Shannon Brownlee
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 For example, a patient presents with acute bronchitis, accompanied by fever and coughing up of blood. After two weeks, the fever is gone, the patient is no longer coughing, and a chest X-ray shows the lungs are clear. Should the doctor (a) do a chest CT; (b) perform a bronchoscopy, which involves putting a flexible scope down the bronchial tubes to take a look at them; or (c) do nothing? The right answer is c—do nothing. The patient is cured. |
Devra Davis
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 These men and women had raw, red eyes, violent coughing spells that would last two to three minutes or even longer. Some of them could barely walk.
"It was clear to me that this had to be related to what they were doing on the job. Some of these guys would get better every weekend and be sick as a dog again by the end of the week. I would recommend to the supervisor that they be given rest and sent to another part of the plant, where they would avoid these exposures. After a few days, their symptoms would clear, and they would return to work and the coughing would begin all over again. |
Ray D. Strand
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 I took a deep breath and couldn't stop coughing. In fact later that day I was out playing a round of golf and every time I took a breath I coughed. After about the seventh hole, I had to quit. I was embarrassed because I couldn't even stop coughing when the other players were trying to hit their shots or putt. Anyone who knows me knows how much I love to play golf. For me to quit in the middle of a round of golf, it had to be bad!
It was odd to hear locals in Azusa joke about not trusting air they couldn't see. This was my introduction to what the news later reported as a moderate smog day. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The symptoms are wheezing, coughing, and difficulty breathing. But during an attack, the muscles around the airways tighten up and less air flows through. The results can be devastating. A severe asthma attack can be so bad that not enough oxygen gets to vital organs. You feel like you can't breathe—which you can't, really—and you panic. It's a medical condition that people can—and have—died from.
The Mind-Body Connection
Conventional treatment for asthma is a mix of common sense, e.g. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| High-quality hospitals use an integrated approach to treating chronic conditions, monitoring a heart failure patient's weight once they leave the hospital, for instance, responding quickly if they call to say they're coughing a lot, and adjusting their medication if their weight goes up, which indicates their lungs are filling with fluid. High-quality hospitals do all of this and avoid giving patients unnecessary procedures and tests.
By this yardstick, there are many inefficient hospitals in America. |
Anne Harrington
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 Notwithstanding all her gifts and virtues, she was severely hysterical, with symptoms that included disorders of vision, coughing, paralyses, and regular spells of somnambulism. The first symptoms had come on when she was nursing her father through a long illness, and by the time Breuer began visiting her a year later, she was almost wholly incapacitated and housebound.
This established, Breuer then explained the remarkable things that happened to Anna O. as he began to treat her using hypnosis. In a trance state, Anna O. |
| Hysteria, a disorder characterized by a bewildering and baroque array of symptoms (convulsions, paralyses, tunnel vision, color blindness, patches of anesthesia, incessant coughing, tics, feelings of choking), had long bsen the bane and frustration of clinicians across Europe. In the 1870s, following a remarkably successful decade of work elucidating a range of other brain disorders, Charcot had decided it was time to make hysteria lie down and behave. |
Ray D. Strand
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| I could hardly take a breath without coughing. I actually began to feel sick. For those who are not accustomed to cigarette smoke, its effects are more clearly recognizable. I am sure there are times and situations that you've had similar experiences. It doesn't take much imagination to realize that if you are exposed to secondary smoke on a daily basis, it will have a major impact on your health.
Pollution of Our Food and Water
Are you thirsty? In 1988 the U.S. Department of Public Health warned us that 85 percent of American drinking water is contaminated. |
| I was embarrassed because I couldn't even stop coughing when the other players were trying to hit their shots or putt. Anyone who knows me knows how much I love to play golf. For me to quit in the middle of a round of golf, it had to be bad!
It was odd to hear locals in Azusa joke about not trusting air they couldn't see. This was my introduction to what the news later reported as a moderate smog day.
Air pollutants cause a tremendous amount of oxidative stress in the respiratory tract and in turn, the body. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 For many, it was a horrible experience that led to a major coughing fit. Your body is not stupid. It knows when something is wrong. It was rejecting the poison of the cigarette.
When you inhale nicotine, within ten seconds it spreads from the lungs directly into your bloodstream, to your brain, and ultimately delivers its poisons to every organ and cell in your body. This is the most vile and destructive drug in the history of civilization — especially because it is legal.
If you are a cigarette smoker and feel you should be able to continue smoking even if it kills you, that is your right. |
Devra Davis
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| Many of the workers in the chemical weapons facility eventually started coughing most of the time. The plant supervisors assured Morgenstern that these men could not possibly have been exposed to any of these agents. If there had been even the slightest exposures, he was told, they would have been obviously and immediately sick. Morgenstern wasn't so sure. He asked whether gas escaping at levels too low to be detected could leave these people with impaired breathing.
All these so-called specialists saw were slight markings on the bronchi [the lung]. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 My first sensarion was of a smarting away up inside of my nose; this quickly extended to my throat, and then as my lungs suddenly seemed filled with red-hot needles, I was seized with a spasm of coughing. ... I had rolled and writhed, in the agony of the pain of the gas in my lungs, in a pool of slush in the bottom of the trench, and it must have been the lying with my face buried in the shoulder of my wet woolen tunic that saved my life.52
Freeman's narrative is echoed in Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est":
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 More than a third of Americans say they seldom or never wash their hands after coughing or sneezing. The average American washes his or her hands fewer than seven times a day, and 70 percent of Americans wash their hands for less than twenty seconds, the amount of time recommended by the Centers for Disease Control for a hand-washing session. (One trick: wash your hands for as long as it takes to mentally hum your ABCs—that's twenty seconds. |
Ron Garner
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 High fevers (burning of waste, and bacteria); the pores of the skin open for profuse sweating; diarrhea, the bowels dump; chills, which generate internal heat; vomiting, and coughing up and expectoration of respiratory mucus—all the cleansing actions. This is a way that the body can violently and quickly rid itself of the unprocessed metabolic waste. The waste is a smorgasbord for bacteria. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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 His words: "As you recall, I was having a coughing spell that interrupted my work and, as you directed, the putting of some granules of salt on my tongue not only calmed my coughing but took it away: My nurses commented on my not coughing some five minutes later." For the past seven years he has been free of asthma and allergies. He seems not to fear cats anymore. He visits friends who have cats in their homes. He now treats his asthmatic patients with water and some added salt intake.
Asthma, in my opinion, is not a disease; it is a crisis complication of water shortage in the body. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Anyhow, there's many a one as works in a carding-room, that falls into a waste, coughing and spitting blood, because they're just poisoned by the fluff."
"But can't it be helped?" asked Matgatet.
"I dunno. Some folk have a great wheel at one end o' their carding rooms to make a draught, and carry off th' dust; but that wheel costs a deal of money—five or six hundred pound, maybe, and brings in no profit: so it's but a few of th' masters will put 'em up."22
In France and Belgium, there seemed to be more willingness to consider the potential risks of cotton manufacturing. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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| His words: "As you recall, I was having a coughing spell that interrupted my work and, as you directed, the putting of some granules of salt on my tongue not only calmed my coughing but took it away: My nurses commented on my not coughing some five minutes later." For the past seven years he has been free of asthma and allergies. He seems not to fear cats anymore. He visits friends who have cats in their homes. He now treats his asthmatic patients with water and some added salt intake.
Asthma, in my opinion, is not a disease; it is a crisis complication of water shortage in the body. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 So we have coughing spells, pressure on the chest, anxiety, phobias, and the need to escape, all pieces of an original imprint. We then treat the varied offshoots from a central imprint rather than the imprint itself; treatment then becomes interminable. What we get is a fragment of progress—a change in fragments of an early experience. We treat the phobias, the high blood pressure, and the palpitations, sometimes all with the same drug. Why? Because it is all of a piece, aspects of the same early experience. Inadvertently, we are treating the experience even though we may not be aware of it. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 For instance, when someone with asthma consults a herbalist he or she may be prescribed herbs to cut down on mucus production, herbs to ease bronchospasms and coughing, and herbs to build up the immune system—for, as we have seen, a strong and robust immune system lessens the likelihood of severe asthma occurring.
Most herbal suppliers provide combination formulas developed specially for asthma, which contain a number of herbs. Here is an example of the constituents of one: passionflower, common thyme, grindelia, euphorbia, ascorbic acid, Vitamin A acetate. |
| They are propellant-free and are less likely to cause irritation and coughing when the medication is taken. The low pressure needed to activate the Turbuhaler means that children as young as 18 months can be taught to use it effectively.
When asthma is severe a nebuliser may be recommended. A nebuliser ensures that even more medication reaches the lungs than does with a spacer. The medication is put into the nebuliser in solution and an air pump delivers it to the mouth and nose, via a mask, as a very fine spray under pressure. |
| Unusual breathlessness or coughing following exercise. ţLack of appetite. ţWheeziness. ţUnusual lethargy. ţUnusual itching. ţ Loss of colour from the face: some children get a
'pinched' look around the mouth and nose, and the skin becomes rather grey instead of a healthy pink. If the skin actually looks blue around this area the attack may already be severe and you must take emergency action to prevent it getting worse—call medical assistance or an ambulance. |
| If you are performing the exercises correctly you might find that you are wheezing or coughing after you exhale. This may cause some initial distress. Like most new exercise, you can feel worse before you feel better! Persevere but don't over-exert yourself or let the wheeze extend for too long. You will learn to breathe out just short of creating a wheeze. As your airways and breathing capacity improves the restricted feeling in your chest will decrease and your body will be filled with life-giving oxygen. The exercises are divided into progressive steps. |
| This filtering system, along with sneezing and coughing mechanisms, clears the airways of unwanted particles.
At the same time, the amount of air passing to and from the alveoli and bronchioles is controlled by the expansion and contraction of the bronchioles' smooth muscle walls. Additionally, some respiratory bacteria and viruses can be neutralised by various antibodies in the lining of the airways and cells of the alveoli called macrophages, to safeguard the quality of oxygen entering the airways.
Breathing Patterns
If we don't breathe correctly we invite ill-health. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Side effects of Cisapride include diarrhea, nausea, headache, stuffy nose, constipation, and coughing; more rarely it can cause changes in vision, chest pain, mental/mood changes, stomach pain, dizziness, fainting, irregular heartbeat, or allergic reactions. Unfortunately, it also has troublesome cardiac side effects, which restrict its use. One controlled study showed that itopride, a dopamine D2 agonist, was superior to a placebo in improving symptoms of functional dyspepsia. |
| Symptoms include coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath or rapid breathing, and chest tightness.
Nonallergic asthma is triggered by factors not related to allergens, such as upper respiratory infections, anxiety, stress, exercise, cold or dry air, hyperventilation, smoke, viruses, medications [aspirin, NSAIDs (see Chapter 2), beta-blockers, and ACE inhibitors (see Chapter 5)], sulfites found in red wine, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). |
Devra Davis
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| After a few days, their symptoms would clear, and they would return to work and the coughing would begin all over again.
"Basically, more spills would occur and by the end of the week, they usually were back in the clinic with acute respiratory symptoms. Every weekend they would feel better, and die cycle would go on again."
Diagnostic equipment was limited then and kept in areas where soldiers might need it, but was not available to the men and women working in chemical plants in Alabama. Some workers were sent to Memphis for chest x-rays. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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| His words: "As you recall, I was having a coughing spell that interrupted my work and, as you directed, the putting of some granules of salt on my tongue not only calmed my coughing but took it away: My nurses commented on my not coughing some five minutes later." For the past seven years he has been free of asthma and allergies. He seems not to fear cats anymore. He visits friends who have cats in their homes. He now treats his asthmatic patients with water and some added salt intake.
Asthma, in my opinion, is not a disease; it is a crisis complication of water shortage in the body. |
Bill Sardi
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 Doctors examine smokers in their offices, and keep a watchful eye for signs and symptoms of lung cancer, but practically speaking, when the patient begins coughing up blood, when there is chest pain, shortness of breath, bouts of pneumonia or hoarseness that lasts weeks, it is likely to be too late to significantly alter the progress of the disease.
Why it's so difficult to quit
Smokers are harangued to stop smoking. If it were only that easy to just quit. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| In a Primal experience (reliving an early lack of love completely), there is such a rush of pain that the defense system is temporarily overwhelmed, gating weakens, and what sometimes gets through is compulsive coughing, feelings of choking or losing breath, and very rapid foot shakes (these shakes can go on for a full half hour, even when the patient is unaware of it). These are often deep-brain originated and are elements of what we know as anxiety or panic states. This is a non-connected state. |
| Primal Feeling Reconnedon of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Line
Other Therapies
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First Line: The Brainstem
The first level, the brainstem, is a primitive or reptilian brain (I sometimes refer to it as the salamander brain because the limbic system and brainstem constitute a good part of the whole brain of the animal), which is our oldest brain system. |
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