The colon is the largest perpetrator of disease of any organ of the body. It is said to be the initiator of 80 per cent of all critical illnesses. Many people go around permanently constipated, and because they know no different, take headaches, lethargy and general depletion for granted. They simply do not remember what it is like to have a healthy colon and a feeling of well-being.
Constipation occurs when any waste material is retained by the colon. Instead of their natural smooth state, the walls of the colon become encrusted with this accumulated faecal matter which is similar to hard black rubber; it builds up year after year. Since the encrusted faeces form a barrier, the colon is unable to absorb or eliminate properly. The muscles cannot move to make the wave-like actions to move waste along. Toxins from fermentation, putrefaction and wastes from the blood stream which should normally be drawn through the colon and eliminated are reabsorbed by the body along with incompletely digested food. Remember if you suffer regular diarrhoea you are as constipated as the person who does not eliminate regularly. A loose stool can rush through and still leave the old residue on the walls of the bowel. Good health is as much a function of how we eliminate from our bodies as to as what we take in. Yet $50 million in annual laxative sales in the United States indicates that elimination is a problem for many people. At least five million people in the United Kingdom suffer from constipation, colitis, diverticulitis, and ileitis and 200,000 each year have a colostomy. Cancer of the colon is second only to heart disease as the most common cause of death in the United Kingdom. This need not be so.
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When compared to the variations of hormone levels during menstruation, with oestrogen and progesterone peaking and troughing every four weeks or so, pregnancy and breast-feeding can actually be a mercifully peaceful interlude for the female breast. Western women’s lifestyle, with early onset of menstruation and relatively few pregnancies, contrasts starkly with the way of life in developing countries where there is generally a much later onset of menstruation and more pregnancies. Both these factors have a profound effect on the incidence of breast cancer. With each pregnancy a woman is exposed to progesterone and oestriol (E3), both of which have a protective effect against breast cancer.
The differences can be quite striking: a girl in the West who starts menstruating at the age of eleven, and has, on average, two full-term pregnancies, will have about 400 menstrual cycles during her reproductive life. On the other hand, a South American woman whose puberty is delayed to around the age of sixteen, and has repeated pregnancies throughout her life, may have fewer than 100 menstrual cycles, due to the pregnancies followed by prolonged breast-feeding, which inhibits the return of menstruation. These differences account, at least in part, for the higher incidence of breast cancer in the West, and this is one of the few ‘defmites’ about breast cancer. Women who have no children at all, for instance nuns, are considered high-risk as they consistently have higher oestrogen levels than women who have borne children.
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Miss Jacob used to get skin eruptions in every rainy season, and she could noteven go to school sometimes due to these eruptions.
Nat-sulph, a homoeopathic medicine, would give relief of acute conditions, but the trouble would re-erupt whenever the rains came.
Walnut T.D.S. was regularly given for 3 months, and the eruptions did not occur in the next season.
When Mr. Gian Parkash was transferred to Madras, he was very much upset. He could not countenance absence from home even for one day. How could he live in Madras where everything would be different. Food, water, environment, language, atmosphere, all things would change, and he was so sensitive to change that if he travelled away from home even for one day he would get constipated. Fear gripped him at the thought of leaving for Madras. Fortunately he had been allowed one month as joining period.
Mimulus (for fear) and Walnut (for breaking old habits) given T.D.S for 1 month made him fit to join duty at Madras without any difficulty.
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