What is anal fistula and how to cure fistula in ano

May 13, 2009 by sir jon  
Filed under rectal

What is an anal fistula?

An anal fistula is an abnormal connection between the epithelialised surface of the anal canal and (usually) the perianal skin.

Anal fistulae originate from the anal glands, which are located between the two layers of the anal sphincters and which drain into the anal canal. If the outlet of these glands becomes blocked, an abscess can form which can eventually point to the skin surface. The tract formed by this process is the fistula.

Abscesses can recur if the fistula seals over, allowing the accumulation of pus. It then points to the surface again, and the process repeats.

bad stomach cramps when doing abdominal crunches sit ups

May 11, 2009 by sir jon  
Filed under exercise

A lot of people exercising suddenly feel sharp painful stomach cramps when they do a couple of sit ups, or abdominal crunches.

Some tips to prevent cramping:

  • warm up first, don’t do a lot of sit-ups all at once. then start em out in really small numbers, after a few, roll over and do a cat stretch (lay on your stomach, feet/legs togeather, put your hands down by your sides, then stretch up, straight arms, and lean back, like a kitty stretching.  Then, do cool down at the end too.
  • don’t drink too much cold water especially just before exercising.
  • don’t do these crunches right after you eat

what to eat to prevent cancer

May 9, 2009 by sir jon  
Filed under cancer, food

When it comes to the question of whether you’ll get cancer, it often seems that your fate is a mysterious combination of factors beyond your control. We all know someone who smoked, drank and ate bacon every day yet escaped a diagnosis. And far more disheartening, we also know people who lived a virtuously healthy life only to develop the disease. Add to that the confusion over what actually is the right way to avoid the Big C. In fact, three in four people believe there are so many recommendations about preventing breast, colon, lung and other cancers that it’s hard to know which guidelines to follow.

Top 11 qigong tao books

1) “Art of the Bedchamber: The Chineses Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women’s Solo Meditation Texts”  by Douglas Wiles; published by State University of New York Press at Albany, New york

2) “The Sexual Teaching of the JadeDragon: Taoist Methods for Male Sexual Revitalization” by Hsi Lai; published by Destiny Books of  Rochester, Vermont

3) “The Sexual Teachings of the White Tigress” by Hsi Lai; published by Destiny Books of Rochester, Vermont

4) “Sex, Health, and Long Life: Manuals of Taoist Practice” translated by Thomas Cleary

5) “Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy” by  Mantak Chia & Michael Winn

6) “Healing Love through the Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy” by Mantak Chia

Lomadin can be used to treat tumors like breast cancer

May 9, 2009 by sir jon  
Filed under cancer, drugs

The drug, called lodamin, was improved in one of the last experiments overseen by Dr. Judah Folkman, a cancer researcher who died in January. Folkman pioneered the idea of angiogenesis therapy — starving tumors by preventing them from growing blood supplies.

Lodamin is an angiogenesis inhibitor that Folkman’s team has been working to perfect for 20 years. Writing in the journal Nature Biotechnology, his colleagues say they developed a formulation that works as a pill, without side-effects.

They have licensed it to SynDevRx, Inc, a privately held Cambridge, Massachusetts biotechnology company that has recruited several prominent cancer experts to its board.

Tests in mice showed it worked against a range of tumors, including breast cancer, neuroblastoma, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, brain tumors known as glioblastomas and uterine tumors.

8 Reasons for sleeping and waking up early

8 Reasons for sleeping and waking up early.

Evening at 9 - 11pm: is the time for eliminating unnecessary/ toxic chemicals (detoxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on health.

Evening at 11pm - 1am: is the detoxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 1 - 3am: detoxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

even senior citizens can learn cane fu

May 9, 2009 by sir jon  
Filed under exercise

The St. Leonard retirement village here has a whole new way of thinking about recreation: Bingo has made way for cane fighting.

“Down on top of the head and up between the groin!” urges instructor Debra Stewart, of nearby Chung’s Academy of Martial Arts, commanding a dozen gray-haired students swinging canes at imaginary attackers. “Stomp him! Dig it in there. Do it hard!”

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Watch demonstrations of cane defense moves.

Jim Ghory, an 82-year-old retired toolmaker, volunteers to take a few demonstration shots at Ms. Stewart, who has a black belt in tae kwon do, a Korean martial-arts discipline. “You want [it in] the collarbone or the ribs?” he asks.

Baking soda as Cheapest, and Most Effective Cancer Treatment Ever

May 9, 2009 by sir jon  
Filed under alternative medicine, cancer

Dr. Simoncini said that “I’ve treated many cases of cancer going against the standard slash, burn, and cut mantra of the medical establishment. And I’ve seen some great success. But no injection therapy I’ve ever used took my breath away for its ease of use and effectiveness. That is until I saw the treatment I’m going to tell you about this month!”

In fact, this remedy is so inexpensive that you probably have some sitting in your refrigerator right now. You’ve probably baked with it. The raw material costs mere pennies. It’s exceedingly safe. Its beauty lies in its simplicity. And it may be the greatest discovery for cancer treatment, EVER.

Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas

May 9, 2009 by sir jon  
Filed under doctors and nurses

When Sam Houston was still hanging his hat in Tennessee in the 1830s, it wasn’t uncommon for fellow Tennesseans who were packing up and moving south and west to hang a sign on their cabins that read “GTT” – Gone to Texas.

Today obstetricians, surgeons and other doctors might consider reviving the practice. Over the past three years, some 7,000 M.D.s have flooded into Texas, many from Tennessee.

[Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas]
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Sam Houston.

Why? Two words: Tort Reform.

Effect of economic slowdown: more nurses

May 9, 2009 by sir jon  
Filed under hospitals

The ailing economy is helping to ease the nursing shortage.

With house prices falling and the cost of gasoline and food rising, many nurses are going back to work, in some cases to make up for the income of a spouse who has lost a job. Hospitals say part-time nurses are taking on extra shifts. And nursing schools are seeing an increase in people applying for refresher courses on the ins and outs of modern hospitals. Some older nurses are putting off a planned retirement.

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“We are seeing a temporary lessening of the nursing shortage,” says Jane Llewellyn, vice president of clinical nursing affairs at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. But, she says, “as soon as the economy turns up we’ll see them staying home again.”

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