Grand Rounds is Up

at How to Cope with Pain. This is a very important blog for pain sufferers - full of useful info. Check out this weeks Grand Rounds - a collection of the week's best health care blog posts.

Natural aphrodisiac

Saffron (Crocus Sativus) is a small perennial plant cultivated in many parts of the world. It is a medicinal herb with several benefits. Traditionally, its flower stigmas are a well known aphrodisiac. Saffron is also believed to strengthen the appetite, soothe the alimentary canal, increase bile flow, clear liver stagnancy, help menopausal difficulties and relieve phlegm.

Saffron contains a poison that can damage the kidneys and nerves, and therefore should only be used sparingly.

A Good Laugh: Peter Sellers & the Beatles

Do you just need a good laugh? Sometimes, we need to escape from the strains of illness and the work of relationship. Call your partner into the room and invite him or her to watch this clip with you. It's Peter Sellers, the brilliant actor/comedian (you may remember him from the Pink Panther movies or Being There), in the character of Shakespeare's Richard III, reciting the lyrics from the Beatles' It's Been a Hard Day's Night.

Enjoy, and feel all right. (And if this doesn't make you laugh, let me know and I'll post another crack-up clip of a chicken dancing).

5-HTP IS MAKING ME BETTER

Ok so I have been taking the amino acid 5-HTP now for two weeks and at first I thought my anxiety had not improved. However now after two weeks I have to say that in a stressful situation I am much calmer, and I don't feel as if I am going to panic. The feeling that I like the most is that I am not worrying about anything nearly as much.

I have enough tablets for about another two weeks, so I think I will be getting some more. 5-HTP is available from health food stores although it is much cheaper online.

Has anyone else had experience of 5-HTP.
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THE SOLAR PLEXUS EXERCISE

The Solar plexus is located beneath the heart and behind the stomach in the centre of the body just below the rib cage. This exercise if done daily is said to prevent any disease associated with this area of the body, including diarrhea, constipation, diverticulitis, cancer, and other disorders.

Sit or stand and place both hands on the stomach, just below the rib cage. Inhale and feel the air expand your stomach. Then exhale and as you do so use your hands to push in and up your stomach. As you execute these motions turn your head towards the left side as far as you can, without hurting yourself.
Inhale once again feeling the air expanding your stomach. Exhale pushing your hands in and up into your stomach, and this time turning your head towards the right side.

This procedure should be carried out for about ten minutes per day.

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Why Men Leave Ill Partners

Excerpts from an article in the 10/15/09 Times Online

Until her sickness do us part: why men leave ill partners

Men are seven times more likely than women to leave a seriously ill partner, a study has found. So why are males less able to cope?

According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 144,220 divorces in the UK in 2006-07 (the latest figures available) and, of those, about 18 per cent (25,959) were due to “family strain”, a term that includes serious illness. In the US, a survey by the National Centre for Health Statistics found that 75 per cent of first marriages end in divorce if one of the partners develops a terminal or chronic illness.

Although it is not stated in these divorces which partner was ill, a study published last month in the journal Cancer found that a man is seven times more likely to leave than his wife if the other becomes seriously ill.

What causes this apparent chasm in emotional coping mechanisms between the sexes is intriguing experts, and the theories are plentiful.

Indeed, a study in the Journal of Oncology last year reported that spouses were lonelier than their ill partners and had lower levels of wellbeing and marital satisfaction. There is an immediate shift in a relationship when an illness is diagnosed. You stop being partners as you knew it and move to being patient and carer. That can lead to feelings of fear, not just about the disease, but about the relationship and the well partner’s ability to cope. Feelings of anger and resentment about life and the situation can quickly arise.

A few researchers have suggested that men are more likely to walk out on a wife whose condition is newly diagnosed because the illness is more than they bargained for when they married.

There are suggestions, too, that traditional roles shift more significantly when a woman becomes ill. Men may still be working full time, but may have to cope with additional tasks such as ferrying their wife to appointments, arranging childcare, cleaning and doing household duties.

What a women wants most of all when she is ill is not so much for her husband to take charge, but for him to listen to her feelings and to express his own more often. Men have an urge to ‘fix’ things. They want to get in there and make it better when what they really need to do is shut up and listen. Even if you have heard it one hundred times before, your wife needs you to respond by saying that whatever happens, you are there for her.

For some people, illness proves a positive factor in bringing a couple closer together. One recent study at the University of Quebec found that 42 per cent of couples thought that the experience of breast cancer had strengthened their partnership. Accepting the changes that take place is a process that takes time and effort. But many people do find their love grows stronger as a result.

BUY HIGH DOSEAGE VITAMIN C AND PROTECT YOURSELF

This is not just vitamin C this is 1,667% of the recommended daily dose(1000mg). Its not just an orange, its a treatment and a safeguard.

For example this dose is an antioxidant, it delays ageing and prevents age-related disease from arthritis to parkinson's disease. It will alleviate allergies such as asthma, and will eliminate toxins from the body.


The chief function of vitamin C, in doses of this size is the production of collagen, as such it hastens the healing of wounds. It also strengthens capillaries and blood vessels, preventing heart attacks and strokes. It is also a powerful booster of the immune system and has the ability to increase resistance to infection and disease.

Scientific studies have confirmed that megadoses of vitamin c can reduce the risk of a wide range of cancers, and also inhibit tumous and much more including lowering cholesterol levels.

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