The immune system is the body's defence system and provides resistance to infection and toxins. Organs include the thymus, bone marrow and lymph nodes.
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a group of genetic eye conditions. In the progression of symptoms for RP, night blindness generally precedes tunnel vision by years or even decades.
Read more: Natural Medicine Causes & Treatment of Retinitis Pigmentosa
Dengue fever also known as "break-bone fever", a disease of the tropics caused by a virus called Flavivirus. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle & joint pains & a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles.
This is an article about preparing for Ebola. Whilst I am not a "prepper", I do believe in the 7 Ps, a British Army adage for Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Ebola hasn't gone away; there is acurrent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
For anyone with chronic disease, atopic diseases eg asthma, eczema, hay fever, or those with general symptoms of unwellness, sore joints, aching muscles, fatigue, headaches, acne & constipation,
Essential oils from many plant families have demonstrated antiviral properties in laboratory. Use before exposure can lessen the potential of infection. This is the case for any type of virus, be it our 'regular' flu season or potential pandemic threat of H1N1 swine flu.
Read more: Antiviral Essential Oils to prevent H1N1 Swine Flu
Vitamin D regulates the immune system, which is important not only in immune deficiency diseases such as cancer but also in conditions of a hyperactive immune system such as seen in autoimmune disease.
Autoimmune diseases result from the failure of an organism to recognise its own constituent parts as self, which allows an immune response against its own cells & tissues. The immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen & attacks it. In other words, the body actually attacks its own cells.
Read more: Natural Medicine Causes & Treatment of Autoimmune Disease
Recent outbreaks of viral diseases in the advent of globalisation and ease of travel have underscored their prevention as a critical issue in safeguarding public health. The following are some natural antivirals.
An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world population. The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in history, was caused by an H1N1 virus. 500 million people, one-third of the world’s population became infected.
Food allergy is an abnormal response to a food triggered by your immune system. Symptoms include itchiness, swelling, vomiting, diarrhea, trouble breathing, or low blood pressure.
Read more: Natural Medicine Causes & Treatment of Food Allergy
Although fever is an indication that your child is healthy, it evokes fear & anxiety. It is not the fever itself but the possible complications of the fever & accompanying symptoms that give rise to fear. Book a Natural Medicine First Aid 3 Part Plan to raise your chidlren naturally
In light if global warming and the increase in resistance of tropical disease to current pharmacological treatments, traditional medicine has an increasing role to play in the prevention, treatment and control of tropical disease.
There are between 50-100 cases of early Lyme disease cases annually in Ireland. The most extreme form Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) & most dangerous, occurs in 10-15% of infected individuals.
Read more: Natural Medicine Approaches to Treat Lyme Disease
Recently there has been a lot of media attention on the rapid increase in food allergy and everyone nowadays is gluten free, lactose free, vegan, late soy dandies. Unfortunately, many undertrained nutritional therapists are (deservedly) getting a bad rap for restricting people’s diets to the point that patients are becoming underweight or even worse, developing an eating disorder known as orthorexia. Much of this occurs because of incorrectly diagnosed food allergy and intolerance. The only way to diagnose food allergy or intolerance is to conduct a low reactive diet and oral food challenge. This is the Gold Standard Test
Sarcoidosis is a multi system inflammatory disease that affects multiple organs in the body, but mostly the lungs and lymph glands. characterised by non-caseating granulomas (small inflammatory nodules).
Read more: Natural Medicine Causes & Treatment of Sarcoidosis
Histamine is a compound found in all cells of the body and is a natural component of many foods. It is an important component of the immune and neurologic systems and is involved in the process of inflammation. Histamine causes a variety of symptoms depending on where it is released and what receptors it binds to.
Boost your Natural Immunity to protect yourself from colds & flu this winter. Flu experts predict nasty viruses are on the way, with various symptoms from colds & flu to bronchitis & tonsillitis.
Read more: Natural Medicine Causes & Treatment of Colds & Flu
How to empathise with our bodies in times of acute illness. Empathy in sickness is to preserve and tonify our Vital Forces by managing our fevers & adopting some good old fashioned convalescence.
