Never take sleeping pills. If feeling sleepy the next day try to take all your sleep before noon..

The habit of a regular bedtime from infancy to old age does more toward promoting good habits of sleep than any other thing.

An evening ritual will assist in developing good sleep habits. No new activities should begin late in the day, as that tends to excite the nervous system and make one less able to concentrate on the activity of going to sleep
. All caffeine-containing drinks such as coffee, tea, colas, and chocolate should be avoided in the evening. The nervous system is pharmacologically stimulated by these drugs, and can cause sleep to flee.

If one awakens in the middle of the night, and cannot sleep, the neutral bath is often a lifesaver. Bath, blot the skin dry with a soft towel and return to bed, breathing easily and slowly. Be assured that this treatment will bring you pleasant dreams.

For fussy infants, a soak in a hot water bath, three minutes, will almost invariably be followed by sleep.

By virtue of its location, if the prostate becomes dysfunctional, real problems invariably develop. Swelling is the most common manifestation of a malfunctioning prostate. With swelling come problem with urination and discomfort in the rectum,both painful consequences of a lifestyle that has been far less than kind to this small organ. Thus the lowly prostate looms up ever larger in the minds of men as they pass through the portals of middle age.

Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy

By age 60, about half of all men will have developed some enlargement of the prostate, by 80, almost all. Benign prostatic hypertrophy (enlargement) can force its victims to arise several times each night to urinate, and may eventually result in acute urinary retention which may result in several problems.Massage of the prostate can afford a great deal of relief and can postpone surgery, and in some cases, prevent it.

Zinc Essential to Prostate

The prostate cannot function properly without adequate zinc. The prostate gland contains more zinc than any other organ In the body.It is found in high concentration in sperm and seminal fluid. The brain must also have adequate zinc in order to keep the thoughts organized and balanced.Excessive sexual activity may lead to depletion of zinc stores which may be followed by both prostatic disease and neurologic and mental disorders, all functions which depend on adequate availability of zinc.Many prostate patients who have taken high zinc foods or zinc supplements, report improvement.

Treatment With Home Remedies

Hydrotherapy in acute prostatitis can take several forms:

1) Hot and cold sitz baths,
2) hot (115 degrees F) retention enemas with plain water;
3) a ten minute sitz bath twice daily with hot jets of water playing on the lumbosacral (lower back) region and perineum, the feet also being in hot water, finishing the treatment with a 20 second cold shower, or
4) the entire body scrubbed while dry in long strokes or small quick circles with a scrubby, brush, or luffa (takes 3-5 minutes), ending with a hot shower (under pressure if possible) at about 40-44C (104-114F).
5) Some herbal remedies are very useful in benign prostatic hypertrophy. The most significant one is an extract of the saw palmetto berry (Serenoa repens).Other herbal products used are pygeum africanum, an extract of an African plum; it is often combined with nettles for increased activity.

Causes of Cancer of the Prostate

1) Industrial exposure to cadmium,
2) sexual transmission by an infectious agent, and
3) endocrine factors.

Summary of Possible Causes of Increased Risk of Cancer of the Prostate

1. Heavy use of fats.
2. Decreased intake of zinc.
3. Decreased intake of green, leafy vegetables.
4. Use of meat, milk, eggs, and cheese.
5. Overuse of oranges or retinoids.6. Sexual over stimulation, promiscuity or producing children
7. Increase in the number of children, especially as the number gets over 5.
8. Overweight.
9. Coffee drinking, alcohol and tobacco use.
10. Selected drugs.

What is palpitation?

“Palpitations” are usually described as a “thumping,” “fluttering,” “racing,” and often as “skipped beats,” when describing the pulse or the heart beat.They’re usually described by physicians as premature ventricular or atrial contractions.

PVCs

PVCs are “premature ventricular contractions.” They are “extra beats,” originating somewhere in the ventricles, whereas the normal heartbeat originates in the sinoauricular (SA) node of the atria.In 90 percent of cases these extra beats are not dangerous and have no special significance.

Is it dangerous?

A number of large, long-term studies have been done on people with premature contractions indicating their harmlessness.They may be caused by anxiety, by loss of, or lack of sleep, by smoking, alcohol, and especially the use of caffeine and other stimulating drugs. Much of the time, they are simply termed “idiopathic;” i.e., without any known cause.

Management

Treatment involves correcting any of the known causes; after that, there is not really much that can be done. Vigorous exercise may abolish them.

Atrial fibrillation

Occurs when the heartbeat becomes quite chaotic in the atria or upper chambers of the heart; impulses are transmitted very irregularly to the ventricles or lower chambers, so that the heartbeat is very irregular and oftentimes quite rapid. Atrial fibrillation may be either paroxysmal, in which case it comes and goes, or else it may be sustained. Persons with atrial fibrillation should be under the care of a physician.

Exercise is so important that if I could give only one health study, it would probably be on exercise. There are many disorders that can be neutralized by lots of vigorous exercise.

What is best exercise?

The best exercise should be characterized as “vigorous though not violent.” Most individuals do not maintain a high enough level of athletic training to make jogging or running a safe exercise.

Competitive sports are not the best forms of exercise. During youth and early adulthood, competitive sports may be a major form of exercise.

If, however, one has learned sports that are non-competitive, especially sports that can be enjoyed if done alone, one has his exercise assured.

How to get exercise

In order to get cardiovascular training effect, 15-30 minutes of vigorous exercise, without stopping is required. After the exercise period, a “cooling down” is advisable. All of one’s exercise should not be done indoors. Remember the benefits, and discipline yourself to daily exercise.

The preventive treatment uses small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules. These tiny bits of genetic material are designed to switch off specific genes.

Cure for Herpes

The herpes treatment uses two siRNAs. One keeps vaginal cells from producing a molecule that the herpes virus uses to infect cells. The other siRNA targets a viral gene required for herpes reproduction.

“One of the attractive features of the compound we developed is that it creates in the tissue a state that’s resistant to infection, even if applied up to a week before sexual exposure,” Harvard researcher Judy Lieberman, PhD, says in a news release. “This aspect has a real practicality to it. If we can reproduce these results in people, this could have a powerful impact on preventing transmission.”

HSV-2 is the main cause of genital herpes. It’s considered a sexually transmitted infection, although mother-to-infant transmission occurs during the birth process.

Researchers have long believed that herpes and HIV could be prevented by vaginal application of antiviral agents. But such “vaginal microbicides,” even if effective, must be safe, non-messy, and long-lasting to be of real use to women.

Lieberman’s team came up with an earlier version of their topical siRNA but found that the formulation they used actually encouraged herpes infection. Their current, two-pronged siRNA treatment avoids this problem — at least in mice.

However, the same target they used in mouse vaginal cells — a molecule called nectin-1 — is also found on human vaginal cells. Blocking nectin-1 doesn’t seem to harm mice. It may not harm humans, either, as the molecule seems to be needed during development but not during adult life.

That suggests the drug might not be safe during pregnancy. But if it works in sexually active adults, it would still be an enormous benefit to human health. An estimated 536 million people worldwide are infected with HSV-2. And HSV-2 infection makes it easier for a person to get infected with HIV.

Lieberman and colleagues suggest their siRNA approach might also work against HIV.

Their study appears in the Jan. 22 issue of Cell Host & Microbe.

Symptoms :
1. Increase in Heart Rate, as high as 200 – 225 beats per minute.
2. Anxiety and Discomfort
3. Short run of very fast heartbeats.
4. Disturbed Heart Rythm

Treatment :

1. Put feet in hot water for 30 minutes.

2. Put an ice bag over the heart.

3. Deep breathing through the nose, to full capacity for both inhaling and exhaling, 20 to 25 times. Be sure fresh air (not just air conditioned) circulates, or sit outdoors until the attack passes.

4. Assume an exaggerated military posture with shoulders back and down, back very straight, head held tall and high, back supported by a chair.

5. Change position: if lying, stand; is sitting or standing, lie down; squat, bend over, tilt side to side, etc. Hold each position 6 to 10 seconds before changing.

6. Warm the extremities:
(1) extra clothing
(2) hot hand or arm bath
(3) hot foot bath.

7. Apply firm pressure to one side of the neck or other (not both at once) with the edge of the hand by holding the hand with the palm toward the floor while sitting, and pressing the forefinger edge of the right hand into the left side of the neck, supporting it and adding pressure with the left hand, and holding it for 30-60 seconds. If done firmly enough it will be a bit uncomfortable. Alternate hands and sides of neck.

8. Press the fist forcefully into the V-shape made by the ribs over the stomach, putting additional pressure with the opposite hand. Hold 30-60 seconds.

9. Have someone massage the feet, pressing the thumbs into the soles. Continue 5 to 15 minutes.

10. Drink a hot liquid: water, hot garlic tonic (one cup of boiling water in blender with one clove or one teaspoon of garlic powder -no salt-blend until smooth), or hot tea-instructions below.

11. Herb teas: hawthorn berry tea, 1 cup every 10 minutes for an hour. Catnip or valerian teas are helpful for the anxiety which may be associated with the attacks. Use one cup of tea as needed.

12. Take one teaspoon of Epsom Salts (Magnesium sulfate) or 3 tablets of magnesium oxide with one glass of water or the hawthorn berry tea.

13. Allow no passive smoke in the air. Drink no coffee or ordinary grocery tea; use no drugs, aspirin or other medication as any drug can cause cardiac arrhythmias.

14. Mix one tablespoonful of charcoal with approximately one tablespoonful of olive oil and swallow, using a bit of water if necessary.