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Causes of Varicose Veins

The Main Causes of Varicose Veins

Lack of exercise,  being over-weight, high cholesterol,  poor nutrition which leads to constipation, lack of Vitamin C, E,  Calcium and Magnesium, and alcohol and tobacco use are  some of the main causes of varicose veins.

Lack of exercise causes poor circulation, which can lead to varicose veins. Constipation puts pressure on the veins, especially those in the legs and in the groin area.

Sometimes, an injury can predispose a person to getting varicose veins.

Prevent Varicose Veins By Getting Enough Exercise. Walking, swimming, dancing, cycling, are all good for the legs and improve the circulaton. Such simple exercises as the sit-up, or yoga ‘churning the mill’ exercises are often all it takes to cure the body of constipation. (merrilyn will put a post up on yoga esercises for constipation following this article)

Yoga head stands, and slant-board exercises, are helpful to the veins in the legs. It is a good idea to do, say, 10 minutes,  of an upsidedown pose if you have been on your feet, or in your chair for much of the day.

Prevent Varicose Veins by eating High Fiber Foods.

Prevent Constipation:  High fiber foods will ensure that you do not suffer from constipation. High fiber foods also help to protect you against high cholesterol, which is another contributing factor in people getting varicose veins.

Vitamin C and Bioflavanoids are excellent preventers of varicose veins. High fiber diets, especially where fruit and vegetables are eaten raw, will provide high amounts of vitamin C and Bioflavanoids. A supplement of Vitamin C  can be taken daily to help treat varicose veins.

Vitamin C : A non-acidic form such as Ester C, or Calcium Ascorbate can be used – Take 1000 mg three times daily if your condition is severe. Take 1000 mg a day as a preventative, especially if you have a sedentary job.

Vitamin C, like Vitamin E, helps to dissolve deposits in the veins, so it is extremely important in treating varicose veins. It also aids healing, like Vitamin E.  Vitamin C helps to keep the body alkaline, which is very important in preventing and treating varicose veins. It also helps to reduce toxins in the blood.

A supplement of  Vitamin E – 1200 IU daily- can be taken to treat severe cases of varicose veins,  according to Dr Wagner/Goldfarb. He recommends that you build up to this dose SLOWLY.

Vitamin E helps to reduce swelling, aids healing, and keeps the blood platelets from sticking together. It helps circulation. It is also an antioxidant and aids healing of the veins.

Note:  Whereas Vitamin C is safe to take in anything up to 3000 mg a day, Vitamin E needs to be introduced carefully, and in small doses: Some people may react to such a large does as the one above which Dr Wagner recommends, so ask your health practitioner before you start Vitamion E treatment for varicose veins. Because Vitamin E thins the blood quite dramatically, it must not be taken with other blood thinning medications such as WARFARIN.

Calcium and Magnesium are  often deficient in the diets of people with varicose veins. Calcium is important in building healthy, strong tissues, so your veins need a good amount of it in order to remain healthy.  Calcium helps you process your food properly, and helps in elimination of waste products. You need vitamin C and vitamin D and magnesium for calcium to be assimilated properly. Take a supplement such as calcium citrate for easy absorption, or read merrilyn’s recipe in the post entitled ‘Best Calcium Supplement’.

Diet to Prevent and Help Varicose Veins: The diet should be high in protein, and lower in processed carbohydrates such as wheat flour and sugar.  You  should include plenty of high fiber in every meal: alkaline green vegetables  such as broccoli, brussels sprouts, lettuce,  and mung bean sprouts;  brown rice  with most meals to replace wheat products;  oat-bran porroidge for breakfast, taken with a grated apple.

Eat plenty of root vegetables such as  beetroot, carrots, parsnips and swedes. Include nuts and seeds in the daily diet, especially almonds and sunflower seeds.

Eat plenty of raw fruit, especially apples with the skins left on. Apples are very alkaline, and are very high in fiber. Bananas, pears, and stone fruits such as peaches,  nectarines and apricots are  all very good.

Whole grains such as brown rice  and oatmeal bran will help you prevent varicose veins, and also help you to remedy the condition to some extent.

Lay Off: Sugar, wheat flour, dairy products and alcohol.

Avoid Foods Cooked in Fats. You need fats, but avoid the cooked ones. Cooked fats encourage the thickening up of the blood, which is what you want to avoid in preventing and treating varicose veins.

Eat Vitamin E Rich Oils to Prevent and Treat  Varicose Veins. Opt for  the health-giving oils  which are high in Vitamin E, which thins the blood:  olive oil, avocado oil, grapeseed oil,  peanut oil and wheatgerm oil are all rich in nutrients  which promote health. Use these on your salads to get your daily requirements of fat.

Cleanse the Bowels Regularly: Some sort of Detox Diet should start your programme to repair those veins. You could take a day or two  on apples only, and use  the castor oil treatment on a morning when you do not have to go to work. Try to do a detox once a week.

Castor oil taken internally helps mend broken veins and heal the vein walls. It also cleans your insides out.  Take  two tablespoons in the morning followed by a cup of black coffee. Do this once a week, or every second day if you are totally committed to repairing your state of health.

Some sort of Detox diet should start your programme to repair those veins.

Avoid Sitting Or Standing for Long Periods, and also avoid crossing the legs. Circulation is inhibited when you cross your legs. Circulaton  is impaired if you have a job where you are stationed in the one spot for long, either sitting or standing, or are bed-ridden.  In these situations  you must remember to exercise your limbs every 30 minutes or so. Stretch, bend, go for a walk to the bathroom. If you are in bed, then simply flex the leg muscles and  move and stretch  the feet: this  will help increase circulation.

Massage the legs briefly  every 30 minutes  or so to keep the blood and lymph moving from the legs. This must be done gently if you already have painful varicose veins. You can massage the legs from the knee down even while you sit at your computer, or your piano. It doesn’t take much – even a minute of massage will  remind the leg veins to do their work.

Painful Varicose Veins can be helped by gently massaging castor oil into the legs at night. This has a soothing effect, and will help towards healing those affected veins.

Apple Cider Vinegar can be patted on after a shower. This helps improve the circulation.  Potassium in the cider vinegar is helpful to the veins. The vinegar  also has an astringent effect, and helps shrink the veins to a certain extent if it is used regularly in combination with an appropriate diet.

Anti-Inflammatory Herbs which will help you to shrink those varicose veins are:

Borage Oil. This can be massaged into the affected areas to help with shrinkage. Borage tea could be drunk freely during the day.

Comfrey. Comfrey, like borage, is high in silica and has healing properties which are unsurpassed by other herbs. See if you can get a supply of comfrey to make herbal teas from. Comfrey can be  cooked into a pulp, left to cool,  and used as a poultice on the sore veins. This  is very effective for reducing swollen veins and alleviating pain.

Bromelin. This is another anti-inflammatory. Take 500 mg twice a day, between meals. You could include pineapple in the evening meal as a desert, as this also contains anti-inflammatory properties.

White Oak Bark is another excellent anti-inflammatory. Aspirin is actually a synthetic form of white oak bark properties. White oak bark helps soothe the tissues and the nerves as well, so it is a good anti-stress herb.

Herbs Which Improve Circulation should be used daily. Choose one or two out of either:

Cayenne Pepper, Capsicum, Prickly Ash, Horseradish, Ginger, Cloves or Cinnamon. Ginger/cinnamon tea could be drunk after each meal.

  • The Lemon Diet, or the Lemonade Diet for a day would be helpful in reducing swelling in the legs,  removing toxins, and facilitating healing.
  • Simply take the juice of a lemon, add  a teaspoon of honey. Fill your cup with medium to hot water. Add a pinch of cayenne, or ginger.
  • Repeat every hour, for every hour  of the day that  you can sustain it.
  • If you must break the diet, then try to eat only raw foods such as grapes, or apples, for the rest of the day.
  • See merrilyn’s post entitle Yoga Exercise for Varicose Veins

Regrow Hair

Ways to Regrow Hair

First and foremost – give up using chemical hair dyes. Hair dye, unless it is a pure, herbal, unadulterated product like powdered henna, will cause your hair to thin over time, and predispose you to diseases like cancer and arthritis.

IMG_6820Photo by Merrilyn on Holly’s camera, 25th December, 2012, Dunedin.

The following suggestions are all natural, pure, organic ways in which you can help your hair to regrow. Please note that it is advisable to see your doctor or health professional for advice before trying out any home remedy, or vitamins, or iodine, or any technique mentioned here.  No responsibility can be taken when these suggestions do not work, or make the condition worse, or make you feel bad.  Ask your doctor for a diagnosis first, and then ask about any remedy you might want to try.

The Castor Oil  Treatmenout is one of the best ways to regrow hair. Castor oil can be applied externally to the hair, and it can  also  be taken internally.

The Castor Oil Treatment will cleanse your body of harmful chemicals which inhibit your hair growth. Toxins accumulate in the body, and these undermine your health and affect your hair growth.

Dr Max Gerson, and others, have used castor oil as  an integral part of an alternative treatment for cancer.

It has been found that many people using castor oil as part of a cancer treatment have grown new hair.  Mind, these people have all been on diets which include maximum amounts of all the necessary vitamins and minerals which are essential for good health. The Gerson therapy for treating cancer included eating a giant bowl of oatmeal porridge every morning. Oats are very high in silica which is excellent for the hair, so it is no wonder that many people on the castor oil/porridge treatment for cancer grew new hair.

Diet, of course, is the most important consideration for curing any ill health AND  for promoting hair regrowth.

Castor Oil Applied Externally to the scalp has long been used as a treatment to encourage hair growth. Mothers apply it to their baby’s scalp to promote hair growth, and also to cure ‘cradle cap’ which affects babies and small children.

Castor oil applied externally can be used by anyone to treat scalp conditions, and to help regrow hair. You can rub it into the scalp at least once a week. Leave it on overnight. In the morning, wash off  the castor oil using plenty of  organic soap, or a good quality shampoo which does not contain harmful chemicals.

Castor Oil Used Internally

Castor oil is used every second day on the Gerson plan for alternative cancer therapy. I have used this diet myself, to good effect, when I had a breast lump years ago. After three months on the diet, which included the medicinal dose of two tablespoons of castor oil every second  morning, with 90% raw food in the diet, I had recovered. The bonus was that my hair rejuvenated itself: my hair became very thick and shiny after using castor oil for three months, in combination with a mainly raw diet.

Raw Egg Yolk Benefits Hair Regrowth

External Use: Raw egg yolk can be used externally as a hair conditioner: see the recipe for AIOLI below, under the ‘Olive Oil Treatment’ section.

Internal Use: Two raw egg yolks were also taken each day on the alternative therapy which I used, and I think these  raw egg yolks also had a pronounced effect on the growth of the hair. I know some nutritionists warn against using too many eggs, but many others ‘in the know’, such as Dr Max Gerson, Walter Last, and myself included, swear by the use of raw egg yolk taken daily to help build the body’s immune system. When you are on a diet which uses minimal amounts of cooked food, including meats, then raw egg yolks are just the thing. They are easily digested, have good quality protein which nourishes your body and brain, and contain large amounts of lecithin, iron, and vitamins A, B,  C,  D, and E.

Lecithin, contained in raw egg yolk, is an important nutrient, as this helps the liver and gall bladder in digesting and processing fats and other nutrients so that your body can use them to regrow things like bone, and hair, teeth and nails. The lecithin contained in two raw egg yolks a day will provide you with enough good quality lecithin so that you can process the olive oil, or avocado fat, or grape seed oil, which are all important food items for helping you keep your hair on. Diets which are deficient in fats and lecithin usually lead to thin hair. You need good quality oils and fats in your diet too.

You do not eat the egg white raw, only the egg yolk. Raw egg white is not used in the Gerson diet, or other alternative approaches to healing disease such as cancer. Egg white contains albumum, which is not so easily digested, especially when it is taken raw. Egg white must always be cooked, unless it is beaten up in a smoothie, which renders the egg white digestible.

Gelatine Dietary gelatine gives a boost to hair growth. Gelatine contains many amino acids, and is naturally very high in protein. You could take two heaped teaspoons every night: simply drop the powder onto a how drink, such as a drink of cocoa, or an egg nog. Let the powder drop down into the hot liquid, then stir until it is dissolved. Gelatine is a good nourisher of the nerves, as well as the hair, and will help you to sleep well when taken at night.

The Olive Oil Treatment

This is another great treatment for helping you regrow hair.  You can use  olive oil straight from the bottle, rubbed well into the scalp, to help with hair regrowth. Using plenty of olive oil in the diet, especially raw on salads, or using it to make the  fabulous aioli, which is raw egg yolk combined with olive oil, will not only help your general health, but your hair health too.

Aioli Mayonnaise: This is the famous recipe which uses raw egg yolk as its base.  Aioli is used as a butter substitute in many parts of the Mediterranean. It is a healthful supplement to the diet, and taken internally, it is a benefit to the health of your hair.  Aioli mayonnaise is just great on fresh salads, or as an accompaniment to cooked fish, but it  can also be used externally, on the hair, as a hair treatment for the conditioning of the hair.

To Make Aioli Mayonnaise/Conditioner:

  • Put two egg yolks into a small bowl. Be careful not to get any white in them.
  • Slowly, drop by drop, add olive oil. You need to add this VERY slowly in the beginning, but as the egg yolks take up the olive oil, and grow in volume, you will find you can add the oil slightly more quickly.

If you are making this for the table, then you would add the traditional chopped garlic to the mixture. However, if you are going to use this as a hair conditioner, then omit the garlic.

How To Use: Simply smear a generous quantity of the aioli mixture onto the hair. Massage well in. Leave for several hours, if you can, before washing off in warm water and a good quality soap. This conditioner leaves the hair very shiny, and actually nourishes the hair roots as well.

Apple Cider Vinegar

Apple Cider Vinegar is so good for the hair, and so easy to apply. I have used it for years, simply dashing a bit of  undiluted apple cider vinegar over the hair after each wash.

The nutrients in apple cider vinegar really do encourage hair growth, if you regularly use the cider vinegar with each wash. These nutrients are absorbed into the scalp, where they feed the hair roots. Silica, and potassium are some of the important trace elements which you find in apple cider vinegar.

Apple cider vinegar also helps to restore the normal acidity/alkalinity ratio to the hair again. Soaps and shampoos tend to make the hair and scalp too alkaline. An alkaline scalp  does not help hair growth at all, as it usually results in dandruff and an itchy scalp. Apple cider vinegar helps to make the scalp slightly acidic again, whilst nourishing the hair roots at the same time.

Using pure apple cider vinegar on your children’s hair after each wash will help prevent catching head lice. Head lice do not like this cider vinegar acid environment, but prefer the alkaline state which is the result of using soaps and shampoos.

Silica-Rich Herbs Help Hair Growth

Comfrey,  horsetail, borage, nettles  and oat straw are just a few herbs which have high amounts of silica.  Oat straw is an especially nice tea to drink, and is especially high in silica. This is also an excellent tea for  expectant, or young mothers. Comfrey, borage and nettles can be added to your  vegetables to ‘up’ your silica intake. Silica really helps hair, nails, bone and teeth to grow and remain strong.

Rosemary is also high in silica, and is a good herb for the hair, however, use rosemary in small amounts in food, as large amounts are toxic. Rosemary is good as a hair tonic, to add to other herbs for the hair:

You can make a herbal infusion out of any of the herbs listed above. This infusion can be applied to the scalp as a final rinse, in much the same way as you would use apple cider vinegar. The silica and other nutrients  in these herbs will continue to be absorbed through the pores of the skin on your scalp, and these will reach the hair roots which feed your hair.

To Make an Infusion for a Hair Rinse:

  • Take a cup of fresh herbs, using any combination of either comfrey, borage, or nettles, or rosemary.
  • Add three cups of water to the herbs, and bring to the boil on the stove. Simmer gently for five minutes, then leave to stand until cold.
  • Use the liquid as your final rinse.  Massage well into the scalp. Keep the remainder in the fridge, to use later on in the week as a hair rinse.

Cayenne and Ginger Improve Circulation:

Both cayenne pepper and ginger should be included in the daily diet, as these improve blood circulation. Better circulation of the blood means that all those nutrients in your fabulous diet will have a better chance of getting to feed your hair roots.

Iodine Hair Treatment

For more information on Iodine and other nutrients for the hair, take a look at  Merrilyn’s other  posts entitled

Iodine Scalp/Hair Remedy;

Vitamins for Hair Growth;

Best Vitamins for Hair Growth.

The Iodine Treatment is the last, but not least, of my favourite external applications for hair regrowth. Iodine is ESSENTIAL for hair growth. It is important for good general health all round. If you are deficient in Iodine, then your hair suffers. Ideally, if we ate enough fish and sea weed, then we would not need to supplement our diets with iodine. However, this is not the case for most people.

So  applications  of iodine can  help to prevent  iodine deficiency. Iodine can be applied to any part of the body, but here  we favor the application straight to the scalp, as this will  help you to regrow your hair.

Note – do not use this on the same day as you use apple cider vinegar on the hair, as the two do not combine well. Use this at least one or two days  after you have washed your hair. You only need to apply the iodine once or twice a week. Use only a couple of dabs or three, dabbing each spot on a different part of the scalp. Massage the scalp, and leave. Try not to wash the iodine off on the day you apply it. Iodine is absorbed through the pores of the scalp, and down to the hair roots, so your hair will benefit by leaving the iodine on your scalp.

If you continue to apply small amounts of iodine to the scalp  on a regular basis, then after several months you should notice an improvement in hair growth. This needs to be done, of course, with a highly nutritious diet.

Nutritional Supplements to Regrow Hair

Vitamin A/Beta Carotene Eat plenty of carrots and parsnips for vitamin A. You might consider a  supplement of vitamin A which could be taken for a few weeks until you notice an improvement in your hair growth: 50,000 IU of beta carotene  daily is recommended for baldness by Dr Wagner/Goldfarb, who wrote the book ‘How to Stay Out of the Doctor’s Office’. Ask your own medical practitioner to see whether this dose is OK for you, and for advice on how long you should take this amount.

These doctors also recommend Biotin – 5 mg daily- since hair follicles are made up mostly of biotin and cysteine. If you include two raw egg yolks in the diet as part of your programme to regrow your hair, then you will get adequate amounts of these nutrients.

Take a tablespoon of avocado oil, or grapeseed oil, or wheatgerm oil, or olive oil daily. This will provide you with vitamin E and essential fats which are needed for hair growth. An extra 400 IU of vitamin E could be taken until you note improvement. Again – ask your doctor or health practitioner about this.

Take extra vitamin C daily – Between 1000mg and 2000mg of a non-acidic form of vitamin C, such as ester C, or calcium ascorbate powder.

Manganese is advised by Dr Wagner/Goldfarb – 50mg taken twice a day is their recommendation.

For the added benefit of restoring hair color, these doctors suggest taking a daily B complex supplement. Added to this B complex, you add  extra PABA – 300 mg twice daily, Pantothenic Acid – 300 mg twice daily, and Folic acid – 5 mg a day. I would take these amounts for several weeks, or up to three months: Again – best get some advice on this, especially if you are already taking any medication.

Best Treatment for Puffy Eyes

Best Treatment for Puffy Eyes:

Japanese Green Tea and Ceylon Tea

Some of the best treatments  for puffy eyes are the tea bag treatments,  using either japanese green tea, or black ceylon tea. The castor oil treatment, which is listed below, is also very effective in soothing puffy eyes. Of course, these are not applied at the same time. You need to use them separately.

How to use tea bag eye packs for puffy eyes:

  • Use  cold, wet tea bags applied to the eye for ten minutes to reduce swelling and relieve tired, puffy  eyes. Using cold, wet tea bags over the eyes actually sharpens up your vision too, as the tannin and other minerals in the tea help to nourish the nerves and tissues of the eye retina, as well as the surrounding tissue.  Use the cold wet tea bags  of either japanese green tea, or ceylon tea for your eye packs.

Castor Oil Treatment for Puffy Eyes

Castor oil is the secret ingredient which is used in expensive eye ointments and cosmetics. It is an especially healing oil. Because it is a relatively heavy oil, it has the ability to stick to the tissues of the eyes without running off, which lighter oils, like olive oil, tend to do.

To make an eye-pack with castor oil.

  • Use a small piece of linen or flannel. Fold it so that it is just large enough to cover the eye area. 
  • Pour over a teaspoon of pure castor oil onto each wad of cloth. Lie down, and place over the eyes. Leave on for 10-20 minutes. Store in a screw top jar so that you can use the packs again.

Cider Vinegar for Puffy Eyes

Of course, this MUST be diluted heavily. Never use cider vinegar on the eyes straight from the bottle.  Here is how to make a soothing pack for tired puffy eyes:

  • Put one teaspoon only of organic apple cider vinegar into half a cup of water.
  • Take a piece of linen and fold it into a wad. Dip into the  diluted apple cider mixture. Wring out lightly, and place over the closed eyes. Leave on for 10-20 minutes.

Potassium and vitamins from the apple cider vinegar will feed your eye tissues while you leave the moistened pack on. The acidic nature of the vinegar works as an astringent, which will help those tired, puffy eyes.

Help Your Eyesight

How to Help Your Eyesight:

As is the case in treating any degenerative disease, the most important things to consider are detoxification and nutrition, with appropriate exercise and a stress-free life-style if you can get it.

Many people who have  degeneration of the eye-sight simply give up hope of restoring their eye-sight, believing that they have to live with the condition as it gradually worsens with each passing year. But there is much that can be done to prevent and treat eye conditions such as macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma , especially if you can recognize the warning signs early in the piece.

Early signs might be that you have lost clear focus, or the vision has become distorted. There might be a black, empty spot in your field of vision, or several small black dots.

Raw Food:  Raw foods should form the bulk of the diet, as these help the detoxification process, whilst providing plenty of essential enzymes, vitamin C, and other nutrients which are needed for the reparation of the eye cells.  If you cannot stomach too much raw food, then  eat your vegetables lightly steamed.

Detoxification :   There are many different techniques for detoxification. I recommend castor oil, taken in a two tablespoon dose every second day to help with the cleansing process. Castor oil also has remarkable healing properties which will help your eye-sight to restore itself, even when taken internally, as in a cleansing technique.   It helps carry the nutrients throughout the body, which ensures that your eyes, too, will get benefit from them.

An Ayurvedic remedy for the eyes is to put just one drop of castor oil into each eye last thing at night, before you shut your eyes to sleep.  This remedy is reputed to be helpful in preventing cataracts of the eye, and also in treating them, if you catch the cataract at the early stage.

Castor oil acts as a pathway, bridgeing the gaps where cells have been damaged so that nutrients can be carried across  the damaged cells, to assist their recovery. Taking a dose of castor oil once a week or so can help your eyesight.

Nutrition : Diet is all-important in treating and preventing macular degeneration and other disease. As we shall see, green vegetables and carrots top the list of vegetables for nourishing the eyes.

Lutein is thought to be the most valuable nutrient to prevent macular degeneration. It is found in leafy green vegetables such as kale, spinach, silver beet and comfrey.

Broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, green peas, celery and broad beans are also high in lutein. Ideally, we need to include a good helping of one or two of these greens with at least one meal a day for enough cell-repairing lutein to reach the eyes and work its healing.

Comfrey is especially high in lutein, silica and other cell-enhancing elements which are valuable in restoring eye- sight. If you can get some, take a cup of comfrey tea daily. The weak, cooled tea can be used as an eye wash and the mushed, cooked and cooled leaves used as a poultice on the eyes for five minutes several times a week. If you cannot get comfrey, try using borage leaves instead, and prepare and use as a tea in the same way as for comfrey, only do not use borage as an eye poultice. Cucumber slices placed over the eyes for five minutes have a healing effect on the eye tissues.

The other essential ingredient for eye health is carotene. The greens mentioned above all contain carotene as well as other essential minerals and vitamins. However, you just can’t beat carrots for improving the eye-sight, and this is why carrots were fed to the fighter pilots during the second world war. Eating carrots daily improved the night vision of the pilots. Follow suit and eat carrots every day to experience the optimum in vision which your eyes offer you.

Fish oils and proteins are essential for the maintenance of good eye-sight. You really need those Omega 3 fatty acids to keep your eyes and brain healthy.  The eyes respond well to a protein-rich diet, especially when high fibre and lutein-rich greens accompany the meal.

Nuts and fish are some of the best nutritive protetins for the eyes and brain. Small fish such as sardines in oil, and mackerel, are very good because you get additional calcium from eating the bones. Iodine is important for eye health: eating fish and fish oils will give you an iodine boost as well. Olive oil, grapeseed oil  and avocado- oil or fruit, all contain fats which benefit the eyes.

Two raw egg yolks taken daily with your meal, or in a smoothie, will help the eye tissues to restore themselves.  Egg yolk contains lecithin, which is needed to process fats and oils.  Do not use the egg white raw. This dietary supplement is very good for people who do not eat meat, or who are on limited diets to treat serious conditions. Walter Last recommended raw egg yolk for people as part of a diet to treat cancer and other degenerative disease. Raw foods formed the basis of this diet, with the addition of calf liver juice. If you were keen to follow a strict regime such as this, you would need to have the support and advice of a trained naturopath or health professional. I would recommend the castor oil regime, taken every second day, with raw food, raw egg yolk, and almonds forming the basis of the diet. If it is done carefully and faithfully, this diet, I believe, will cure even macular degeneration. Read Dr.Max Gerson’s book to get some nitty gritty on the success of this type of treatment.

Eating garlic with meals helps to clear the sinuses which thus has a beneficial effect on the eyesight. Any of the allium family, that is, garlic, leeks, onions, spring onions, or chives, help to keep bacteria at bay and stimulate not only the digestion but also the brain and the eye nerves.

Vitamin B 12 has been found to be of major importance in treating eye disease. It can halt the worsening of an eye trouble. Glaucoma patients, especially, have benefited from a standard dosage of a B 12 supplement. The B vitamins are essential because they help you  lower stress experience.

Take Vitamin C in a non-acidic form daily: Two divided doses of 500 mg to 1000 mg each. Vitamin C has the added benefit, apart from its healing properties, of acting as a mild tranquilizer and stress reliever. Stress hinders recovery, so allow yourself time for everything, including meditation, or yoga, so that you do not become stressed.

Too much coffee, or alcohol, and medicinal drugs, can cause macular degeneration or a general weakening of the eye-sight. Caffeine should be avoided or reduced to a minimum to protect your vision from becoming impaired. If you already have sight deterioration, then you are best to completely eliminate caffeine and alcohol, and medicinal drugs if your doctor allows it, from your diet.

Coffee and alcohol have the effect of dehydrating the body, which affects the eyes and the brain. Make sure you drink adequate amounts of good water each day, instead of going for the stimulants. Your eye-sight will reward you.

You can become a tea tippler rather than a coffee drinker: Polyphenols which are found in tea work as anti-oxidants and have been proven to have anti-cancer properties. Regular tea which contains tannin, is more healthy than de-caffeinated tea, as the polphenol content is higher in the untreated product. Cold, used tea bags of either green tea, or ceylon tea, also have a healing effect on the eyes when used as a pack for five minutes. You can do this several times a week, or even daily, to help regenerate eye tissue and revitalize the nerve functions.

Green Tea helps eyesight:  Green tea is a general tonic for the nervous system.  Building and maintaining a healthy nervous system benefits your eyesight.  You can take anything from two to ten cups a day.  Personally, I think that two cups a day is enough, but research done in New Zealand has shown that ten cups of green tea a day provides enough epigallocatechin-3-gallate, or EGCG to be effective in the regulating of the glucose mechanism, and so we can assume that ten cups a day of green tea is O.K.

Rose hip tea, if you can get it in tea bags, is another very good thing to use (cooled) over the eyes once you have enjoyed your cup of herb tea. Rose hips contain high amounts of vitamin C. Even when dried and infused, the dregs still contain traces of vitamin C and other agents which aid healing.

Castor Oil and Ghee Oil:  These oils have a healing effect on the eyes.  They can be applied as a pack and left over the eyes for a period;  or one drop of either oil can be put into the eyes at night-time.  Both these oils are used in ayurvedic medicine and have been used to prevent cataracts and stop them from worsening.  Castor oil and ghee oil have a lubricating and soothing effect on the eye tissues.

Baking Soda and Maple Syrup Cure for Cancer

What is the baking soda and maple syrup cure for cancer? It would seem to be an alternative method for treating cancer and other disease which is gaining in popularity.

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This is not a recipe which I have tried myself, although I must say that it sounds very appealing because of the maple syrup component of the ‘treatment’: It brings to mind the old-fashioned sweet we used to call ‘hokey-pokey’. This was a delicious caramel-toffee-like sweet made of treacle, or golden syrup, butter, sugar and baking soda. The baking soda, which was added to the other ingredients once they were heated, made the syrup bubble up into a foam, which hardened into an aerated toffee once it had cooled.

Could this delicious sweet be at all related to the baking soda and maple syrup cure for cancer? Perhaps hokey-pokey might serve just as well? On second thoughts, I doubt it.

Nevertheless, baking soda is an extremely alkaline product which can effectively turn the pH of the body from acidic to alkaline. This is an important aspect of healing anyone of a life-threatening disease.

Some writers on the subject claim that half a teaspoon of baking soda should be taken at hourly intervals throughout the day in order to attack advanced cancers.

Whilst baking soda can be used to keep the body alkaline and to prevent an acidic body, it must be remembered that baking soda has a deleterious effect on many vitamins, minerals, and their assimilation into the blood stream. A steady supply of baking soda throughout your digestive system could damage your stomach linings just as readily as an acidic product such as vinegar. It will also upset your intestinal flora in your bowel which will interfere with the normal absorption of vitamins and minerals. So whilst you might be keeping your body alkaline through taking medicinal doses of baking soda or a baking soda and maple syrup mixture, the negative effects might outweigh any positive benefits you may get from taking baking soda, whether or not it is mixed with maple syrup.

If I had cancer, or was helping someone else who had a terminal cancer, I doubt very much whether I would opt for the baking soda/maple syrup treatment. I would prefer to follow the Gerson diet, or a Gerson-type approach, and that which is used by many other famous healers, whereby castor oil is used to reduce the cancer growth. The castor oil treatment is taken every second day. Two tablespoons of castor oil is taken in the morning. This is followed up with a cup of black coffee and then an enema within five hours of taking the castor oil. With this therapy, a cleansing diet of chlorophyll-rich greens and their juices would be used in combination with large doses of calcium ascorbate Vitamin C. These are natural anti-oxidants which help to reduce cancer cells. These natural anti-oxidants would not only nourish the body but help you to keep the body alkaline and prevent it from becoming acidic.

I think that baking soda and maple syrup, or hokey-pokey, might best be left out of your therapeutic regime until you have recovered your health.

Megadoses of Vitamin C, the Gerson system which uses castor oil and much raw food, and herbal and homeopathic remedies are the methods I would prefer to use to treat cancer.

See Merrilyn’s other posts on Homeopathy and Herbal Alternatives to Vaccination.  There are several posts here which discuss some alternative cancer treatments.

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