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Garlic for the eyes
I just want to share what my mother did while ago. She was a seamstress teacher in Bosnia and sewed to earn living. The year she noticed her eyes getting dim , she learned from somebody about garlic. She decided to try it and every morning and evening for six months she applied it to her eyes. She would open a garlic clove and squeeze its juice to the top of the clove and massage her eye lids with the clove as close to the eye as she could stand it. After 6 months she noticed the cataract went away. She could see clearly and was able to see well to the end! "It stinged," she cried, "but it worked!" Olga
SDAhealth email From: Olga, theinterlocker@usa.net, Entered on Dec 14, 1998

Back spasms
The Chiropractor said one of the main reasons for my back spasams is a deficiency in Calcium and magnesium and I've noticed that the supplementary magnesium *DOES* make a definate difference in the pain level.
SDAhealth email from Jo Kuhlmeyer, Billnjok@Olypen.com. Entered on Dec 14, 1998
Help for spondylitis?
Hi, Just wondering if you know anything about Ankylosing Spondylitis. My Husband was just diagnosed as having it.
SDAhealth email from Alex Mentes. Entered on Dec 14, 1998
Reply on spondylitis
Yes, Alex. I have spondylistis and it is no fun. But if you do the right thing you can prevent if from doing a lot of harm. With spondylitis, joints seize up and become inflexible. It used to be called "bamboo back." It makes the spine go as rigid as a piece of bamboo. The best treatment is to take 30 minutes twice a week taking every joint in your body through its entire range of movement. That way the seizing up process may never take place. (Exercises could include, for example, sitting down and twisting your upper body to the left, then to the right.) You don't need to do the movements fast. In fact, with a bad case like mine, you can't. But if you do the mobility exercises, you won't get as bad as me . A skin rash called psoroasis is part of the same disease. There's almost a 100% chance your husband has it or will get it. That rash has been incurable, but you can now treat that with a pharmacutical drug called Daivonex.
SDAhealth email from Phil Ward Entered on Dec 14, 1998
Water for bladder infection
When I had a bladder infection, one of the doctors at Wildwood told me the number one cause of bladder infections is insufficient water drinking. Whenever a person has a bladder infection, increasing the drinking of pure water is a good idea, to flush the bladder. Drinking other fluidsis not the same as drinking water. (coffee, tea except herb teas, soft drinks, fruit juices--just do not replace the value of good water). The herbs I was told were helpful---Uva ursi, & cornsilk, ---drink several times a day. Hot and cold sitzbaths twice a day are also helpful. (Remember to finish with cold, and never hot, to close the pores against chilling. ) Drinking Cranberry juice loaded with sugar can be counter-productive. And if it replaces water drinking, is less effective. However, the cranberry does establish an acid climate in the bladder that can discourage infections. Cranberry tablets also are available. Remember that there are different kinds of infections. If it isn't getting better in a week or two, you may need to see the doctor.
SDAhealth email from Shirley Heisey, shearle1@ppp.kornet21.net, Entered on Dec 14, 1998
More on bladder infection
Couple of things to note here: Many physicians are astute at diagnosing the fact of chronic bladder infections but are not skilled at considering the etiology particularly in women. Dr. Tamara Bavendam, the head of the Women's Urology Dept at the Univ of Washington Medical School has made the following observations: (A) Historically, urologists have focused more on the etiology and treatment of men's urological problems but few studies have been made on women even though women's urological problems represent +85% of the cases seen by the urologists. (B) A disporportunate number of bladder infections have shown up after each introduction of the following: colored toilet paper, scented toilet paper, non-natural product ie; nylon, rayon) panties including panty hose. Dr. Bavendam recommends the following to all women who have had more than 1 bladder infection in 5 years: (1) Use only Scott (1000 sheet to a roll) unscented, uncolored toilet paper. (2) Switch to only white cotton underpanties. (3) Fill a 1L jug with water every morning and determine that no matter how much (or how little) you have drunk away from home today, you will finish this jug before you go to bed. (This will have the effect of getting a minimum of 1L of water into notorious non-water drinkers.) Dr. Bavendam allows her patients to "flavor" the water with any variety of Tang or Kool-Aid they want but NO coffee or tea. BASIC ANATOMY LESSON: The job of the kidneys is to "flush" the body of life-threatening toxins. If you do not give the body what it needs to work with in the way of necessary fluid, the body, in order to try and forestal dehydration in the brain, the body will take the fluids that would ordinarily be excreted by the kidneys altering the acid/base balance of the bladder. BOTTOM LINE: If you don't like bladder infections, drink a measured +1liter/day of water and change those hibits you were "suched" into by the advertisers; ie, colored/scented toilet paper and non-natural "panties" which cause the groin area to be overheated.
SDAhealth email from Billnjok@concentric.net. Entered on Dec 14, 1998
Cranberry juice
They say timing is everything, and if it's after the fact, then the prophylactic nature of keeping yourself juiced up may indeed be severely compromised. Nevertheless, I'd just point out that in the US November edition of the Readers Digest, of all places, there's a short blurb on the clear effectiveness of chugalugging gobs of cranberry juice, primarily as a preventative measure, but also was suggested that it may ALSO act as a healing enhancer in so much as the physiological action seems to be that the juice somehow prevent bacteria from adhering to the bladder wall, and also the ureter surfaces. Beyond that, I don't know what to add. Oh...except one more thing. If there's an active infection, then perhaps one might want to consider swilling down artificially sweetened or totally unsweetened cranberry juice. Sweetening, either via corn syrup or good ol' sugar, as I understand it, really cuts down the effectiveness of antibiotics, and likewise diminishes the effectiveness of the bennies from drinking the stuff as an infection cure in the absence of antibiotics. Anyway...... hope things work out ok.
SDAhealth email from Ken Goodridge, kennyg@efn.org. Entered on Dec 14, 1998
Daily water
You should be drinking one ounce of water daily for every 2 pounds of body weight.
SDAhealth email from From: alonzo15@juno.com (Alonzo F Cobb) Entered on Dec 14, 1998
Minimising spondylitis
I've got spondylitis and it is no fun. But if you do the right thing you can prevent if from doing a lot of harm. With spondylitis, joints seize up and become inflexible. It used to be called "bamboo back." It makes the spine go as rigid as a piece of bamboo. The best treatment is to take 30 minutes twice a week taking every joint in your body through its entire range of movement. That way the seizing up process may never take place. (Exercises could include, for example, sitting down and twisting your upper body to the left, then to the right.) You don't need to do the movements fast. In fact, with a bad case like mine, you can't. But if you do the mobility exercises from when you're first diagnosed, you won't get as bad as me . A skin rash called psoroasis is part of the same disease. That rash has been incurable, but you can now treat that with a pharmacutical drug called Daivonex.
Entered by Phil Ward, Nov 20, 1998
"Golden Staff??"
What in the world is an infection with "Golden Staff?" I've never heard of it, and it is not in my medical dictionary. This is asked in reference to Roy Sodeman's post of Oct 30, 1998.
Entered by Richard Faiola, MD -- Nov 10, 1998
Golden Staff cured
I've had two cases where people were cured of Golden Staff which was beyond the ability of antibiotics to cure. A prominent local businessman was given only a few months to live after contracting Golden Staff in a bowel operation. I gave his wife a water purifier called aerobic oxygen. He's still alive two years later. More recently I met someone on a train whose neighbour was also infected with Golden Staff and was beyond the help of antibiotics. The same treatment saved him.
Entered by Roy Sodeman - Oct 30, 1998
Hunchback cured
Twelve months ago I was a bent-over hunchback. Now the stoop has gone and I stand three inches taller. I had (and still have) osteoporosis and spondilitus. These two combined to give me a terrible stoop and I could not straighten up. Theoretically, the problem could not be reversed. However, my local GP sent me to another GP who likes to work with back problems. Part of the reason I couldn't straighten up was that some of my muscles and ligaments had shortened because of the stoop. Over 3-6 months we did a series of exercises to lengthen these ligaments. Now I hardly have any stoop. My nephew is a doctor and at a family gathering he said this cure was impossible. He said that what happened to me was a miracle -- because these calcified ligaments cannot be lengthened. Whether it was a miracle or a natural healing, I praise God for fixing this hunchback. It is one of the most debilitating things that can happen to a person.
Entered by Phil Ward - Oct 26, 1998
Attempted gall stone cure
I was diagnosed with gall stones, which requires an operation. To avoid the operation I tried a gall stone cure which has worked for others. For six days I drank 2 litres (four pints) of apple juice a day, plus ate a small amount of food. The apple juice is supposed to soften the gall stones. At 6pm on the last day I drank a heaped tablespoon of epsom salts in warm water, and did the same again at 8pm. At 10pm I drank a cocktail of half-a-glass of olive oil and half a glass of lemon juice whipped together in a blender. This cocktail makes the gall bladder quickly expel everything in it -- hopefully including the stones. Because of the epsom salts, the bowel movement that night and the next day is almost liquid. I put a piece of old curtain over the toilet so I could catch the gall stones when I had a bowel movement. Unfortunately, I still had some gall stone pain, so a few weeks later I did the same again. The doctor again sent me for another ultra-sound after the treatment, which showed many were still there. But the pain is down dramatically, so we seem to have gotten rid of a lot of them. The doctor is so pleased she has cancelled the gall bladder operation, at least for the moment.
Entered by Phil Ward - Oct 26, 1998
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Entered by Phil Ward - Oct 26, 1998
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