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It is certainly miserable to suffer from hay fever while those less allergic to pollen take full delight in the beauty of flowers and blossoms. To make things worse, once an attack has started it is difficult to stop it quickly. In fact, it is generally too late to find relief. In order to check [...]
Is it not a marvellous thing that the lacrimal glands, or tear ducts, serve as a safety valve to reduce the internal pressure when we are under emotional stress? How unbearable it would be, even for a little girl, if she could not cry when her doll dropped on the floor and broke, or some [...]
Secondly, we must employ a selection of herbal medicines, such as Nephrosolid and Boldocynara, for these remedies promote increased excretion through the kidneys and liver. By taking Echinaforce we can prevent irritation and inflammation. At the beginning of the illness, the flu drops Influaforce are helpful. These drops contain Baptisia (wild indigo), Lachesis lOx, Echinaforce, [...]
A year later the mother sent us the following brief note: ‘Last year you helped us cure our little girl’s cradle cap. Thank you ever so much.’ Another letter we received from a nurse reads: ‘At the moment I am looking after two children. The boy, now 15 months old, had cradle cap last year. [...]
An inflammation of the breast is treated externally as well as internally. For internal treatment Echinaforce has proved to be extremely valuable. The use of arnica tincture and Echinaforce are indicated for external application. Rub them gently on the affected part, alternating between the two remedies. If the area is sensitive, the regular application of [...]
Night terror This condition is rare and is related to sleep-walking. Sleeping young children may suddenly scream hysterically at the top of their voices as if they have seen something horrible. Their parents rush to their bedside and try to comfort them. These children have their eyes wide open but are not aware of the [...]
Before the days of sleep laboratories, it was believed that sleep-walking, night terror, and children’s bed-wetting happened during dreaming. Nowadays, with the help of the sleep laboratories, we know that these related phenomena occur in the deep sleep stages of NREM sleep, and are not features of dreams at all. Sleep-walking Have you ever dreamed [...]
Orthodox treatment depends very much on the type of tumour, and its site. In an operation, a benign tumour is often easy to winkle out of its surrounding capsule. Once the tumour has been removed, the pressure on the brain tissue is reduced, and the brain can get back to working in its normal way [...]
After passing through the brain, used blood is collected in large veins lying directly on the inside of the skull. Sometimes, as a result of a minor head injury, these veins can snap or tear. When this happens, blood slowly leaks out between the two outermost coverings of the brain (the dura). This is called [...]
You can minimise the number of attacks you experience through carefully eliminating or minimising your trigger factors. However, we all live in a real world, and it’s just not possible to eliminate all your trigger factors entirely. There will always be those missed meals, the food inadvertently eaten, the” exam to be taken, the stress [...]