Your Life-Your Choice ISSN 1488-0253 ==================== June, 2000 Issue 54 Letter From the Editor, As you know, Your Life-Your Choice strives to bring you the latest updates in the field of alternative medicine. In keeping with that goal, we are featuring an article by a writer new to our pages, Humaira Anne Sinnott. Check at the bottom of section 3 for her impressive biography. Anne has offered us an article about the research being done with a plant called larrea tridentata, a desert plant that is abundant in North America. This is one of the forgotten plants that was used by native Indians for various ailments. This article is certainly on my list of interesting reads. You won’t want to miss this interesting article, and the chance to learn something new. Brigitte Synesael Editor of Your Life-Your Choice Make it your business to be informed! 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NATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM HEALS COMMON AILMENTS 4. Health Smart Recipe - Blueberry Muffins 5. Talk to GARLIC =========================================== Section 1 Dental Stressors by Dr. Trager As I have stated in my earlier articles, the key first step in preventing, reversing and healing dis-ease or dis-harmony is awareness. By this I mean conscious awareness of ourselves, our lives, and our surroundings. Awareness of ourselves mirrors our attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, images, feelings, behaviors and actions. Ultimately , being in control of these parts of ourselves, will result in optimum health and well being. Being aware of our lives and surroundings involves looking honestly at our work and family relationships and how they relate to our individual well being. I have stressed the importance of becoming aware of the multiplicity or causes and contributing factors to periodontal disease. We are now ready to look at these causes in more depth and to discuss ways to address these factors so you may be able to reverse and heal the disease resulting from these causes. I will begin with causes on the physical or physiological level, since these will be the most familiar and the easiest to recognize. Keep in mind our hierarchical philosophy, where our attitudes and beliefs affect our thoughts and images, which affect our feelings and emotions, which affects our behaviors and actions, which in turn affects our physical bodies. (These affects can be reciprocal.) The causes and contributing factors to disease usually takes the form of stressors to the immune system, which eventually experiences overload and opens the door to disease. for this reason we will us the work stressors when referring to the causes of disease. Dental Stressors. a) Faulty or improperly fitting dental fillings, crowns, bridges or prosthetic appliances. Poor fitting or worn out dental work can cause a number of problems. 1) compromised ability to chew or function properly. Teeth may not meet properly causing excessive pressures to the intricate structures that support the teeth and attach them to the bone. this is the periodontal structures and the loss of integrity of this structure leads to periodontal disease. Some teeth may be overworking, some working little or not at all. the important thing is balance and harmony. You may have heard the old axiom that “form follows function”. In the case of the mouth it has great merit. By working diligently to consciously balance your chewing by distributing foods equally on both sides, by chewing either bilaterally (both sides at the same time), or alternatively (some chewing on one side, then an equal amount on the other until the food is almost a liquid consistency): can restore integrity, flexibility, resilience and strength to the periodontal structure, thus increasing resistance to disease and healing. Symptoms of dysfunction may be found in dental pain and discomfort you may be experiencing. For example see-sawing to hot, cold (temperature changes), biting or chewing pressure, sweets, sour or salty foods. A thorough dental examination may be needed to assess the extent of the poor dental work and a plan for correcting the problem undertaken. In our next article we will continue with other dental stressors as well as going into the other stressors that may affect us. ----- Read about Dr. Trager on our Meet the Team page; http://www.Life-Choices.com/team.html ************************************************ Please visit our sponsors, they help keep our newsletter free for everyone. FINALLY! You can lose weight the ALL NATURAL way. Stop the diet rollercoaster! There are more than 10 ways to lose weight that are not influenced by the food you eat. You Have NOTHING TO LOSE BUT POUNDS! The newest, hottest selling EBOOK on the market by Your Life-Your Choice publisher Brigitte Synesael. http://www.diets-dont-work.com?001 ******************************************* FREE Stuff Guide Ezine A free monthly newsletter featuring links to mostly CHRISTIAN free stuff on the Internet. Not everything is Christian, but will not contradict Orthodox Christian values. Software, E-text books, games, giveaways, samples, etc. Send blank e-mail to: free_stuff_guide-subscribe@listbot.com or join up at: http://www.pencilpuzzles.com/pow.html ************************************************** Section 2 Massage Therapy As A Holistic Healing Tool for Breast Cancer and Heart Disease(Part 2:) by Laurel Duran, CMT As I stated in Part 1 of this series on breast and heart conditions, when one makes manual contact with the clavicle tender spots beneath both bones while simultaneously laying a hand gently on the pubis, emotions held inside the body are encouraged to come up and be felt. Because the primary issue expressed by the breasts/heart chakra is “healing emotional conflict through feeling”, it is very normal and healthy that a massage therapy client would experience their emotions during and after a massage that includes this simple opening technique. To feel honest emotions is to move energy in the body, and physical illness has roots in the client’s emotional energy usage patterns. By literally feeling what was previously repressed and blocked, the client is engaging in healing him/herself naturally. For most of us, such physical and emotional surrender does not come instantly. The reason I begin most massage therapy sessions with this emotional opening technique is that most clients need a bit of time to experience resting in the safe womb of the massage environment before their worldly defenses fall away. Massage therapists often suggest the client “just let go” or “allow ourselves to surrender” because the less physical and mental resistance the client generates, the more the massage can help. But underneath the therapist’s skilled manual techniques and mental suggestions lies another very important breast/heart issue: self-nurturance, or self-mothering. When each of us was first forming in our mother’s womb, the sound that became our lifeline was the beating of our mother’s heart. After 9 months of growing in tune with that sound, we emerged from the womb’s safety, crying out to be nurtured at our mother’s breasts, where we could listen once again to that original soothing sound of her beating heart. But many of us were not breast fed, or were in many other ways denied access to our essential need for the safe, tender nurturance and complete nourishment from our mothers. In fact, many of our mothers and our mothers’ mothers did not receive all the nurturance they truly needed. On one hand we could say that we’re all doing the best we can with what we have, and we hope that every generation improves upon the past. But on the other hand, psychologists tell us that when a vulnerable infant cries out and consistently fails to receive a loving response from a caring adult, the seeds of later emotional conflict and inadequate nurturance modeling are planted. We now know that many adult psychological problems relate to a lack of healthy nurturance in our early years. Breast cancer has been clearly linked to a woman’s feeling undeserving of self-nurturance, and heart conditions have been linked to constantly repressing normal, human emotional responses. Breast cancer or heart patients may not consciously realize this but by choosing to receive the complete nurturance of compassionate massage therapy they are potentially changing the entire course of their illness and embarking on a pathway to self-healing. If the compassionate massage therapist makes him/herself available for the client to safely allow emotional conflicts to rise up and out during the session... if the compassionate massage therapist sees him/herself providing the safe comfort of thoroughly nurturing touch ... and if the client trusts the massage therapist to be caring and compassionate while they unburden their breasts/heart ... then together they are healing the client’s past in the present, thereby making way for a healthy future! In my 21 years as a massage therapist, I have assisted many heart condition clients with unblocking their hearts by feeling their emotions on the therapy table. I have also been honored to be a part of many breast cancer clients’ feeling their honest emotional turmoil as I respond to them with the tender acceptance and nurturance they may not have received in childhood. Over time I have been given miraculous feedback from many of these clients indicating they have successfully healed themselves. I am profoundly fulfilled every time a client trusts me enough to surrender their vulnerability during a massage because for me, there is no greater joy than the joy of healing! ----- Read about Laurel Duran on our Meet the Team page; http://www.Life-Choices.com/team.html ********************************************** Section 3 NATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM HEALS COMMON AILMENTS By: Humaira Anne Sinnott Astounding clinical results (97.8%) verify the ability of a desert plant extract to treat numerous viral conditions. Recently, the media spotlight has illuminated almost unbelievable statistics about the prevalence of herpes virus infections in modern society. Usually not life-threatening to otherwise healthy adults, the herpes virus can result in physical conditions ranging from cold sores, genital herpes, shingles, and chronic fatigue syndrome to Kaposi's sarcoma. Conversely, herpes virus infections can become quite serious, sometimes life threatening, in immune compromised patients such as those with AID's, recipients of bone marrow or organ transplant, cancer victims, people of advanced age or newborn babies. One of the most devastating public health concerns among industrialized nations is sexually transmitted disease. The prevalence of Genital herpes, caused by HSV-2 is escalating worldwide. It is estimated that 31 million Americans are infected with the virus and 1 in 5 people over the age of 12 has genital herpes. Up to 1 million new HSV-2 infections may be transmitted annually in this country. The most surprising fact about herpes virus is that 90% of the population harbors one or more herpes viruses and may not even know of their "carrier" status. Viruses can lay dormant in the body for years before exhibiting any symptoms. In fact, the chickenpox virus (herpes zoster) is this same virus, which can later in life cause shingles. The viral culprits usually live in the nerve roots and are triggered to "activate" during times of stress, immune compromise, disease or aging. The chronic effects of subacute infection by these viruses are being convincingly linked with coronary artery disease, lymphoma, multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative conditions. As time goes on, technological and medical advances may continue to implicate herpes virus in other diseases as well (cancers, autoimmune and muscular disorders). The traditional regimen for herpes virus conditions involves a course of pharmaceutical intervention. Unfortunately, for a significant number of individuals these drugs do not prove useful, especially in the case of shingles and post-herpetic neuralgia. In looking at alternative approaches to anti-viral treatments researchers in Arizona began investigating larrea tridentata, a desert plant that is abundant in North America. Historical information tells us that the shrub has been used as a medical panacea for centuries by Native Americans. Traditionally, larrea was used to treat infections, chickenpox, burns, rheumatism, bronchitis, and digestive disorders amongst a myriad of other condition. Larrea was truly the "medicine chest of the desert southwest". Physician and consumer use reports have verified historical use and Larreacorp's laboratory data and clinical findings, which establish tremendous efficacy (97.8%) of the plant compounds to combat a number of herpes conditions (cold sores, genital herpes, shingles, Cytomegalovirus, Kaposi's sarcoma, etc.). A wide array of phytochemicals, flavonoids and lignans show significant anti-oxidant effects as well as anti-microbial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-inflammatory properties and are responsible for the plant's medicinal activity. *************** Humaira Anne Sinnott, President of Larreacorp, Ltd., holds a Masters in Physiological Psychology from Arizona State University, where she specialized in neuroscience. Ms. Sinnott formerly held the position of Public Health Microbiologist for the Arizona Department of Health Services and served as a laboratory manager. She was most recently involved in neuro-oncology at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix where she conducted medical research and oversaw all facets of the research laboratory's operations. Her technical knowledge has been enhanced by post-graduate work in business management and marketing. Her more than three years as President of Gaiaventures, Ltd. a biotechnology consulting firm, has lent her practical experience. Over the past decade, Ms. Sinnott has taught at several institutions, including Arizona State University. She is active in non-profit projects, serves on the Board of the Wellness Community, and is a member of the American Association of University Women. Visit the web site at http://www.larreacorp.net (information) to learn more about the "medicine chest of the desert southwest- larrea". ************************************** Section 4. Healthsmart Recipes Blueberry Muffins 1 cup white all-purpose flour 1 cup whole wheat flour 2 tbsp honey 1 tbsp baking powder ½ tsp salt (optional) 1 egg 1 cup milk (2% or skim) ¼ cup olive (or canola or safflower) oil 1 cup blueberries (fresh or frozen) Just some optional hints, substitute ¼ cup of white flour for flaxseed. Also substitute fruit, use raspberries, dried cranberries or fresh currents as desired. Nutritional Information Calories Fat Fiber 133.11 4.00 4.42 ================================================== Section 5. Talk to Garlic Dear Garlic, I have an obnoxious 15 year old son who thinks he knows everything, but can't seem to figure out when the dishes need to be done or how to wash them. I refuse to do them for him, but often there are so many that I can't even see the counter. Every day it's a big fight. What can I do? Desperately Seeking Counter Dear Counter Seeker The teenage years can be the greatest challenge a parent ever meets. There is no such thing as a reasonable teenager. However, one thing at all times. SHOW NO WEAKNESS! KEEP CALM! REFUSE TO ARGUE! DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS! If its his job to do dishes, then he does them or nobody does. I know, I know “then you can’t cook” breakfast, lunch or supper. DON’T. Just DON’T. I wouldn’t get into an argument with him. Just take yourself and whoever else is in the family out to dinner for a few days. DO NOT take your teenager. DO NOT argue with him about his responsibilities. Put a sign on the kitchen door reading “disaster area, DANGER”. Simply go and have dinner, and when you get home and he asks what is for supper, tell him you find it impossible to cook with the kitchen in the state its in. Then head for the TV room or whatever. Also, if you normally make his lunch, or do anything on a regular basis that involves using the kitchen, STOP DOING IT! STOP RIGHT NOW! You’ve heard the term “tough love”. This will probably be harder on you than on him, but HANG TOUGH! Just don’t go in the kitchen. Sooner rather than later, the kitchen will get cleaned. (and don’t worry, he won’t starve to death for at least 2 weeks). ==================================== Like to talk to Garlic? Yes, men are welcome too: put "Dear Garlic" in Subject line. We can talk about anything. mailto:marketing@life-choices.com *Note that the Dear Garlic segment of Your Life-Your Choice is for entertainment purposes only. 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