Month: August 2015

Reiki Healing: Magic Healing through Mental Affirmations

Healing the physical body is not a difficult process, but to heal the body, one should have the determination to be cured. This comes only when you love yourself, believe in yourself, and possess self respect. Loving one’s own self works miracles in our lives. In order to show love for oneself, Louis L Hay, a California-based psychologist and a psychiatrist of international repute, shows the whole world as to how one can heal the self, through mental affirmations i.e. “The Mental Cause for Physical Illness and The Metaphysical Way to Overcome Them” through mental affirmations and positive attitude.

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Modern Medicine: Salient Features Of Allopathy

Allopathy is an orthodox or conventional system of treatment which is dependent upon the subjective and objective symptoms, and symptom is an indication of a disorder or disease noticed by the patient himself. A presenting symptom is that which compels a patient to consult a doctor. The doctor notices some ‘signs’ and then questions the patient about duration of appearance of the disease, treatment taken (so far), his profession, life style, eating habits, addiction, time of aggravation and mollification and also which medicine was taken earlier (if at all) that had reacted on him (the patient).

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Modern Medicine: Causes of Infection

According to allopathic theory disease is caused by bacterial/virus infection. Harrison had defined and described bacteria as follows:

“It is a group of micro-organisms all of which lack distinct nuclear membrane and hence are considered more primitive than animal and plant cells and have a cell wall of unique composition (many antibiotics act by distorting the bacterial wall). Most bacteria are unicellular, the cells may be spherical (coccus), rodlike (Bacillus), spiral (e.g; spirillum), commonshaped (vibrio) or corkscrew-shaped (spirochete). Generally they range in size between 0.5 and 5mm(?).

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Modern Medicine: Drug Reactions

Any drug which has caused reaction earlier, even in a mild form, must not be repeated.

Sources of infection are many and some patients react not only to specific drugs but also react to particular type of food stuff, environs, scents, odours, drinks and eatables, oils, meats, milk and milk products, poultry and sea products, colours, chemicals, persons, situations etc. A doctor generally has hardly any time to think of and apply his mind on such vital aspects. Let us not blame the doctors who are pravailed upon by the patients to re-lieve them of their agony within the shortest possible time.

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Modern Medicine: Avoidance of Drugs

Dosage and Frequency

Determination of dose and repetition thereof are the most difficult facets of any prescription which generally is dependent upon following factors, viz.

(a) Stage and status of the disease
(b) Type of infection and resultant disease.
(c) Duration of ailment-whether acute or chronic
(d) Age & Sex of the patient
(e) Allergy or intolerance to certain ingredients.
(f) Patient acceptability and compliance.

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Modern Medicine: Classification Of Drugs And Their Use – Pain-Relieving drugs (Analgesies and autipyreties)

A. Non-Narcotic/Non-opical drugs

NSAIDS (Non-stored anti-inflammatory Drugs)

1. Aspirin (Acetylsalycic Acid)
2. Anlagin (Novalgin)
3. Peracetamol
4. A. P. C (Aspirin, Phenacetin and Caffein Combination (though rarely used these days)
5. Ibuprofen
6. Phenylbutazones
7. Oxyphenbutazones
8. Indomethacin
9. Auranofin (A gold Compared)
10. Mephenic Acid & Flufenamic
11. Piroxecam
12. Tenoxicam
13. Diclofenac sodium/often combined with Paracetamol and Muscle Relaxants)
14. Nimesuldide

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Modern Medicine: Managing Emergent/Crisis Situations

Once a renowned physician told the author that a patient will talk about his most disturbing and dominant symptom ahead of all the other symptoms and, if a physican is able to manage that most disturbing complaint of headache or abdominal pain or for that matter any other pain, most of his sympathetic pains will also disappear as soon as the most prominent symptom gets dispelled. To achieve this end, he should be given some palliative to overcome the immediate problem, rest of the complaints can be discerned and treated subsequently. An experienced doctor can easily decide about seat and cause of the pain, and then, it shouldn’t be difficult for him to manage the crisis stage.

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Modern Medicine: Classification Of Drugs And Their Use – Pain-Relieving drugs Anti-emetics and Anti-nauscants and Antindiarrhoelal drugs (including dysentry)

These drugs are used to stop vomiting and to arrest tendency to Nausea and vomiting. Some of such drugs have sedactive ef¬fects, hence the users must not operate machinery, drive car, or move out alone, Some people develop drow- siness also. Rest of the Cautions should be studied from the related literature. Vomit¬ing and Nausea are common symptoms during pregnancy; hence do not prescribe any medicine without medical advice.

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Modern Medicine: Human Body and Its Functions – Excretory System, Digestive System and Urinary System

EXCRETORY SYSTEM

Foreign matter and poisonous substances use excreted out of the body by –

(i) Skin (by way of sweat)
(ii) by urine
(iii) by faeces

If sweat glands are inactive and skin pores are close, skin fails to excrete poisonous matters through its pores. Similarly, if stools are not expelled by weak or lost peristaltic action of intestines and rectum, disorders like constipation, pain in abdomen, distress, flatulence, acidity, belching, gripes, loose motions, heartburn, eructations surface. Hence, proper digestion of food is a paramount requisite for efficient functioning of our digestive system.

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