Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Elderly people are especially vulnerable to drug side effects, because of their frequent use of medications and because the aging process generally leaves their livers less able to break down and eliminate various drugs. And because older people usually have fewer remaining neurons, each of these neurons is subjected to a relatively greater amount of each drug.
Sedatives—including such drugs as Valium, and sleep-inducing barbiturates—often cause cognitive problems. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  IgG-mediated delayed types of reactions include many drug side effects; problems from exposure to chemicals, including tobacco; and most food allergies (that is why skin testing is not very useful for such allergies—it measures only IgE responses). Most allergy problems are a mixture of these different immunoglobulin-medicated reactions.
The main focus of traditional allergy practice is the diseases involving the IgE-histamine response—hay fever, eczema, and asthma. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
See book keywords and concepts |  INDICATIONS AND USAGE
Some experimental data suggests that chlorophyll and chlorophyllin may have some antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic potential, may help protect against some toxins, and may ameliorate some drug side effects. They are useful in reducing urinary and fecal odor in some circumstances. They may help ease constipation in some. There is some preliminary indication that they could be beneficial in the treatment of calcium oxalate stone disease and that they may have some anti-atherogenic activity. |
Michael Castleman
See book keywords and concepts |  Causes include intestinal parasites,- irritable bowel syndrome,- viral or bacterial infections, including food poisoning, traveler's diarrhea (turista or Montezuma's revenge) and salmonella and other forms of dysentery,- drug side effects,- and lactose intolerance, the inability of some adults to digest the milk sugar (lactose) found in dairy products and the artificial sweetener sorbitol.
The cause of everyday diarrhea is often difficult to identify. Many cases are viral, particularly in children. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  A subsequent study concluded that drug side effects kill 106,000 Americans a year and seriously injure 2.2 million more, making pharmaceutical side effects the nation's fifth leading cause of death.
By comparison, based on the statistics I've seen, medicinal herbs kill fewer than 50 people a year. Many of these deaths can be attributed to college kids foolishly taking Chinese ephedra (ma huang) as an intoxicant, not knowing that in very high doses—much higher than any responsible herbalist would recommend—this herb can cause potentially fatal heart problems. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Your physician doesn't want to tell you about possible drug side effects because he or she has been programmed in medical school to believe that if you're told about side effects you'll become a hypochondriac and get them. That is a condescending attitude that is unlikely to change any time soon. You are the best judge of whether you are having a bad reaction to a drug. Please trust your body's feedback and pay attention to it. | | More drugs, more drug side effects, more disease, more surgeries and more pain. This is no way to live and yet this is how millions of Americans, caught in the insidious web of an unhealthy lifestyle, conventional medicine and drugs, will live out their so-called golden years.
Now let's take a look at a different scenario.
Portrait of an Alternative Approach
Now let's say Pam is wary of taking pills and goes to a naturopathic doctor referred to her by a friend. This doctor looks at her blood and urine tests and talks to her about her eating and exercise habits. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  Persons taking ylang ylang Essential Oils for hypertension will avoid any drug side effects.
Blended ylang ylang oil can be obtained from Health Horizons 800 771 -0255 or 305 442- 1233 and from Natural Health Team 800-416-2806.
The Grave Danger Of Hydrogenated Fat
In the modern way to make food, an unnatural fat called trans fat or hydrogenated fat is created when the unsaturated vegetable oil is given two hydrogen atoms to increase stability and shelf life.
This addition of hydrogen atoms occurs during high temperature conditions and addition of chemicals. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The truth is that we begin suffering from our bad habits in our forties, and for too many people, life from about age 50 on is one round after another of physicians, surgeries and drug side effects. We may be kept alive, but what is our quality of life?
This is not to suggest that you need to eat nothing but brown rice and tofu and run five miles a day, but it is to suggest that if you're hooked on sugar or fat you scale back, and that if you're a couch potato you get up and move your body. (You'll get more specifics in the next chapter. | | Bob innocently thought he was just getting some help with his digestion so he could get away with eating greasy fried foods, but it started him on a destructive path of drug side effects treated with more drugs, which cause more side effects, which are treated with more drugs. This is the drug treadmill. We encourage you to stay away from it, because it will only lead to chronically poor health, years of misery, and an early death.
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Changing the Pill-Popping Mindset
What do you want when you go to an M.D.? |
Leo Galland
See book keywords and concepts |  Lauren was afraid of drug side effects and requested an alternative. I prescribed a herb, Artemisia annua, which kills several types of parasites and also destroys the bacteria that feed them. For over two thousand years, Chinese physicians have prescribed Artemisia for the treatment of fever. Recent research has shown that A. annua has great activity against malaria. Its most active ingredient, artemisinin, is administered intravenously in Vietnamese hospitals to cure patients who are dying of malaria in the brain. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | If we look at the problem in dollars, according to studies published in IAMA, mistakes in prescribing drugs and the treatment of drug side effects cost about $76 billion every year. Other studies put the number as high as $136 billion. That $76 billion comes out of the high insurance rates you're paying, the taxes that go to Medicare (which is collapsing under the weight of its economic burden), and straight out of your pocket. That means you're spending hundreds of dollars a year to keep the drug companies in business, while they keep peddling dangerous and improperly studied drugs. |
Michael Talbot
See book keywords and concepts |  Of course i am by no means suggesting that all drug side effects are the result of the placebo effect. Should you experience a negative reaction to a drug, always consult a physician.
Each has his own name, age, memories, and abilities. Often each also has his own style of handwriting, announced gender, cultural and racial background, artistic talents, foreign language fluency, and IQ.
Even more noteworthy are the biological changes that take place in a multiple's body when they switch personalities. |
Stephen Fried
See book keywords and concepts |  While doctors seemed to underplay drug side effects, perhaps believing that suggestible patients would develop any symptom they were warned of, the pharmacists were much more concerned and candid about the possibility of "problems" with medicines. | | A former high-ranking FDA official had recently looked me straight in the eye and insisted that "the amount of preventable harm done by the misuse of drugs and the lack of properly identifying drug side effects exceeds the sum total of all occupational and environmental hazards in the United States." It was quite a call to arms, but it still wasn't enough reason to keep taking the subject so personally.
Then the pictures came back from the awards luncheon. Looking through the shots, I noticed that I was grinning tight-lipped in most of them, never once showing a broad, toothy smile. |
Richard Gerber, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  THE VARIETY OF BIOLOGICAL STRESSES
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY ALLERGENIC OVERLOAD ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS PHYSICAL OVEREXHAUSTION EXTREME TEMPERATURE VARIATION MICROBIOLOGIC CONTAMINATION drug side effects LOW LEVEL RADIATION ELECTROMAGNETIC POLLUTION
GEOPATH1C STRESS NEGATIVE THOUGHT ENERGIES tion techniques to equip the body/mind in better dealing with the stresses of everyday life. |
Robyn Landis
See book keywords and concepts |  There is little intrinsic danger in using herbs, since few have the potential for drug side effects," Moore explains. "The side effects are usually idiosyncratic or idiopathic, and not predictable by drug standards."8 In other words, they occur based on the idiosyncracies of the individual, not as a predictable reaction that can be expected from that herb on a regular basis. |
Nicola Reavley
See book keywords and concepts |  However, diagnosis is difficult as the symptoms of the disease are similar to those seen in other disorders; such as other types of dementia, anemia, depression, drug side effects and nutritional deficiencies. Alzheimer's disease is often diagnosed when these other causes have been mled out. Research has shown that Alzheimer's disease is often unrecognized.1 Advances in technology such as brain imaging and testing may make it easier to diagnose the disease. |
Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon
See book keywords and concepts | | Less resistant to poisons or drug side effects. Skin problems. Toxicity-None known from organic sulfur, but ill effects may occur from large amounts of inorganic sulfur. Enemies-None known.
Natural Sources-Fish, eggs, cabbage, dried beans, nut, radishes, brussel sprouts, soybeans, peanuts, wheat germ, meat, lean beef. Herb Sources-Alfalfa, Burdock, Capsicum, Catnip, Chaparral, Comfrey, Dandelion, Echinacea, Fennel, Garlic, Juniper, Kelp, Lobelia, Mullein, Parsley, Peppermint, Sarsaparilla, Thyme, White Oak Bark.
VANADIUM
Trace mineral. Very small amounts of this mineral go far in the body. |
Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The FDA itself is not responsible for this state of affairs, says Thomas Moore, a leading authority on drug side effects at the George Washington University Medical Center. The FDA's budget is set by Congress. In his 1998 book Prescription for Disaster, Moore details the intense pressure Congress is under from lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry to weaken rather than strengthen drug testing and monitoring. | | As we lack serious long-term monitoring of drug side effects and rely almost entirely on spontaneous, voluntary reporting by doctors, it is typically only at the twenty-year mark that enough data has accrued for the problems to be undeniable and for a significant number of physicians to be sounding the alarm. Still another ten years or more elapse before professional organizations and regulatory agencies actively take steps to curtail overprescribing. Thus, the cycle from miracle to disaster typically takes thirty years or more. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | You should not ever have to suffer from drug side effects, nor should you ever allow your physician to get you onto the drug treadmill by prescribing new drugs to treat the side effects of the first or second one.
Overdosage This section gives the symptoms of an overdose of the drug and if available, an antidote to an overdose. Many heart drugs, such as ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, digitalis drugs and the blood-thinning drugs can be fatal if levels are even a little bit too high. |
Sydney Walker III, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Drug monitoring is particularly important for older patients, who have slower metabolism rates and are thus more vulnerable to drug side effects.
A typical case of drug-related "mental" problems, which I witnessed in my own practice, involved Gladys, a 90-year-old woman who was a favorite at her residential facility because of her sweet disposition and quick sense of humor. Gladys was dubbed the
"welcome wagon lady" by staffers, because she made the rounds every day, putting on her hat and pearls and checking up on every resident. |
Maesimund B. Panos, M.D. and Jane Heimlich
See book keywords and concepts |  When Jane, our oldest, had colic, she was so cranky I didn't know what to do with her. I gave her a dose of Chamomilla, and the cramps went away.
"When my kids were teething, they often ran a fever," Jane continued. "Tommy's face would be so red and hot it felt like fire. Belladonna worked like a charm. But when Jennifer, our youngest, was i en teething, only one cheek was red and warm, and the other was cool. And she was so cranky I knew she must need Chamomilla. I gave her a dose, and she was fine. |
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