. Alternative, complementary and holistic health care .

I’ve been under the longstanding (and naive??) impression that
pharmaceuticals of all kinds were chemically pure with a few inert
ingredients such as binders or capsule coats. That may be true for some
drugs (if its not, I’d be interested in knowing about that too) but I gather
that may not be the case for vaccines and antibiotics. I seem to remember
reading a long time ago that some people used to be (maybe still are?)
allergic to tetanus serum because of horse antibodies in it. More recently I
have read about stuff such as formaldehyde being used to kill the
bacteria/viruses used to make vaccines. I have also read about mercury
compounds being used as preservatives in vaccines and antibiotics.

How much of this is true? If its true, what are the concentrations of these
"other than active" agents in our medications and how do they compare to
OSHA and EPA (or other) exposure safety standards? I’m not really interested
in answers that say qualitatively that it is or is not a problem. I’d like
to see numbers derived from actual analysis of medications and their
comparison with established quantitative exposure standards.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Does anyone have any information about childbirth in the 1930s?  
Specifically, how could a rural doctor (in the South) tell that a woman
was pregnant?  Just from her described symptoms?  How prevalent was
midwivery?  Any thoughts or info would be appreciated.  Please reply via
e-mail.  Thanks.

–Ann

To Whom This Concerns,

I would greatly appreciate if you have any information on Osteoporosis.
Treatment
Execersise or any other information which can help.

E-mail
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Mitch Holzman
a0137…@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us

Have read that dlpa and dpa chocolate and nutrasweet have strong effect
on relieving pain. Can anyone advise why and recommended dosages of
each.

I have recently been drinking Kombucha tea on a daily basis based on the
recommendation of a friend of my wife.

I caught the tail end of a thread here referring to a book.. What is this
book and where do I find more information on this subject?

Incidentally I have high hereditary cholesterol levels (322) despite a low fat
vegetarian diet. I am 43 and not overweight. I have upped my exercise. I
wonder how the Kombucha affects cholesterol?

I basically don’t want to worry about this problem, but do want to do the
right thing. Please refer me to what you think would be good information for
me on this.

Thanks

Hi,

AS a part of my MBA at the University of Otago, NZ, I am trying to benchmark
DRG products, processes, and practises.

Any body having info., leads, or knowledge please contact me on E-mail.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

vmur…@commerce.otago.ac.nz

Did you know double blind tests are not only unethical in TCM but they
are actually illegal in China as well? Yep- the TCM doctors test their
drugs on themselves. How unscientific – and they’ve only been doing it
for 2500 years longer than western technical medicine has existed.

SO, when i take a herb, I don’t need a white sheeted nerd who is using
so called standardised extracts of plants he never even saw growing
randomly administering them to subjects whose condition he could never
understand ( because he’s a SCIENTIST) trying to measure statistical
effects  etc etc to tell me whether something I planted, harvested,
made a fresh plant extraction from, and administered to myself is
SCIENTIFICALLY valid or not.  Let alone some geek on the net with
ego problems who doesn’t even understand  more  than a few  
reductionist rudiments of what he pathetically professes to uphold –
science –
an intellectual minnow whose kindergarten bickerings wouldn’t cut it
in  1st year philosophy –

So to all those in MHA who are practising complementary modalities –
for heavens sake admit it  NO WE ARE NOT SCIENTIFIC  - NOR WERE THE
MAGICIANS/ALCHEMISTS/HEALERS/WITCHES/WICCANS
PAGANS/SHAMANS/WISE WOMEN that gave us our tradition.

PARACELSUS begat Hahnemann.

–

Jeanne O’Donnell (odonn…@pobox.upenn.edu) wrote:

:               I made the original post to ask advice about immune boosters.
: So far all advice has been contradicted by someone else. Should I take this
: to mean that there is really no evidence as to a clear cut herbal or natural
: immune booster??

Herbs that increase the activity of one or more parts of the immune
system certainly exist.  However, referring to a compound as an immune
booster is too vague to be helpful.  And the effects in humans for a
lot of immune stimulating herbs are unclear.  Take people with AIDS,
for example.  They have immune suppression, so theoretically one would
think they would benefit from having the immune system stimulated.  Yet,
HIV is spread through the body by certain white blood cells called
macrophages.  So an immune stimulating chemical might actually worsen
their problems.  People with CFS often have low levels or activity of
a particular lymphocyte called a natural killer cell.  Yet taking an
immune stimulating agent that works on other parts of the immune system
can worsen the problem.

In other words, a lot depends on what you have and what herb you
want to take.

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 Camilla Cracchiolo, RN     cami…@netcom.com    Los Angeles, CA

     Shrine of the Cybernetic Madonna BBS      213-766-1356
              "The BBS for the information addict!"
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A woman passed out from what is thought to be severe migraines – seems
she’s been having these for at least a year.  when she was "out" her eyes
were
blinking very rapidly (under closed eyelids) for the duration of her
"episode".
Does anyone have any thoughts on cause/treatments?  Please and thank you.