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Treating Arthritis with Bee Venom

via Current Arthritis News and Research by awesome on 9/18/09

Bees have obviously been around for a long time. My knowledge of bees was that they produced honey, which I like, and give stings, which I don’t. But it turns out that even the stings have beneficial properties.

There is a growing number of people that practice apitherapy, the use of beehive products, which includes honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom. Apitherapy has been around for a long time. In fact, Hippocrates, the Greek physician and philosopher, used bee venom to treat joint pain and swelling. But it is not just the holistic practitioners that use bee venom for treatment of pain and inflammation but those who practice conventional medicine have also been exploring the use of bee venom for treating a wide variety of conditions including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis, chronic back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis.

Honeybee venom contains 40 ingredients, at least 18 of which reduce pain and inflammation. These include mellitin, an anti-inflammatory agent which is one hundred times stronger than cortisone, adolapin, which is both anti-inflammatory and pain-blocking, dopamine and seratonin. It is believed that the combination of substances in bee venom causes the release of natural healing compounds in the body.

A study conducted by researchers in South Korea published in late 2004 delved into the contribution of mellitin. They found that mellitin inhibited the release of inflammatory genes that are involved in immune reactions. They concluded that “The potency of melittin in the inhibition of the inflammatory response may be of great benefit in degenerative and inflammatory diseases such as RA”.

Traditionally, bee venom was administered with live bees. For many people, the treatment, or the thought of getting stung, was a hindrance to trying this therapy. Manyapitherapy patients, however, find that the relief from their chronic pain far outweighs the discomfort from stings. Some of these patients endure up to 80 bee stings a day, although for most three to four stings, three times a week is effective. There are also injectable forms of venom, as well as creams and ointments.

Here are a couple of good resources: Bees Don’t Get Arthritis and The Curative Properties of Honey Bee Venom.

Originally posted 2007-10-30 12:43:03. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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Eating healthy on the cheap

via Integrative Nutrition Blog by Joshua Rosenthal on 9/9/09

We’re all cutting corners these days and finding ways to make our dollar go further. That might mean eliminating lavish items and activities, and even paring down the basic necessities. While some of us are tightening our wallets when it comes to spending, many are expanding their waistlines by turning to inexpensive, low-quality food. According to Slate, fast food giant McDonald’s is making a killing off the nation’s recession, with sales in 2008 surpassing the previous 2 years. They opened nearly 600 additional stores in 2008.

Many people have the perception that eating healthy is expensive and in fact, a luxury. We maintain that buying wholesome food is possible, even if your family is sticking to a tight budget. The truth is, buying processed foods and eating poorly can lead to a variety of diseases, including diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. Choosing fresh, healthy foods can improve your diet, quality of life and also prevent food-related illnesses, saving you costly bills at the doctor’s office.  

With just a little preparation and grocery list in-hand, you can make healthy shopping an affordable and achievable goal.  Check out graduate Michelle Pfennighaus’ blog, where she shares some of her penny-pinching tips for eating healthy food on a budget.

1. Cut back on animal products
2. Eat more beans and whole grains
3. Learn to adore the bulk aisle, buy only what you need
4. Drink water, cut back on bottled beverages
5. Eliminate prepared/processed food
6. Use what you have already, even if it means changing a recipe a little.
7. Plan, plan, plan. Don’t put it in your cart without knowing what you’re going to do with it.

Finally, be creative with your shopping and meal planning and have fun!

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Can speaking positive affirmations, out loud or to one’s self, on a regular basis really change your life, at least in part, for the better?

There are quite a few demonstrations to support the efficacy of positive affirmations to bring about more desirable circumstances, from “creating” a parking spot or a new job, to attracting a soul mate, or to cultivating inner peace. We might want to take a personal “reality check,” however, to make sure that we genuinely have no doubt that thought, our thought, has creative power before we try to transform the conditions in our life through a constant “mental focus” on the changes we desire, so that we’re not merely fooling ourselves.

If we are convinced that “certain occurrences” in our individual life have no mental cause or thought equivalent, but instead are entirely and irrefutably physical in origin, then how can we presume to positively affect the circumstances in our individual life through positive affirmations? What difference would it make for us to make an effort to “change our thinking” about our self, or a particular issue, if we didn’t have a conviction that by doing so we could “change our life”? It is a prerequisite that we have at least a “mustard seed” of faith in the power of our mental focus and affirmations move a mountain in our personal life, in order for them to work.

Everyday, each of us unhesitatingly exhibits a certain amount of faith. Have you ever been “surprised” at a sunrise? Did the possibility that the sun might not come up in the morning ever cross your mind? Most of us don’t think about our unshakable faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. So, there you are, we all have a grain of faith, a “starter kit” of unshakable trust. We can begin with that and build a mountain of faith to put behind our affirmations.

Doing affirmations while filled with doubt, seesawing between faith and fear, is similar to putting water into a balloon rather than air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never get off the ground. Faith gives our affirmations soaring power because true faith is mental insistence uplifted to a place of realization. Realization is the “secret” to creative mental power. When our affirmations feel true, when what we say is what we truly believe, then affirmations can really change our life.

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Your practitioner must be skilled in the acupuncture chiropractor service to be able to offer this for you. Both forms of services are natural medicine alternatives. They combine a holistic approach. Acupuncture not only fixes the problem that is on top, it also fixes the problems that caused the problem. This keeps the problem from returning. This is not only done through the hands and the fingers. It is also done through the use of herbs, diet and exercise.

If you have tried modern medical techniques and nothing seems to work, the next best alternative could be an acupuncture chiropractor service. This type of service has become more popular. Even insurances are covering it. This has been proven in medical science to have good effects. Many people requiring pain killers no longer needed them after having a session with an acupuncture chiropractor service.

Yes, you could run from one doctor to another, but why not make it easier on yourself by going to an acupuncture chiropractor service. If you can kill two birds with one stone to get optimized benefit at a cheaper price that is a route you should take. These skilled professionals know how to give you the most out of your acupuncture chiropractor service. Both of these areas deal with spinal injuries, so the back is the strongest area of help with these services.

Make sure that the acupuncture chiropractor service has a good reputation. Make sure they are accredited with the proper credentials to be able to do these services. You should not trust your body’s well-being to just any person practician. You want them to be a moralistic person. You want to make sure that they meet all the standards and guidelines in order that you find success with your problem instead of further injury. Most places out there are good, but not every one of them are. That is a part of life. We must search for the right acupuncture chiropractor service.

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