Category: Health

Cho Ku Rei

Tibetan Bhuddist Healing Symbol:  Cho Ku Rei

The Cho Ku Rei is a very powerful healing symbol. It is derived, along with many other healing symbols which have found their way into Reiki healing, and other styles of healing,  from Tibetan Bhuddism. Traditional Tibetan Bhuddist healers still use this symbol today.

Being Bhuddist could help in your utilisation of this symbol, however, you do not have to be Bhuddist to gain benefit from the use of this symbol.  And if you are Christian, or Hindu, or Moslem, or anything else, it will not interfere with your beliefs, but only increase your awareness of the Godhead.

The Cho Ku Rei healing symbol can be used to draw healing forces from the Universe to aid healing of any kind.   It can be used before a healing, or after a healing, or both at the beginning of a healing and at the end.

The Cho Ku Rei can be physically drawn, or it can be drawn in your mind’s eye to facilitate healing.

The Cho Ku Rei for Absent Healing or for Immediate Healing:  The Cho Ku Rei healing symbol can be used to assist your own physical oar emotional healing, or it can be used for another person whom you are treating.  This person can be with you, immediately receiving the healing, or far away, when the healing is known as ‘absent healing’.

It can be used to help the healing of a physical or emotional condition.  It can also be used to help bring peace and stability and happiness in the world.

Use the Cho Ku Rei For Peace: You can draw the Cho Ku Rei over a drawing, or a written request for peace, or simply hold the image in your mind’s eye, while you visualize the unsettled situation becoming more peaceful.

The Cho Ku Rei is a kind of corkscrew movement which intensifies energy within the circular movement.  It is drawn in one continuous movement.  You do not break the line as you draw it.  This is important.

To Draw The Cho Ku Rei Healing Symbol:

This can be drawn anywhere, but I will describe the movements as you would draw them over a recipient’s brow.

  • Begin drawing a line about two inches to the right of the middle of the forehead,  and about two inches above the centre of the right eye.
  • Now, bring your finger which is tracing the Cho Ku Rei into the middle of the brow, in a straight line, so that the finger ends up directly above the nose, about two inches or so away.
  • Now bring the line directly down to the bridge of the nose.  Keep the finger on the person the whole time.
  • Now – for the cork screw movement.  You are going to move your finger up in a circular movement, heading for the middle of the left eyebrow as the person faces you (their right eye-brow).  Keep the circular movement going upwards, then bring it around so that you draw over the centre line which you have already traced.  You follow this movement inwards, repeating the circular corkscrew movement, until you have three corkscrew shapes drawn inside of each other.  You end the movement at the very centre, on the side of the right, which is the side where you began the line inwards at the top.
  • .You can reverse the symbol for a  calming and meditative effect.

For Physical Ailments: The Cho Ku Rei symbol can be performed over the site of a physical ailment, or it can be used over the brow, as given above.

The Cho Ku Rei is difficult to describe.  Look at merrilyn’s post entitle ‘How To Draw The Choku Rei’.  Reading this description of how to draw the symbol might enlighten you as to the method of its execution.

Vitamin B and Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s Helped By Vitamin B

New Research: Today is the 10th September 2010, and I have just heard it said,  on BBC News through the night,  in New Zealand, that London doctors have found a new discovery……

Alzheimer’s Disease Can be Helped with Vitamin B, so Professor David Smith, from a London hospital tells us.

Well, this is actually not new to us at all.  Vitamin B has been part of naturopathic treatments for many diseases,, including alzheimer’s disease,  for many, many decades now.

Still…….It is great that, even though it be 50 years later,  these London doctors are finally acknowledging what  has been common knowledge in the naturopathic world for yonks:  That Vitamin B is helpful in reducing the progress of alzheimer’s and dementure.

Of course, hopefully, they will also tell us soon that Vitamin C in larger doses has an effect on alzheimer’s and dementure too, but we must wait for that.

Why has it taken so long for this information to finally be acknowledged as fact by scientists?  It seems odd, too, that only in the last few weeks, New Zealand research scientists acknowledged to the public that Vitamin C has an effect on cancer cells, and can indeed help prevent cancer.  Vitamin C for cancer has been used as a cancer preventative and as an alternative cancer treatment for many years.

Drug Company Monopoly: My guess is that the drug companies knew these things all along.  They prefer to market their other  drugs, because  they have so much profit to be gainedthis way:  also,  they have control of the market if people do not become fully well on their products, but become reliant upon them.

What’s the bet that the drug companies will be pushing even harder to get the sales of vitamin C and vitamin B off the market, so that they have control of these drugs.  This will mean that we will not be able to buy them over the counter, but will have to pay a doctor, first of all, for a prescription, then we will have to pay for the vitamins at hugely inflated prices, because they will be classified as MEDICINES.

Beware of these tactics. Sign that petition at your healthfood store to ensure that vitamins remain readily available to us without having a doctor prescribe them for us.

Risperdal Children

Effects of  Risperdal on Children

A friend has just sent me the gist on an article which The New York Times published  recently: This information has been disseminated by the Alliance For Human Research Protection.

The New York Times article alerts us as to the dangers of prescribing medications to children. The side effects of many medications are little known or just not considered by the many doctors who prescribe children risperdal and other such drugs.

However, one should not have to wait for ‘scientific proof’ to work out that toxic chemicals in medications will have many negative consequences in the long run, including poor immune function and a susceptibility to disease. Find an alternative to toxic medications for the sake of your children’s health.

The recent article by Duff Wilson which appeared on the front page of the New York Times has brought a stern reality home: Toxic drugs are still being prescribed to children without any regard to the effects on the health of these children. Risperdal children are obviously at risk both psychologically and physically, as this article illustrates.

Unnecessary Toxic Medications: Many children in America are being treated unnecessarily with psychotic drugs and sleeping pills which they most surely do not need and should not be taking.  Television programmes which have been aired over the past year have given us an insight into how many parents rely on medications such as sleeping pills and other psychotic drugs so that their children will become passive and sleep much of the time.

Basically, many toxic medications are being given out to children just because the parents claim that their children are ‘unmanageable’ or have some attention deficit disorder.

Bad parenting and toxic chemicals in food such as preservatives and colourings, etc, can cause sleep deprivation and symptoms of  ‘attention deficit disorder’ and other psychosis. That is not to say that the parents of Kyle Warren were ‘bad’ parents at all – they were doing as their doctor instructed  – just that many people who give their children medications are doing so because it is an easy option because it makes a child docile, and because their doctor permits it.

Duff Wilson’s article discusses the case of an eighteen month old child, Kyle Warren,  who was prescribed  risperdal.  By the age of three, his mental condition had deteriorated, obviously because of the risperdal  medication he was taking.  At this point he was prescribed MORE toxic medications, which included sleeping pills, Prozac and a medication to treat attention deficit disorder.

How crazy is that?   This poor wee boy suffered because of  risperdal, a  drug which should never have been prescribed for him at all. And then he was prescribed MORE toxic drugs.  Prescribing prozac for children, or risperdal, or any other drug, simply should never be allowed.

Attention deficit disorder is something we may all get if we were to take risperdal every day for a year and a half, especially if we were given this from the age of only 18 months.

Luckily, this poor wee boy was rescued by doctors whose intervention saved his life.  But there are many children who are not so lucky:  Many children today are taking medications which are actually undermining their intelligence, their solcial skills, and wheir physical being.  These drugs are gradually killing children:  their lives are being shortened and devalued.

NO TOXIC MEDICATION should ever be prescribed to children.  There are alternative therapies  which can help children who are unruly or who have behavioural problems.

Some Sensible Alternatives To Toxic Medications:

Homeopathy for children is one alternative to replace those harmful drugs. Homeopathic remedies are very effective and are completely non toxic.  Of course, you need to see a professional homeopath if your child is seriously disturbed or is ill.  But there is a homeopathic remedy for EVERY ailment you can think of.  It is just a matter of finding the appropriate remedy, or remedies, which requires someone with experience to determine.

Correct Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency:  Vitamin and mineral deficiency can cause hormonal imbalance:  Hormonal imbalance  can cause sleeping and behavioural problems in children.

Avoid Chemicals in Food: Processed food must be avoided, as processed food is generally loaded with preservatives and colourings and flavourings which are very harmful to your child.  Chemicals such as preservatives, colourings and flavourings interfere with the normal  physical and mental development of your child.

If you ensure that your child NEVER has any food which has any chemicals in it of any kind, then you are going a long way to improving the health, both physically and mentally, of your child.

Organic Insecticides

Organic insecticides Which Really Work

It is important to use non-poisonous insecticides on your pet. Poisonous chemicals which are in many flea killers, ant killers and cockroach products, are partly to blame for the many cancers, arthritis, and nerve and muscular diseases which our pets, and ourselves, are often afflicted with.

Toxic chemicals put an overload on the body’s organs, especially the liver.  Toxic chemicals also affect the heart, kidneys and bladder.  Toxic chemicals can  cause heart palpitations, fluttering of the heart, weakness of the heart, and heart attack.  Toxic chemicals can cause cancer. These affflictions can affect your own state of health, as well as that of your pet.

If the effects of the many toxic chemicals we use in our environment were understood, in food production, and to control weeds and pests, then there would not be a need to take the many drugs such as warfarin and others which are widely distributed to prevent heart attacks and stroke.  We would not have so much cancer about either, if the use of poisonous chemicals in our environment were eliminated.

Cancer Prevention: Using organic insecticides will go a long way to preventing liver damage, cancer, and other degenerative disease.

Protect Your Pets by using  natural products to eradicate or control fleas and other pests in the home. By using organic insecticides on your pets and in your household, you are not only lowering the risk of cancer in  your family and your pets,  but will be contributing to a more healthy environment.  It is important not to support the manufacturers of poisonous products:  by NOT buying their products, we are making a contribution to a healthier poison-free environment.

Weleda Products To Treat Fleas and Other Pests.

One way in which you can help protect  the health of you, your family and your pets is by making organic insecticides at home. I have a post which gives some recipes for organic insecticides.

However, there are a few commercial products which are totally safe to use.  Weleda products are one of the safe brands to buy.  Their herbal and homeopathic combinations are well tried, safe, and effective remedies.  I can really recommend their flea treatment.  Go check out the range of Weleda products – it is ages since I used their flea treatment, but here is how it worked for me:

The Weleda homeopathic flea treatment which I used  cost less than $10 at the time.  Of the liquid, I used only three drops in a pint of water.  This was put into a spray bottle.  I think I shook the bottle a few times with the water and the homeopathic liquid in it, then the potion was ready to use.

We had moved into an old villa which was infested with fleas.  It had been shut up for some time in the summer, and the fleas had had a ball.  If you walked down the hallway and looked down at your legs, you could pick off dozens of fleas.

I sprayed the homeopathic flea lotion around the house in the evening, making sure the hallway, which was worse affected, was done in every corner.

Unbelievable result. By morning, there was not a flea to be found. I have no idea where they went.  They had simply disappeared.  No dead fleas to be found.  We never, in the year that we spent at that house, had a flea problem there again.

Home-Made Lavender Insecticide:

By chance, once, when I was experimenting with herbal essences, and  potions which would work for head lice, I came across a home made remedy which had just as potent an effect as the Weleda homeopathic for fleas.

This was in the summer, just after I had used the Weleda flea treatment, so I had just increased my  knowledge on the making, and the use, of homeopathic remedies.

In the early summer, when the lavender was fresh and clean after the spring rain, I picked a heap of lavender, enough to fill a two pint jar with lavender.  I put hot water over it, added a couple of tablespoons of honey, the juice of a lemon, then screwed the lid on just lightly, so that the fermentation gases could escape, but the insects not get in.

I left the jar for three weeks, sitting on the window sill in the sun.  I shook the jar a little every day, tightening the lid first so that the liquid would not spill, then loosened it again when the jar lay rested on the window sill.

After three weeks, I drained off the liquid, which I poured over another fresh lot of lavender, with a little added honey.   The same procedure was followed.  Three weeks in the sun, shaking lightly every day.  After three weeks, again, the same routine was applied – more fresh lavender, and the last liquid poured over the new lavender.

After the third infusion, I drained the liquid off.  This was by now the colour of purple lavender, and had a very strong, beautiful aroma.

I found, when using this liquid, that it was impossibly strong if it was used neat.  So I had the bright idea, coming from the homeopathic principle, that just a few drops of this may work.

I used three drops only in half a pint of water which was in a spray bottle.  I shook up the bottle and sprayed this over hair lice.  They disappeared, just as the fleas had done with the Weleda treatment.  I used it on our dog, which eradicated her fleas just as effectively.

See another post on making lavender lotion

Home Made Lavender Lotion Insecticide

Homeopathic Rat Treatment:  I have not personally used this potion, but I have seen it on the list of products which Weleda make. It is a few years since I saw this advertised, but my guess is that they still make it.

Preventative Medicine

Preventative Medicine is really what it should all  be about:  far better to prevent a malady of the health rather than wait for it to happen, and then have to seek  drug treatments which are expensive and which, most probably, will not cure the condition anyway.

Just how popular is ‘Preventative Medicine’?  How much do people really care about ‘Preventative Medicine’?

Today is the 30th August 2010, and there are only 11 searches recorded for the day in Google’s search engine for ‘Preventative Medicine’, which is nothing really, considering that there are 177 searches for ‘warfarin’ and 177 for ‘side effects of warfarin’.  Imagine that – 177 people in a day looking up the side effects of warfarin, and only a portion of that – only 11 people all over the world, looking up ‘Preventative Medicine’.

Warfarin in my opinion, is one of the worst modern drugs. It is dished out to people willy nilly, and once you begin taking it, it seems you are on it for life.  I don’t know of ANYONE who has taken warfarin just  for a while until they get better.  Warfarin is a blood thinner.

Now – Calcium Ascorbate is a  natural blood thinner.  So is Garlic a natural blood thinner.  So is Ginger.  So is Cayenne Pepper.  So is grapefruit a natural blood thinner. There are many foods which thin the blood naturally, without having to take Warfarin for life.

One of the bad things about taking Warfarin is that you have to avoid all the naturally occuring blood thinners like grapefruit and other high vitamin C foods. This is not good for the liver or the gall bladder – or anything else, I should imagine.

I know somebody who began taking Warfarin in his early 30’s and has been taking it for almost 40 years.  He has recently had his gall bladder  removed because of cancer, and is now waiting for a liver operation to remove some of the liver, because there is now cancer in his liver.   There was still time  before the last operation for an alternative treatment, if only he had realized, however now that he has entered the cycle of operations which remove  vital organs, or parts of them, his vitality is decreasing rapidly, and so alternative cures would have a hard job revitalizing this man’s body. Also, he has taken Warfarin for so long now that he cannot imagine being able to live at all without it.  He believes his life depends on it.

Why is this?  Why are people not so tuned in to thinking about preventative medicine?

I quote from the 2005  ‘Touch For Health:  The Complete Manual’, written by John Thie, the founder of ‘Touch For Health’,  and his son Matthew Thie.  It is published by DeVorss and Co,  P.O. Box 1389, Camarillo CA 93011-1389:

  • page v of the Introduction reads “…..The Touch for Health book and educational program was my way of providing some simple tools and processes that each of us can use to regain a role and authority in our own care.
  • Today, more than 30 years later, things have by and large gotten worse.  While awareness of these problems has increased, and there is a resurgence of traditional and alternative approaches to healthcare, drug companies have become more aggressive in their advertising, manipulative of research, whether public or private, and there is ever greater emphasis on “conditions” requiring long-term and even life-long medication.  Our profit driven, high-tech medicine, arguably the most advanced crisis care ever developed, has become costly and dangerous, while simpler preventative measures seem to have fallen by the wayside.
  • In fact, the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States.”

These authors give some alarming statistics on the practices of modern American orthodox medcicine. They claim that:

  • “Tens of millions of people unnecessarily take antibiotics, 9 million people are unnecessarily hospitalized, 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed, 2.2 million people have adverse drug reactions to prescribed medicines, and 783,936 deaths are caused by conventional medicine each year.

The fact is, that most disease can be prevented.  There are a wide range of alternative health practitioners who can advise on methods to prevent disease becomoing established, and whose methods are effective in treating even more serious disease.  However, preventative medicine is really the key.

The idea is to increase body vitality so that the immune system is strong and your powers of  resistance to disease are working optimally.

Yoga exercise which teaches good breathing,  meditation exercises such as yoga nidra, good diet, positive thinking  including Reiki healing, the Power of Prayer and Spiritual healing, and Music therapy,  are so important in helping to prevent disease.  Acupressure techniques, including  DoIn, Tsubo, Shiatsu, Qi Gong, and the more modern Touch For Health, are all ways in which your Prana, or vital energy can be maximized, and so they are all helpful in restoring health and preventing  disease.

Visiting an Ayurvedic health practitioner, or a Chinese or Tibetan herbalist, or a homeopath are some of the alternatives which can improve the vitality and immunity and prevent a serious disease from setting in.

Our health practitioners, ideally, should recognize the symptoms of a disease early in the piece so that remedial action can be taken, the vitality improved, and a natural recovery is assisted.

Modern medicine, on the other hand, tends to define a disease which people get stuck with, along with the expensive drug which people believe is necessary.

Most people have a reverence and respect for the doctor’s word. The doctor, backed up by the drug company who is making the profit, tells them that they must take a certain drug for a certain condition, and that they will need to keep taking that drug for goodness knows how long.   People  usually don’t know any better,  so they accept treatment without question, and the drug companies like it this way.

Some people like it this way too, as it means they do not have to DO anything about their condition if they believe that a medicine-drug is all that they have to take to manage their disease.  Disease, unless you are unlucky from birth or some unusual  freak event,  often  comes at us  through our own  poor lifestyle choices –  bad living,  poor nutrition and negative thinking.

However, the biggest causes of disease in our modern society are:

Environmental toxins, medical drugs,  poisons and preservatives in our food, and electromagnetic radiation from modern technology such as cell phones and living close to excessively high power sources:  these  all lead to disease.  This is really why alternative therapies  such as detox diets which help you to detoxify chemicals from your body,  and foods and methods which improve your vitality and immune function, are so important in preventing disease.

The authors of ‘Touch For Health’ refer people to the article entitled “Death By Medicine” at www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_01.html