Tratamiento homeopático para infecciones de oído es superior a tratamiento con antibióticos o con placebo

(Extraído de doctornews.org)

Un meta análisis reciente sobre estudios publicados en JAMA examinando el uso de antibióticos en infecciones de los oídos frente al enfoque de esperar y ver (sin tratamiento) halló que el grupo recibiendo tratamiento mejoró levemente pero tenía contrapartidas como erupciones y diarrea. Este meta análisis es una prueba científica de que no realizar ningún tipo de intervención es mejor que el tratamiento con antibióticos en el caso de las infecciones de los oídos. Mejor que esto es el tratamiento homeopático. La homeopatía es natural, nunca tiene efectos secundarios y es completamente seguro. Estudios científicos han demostrado que el tratamiento homeopático es superior que tanto tratamiento con antibióticos y no tratamiento. Las infecciones de oídos pueden ser tratadas fácilmente en casa usando remedios homeopáticos que se pueden hallar en casi todas las tiendas de productos para la salud y herbolarios.

Los científicos que publicaron un estudio en 1997 en International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, dividieron a 131 niños en dos grupos: el grupo de tratamiento homeopático y el grupo de tratamiento médico convencional, que usaba antibióticos. El grupo de tratamiento homeopático se recuperó una media de un día más rápidamente que los niños del grupo usando antibióticos. Otro estudio publicado en 2001 en la revista British Homeopathic Journal, comparó el tratamiento homeopático con el tratamiento de placebo en 230 niños con infecciones agudas de oído. Después de 12 horas el 72% de los niños se recuperó 2.4 veces más deprisa que los niños que recibieron un placebo.

Remedios homeopáticos combinados recomendados para infecciones de oídos

Gotas homeopáticas para los oídos: Estas gotas contienen una combinación de remedios homeopáticos. Las gotas se introducen en el oído. Son fáciles de usar y son una manera eficaz para aliviar el dolor de una infección en los oídos.

Tabletas homeopáticas para dolor de oídos: Estas tabletas también contienen una combinación de remedios homeopáticos diferentes. Las tabletas se toman oralmente y también son fáciles de administrar y alivian el dolor rápidamente.

Los remedios combinados son una buena solución cuando un remedio individual no funciona o la dosis correcta homeopática uni-dosis no se puede determinar. (Ver más abajo).

Remedios homeopáticos individuales para infecciones de los oídos.

Los siguientes remedios deben usarse en una potencia (fuerza) de 30C.

Belladona: Es bueno para dolores de oído que aparecen repentinamente con un dolor intenso. La oreja es de un rojo intenso y hay una fiebre alta.

Hepar Sulphuris: Un dolor de oídos agudo y severo acompañado por una descarga espesa y coloreada de la nariz o los oídos. Una persona necesitando este remedio es muy irritable.

Pulsatilla: Esto es un buen remedio para infecciones de oídos en niños. La persona es tranquila, llorosa y ansia afecto. Hay una descarga amarilla o verdosa de la nariz o los oídos.

La dosis y repeticiones: Los remedios simples y combinados pueden darse cada 15-30 minutos durante una crisis aguda y luego tres veces al día al irse apaciguando los síntomas.

Homeopathy and healthcare

(Extraído de irishtimes.com)

Sir, – “Journalists must always be aware of their role to serve the public’s right to know,” the former editor of The Irish Times Geraldine Kennedy, was reported as saying (June 24th, 2011).

The public does indeed have a right to know and to an informed choice about healthcare. Donald Clarke (February 23rd) by discrediting any complementary or alternative options to conventional medicine, does not serve the public interest well.

Surely we’re entitled to know that regarding homeopathy 43 per cent of Randomised Control Trials (RCT) have a balance of positive evidence, 6 per cent have a balance of negative evidence, 49 per cent have not been conclusively positive or negative and 2 per cent do not contain data that are suitable for analysis.

According to the British Medical Journal, a review of conventional medical procedures funded by the National Health Service produced the following figures: 11 per cent beneficial, 24 per cent likely to be beneficial, 7 per cent trade-off between benefits and harms, 5 per cent unlikely to be beneficial, 3 per cent likely to be ineffective or harmful and 50 per cent of unknown effectiveness.

Thus homeopathy is as effective as conventional medicine, if not more so.

This debate has been going on for a number of years, but we have yet to see a fair and impartial view of the matter published and the public informed of the choices that are available when it comes to healthcare. In the rest of Europe and the world, homeopathy and various therapies are widely accepted and used by doctors and other practitioners. Does our right to know not extend to our health? – Yours, etc,

SHEELAGH BEHAN,
Lic ISH, IS Hom,
Registered Homeopath,
Carrickhill Rise,
Portmarnock, Co Dublin.

Intense acupuncture may improve Bell's palsy

(Extraído de news.yahoo.com)

By Kerry Grens

New York (Reuters Health) - Patients with facial paralysis saw greater improvements in function after a more intensive form of acupuncture in a new study from China that compared the treatment to standard acupuncture.

Researchers found that wiggling the acupuncture needles to produce a sensation called "de qi" led to a patient's having a better chance of recovering full facial function in six months than if the needles were just inserted and left alone.

De qi "should be considered to be included in clinical guidelines for acupuncture treatment," said Dr. Wei Wang at Key Laboratory of Neurological Diseases of Chinese Ministry of Education in Wuhan, Hubei.

The study did not measure how well people would have recovered without receiving acupuncture, so it's impossible to say whether the therapy worked any better than conventional, Western approaches or no therapy at all.

De qi is combination of feelings - including achiness, coolness, warmth, and tingling - which is considered by traditional Chinese medicine to ensure the best therapeutic benefit, said Wang, one of the authors of the study.

But "this long held belief has never been confirmed," he told Reuters Health.

To see whether de qi makes a difference to the effectiveness of acupuncture therapy, he and his colleagues asked 317 adults with Bell's palsy to undergo five half-hour acupuncture treatments for four weeks.

Bell's is usually a temporary facial paralysis that typically affects one side and lasts a few months.

It often results from a viral infection that inflames facial nerves, and the steroid prednisone is a common treatment. Over the counter analgesics, vitamins and physical therapy are also sometimes used to treat the condition.

About 40,000 Americans get Bell's palsy each year, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Wang said his group focused on this condition because recovery of the facial nerves affected by Bell's does not seem to be as susceptible to the placebo effect as other nerve conditions, such as pain.

Half of the participants were randomly assigned to receive treatments that would elicit de qi, in which the acupuncturist twisted the needles and moved them up and down several times during the session.

The other participants had the needles inserted and left alone.

All of the patients also received prednisone.

Neurologists, who didn't know which treatment each participant had received, determined the patients' facial function score on a scale of 200, with higher numbers corresponding to better movement.

In both groups, patients had started with facial function scores around 130 to 135. After six months of treatment, participants in the de qi group had somewhat greater facial function, such as in raising the eyebrows, blinking and baring teeth.

The de qi group scored an average of 195, while the other acupuncture group scored 186.

Wang said it's difficult to interpret just what these numbers mean in terms of muscle performance - say, whether a person can smile fully or not - but that a difference of nine points would be noticeable to the patients.

In addition, the team found that 94 percent of participants who received de qi acupuncture completely recovered their facial function by the end of six months, while 77 percent did in the other acupuncture group.

It's not clear how acupuncture - and de qi in particular - might improve the recovery from Bell's palsy.

Dr. Jian Kong, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, said one explanation could be that needles in the face increase blood flow to the area "so we can provide more nutrition to the nerves and help the inflammation to diminish quickly so people can recover."

Kong, who was not part of this study, agreed with the researchers that de qi is important to consider in acupuncture research, and that it is often overlooked.

One reason it's not always included in studies is that "there are many schools of acupuncture," with some placing greater emphasis on de qi than others, Kong told Reuters Health.

De qi is also complex, subjective and difficult to quantify. He said some people even consider the sensations of the acupuncturist to be more important in eliciting de qi than the sensations of the patient.

"Most clinical trials don't measure de qi sensation so we don't know how this sensation is associated with clinical outcomes," Kong said.

Wang said that this lack of standardization in acupuncture research might be why studies have yielded a mixed bag of results - sometimes showing a benefit and other times not.

"The effect of acupuncture may be seriously compromised" by not stimulating de qi, he said.

Kong said he and others have been developing standard de qi scales to offer some uniformity across studies.

"Hopefully we can figure out how this sensation is connected with the clinical outcome," Kong said.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/XekkvV Canadian Medical Association Journal, online February 25, 2013.

Mediterranean diet can ward off heart disease: study

(Extraído de medlineplus.gov)

By Genevra Pittman

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A Mediterranean diet high in olive oil, nuts, fish and fresh fruits and vegetables may help prevent heart disease and strokes, according to a new large study from Spain.

Past research suggested people who eat a Mediterranean-like diet have healthier hearts, but those studies couldn't rule out that other health or lifestyle differences had made the difference.

For the new trial, researchers randomly assigned study volunteers at risk of heart disease to a Mediterranean or standard low-fat diet for five years, allowing the team to single out the effect of diet, in particular.

"This is good news, because we know how to prevent the main cause of deaths - that is cardiovascular disease - with a good diet," said Dr. Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez, who worked on the study at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona.

He and colleagues from across Spain assigned almost 7,500 older adults with diabetes or other heart risks to one of three groups.

Two groups were instructed to eat a Mediterranean diet - one supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil and the other with nuts, both donated for the study - with help from personalized advice and group meetings. The third study group ate a "control" diet, which emphasized low-fat dairy products, grains and fruits and vegetables.

Over the next five years, 288 study participants had a heart attack or stroke or died of any type of cardiovascular disease.

People on both Mediterranean diets were 28 to 30 percent less likely to develop cardiovascular disease than those on the general low-fat diet, the researchers reported Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The new study is the first randomized trial of any diet pattern to show benefit among people initially without heart disease, said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, who studies nutrition and cardiovascular disease at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

NOT DUE TO SINGLE INGREDIENT

It's the blend of Mediterranean diet components - not one particular ingredient - that promotes heart health, according to Martinez-Gonzalez.

"The quality of fat in the Mediterranean diet is very good," he told Reuters Health. "This good source of calories is replacing other bad sources of calories. In addition, there is a wide variety of plant foods in the Mediterranean diet," including legumes and fruits as desserts, Martinez-Gonzalez added.

"I think it's a combination of what's eaten and what's not eaten," agreed Mozaffarian, who wasn't involved in the new research.

"Things that are discouraged are refined breads and sweets, sodas and red meats and processed meats," he told Reuters Health. "The combination of more of the good things and less of the bad things is important."

Martinez-Gonzalez suggested people seeking to improve their diet start with small changes, such as forgoing meat one or two days per week, cooking with olive oil and drinking red wine with meals rather than hard alcohol.

Replacing a high-carbohydrate or high-saturated fat snack with a handful of nuts is also a helpful change, said Teresa Fung, a nutrition researcher at Simmons College in Boston who also wasn't on the study team.

"All of these steps are making, at the end of the day, a big difference," Martinez-Gonzalez said.

Fung pointed out many people in the new trial were already on medications, such as statins and diabetes drugs.

"The way I see it is, even if people are on medication already, diet has substantial additional benefit," she told Reuters Health.

That's likely the case for people without heart risks - including high blood pressure or cholesterol - as well, Fung added.

"This is a high-risk group, but I don't think people should wait until they become high-risk in order to change," she said.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/YuyV7v New England Journal of Medicine, online February 25, 2013.

Dr. Pérez Abendaño: “La Medicina Natural debería ser una forma diferente de acercarse al ser humano y de abordar el proceso salud-enfermedad”

(Extraído de ademna.es)

Pamplona, 21 de febrero.- La Asociación de Esclerosis Múltiple de Navarra (ADEMNA) celebró el pasado jueves, 21 de febrero, en Civican la segunda jornada de la II edición del ciclo de charlas titulado “CharlEMos”. La charla, que llevó el título “Medicina: ¿Natural? ¿Convencional?”, contó con la ponencia del Dr. Marcos Pérez Abendaño, licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía por la Universidad de Navarra. El ciclo “charlEMos” pretende abordar distintos aspectos que tienen que ver con la vivencia de la enfermedad desde una perspectiva global.

El Dr. Marcos Pérez Abendaño, fue el encargado de impartir esta segunda charla en Civican con el título “Medicina: ¿Natural? ¿Convencional?” donde realizó una reflexión acerca de la forma de abordar el proceso salud-enfermedad desde posturas no convencionales, lo que a nivel popular se entiende por “medicina natural”, tratando de definir este concepto y sus implicaciones.

Según palabras de Pérez Abendaño “la Medicina Natural no consiste en un conjunto de técnicas distintas a las habituales y “más naturales”, sino que debería ser una forma diferente de acercarse al ser humano y de abordar el proceso salud-enfermedad”.

Posteriormente se realizó un recorrido por las diferentes posibilidades de terapias que se encuadran dentro de este espacio, analizando sus características específicas y sus aportes al concepto general. Se trata de la acupuntura, la homeopatía, homotoxicología (especie de homeopatía moderna que mezcla varios principios a diferentes concentraciones), la terapia neural, la odontología neurofocal (debido a que la salud está también en la boca), las medicinas energéticas, la sintergética (sabiduría y salud), la meditación y las terapias psico-somáticas, y los recursos y remedios naturales para finalizar con la gran importancia de la alimentación indicando el proverbio de que “cuando la alimentación es mala la medicina no funciona. Cuando la alimentación es buena la medicina no es necesaria”, finalizó el ponente.

Un estudio apunta a la homeopatía como terapia paliativa, segura y que va en aumento en pacientes con enfermedades raras

(Extraído de 20minutos.es)

En Europa mueve ya el 2% de la industria del medicamento y en España 15.000 farmacias dispensan fármacos homeopáticos

• EUROPA PRESS. 24.02.2013

El estudio 'Uso racional de la medicina homeopática como terapia aplicada a enfermedades de baja prevalencia', del que es primer firmante Carlos Lerma, vocal de Fitoterapia y Homeopatía del Colegio de Farmacéuticos de Sevilla y miembro del departamento de Farmacia y Tecnología Farmacéutica de la Universidad Hispalense, revela que la medicina homeopática se está mostrando como una terapia "paliativa y segura", a la par que es un "valor en claro aumento" entre pacientes que sufren enfermedades de baja prevalencia.

Este trabajo, recogido por Europa Press, se ha presentado precisamente en la última sesión del VI Congreso Internacional de Medicamentos Huérfanos y Enfermedades Raras que ha acogido Sevilla. Su objetivo principal se ha centrado en conocer los aspectos relacionados con la homeopatía por parte de los pacientes afectados por enfermedades raras, entre ellos, "nivel de conocimientos, interés en su utilización, grado de confianza y canales de información".

Para tal fin, se han llevado a cabo 200 encuestas dirigidas a afectados por patologías raras y sus familiares durante 2012, tanto en formato papel como online, abarcando unas 40 patologías distintas. Entre los principales resultados, sus autores destacan unos "elevados factores de conocimiento, eficacia e información" sobre la homeopatía, incluso apreciándose una "notable variabilidad en edad y formación de los encuestados".

En cuanto a los canales de información utilizados para conocer estas terapias, el trabajo refiere que son principalmente "no sanitarios" y que la información a su médico sobre estos tratamientos "es baja". Pese a ello, refiere en sus conclusiones que la demanda de homeopatía por estos pacientes "es un valor en claro aumento", por lo que entiende que "se debe promover la educación sanitaria y mejorar la comunicación con el paciente y los médicos".

Para sus investigadores, ello podría "mejorar la problemática de estos pacientes" a la hora de encontrar tratamientos que, en muchos casos, "no existen, son caros, poco accesibles, etcétera. Con todo, este trabajo recoge entre sus conclusiones que la medicina homeopática "se muestra como terapia paliativa y segura".

HOMEOPATÍA,

Segundo método terapéutico más usado a nivel mundial

De hecho, los autores de este trabajo al que ha tenido acceso Europa Press detallan que la misma OMS ya refiere que la homeopatía es "el segundo sistema terapéutico utilizado internacionalmente", hasta el punto de que se practica "en más de 80 países", es usado por "unos 100.000 médicos" y por el que son tratados "unos 300 millones de pacientes" en el mundo.

En Europa, el 30 por ciento de los habitantes utiliza la homeopatía, moviendo el 2 por ciento de la industria del medicamento. "Estas cifras se encuentran en alza, a medida que la población y el colectivo médico se van identificando con las peculiaridades de este sistema terapéutico", agregan.

En España, el 45 por ciento de la población conoce y utiliza ocasionalmente la homeopatía, estando el 82 por ciento de los usuarios "muy satisfecho". De hecho, 15.000 farmacias dispensan ya medicamentos homeopáticos y más de 10.000 médicos lo prescriben habitualmente. Por otra parte, unos 4.000 médicos del SNS se han mostrado ya "interesados" por estos medicamentos.

Mushroom-Supplemented Soybean Extract Shows Therapeutic Promise for Advanced Prostate Cancer

(Extraído de sciencedaily.com)

Feb. 20, 2013 — A natural, nontoxic product called genistein-combined polysaccharide, or GCP, which is commercially available in health stores, could help lengthen the life expectancy of certain prostate cancer patients, UC Davis researchers have found.

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Men with prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, known as metastatic cancer, and who have had their testosterone lowered with drug therapy are most likely to benefit. The study, recently published in Endocrine-Related Cancer, was conducted in prostate cancer cells and in mice.

Lowering of testosterone, also known as androgen-deprivation therapy, has long been the standard of care for patients with metastatic prostate cancer, but life expectancies vary widely for those who undergo this treatment. Testosterone is an androgen, the generic term for any compound that stimulates or controls development and maintenance of male characteristics by binding to androgen receptors.

The current findings hold promise for GCP therapy as a way to extend life expectancy of patients with low response to androgen-deprivation therapy.

Paramita Ghosh, an associate professor in the UC Davis School of Medicine, led the pre-clinical study with a team that included UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Ralph de Vere White, a UC Davis distinguished professor of urology. Ruth Vinall in the UC Davis Department of Urology and Clifford Tepper in the UC Davis Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine directed the studies in mice; Ghosh's laboratory conducted the cell studies.

The research focused on GCP, a proprietary extract cultured from soybeans and shiitake mushrooms and marketed by Amino-Up of Sapporo, Japan. Researchers found that the combination of the compounds genistein and daidzein, both present in GCP, helps block a key mechanism used by prostate cancer cells to survive in the face of testosterone deprivation.

The research team had earlier shown that when a patient's androgen level goes down, cancerous prostate cells kick out a protein known as filamin A, which is otherwise attached to the androgen receptor in the cell's nucleus. The androgen receptor regulates growth of prostate cancer cells. Once filamin A leaves the cancerous cell's nucleus, that cell no longer requires androgens to survive. Thus, loss of filamin A allows these cells to survive androgen deprivation, at and the cancer essentially becomes incurable.

The paper, titled "Enhancing the effectiveness of androgen deprivation in prostate cancer by inducing Filamin A nuclear localization," shows for the first time that GCP keeps filamin A in the nucleus. As long as this protein remains attached to the androgen receptor, the cancerous cells need androgens to survive and grow. They die off when starved of androgens, thus prolonging the effects of androgen deprivation, which ultimately prolongs the patient's life.

The team's hypothesis is that metastatic prostate cancer patients with the weakest response to androgen-deprivation therapy could be given GCP concurrently with androgen deprivation therapy to retain Filamin A in the nucleus, thereby allowing cancer cells to die off.

De Vere White is now pursuing funding to begin GCP human clinical trials. Because GCP is a natural product rather than a drug, and requires fewer government approvals, it's expected that these trials will proceed rapidly once funded.

"We should know within the first eight months or so of human clinical trials if GCP works to reduce PSA levels," says de Vere White, referring to prostate-specific antigen levels, a tumor marker to detect cancer. "We want to see up to 75 percent of metastatic prostate cancer patients lower their PSA levels, and GCP holds promise of accomplishing this goal. If that happens, it would probably be a greater therapy than any drug today."

The research was supported by a Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development service Merit Award (I01BX000400) from the Department of Veterans Affairs and by R01CA133209 from the National Cancer Institute.

Other authors were Benjamin A. Mooso, Sheetal Singh, Salma Siddiqui, and Maria Mudryj of the VA Northern California Health Care System; Ruth L. Vinall, Rosalinda M. Savoy, Jean P. Cheung, and Yu Wang of the UC Davis Department of Urology; Clifford G. Tepper, Anthony Martinez, and Hsing-Jien Kung of the UC Davis Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine; and Roble G. Bedolla of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Phosphorus según la homeopatía de Shankaran

(Extraído de es.globedia.com)

El fósforo se encuentra en el grupo V de la tabla periódica, junto a la sílice y azufre, y está estrechamente vinculada con estos dos remedios. Es un remedio tuberculosa.

La sensación principal de fósforo es de ser amado y protegido, a la que el paciente reacciona al ser cariñoso, amable y simpático con la esperanza de que este amor y la atención será correspondido (‘Ternura, cariño vuelve’).

Debe ser sensible a los sentimientos de los demás para ganar su afecto. El esfuerzo de fósforo por lo tanto es en el sentido de cuidar a otros, simpatizar con ellos. El fósforo tiene una sensibilidad de amplio alcance y la reactividad. Él es sensible a todas las emociones – la ira, el miedo y el dolor, y tiene el síntoma único: ‘Los sofocos de la emoción‘.

Él se siente solo y por lo tanto muy vulnerables a los factores ambientales y emocionales. Por lo tanto, tenemos: – El miedo, de la tormenta; – Ilusión, ahogado por las formas, siendo, – Trastornos de dolor; – Trastornos por decepción amorosa.

El fósforo es un componente vital de todos los seres vivos. El paciente fósforo pueden ser muy animadas, a menudo se asemeja a los pacientes de un recurso de los animales. La sensibilidad y la reactividad en los seres humanos se manifiesta en la actitud de simpatía: la sensibilidad al sufrimiento de los demás, y el deseo de dar y recibir amor. Es esta sensibilidad y reactividad que permite al hombre entrar en contacto, establecer relaciones y encontrar su lugar en el mundo. Mi experiencia con la gente de fósforo es que son muy sensibles a los que les rodean.

Ellos tienden a atraer la atención hacia sí mismos, ya sea por su aspecto (si se examina la típica constitución fósforo a encontrar que es magra, justo con largas pestañas curvas y un paseo elegante, una persona físicamente atractiva), forma de hablar, o el calor que muestran. Es difícil hacer caso omiso de una persona fósforo. Pero detrás de esta sensibilidad se esconde el sentimiento de que no están recibiendo suficiente atención, atención y amor. Esto crea una inseguridad en fósforo que hace a la persona buscar más compañía, más amigos, etc.  Se trata de que el amor que se pierde. Él puede hacer esto por cuidar mucho a los demás, ser útil a los demás y salir de su camino para ellos. El fósforo puede hacer amigos muy fácilmente.

La situación Materia Médica de fósforo es de un niño que no recibe la atención y el amor de la gente en su casa y por lo tanto tiene mucho de los amigos de fuera con el fin de satisfacer esta necesidad.

A pesar de que puede tener un montón de amigos, sin embargo, el fósforo es a menudo incapaz de hacer buenos amigos íntimos y la mayoría de sus relaciones están en un nivel bastante superficial. Son muy emocionales, muy amoroso, cariñoso, simpático, cariñoso. Al mismo tiempo pueden ser muy fácilmente excitado, muy ansioso, con miedo, clarividente e inquieto. En el ámbito intelectual, se encuentra el aumento de la actividad expresada como: ‘Las ideas abundante claridad, de la mente’, ‘Memoria, activo’, ‘trabajador’, ‘Sentidos agudos’.

Por otro lado podemos encontrar la indiferencia, la apatía, la deficiencia de las ideas, la debilidad de la memoria, la indolencia y apatía de los sentidos. Esto representa el lado inconsciente, o no del recurso. El fósforo tiene ‘ilusión, la isla, se encuentra en un distante’. Tal sentimiento se crea un fuerte deseo de la compañía. Esto puede ser seguido por un cansancio o debilidad.

Hay una intensa necesidad de salir de su casa – el lugar de su aislamiento – en la que no encuentra el amor o atención. Uno puede reconocer el miasma tuberculosa en fósforo, de alta energía con emaciación y debilidad. Y El fósforo es también un recurso importante para la tuberculosis.

La clarividencia en fósforo se expresa generalmente como una sensación de intimidad tremenda. Ellos pueden decir: ‘Yo sabía que tan pronto como entró en la habitación, no había vibraciones entre nosotros, a pesar de que nunca había conocido unos a otros antes.’ Hay un deseo de ser magnetizado y las ondas magnéticas de viaje puede. Otra forma en que se expresa la clarividencia de fósforo se encuentra en la ansiedad del paciente siente por la otra persona. Uno de mis colegas para que le receté fósforo tenía la sensación, tres veces, que su padre estaba teniendo un ataque al corazón y cada vez menos de una hora de conseguir esta sensación de que recibió una llamada diciéndole que su padre había hecho, tuvo un ataque al corazón . Este tipo de sentimiento de la otra persona es muy típico de fósforo.

Causticum y Nitricum acidum son también remedios simpáticos. Pero hay una especie de egoísmo detrás de la simpatía de estos dos. Ellos pueden ganar por su simpatía, mientras que el fósforo es realmente simpático. Causticum es simpático en el sentido de que está ansioso por los demás, pero el fósforo se siente la ansiedad de los demás. En Causticum si su hijo sale y llega un poco tarde, a pesar de que el niño se está disfrutando, la madre se siente preocupado. El fósforo no es así. El fósforo se siente la ansiedad de los demás: cuando la otra persona está ansiosa, fósforo que se siente. Nitricum acidum es simpática condicional. Mientras tú eres su amigo, él será simpático hacia usted. Pero el momento en que le ofenden, él va a querer matar. Así que la suya no es una verdadera simpatía.

Categorías

° Ternura, cariño vuelve.

° Amatividad.

° Los niños, vigilante, que están en el puesto de observación para cada gesto.

° Clarividencia.

° Ilusión, ahogado por las formas, ser.

° Ilusión, la isla, se encuentra en un distante.

° Alejada de su familia.

° El miedo, la tormenta, de.

° La indiferencia, sus seres queridos, a.

Kent

° El apetito, el aumento durante la fiebre.

° Deseos de hielo-crema.

Phatak

° El crecimiento, demasiado rápido.

Medio centenar de jóvenes participan en un taller de homeopatía en el Centro de Recursos Juveniles ‘Los Molinos’

(Extraído de diarioclubsantjoan.com)

Medio centenar de jóvenes de San Vicente del Raspeig han participado en el taller de homeopatía impartido en el Centro de Recursos Juveniles Los Molinos por la asociación Hygea. Los asistentes, de entre 16 y 35 años, han aprendido diferentes usos de remedios homeopáticos para estimular la fuerza curativa del propio organismo.

La concejala de Juventud, Mariela Torregrosa, ha explicado que se trata de un curso novedoso que hemos introducido en la programación de este primer trimestre del año y que permite a los jóvenes iniciarse en estas técnicas que posteriormente los alumnos pueden desarrollar completando su formación en los centros especializados de San Vicente.

Los alumnos han aprendido de forma inicial diferentes usos de remedios homeopáticos para estimular la fuerza curativa del propio organismo, aplicándolo a contusiones, quemaduras o golpes, entre otros.

Los jóvenes interesados en participar en los cursos y talleres de la Concejalía de Juventud deben rellenar el formulario de inscripción en la página web www.ciajsanvi.com o inscribirse en las oficinas del Centro de Recursos Juveniles Los Molinos, situadas en la calle Enric Valor, 2.

El consumo de sal puede afectar peso en niños

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Un estudio que analizó la dieta de 4,300 niños y adolescentes en Australia indica que aquellos menores que tienen una alta ingesta de sal suelen también consumir bebidas azucaradas. Los niños que consumían más de una bebida azucarada al día tenían un 26 por ciento más de probabilidades de padecer sobrepeso u obesidad. Los resultados del estudio se han publicado en diciembre en la revista Pediatrics.

El estudio identificó que mientras más sal ingerían los niños cada día, más líquidos bebían. Por cada 390 miligramos de sodio ingerido, los menores ingerían aproximadamente 0.6 onzas adicionales de refrescos, jugos u otras bebidas azucaradas.

Se recomienda que los adultos y los niños no ingieran más de 2,300 miligramos de sodio por día, pero en Estados Unidos el promedio de consumo de sodio bordea los 3,400 miligramos de sodio al día.

La doctora Carley Grimes la Universidad de Deakin en Burwood, Australia, recomienda a los padres reemplazar las bebida azucaradas por agua. Grimes asegura que las personas en Estados Unidos no consumen la sal directamente de sus saleros, en realidad consumen sodio al ingerir alimentos procesados y en las comidas de los restaurantes, por esta razón la doctora australiana recomienda cambiar ese tipo de alimentos por frutas, verduras y otros alimentos integrales.

En este estudio se analizaron las dietas de 4,300 participantes con edades comprendidas entre los 2 y los 16 años. Se identificó que el 62 por ciento de niños consumió al menos una bebida azucarada, y además ingirieron más de 2,500mg de sodio al día, luego se determinaría que poco más del 5 por ciento de este grupo eran obesos, mientras que en el grupo con menor consumo de sodio se registró un 3 por ciento de obesos.

Kristi King, portavoz de la Academia de Nutrición y Dietética (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics), considera que los niños aprenden con el ejemplo, por tanto es necesario que los padres evalúen sus hábitos de alimentación y regulen su consumo de alimentos ricos en sodio o azúcar. “Si los alimentos ricos en sodio y las bebidas endulzadas con azúcar están disponibles en la vivienda y los padres los consumen de forma regular, [los niños] también serán más propensos a consumirlos”, manifiesta King.

FUENTE: Carley A. Grimes, BNutrDiet, Ph.D. candidate, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia; Lona Sandon, R.D., M.Ed., assistant professor, clinical nutrition, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; Kristi King, R.D., M.P.H., senior dietitian, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston; January 2013, Pediatrics

Ancianos tienen mayor dificultad para absorber el Zinc

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La falta de zinc en el organismo de personas ancianas está asociada a inflamaciones, enfermedad cardíaca, diabetes e incluso cáncer. Un estudio realizado por la Universidad Estatal de Oregón demuestra que las personas de la tercera edad pueden desarrollar una deficiencia de zinc,  incluso consumiendo los niveles recomendados de este mineral en su dieta.

Los investigadores realizaron pruebas con ratones y descubrieron que los ratones más viejos padecían deficiencia de zinc incluso con una dieta que contenía cantidades adecuadas del mineral y desarrollaban una mayor respuesta inflamatoria.

Solo cuando los ratones viejos recibieron una dosis diez veces superior a las dosis suministradas a los ratones jóvenes se logró reducir la deficiencia de zinc. Los resultados de la prueba fueron publicados en la edición en línea de la revista Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.

Emily Ho, profesora asociada de la Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud Poblacional, asegura que estudios previos han demostrado tanto en humanos como en animales que la deficiencia de zinc puede provocar daño en el ADN y afirmó que “este nuevo trabajo muestra cómo podría ayudar a conducir a la inflamación sistémica”.

Los investigadores indican que los resultados con animales no necesariamente se pueden trasladar a los humanos, pero recalcan que en este momento la dosis recomendada de zinc para ancianos es similar a la que se suministra a individuos jóvenes, por tanto, si los ancianos reducen su capacidad de asimilar el mineral deberían incrementar la dosis en sus dietas.

Para personas ancianas se recomienda tomar complementos dietéticos que les suministren 11 miligramos a los hombres y 8 miligramos a las mujeres, se debe considerar además carnes y mariscos.

FUENTE: Oregon State University, news release, Oct. 1, 2012

Mineral may play role in preventing common cold, ICU sepsis.

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THURSDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Many Americans take zinc supplements to zap colds, and a new study seeks to explain how the mineral works.

Zinc helps fight infections by balancing the immune system's response, according to the study led by Daren Knoell, a professor of pharmacy and internal medicine at Ohio State University.

"We believe that our findings help to narrow an important gap that has existed in our understanding of how this relatively simple metal helps us defend ourselves from infection," Knoell said in a university news release.

Zinc deficiency affects about 2 billion people worldwide, including roughly 40 percent of the elderly in the United States. It can have severe consequences among vulnerable people, the researchers noted.

Red meat and poultry are rich in zinc, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Other foods that contain zinc are beans, nuts, some shellfish, whole grains, fortified cereals and dairy products.

The essential mineral works by stopping the action of a protein known to play an important role in the immune response to infection. As a result, it prevents out-of-control inflammation, the researchers said.

A zinc deficiency at the time of an infection, particularly sepsis -- a devastating systemic response to infection common among patients in a hospital's intensive care unit, or ICU -- could be damaging or even deadly, according to the researchers.

"We do believe that to some extent, these findings are going to be applicable to other important areas of disease beyond sepsis," Knoell said. "Without zinc on board to begin with, it could increase vulnerability to infection. But our work is focused on what happens once you get an infection -- if you are deficient in zinc you are at a disadvantage because your defense system is amplified, and inappropriately so."

After analyzing human cell culture and animal studies, the researchers found that a specific protein draws zinc into infection-fighting cells where it balances the immune response. In a previous animal study, Knoell's team found that unlike mice on a normal diet, those deficient in zinc developed significant inflammation in response to sepsis.

However, it's uncertain for now if very sick ICU patients would benefit from zinc supplements.

"I think the question is whom to give zinc to, if anybody at all. We predict that not everybody in the ICU with sepsis needs zinc, but I anticipate that a proportion of them would," added Knoell, also an investigator in Ohio State's Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute. "Zinc is a critical element that we get from our diet, but we do not think we can give zinc and fix everything. Usually, if there is zinc deficiency, we would expect to see other nutrient deficiencies, too."

Their findings could help explain why taking zinc supplements at the start of a cold seems to ease the effects of the illness, the researchers suggest.

"There might be therapeutic implications about giving supplemental zinc in a strategic manner to help improve some people with certain conditions. But also, could we learn from this so someday we can be more diagnostic about who it is that needs zinc? And if so, what dose and for how long?" Knoell said.

Most adults should get 8 milligrams to 11 milligrams of zinc daily. With supplements, the researchers noted it is possible but relatively uncommon to consume toxic levels of zinc.

The study appeared Feb. 7 in the journal Cell Reports.

SOURCE: Ohio State University, news release, Feb. 7, 2013

Re-Analysis Refutes Diet Guidelines Favoring Vegetable Fats

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Choosing products like safflower oil may be less heart-healthy than believed

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Enduring dietary wisdom -- that polyunsaturated vegetable fats are better for your heart than saturated animal fats -- may be turned on its head by a fresh analysis of a nearly 50-year-old study.

The reasoning has been that a diet rich in omega-6 polyunsaturated fats lowers cholesterol, and is therefore good for heart health. But an updated look at the study indicates that heart disease patients who follow this advice may actually increase their risk for death.

The original "Sydney Diet Heart Study," was initially conducted between 1966 and 1973, at a time when the cholesterol-lowering benefits of all polyunsaturated vegetable acids (PUFAs) were touted with a broad brush.

But in the ensuing years, researchers have come to understand that not all PUFAs are alike, with key biochemical differences -- and perhaps varying cardiovascular impacts -- observed among multiple types of omega-3s (found in fish oils) and omega-6 linoleic acids.

"There is more than one type of polyunsaturated fatty acid," explained Dr. Christopher Ramsden, who headed the re-analysis and is a clinical investigator with the laboratory of membrane biophysics and biochemistry at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

"And so, we were interested in trying to evaluate just one of these compounds, linoleic acid, by looking at this old trial using modern statistical methods, and also by re-including some original data that had gone missing from the first analysis," Ramsden explained.

The findings appeared online Feb. 5 in the BMJ.

The 458 male participants in the original study had been between the ages of 30 and 59 at enrollment, and all had a history of heart disease, with most having survived a heart attack.

The men were placed into two groups. The first group was told to consume linoleic acid, in the form of safflower oil and safflower oil polyunsaturated margarine, at levels equal to 15 percent of total calorie intake. This, said Ramsden, is equivalent to roughly twice the amount that Americans currently consume.

While omega-3 consumption was not affected, the men were also asked to lower their saturated fat intake so that it made up less than 10 percent of their diets. They did so by substituting safflower oil for animal fats, common margarines and shortening oils, salad dressings, baked goods and other products, according to the study.

The second group continued their routine nutritional habits, and both groups kept food diaries and underwent regular assessments during the three-year-plus study period.

By newly crunching all the original data the NIH team found that, compared to the no-dietary-change group, the linoleic acid group faced a higher risk of death, from both heart disease specifically as well as from all causes overall.

In turn, Ramsden's investigators included their Sydney conclusions in a new review of all studies to date exploring the impact of omega-6 consumption.

Despite the fact the American Heart Association (AHA) currently recommends that 5 percent to 10 percent of all calories come from polyunsaturated fat (principally from omega-6), the NIH team found no evidence to support the notion that linoleic acid confers health benefits. The review highlighted the possibility that boosting omega-6 consumption may actually increase the risk for developing heart disease.

Ramsden acknowledged that the Sydney study had been narrowly focused on a specific group of people: middle-aged men with a history of heart disease, who were asked to consume linoleic acid in quantities far exceeding both AHA guidelines and the dietary habits of most Americans.

"So, yes, one of the limitations of this kind of study is always the question of its generalizability to other populations," he cautioned.

But he also suggested that his team's rigorous look back offered valuable insights into how nutritional science has evolved.

"What to many people had at one time seemed pretty straightforward in the 1960s has turned out to form a much less black-and-white picture," he said. "Polyunsaturates are not just involved in cholesterol-lowering. They may also be involved in inflammation, oxidation or clotting. So, it's a very complex picture. And though our goal is not to come up with diet advice, it may be that our conclusions will have important implications for nutritional guidelines."

On that score, American Heart Association spokesperson Penny Kris-Etherton, a registered dietician and professor of nutrition at Pennsylvania State University, suggested that the controversy concerning linoleic acid is not new and will continue.

"But I don't think this is going to change AHA recommendations," she said. "Because there's very robust evidence showing the cardiovascular benefit of linoleic acid. The AHA science advisory board did not just look at one study or a couple of studies. There are lots of studies that form the basis for their guidelines."

"So, I don't think anybody should get alarmed and change their diet," Kris-Etherton said. "Those who are concerned should wait for more research to come out on this topic before taking any drastic measures to change their eating habits in a way that could be harmful."

SOURCES: Christopher Ramsden, M.D., clinical investigator, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics and Biochemistry, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.; Penny M. Kris-Etherton, Ph.D., R.D., professor of nutrition, Pennsylvania State University, and American Heart Association spokesperson; Feb. 5, 2013, BMJ.

Mediterranean diet may be best for diabetes

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By Kathryn Doyle

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Diets lean on meat and rich in healthy fats like olive oil were most effective at promoting weight loss and lowering blood sugar among people with diabetes in a review of evidence from the last 10 years.

Benefits were also seen with diets low in carbohydrates, high in protein or low in simple sugars.

"If you look at different types of diets, these four can improve various aspects of diabetes control," lead author Dr. Olubukola Ajala, a diabetes specialist at Western Sussex Hospitals in the UK, told Reuters Health.

More than 24 million Americans have type 2 diabetes. People with the disease cannot store glucose in their cells effectively, and their blood sugar levels can go dangerously high. Lifestyle changes like weight loss and cutting calorie intake can improve blood sugar control and reduce the risk of complications from the disease, but it has not been clear which diet plans work best.

Ajala and her colleagues reviewed the results of 20 studies comparing the effect of seven popular diets on adults with type 2 diabetes. Mediterranean diets, low-carb diets, high-protein diets and low glycemic index diets - which rank foods by how quickly their carbs turn into glucose - all lowered participants' blood sugar.

After following the diet for at least six months, the people on a Mediterranean eating plan also lost an average of 4 pounds. No other diet had a significant impact on weight, according to the findings published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

"We were quite surprised by the Mediterranean diet in particular," Ajala said. "I would have thought that low-carb would have been the best for losing weight, but Mediterranean seems to be better."

A Mediterranean-style diet emphasizes fruits, vegetables and legumes, whole grains, fish, and using olive oil and herbs in place of butter and salt. Saturated fats from red meat and dairy products are typically less than eight percent of total calories consumed.

Other studies have linked Mediterranean diets with reduced risks of cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and death from heart attack (see Reuters Health story of November 25, 2011:).

Though the review found no evidence that vegetarian, vegan or high-fiber diets aided in weight loss, they might still have promise for improving blood sugar control, the report notes.

In addition, low-carb, low-glycemic and Mediterranean diets all led to increases in markers of heart health - "good" cholesterol rose by 4 percent to 10 percent, and triglycerides fell by up to 9 percent.

The authors caution that the study could not tease apart the beneficial effects of weight loss - versus the types of foods consumed - in the results seen with some of the diets.

"One has to take this with a pinch of salt," Ajala said.

"Weight loss is important, but so is nutrient quality," Katherine Zeratsky, a registered dietician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told Reuters Health.

Portion control and sustainability are the most important elements of a diet plan for type 2 diabetes, according to Zeratsky, who was not involved in the study. She thinks Mediterranean diets may be more successful because they are easier to maintain than restrictive low-carb or high-protein diets.

"I think we're all still recovering from that low-fat diet phase of the 1990s," Zeratsky said. Olive oil makes food more palatable and satisfying, and may curb the urge to snack later in the day, she added.

But a Mediterranean diet is not the only way to achieve weight loss and improve heart health, Zeratsky said.

It's more important to take a balanced approach, including fruits and vegetables, eating moderate portions and talking to a doctor before embarking on a plan.

"It's not just about dumping olive oil on a salad," Zeratsky said.

SOURCE: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, January 30, 2013.