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Recommendation for holistic medicines.
I'd like to stop using OTC medicines. I'd like a recommendation for a book that has great reviews and since I'm new to this any advice is greatly appreciated.
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It all depends on what you are looking for. you can always go online and look for the type of book you are looking for to get your mind off OTC.
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Hollistic medicine? You might want to find a book, session or class for energy work if you ask me. A lot of Eastern exercises focus on the flow of chi, kundalini, reiki and whatever the culture calls it in their language anyway (Chinese, Indian and Japanese words for it respectively.) There’s even a whole forum on energy work if you check.
There is also said to be mention of this energy in the Bible by academics, where in Genesis were God was said to be giving the “breath of life” to create human beings, the original Hebrew term for the word was actually called “Ruach.” And the Kaballah Tree of Life featuring the realm of values each Archangel watches is strangely similar to chakras. As much as the crown chakras in Eastern religions look exactly like haloes in ancient paintings. Interfaith practitioners often find this strange.
Exercises like tai chi, yoga (especially kundalini yoga, but that’s advanced and bad for the unflexible.), reiki work, qigong, and even martial arts are often associated with these energies in work. I read some books on it for the technical parts, but it’s harder to imagine these practices without some kind of video.
And that’s about it.
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I don't have room to keep anything extra, even books, so at this point, I just glean my info from You tube videos.
I have a few I will paste in. The first goes over what the human body is comprised of, what it is able to do and how holistic health affects the body. This is a basic important platform from where you start building your knowledge. Here is that one:
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That video is one in a series of videos by Dr. Sten Ekberg. I would suggest watching all the rest of his, including this following one on Keto Diet. It is gaining popularity as some myths and phobias, all misinformation, are clarified about what the human body needs for nutrition. Hubby and I are doing the Keto Diet that is mentioned in this video by Dr Ekberg:
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I had acid reflux/heartburn problems before I started the diet. Sugar is a big no no and when I cut out a good part of sugar, the heartburn disappeared. I came off the diet for a month and my heartburn came back with a vengeance. Sugar also affects memory and fogginess there. The road back may be slow but I noticed my memory improving and when I took that break, I noticed my memory starting to slip again, it's the small stuff that adds up. We also like all the videos by Dr. Ken Berry on the Keto Diet.
Holistic isn't as much of a list of exercises or foods to eat and avoid as it is the science of what affects your body and you making the decision which foods you will eat that are truly okay for your body.I hope this helps.
I have noticed too many videos and also books out there by people simply wanting to make a buck selling their information. The problem is their information still includes for the most part lots of the misinformation they have been hearing since the day they were born, the stuff that your Dr or nutritionist or dietician have been taught and what they have been taught is based on all the wrong stuff. Rather than believe the doctor, I turn to people who are living natural health and holistically or to these videos for the real info.
Another personal story is long ago when I had gallstones and happened to mention it to a middle aged couple who were friends at church. They loaned me a book by a country Dr. with recipes or things to do to get rid of gallstones. I followed that exercise of things to do just as said and yes, the gallstones passed without problem or pain. In the book, though Keto diet wasn't a term at the time, he did say butter and animal fat was the best thing to eat and that margarine and processed fats were like slow acting poison to the body. No we don't get ill immediately from eating something the FDA approves because there were no adverse effects like dying from taking something once or twice or in the small amounts in our food over months. But after many years, it piles up in the body and begins to affect our health and that is something they know but won't warn people.
If you are curious about Natural supplements, I suggest watching videos on supplements. If I have any issue, I go to my nearest Vitamin supplement store as they carry more than just vitamins. As I got older, I began to get UTI's quite often and I had heard about how Cranberry is a good thing to help cure or prevent. Curing only if its just starting, if its full blown, you may need an antibiotic. So I now take cranberry supplements daily with vitamins as a preventative and after having a UTI every other month and the yeast infections caused by the antibiotics, in 3 years time, I have not had a single UTI. If I have congestion, or feel nauseous and so on, I will walk into such a store, mention what I have and ask what they sell that addresses that health issue. I then look at all the products recommended and try one. If it doesn't work, then another made with different ingrediants may work better. When it comes to herbal supplements and treatments, our bodies are all different in how they respond and one things works great for me but doesn't work on another person. One thing I will suggest as it is simply immune system booster to help your body fight to recover on its own from the normal colds is Echinacea, and prefer the tincture in a bottle. If you have the beginning of a stomach flu, keep the following product on hand to use as soon as you feel the first nauseous feelings, before you g et to throwing up stage and it will either lesson the impact or in a couple occasions, stop it from happening as the one time I felt it right after arriving at work, went home, took the supplement, took a nap, woke up feeling great and went back to work. It is called Ocillococcenum. Lastly, when Echinacea wasn't helping to get better, I once asked a friend who used this kind of stuff and he said I needed to Try Oil of Oregano. It works on the stubborn virus's that treatment for bacterial infections doesn't help. There are many brands. It aint cheap but it works. Earlier this year, I had bad conjestion which was draining into my lungs so I used both an OTC expectorant to loosen plegm and echinacea. However after two weeks of no improvement but not heading towards pneumonia which I am susceptible to, I had next paycheck and bought Oil of oregano which i had been out of. After 3 days of taking a gel tab 3 times a day, it was gone and I felt fine. Hubby can't take that stuff as it irritates his stomach. Like I said, some work for people, some don't. THe Ocillococcenum for stomach flu is so effective that the average groceries around where I live now carry it. I hope this helps you get started. Sorry but I didn't have any book titles for you.
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