Based on the number of visitors reading my Post on Behavioral Changes it seems to me that this is one area where people are keen to know more. I can understand that because I fumbled through the process all because I did not fully understand what I was contending with.
It was quite natural to treat your spouse after a stroke and had been discharged from the hospital just like before! She looked physically fine except for the spasticity on the affected limbs. However slowly it dawned on me that a stroke survivor is different from a physically impaired person in the sense that a stroke survivor suffers from brain damage!
Any damage to the brain however small still causes a lot of dysfunction in terms of the thinking process, processing words and understanding. Initially my wife told me things that she didn’t mean to say! For example she wanted bread but what came out from her mouth was noodles! When I brought her noodles she said she told me to get bread! I was flabbergasted by such things and initially get rather stressed out because of the frequent out-burst of anger from her apart from doing double work.
I did not understand this aspect of brain damaged and we had quite a few tiffs in the initial stage. As I read more and understood what was happening, I began to have compassion and understand her frustrations too! She could not help it either! The caregiver, as the person with a good brain intact is expected to empathize with the stroke survivor and with understanding comes the ability to handle and brush-off ‘unfair accusations’ and not allowing yourself to get angry, thus making caregiving less stressful and more meaningful.
I hope that sharing our experience in this area of ‘Behavioral Change’ can help other family members and caregivers to sail through the recovery process with less stress and better understanding, hence compassion for the stroke survivor. As you see the slow improvements, that is the reward for all caregivers and make all the aches and pains worthwhile.
In the days ahead, I will put up posts on this issue with personal experience and less of a technical treatise on the subject and hope that others who are going through similar experience can benefit from the sharing. Please leave your comments, positive or otherwise, so that we can learn together and enjoy mutual benefits. Thank-you!
Indeed. Is knee pain/degeneration really irreversible and knee replacement surgery the only option?”
Some years ago, after successfully treating a 75-year old Scottish gentleman for a severe knee problem, he made an interesting remark. He said it dawned on him that Orthopedic Surgeon and Neurosurgeon get paid only when they performed surgeries. If the surgeons were successful in preventing a surgery, they will not get paid. Period. That must be the reason his specialist kept prompting him to go for surgery.
He nearly went for the operation. However, his reluctance to go under knife prompted him to seek me out for a second opinion. Since I convinced him that he could be cured without surgery, he postponed the surgery date to see if I could create miracle for him. I’m glad I was successful. He still still walking without pain to this day – without painful surgeries and hefty medical fees.
It’s not that the Orthopedic Surgeons and Neurosurgeons wanted to push patients into surgeries. It’s just that Mainstream Medicine simply don’t have the know-how and skills to reverse a knee degeneration problem. They will help the patient to manage the pain, and then tell you that its an aging or degenerative problem and that the best option is a knee replacement surgery.
If you know of someone suffering from knee pain, and still suffering after they have consulted with medical doctors, orthopedic surgeon, physiotherapist or other specialists,you can get them to contact me for a second opinion. Who knows, perhaps an alternative long term solution without surgery using my natural treatment protocol is just right for the knee pain sufferer.
“Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.”
– Jay Kordich, Health Expert, Author, Lecturer
Dear Friends:
I’m yet at another airport lounge. I almost missed my flight when I wrote my last post. I was just minutes before the gate close. I guess I have to be careful this time around.
I got to write or otherwise Vivienne will email me with a one-liner that says something like “When is your next post?”. Before she starts to nag me into writing, I thought I better make the first move. Vivienne is one great soul who believe that more people should know about natural and holistic cures and treatments. She is one of those who prefer natural treatments to drugs and surgeries. That’s why she entrusted her mother to my care. I’m so very glad that the old lady is making progress beyond my expectation. I did not expect Madam Lim to walk barely 4 months of treatment, I thought it will take at least 9 months of treatment. Oh, by the way, if any of you folks are looking for a good marketing and advertising support, call Vivienne, She is an excellent marketing communications specialist. You will find that she is very professional and on top of that, friendly and approachable. You can find her at her own marketing and advertising blog calls Versa Creations
OK… now an update on my 53-year old patient. He was the one whom I mentioned was suffering from Stage 3 colon cancer in my previous post.
The great news is he will not need surgery or chemotherapy. He is clear of colon cancer. It’s now 16 weeks since he started my treatments on 25 March 2008. He is now a healthy individual, quite unlike those patients who suffered from the side effects from chemotherapy. Side effects usually would cost patients to be weak and sickly and look really run down.
As I have so often mentioned, I do not use invasive drugs, surgeries or treatments during my sessions. My treatment protocol for this particular patients comprises 7 natural modalities which did not cause him to have any side effects
HERE ARE THE COLON CANCER PATIENT’S 4TH AND 5TH HAIR ANALYSIS RESULTS TAKEN ON 30 MAY AND 5 JULY 08 RESPECTIVELY. (more…)
I’m a Chinese and I drink Chinese tea, yet, I didn’t know that oolong tea helps people with eczema ! This tells me that continuous learning is really important.
While I was at a seminar recently, a fellow attendee from Japan advised me to drink lots of oolong tea when eczema hits me. Touch wood, that did not happen. However, a friend had a pretty bad break-out and is willing to try anything. Of the 9 tips I shared, she chose oolong tea. She prepared a flask of oolong tea and brought it to work. She drank lots of water and oolong tea for that day. The next day, I got her text message.
To my amazement, she said the oolong tea worked like magic. Within 24 hours of consuming oolong tea, her itch and inflammation lessened.
Almost a week later, I got another text message. She reported that her angry lesions disappeared within 6 -7 days. What was simply remarkable was there were hardly any scars.
Why does oolong tea work so well? I couldn’t find any concrete studies on the subject but I suspected it could be the antioxidant, polyphenols, that are present in oolong tea. They have anti-allergic properties and calm the overactive immune response.
Let me know if you have used oolong tea to treat eczema.
Additional Reading on Experts’ Views on Eczema
Additional Reading on “Homemade Eczema Treatment” by Vivienne Quek
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
– Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859, British Poet, Essayist
Many readers find their way here looking for “alfalfa sprout benefits”. As someone who has invested some time studying nutrition in all it’s glory beyond the commercialized myths, I thought it was high time I lay out some of the bleaker facts about alfalfa sprouts for everyone’s benefit. People generally tend to base their decisions on over-advertised research findings which generally focus on only 1 aspect of a certain thing at the exclusion of all others (for example benefits versus risks). It may serve you to know the following before you put your health at stake with the much-celebrated alfalfa sprouts :-
- Whatever few food-poisoning ever happened with sprouts, almost all of them where because of alfalfa; Nothing to panic about though. Just keep in mind that alfalfa is generally grown as an animal feed. These kind of alfalfa seeds – are NOT pathogen certified – & hence are more likely to be infected because animal feed products are beyond the purview of food-health regulations which have been formulated for farming done for human consumption.Recommendation : Grow your sprouts at home using “non-pathogen certified” organic seeds meant for sprouting. You can get them on eBay or in your neighbourhood health shop.
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- Alfalfa sprouts have a relatively higher amount of phytoestrogens. Phytoestrogens may be good for menopausal women but not so for the rest of them (they contribute to PMS). Men can ofcourse do without them. If given in excess to kids (for ex. in baby food), they may interfere with optimum sexual development of boys while making girl childs achieve puberty pre-maturely. Again nothing to panic as phytoestrogens are already present in many common fruits & vegetables commonly consumed by all.Recommendation : I think we can do with one less source of phytoestrogens- given the huge choice of seeds with better benefits.
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- Alfalfa sprouts contain sapotoxins, malonic acid and L-canavanine sulfate. Some people have reported negative health effects from their consumption. The toxic saponin levels are at their highest when alfalfa sprouts are 6-8 days old ie when it is commonly eaten. L-canavanine sulfate is present in the seed and decreases as the sprout grows. According to all this research, consuming large amounts of alfalfa sprouts is risky. For example, sapotoxins in alfalfamay reduce serum cholesterol by preventing its reabsorption after it has been excreted in the bile. Another research reports no harmful effects from consumption of moderate amounts of raw alfalfa sprouts. Low-saponin cultivars of alfalfa have also been developed.Recommendation : Given all the risks above, I’ll suggest you look elsewhere. There are 70+ seeds that we can sprout easily at home.
Now lets look at the purported benefits of the over-commercialized alfalfa sprouts :-
1. All the claims based on it’s nutrients can simply be applied to many other sprouts as well – but WITHOUT the risks high-lighted above.
2. Any claims about it being a complete food is a bit of an exaggeration as there is NO ONE single food on planet earth which possesses every nutrient human body needs. Spirulina comes close but no nutritionist will ever recommend eating just 1 type of food. Yes, one may kind of make this claim about the entire set of sprouts because if you eat a variety of them then indeed you will get almost all the nutrients including Vitamins T, H & P. Thats why I eat about a dozen different types of sprouts & soaks on a daily basis. They are easy to grow & takes just 15 mins or so a day if you follow the prescribed methodology.
I have been Sprouting @ Home for almost 8 yrs now & never went beyond my 1st packet of alfalfa seeds because -
- It takes much longer – actually double the time to sprout as compared to most other sprouts.
- It’s more finicky than most other sprouts.
- The seeds sprouting rate is lesser than many other sprouts.
- It is more temperature sensitive than many other sprouts.
These reasons coupled with the risks mentioned above were enough for me to explore further & I was happy to find even more nutritive sprouts out there. I have formulated them into 2 super-potent sprouts-muesli which provide me all the nutrients we can obtain from the interesting & versatile sprouts kingdom. I go out of the sprouting world only for the very few nutrients which I have not found in the otherwise enzyme-rich sprouting world.
Some of the posts here will give you a taste of it but do you really want to get a feel of the peak in nutrition, better than even what a “syllabus bound” nutritionist or commercially ‘sponsored’ researcher out there would ever recommend?
Anyways, there are some other commonly consumed sprouts which can actually be problematic. My course has the entire list. In the mean time, happy sprouting & never mind the over-hyped benefits of alfalfa sprouts.
My 1st week as a Raw-Foodist
Week 2 to 4 of My Tryst with Raw Foodism.
The best sprout to beat the s*** out of eczema?
The weight-loss conundrum
A heart patient’s prescription (& your’s too…)
The BIGGEST deterrent to Strokes (& many other chronic maladies)
Is this how YOUR blood looks like?
Sprouts for body-building?
“Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.”
– James Freeman Clarke
1810-1888, American Minister, Theologian
“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
