Holistic Living

Tiny Tarot for Convenient Portability: Pagan Cats

noreply@blogger.com (holisticliving) — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 16:51:00 +0000

Tarot cards are usually quite big - 4.75 inches x 2.75 inches or 12 cm x 7 cm. This is too big to be put in one's pocket. For males who would not want to carry clutch bags or attache cases, having a set of Tarot cards that can be put in one's pocket would be ideal.

Luckily, there are Mini or Pocket versions that are usually 3 to 3.5 inches by 1.75 to 2.25 inches or 7.6 to 8.9 cm by 4.4 to 5.6 cm. The Tarot of the Pagan Cats has a very cute version that is no more than 3 inch or 8 cm in length and 1,75 inch or 4.6 cm in width.

Cat lovers would find these cards to their taste as it features lovely cats instead of humans. The images are pleasant to look at and not too brightly colored.

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Astrology and Health

noreply@blogger.com (holisticliving) — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 03:00:00 +0000

by © Jamal Ashley Abbas

“A physician without knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician”

– Hippocrates (born ca. 400 BC)

Astrology was studied and respected in the ancient Egyptian civilization, in the Greek and Roman civilizations, in the old Islamic civilization, and in the Renaissance. In 1125, the chair of Astrology was founded at the University of Bologna. The prestigious Cambridge University taught astrology since 1250.

Until the 18^th century, astrology was part of university students’, including medical students’, training. While claiming great astrologers of the past like Copernicus (proponent of sun-centered solar system), Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler (discovered the laws of planetary motions) for their side, Establishment astronomers renounced astrology after the twin discoveries of Uranus in 1781 and Neptune in 1846.

Astronomy separated from Astrology and the latter lost its academic status. While astrology embraced all aspects of life, astronomy was concerned only with celestial mechanics. As a result, university students and faculty, including the medical faculty in Europe, America and the colonies, were deprived of a great deal of astrological knowledge accumulated through the millennia.

Before the 20^th century, the non-astrologer physicians’ primary medicine for curing people was leeches – to bleed the patients in order to remove impurities in their blood. In movies, old books and magazines, one can still see the advertisements of various “elixirs” peddled by physicians and pharmacologists.

Today, astrology is back in business, proven by academic research such as the comprehensive study done by Michel and Françoise Gauquelin, French statisticians and psychologists who gathered hundreds of thousands of birth charts for their data.

Medical Astrology

Astrologers still incorporate health aspects in their work. When a person gets sick, the astrologer draws up the astrological chart at the time of the first symptom. Each Zodiac sign rules some parts of the body. For example, Aries rules the head area, Taurus the neck area and Libra the kidneys. The mentioned astrological chart is then judged in relation to the person’s natal or birth chart, i.e., the astrological positions at the time of birth.

Persons born under a Sign usually suffers from the part of the body ruled by that sign. Thus, Arians suffer from headaches, Taureans from colds, chills and tonsillitis, and Leos suffer from heart, spine and back ailments.

The diagnosis is also based on the polarity of the signs. For example, Aries’s polarity (opposite) is Libra. If an Arian complains of headaches (the head being ruled by Aries), the probability that the headaches are caused by the kidneys (ruled by Libra) should be investigated.

Each Sign is “ruled” by a Planet (the Sun and the Moon are considered “planets”). Together, the Sign and its ruling Planet is said “to rule” or greatly influence certain parts of the body. For example, Leo and its ruler, the Sun, control the heart, back and spine including the thymus gland and the body’s immunization system. Cancer and the Moon control the breasts and the alimentary (food) system – esophagus, stomach, gall bladder, etc. Sagittarius and Jupiter control the hips, thighs and the body’s largest gland, the liver and the pituitary gland, the body’s “master gland”.

By reading the positions and relationships of the Signs and the Planets in the charts, the astrologer deduces the diseases that the subject is prone to and the probable causes of the present sickness. The astrologer then prescribes the remedy which may include herbal medicine, sometimes including the time the herbs should be gathered, or the mineral and cell salts needed by the patient. The astrologer’s prescription may include actions on the part of the patient, such as taking a vacation or expressing his/her ideas openly without fear or inhibition.

By reading the natal and other astrological charts, the astrologer gets to know the whole personality, including mental and emotional attitudes, and even the whole history of the patient. The astrologer can thus prescribe the remedy that would cure not just the present symptom but the whole being.

For example, gallbladder stones may be caused by the patient’s anger over someone or something which s/he could not express. Or for a patient with heart trouble, the charts may indicate the real cause of the problem – inability to love or being unloved.

Medical astrology is not a separate branch of astrology. Astrology is holistic – it studies the whole of (wo)man – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

Hippocratic Law

Linda Goodman, in her book Star Signs (St. Martin’s Press: New York), is particularly concerned about the timing of surgery. She quotes Hippocrates who stated, “Touch not with iron that part of the body ruled by the sign the Moon is transiting.” “Touching with iron” means operating with a knife. Goodman further explained that according to Hippocrates, disobeying this law will result in 1] complications, including infection, 2] slow and painful healing and recuperation or even 3] death.

Goodman says that when a physician declares that “the operation was successful but the patient is dead,” it usually indicates that this Hippocratic law was not obeyed.

It is rather strange that medical doctors of today swear by the Hippocratic Oath, yet they do not practice or follow most of what Hippocrates advised.

Goodman gave some startling examples. Jeff Chandler, star of many detective films, went for a simple operation for a slipped disc. He died while being operated on. Cause of death? “Unnatural causes.” On that day, the Moon was in Leo, ruler of the heart, spine and the back.

Another example was Bertha Todd, first wife of Michael Todd, who later became the husband of Elizabeth Taylor. Bertha had cut her finger on a broken glass. She decided to go to the hospital the following day to have her finger stitched. Afraid that it might be painful, she asked to be anaesthetized. After the third dose of anesthesia, she died. On that day, the Moon was transiting Gemini, ruler of shoulders, arms, hands and fingers.

Goodman mentioned other examples. She was emphatic in urging readers not to have any sort of operation or even injections when the Moon is transiting the Sign which rules the body part concerned. The Moon changes sign every two and a half days so the postponement of the operation will not be more than that period.

The Moon’s influence on the tides is well known. Since the human body is seventy percent water, it is but logical that the Moon would have great influence on it, too. The menstrual cycles of women are also known to be influenced by the Moon. Hence, the rationale behind the above-mentioned Hippocratic Law is that first, the Moon has great influence on the human body. Second, any surgery naturally interferes with the tidal flows of the body fluids. And third, the parts of the body ruled by the Sign the Moon is transiting at the time become especially sensitive and vulnerable. So next time you need to have a medical or dental operation, check where the Moon is transiting.

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ZODIAC SIGN RULERSHIP

OF THE PARTS OF THE BODY

ARIES head, face (except nose), cerebral hemispheres of the brain, sub-renal glands which pump adrenalin to the system

TAURUS neck, throat, larynx, tonsils, carotid arteries and jugular vein, thyroid gland

GEMINI shoulder, arms, fingers, lungs, upper ribs

CANCER stomach, diaphragm, breasts, alimentary canal, lymph system, mammary glands

VIRGO large and small intestines and the pancreas

LIBRA kidneys

SCORPIO nose, genitals, descending colon, rectum, the blood, urethra. rules bodily outlets and procreative processes

SAGITTARIUS hips, thighs, liver, veins, femur bone, sacral region, and the sciatic nerve

CAPRICORN teeth, bones, kneecaps, skin, hair, nails and cell walls

AQUARIUS lower legs and ankles, varicose veins and circulatory system

PISCES feet and toes, the entire body system relating to “leaks” and the draining of fluids

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Published in the Mr. & Ms. Magazine: Supermonthly of the Body, Mind and Spirit January 2006

Healing for Pets and Owners

noreply@blogger.com (holisticliving) — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 04:08:00 +0000

The Age of Aquarius Center is launching the "Aquarian Animal Companion Healing Consultations" with Reiki Master and animal rights and welfare advocate Khrysta Imperial Rara and Melanie Velayo Talag, Director of the Age of Aquarius Center.

"New Earth Rising Global People Party" Launched

noreply@blogger.com (holisticliving) — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:23:00 +0000

"We are all messiahs who have simply forgotten

our true natures" -Richard Bach from "The Messiah Handbook"

"New Earth Rising Global People Party" Launched July 27 and

August 11,2013 in Greenhills

"Way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures

of light and we cannot be destroyed by anything made out of atoms

or destroyed at all -that light is indestructible-"

British psychic Christopher Ayres leads participants during a Circle

Meditation of Knowledge and Power and shares info psychically intuited

regarding the futures of said participants Saturday, July 27 from 1:30-7 p.m.

at Le Gran Condominium, 45 Eisenhower, Greenhills, San Juan City.

The New Earth Rising Global People Party will also be launched led by

Melanie V.Talag, director, Age of Aquarius Center for Holistic Healing,

Reiki healer and animal lover Khrysta Rara and Transpersonal Educator /

Astrologer Jamal Abbas.

Advocacies will be launched in the fields of 1) Emotional Healing and

Alternative Medicine Technologies and Therapies, 2) Enlightened Guidance

of Indigo and Crystal (Psychic) Children, 3) Enlightened Transpersonal

Education, 4)Enlightened Politics and 5)Enlightened Diet and Healthy

Lifestyle.

August 11: information will be shared on flower essences, quartz

crystals, alternative medicine technologies, opening 8th to 12th chakras

and understanding and dealing with aliens in our midst,etc.

For more information, please call Melanie Talag at Tel 726-2338. Motto of

landmark-setting global people party is "Healing Myself and the Planet

now." or "HEAL-SAVE-NOW"

CROP CIRCLES: What and Why?

noreply@blogger.com (holisticliving) — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:40:00 +0000

The AGE OF AQUARIUS CENTER is presenting a seminar on Crop Circles: What Are They? What Are They Trying To Tell Us? on April 15, 2012 at The House of 12 Senses, 78 Matatag Street (near SSS Bldg., East Ave.), Quezon City

Astrologer and spiritual seeker Jamal Ashley joins up with British psychic and Reiki Master CHRISTOPHER AYRES to unfold a whole afternoon devoted to Crop Circles and Mystic Places.

Crop circles - agriglyphs - graphic designs on land grown with either wheat, barley, corn, grass, rice, etc. are evidence that creative intelligence source most probably from another dimension is deliberately marking the earth to gain our attention. Why? And why now?

Mary Carrol Nelson in her article Crop Circles: Marking the Fields of Change for Lifestream magazine says:

"Crop circles may be a signal alerting us to make a course correction and to preserve our own civilization so that it can continue its evolution along an elevated path, more spiritual and less material, more in harmony and less adversarial, more of a circle than a box, so that humanity can at last fulfill its evolutionary destiny instead of destroying itself."

STONEHENGE MEDITATION

After the merienda, psychic and channel Christopher Ayres will lead the participants on an imaginary journey to Stonehenge, one of the world's most mystical and mysterious sites, where you may meet you guide and discover your destiny.

COST OF SEMINAR: P 800/participant (including merienda and info materials).
FOR RESERVATIONS: Call Melanie Talag at 7262338 or Marion Salazar at 5774289

Sound Frequencies and Crystal Meditations seminar

noreply@blogger.com (holisticliving) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:33:00 +0000

Saving Oneself and the Planet: Self-Transformation Technologies using Sound Frequencies and Crystal Meditations for 2012, the End of the Mayan Calendar

1:30 – 6:00 PM Sunday Feb. 12, 2012

98 Matatag St., Diliman, Q.C.

(back of SSS Building, East Ave, Q.C.)

Call: Melanie Talag , Director, Age of Aquarius Center

Tel. 726 2338

Marion Rivas, Director, Home of the Twelve Senses

Tel. 577 4289

The Flower of Life Meditation

Ok, so every psychic, savant, light worker are agreed that something apolcalyptic is about to happen. The only question is in what guise is it going to appear -- waterfalls of oblivion, a psychic tsunami, terror from the skies or from the bowels of the Earth?

YOU CAN DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF AND THE PLANET. You can RAISE your FREQUENCY LEVEL and inititiate transformative little changes in your own life and the world at large.

There are various Self-Technologies using SOUND, TONES, LIGHT and CRYSTALS to increase your MIND POWERS through effective MEDITATION that can result in: 1) Direct Intuitive Connection to your Higher Self, 2) Protection during any type of Earth Changes and 3) Ability to Heal the Heart.

Esoteric researcher and astrologer Jamal Ashley will explain the Spiritual Meaning of the Mayan Calendar -- the Evolution of Consciousness and will guide the participants on an overview of technologies that could help one in Raising One's Consciousness through the use of Sound, Light and Meditation techniques.

Sylvia Mariano, owner of MINEX, the suppliers of genuine quartz crystals in the Philippines will talk on USING QUARTZ CRYSTALS FOR GUIDANCE IN 2012.

Cost of Seminar: P 800 / person
Includes info materials on Knowledge, Protection and Healing Yourself

seminar: 2012 - What's it all about

noreply@blogger.com (holisticliving) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:08:00 +0000

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WHAT: Seminar on 2012 -- Astrological and Astronomical aspects

the Mayan calendar system

Personal and World Renewal

WHERE: House of 12 Senses

98 Matatag St., Q.C. (near SSS, East Avenue)

WHEN: Sept 11, 2011
1:30-6:00 pm

CONTACT PERSON: MS. MELANIE TALAG

Age of Aquarius Center

tel. no. 726 2338

2012 - The End??!!?

Flower Essences: Emotional healing for the next millenium

noreply@blogger.com (holisticliving) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:17:00 +0000

by MELANIE TALAG

No need to wait for time to heal the emotional wounds wrought by heartbreak, depression, trauma stomach-lurching stress, rage, melancholy and a hundred other negative emotions a person is bound to experience in the course of his or her lifetime.

According to the new worldview linking negative emotional states with the physical body, all that emotional angst left untreated resurfaces as very real physical ailments like ulcers, high blood pressure, arthritis, migraine, headaches, respiratory problems, allergies, psychosomatic illnesses and even cancer.

Negative emotions can be attended to and actually banished merely by swallowing a few drops of the contents of small amber-colored dropper bottles. The pills for emotional malaise as we near the next millenium are called "flower essences".

They have been around since the 1930s, ever since Dr. Edward Bach, a famous British medical doctor, homeopath and psychic, captured the life force energy of 37 English flowers for the cure of ailments he divided into seven categories: fear, insecurity, lack of interest in the present, loneliness, vulnerability to ideas and influences, despondency and despair, and excessive concern for the welfare of others.

CURES FOR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS

Do you feel a constant cloud of gloom enveloping you? Take Mustard.

Still in a state of shock after discovering your mate has been two-timing you or because you've been raped, berated, castigated? Let Star of Bethlehem soothe and heal your lacerated emotions.

Lacking self-confidence to get a job, ask for a promotion or speak-up to your parents? Take Larch.

Overwhelmed by responsibilities? It's Elm for you.

Physically and mentally exhausted? Olive will perk you up.

Suffering from guilt? Take pine.

Unable to forgive? Take willow.

Are you domineering and tyrannical? Soften your personality, if at all possible, with Vine.

In terror of your life for some reasons or other? It's Rock Rose to the rescue for that particular condition.

NATURAL HEALTH

Flower essences landed on the cover of the May/June 1995 issue of Natural Health, one of the top health magazines in the United States. Although a lot of people believed the reports of flower essences curing emotional problems were on par with eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings, testimonies obtained from 11 of 20 licensed M.D.s revealed that thedy had, in fact, been prescribing the essences for 10-20 years, with 50-70 percent favorable results.

Americans from the Northeast suffering from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) were successfully treated with a combination of Iris (brings warmth to the soul), Yarrow (for depletion by the environment) and Sweet Chestnut (for the "dark night of the soul").

A dentist opted for Bach's Rescue Remedy ( a formula combining Impatiens, Cherry Plum, Rock Rose, Clematic and Star of Bethlehem) for allaying fears and calming down patients instead of heart palpitation-producing anesthetics in his practice.

In general, the medics approve the use of flower essences for people whose wmotions or thought processes are out of control.

More than 500 North American flower essences have been discovered and are in use today worldwide; among them are: Bleeding heart for emotional self-sufficiency and the fostering of unconditional love; Borage for depression; Black Cohosh for those caught in violent and addictive relationships; Echinacea for battered wives and those shattered by severe trauma and abuse; Cherry Plum for those who are suicidal or who fear mental or emotional breakdown; Calla Lily for sexual identity problems; Hibiscus for frigidity and repression of femininf sexuality; Yerba Santa for internalized melancholy and wistful sadness that leads to respiratory problems like asthma; Golden Ear Drops for childhood traumas; Sticky Monkeyflower for balancing over- and under-active sexuality; Blackberry, Cayenne and Tansy for those who procrastinate and who need to be catalyzed into action; Black-Eyed Susan for transforming dark, negative emotions; Calendula for warmth in verbal communication; Morning Glory for drug, alcohol and tobacco addiction; Black Tourmaline for protection against psychic attacks and negativity; Indian Painbrush for creative inspiration; and, Chamomile, Dandelion and Garlic for the release of tension in stomach, muscles and solar plexus respectively.

HEALING JOURNEY

There are dozens more to choose from, covering the whole range of emotional expression.
Flower Essence Therapy is the key to a healing journey in which Mother Nature, in the guise of beautiful flowers from the fieldss comes to lead us back to a state of emotional wholeness and health.

The principal effect of Flower Essences has been to bestoe emotional flexibility and resiliences on its user, who need not be stuck in anger, depression and fear; but, experience the full range of emotional reaction on this unique healing journey whose ultimate goal is soul growth.

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For more info and flower essence consultation, contact the Age of Aquarius Center, a New Age holistic healing center. Tel: (63-2) 726-2338, Greenhills, MetroManila, Philippines
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Originally published in The Philippine Star

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: THE WAY TO THE FUTURE?

noreply@blogger.com (holisticliving) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:20:00 +0000

By Crysta Imperial Rara

Alaine Silan is a tall and pretty girl of 18 years. A BS Nursing freshman, she gushes like a teenager as she recounts her experiences which definitely set her apart from other girls her age – Alaine has acute leukemia.

Diagnosed last February 2005, her doctors wanted her to undergo a bone marrow transplant immediately. But the expenses it would entail led her parents, both schoolteachers, and siblings to opt for chemotherapy instead. Her first chemo session left her extremely traumatized and without improvement as she experienced the usual effects of the treatment – baldness, nausea and general weakness – and had to be hospitalized for a month. Her second chemo treatment about a month later almost killed her – she had to fight for her life in the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU). For four days, she had internal bleeding, three seizures and a 50-50 chance of survival. Once her condition was stable, the family decided to take her home despite the doctors’ insistence that she start a third chemo session immediately.

Her extremely adverse reactions to chemotherapy prompted her family to seek alternative treatments for her. Today, Alaine happily explains that she does not experience the usual symptoms of leukemia.

“My body no longer has a hard time, I feel strong and I can eat now. I don’t experience bleeding. It’s as if I have been reborn,” she says.

HIGH VITAMIN DOSAGE THERAPY

Alaine goes twice weekly to an alternative health clinic in Makati that offers non-invasive and natural remedies. Her treatments include a two-hour session of ascorbate (vitamin) therapy which consists of the intravenous administration of Vitamin C with other vitamins given in dosages deemed necessary to restore the body’s normal biological processes. She also undergoes ozone therapy which helps the body destroy cancer cells, virus, fungus, bacteria and pollutants through oxidation.

“It’s a bit expensive but we see the good results. Her loss of hair from the chemo treatments really affected her psychologically. She used to be cranky and aloof. Now, she has regained her self-confidence,” quips elder sister Donna Yalong, 29. “The family is quite happy that she is not suffering now.”

Dr. Marissa Torre, who runs the clinic, explains that Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) enhances our immune system, speeds the healing of wounds, helps insulin in the control of blood sugars and limits the occurrence of stroke as it prevents blood platelets from clumping readily in the body. It also helps convert cholesterol into bile for food digestion, disperses cholesterol in the bloodstream and prevents the formation of plaques in the arteries and veins. More importantly, Vitamin C detoxifies the body against drugs and poisons from the foods we eat.

Doctors believe that Alaine developed leukemia because of the high toxic levels of arsenic and mercury in her body. This was probably due to the air pollution she was exposed to during her daily travel to and from her home in Dasmarinas, Cavite and her school (Manila Doctors’ Hospital). Alaine has responded quite well to Dr. Torre’s treatments.

HOMEOPATHY

Alaine also takes homeopathic medicines flown in from Germany. Homeopathic remedies are taken mostly from natural sources

The term "homeopathy" was coined by European physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). It is a system of medicine founded on the principles of: 1) “Like cures like” which means that if the symptoms of your disease are similar to poisoning by mercury, then mercury would be your homeopathic remedy, and 2) Minimal dose - the remedy is taken in an extremely dilute form, normally one part of the remedy to around 1,000,000,000,000 parts of water.

These principles are similar to those followed in conventional allergy treatment where patients are given the allergic substance in small doses and in vaccines where an impotent form of the virus is injected to boost the immune system against that virus. Homeopaths say unlike some conventional medicines which suppress the immune system (like cough medicines that suppress coughing which is the body’s way of clearing the lungs), homeopathic remedies work in harmony with the body’s healing mechanisms.

“With conventional drugs, the toxins just go into hiding because the body doesn’t want anything to disturb its normal processes. Homeopathic remedies treat a person on an energy level and according to his body constitution,” states Torre who has helped thousands of patients using alternative therapies. “It is really the body’s immune system that will heal you, not medicines. All the treatments in this clinic enhance the immune system.”

To date, more than 100,000 doctors all over the world prescribe homeopathic remedies to some 500 million people. Homeopathy is quite popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland and India.

PHYSICIAN WITH A DIFFERENT VISION

Dr. Torre, 44, was first exposed to alternative medicine after graduation when she accompanied an aunt with gall bladder problems to a Western-trained doctor practicing homeopathy, naturopathy and iridology. The experience was an eye-opener and she was hooked. She then joined the “Doctors to the Barrio” volunteer program of the Department of Health and was assigned to Dinalungan in Aurora, Quezon for 9 months.

After her stint in Quezon, she flew to Nevada, Texas to attend a three-month course on alternative therapies. She is now listed in the directory of the American College for the Advancement of Medicine (ACAM). Later, she flew to Germany to further her studies in homeopathy and also took a Diplomate course from the British Institute of Homeopathy. Homeopathy must have been a natural extension of her interest in chemistry, her undergraduate degree.

As a child, she liked caring for people and was constantly exposed to natural cures. “My parents groomed me to be a doctor or a nurse. My mom was always into natural medicine. She discouraged us from eating fatty foods,” she recalls. “Now, my parents are happy that I’m practicing alternative medicine.”

Dr. Torre says she was the only one in her batch to take the road less traveled. “But my classmates have been impressed with my practice because they hear about me from patients who have gone to my clinic,” she avers. She began her alternative practice in 1996 and since then has not wavered in her resolve to use it on her patients. Even her family benefits from homeopathy. She says she has never given antibiotics or any kind of pharmaceutical drug to her husband Remigio Torre, Jr., a medical technician she met in Dinalungan and married after a 4-year courtship, and her children Bianca Alyssa, 7, Joshua Kyle, 5, and Regina Cassandra, 4.

THE OTHER THERAPIES

Many patients also go to the clinic for ion cleansing, a process where waste is extracted from the body through a unit placed in water with positive and negative electric current. To undergo this detoxification process, a person soaks his or her feet in water for 30 minutes and the negative ions in the water pull out the toxins from the body. The water changes color according to the part of the body from which the toxins come. If the water turns yellow green, for instance, that means that toxins were removed from the kidneys, bladder and urinary tract.

Ozone therapy, which inhibits the growth of new tissues like tumors, entails the intravenous administration of the gas. It is another treatment sought by the clinic’s regular patients. Ozone has the ability to kill viruses, yeast, bacteria and cancer cells.

A 52-year old businessman who makes regular visits to the clinic says the therapy cured his heart palpitations, lessened his white hair and enhanced his energy and stamina. “I used to gasp for breath while running for exercise. Now, that doesn’t happen anymore,” he confides, adding that he likes to come to the clinic because “the natural treatments are effective and reasonably-priced, the staff are so nice and the place doesn’t look like a hospital at all”.

The clinic also offers chelation therapy which uses an amino acid called EDTA (Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid) to remove harmful metals such as lead, aluminum, cadmium and nickel from the body acquired through years of toxin build-up. Experts in alternative medicine say EDTA helps people with diabetes and arthritis by improving blood circulation and removing calcium which hardens the artery walls.

Sylvia (not her real name) has been suffering from a rare combination of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. Doctors suspect she acquired the condition after prolonged exposure to mercury and other chemicals present in the New York air after the Twin Towers bombing in 2002. She was always tired, sleepy and coughing and so could only work part-time. ”There were times when my metabolism was slow, I was constipated and fat. There were times when my metabolism was high and I would be hyper, and thin. My eyes also bulged,” she recounts. “But after I began chelation therapy, my body is healing itself little by little. And I am working full time now.”

Dr. Torre says chelation therapy has become controversial due to allegations that it overworks and eventually destroys the kidneys as metals and toxins exit through the urine. “But there is a safe way to do it. We give supplements to help the body cope,” she explains.

The clinic has neural therapy for patients suffering from chronic pain and illness. The therapy involves the injection of local anesthetics into peripheral nerves, scars, and glands to normalize the illness-related dysfunction of the nervous system. Chronic pain in the lower back, for instance, would be treated with TRAUMEEL, a homeopathic remedy that works to repair damaged nerves.

Dr. Torre practices many kinds of alternative remedies to suit the needs of her patients. Even her means of diagnosis is non-invasive – she uses technology based on traditional Chinese medicine and developed by the Russians for their Space Program.

Although she has practiced alternative medicine for a decade now, she has not completely turned her back on Western medicine. She says allopathic and alternative medicine should be practiced in an integrative – and not a competitive - manner. She even recommends surgery when there is an urgent need for it. “There are cases that allopathic medicine can’t treat and vice versa. I believe that the hospital should be the last resort,” she states.

“As doctors, our first oath is to do no harm. With alternative remedies, we do no harm to our patients. Patients are grateful because their conditions have improved. I believe this is the way to the future.”

Alaine and her family would probably agree. Chemotherapy worsened her physical condition and made her look withered and unrecognizable to the point that she overheard two male nurses describe her as ugly and “looking like a monkey”. Today she is a blossoming and confident young lady ready to face the challenges of the future. (END)

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Published in Mr. & Ms. Magazine, Supermonthly of the the Body / Mind and Spirit

PXP - Food for the Cells, Elixir of Youth

noreply@blogger.com (holisticliving) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:48:00 +0000

By Jamal Ashley Abbas

While the medical industry boasts of great advances in pharmacology and surgical procedures, including state-of-the-art million-dollar machines, millions of people are suffering and dying from chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's Disease, cystic fibrosis, eating disorders, end stage renal disease, osteoporosis and of course, the Big C – Cancer. According to the New York Department of Health website, chronic diseases are responsible for 7 out of 10 deaths in the US and affect the quality of life of 90 million Americans.

In the Philippines, more than half (57 % ) of the deaths in 2002 were related to chronic diseases, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates .

DIABETES

Diabetes is one chronic disease that affects 3.36 million Filipinos, according to the Department of Health. It is the country’s leading cause of adult blindness, kidney failure and non-traumatic limb loss.
Lito Patricio, 52 years old, knows first-hand how diabetes can lead to all kinds of troubles. At 29, he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He took his medications religiously. At 45, he needed laser surgery on both eyes as blood vessels in his retina erupted. Two years later, he needed to have an operation again. But this time, the pressure on his eyes was too great.

“The doctor told me my kidneys were damaged and I needed a transplant immediately,” says Lito. A transplant would cost from P 500,000.00 to P 1 million pesos. Either that or he had to be prepared for a lifetime of dialysis.

Lito remembered that his mother had died after her second dialysis. He was paralyzed with fear. He couldn’t afford a transplant and was afraid of dialysis. He told nobody about it and hoped it would just go away. On June 6, 2002, he was rushed to St. Luke’s hospital for emergency dialysis. He said he was so sick that he didn’t know where he was.

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE

On his second dialysis, Lito had a strange experience. “I saw my wife on one side of the bed and my son on the other,” said Lito. “Then, I saw my body on the bed, very still. I then realized I was moving up – very fast… I then saw a very bright blinding light. I knew it was God,” Lito narrated. He said he then prayed, “Lord forgive me for all my sins. If you want to take me now, I am going with you, but I am not yet finished here on Earth. My sons are still studying. And how about my employees?”

Lito swore that he then heard a very loud voice telling him: “Forget your past! Have a happy life! Do good to others!” And then he woke up.

According to Lito and his wife Josephine, the doctors were surprised that he woke up so soon. He had only 30% oxygen in his body and was supposed to be in coma.

Afterwards, Lito’s life revolved around dialysis three times a week. “I stopped dreaming. All I could do was count the days to the next dialysis,” said Lito.

STRESSED HOUSEWIFE

Mely Revilla is 48 years old, a housewife with three children. She says she is often highly stressed. When she was in her 30s, she was already hypertensive. At 38 years old, she suffered a mild stroke. By November 2004, she felt very weak. “My body was bloated. The doctor said that my kidneys were damaged,” she recalls. By January 2005, she blacked out and was rushed to the Polymedic for chronic kidney failure. She was then transferred to the National Kidney Institute. There, she got infection due to the catheter twice. She was given blood transfusion.

Weak and bed-ridden, she had to undergo dialysis treatment twice a week. She even had to be spoon-fed.

MIRACLE FOOD

Mely was introduced by a friend to a food supplement called Alfa PSP Plus or alpha polysaccharide peptide. Almost immediately, she felt her strength coming back. “After ten days of taking PSP, lab results showed that my kidneys were 70% normal!” she says.

After one month, she cut her dialysis treatment to once a week. After 2 months, she needed dialysis only once a month. After 10 months of using PSP, she stopped dialysis treatments altogether.

“Unfortunately, after 2 years of no dialysis, I had to undergo dialysis again last month because of stress and UTI (urinary tract infection),” Mely reveals. But she is confident that the dialysis is only temporary.Mely was the first dialysis patient to take PSP. Fellow dialysis patients found hope.

Lito Patricio had been undergoing dialysis 3 times a week for four years. His doctor reduced his treatments to twice a week after he started taking PSP. One year later, it was down to once a week. “PSP is a gift from Heaven! My sight became clearer, my strength came back, the pains are gone, and I regained my sex life!” says Lito.

Another diabetic and dialysis patient is 59 year-old Hermie Concepcion. He began dialysis treatments – three times a week – in May 2005. In September 2005, he started taking PSP. After 3 months, he was down to two dialysis treatments a week. Since December 2006, he has been going for dialysis only once a week.
“He used to take 12 kinds of medication for his various illnesses like hypertension and carotid stenosis (obstructed carotid artery). Now, he takes only PSP and the medicine for hypertension,” Hermie’s wife, Lota, says proudly.

POLYSACCHARIDE PEPTIDES (PSP)

Peptides are formed from the linking of amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. Polysaccharides are essentially carbon sugars or complex carbohydrates which are used as sources of energy by the cells.

PSPs are found in mushrooms and in cereals like barley, oats and rice. PSPs are called either alpha or beta-glucans, depending on their structural arrangements. Beta PSPs are usually found in mushrooms while Alpha PSPs are usually found in rice.

FUNCTIONAL FOOD

“PSP is functional food,” says Vicrod Brozas, COO of ENZACTA Philippines, distributor of Alfa PSP Plus, now Alfa PXP Plus.

Functional foods or nutraceuticals are foods or from foods that have supposed physiological benefits like protecting the body from chronic diseases.
According to Enzacta’s literature, “Alpha Polysaccharide-X-Peptides (is) a functional nutrient which is a combination of complex carbohydrates and vital proteins having essential and non-essential amino acids plus the most important vitamins and minerals and antioxidants in dry powdered form.”

Russell Hall, CEO of ENZACTA, which has its headquarters in Mexico City and branches in Spain, the Philippines and U.S.A., was in Manila in November 2006 for the launching of Alfa PXP Plus (an improved version of Alfa PSP plus) at the Shangri-La Hotel in Makati. He explained then the complex process of producing PXP. Various seeds were selected by specialists in nutrition, biotechnology and genetics from thousands of rice varieties – brown rice, short-grain rice, fragrant rice, etc. These were then planted in highly alkaline and toxin-free soil rich in Spirulina. The farms are located in Siam valley in Thailand which, according to ENZACTA, is “the biggest natural organic plantation treasure in the world”.

Hall said that he had just upgraded their machines where the harvested rice undergoes Hydro-Thermal Process which extract the Alpha PSP and make it 90% bio-available; i.e., the peptides are almost completely absorbed by the body’s cells.

FOOD FOR THE CELLS

Vic Brozas, a respiratory therapist by training, was amazed when after a month of taking PSP, his arthritis, hypertension and hyperacidity disappeared. Not only that, his mom’s blood pressure dropped and her arthritis and hyperacidity were cured after one month of daily PSP intake. And so were his dad’s hyperacidity and numbness of the limbs. He joined Enzacta after these astounding effects on his family.
But what shocked Vic was the effects of PSP on dialysis patients and paralyzed people. “If you lessen dialysis from three to two times or once a week, then something must be happening to the cells of the kidneys,” says Vic. “If you feed your cells the right nutrition, they become healthy.”

FITNESS GURU

Rock climber, aerobic instructor and former host of the Fitness Barkada segment on GMA 7, Mylène Imao, 32, is the picture of physical fitness. “As an athlete, I was dehydrated,” she says, “because we athletes have to keep low body weight.”

As a result of her dehydration, her kidneys were damaged. She bled constantly. “When I ran, I would bleed and excrete solid stuff,” she says. “When I drank coffee, my sides bled,” she adds.
Mylène was hospitalized. The doctors said it was severe case of UTI or gallstones. She recovered but when she did strenuous exercises, she would bleed again.

“I started taking PSP three years ago and the symptoms disappeared,” she says. “I stopped for a month; then, half of the symptoms came back so I take it regularly up to now,” she explains.

Mylène, wife and mother, works out three times a week and keeps a busy schedule. She avers, “PSP, I can’t live without it; it’s a good addiction. I take PSP now to maintain good health and reverse the aging process.”

ANTI-AGING and BEAUTY

Hans Palacios, a businessman, is amazed at the anti-aging effects of PSP. “Before PSP, I was a very different person. I was an old man, I had a lot of body aches, I took a lot of painkillers for my back. When I started taking PSP, things changed. I got my stamina, I was able to work out better, but more importantly, the pains disappeared,” he says. “PSP changed the quality of my life. It gave back my life.”

Hans introduced beauty icon and radio/TV host Cory Quirino to PSP. He says that Ms. Quirino refers to PSP / PXP as “the very foundation of a hardcore health program”.

Ms Quirino, in turn, introduced PSP/ PXP to her good friend, actress-businesswoman Isabel Rivas. According to Hans, Ms. Rivas believes that PSP / PXP truly promotes cellular regeneration, which is proven by how beautiful and smooth it has made her skin.

ENHANCED SEX LIFE

Lito and Josephine, Hermie and Lota, Hans and almost all PSP users say that PSP has an interesting side effect – Enhanced Sex Life.

Medical doctor Annabel Soriano says that the easily absorbed PSP “energizes the cells, boosts the immune system and throws out the toxins. Thus, the body can feel increased energy immediately”. Perhaps in layman’s terms, one could say, “More Energy, More Sex; No Energy, No Sex.”

BEATING CANCER

In March 2006, Amor Fajardo was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. But she couldn’t undergo chemotherapy because she was pregnant. Instead, she started taking PSP.

Eight months later, during the launch of Alfa PXP Plus at the Shangri-la in November 2006, Amor proudly proclaimed to everyone there that she had just given birth to a baby girl a few days before. She had beaten Cancer. In October 2007, she had her second child.

NEW MEDICAL PARADIGM

Since the 1860s, the Germ Theory has become the bedrock of allopathic or Western conventional medicine. Diseases are caused by germs and so medicines should kill these germs or bacteria. Damaged cells should also be killed by radiation or other means.

Since the 1990s, studies on such things as antioxidants, enzymes, glyconutrients, saccharides, polypeptides, phytonutrients, etc. suggest a new medical approach. Instead of bombarding the human body with chemical medicines or radiation to kill bacteria or cancerous cells, we can feed the body’s cells with functional foods or nutraceuticals in order to prevent chemical damage to cells, regenerate them and thus fortify the immune system.

In the new millennium, the new wonder drugs may not be drugs at all. They may simply be food – food for the body’s cells. After all, Hippocrates himself said, “"Let thy food be thy medicine."

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Holistic Person

noreply@blogger.com (holisticliving) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:49:00 +0000

In Philosophy, holism is the theory that says that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In medicine, this refers to the treatment of individuals which take into consideration not just the disease but also mental and social factors.

Holism is the opposite of reductionism where wholes are reduced to its parts. In Medicine, a person's kidney is treated as a kidney - period. Who owns that kidney is immaterial or irrelevant.

Holism, as used in this blog, regards a human being as a Whole Being - with body, mind and spirit.

Everything affects everything else. One's life is affected by everythin -- one's eating habits, one's thinking, one's relationships with friends and lovers, etc.

This blog hopes to add to the blogosphere's discussion on Holistic Living.