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| THE FIRST STUDY
The first study looked at the rate of antibiotic prescriptions and included 4,158 American children between the ages of three and 17 who were examined in a physician's office, hospital outpatient department or emergency room for a sore throat.
According to the study, most sore throats are not caused by bacteria, but by viruses. Only 15% to 36% of all sore throats are caused by the streptococcus (strep) bacteria.
For those infections that are caused by strep, the antibiotics penicillin or amoxicillin are the recommended first-line treatments. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Just as every woman with a uterus was seen as a candidate for a hysterectomy, so was every child with a throat a tonsillectomy waiting to happen. Sore throat? Take out the tonsils. No great loss, thought most surgeons. Tonsils don't seem to do anything very important. At the time I lost mine, tonsillectomy was the third most common surgery done in the United States. Today it is understood that these little organs in our throat contribute significantly to the immune response.43
The very notion of "unnecessary" often involves cultural as well as medical judgments. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Taking the tincture of death in a cup, he swallowed it at a gulp, and by his yoga-power held it in his throat. The throat turned blue. Hence Shiva is addressed as "Blue Neck," Nilakantha.
The churning now being resumed, presently there began coming up out of the inexhaustible depths precious forms of concentrated power. Apsarases (nymphs) appeared, Lakshmi the goddess of fortune, the milk-white horse named Uchchaihshravas, ing in importance, became merely the creative agent of Vishnu. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Soon she became aware of joint pain, knots in her shoulders, headaches, and a sore throat—those symptoms were more apparent in the morning hours; but the sore throat and mild headaches were a constant problem. She realized something very serious was affecting the quality of her health.
When she began waking each morning with stiffness, she knew it was time to seek medical help. At this point she was getting only three to four hours of sleep at night, and those few hours were not restful. Her nerves were frayed, and every little noise and action set her off. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Licorice Root Soothes the throat and Lungs
The most common medical use for licorice is for supporting upper respiratory tract health. It's known for its soothing effect on inflamed mucous membranes. Licorice root, when mixed with water or used in cough drops, soothes mucous membranes like those found in the throat, lung, and bronchial tubes. (When I was a kid, my mom would give me Smith Brothers licorice cough drops at the first sign of a cough. |
| Chopra also suggests mixing turmeric powder with a little honey and using the mixture to coat your throat at the first sign of a sore throat.
So we already know the strong science behind the pharmacy that lives in the turmeric plant. What does traditional Eastern medicine say about it? According to The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine, coauthored by Dr. David Frawley and the highly respected Indian doctor and herbal authority Dr. Vasant Lad, "Turmeric gives the energy of the Divine Mother and grants prosperity. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 The fifth energy center is in the throat. This center is where we hold energies, thoughts, and feelings associated with deep levels of personal expression—our ability to address what matters most. People who are very good communicators usually have very strong energy in the throat center. By contrast, people who withhold expression have weak or negative energy in this center and tend to suffer from disorders like chronic laryngitis.
The sixth energy center is in the head. This is where we store our understanding of meaning and purpose in life. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Next, the food is swallowed; that is, it travels down the throat and the esophagus, a tube that connects the throat to the stomach. A series of wave-like contractions keeps the food moving down to the stomach.
In the stomach, powerful muscles churn the food, breaking it into smaller and smaller pieces and mixing it with gastric juices produced by the glands lining the stomach. These juices contain pepsin, an enzyme that begins to digest proteins, and hydrochloric acid to acidify the food. Only alcohol, simple sugars, and some medications are actually absorbed from the stomach. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In addition to heartburn, symptoms of acid reflux may include persistent sore throat, hoarseness, chronic cough, asthma, heartlike chest pain, and a feeling of a lump in the throat.
Natural Prescription for Heartburn
Digestive enzymes or digestive enzymes with hydrochloric acid: (take with every meal, dose dependent on improvement)
Note: if you have an ulcer, work with a health professional. Don't self-treat.
Probiotics: 10 billion. Keep refrigerated. (Note: Probiotics are available in either pill form or as a powdered supplement that can be mixed in water. |
Melody Petersen
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 In 2002 a group of researchers announced that they had found that 48 percent of the children with strep throat at a private school in Pittsburgh could not be treated with a drug called erythromycin, an antibiotic similar to Zithromax. The researchers blamed the children's drug-resistant infections on physicians' rising use of Zithromax for patients with all types of illness.
But it was not just strep throat that was getting harder to treat. Nor was Zithromax the only antibiotic that doctors overprescribed. America's list of drug-resistant infections was getting longer all the time. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| In addition to heartburn, symptoms of acid reflux may include persistent sore throat, hoarseness, chronic cough, asthma, heartlike chest pain, and a feeling of a lump in the throat.
Natural Prescription for Heartburn
Digestive enzymes or digestive enzymes with hydrochloric acid: (take with every meal, dose dependent on improvement)
Note: if you have an ulcer, work with a health professional. Don't self-treat.
Probiotics: 10 billion. Keep refrigerated. (Note: Probiotics are available in either pill form or as a powdered supplement that can be mixed in water. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 An old remedy for sore throat was placing a slice of baked potato in a stocking and tying it around the throat.
Throw Me a Lifesaver!
CANCER: Human case studies have shown that lectins, such as those found in potatoes, attach to receptors on cancer cell membranes, leading to apoptosis and cytotoxicity, and inhibiting tumor growth.
CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH: A long-term study that followed 84,251 women found that eating potatoes may be heart-healthy. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Mold Reactions respiratory problems, such as wheezing and difficulty breathing nasal and sinus congestion burning, watery, red eyes; blurred vision; light sensitivity dry, hacking cough sore throat nose and throat irritation shortness of breath skin irritation central nervous system problems (constant headaches, memory problems, and mood changes) aches and pains possible fever
A WORD ABOUT MOLD
Mold simply refers to fungal growth. If you had a mold problem in your home or office, you'd know it, right? Not necessarily. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Big Pharma will stop at nothing to find more ways to force yet more pharmaceuticals down the throats of anything that has a throat. As long as there's more money to be made, drug companies will do whatever is necessary to generate more profits, including bribing doctors, subjugating medical school curricula, committing deliberate scientific fraud, paying off medical journals, handing kickbacks to FDA decision makers, buying lawmakers, controlling the media and directing the very course of medical belief in the western world. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Next, the food is swallowed; that is, it travels down the throat and the esophagus, a tube that connects the throat to the stomach. A series of wave-like contractions keeps the food moving down to the stomach.
In the stomach, powerful muscles churn the food, breaking it into smaller and smaller pieces and mixing it with gastric juices produced by the glands lining the stomach. These juices contain pepsin, an enzyme that begins to digest proteins, and hydrochloric acid to acidify the food. Only alcohol, simple sugars, and some medications are actually absorbed from the stomach. |
Mark Sircus
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 I also squirt it onto the back of my throat when I get a sore throat now too ?it goes away. I was surprised ?I tend to be skeptical. In my experience, things that work for one person don't necessarily work for others, but this magnesium chloride seems to be different.
Frequently the glands under my arms and behind my knees also get sore and swollen. I have been rubbing it on these glands and it has been causing the pain and swelling to go away. That keeps coming back but it comes back less and less and goes away quicker. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Repeated mucus discharge into the throat and mouth. Bile may regurgitate into the stomach, thereby irritating its protective lining and causing excessive mucus production. Some of the bile and mucus may reach the mouth area. This can create a bad (bitter) taste in the mouth and give rise to frequent attempts at clearing the throat, which sometimes involve coughing. Mucus discharge without this bitter taste results when food is not digested properly, and toxins are generated. The mucus helps to trap and neutralize some of these toxins, but as a side effect, it causes congestion. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Dioscorides wrote that licorice can be used for people with burning of the stomach and "griefs" of the throat, liver, and kidneys.
John Parkenson, the famed English gardener and herbalist, grew licorice in his garden and used the roots to make herbal beer. He also recommended its use for people with hoarseness of the throat, ulcers of the bladder, wheezing, painful urination, and consumption (tuberculosis). He made a formula with licorice, figs, and maidenhair fern; the combination was boiled in water to make a sweet, pleasant-tasting medicine. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| An old remedy for sore throat was placing a slice of baked potato in a stocking and tying it around the throat.
Throw Me a Lifesaver!
CANCER: Human case studies have shown that lectins, such as those found in potatoes, attach to receptors on cancer cell membranes, leading to apoptosis and cytotoxicity, and inhibiting tumor growth.
CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH: A long-term study that followed 84,251 women found that eating potatoes may be heart-healthy. |
Andreas Moritz
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 It also lubricates the joints, generates the mucus lining in the mouth, throat, lungs, stomach and intestines, and holds the body together. Without the cohesive properties of Kapha, the body would be a pool of disconnected cells scattered on the ground.
Kapha becomes aggravated when the reversed movement of the Vata force reaches the pyloric sphincter—the valve that connects the stomach with the duodenum. |
| The bronchial system and the lungs attempt to remove some of the excessive mucus, which was formed in response to the irritation, by coughing it up into the throat. Chain smokers also experience this problem after awakening in the morning.
The supply of oxygen and water to the lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, stomach, intestines and other parts of the body becomes increasingly scarce as lymphatic congestion worsens. Consequently, the body can no longer guarantee proper elimination of carbon dioxide and other metabolic waste products, as well as cellular debris, from the tissues and organs. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Many studies have shown that higher intakes of vitamin C are associated with decreased incidence of cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, stomach, colon, and lungs.
VITAMIN C, CATARACTS, AND LEAD
Cataracts are a major cause of visual impairment, especially as people age. Not all studies have shown a protective effect on cataracts from vitamin C. There may be decreased severity of cataracts if vitamin C intake exceeds 300 mg daily for many years.
The heavy metal lead is associated with many health problems, especially in children. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Today it is understood that these little organs in our throat contribute significantly to the immune response.43
The very notion of "unnecessary" often involves cultural as well as medical judgments. For example, about two-thirds of all newborn males are circumcised in the United States. Neither the American Academy of Pediatrics nor the American Medical Association recommend routine circumcision. The procedure does protect against urinary tract infections in the first year of life, and against penile cancer in later life. However, both these conditions are rare. |
| Other common symptoms were sore throat and chest congestion.
For treatment, primary care physicians prescribed an antibiotic in seven of ten cases in 1994, an increase from six in ten in 1980. For 10 million such visits in 1994, physicians wrote 11 million prescriptions, more than double the number for 1980. In 1999, white, non-Hispanic and younger patients were more likely to receive antibiotic treatment for their cough complaints than were nonwhite and those over age 65. There were no differences between male and female patients.
"All that antibiotic use," Fran mused. "That's a big problem. |
Bill Sardi
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 Junl 8(3):203-10, 2004] But there is little evidence of this response in humans, and certainly not as an injected drug, and smoking marijuana may irritate cells lining the throat. [Schmerz 18: 203-10, 2004]
Whole herbs may be found to have cancer-inhibiting properties, but extracts of molecules within herbs are more likely to provide the concentrated doses required to treat already existing tumors. |
| Pure 02 for as little as six hours can cause chest soreness, cough and sore throat. High oxygen levels in incubators produces blindness in babies. [Nutrition Reviews 52: 253-65, 1994] The faddish "oxygen bars"where people would come into a bar to inhale oxygen through a nasal tube, improved oxygenation of tissues but also could have been problematic. That is why antioxidants (anti-rusting agents) found in plant foods and dietary supplements are widely promoted to counter aging, improve immunity from disease and to promote health. |
| The American public is going to have these drugs literally shoved down their throat.
Reasons why chemotherapy doesn't work
Drug resistance produced by enzymes in the liver (cytochrome p450 enzymes). |
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