--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 257 ALTERN. MEDICINE Ref: EAM00012Date: 06/16/97 From: TY MEISSNER Time: 11:07am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: cancer trends look [2/2] >>> Part 2 of 2... thyroid 12,500 1,111 +115.3 -49.5 ovaries 21,000 13,181 +5.2 +2.5 lung 168,000 145,801 +267.4 +264.0 skin melanomas 32,000 6,568 +393.3 +155.0 breast (female) 180,000 43,063 +55.9 +0.2 prostate 132,000 34,238 +266.4 +20.7 kidney 26,500 10,427 +120.6 +37.2 liver 15,400 9,554 +107.3 +22.8 non-Hodgkin's lymphomas 41,000 20,058 +183.6 +123.1 multiple myeloma 12,500 9,247 +235.8 +194.0 brain 16,900 11,941 +85.2 +50.4 pancreas 28,300 26,070 +13.6 +17.8 . All types ex- 962,000 374,747 +40.8 -15.0 cluding lung . All types 1,130,000 520,548 +54.3 +9.6 ================= Source: C.L. Kosary and others, editors, SEER CANCER STATISTICS REVIEW 1973-1992 [National Institutes of Health Publication No. 96-2789] (Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, 1992), Table I-3, pg. 17. 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MEDICINE Ref: EAM00013Date: 06/16/97 From: TY MEISSNER Time: 11:20am \/To: SARAH DURIS (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Ear Candling On 06-12-97 14:47, Sarah Duris typed to All regarding: => Ear Candling <= Hello Sarah, SD> Hi. I am looking for information regarding ear candling. SD> My son has fluid build up in his left middle ear. Will ear candling SD> be good for this? SD> SD> I wish to avoid surgery/tubes. This is affecting his hearing. SD> SD> Thanks SD> SD> Sarah Have you tried more traditional remedies such as decongestants and anti-histamines, either in drug or herbal form ? As for ear-candling, the hot wax can burn the skin if you spill in on it and the flame can set the hair on fire. Dowsing with a dowsing rod would seem a lot safer and is probabaly equally effective. Have you investigated whay is causing them to swell shut ? It would better to ELIMINATE the CAUSE of the problem than to attack its symptoms which could only bring you temporary relief, at best, untill the treatment wears off and you are back at square one, in my opinion. Does he - could he have an infection causing the swelling ? Is he - could he be allergic to something ? Dust, pollen, mites, certain foods. Dairy products are very common offenders. So are legumes, so are nuts, so are various fruits. If you haven't delved deeply enough into the cause of the problem, you might want to do that to eliminate the cause of the problem. I certainly would NOT want tubes in my child's ears, not other surgical treatments. Nor would I want to load him down with pills and their usually undesirable side effects (drowsiness, dry mouth, etc.), if I could eliminate something from hi diet or environment that's causing the problem. Good luck, Ty Ty Meissner E-MAIL: Ty.meissner@grape.net I will sleep and dream like the air, and move like the wind, with assion when it pleases me. The Universe is not up there... Its here, and we're in it, third rock out from the sun. -- Peter Spiro ... My entropy: downwardly mobile with grace, humor, and gusto since 1936 ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] --- QScan/PCB v1.16b / 01-0507 * Origin: The Electronic Grapevine [707] 257-2338 (1:161/910) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 257 ALTERN. MEDICINE Ref: EAM00014Date: 06/14/97 From: ALEX VASAUSKAS Time: 03:21am \/To: ALAN FLETCHER (Read 2 times) Subj: marijuana Hello Alan: Alan Fletcher wrote in a message to Alex Vasauskas: > Actually, marijuana can have significant health benefits. This > is why states have passed laws permitting medicinal marijuana use. AF> This is where I would point out that there is a distinct AF> difference between "significant health benefits" (meaning a high AF> nutrient content) and any drugs used as a mere "treatment" of the AF> symptoms of an illness. Your terminology up there is thus correct. I think you mean *incorrect* ;-) Good point. AF> I'm sure that nobody would claim that marijuana is more dangerous AF> (or even at least as dangerous) as either tobacco or alcohol. The AF> Dutch have legalized it for this very reason. Unfortunately, there are many people in the U.S., who through a vested interest in maintaining public anti-drug hysteria or by having bought into that hysteria, maintain that marijuana is an absolute evil. Unlike tobacco and alcohol, which are legal, the federal government classifies marijuana as a Schedule I substance -- equivalent to heroin, and people are sentenced to prison for decades and have their property confiscated by the government for growing or possessing less than a pound of it. In fact, fishing vessels have been confiscated due to police finding a just-measurable amount of marijuana in the possession of a crew-member but unknown to the owner and captain. Prohibition has helped government grow, become more powerful, and been very lucrative for it. Consequently, there is a substantial interest in demonizing marijuana and other substances. > [However,] _the criminalization of > marijuana use may itself be a health hazard, since it may expose > the consumer to violence and criminal activity._ AF> Here I would agree 100%. All narcotic drugs should be legalized AF> (and the proceeds used to treat those who want to be treated and AF> to bury those who don't). I wonder how much of the alcohol or AF> tobacco taxes are used for this purpose. Here in Alaska (which now has the highest tobacco tax in the U.S.) the tobacco tax statute directs that all taxes be used to fund public education -- and then the politicians make self-righteous noises about how those who smoke tobacco, do not have private health insurance, and have health problems are a drain on the public health treasury. Bests, Alex --- * Origin: 61 deg. 25' N / 149 deg. 40' W (1:17/75) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 257 ALTERN. MEDICINE Ref: EAM00015Date: 06/10/97 From: JANE KELLEY Time: 08:05am \/To: ALAN FLETCHER (Read 2 times) Subj: Back to Eden (Kloss) AF> > and this question AF> > is legitimate. There's a new ISBN assigned to each new edition. AF> So which ISBN is correct....my number seems higher than yours? Your edition is not the first. It follows the edition she has. * SLMR 2.1a * Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up. - JetMail v1.20*6 - Unregistered QWK Mail Door for Spitfire --- FreeMail 1.10 alpha-3 * Origin: PEACHY KEENO INN BBS * Tacoma,Wa * (206)539-0804 (1:138/190.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 257 ALTERN. MEDICINE Ref: EAM00016Date: 06/17/97 From: WAYNE YOUNG Time: 01:46am \/To: STEPHEN BOWYER (Read 2 times) Subj: Genetic Religion??!!!! -=> Quoting Stephen Bowyer to Wayne Young <=- WY> Really SAD for a "SysOp" who couldn't comprehend what WY> happened. WY> Just go back to your closet and don't tell me your sad life! WY> Talk to a queer like yourself for comfort. SB> I wouldn't want to go into any closet, because I'd find you You're sicker than you think when you see me everywhere you go. There's one place you must go now - the psychiatrist's couch. The sooner the better! You should stop talking to me now, I can't help you any more. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (1:153/7715) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 257 ALTERN. MEDICINE Ref: EAM00017Date: 06/17/97 From: WAYNE YOUNG Time: 11:08am \/To: TERRY RICKS (Read 2 times) Subj: Virus -=> Quoting Terry Ricks to Wayne Young <=- WY> However, it is dormant before it begins to replicate itself to WY> cause damage? TR> If you are using the term "dormant" in the sense of hybernation it TR> would not be erroneous to say the the virions are dormant until they TR> attach to a susceptable host cell. That means when the virus is free - when it is inert - before it got into a living cell to take over the internal chemical process, directing the formation of new virus particles. It does not have the chemical components to sustain life in the "inert" state. TR> Also, the disease that TR> is caused by the virus is a result of the destruction of TR> the host cells that the virus has invaded. By replicating itself unchecked until it kills and ruptures the cell, then goes on to attack other cells like a nuclear reaction, but much slower. TR> Follow with me TR> here; if you destroy the cells of the mucus membranes of TR> the nasal passages you are going to destroy the function TR> of those membranes. You are also going to release cell TR> materials (cytoplasm) into the nasal passage. In defense, TR> the rest of the body's cells respond by walling off the TR> contaminated area and releasing fluids that contain virus TR> fighting chemicals such as interferon. The results: the TR> symptoms of the common cold. And the hepatitis viruses infect the cells of the liver; those that cause gastro-enteritis attack the cells lining the gut wall. Still others cause flu and smallpox. Incidentally, the Chinese practiced vaccination against smallpox long before it became common practice in Western medicine. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (1:153/7715) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 257 ALTERN. MEDICINE Ref: EAM00018Date: 06/17/97 From: JASON HUFF Time: 08:04pm \/To: JANE KELLEY (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: A Drink Or 2 A Day hi jane, i'm new here, and i saw something that confused me, maybe you can help clear it up for me. BM> JK> you would know that there is some genetic protection against alcohol, BM> JK> that the Native Americans have had it only for the past 2-300 years, JK> BM> How then do you explain, or don't you make the attempt, the rampant BM> alcoholism among the native Americans for the past 100 - 150 years BM> or longer? JK> JK> WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!!!! The reason that there is JK> such a high rate of alcoholism among the Native Americans is that the JK> whites introduced alcohol to them along with smallpox and cavalry JK> bullets. that first part you say there is some genetic protection for native mericans, but they currently do, and always have had a problem with alcohol. and i don't understand your rebuttal to Bob's comment at all. how does the whites introducing alcohol have anything at all to do with their supposed genetic protection? i'll look forward to reading your reply, and clearing things up for me. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: DiGiTaL OnLiNe MaGaZiNe - [409]8Ext-237 (1:3811/350) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 257 ALTERN. MEDICINE Ref: EAM00019Date: 06/17/97 From: DIA SPRIGGS Time: 4:16:am \/To: ALAN FLETCHER (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: No "Red Indians" here ! What does red, green, purple or any other color have to do with alternative medicine....I didn't see any reference to INDIAN medicine at all..Please drop the thread. --- D'Bridge 1.30/002111 * Origin: THE SOURCE BBS Miami, Fla 305-624-2190 135/68 (1:135/68) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 257 ALTERN. MEDICINE Ref: EAM00020Date: 06/15/97 From: ALAN FLETCHER Time: 10:26pm \/To: HOLLY CAHILL (Read 2 times) Subj: Back to Eden (Kloss) Hi Holly, > AF> > AF> I've ver heard of it but would be interested to read it. Do > AF> you > AF> > AF> have an ISBN number? > AF> > I do, I do!!!! (hand waving frantically in the air) > AF> > Hard cover: 0-912800-02-X > AF> > Soft cover: 0-912800-01-1 > AF> > AF> Huh?? I was told that the ISBN-number is 0-940985-10-1. > AF> > AF> Perhaps someone could explain before I make a fool out of myself. -) > AF> > The version I have was published 1974, by Lifeline Books with permission > of the Kloss family...perhaps the publishing years are different, hence > the different ISBN numbers? (I double checked, those are the numbers in > the flyleaf of the book) Presume the higher number is a reprint. I'll see if I can get hold of it. Best regards, Alan --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Bear's Cave (2:2461/161.5) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 257 ALTERN. MEDICINE Ref: EAM00021Date: 06/15/97 From: ALAN FLETCHER Time: 10:37pm \/To: DAVID WILSON (Read 2 times) Subj: Bee Venom Hi David, > Talk about your Alternative Medicine! Tonight's network evening news > featured a piece on bee-sting therapy for multiple sclerosis victims. > I'd never heard of it, but apparently thousands of MS patients have > found relief. No joke! They actually allow themselves to be stung by > bees and wasps. The subject has apparently gained enough attention > among the traditionalists so that genuine clinical research has begun at > the ivory tower level. > Does anyone know something on this matter that Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather > don't know? If bee venom becomes a valuable commodity, we might see a > lot more honey in the stores! I doubt it, all bees die after stinging....their sting has a barb on it and the whole apparatus is thus ripped out of the abdomen after stinging someone. ;-) Best regards, Alan --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Bear's Cave (2:2461/161.5)