately the same amount of honey or black soya sauce into the lime juice. Drink it twice daily until the cough stops.
3. Stomachache, Menstruation Disorder, Diarrhea
Get about 5 tablespoon of lime extract, 2 tablespoon of cajuput oil, and a small amount of quicklime (about the size of a peanut). Mix them well, and rub it on the neck (cough), chest and belly (stomachache, diarrhea), lower belly and waist (menstruation disorder/pain on menstruation). Do this 2 – 3 times daily.
4. Headache/ Dizziness
Pick about half a handful of lime leaves, rinse them well, then crush thoroughly. Add on 1 tablespoon of lime juice and mix well. Rub this mixture on the nape of the neck, forehead, and temples, 2 – 3 times daily.
5. Sore throat
Get three ripe lime fruits and get the extract. Add on ½ glass of hot water and 1 tablespoon of honey. Mix them well and, while it is warm, gargle with it for 2-3 minutes. Do it three times a day
6. Excessive phlegm
Add a small amount of salt into a glass of lime juice. Drink before meal, 2 – 3 time a day.
7. Infant or Child’s Fever
Get the extract of a lime in a small bowl. Add into it 3 pieces of crushed shallot, a small quantity of salt and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil. Mix well, and spread on the child’s upper head
8. Fever in Malaria
Get 3 pieces each of lime leaves, Kendal leaves (Cordia obliqua Will.), Sembung leaves (Blumea balsamifera) and 5 pieces of Prasman leaves (Eupatorium triplinerve Vahl.). Boil all the leaves with 3 glasses of clean water. Keep boiling until the water reduces to one glass only. When it gets cool, strain it and drink, half a glass at a time (in the morning and in the evening).
9. Menstruation Disorder
Mix well 2 tablespoon of lime extract, 3 tablespoon of (pure) honey and 1½ glass of warm boiled water. Divide the mixture into 3 parts and drink one part a day.
10. Dandruff
Slice a lime fruit into 2-3 pieces. Rub the lime onto the scalp thoroughly. Let the wet scalp dry, then rinse it well with clean warm water.
Disclaimer: the above article shows information about certain Indonesian herbs for educational purpose only, and does not suggest medical therapy whatsoever. Please consult your physician for further application with the herbs.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
BROCCOLI
(Brassica oleracea var. italica)
Consume Broccoli to Prevent Cancer.
Everyone knows broccoli. Although children sometimes hate to eat it, broccoli’s chemical contents are good for human body. Broccoli is actually flower in its earlier stage. It is usually harvested before the real yellowish flowers come to bloom. Broccoli shares similar characteristics with cauliflower, only the latter is whitish in colour whereas the former is dark green.
Broccoli contains of water, protein, fat, carbohydrate, fiber, calcium, iron, Vitamins (A, C, E, thiamin, riboflavin, nicotinaminade, beta carotene, and glutation. Broccoli also contains cianohydroxybutene (CHB), sulphophrane and iberin, which stimulates human body to form glutation. Sulphophrane is a substance that can prevent cancer from occurring.
Main indications
- Preventing cancer
- Accelerate the curing (healing) process after a serious illness
Serving Suggestion:
To accelareate curing process, slice a medium size broccoli into smaller pieces, rinse with clean water, and cook in boling water (too long cooking would damage the chemical contents). Consume the medium-cooked broccoli with salt or pepper as you like, or cook it with your favorite recipes.
Disclaimer: the above article shows information about certain Indonesian herbs for educational purpose only, and does not suggest medical therapy whatsoever. Please contact physician or expert in this field for further application.
Consume Broccoli to Prevent Cancer.
Everyone knows broccoli. Although children sometimes hate to eat it, broccoli’s chemical contents are good for human body. Broccoli is actually flower in its earlier stage. It is usually harvested before the real yellowish flowers come to bloom. Broccoli shares similar characteristics with cauliflower, only the latter is whitish in colour whereas the former is dark green.
Broccoli contains of water, protein, fat, carbohydrate, fiber, calcium, iron, Vitamins (A, C, E, thiamin, riboflavin, nicotinaminade, beta carotene, and glutation. Broccoli also contains cianohydroxybutene (CHB), sulphophrane and iberin, which stimulates human body to form glutation. Sulphophrane is a substance that can prevent cancer from occurring.
Main indications
- Preventing cancer
- Accelerate the curing (healing) process after a serious illness
Serving Suggestion:
To accelareate curing process, slice a medium size broccoli into smaller pieces, rinse with clean water, and cook in boling water (too long cooking would damage the chemical contents). Consume the medium-cooked broccoli with salt or pepper as you like, or cook it with your favorite recipes.
Disclaimer: the above article shows information about certain Indonesian herbs for educational purpose only, and does not suggest medical therapy whatsoever. Please contact physician or expert in this field for further application.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Ayurveda as A Preventive Medicine
It should not be hard for anyone to imagine that man sought medicine to maintain life and gain knowledge since the time of his being pre-hominid and eating plants while learning which ones killed him. Your puppy or kitten will show this when it goes outside for the first time and eats grass to help its gastrointestinal processes. The Therapeutae of Pythagoras who some say developed the pentagram were learning from far more ancient insights that were being lost and we have lost a lot of the knowledge of healing he had in his chanting or ‘Singing of the Spheres’.
Ayurveda includes the use of herbs and plants combined with psychic arts of a healing nature. The proper practitioner includes psychology as part of the diagnosis and getting the patient to use their own mental or soulful energy. It comes from very ancient shamanism and has many names for its practice. This art is called ayurveda in India, and it has Taoist and Yogic corollaries.
When I lived in Vegas I grew Aloe Vera, and its Vitamin E may be part of why it works to heal so many things. Comfrey tea is something my brother took to help a broken leg that wasn't healing in the traditional medical approach. There are many ways to enhance the immune system along with our natural ability to heal and help each other. 'Cleansing' auras or meridians of 'Chhi' or pranha, positive visualization and what is sometimes deemed wholistics have been available for longer than books or politicians were practicing their questionable arts. The ancient priests and shamans who were corruptible became even more so as this knowledge grew. The Inca’s 'magic' and healing may have been one of the best balances of knowledge and compassion ever exercised on behalf of every citizen.
Can you honestly say you trust the future of gene therapy and near immortality to our current system? Do you want more transparency or honesty? Shouldn't we all become 'informed consumers' and have alternatives considered when they make sense? Much of what Western doctors learn about anatomy and diseases is easily input and reacted to by modern computer and diagnostic tools. Can you imagine them ever putting these things in the public forum and trying to engage us all in honest dialogue that might diminish their power, money and influence? In China you don't pay the doctor when you are sick and preventive medicine is the rule. Bill and Hillary Clinton tried to emphasize 'preventive medicine' and ran into the same kind of lobbying that George Bush and Dan Quayle saw when they ran with a commitment to institute 'tort reform' in the legal system.
The idea that a fully diluted homeopathic tincture might heal through some imprint left by Cyanide found in peach pits or laetrile is just one of the conundrums that science still struggles to face. But the fact is cyanide kills cells and results have been achieved by some people who might have attuned themselves with that small amount of Cyanide that Japanese researchers found in peach pits after the US researchers said there was no possible agent that could kill cancer cells in peach pits. The implications of this extend to genetic rituals that modern science cannot see the effects of, and other energy lattice memory or Intelligence.
There are forces in society which seek to keep certain knowledge hidden or what one might term ‘occulted’. We do need to learn to stop these shelving efforts that would rather have a monopoly and power before seeing all mankind capable of greater things.
About the Author
This is an entry of my encyclpoedia which can be found at World-Mysteries.comAuthor of Diverse DruidsColumnist in The ES Press Magazine
Ayurveda includes the use of herbs and plants combined with psychic arts of a healing nature. The proper practitioner includes psychology as part of the diagnosis and getting the patient to use their own mental or soulful energy. It comes from very ancient shamanism and has many names for its practice. This art is called ayurveda in India, and it has Taoist and Yogic corollaries.
When I lived in Vegas I grew Aloe Vera, and its Vitamin E may be part of why it works to heal so many things. Comfrey tea is something my brother took to help a broken leg that wasn't healing in the traditional medical approach. There are many ways to enhance the immune system along with our natural ability to heal and help each other. 'Cleansing' auras or meridians of 'Chhi' or pranha, positive visualization and what is sometimes deemed wholistics have been available for longer than books or politicians were practicing their questionable arts. The ancient priests and shamans who were corruptible became even more so as this knowledge grew. The Inca’s 'magic' and healing may have been one of the best balances of knowledge and compassion ever exercised on behalf of every citizen.
Can you honestly say you trust the future of gene therapy and near immortality to our current system? Do you want more transparency or honesty? Shouldn't we all become 'informed consumers' and have alternatives considered when they make sense? Much of what Western doctors learn about anatomy and diseases is easily input and reacted to by modern computer and diagnostic tools. Can you imagine them ever putting these things in the public forum and trying to engage us all in honest dialogue that might diminish their power, money and influence? In China you don't pay the doctor when you are sick and preventive medicine is the rule. Bill and Hillary Clinton tried to emphasize 'preventive medicine' and ran into the same kind of lobbying that George Bush and Dan Quayle saw when they ran with a commitment to institute 'tort reform' in the legal system.
The idea that a fully diluted homeopathic tincture might heal through some imprint left by Cyanide found in peach pits or laetrile is just one of the conundrums that science still struggles to face. But the fact is cyanide kills cells and results have been achieved by some people who might have attuned themselves with that small amount of Cyanide that Japanese researchers found in peach pits after the US researchers said there was no possible agent that could kill cancer cells in peach pits. The implications of this extend to genetic rituals that modern science cannot see the effects of, and other energy lattice memory or Intelligence.
There are forces in society which seek to keep certain knowledge hidden or what one might term ‘occulted’. We do need to learn to stop these shelving efforts that would rather have a monopoly and power before seeing all mankind capable of greater things.
About the Author
This is an entry of my encyclpoedia which can be found at World-Mysteries.comAuthor of Diverse DruidsColumnist in The ES Press Magazine
Why Is Modern Medicine the Biggest Threat to Human Health?
There has been the underlying assumption that modernity translates into better health. A corollary of this logic is that we can live our lives pretty much as we want because we can always use opur money to repair. You know, the car won't start, the TV is broken, the telephone is dead – no problem. Just call in an expert, spend some money and everything will be all right.
People carry this over to their thinking about health. Our ticker falters, joints creak or an unwanted growth pops up – no problem. Buy some modern medical care. If that doesn't work, it's a problem of money, better insurance, more hospital funding, more research for the "cure," more doctors, better equipment and more technology. Right?
Wrong.
Don't take my word for it. Listen to the perpetrators themselves. The following is taken right from the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association (July 26, 2000): "Of 13 countries in a recent (health) comparison, the United States (the most modern and advanced in the world) ranks an average of 12th (second from the bottom)..."
For example, the U.S. ranks:
· last for low birth weight
· last for neonatal and infant mortality overall
· 11th for post neonatal mortality
· last for years of potential life lost
· 11th for female life expectancy at one year, and next to last for males
· 10th for age adjusted mortality
The World Health Organization, using different indicators, ranked the U.S. 15th among 25 industrialized nations. (If ranked against "primitive" cultures eating and living as humans were designed, the whole industrialized world would be at the bottom of the heap.)
Some might say these dismal results are because of smoking, alcohol, cholesterol, animal fats and poor penetration of medical care. Not so. Countries where these health risks are greater have better overall health according to epidemiological studies. It's also not due to lack of technology. The U.S. is, for example, second only to Japan in the number of magnetic resonance imaging units (MRIs) and computed tomography scanners per unit of population. Neither can lack of medical personnel be blamed since the U.S. has the greatest number of employees per hospital bed in the world.
So what is the problem? Here are some clues as revealed in the same journal cited above:
· 12,000 deaths per year from unnecessary surgery
· 7,000 deaths per year from medication errors in hospitals
· 20,000 deaths per year from other hospital errors
· 80,000 deaths per year from nosocomial (originating in a hospital) infections
· 106,000 deaths per year from adverse effects of medications
That totals 225,000 deaths per year, the third leading cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer. Another study – we're talking just hospital related deaths here – estimates 284,000 deaths per year. An analysis of outpatient care jumps these figures by 199,000 deaths for a new total of 483,000 medically related deaths per year. And this assumes doctors and hospitals eagerly report all their mistakes. Think so?
The poor health ranking in the U.S. is in large part not because of lack of modern medical care, it is because of it! This does not deny that each person’s life choices do not impact health as well. People cannot live with abandon and then expect anybody to fix it regardless of their technology and skills. You can imagine the frustration physicians must feel faced day-to-day with patients wanting a quick fix for a lifetime of unhealthy life choices. Be that as it may, it does not deny that modern medicine in and of itself is a huge risk to those who surrender to it.
Why do we not hear more about this? It is just too difficult to come to grips with the inevitable – and unbelievable – conclusion: When all the deaths (not counting the hundreds of thousands who are maimed or otherwise harmed but don't die) reported and not reported are tallied, medical intervention is arguably the leading cause of death in our country.
Time to splash some cold water on the rely-on-modern-medicine inebriation. And remember folks, the above are just cold statistics. Take any one of these numbers and humanize it to the real pain, suffering, financial devastation, grief and family disruption, and each one is a heart rending story deserving of anyone's deep concern and sympathy. It is a tragedy of a magnitude unequalled by anything in human history. And it's repeated every year. It makes 9-11, all the deaths in all U.S. wars, deaths by auto, homicides and everything else pale in comparison. (Not to minimize the tragedy of each of those things.)
The media should be shouting about medical risks from atop their broadcast towers. But there is mostly silence, just reports in obscure (to the public) medical and scientific publications. In the meantime, trusting people keep flocking to the slaughter. From just 1995 to 2002, pharmaceutical sales jumped from $65 billion to over $200 billion. That's about one prescription for each man, woman and child in the country every month. This escalation in medical dependency is paralleled in surgeries, lab tests, emergency room admissions, elective procedures and outpatient visits.
You can do something about it. Begin today to take control of your own health destiny. The philosophical paradigm of conventional, allopathic, symptom based, reductionistic, crisis care, episodic, after-the-fact medicine is seriously flawed ... and very deadly. Good and well meaning doctors are hamstrung by wrong philosophical premises. They are crippled every bit as much as those who once believed in a flat Earth. Trying to achieve health with modern allopathic medicine is like trying to fix computers with a hammer, just because that's the only tool you were taught to use or believe in.
Don't wait for the system to change. Old ideas die too hard. The mega-medical industry is not going to be quick in either admitting error or revamping itself. Your health is at stake. Think prevention and natural holistic cure. Study, learn, grow, be skeptical, change lifestyle, be self-reliant – be a thinking person. That's your best road to health.
About the author:
Dr. Wysong is a former veterinary clinician and surgeon, college instructor in human anatomy, physiology and the origin of life, inventor of numerous medical, surgical, nutritional, athletic and fitness products and devices, research director for the present company by his name and founder of the philanthropic Wysong Institute. He is author of The Creation-Evolution Controversy now in its eleventh printing, a new two volume set on philosophy for living, several books on nutrition, prevention and health for people and animals and over 15 years of monthly health newsletters. He may be contacted at Wysong@Wysong.net and a free subscription to his e-Health Letter is available at http://www.wysong.net.
People carry this over to their thinking about health. Our ticker falters, joints creak or an unwanted growth pops up – no problem. Buy some modern medical care. If that doesn't work, it's a problem of money, better insurance, more hospital funding, more research for the "cure," more doctors, better equipment and more technology. Right?
Wrong.
Don't take my word for it. Listen to the perpetrators themselves. The following is taken right from the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association (July 26, 2000): "Of 13 countries in a recent (health) comparison, the United States (the most modern and advanced in the world) ranks an average of 12th (second from the bottom)..."
For example, the U.S. ranks:
· last for low birth weight
· last for neonatal and infant mortality overall
· 11th for post neonatal mortality
· last for years of potential life lost
· 11th for female life expectancy at one year, and next to last for males
· 10th for age adjusted mortality
The World Health Organization, using different indicators, ranked the U.S. 15th among 25 industrialized nations. (If ranked against "primitive" cultures eating and living as humans were designed, the whole industrialized world would be at the bottom of the heap.)
Some might say these dismal results are because of smoking, alcohol, cholesterol, animal fats and poor penetration of medical care. Not so. Countries where these health risks are greater have better overall health according to epidemiological studies. It's also not due to lack of technology. The U.S. is, for example, second only to Japan in the number of magnetic resonance imaging units (MRIs) and computed tomography scanners per unit of population. Neither can lack of medical personnel be blamed since the U.S. has the greatest number of employees per hospital bed in the world.
So what is the problem? Here are some clues as revealed in the same journal cited above:
· 12,000 deaths per year from unnecessary surgery
· 7,000 deaths per year from medication errors in hospitals
· 20,000 deaths per year from other hospital errors
· 80,000 deaths per year from nosocomial (originating in a hospital) infections
· 106,000 deaths per year from adverse effects of medications
That totals 225,000 deaths per year, the third leading cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer. Another study – we're talking just hospital related deaths here – estimates 284,000 deaths per year. An analysis of outpatient care jumps these figures by 199,000 deaths for a new total of 483,000 medically related deaths per year. And this assumes doctors and hospitals eagerly report all their mistakes. Think so?
The poor health ranking in the U.S. is in large part not because of lack of modern medical care, it is because of it! This does not deny that each person’s life choices do not impact health as well. People cannot live with abandon and then expect anybody to fix it regardless of their technology and skills. You can imagine the frustration physicians must feel faced day-to-day with patients wanting a quick fix for a lifetime of unhealthy life choices. Be that as it may, it does not deny that modern medicine in and of itself is a huge risk to those who surrender to it.
Why do we not hear more about this? It is just too difficult to come to grips with the inevitable – and unbelievable – conclusion: When all the deaths (not counting the hundreds of thousands who are maimed or otherwise harmed but don't die) reported and not reported are tallied, medical intervention is arguably the leading cause of death in our country.
Time to splash some cold water on the rely-on-modern-medicine inebriation. And remember folks, the above are just cold statistics. Take any one of these numbers and humanize it to the real pain, suffering, financial devastation, grief and family disruption, and each one is a heart rending story deserving of anyone's deep concern and sympathy. It is a tragedy of a magnitude unequalled by anything in human history. And it's repeated every year. It makes 9-11, all the deaths in all U.S. wars, deaths by auto, homicides and everything else pale in comparison. (Not to minimize the tragedy of each of those things.)
The media should be shouting about medical risks from atop their broadcast towers. But there is mostly silence, just reports in obscure (to the public) medical and scientific publications. In the meantime, trusting people keep flocking to the slaughter. From just 1995 to 2002, pharmaceutical sales jumped from $65 billion to over $200 billion. That's about one prescription for each man, woman and child in the country every month. This escalation in medical dependency is paralleled in surgeries, lab tests, emergency room admissions, elective procedures and outpatient visits.
You can do something about it. Begin today to take control of your own health destiny. The philosophical paradigm of conventional, allopathic, symptom based, reductionistic, crisis care, episodic, after-the-fact medicine is seriously flawed ... and very deadly. Good and well meaning doctors are hamstrung by wrong philosophical premises. They are crippled every bit as much as those who once believed in a flat Earth. Trying to achieve health with modern allopathic medicine is like trying to fix computers with a hammer, just because that's the only tool you were taught to use or believe in.
Don't wait for the system to change. Old ideas die too hard. The mega-medical industry is not going to be quick in either admitting error or revamping itself. Your health is at stake. Think prevention and natural holistic cure. Study, learn, grow, be skeptical, change lifestyle, be self-reliant – be a thinking person. That's your best road to health.
About the author:
Dr. Wysong is a former veterinary clinician and surgeon, college instructor in human anatomy, physiology and the origin of life, inventor of numerous medical, surgical, nutritional, athletic and fitness products and devices, research director for the present company by his name and founder of the philanthropic Wysong Institute. He is author of The Creation-Evolution Controversy now in its eleventh printing, a new two volume set on philosophy for living, several books on nutrition, prevention and health for people and animals and over 15 years of monthly health newsletters. He may be contacted at Wysong@Wysong.net and a free subscription to his e-Health Letter is available at http://www.wysong.net.
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