Nurture Your Own

“A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.”

– Hippocrates

“ Can you not see that food is not matter? The material part of bread is carbon, water, gas and earth; the material part of fat is charcoal and gas; the material part of flesh is water and gas, the material part of fruits is mostly water with a little charcoal and gas. The material constituents of all foods are plentiful, they abound everywhere, and yet amid the unlimited, unorganized materials that go to form foods, man would starve.

Give a healthy man a diet of charcoal, water, lime salts, and air; say to him ‘ Bread contains no other substance, here is bread, the material food of man, live on this food,’ and yet the man, if he eat of these, will die with his stomach distended. So with all other foods; give man the unorganized material constituents of food in unlimited amounts, and starvation results. No! Matter is not food, but a carrier of food.”

“ What is food? “

“ Sunshine. The grain of wheat is a food by virtue of the sunshine fixed within it… Break out the sunshine (by cooking it) and you destroy the food, although the material remains. The growing plant (sprouts) locks the sunshine in its cells, and the living man takes it out again. With the life-force (represented by the presense of enzymes) burnt away the material becomes injurious, although it’s the same material that was organized as a food utilizing the bio-energy from sun. Such devitalized matter slowly destroys the life of man.

“ The farmer plants a seed in the soil, the sunshine sprouts it, nourishes the growing plant, and during the season locks itself to and within it’s tissues, binding the otherwise dead materials of that tissue together into an organized structure. Animals eat these structures, break them from higher to lower compounds, and in doing so live on the stored up sunshine and then excrete the worthless material side of the food. The farmer spreads these excluded substances over the earth again to once more take up the sunshine in the growing plant organization, but not until it does once more lock in its cells the energy of sunshine can it be a food for that animal.”

“ Is manure a food?” he abruptly asked.

“No.”

“ Is not manure matter?”

“ Yes.”

“ May it not become food again, as a part of another plant, when another season passes?”

“ Yes.”

“ In what else than energy ( Bio-Plasmic Ether /Qi / Prana from sun ) does it differ from food?”

“ Water is a necessity,” I said.

“ And locked in each molecule of water there is a mine of sunshine. Liberate suddenly the sun energy from the gases of the ocean held in subjection thereby, and the Earth would disappear in an explosion that would reverberate throught the universe. The water that you truly claim to be necessary to the life of man, is itself water by the grace of this same sun, for without its heat water would be ice, dry as dust. ‘Tis the sun that gives life and motion to creatures animate and substances inanimate; he who doubts distrusts his Creator. Food and drink are only carriers of bits of assimilable sunshine.

… and I say to you the food of man and the organic life of man is sunshine.

Paraphrased & adapted from “The eye-less Seer” in Etidorhpa (Pardon the archaic english).

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“Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?”

by Tom Hanks (1956 - ), actor in Esquire, June 2006

“No Illness which can be treated by the diet should be treated by any other means.”

- Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)

Just an update on the latest development in stroke prevention done by a research team at John Hopkins Hospital and lead by Sylvain Dore. The research classified as alternative medicine uses Ginko on rats and noticed the preventive attributes before a stroke as well a therapeutic potential for after stroke situations.

For more details on this study click on link below :-

http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKTRE4988E620081009

Ginkgo has been used as a medicine for centuries and remains a very popular herbal medicine. Some findings suggest it can improve cognitive function and decrease development of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. It is generally considered safe.

“When health is absent wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless and reason is powerless.”

- Herophilies, 300 B.C.

I don’t like the dark eye circles under my eyes and they won’t go away despite having adequate sleep. According to Doctor Bob Koh, it is due to toxin build up in our body.

Since the good doctor is away in USA treating his patients, I googled for some quick answers and the following is what I found from Ray A. Rubio:

- Contrary to popular believe fatigue is not a cause of dark circles under the eyes.

- One of the most common causes is nasal congestion, because when the nose is congested, the veins drain from your eyes and become widened and darker.

- Eyelid swelling during sleep is another common cause. Gravity can cause fluids to build up in your lower eyelids.

- Dark circles can also be the result of chronic skin conditions like atopc eczema.

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

-Thomas Edison, Inventor

My eczema returned.  Grrrrrrrrr … and it is spreading. While I can apply all the home-made remedies to curb the itch and stop the growth. I was wondering how to keep eczema from spreading from one body part to the next. I did a google search and this is what came up.

Broyde McDonald shared that:

In some cases of eczema there are things that can be done to stop the spread. In other types the spread can not be stopped externally, but it has to be stopped using internal methods.

It is unlikely that you will stop eczema from spreading from one body part to the next when you have atopic dermatitis by doing external things to prevent it. The factors of inflammation do not seem to work that way. There are some usual places on the body for eczema to affect, but unless you can control where inflammation strikes, you will probably not be able to do much to control where it spreads to.

In cases of contact eczema, you can control where the condition spreads to if you can control where the contact problem is. As an example, you get a chemical on your skin that begins to cause an irritation. You recognize that the eczema is caused by a chemical, so you put water on it to wash it off, but as the water drains it irritates other parts of the skin. In this case there was something that you could do to contain the spread the condition.

If the eczema is not contact eczema, then it is an internal condition that you will have to find other ways of containing.

As it is right now, if you want to contain the spread of eczema I suggest that you learn to control how it is manufactured and spread from within the body.

I guess this is an area that Doctor Bob Koh can contribute. He always said when the immune system is not at optimal level, havoc wreck in our body system.

Additional Reading on Experts’ Views on Eczema

• “Cure Your Eczema in 14 Days” by Janet Simpson
• Eczema Diet Secrets by Evelyn Lim

Additional Reading on “Homemade Eczema Treatment” by Vivienne Quek

• Homemade Eczema Treatment (9): Almond Oil with Vitamin E
  
• Homemade Eczema Treatment 8: Cure Eczema Eyes with Aloe Vera
• Homemade Eczema Treatment (7): Butter
• Homemade Eczema Treatment (6): Mango Peels
• Homemade Eczema Treatment (5) - Wheatgrass
• Homemade Eczema Treatment (4) - Watermelon & Coconut Oil
• Homemade Eczema Treatment (3) - Crisco
• Homemade Eczema Treatment (2) - Ice Therapy
• Homemade Eczema Treatment (1) - Oatmeal

This is an after-note from my earlier post on Yeast Infection plagues most women at least once in their lifetime.

I don’t know if this is true or otherwise. However, you may still like to check out what Samantha G. had to share about a simple and free test a woman can do to find out if she really got vaginal yeast infection. This is what the woman must do:

When you wake up, spit into a glass of water and observe it for about 2 minutes. If it floats at the top of the glass and stays there, then you’re okay. If it sinks right away and then dissolves in the glass into stringy pieces, then you probably have a yeast infection in which case you need to treat it right away.

Additional Reading:

Yeast infection No More. by Linda Allen

12-Hour Cure to Yeast Infection by Sarah Summer