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Iodine Vitamin C To Protect Against Radioactive Fallout

Protect Against Radiation Damage

Iodine, Vitamin C, and Chlorophyll will all help to protect you against absorbing radioactive elements from the nuclear fall-out at Fukushima.

The dire situation in Japan, where all six of the nuclear reactors at Fukushima’s Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant have heated to dangerous levels, now means that everybody all over the world should be mindful of the effects of the radioactive fallout which has belched from these reactors into the air.

Some ‘experts’ have said that the radiation will stay in the immediate area. But common sense tells most of us that this is not so – The same air we breathe moves about, across the seas, all over the world. So while the people who live closest to the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant will suffer the most, there will still be an effect on people and the general environment at an international level.

Iodine Helps Prevent Damage From Radiation: The USA government have recognized this. They have issued out free IODINE TABLETS to people along the USA coast, in line with Japan, and the winds which will bring across the radioactive poison.

There is not a lot around on what you can do to prevent radiation from destroying your health. Most people have not had to deal with the situation on such a grave level before.

Causes of Cancer:Radiation

However, it IS a fact that IODINE will help in preventing cancer from radiation. That is, unless you have been unfortunate enough to be so close to a nuclear explosion that the radiation causes severe burning of your whole nervous system, and dried out your bone marrow.

Even X rays cause radiation damage, which is why they should be avoided: Although X rays have a small amount of radiation, compared to the levels being emitted from the Fukushima Nuclear Plants, X rays are radioactive. Each time you have an X ray, you absorb radiation, and this can lead to cancer and other degenerative disease, in time.

Iodine is a good preventative for cancer because:

If your iodine levels are low, then your thyroid gland will take in, and retain, the radioactive material. If you have a high iodine level in your body, then the thyroid gland will not take in radioactive iodine. Radioactive iodine builds up in the body and is not eliminated very easily. This is what causes cancer: When you are exposed to radioactive material such as that which comes from a nuclear power reactor, you run the risk of getting cancer and other disease.

The amounts of radiation at Fukushima, around the plant where workers have been doing their best to contain the situation, has been 10,000 times greater than that you would receive from one small X ray. This is why the workers were taken out a few days ago. However, many of them have since gone back in, for periods of up to only 15 minutes at a time, to try and get the cooling systems working so that a terrible disaster may be stopped. These workers have been likened to Samarai Warriors, working for the good of their country at the expense of their lives.

These courageous workers, who have described their job as a ‘suicide mission’, might benefit from taking IODINE – and also LARGE AMOUNTS OF VITAMIN C, to help counteract the effects of absorbed radiation.

Here is a suggestion for a home-made IODINE SOLUTION which comes from the cancer treatment used by Dr Maud Frere. Whilst this is a specific of Dr Frere’s cancer treatment, the dose gives you an idea of how much you might take to prevent absorption of radioactive material from the air and food.

IODINE SOLUTION: Mix One Drachm of iodine tincture with four ounces of water.

Keep in the fridge, or in a cool place. Take one teaspoon every day, at any time of the day.

Alternatively, you could use Lugol’s solution, which is an Iodine preparation. Follow the instructions. I will post up more information on Dr Gerson’s use of Lugol’s solution at a later date.

Kelp and Spirulina Combat radiation: These seaweeds are exceptionally high in Iodine, chlorophyll, and other minerals. One reader commented yesterday (read their comment) that they would need to have half a cup of kelp per day to get the recommended amount of iodine in order to prevent radiation being absorbed. I thought that this could be done, if you could not buy liquid iodine, or tablets, or lugol’s solution. If I had to take kelp for my precautionary Iodine intake in the event of exposure to nuclear fall out, then I would take a tablespoon three times a day in something like a banana smoothie – presuming that you could still buy these things.

I read years ago of a person who had been near Hiroshima at the time of the WW II bombing. This person had been very ill from radiation sickness and had used large doses of spirulina to get well.

Spirulina is very high in Chlorophyll, which also helps to eliminate poisons from the body.

I think that IODINE alone is not enough to prevent damage from radioactive fallout. To prevent disease taking hold because of radiation, you need iodine, for a start. But you also should be taking large amounts of non-acidic Vitamin C

Chlorophyll, which exists in all green vegetables, is also effective in helping to combat the effects of radiation. Wheat grass juice, made from your own home-grown wheat grass, is a wonderful source of chlorophyll and Vitamin C, iron and other nutrietns, and would be an excellent addition to the diet of anyone who suspects they may be exposed to radiation fall-out. Wheat grass juice is a great antioxidant, and helps to remove poisons from the body.

NON ACIDIC VITAMIN C is an essential thing to take if you have been exposed to radiation, or think that there is a danger of exposure occurring. The dose should be, for an adult, anything from 1000 mg a day to around 5000 mg. Some therapist use massive amounts intravenously for treating serious cases of cancer, and things like swine flu, where it has proved to be exceptional in its healing ability. These doses can be as high as 75 grammes per day. Of course, you would need to see a professional to have this kind of treatment. But if I had been exposed to large amount of radiation and was very sick because of it, then I would go for the intravenous injections of Vitamin C.

For most people, the best way of self treating for expected or already experienced radiation poisoning is to get calcium ascorbate powder, or tablets, or some other form of non acidic Vitamin C such as Ester C. A common dose is between 1000 and 3000 mg per day. Take 1000 mg at a time, 2 or 3 times a day.

It is a good thing to take this at meal times, as the vitamin will help you to digest your food. If you are suffering radiation sickness, then your ability to digest food will be impaired, and Vitamin C in its non-acidic form will help you with this.

You will experience loose bowel motions at first. This is a good thing, as it means poisons in your body are being released. But then reduce the amount a little so that you are not running to the toilet too often.

Depending on the severity of the radiation poisoning, you would vary the dose. Many cancer treatments use large amounts of Vitamin C in treating cancer and other degenerative disease. It will also act as a powerful agent in helping to rid your body of radiation poisons.

Vitamin A Beta Carotene: I would also take 25,000 I.U. four times daily if I had been exposed to severe radiation. This is the dose recommended by DrEdward Wagner, an Australian doctor, for the treatment of cancer.

Vitamin A beta carotene stimulates the immune system and helps the body to get fid of free radicals.

Bee Colony Collapse Disorder

Bees Killed By Insecticide

This article was first published on merrilyn hope.com on February 6th, 2011. Since then, Holland, Mexico, followed by the European Commision, have banned neonicotinoid poisons. Bayer, who makes and markets neonicotinoid pesticides in Europe, has threatened to sue the European Commission for banning the product and causing loss of sales. Does this remind you of the tobacco scandal? Doctors were pictured on television during the 1950’s, smoking like chimneys, telling us they were smoking their favourite brands, and that smoking was good for you because it calmed the nerves. It was many decades before the truth came out.

It seems morbidly ironic that neonicotinoid poison is a synthetic form of that produced from tobacco.

Bees, and other pollinating insects and birds, are ESSENTIAL for life on the planet. Without them, our fruit trees and agricultural crops will not produce any food. All bees are helpful in sustaining life on the planet: honeybees, bumblebees, solitary bees, mason bees, hoverflies, butterflies, moths, even wasps, and spiders, all play a part in our existence on earth.

We should not be killing the insects of the planet.

In an article January 22, 2011, Weekend Herald, New Zealand, information was revealed which points to neonicotinoid insecticides being a contributing factor in the mysterious disappearance of bee colonies around the world.

Bee Colony Collapse Disorder reportedly has affected between 20% and 40% of all American hives. The same colony collapse disorder has been noted in other countries around the world, such as France, and Taiwan.

As yet, so the article says, the problem has not hit New Zealand or Britain, though I doubt this very much: We have had our own share of bees falling sick, and hives diminishing, and I think that insecticides must surely be the main part of the problem: Bees are also sensitive to electro-magnetic radiation, such as that emitted from cell phone towers and cell phones, as Italian bee keepers reported on Jamie Oliver’s show recently. Radar systems, and satellite interference, will also be playing a part in the decline of bees and other pollinating insects.

Bees are also vulnerable to ANY insecticide, whether it be a neonicotinoid class insecticide, or another type of chemical. Chemicals get carried back to the hive, and this means that all bees in the hive will be affected by the poison.

The trouble with the neonicotinoid compounds, imidacloprid, and clothianidin, is that they are systemic poisons. This means that they get into every fibre of the plant, including the pollen. Only microscopic amounts of neonicotinoids are needed for bees to be affected. They carry the pollen home, where it affects the whole of the hive.

Microscopic amounts of these pesticides cause bees to become vulnerable to the killer disease nosema. Nosema is one disease which causes bee hive collapse. Studies which were done two years ago showed that bees who had come into contact with the neonicotinoid pesticides had increased risk of succumbing to this disease, and this was even when the insecticide poison could not be detected on the bee, though the scientists knew that the bees had been exposed to it previously.

Neonicotinoid insectides, which mimic the insect killing properties of nicotine, affect the central nervous system of the bee – as well as that of all mammals, including humans.

Be forewarned: Nicotine, we know, affects the central nervous system. These synthesized chemicals, which mimic nicotine, will eventually be proven to be affecting human nervous function, and our immune systems, as well.

Research which was done two years ago in America, at the American Government’s Department of Agriculture’s Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, has only just been made public. The results of this research has been duplicated in another, independent study, done by French researchers at the National Institute for Agricultural Research, in Avignon.

A two year wait for this information to be made public surely causes one to wonder as to the reasons why: Many other countries already have bans, or partial bans, on the use of neonicotinoid insecticides, as their use has been linked to the drastic reduction of bee colonies, and other health and environment problems.

The countries which have restrictions on the use of neonicotinoid insecticides are: France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. But the USA, and Britain, and most likely, New Zealand, Australia, and many other countries around the world, are still using these very toxic insecticides.

Bayer chemicals,, which is a German firm, is adamant that its neonicotinoid insecticide compounds are ‘safe if used properly’. But there can be no ‘ safe and proper’ use of neonicotinoid insecticides, as incredibly microscopic amounts affect bees and other insects, as studies have proved.

Bayer started making neonicotinoid insecticides around 1990. Some of these neonicotinoid compounds are known as imidacloprid, and clothianidin, which is the latest. Be on the alert for new compound names. No chemical insecticide is ‘safe’, for either insects or human or animal life.

Bayer reportedly made 510 million pounds, or $1.07 billion, in the year 2009. These astronomical profits will, of course, be an incentive for Bayer, and other companies with their own versions of the insecticide, to continue making and marketing these insecticides for as long as they possibly can.

It looks as if the American government is ‘in’ on this: a leaked document which came out in November, probably thanks to Wikileaks, showed that the US Environmental Protection Agency had continued to license clothianidin, ‘even though its own scientists reported that the tests Bayer carried out to show the compound was safe were invalid’, so the Weekend Herald article says.

This decision on the part of the US Environmental Protection Agency does nothing to protect the environment. Obviously, the big guns are at work here: money talks, and talk is cheap:

Bayer spokesman for Bayer CropScience UK, Julian Little says: “bees are very, very important to Bayer CropScience and we recognize their importance’ – but the welfare of bees is obviously not important enough for Bayer chemicals to discontinue with the production of neonicotinoid pesticides, even when other countries have seen fit to ban them, or restrict their use. Not when they are making you $1.07 billion a year.

He maintains that neonicotinoid pesticides are ‘safe when used properly’: He says ‘I’m sure there are some very interesting effects Dr Pettis has seen in a laboratory, but when you get to what’s important to everybody (?), which is what happens in the field, you dont’ see these things happening”. – NO – BECAUSE, ONLY MICROSCOPIC AMOUNTS ARE NEEDED, AND THE PESTICIDE WORKS SILENTLY AND INVISIBLY. VERY EASY TO IGNORE, AS IT IS DIFFICULT TO DETECT.

What is Being Done In Britain?

The Co-operative Group, which buys farm produce, has banned the use of neonicotinoid pesticides from providing farms. This is an indication that the Co-operative Group recognizes the danger to people who consume food which has been treated with imidacloprid or clothianidin.

Only two weeks ago or so, the Labour MP for Gower, Martin Paton, requested that the government suspend the use of neonicotinoid compounds, following recent revelations in the US over Bayer’s latest neonicotinoid, clothianidin.

The Strange Disappearance of the Bees: This is a movie made recently by American film maker Mark Daniels, in collaboration with Dr Jeffrey Pettis, who did the research on bees two years ago at the American government lab, and Dennis van Engelsdorp, who works at Penn State University.

Update 4th August, 2015: Today, on National New Zealand Radio on the ‘nine to noon’ programme, research scientist Dr. Mark Goodwin was interviewed on the problem of bee numbers declining in New Zealand. He said that 60% of bees had been lost from some hives in Northland this season, and that big losses have also been experienced in other parts of New Zealand: In Coromandel, it was reported by one bee-keeper that out of a colony of 10,000 bees, most disappeared suddenly, and only 200 bees and one queen were left. The situation is alarming.

Neonicotinoids have been proven to be one cause of bee colony collapse disorder, but of course, as Dr. Goodwin pointed out, there are many other agricultural poisons which can make bees become susceptible to pathogens.

One thing which was not mentioned in this interview was the increasing proliferation of microwaves from satellite technology. Microwaves, as with toxic chemicals, can cause a lowered immunity in all creatures, including bees, which can lead to them becoming sick with viruses.

It is interesting to note that New Zealand bees have taken a marked dive in population since the introduction of ‘smart’ electricity meters, which use microwaves, and markedly increase our exposure to microwave radiation. The new system was begun in New Zealand in 2013, and now, in 2015, most houses have been updated with these new meters. This probably amounts to around two million more microwaves zapping through the air in a crossfire with the already existing cellphone microwaves. Many people, including myself, regard these microwaves as an extreme hazard to the health of mankind and animals alike. They are bound to affect bees, and could very well be a major factor in the mysterious disappearance of bee colonies around the world.

Bees Killed By Insecticide

New Pesticide is Destroying Hives

Read also: http://merrilynhope.com/colony-collapse-disorder/

About Neonicotinoid Pesticides:

In an article published just over a week ago, details of research, which proved bees are being threatened because of a new insecticide, were revealed. This research was done a year ago by the bee department of a US government research project.

Why weren’t these results made public two years ago, when the findings were made? Most likely because Bayer, the drug and chemical giant who first made the neonicotinoid class of insecticides, does not want to impair its huge profits. Somehow, they have managed to keep the new revelations under wrap – not that there is anything in these reports which anyone with a bit of commonsense could have deduced for themselves. But we always need to have the medical or scientific proof before anything is taken seriously, unfortunately.

The neonicotinoid pesticides, which are poured over soils all over the world in astronomical proportions, have produced astronomical proportions of profit for Bayer and the other firms who have jumped onto the bandwagon in manufacturing these pesticides. Without recourse to the newspaper article, I think that the profits were 350 Million POUNDS for last year, just from the sales of the neonicotinoid pesticide.

Neonicotinoid pesticides are a synthetic form of nicotine, which is deadly. We all know about the effects of nicotine on people. Nicotine affects the central nervous system, and so it is with the neonicotinoid class of pesticide: It affects the central nervous system of all insects, including bees. It affects all animal and human life as well.

Bees are especially vulnerable to pesticides being used on plants. They take it back to their hives in the pollen which they carry.

The new neonicotinoid pesticides are especially bad for bees. This class of drug gets into every part of the plant, including the pollen. Research has shown that even a microscopic amount of pesticide taken back to a hive causes the bees to become vulnerable to sickness. Neonicotinoids, and other chemicals too, cause the bees’ immune systems to be damaged, which makes them vulnerable to infection.

It is important not to use these potent chemicals in our gardens, or in commercial agriculture. Toxic pesticides are ruining the health of all life – humans, animals and bees. We need bees to ensure that plants get pollinated in order for them to reproduce. We need bees to help produce fruit and vegetables. Without bees, we will not be able to grow food.

When we, ourselves, eat foods which have been sprayed with neonicotinoids and other toxic chemicals, we ingest microscopic amounts of these chemicals into our systems. The neonicotinoids will have a deleterious effect on our nervous sytems, our immunity, and increase our chances of getting cancer. it is REALLY important to try and produce food yourself, if not, to buy organically grown food, and, for the sake of the planet and all creatures on it, to spread the knowledge to people that these insecticides are enormously damaging.

Read some of Merrilyn’s related posts on the subject of bees, mysterious viral diseases, and suchlike:

Bees Colony Collapse Disorder

Why Are NZ Kauri Trees Dying?

Can Brodifacoum Poison NZ Be Affecting Health of People And Killing Sea Gulls?

Minimum Dose In Homeopathy Proven As Effective

Low Sperm Count Natural Remedies

A Low Sperm Count

This is something which troubles many men these days. Stressful lifestyles, nutritional deficiencies, and chemical poisoning via toxins in our food, and chemicals in the environment, are to blame.

Electromagnetic radiation in the form of electromagnetic energy which is emitted from high tension wires, and electricity transformers, and radio waves which now literally bombard into our city environments via satellites to run all sorts of technology, including massive amounts of cell phones, are responsible for many health problems which people suffer these days. Diseases which can be caused by electromagnetic energy and radio waves in the atmosphere are: cancer, nerve disfunction diseases such as multiple sclerosis, arthritis and infertility/low sperm count.

Much can be done to improve fertility and low sperm counts. However, if the cause is due to radiation and chemical poisoning which has damaged the genes before birth, then not a lot can be done. An example of this would be if either of your parents had been exposed to 245T, or Agent Orange, in Viet Nam: This has caused birth defects and infertility in many young people born in Viet Nam since the war, and in the children of soldiers who fought in the war. A low sperm count could be the result if you had been exposed to many X rays, or your mother had been exposed to excessive X ray radiation before you were born.

However, if you were born healthy and your infertility problem, or low sperm count, has resulted from a stressful lifestyle, then you have a good chance of being able to restore your health and improving your sperm count.

Avoid alcohol and other drugs: It is important to stop using alcohol or any kind of drugs, unless they are prescribed, of course – even then, many prescription drugs can damage the health and lower your sperm count.

Alcohol has an acidic effect on the body, and this is to be avoided if you are trying to bring up your sperm count.

Marijuana is one of the worst kind of drugs for interfering with both brain and sexual function. Alcohol also has a bad effect on the reproductive organs. Both these drugs interfere with digestion and rob you of the essential vitamins and minerals which are necessary for the proper functioning of the body. Marijuana and alcohol and other drugs DO affect your sperm count and your general health by depleting the body’s resources, and by weakening the nervous system. It is essential that you avoid these drugs if you wish to improve your sperm count.

Stop Smoking and Reduce Coffee. These are two very important requirements to improve your health and restore the sperm count to normal.

A Detox Diet is important at the beginning of your treatment: in order to get your body functioning normally again, you need to eliminate the poisons being held in the body. Getting rid of toxins in the blood and in the liver will help you to improve your general health and your sperm count.

Using Castor Oil To Detoxify can be helpful in improving the health of the whole body. Using castor oil once or twice a week, combined with a diet which includes many fresh fruits and vegetables, and adequate protein, could improve your sperm count.

Fasting on fruit and vegetable juices is one way which you can detoxify the body.

An Alkaline Diet: Keep the diet on the alkaline side to avoid a low sperm count. Alkaline foods include:

Most fruits: Apples are especially alkaline. Grapes are also good. Kiwifruit, pears, peaches, apricots, prunes, dates, are all good alkaline foods.
Most vegetables – especially the green leafy vegetables such as silver beet and spinach. Some of the other alkaline vegetables are: globe artichokes, broccoli, green beans, kale, cabbage, carrots, olives, parsnips, swede, garlic, onions, leeks, beetroot.
Sesame seeds and sunflower seeds are excellent alkaline foods for bringing up your sperm count. These are very high in calcium, especially sesame seeds, and this makes them a high quality food for revitalizing the sexual organs. The calcium and essential oils in sesame seeds and sunflower seeds make them good nerve food, which you need more of to counteract that stress you feel, and to help you sleep well. Munch a handful of sesame seeds and sunflower seeds just before you go to bed.
Almonds, too, are a great restorative food. You can eat six to nine a day to help improve your sperm count and your general health.
Avoid Acid Foods: These are sugar, wheat and wheat products, including bread. Bread is one of the worst offenders of the acid-making foods we eat in western diets. Try to avoid eating bread completely, and switch to eating rice instead. Sugar is a very damaging food as well, and is best avoided whilst you restore your health.
Brown rice is more alkaline than white rice and has more nutrients than white rice, including vitamin B. This is an excellent food to replace pasta, bread and pastries in your meals. Brown rice is even less acid forming than potatoes.
Meat is an acid-producing food. Cut down on your meat intake and try to eat more vegetarian proteins instead, such as sunflower seeds, almonds, avocado, and dahl made with lentils and split peas etc and organic free range eggs.
Best to avoid dairy products for a time, until you have recovered. Dairy products, with the exception of butter, have a mucous-forming effect on the digestion, and this can interfere with the absorption of nutrients in the intestines.
Eggs are good, especially egg yolk without the white. This is a restorative, nutritive food which is given to people with serious diseases such as cancer. Two raw egg yolks can be taken a day if you are on are vegetarian diet. Of course, ensure that they are free range and organic if that is possible. If you are on medication for high cholesterol, or some other condition, then check with your doctor or health professional before you take raw egg yolk.
Try to eat at least two thirds of your food from the vegetable and fruit range.

Herbs May Be Helpful: Some herbs which are recommended for low sperm count are:

Damiana, ginseng, ginkgo, saw palmento, celery seeds, liquorice and ginger.

Note: Ginseng should be avoided if there is any sign of high blood pressure. Ginkgo is not recommended for people who have low blood sugar, as this herb lowers your blood sugar. Ask advice from your doctor before you try any of these herbs if you are on any medication at all.

Tight Clothing , Synthetic Underwear, and Circulation: Encourage good circulation by avoiding all synthetic fibres, or clothing that is too tight. Go for the more loose style of cotton underwear. Clothing which is too tight interferes with circulation, and you need good circulation to feed your whole body for it to funciton properly. Synthetic fibres are bad because they, too, interfere with circulation and the flow of energy about the body.

Get Regular Exercise: This is important to get the circulation going well so that your body organs can be fed the vital nutrients necessary for good health. If you don’t take regular exercise, then this could cause a low sperm count.

Supplements to help with low sperm count:

Iodine: This is very important for the proper function of the body. Iodine is needed by the thyroid gland – a deficiency could be the very reason your sperm count is low. To rectify an iodine deficiency, simply dab on some liquid iodine to the scalp or the soles of the feet. This needs to be done once or twice a week. Two or three dabs with the finger is enough. You will keep absorbing the iodine through the pores of your skin, even after it has dried.
Take a supplement of zinc and magnesium. A shortage of zinc can result in reproductive problems. In New Zealand and many other parts of the world, there is a deficiency of zinc in the soil, which means that vegetables grown on these soils will be deficient in zinc.
Take a vitamin B complex daily – just the stated dose.
Take Vitamin E daily – again, just the stated dose.

Acupressure Points To Massage: You can do so much towards improving the function of the body by doing shiatsu massage. By massaging the appropriate acupuncture points each night, you can restore deficient organs to normal health.

Low sperm count can be treated by using massaging the following points each night before you go to sleep. The exercise only takes about two minutes all up – it is not an extensive massage, and you can do it sitting up in bed. All that is needed is for the associated points to be reminded briefly that they need to ‘up’ their performance, and this is how you do it:

The sexual organs, whether male or female, are found on the inside of the foot, in the groove just behind and below the knobbly ankle bone. Press into this area with the thumb – just three or four presses is enough.
Then move to the outside of the calf muscle, about halfway up the leg: press three good presses into this point.
Move to the knee area: Working first on the fight knee-cap: Press in from the outside of the knee-cap, working towards the base of the knee-cap. Work inwards underneath the knee-cap, inching forward slowly so that you get all the points in this area. Pressure needs to be firm, but not so hard that you hurt the bone.
Then press behind the knee, at the centre of the crease at the back of the knee.
Next, move up to the centre of the front of the thigh. Press three good deep movements into the very centre of the front of the thigh.
Next, repeat all these previous pressure movements on the other leg.
Then, after doing the point at the centre of the thigh, come up to the pelvic bone. Press all along the upper bone, just underneath the outer edge.
Come up to the stomach. Press very gently just three times on the upperside of the navel, about one finger length away from the navel.
Move up to the chest area. Press just below the lower rib cage, in the soft spot at the centre of the chest. Do three light presses here.
Move up to the area at centre of the body, on the middle of the rib cage, centred directly between the nipples. Press this three times, more firmly than the last pressure point.
Come up to the neck area – press the point on the lower side of the adam’s apple, on the bone which lies directly below the adam’s apple.
Move upwards to the very top of the throat, in the crease where the chin begins, just above the adam’s apple. Press very lightly here, three times.
Move up to the centre of the chin. Press firmly three times with your thumb or index finger.
Move to the outside of the eye in the groove which lies there. Press this gently three times, on both sides.
Move to the front of the ears and press the three fingers in gently. Do both sides.
Do the centre crease inside the elbow on both arms. Move down towards the hands, pressing the inside of the lower arm gently as you do so.
Then press the ‘Hoku’ point which lies between the thumb and second finger. It lies in the web where these two fingers are joined with flesh.
Put your hands over your ears now, so that much of your head is covered. Close your eyes and hold for half a minute.
Go to the solar plexus area and gently rub the tummy three times in a clockwise movement.

This routine is really not time consuming, because you are only at each acupuncture site for about 5 or 10 seconds. Do every night for at least three weeks. Take a break for a week, and begin the three-wek treatment again until you no longer need it.

Impotence Cured: Dr Edward Wagner, with Sylvia Goldfarb, have reported in their book ‘How To Stay Out Of The Doctor’s Office” a case of a man who was cured of impotence by following recommendations similar to those given above:

This patient’s circulation was improved by taking yohimbe, (don’t know this one), ginseng, saw palmetto berries, damiana, vitamin E and zinc. He also took a regular vitamin and mineral combination once a day. He avoided alcohol and coffee and sugar, stopped smoking, and took up exercising at the gym. The end result was that his wife gave birth to twins.

Why Dogs Get Cancer

Natural Remedies:

Some Clues On Cancer In Pets

It is not an uncommon thing these days for animals to get cancer. Our household pets often succumb to cancer.

Even animals in the wild are suffering this disease. Soon after I first published the gist of this article on my website, Channel 3 TVNZ featured a nature programme which showed a koala being treated for cancer in Queensland, Australia. The vets on the programme said that they often treated koalas for cancer.This was around 25th September, 2010.

Agricultural chemicals and industial pollution surely must be the reason that koalas living in the bush of Queensland, are getting cancer. Glyphosphates found in the common weedkiller RoundUp have been linked to cancer. This herbicide is used widely in New Zealand, and probably Australia too. The World Health Organization has announced that glyphosphates ‘probably cause cancer’. Gobal warming and the erosion of the ozone layer might be a factor too.

There is almost always a catalyst, a toxic chemical which can be identified as the cause of cancer. If it isn’t toxic chemicals in the air and on the land, it could very well be some poisonous product we are using or putting on our bodies. Jacqui Davison, who famously recovered from terminal cancer and regrew her hair and teeth in the process, had her cancer analysed. Results showed that her cancer had developed from her toe nail. She had kept her nails permanently painted with nail polish, which is loaded with formaldehyde, one known cause of cancer.

Well, nail polish won’t be the reason for cancer in those koalas, or our household pets, but there are some obvious ways in which dogs and cats can get poisoned. Here are the main ones:

Herbicide such as RoundUp, a glyphosphate, sprayed onto grass verges where dogs and cats may walk.
Chemicals in food, such as agricultural herbicides, growth hormones, and antibiotics in animal feed which is given to chickens, sheep and cows. Preservatives, artificial flavourings and flavour enhancers in dog and cat food are also bad.
A diet high in processed food which is deficient in important life-giving minerals and vitamins.
Toxic flea killers and de-wormers. The poisonous flea collar is one of the worst culprits. The poor animal has to continually absorb the chemicals from such, all the day and night long.

Most insecticides which are used to deflea cats and dogs are incredibly toxic. Harmful chemicals should never be used anywhere in our environment, but toxic flea collars and potions have an added hazard. You have to remember that every time you pat your pet you get some of the poison from its coat or flea collar on your hands. These flea killers are made to be absorbed readily through the dog’s skin, and they are just as readily absorbed through your own skin too.

A seemingly harmless thing such as a flea killer will have ongoing negative effects on you and your pet which cannot really be measured. The harmful effects of a simple little flea killer are big. Cancer and arthritis, multiple sclerosis, parkinson’s disease, are some of the serious degenerative diseases which can be caused from chemicals found in many poisonous flea killers.

It might take several years for sickness to develop in your dog, or yourself, because of a poisonous insecticide which you use regularly on your pet. But it is inevitable that your pet will eventually suffer with the use of harmful pesticides on his or her skin.

Toxic Pesticides Can Cause Depression: Pesticide use also affects the emotional and physical states of your pet. Your pet is affected immediately upon coming into contact with flea poisons. Flea usuallymake an animal feel sick for a start. Have you noticed your dog getting depressed, losing the appetite, looking sad and moping around, or getting hyperactive after applying flea killing chemiclals to its coat, or giving it a pill for the eradication of fleas?

You see the same effect on cats, who often get jittery after having flea killers put on them. You often see dogs and cats in a frenzy, trying to rub this stuff off on the grass immediately after they have been dosed.

The two main long term effects of using toxic chemicals on your pets, or giving them poisons internally, are arthritis and cancer. Types of muscular dystrophy are also not uncommon in dogs and cats. Depression, hyperactivity and diseases of the nervous system can also develop when toxic chemicals are used regularly on your pets.

The answer is ‘no’ to poisonous chemicals. We must stop using harmful chemicals on our pets, or anywhere in our environment. There are organic products which will do the job of getting rid of fleas. There are home-made remedies which we can make to kill fleas or to deter them. These remedies may not be quite as effective as the harmful commercial poisons, but it is far better to have the odd flea about than risk getting cancer or arthritis yourself, or have your dog or cat suffer these diseases.

Poisoning From Unknown Herbicides: The legal spraying of poisonous herbicides such as glyphosphate around the place is a serious problem. While people are still allowed to use toxic chemicals wherever they choose, we have no control over our exposure or the exposure of our pets to these toxic chemicals.

But dogs and cats are especially at risk, because they absorb the chemicals which are sprayed on the grass straight into their little paws. They have DIRECT contact with these harmful chemicals which are sprayed about the place. Herbicide use around parks and grass verges in the city pose a real threat to all dogs and cats living in the area. On farms, dogs are at risk when paddocks are sprayed with chemicals, as are the animals who will eventually get to eat the grass. All toxic herbicides and insecticides should be banned. Only natural organic, or herbal, or homeopathic herbicides and pesticides should be allowed, especially where food is produced, or in the cities where people, and dogs and cats roam. That means there is no suitable and safe place for the use of any toxic chemicals.