Solomon Healing

Thanks to http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/jump-in-allergy-risk-for-babies/story-e6frf7jo-1225825035956    for this article:

Jump in allergy risk for babies * Mary Papadakis  * From: Sunday Herald Sun
* January 31, 2010 12:00AM

FOOD allergies among infants have doubled, with more than 5000 Victorian babies at risk each year.

A world-first study has revealed up to 8 per cent of babies – or about 24,000 in Australia – are likely to develop potentially deadly food allergies by the age of one.

It was previously believed to be about 4 per cent.

The research may lead to new advice about how and when to introduce high-risk allergen foods to children, new dietary information for pregnant women and routine skin-prick testing of infants for early signs of an allergy.

Associate Professor Katie Allen, of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, said researchers were surprised at the rapid rise in allergies.

“It’s astoundingly high – we were amazed,” she said.

“This will be among the highest rates in the world.”

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In a world-first, the MCRI “Health Nut” study is based on the results of several hundred food challenges – instead of only skin-prick test results.

Infants were exposed to the allergens peanut butter, egg, sesame, cow’s milk and shrimp.

About 8 per cent had reactions ranging from hives and facial swelling to life-threatening anaphylaxis. Associate Prof Allen said most were allergic to egg, followed by peanuts.

She said the study aimed to gather data on the rate of the “epidemic”, explore links to eczema and asthma and led to a way to modify the immune system to prevent allergies.

“We’ve got rapidly increasing food allergy occurring and we don’t know why,” she said.

“Parents need to be informed and they need to be informed on evidence, not just opinion.”

Kara Smith’s daughter, Natalie, 15 months, was diagnosed with a peanut allergy after having anaphylaxis while taking part in the research.

“If there’s a silver lining in this dark cloud, it’s that the more awareness in the community that this is a real condition and it is life-threatening, the more likely these kids can live a normal life,” Ms Smith said.

Patricia Ilhan of the Ilhan Food Allergy Foundation, which was set up with late husband John Ilhan, founder of Crazy John’s, after their daughter, Jaida, was diagnosed with a nut allergy, said the new research showed food allergy was a major public health crisis.

www.ilhanfoundation.org

Laughter and well-being and health are linked…! I knew that!!! http://thearticlehighway.com/2010/01/29/laughter-health-and-well-being-research-reveals-a-link

People tend to believe that some pathogen may come along and make them ill, and that they are at the mercy of these little beasts, such as cold and flu viruses, parasites, bacteria, or fungi. Louis Pasteur’s “germ theory” helped to set up this belief system. However, during Pasteur’s lifetime, 1822-1895, another scientist, Antoine Bechamp, described his “Law of the Terrain,” which stated that if the terrain of the organism was strong, healthy, in correct balance, it could easily withstand the onslaught of any or all pathogens. The terrain of your body is best thought of as a garden. If your garden has wonderful rich soil, water, sunlight, oxygen, nutrients, the plants growing there can better withstand the onslaught of invaders.

To quote Bechamp, “It is the terrain, milieu or environment that determines health or disease, NOT the pathogen.” This mature outlook on our biology was finally acknowledged by Pasteur, himself, on his deathbed. He recanted his germ theory, saying “It’s the terrain, not the germ.”

In fact, it is both. If your terrain is toxic it is much harder for your immune system to fight off a pathogen. The status of your terrain is determined primarily by four things: its pH (it’s acid/alkaline balance); its electric/magnetic charge (negative or positive); its degree of toxicity; and its nutritional status. For example, low oxygen levels, stagnating body fluids, or loss of electrical charge on red blood cells can all of these result in an unhealthy terrain.

Health is about balance.

Here is a wonderful article which explains all this in greater detail.

http://www.laleva.org/eng/2004/05/louis_pasteur_vs_antoine_bchamp_and_the_germ_theory_of_disease_causation_2.html

People are turning more and more frequently to alternative therapies for help with all kinds of health problems. The growing distrust and rising cost of orthodox medicine and pharmaceutical drugs, coupled with the increasing media coverage of successful alternative interventions, has sent people to their health food stores to investigate other options. Self treatment is at an all time high, with the availability of information given us by the internet. Homeopathic remedies are more and mover commonly found in customers’ medicine cabinets.

Simple, acute complaints that are self limiting, often respond well to over the counter homeopathic remedies, such as coughs, colds, period pains, headaches, and indigestion. A UK survey found that the top three conditions for which customers were buying OTC homeopathics were respiratory complaints, bruises and injuries, and mental conditions such as depression and/or anxiety. The people surveyed went on to report that they felt homeopathy was effective in relieving these complaints.

In the USA the best selling OTC homeopathic products are those for allergies, colds, children’s ear infections, and pain relief, such as for headaches. People realize now that homeopathic remedies are harmless- they either work really well, it they are correct for person taking them, or they do not. There are no side effects. There are also no drug interactions to worry about. 25% of those surveys reported that they took their homeopathic remedies at the same time that they took prescription drugs
As customers become more and more informed and savvy with regard to homeopathics, they are reaching for Aconite, Belladonna, Chamomilla and Pulsatilla for their child’s ear infection, instead of the endless round of antibiotics and possible ear tubes!

A good homeopathic resource link: http://www.abchomeopathy.com/ This site has a good forum, and software to help you decide what remedy you might need. Plus it has lots of information about individual remedies.

There is a very good community, growing, about Homeopathy and supporting its use.

http://homeopathyworldcommunity.com

Great articles and education on homeopathy: http://www.homeopathic.com/articles/view,134

U.S. Senate Hearing Confirms Dangers of Cell Phones

This is a must read. The links between cell phones and brain cancer are now indisputable.It is very possible that 30 years from now people will look at cell phones the same way we look at cigarettes.

http://tinyurl.com/y8dds3s

ALLERGIES:

Allergies have exploded through our nation in the last 50 years, and the medical community does not know why. Allergies are the fifth leading chronic disease in America, and the third in children who are under 18. And here is a surprising statistic- 1 in 4 Americans have a respiratory allergy today, whereas only one in 7 did in 1950.

The modern medical system of treating allergies with desensitizing shots stems, in actual fact, from the homeopathic principle of “like treats like.”Homeopaths help clients with allergies by giving them desensitizing drops, under the tongue, of remedies made of the very allergens that cause the reaction. Gently and slowly the drops enter the body, under the radar screen of the body’s immune reaction. The body gets used to the “intruders,” and begins to accept that they are indeed not enemies, and no reaction is required. So, instead of painful and expensive shots, we use potencies made of the allergen in question to desensitize the client. Homeopathic medicines are very safe and effective, and believe me, kids like our methods much, much better than the shots!

There is a strong research history for the homeopathic treatment of allergies. At the University of Glasgow a group of researchers published four studies in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) and the Lancet, two highly respected medical journals. These were well controlled studies- randomized, placebo controlled, and double-blind The result? There was a 28% improvement in those who took homeopathic remedies, than in those who took placebos.

In my practice I help people with allergies a variety of ways.  I recommend combination homeopathic remedies to desensitize the allergen. I recommend nutritional supplements to support their immune system and lower the reactivity of allergy response. And the most powerful homeopathic method is to choose what we call a “constitutional remedy” to balance the person in a deep way, and to reduce the allergic over-reactivity. This is done by individualizing a homeopathic medicine to a specific person so that it matches his symptoms, both physically and psychologically. This is the original form of “classical homeopathy” and is extremely successful and long lasting.

I know that this post is not relating to homeopathy or health (or maybe it is!!), but it is very dear to my heart:

This version was  written on the wall in Mother Teresa’s home for children in Calcutta:

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

-this version is credited to Mother Teresa

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This is the original version, by Kent Keith in 1968

The Paradoxical Commandments

by Dr. Kent M. Keith

1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
10. Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

18 Secrets for a Good Night’s Sleep

Try some of these:

• 1) Start getting to bed as early as you can. Our bodies do most of their recharging, detoxifying, and regeneration between the hours of 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. So it is best try to be asleep by 11.

• 2) Stop working at least 1 hour before you wish to be asleep. This way your mind has a chance to unwind.

• 3) Don’t watch TV right before going to bed. Read something light and pleasurable, spiritual or religious, to relax your mind, or write in a journal.

• 4) Take melatonin, 5-HTP, or Valerian herb half an hour before bed. Melatonin: 2 mg-5mgs.  One of melatonin’s precursors, such as 5HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan) can also help, such as 50-100 mgs.  Valerian is a very relaxing herb (smells awful though!); 350-500 mgs.

• 5) Try homeopathic remedies before sleep. Available online or in your health food store, the following can be very helpful: Sleeplessness Relief by Similasan, Calms Forte by Hyland’s, Calming by BHI are all combination remedies which supply such homeopathics as Coffea, Avena Sativa, Valeriana, Chamomilla, Passiflora, and others.

• 6) Take a hot shower, bath,  or sauna before bed.  Raising your body temperature this way late in the evening can make falling asleep easier.

•7) Try to go to bed and get up at the same time every day, even on weekends. This routine can help “program” your system.

•8) Reduce or avoid caffeine. A recent study showed that some people do not metabolize caffeine efficiently, so that the wired feeling from coffee can last long after drinking it. Therefore a cup of coffee late in the afternoon can keep you awake many hours later. For those that do handle caffeine well, you should still avoid it after 7 PM.

• 9) Don’t drink alcohol before bed. Alcohol can make you sleepy, but this is only short term. You may wake up several hours later and find it hard to fall back asleep. Alcohol prevents you from sleeping more deeply, when healing and regeneration takes place.

• 10Don’t drink any fluids within 2 hours of going to bed. This will help reduce the number of times you have to get up to use the bathroom. Also, be sure to go last thing before you go to bed.

• 11) Get regular exercise. Lots of studies show that regular exercise, such as 30 minutes a day, will help you sleep. But don’t exercise too close to bedtime or it may keep you awake!

• 12)  Sleep in complete darkness or as close as possible, or even try an eye mask. Light can disrupt circadian rhythm and your pineal gland’s production of melatonin and serotonin. This interferes with sleep. If possible, don’t turn the light on in the bathroom if you get up in the night. After a few bumps you’ll get the hang of it!.

• 13) Try a white noise machine. I love my little white noise machine- I set it to “waterfall” and it covers my furnace coming on, my cat talking to me, cars outside, and all other unwanted noise!.

• 14) Try wearing socks to bed. Your feet can feel colder than the rest of your body. Wearing socks to bed has been hown in studies to reduce the number of times you wake in the night.

• 15) Don’t use a loud alarm clock. Try a sun alarm instead- this is a more natural way to wake up. The globe slowly gets brighter and brighter, casting increasing light into the room, so you wake as if the dawn had woken you. It works very well. Try The Sun Alarm™ SA-2002 .

• 16) Don’t keep your bedroom too warm. It certainly should not be warmer than 70 degrees F.

• 17) If sleep is still a difficult issue, be sure to get hormone levels checked. Insomnia may be caused by adrenal stress, or imbalances of hormones at menopause can really play in.

• 18) Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). This is a gentle tapping system based on acupressure principles, and is easily learned. EFT has been shown to help resolve some of the emotional stresses that may contribute to insomnia. The results are usually speedy, and last well. Check out articles by Dr. Mercola; http://search.mercola.com/Results.aspx?k=eft .

Professor Luc Montagnier,  a French virologist and 2008 Nobel Prize Winner, has been rigorously investigating homeopath remedies. With his team of researchers, he has conclusively shown that homeopathically prepared substances give off electromagnetic waves, which create an effect in the body when ingested.

For more details, go to http://www.homeopathic.com/articles/view,134. Dana Ullmann has written a wonderful report of this exciting news!