Thomas J. Moore
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 Many people are comfortable with the idea of dangerous drugs until they find one in their own medicine cabinet. Also, some consumers happily take drugs daily without expectations of great benefit. They hope the drugs will help them, but they rarely become disappointed or feel cheated if nothing much happens. It's hard to imagine a consumer upset with Merck because he had a heart attack despite taking Zocor for high cholesterol. (In fact, the manufacturer's data show two out of three heart attacks still will occur despite the drug. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 So, consider the practitioner who has a treatment guaranteed to cure you; the physician who charges you $5,000 for an evaluation and then sells you a product that he or she endorses (and may even make); or the physician who listens to your story and then goes to the medicine cabinet for drugs that he or she claims are specific for what ails you. Which of these is a quack, and which one believes in the treatment he or she espouses? |
Greg Critser
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 Now even the most private of domestic preserves, the medicine cabinet, has been supersized. With the sales of lotions, potions, 'nutraceuticals' and pharmaceuticals climbing to new heights, manufacturers are responding with medicine cabinets that are taller, wider and deeper than ever before."
The article included photographs of the classic bathroom cabinet — the tiny stained wall-hanger that most of us grew up with — and a slew of the new breed: the "floor-to-ceiling," the "walk-in," the "super-deep and super-wide. |
Mark Sircus
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 Where physiological magnesium levels are insufficient, it should be near, somewhere in each household, and in every medicine cabinet.
It boosts almost all aspects of cell physiology and is what you want around in the event of a heart attack or stroke, although if your magnesium intake is sufficient, your odds of having a heart attack or stroke are greatly diminished.
Magnesium chloride treatments address systemic nutritional deficiencies, act to improve the function of our cells and immune system, and help protect cells from oxidative damage. |
Bottom Line Health
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| LaCivita recommends people go through their medicine cabinet once a year and throw out expired drugs. If you use medicine before its expiration date, you can be sure you're getting the medicine's best benefit, both experts say.
¦j- To learn more about medication safety, *"~ visit the University of Michigan Web site at www.med.umicb.edu/patientsafetytoolkit/medi cation.htm.
Breakthrough! Men and Women Need Different Drugs
Marianne J. |
Marshall Editions
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 Since distress with teething tends to be intermittent, make sure you have the remedy that most often works for your child in the medicine cabinet so it can be administered at the first signs of pain. The appropriate remedy should both reduce localized inflammation and pain, and have an emotionally soothing effect.
Belladonna: This remedy will help reduce pain and inflammation that occurs rapidly and dramatically, making your child hot and bothered and very irritable. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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• Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle Over Fen-Phen (2001) by Alicia Mundy
• Prescription for Profits: How the Pharmaceutical Industry
Bankrolled the Unholy Marriage Between Science and Business (1997) by Linda Marsa
• Prescription for Disaster: The Hidden Dangers in Your medicine cabinet (1998) by Thomas J. Moore
• The Coming Plague (1995) by Laurie Garrett
• Confessions of a Medical Heretic (1990) by Robert S. |
Thomas J. Moore
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| If we were lucky, the bottle in the medicine cabinet would contain a thoroughly tested drug, its dangers and benefits scientifically documented. The pill was manufactured correctly, and is free of glass fragments, or contamination, and will dissolve properly. A knowledgeable doctor made wise use of all the information developed during testing and postmarket surveillance and picked an appropriate drug for the consumer's medical condition. The doctor took the time to discuss the risks and benefits of the drug, and outlined the other choices, including forgoing treatment for now. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 MIME
A Delicate Balance: Concluding Thoughts
So far, we've looked in-depth at the drugs that are most likely to be in your medicine cabinet. You've learned about natural solutions to the underlying causes of your health problems. In many cases, this will allow you—with the help of your doctor—to reduce the number or dosages of prescriptions you are taking, or eliminate them altogether. Replenishing the nutrients depleted by the drugs you take could make a big difference in your quality of life and long-term health. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 PHARMACEUTICALS in which we assess the impact of prescription drugs on mortality, and imagine a world without pharmaceuticals
The other day I was looking for something in my medicine cabinet. What I saw was a history of my various minor (knock wood!) afflictions over the past few years. There was a bottle of small red pills, marked: "take three times per day with food." What they were, and for what malady, I do not remember. I should have thrown them away. On either side of the suspect pills were bottles, one with two pills, the other with three. Both were antibiotics. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| What are the drugs in your medicine cabinet doing to jeopardize your future, especially if you suffer from a chronic disease?
One other note needs to be added before summarizing. Novo Nordisk, one of the world's largest insulin producers admitted: "Historically, improving glycemic control with soluble human insulin has been associated with increased risk of hypoglycemia. |
Hyla Cass
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| MIME
A Delicate Balance-Concluding Thoughts
So far, we've looked in-depth at the drugs that are most likely to be in your medicine cabinet. You've learned about natural solutions to the underlying causes of your health problems. In many cases, this will allow you—with the help of your doctor—to reduce the number or dosages of prescriptions you are taking, or eliminate them altogether. Replenishing the nutrients depleted by the drugs you take could make a big difference in your quality of life and long-term health. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Our whole society is geared to go to the medicine cabinet for a painkiller or an antihistamine when we should be geared to get a pencil and paper to record what could be causing this problem at this time."
Dr. Rapp tells how a little knowledge and awareness can go a long way. "After we have educated the parents," she says, "they often come in to see us knowing exactly what is causing their child's problems. They can tell if it's something inside or outside the house, if it's a food or a chemical. They can pinpoint the cause. |
Greg Critser
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| The answer is as close as one's parents' medicine cabinet.
MRS. MORGADO'S LIVER
Every night, Concepcion Morgado, a sixty-two-year-old grandmother living in Brooklyn, did something anyone who has ever cared deeply about someone else instinctively understands: she waited up for her spouse to come home from work. Concepcion was an admitted worrier, a "very emotional" one at that, but one with a reason for her worry. |
John A. McDougall
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 I'm looking forward to cleaning out the medicine cabinet to make room for necessities—like my beauty cream," she said.
Larry added, "I look forward to spending less time in the bathroom. Although I'm afraid I'll get a little behind in my reading once I'm consistently achieving 'the perfect bowel movement.'"
SUMMARY SHEET from Dr. McDougall
People on the Western diet commonly complain of ^? difficult or infrequent passage of feces, hard stool, BB or a feeling of incomplete evacuation.
The perfect BM is soft, unformed, light brown, and easy to pass. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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 And even the over-the-counter drugs found in almost everyone's medicine cabinet can be troublesome. Consuming large quantities of aspirin can increase the excretion of folic acid, which the body uses to synthesize DNA, regulate cell division and growth, and manufacture red blood cells. A deficiency of folic acid can trigger fatigue, shortness of breath, weakness, and irritability. Millions of people swallow large amounts of aspirin every day for headaches, joint pain, and other problems, and many of them wind up complaining of symptoms that are quite likely due to folic acid deficiency. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 When life is out of whack for scientists, they run to the medicine cabinet for a chemical. It is only with a drug like Rolaids?that they are able to spell relief.
The fact that science led me to spiritual insight is appropriate because the latest discoveries in physics and cell research are forging new links between the worlds of Science and Spirit. These realms were split apart in the days of Descartes centuries ago. However, I truly believe that only when Spirit and Science are reunited will we be afforded the means to create a better world. |
Greg Critser
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| As the organization had done in the early 1990s, when it campaigned against Bill and Hillary Clinton's health care plan, Holmer drafted two unlikely characters to make his case in the media: Harry and Louise, the smart-talkin' seniors on a mission to protect America from a government that seemed bent, in this case, on "getting into my medicine cabinet." Holmer spent millions on the campaign. Suddenly, the likable couple was in ads everywhere, recreating the same environment of fear and hysteria that had doomed other major health care legislation. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Keep a bottle of Rescue Remedy in your medicine cabinet, and take some whenever you feel stressed or when you sense that an exacerbation might be starting.
Other Recommendations
• Gentle exercise will keep your muscles in good shape, improve circulation, keep your digestive system regular, and help you release stress. Swimming and walking are especially helpful for MS patients, as are stretching exercises.
• Rest whenever you feel the need. If you think you might be getting ill or experiencing the beginning of an exacerbation, get to bed right away and stay there for a few days. |
The Editors of FC&A
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| But don't stock your medicine cabinet with bottles of pills. You can find the vitamins you need in fruits, vegetables, and other delicious foods.
Vitamin C. This antioxidant vitamin gets an "A" for its ability to prevent stroke. It neutralizes free radicals, lowers blood pressure, strengthens blood vessel walls, and helps build collagen.
No wonder low levels of vitamin
C mean a higher stroke risk. In a To get more vitamin C, recent Finnish study, men with the eat the recommended
, -oil/ i i. five fruits and vegetalowest vitamin C levels equal to . . . " . v ? bles a day. |
Kathi Keville
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 I once had a medicine cabinet like that, but 25 years ago, I threw everything—every pill, drop and ointment—into the trash. I then re-created my medicine cabinet from scratch, replacing almost all the brand-name products with herbal remedies.
Why did I turn away from the latest advances of pharmaceutical science and go back to age-old herbal remedies? Although I was familiar with herbs—I'd been cooking with them for years—it had not occurred to me that they could replace all the drugs in my medicine cabinet. |
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First-Aid
Think of your medicine cabinet as an arsenal full of weapons that you can use to combat a variety of physical ailments. Most likely, the heavy artillery in this arsenal consists of brand-name drugs. I once had a medicine cabinet like that, but 25 years ago, I threw everything—every pill, drop and ointment—into the trash. I then re-created my medicine cabinet from scratch, replacing almost all the brand-name products with herbal remedies.
Why did I turn away from the latest advances of pharmaceutical science and go back to age-old herbal remedies? |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Stamp out heartburn with spicy foods
Look in your kitchen, not your medicine cabinet, to heal your heartburn and indigestion. Surprisingly, some spicy foods may help put out the fire in your belly. But you'll also find soothing relief in other foods and drinks as well.
Take a chance on chili peppers. A hot jalapeno may be the last thing you think of grabbing when your stomach is on the fritz, but it actually may be one of the best. The active ingredient in chili peppers, capsaicin, works wonders on a stomach. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 It is a pleasure to watch patients who thought they would forever be drug dependent to function, be able to shut the door to their medicine cabinet. It is a pleasure to help people who have had to stop working return to work. It is a pleasure to help people who have suffered from low self-esteem and who have put too much pressure on themselves to succeed in everything, every day, gain confidence and learn to become more satisfied with whom they are. Over the past few years, I have come to devote my entire private practice to these types of patients. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| The Antiviral Duo: Selenium and Elderberry
Two recent additions to your antiviral natural medicine cabinet are elderberry extracts and selenium. Both are powerful antiviral agents. See Chapter Eleven on colds and flus for details on elderberry. There are anecdotal reports that a combination of elderberry and selenium at the first signs of an impending genital herpes outbreak stopped the outbreak altogether. Follow the directions on the container for elderberry dosage.
For some people, taking a preventive dose of 200 meg of selenium daily has noticeably reduced the incidence of outbreaks. |
| It would be natural to rifle through your medicine cabinet for Turns, Pepto-Bismol, or another brand of antacid to relieve yourself of these discomforts. But don't. If you take an antacid with most antibiotics (particularly tetracycline or quinolone antibiotics), you'll be reducing their effectiveness by 50 to 90 percent. When taking an antibiotic, hold yourself back from taking an antacid or you'll undermine the antibiotic's ability to fight your infection.
AN OVERVIEW OF ANTIBIOTICS
Antibiotics are anti-infective drugs that destroy specific types of bacteria. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 In my opinion, you should clean out your medicine cabinet and stop giving your money to the criminals who run the drug companies.
3. Energetic rebalancing.
Frequency generators have been around for decades. Royal Rife was using frequencies in the 1920s and 1930s to cure cancer. Today there are several machines using frequencies to balance out a person's energy, thus eliminating the energetic frequency of the imbalance or disease. When the frequency of the disease you have has been neutralized, the disease goes away. |
| The average American has over thirty different prescription and nonprescription drugs in their medicine cabinet. The bottom line: The only winners in the cure and prevention of disease are the drug companies and the health-care companies themselves. The drug companies' profits are at an all-time high. Medical science has failed unequivocally in the prevention and curing of virtually every illness. As an example, let's look at the "Diet Industry":
• More people are on diets than ever before.
• More people take more diet products than ever before.
• More people exercise than ever before. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| NATURAL ALTERNATIVES FOR INSOMNIA, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND STRESS
We have become accustomed to running for the medicine cabinet for a drug when we're suffering from insomnia, anxiety, or depression, but 90 percent of the time the cause of these problems is something that can be remedied without taking medication.
Sugar, alcohol, and coffee are our legal American drugs, and it's a good bet that these drugs plus food allergies contribute to the vast majority of insomnia, anxiety, and minor depression. Both sugar and alcohol (which is high in sugar) can cause depression. |
| Check in your medicine cabinet for any older products that contain PPA, and avoid buying products that contain PPA in the future. of the face and mouth, sweating, urinary problems, twitching of the eyelids (blepharospasm), eye irritation or tearing, and heightened sensitivity to the sun (photosensitivity).
A CAUTION! Think Twice About Taking These Drugs If...
• You are taking monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors.
• You are hypersensitive to stimulating drugs. Some people's bodies respond very strongly to small doses. |
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