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Winter is the Time to Give Your Kidneys Some Love

November 10, 2015
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In the healing philosophy of the Far East the energy flow in our environment is reflected in our bodies. In the system of the Five Elements, it is the Water Element that corresponds to the night-time in the daily cycle and the winter in the yearly cycle. The organs associated with water and thus winter are the kidneys and the urinary bladder. Isn’t it amazing that your 2 kidneys, which are the size of your fists, can filter you blood, all one and a half gallons of it, 400 times a day! The adrenals are associated with the kidneys and have to do with handling stress and keeping inflammation down. In Chinese Medicine the...

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Taking Care of Your Adrenal Gland

February 28, 2012
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We don’t often think about our adrenal glands, but having healthy adrenals is really a key for feeling well. These walnut sized glands sit atop our kidneys. They have a lot to do with controlling of other glands and hormones of the body. The outer layer or cortex produces hormones such as testosterone, estrogen, DHEA and cortisol. The central portion produces adrenaline, which is used in the fight or flight response.   Under stress your heart rate and blood pressure increase, your energy stores are ready for immediate use and your digestion slows. Your senses are also sharpened. This is healthy response to stress in an emergency. But in modern society stress can become an ongoing state of affairs. When we don't get enough sleep, when there are...

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The Stomach – Diagnosis

May 11, 2009
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The Stomach-Diagnosis Your Food Includes All of Life’s Experiences by Bill Tims Recently I was in the intensive care ward of Massachusetts General Hospital to visit a close friend of mine who was fighting for his life with acute duodenal ulceration, kidney failure, severe edema, and a rapidly weakening heart condition. As I entered the quiet, sterile, yet busy room, I was instantly consumed by a heavy cloud of death. As I approached what was to be my friend’s deathbed, I saw him lying there, unconscious, swollen beyond recognition, and punctured like a pin cushion with intravenous needles for injecting both food and medications. A sudden mixture of emotions simultaneously arose in me. It was fear of death; a strange combination of gratitude toward the doctor and nurses caring...

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The Stomach

May 11, 2009
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The Stomach You Needn't Be Diamond Jim Brady to Have a Champion Stomachs will hold just about anything we put in. To most people, the stomach is the fool of the body-after all, its only dream in life is to fill itself with food, and it has to be a dummy to tolerate the abuse we give it at times. The stomach has few talents compared to other organs, but what it does-taking in and processing large amounts of food-it does extremely well. An elephant’s stomach calmly takes in up to 750 pounds of grass and green leaves every day, while large snakes swallow whole pigs and antelopes, and alligator stomachs think nothing of digesting turtles, shell and all. Not to be outdone by our lower relatives, human beings...

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The Pancreas

May 11, 2009
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The Pancreas This Gland’s Balancing Act Keeps Us Centered While probably one out of ten suffer from diabetes, a 1977 HEW study revealed that every other person in the U.S. suffers from hypoglycemia, diabetes’ mysterious sister disorder. True, as our third leading cause of death, diabetes in all its ramifications annually kills 350,000 Americans (just over half the death rate of cancer), and the number of reported ‘hypoglycemia deaths’ is minute by comparison. But once one realizes that hypoglycemia has been identified as a possible cause for at least a major proportion of alcoholism, drug abuse, violent crime, suicide, psychiatric disorders, and many other common ills that result in death or disablement, one begins to get the uneasy feeling that hypoglycemia itself may be the heavyweight, and...

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The Lungs – Diagnosis

May 11, 2009
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The Lungs-Diagnosis  Keeping Tabs on the Seat of Our Feeling  by Bill Tims In diagnosing the condition of the lungs, we can look first at the face in the area of the cheeks on a line with the mouth. A sallow, pale or slightly puffy appearance of the cheeks usually suggests weakness and under activity in the lung function and is generally accompanied by poor circulation, difficult breathing (particularly in a prone position), weak chest muscles leading to rounding and tensing of the shoulders, a drooped posture, and often a tendency toward anemia and obesity. If this condition becomes chronic it can often lead to pleurisy, emphysema, asthma, and the progressive development toward lung or breast cancer. This condition is most commonly associated with the excessive consumption of...

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The Lungs

May 11, 2009
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The Lungs Stoking the Inner Fires As you read this article, you will probably breathe ten to fourteen times each minute. With each breath you will take in about a half-quart of air or five to seven quarts per minute, and if you needed to, you could take in much more. For instance, if a dinosaur suddenly broke into your room and chased you around, you might find yourself breathing 200 quarts of air per minute, which is more than 25 times what you are breathing now. But with no beast in sight we can take a few minutes to learn about these lungs of ours which expand and contract 20,000 times a day, our personal bellows that keep our inner fire going. The lungs are the only...

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The Liver – Diagnosis

May 11, 2009
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The Liver-Diagnosis  Your Eyes Monitor the Health of Your Largest Organ Recently a woman in her mid thirties came to me for a consultation. Her primary complaint was a persistent sty in her right eye. Upon questioning and examination, I found that the sty had first arisen in the spring, that she had lots of yellow mucus forming in her eyes, and that the area between her eyes was swollen and puffy. She also felt her life was floating without any stability, she had a hard time getting out of bed in the morning, and her impatience about seeing me, about curing herself, and even about getting out of my office was extreme. For twelve years she had been a lacto-vegetarian, consuming regular quantities of dairy products,...

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The Liver

May 11, 2009
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The Liver-Body  The Beneficent Godfather Is a Second Brain The image of a godfather has become familiar to all of us. He is that hidden persuader who takes care of people, a real but unofficial leader who oversees the community’s affairs. Outsiders don’t even know he exists, but throughout the community his presence is felt everywhere. The liver is like a beneficent godfather to the body. Hidden silently beneath our ribs, this huge, deep-red, wedge-shaped mountain oversees the activities and welfare of the body. Weighing about three pounds, the liver is massive and solid. It extends vertically from our right nipple almost down to the bottom of our rib cage. Crossways, it goes from the right side over to the left nipple. About the same size as the brain,...

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