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Sally Wilson - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Plant lover, writer, professional herbalist, naturopath, aromatherapist and expert in stress management.
Her published illustrated work includes "Some Plants are Poisonous" written to increase public awareness of cautions needed in gardening with some toxic ornamentals that present a possible danger to children and animals.
Other work to be included in this series are: "Some Flowers are Edible". "Some Plants are Medicinal" and "All Plants are Interesting".
A foundation member of Richard St Barbe Baker's "Men ... [More]
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- Forced Medication - Against Our Human Rights
[Health-and-Fitness:Healthcare-Systems] Gradually and by degrees the principle of personal freedom is being eroded. Where once the province of health and our choice of health care was our own business, more and more are we becoming subjected to the over-riding dictatorship of governments and bureaucracies.
- What Really Are Antidepressants?
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] What is not widely known to the public is that all antidepressants actually act by disabling some of the functions and faculties of the brain and can create long term damage threatening the future mental health of the individual. It is anticipated that there will arise many cases of litigation in the coming years as the resultant damage to health and all the 'side effects' are fully documented.
- GM in the Food Chain
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Science has discovered how to manipulate natural forms in order to produce mutations that were once accidental but now are being developed for what is perceived as good or better purposes. These amount to improvements in appearance and in shelf life with advantages seeming to offer benefits to primary producers and to the wholesalers and retailers who market the produce.
- GE Or GM Foods - Health Concern in Our Environment
[Health-and-Fitness:Environmental-Issues] There are many aspects about genetically engineered foods that the public finds disturbing, particularly in the area of how they will affect our health. This has become a highly controversial subject yet it is a matter that will be affecting all of us now, as into the future. Such a new science has had little time to test the results of laboratory manipulations of food chemistry and genetics and the poverty of any serious assurances from the scientific fraternity increases our nervousness.
- What About the Birds and the Bees
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Insect life on the farm is in danger with a potential threat to their enduring place in the ecological system. We have begun to appreciate more fully the essential unity of all natural life from the tiny microbes in the soil to all life forms nurtured and dependent upon the earth. The threat is in the application of genetically engineered seed for instance, that provides crops that are believed to be better, for one reason or another, but that in turn, at their maturing, produce pollens that are detrimental to bees.
- Anti-Depressants - The Dangers
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] In spite of the emerging proof of the dangers of psychiatric drugs and their potential to effect mind changing behavior negatively, even to a point of suicide, most doctors continue to claim that by far the most prescriptions they make out in their practice are for antidepressants for adults, and increasingly Ritalin for ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in children. Where once our social concern focused upon the dangers of hallucinatory drugs, mind drugs have now become big business, regardless of the damage they cause the brain.
- Why Herbs Help
[Health-and-Fitness:Healing-Arts] Healing herbs, as the term implies, were our natural plant medicines that served to provide healing tonics for the ill, salves for the wounded, and dozens of uses, many of which continue to be applied in modern herbalism. Cottage herbalism, although it had limitations, was thoroughly effective and involved using available local herbs. This has allowed traditional herbal remedies to be well tested and documented over time.
- Iatrogenic Fatalities In Medical Treatment
[Health-and-Fitness:Healthcare-Systems] It is reasonable that as we progress in the so called 'developed' countries, we can expect an improvement in general health of the community. Patients who get ill expect to have access to the wisdom and techniques of advanced medical science that offers them relief and also a cure.
- Children's Minds Need Home Care
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] It may be easier to consider the nature of our home care opportunities to fulfill the child's needs than be able to find the time and the wisdom in applying the theory. It is our ability to achieve time management that will influence the results and give evidence in happy, well adjusted children.
- Children's Minds At Risk
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] A child patient is generally considered to be abnormal by first displaying simple indications such as lack of concentration or hyper-activity. These mild, or sometimes extreme behavioural tendencies, medical science believes should be corrected by chemical drugs that directly affect the brain. Although many psychologists would disagree and offer solutions to reduce symptoms by non invasive techniques of communication and counseling for instance, and by involving parental co-operation, these simple, alternative methods are frequently overlooked.
- Children With Mental Problems - Suffer More After Drug Therapy
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Mental illness in our young people is a serious problem with 27,000,000 postings on the internet under 'Mental Disease in Children'. As parents we should demand to know the statistics related to any drug prescribed, as with any other health measure, including vaccinations. We should have this information before allowing action so that we can assess for ourselves the risk and degree of risk of side effects and long term use of any medical technique offered in general use by the medical or naturopathic profession. We need to know that any remedy is safe. For our children's sake, to determine this is our responsibility.
- Do Not Medicate Your Children With Drugs
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] There is more than adequate evidence about the dangerous side effects of medicinal drugs and those that are prescribed for mental irregularities in particular. These latter are invasive and can create chemical chaos in the brain to cause serious side effects, far more damaging than the original symptoms the child displayed.
- Self Help For Depression
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] "Depression is the number one cause of disability in developed countries." - Claire Ainsworth, New Scientist 5 January 2008. It is a startling fact that depression is so prevalent a mental condition in our western countries. In spite of the medical approach that correction comes from altering the chemical balance of the brain through drug therapy, there are also avenues of self help that offer a natural and more attractive alternative.
- Avoid Breast Cancer!
[Cancer:Breast-Cancer] Cancer is so common a disease of modern times and is no doubt the result of many factors in our modern lifestyle. Those suffering from cancer pray that a remedy is found and that there will be a monumental break- through in medical research-one that promises a total cure. But so far, medical science remains silent.
- Is Your Daughter on the Pill?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] If your daughter is moody, suffers insomnia, has irregular periods, at times seems really depressed, or is gaining weight, uncertain regarding her future or career, has many short term boyfriends, does not confide in either parent any more, is secretive, or has lost confidence and self esteem -- it may not be explained by the fact that she is a teenager. It may be a serious indication that she is on the Pill.
- Home Herbal Help For Cancer
[Cancer] We all wish to avoid contracting cancer, a condition of chaotic rather than normal patterns and growth of our body cells. We know that there are many factors found to contribute to this condition and are fully recognized. Many of these are to be found in our modern lifestyle in the abundant use of synthetic chemicals we employ but which provide irritants if not direct carcinogenic causes of the disease.
- Favorite Flower Food
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Flowers are often presented whole in garnishing for their color and aesthetic pleasure but if they are served to be eaten, great care must be made in their quality and preparation to minimize any of the bitter parts of the flower. Buying flowers are only safe for eating if they are guaranteed to be grown organically for obvious reasons. The safest way is to use them straight from your own garden where no sprays or chemical residues will threaten the quality and flavor of the blooms.
- Doctor Who Cures Cancer
[Cancer] Although focused on cancer, his discoveries had profound implication in other areas of medicine and science in all amounting to 113 new scientific discoveries. It has been said that and at least seven of these could each have won him a Nobel Prize. Dr. Emanuel Revici's methods of curing cancer involved no surgery, chemo, radiation, or narcotics and his medicine had no so called 'side effects". His special medicine was given to patients free. This is sometimes referred to as 'The Revici Drug' and is now only available in German pharmacies. It is used successfully in treating a range of diseases.
- Avoid Toxic Flowers In Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] It is a wonderful addition to our knowledge about food to find that there are many flowers that are suitable as fresh decoration or garnishing, or for use in raw food, savouries and salads, cooked dishes, desserts or even in drinks. Our kitchens are more attractive for flowers becoming a regular item in our diets and provide eager restaurateurs of a unique opportunity to present unusual touches to their cuisine. However, apart from a caution about thinking to use a flower in food because of its attractive colour, perfume or shape, we must know its properties and which of them are positively poisonous.
- Nutritious Sea Vegetables - Add To Your Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] For many ages mankind has known and utilized the ocean grown plants to complement his diet and also provide extra fodder to eager cattle. As human food there are many that are not only edible but also palatable. Current research and investigation into the nutritional value of the estimated 25,000 different species of edible seaweeds of identified plants is somewhat limited. It is an ever growing sphere of interest to botanists, nutritionists, dieticians, and health conscious people of the world who wish to reduce some of the dangers of land grown produce.
- Choosing Edible Flowers
[Food-and-Drink] Edible flowers are those that have been proven to be generally used safely in food over the centuries. They have the potential to add to the factor of nutrition, increase variety of flavor, or are visually pleasing when added to our cuisine.
- Culinary Herbs and Cancer
[Cancer] Culinary herbs are generally included in diets of most people today. Until comparatively recently there have been only a few herbs traditionally used in Australian kitchens and these offer nutritional benefits as well as palatability. However, they are also included amongst remedial or medicinal herbs and have been for centuries used in the treatment of disease.
- Perfumes and Incense
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] The use of perfumes and incense in our history is an old one. The word 'per' = by means of, and 'fumum' = smoke, relate to its association with man's first use of fire.
- Medicated Water - Fluoride is a Shameful First
[Health-and-Fitness:Environmental-Issues] Fluoride is a toxic substance deliberately added to our public water supplies in the guise of a magical cure for dental caries, in spite of the research scientists' reports that there is no convincing proof of its value. It has been a controversial issue and continues to be so as more and more scientific evidence that proves its damaging effects upon our general health is causing the practice to be reviewed.
- Humour - A Vital Sense
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Our sense of humour is more elusive and subtle. What is it? So hard to describe, and so difficult to control deliberately, so spontaneous and questionable as to what causes us to smile or laugh, sometimes guffaw or shriek with laughter near hysteria. It is a question that professional comics would like to fully comprehend.
- Adolescents and the Pill
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Modern young girls even before they reach full physical maturity are inclined to a precocious involvement in sexual behavior. They are frequently prescribed the Pill for menstrual problems or acne and parents comply with its use, fearing their daughter may become pregnant.
- Suicide - A National Tragedy
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] For example, let us examine the age factor in male suicides in the year 2003 in our nation. In this year 2003, of the 2213 total suicides, of these nearly 20% of males were in the bracket 15 -19 years of age with an increased number up to 26% in the 20-24 age group. The following 35-44 year bracket accounted for 483 deaths and the 45-54 age bracket 392 registered deaths. The 55-64 age bracket shows 213 registered deaths. The later age bracket 65-74 has 161 suicides registered. The 75 years of age and over bracket accounts for a further 132 deaths. Why is this happening?
- Fragrances Influence Our Moods and Minds
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Everyone enjoys inhaling a beautiful perfume and frowns under the influence of an obnoxious smell. The effect upon us is relaxing in the case of the scent of a rose, and we all get tense if we have to suffer a bad odour. When in good health we feel vital and mentally fit as well as enjoying keen senses.
- Mental Fitness - Reduce Fear of Cancer
[Cancer] Although statistics are somewhat overwhelming regarding the numbers of people who contract and often die of cancer, our fears can be somewhat modified when we learn of other factors in the numbers game. These help us to gain a different perspective regarding the dangers that are out there influencing how long and how healthily we are likely to live in the 'developed' world.
- Flowers For Food and Decoration
[Food-and-Drink] A few flowers have survived in traditional modern kitchen use, such as rose petals, nasturtiums, zucchini flowers, violets, chamomile and calendulas. We regularly enjoy the less obvious flowers of cauliflower, broccoli, and globe artichokes. Most of us will know that the flowers of herbs rosemary, basil and lavender are not poisonous and therefore safe to use in food preparation. But what of all the others?
- Perfumes And Essential Oils
[Health-and-Fitness:Beauty] The natural sensory enjoyment of perfumes out in the garden provides us with delightful olfactory experiences when we are out in the open air. However, through the sophisticated art of the perfumier we are now able to enjoy perfumes at any time we choose.
- Negative Influences Disturb Relaxation
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] We are hypersensitive when we are undergoing the process of relaxation - when we are lying on the floor and in a defenceless attitude with eyes shut. Traditionally, each person has their own personal mat to lie on. It represents our temporary private place or 'home'. We must feel confident in our guide and in our surroundings. Otherwise no technique or outside suggestion will work for us.
- Feel Free Again - No More Anxiety
[Health-and-Fitness:Anxiety] Symptoms associated with anxiety include heightened defensive brain activity and discharge of adrenalin, an increase in oxygen consumption, faster pulse rate, erratic respiration, increased perspiration and tensing of certain muscles of the body. There is usually a vague sense of foreboding and nervousness that makes us worry of trivial matters. Sometimes anxiety causes us to collapse with fatigue.
- Anxious People Have Attitude
[Health-and-Fitness:Anxiety] Anxious people are worriers; anxious people frown. Anxious people do not smile. So you suffer from anxiety? Can you describe your condition? It is important that we identify our problems and that our symptoms do not escape full attention by being swept into a particular category, such as 'anxiety' or 'stress'.
- Serious Side Effects Of The Pill
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] 100,000,000 approx. women worldwide use the Pill. 13,200,000 about its Side Effects are posted on the Internet -including warnings by doctors. Are 13,200,000 million warnings not enough?
- Don't Try to Relax - Just Let Go!
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Relaxation as a means of reducing stress is a simple matter of understanding and applying the principles of effort and release. There is a time to make effort and to try and there is a time for release and non effort.
- ABC - Herbs and Plants Used in the Treatment of Cancer
[Cancer] There are many plants involved in the successful treatment of Cancer. These include plants that are used in the raw material as well as those that are incorporated in chemical drug manufacture.
- Solitude is Essential For the Soul
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] In seeking solitude we undertake to follow a conscious or unconscious desire to relate more directly to Nature itself, or the Universal life beyond our own human nature and personality that we know so well. We also seek relief from the complexities of our relationship with others.
- Emotions and the Heart
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] When our emotions are involved we must correspondingly relate to the physical organ of the heart with hand on heart being a symbol of sincere affection or intense loyalty. Our heart can cause us physical discomfort if our emotions are causing us difficulties.The fact that this interaction occurs is recognized in psychosomatic medicine.
- Aromatics and the Environment
[Health-and-Fitness:Environmental-Issues] We are all aware of what we can do as individuals to alter our social habits and help to reduce the negative affects of general pollution. Many are making a contribution. We are also very aware of the damage caused in our environment by toxic substances and the release of chemical fumes resulting from the wastes of industry.
- Inhaling Natural Perfume - For Peace and Well Being
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] The additional benefits that are derived by inhaling the scent of essential or natural oils are persuasive. These include a direct 'tuning in' influence or aid to link us with the special natural energy and quality associated with our choice of oil that will help us focus our thoughts in preparation for our relaxation state or meditation.
- Herbs - Our Natural Medicine
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Although there is no actual botanical difference between a weed, a garden cultivated plant or a herb - the latter is generally defined as a plant containing nutritional or healing properties. Herbalism is the science and practice of alleviating disease and adjusting any imbalance of bodily and mental states by administering herbs as medicine. The traditional herbs have been used for centuries and are finding popularity in modern times as many people choose to avoid the dangers of the side effects and complications associated with manufactured drugs.
- Medical Health System Fails Us
[News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] The success of any venture is measured by its results. The medical system, upon which we rely to help us remedy our health problems, must be examined in the same light. So, has it resulted in better health in the community?
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