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The Symptoms Of Ovarian Cancer

July 9th, 2011 by Owen Jones

The symptoms of ovarian cancer are fairly problematic to recognize regrettably. This is because they are similar to the indications of regular menstruation or menopause that many (or most) women experience frequently anyway. The chance that women who still menstruate have, is if they notice that some of the regular feelings are not quite right.

Menopausal women have a bigger problem because they are new to their condition and it is so erratic anyway. The indications of ovarian cancer include: abdominal pain, a feeling of being bloated, twinges and tiredness.

That is why it is so difficult to use these symptoms as predictors or ovarian cancer. However, if you have these indications at a time when you would not normally do so, or if they last longer than usual, then it would be worth checking with a doctor or your gynecologist.

If you are concerned, naturally, you will need to get a check up, but if you are ‘umming and ahhing’, try to find out whether someone in your family has had ovarian cancer before. There is a tendency for it to run in families, but that is a fact or most forms of cancer really.

However, if you are looking into your family’s history of cancer, bear in mind that cancer can out itself in different ways. for example, a man obviously cannot get ovarian cancer, but if your dad died of cancer you have an increased likelihood as well, albeit it in possibly another kind.

Age is another issue in the likelihood of someone having this kind of cancer – the older the more likely to be expected. There is also another strange twist here. Women who have had a number of children are least at risk, women who have chosen not to have children are more at risk, and women who have always been incapable of having children are most at risk.

The fact is that this is such a difficult form of cancer to home-diagnose that it is hardly worth the trouble. You have to listen to your body and trust your gut feelings. If all is not the same as you are used to, go and have a check up as soon as you can.

Apart from that, go for a ordinary check up anyway. Different countries have different recommendations, but whatever advice that your doctor or gynecologist gives you, you should follow. Ovarian cancer can be treated successfully and not only that but if it is caught early enough in young women, treatment does not necessarily mean loss of fertility.

So, the byword is do not miss your check ups. Almost 75% of women who are diagnosed early can expect a complete recovery. Young women have an even higher chance than older women, which means that older women should go for check ups more often than younger women.

Do not be apathetic about this form of cancer even though the symptoms of ovarian cancer are not simple to recognize, in fact that is a very good reason for you to let an expert check you out. The tests are not invasive and consist of merely a blood test and an ultra sound scan.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a number of subjects, but is now involved with the stages of ovarian cancer. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at Signs and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

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Are Vegetarians Less Likely To Get Cancer?

July 5th, 2011 by Owen Jones

Most people have a nebulous idea that eating meat is bad for you and that eating vegetables will prevent you from developing some serious illnesses such as cancer. Not everybody believes this, but still there is an under current or popular belief that it is so.

It absolutely is a fact that you will consume less animal fat if you are a vegetarian. However, even vegetarians normally eat some animal fats when they eat shop-made cakes or meals in restaurants. There are in essence two schools of ideology on dietary fat.

The traditional view is that decreasing saturated fats is good for you but there is the Atkins Diet idea that saturated fats will not hurt you yet carbohydrates will. Regrettably, the average guy in the street who does not have a medical level of knowledge only has to go with his or her best judgment and hope for the best. After all, if the experts can not agree on what is good and what is not good for us, what chance do we have of knowing?

It is almost certainly fairly true that eating less saturated fat and eating more fibre-rich vegetables and fruit is a good notion, but there is no real need to cut out meat all together. Some studies in Europe have suggested that vegetarians are up to 40% less to be expected to develop cancer than meat-eaters.

Additionally, studies into breast cancer rates all over the world imply that there is less breast cancer in countries where they eat less meat like China and other eastern countries, whereas in Japan, where the American presence has meant that more people eat a la American, the rate of breast cancer is eight times higher.

This tends to suggest that the American diet of plenty of saturated fat and processed meat like hamburgers and hot dogs is responsible for higher rates of cancer.

It is also said that meat and dairy products contribute to the development of several kinds of cancer including breast, colon, ovarian and prostate cancers. Colon cancer appears to be the most affected by a high consumption of meat and dairy with one report stating that it can raise the danger by an enormous 300%.

One well-known problem for adults with drinking milk is that it can raise the body’s levels of oestrogen which is the ‘female’ hormone. This can produce breasts in overweight men and increase the chance of breast cancer in both sexes.

It has been reported that one study into cancer in premenopausal women showed that those who ate meat had a thirty-odd percent more risk of developing cancer. Eating dairy products has been linked with ovarian cancer, because it seems that breaking down lactose damages the ovaries in some way.

There is a equivalent trend in men. Men who eat meat every day have a higher danger of prostate cancer, some say up to three times as high and drinking milk might double the danger too. Those men who do not eat vegetables at all or very infrequently quadruple their likelihood of prostate cancer.

It is very difficult to know what to do, because various studies by different bodies reveal different results. If you do not know who to follow, it seems best to strive to follow a balanced diet in which fruit and vegetables make up the majority of the bulk and calories.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on quite a few topics, but is now involved with the stages of ovarian cancer. If you would like to know more, please visit our web site at Signs and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

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Gas Furnace Repairs You Can Do Yourself

June 22nd, 2011 by Owen Jones

There is not actually much to go wrong with contemporary gas furnaces, but each mechanical item can fail and the central heating system is one of them. The problem is though, that hundreds of millions of households around the world have come to rely on their central heating system.

In general, people are not advised to tamper with things that they know nothing about, especially when it refers to something that could become a fire hazard, but this article is about safe gas furnace repairs, that you can undertake yourself.

Some of these tips might stand you in good stead if the gas furnace in your home central heating system gives up the ghost. These pointers could save you cold nights and high call-out fees.

The more that you become intimate with your central heating system, the more easily you will identify problems that arise, because in general, home heating units have intermittent issues and recurring problems.

Does your heating unit keep switching itself on and off at unsuitable times? This probably has something to do with the thermostat. The old fashioned of dealing with thermostats was to tinker with them, but no one does that anymore, they just replace them. You may as well do the same.

Purchase a replacement thermostat and fit it, but if you want to learn more, play about with the metal disk in the old one and refit it after a modification. If you carry on going like this, you might find out what works one day. Some thermostats are fairly simple devices and you can suss them out.

If your central heating system keeps shutting down, this is also probably a difficulty with the thermostat, as long as there is fuel in the tank. The strategy is the same. Look at the disk inside the thermostat and read any writing on it. Normally, if you bias it one way or the other, it will fix the problem.

A really easy one is the pilot light. If your system is not working, merely check that the pilot light is burning. The pilot light serves as the ignition for a heat cycle, so if there is not one there, there will be no heat cycle or heating.

The pilot light can be blown out or merely go out because of a temporary shortage of fuel, after which it will have to be re-ignited.

If your whole heating system seems to be working normally, but there is no heat coming through the vents, it is probably the blower. Check the fan belt and either tighten the tension or replace it. This is an easy job, which, having done once, you can do in your sleep.

The foremost thing concerning any home appliance is not to automatically reach for the phone book if things go wrong. That is exactly what the want you to do. They would like you to think that items are too difficult unless you have studied them, whereas in fact, most engineers only replace parts – very little is fixed or taken apart any more.

Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on a number of subjects, but is at present concerned with emergecy air conditioning repairs. If you would like to know more or check out some great offers, please go to our website at Home Air Conditioning Systems.

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Fighting Atherosclerosis With Good Nutrition (part 2)

June 22nd, 2011 by Owen Jones

You will have to make your own mind up on whether cholesterol or omega 6 is to blame for arteriosclerosis. The argument is similar to the dieting difficulty: do you have faith in in the old-style fat-reduction, high carbohydrate diet or the newer, Atkins’ high fat low carbohydrate diet?

It is very perplexing for the layman, but that is how experts sell books. You pay your money and take your choice or you merely go along with your physician.

However, both camps of dietitians agree that fish oil is healthy for you and in particular is good for decreasing LDL cholesterol and omega 6 excess. Omega 3 is best taken in oily, cold water fish like salmon, herring and mackerel.

They contain relatively high levels of omega 3 essential fatty acids. Another source of omega 3, but different ones from the fish, is from meat that has been raised on grass.

Garlic is famous for being an antiseptic but it is also useful for decreasing cholesterol. It appears to have a deleterious impact on LDL (bad) cholesterol, but leaves HDL (good) cholesterol alone. One clove a day is said to be enough to have a beneficial impact.

Fibre and roughage are crucial for good general health. These components are to be found in fruit and vegetables (particularly the leafy green ones); grains, lentils, legumes and nuts. Roughage and fibre will help remove LDL cholesterol and prevent constipation. They also help avoid bowel cancer which is on the rise in the West.

Some dietitians say that LDL is not dangerous, but is just a threat and it becomes dangerous after it has been damaged. One form of damage is oxidization. Therefore, anti-oxidants will reduce the risk from cholesterol and atherosclerosis. The next question ought to be: what are strong anti-oxidants?

There is a colossal array of anti-oxidants ranging from the fun to the boring. I do not know what you find boring, but flavonoids are a good anti-oxidant and they are present in high volumes in red wine. Besides red wine, other anti-oxidants include: Vitamins Ce and E and beta carotene.

These are available in peppers, citrus fruit, strawberries, cantaloupe melons, broccoli, white carrots, sweet potatoes, spinach, mangoes and green leaf vegetables. Other good sources are wheat, oats, nuts and seeds.

Mono unsaturated fat is one of the best sources of oil you can find. Mono unsaturated fat comes best from olive oil, which is one of the factors why the so-called Mediterranean Diet is so good for people.

Mono unsaturated fat has another beneficial effect: eating it reduces hunger for a longer time than you would expect for the calories involved. This makes it a good substance for dieters. The same is true of roughage, fibre and eggs.

Mono unsaturated fat is one of your best allies in the fight against arteriosclerosis. However, it is not merely present in olive oil, it is also in avocados and nuts, especially pecan nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts and almonds.

Last but not least is ginger. Ginger has a high quantity of phytochemicals known as gingerol and shogaol which are also antioxidants. Ginger not just lowers LDL cholesterol, but it also helps prevent the oxidization of LDL

If you can merely implement a couple of these alterations to your diet you may be able to ward off arteriosclerosis and sidestep having to take drugs like statins for life.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on several topics, and is now concerned with omega 3 arthritis. If you want to know more, please go to our site at Omega 6 9

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Trying To Avoid Cancer Of The Lungs

June 18th, 2011 by Owen Jones

Cancer is the main or second biggest killer in most countries in the world in spite of the fact that there has been a crack down on smoking. There are not that many countries left in the Western world where there are not some restrictions on smoking. This is scarcely surprising actually, we all know what smoke and pollution is doing to the planet’s atmosphere and to the world’s foliage – it’s lungs – so why should it not be doing the same to us? In spades, even?

Cancer is a condition where cells start growing out of control, as most of us already know. The majority of people affected are more than forty rears old and it affects women smokers equally as much as men smokers. Traditionally, more men smoked than women, but that ratio is changing.

Nowadays, it is more common to see women smoking than men. This is usually because women try to use smoking as a hunger suppressant – in other words an aid to losing weight.

Smoking is the foremost reason for cancer and so it is expected that over the next decades, that there will be a higher percentage of women dying of lung cancer than men for the first time in history.

An off-shoot of smoking is passive smoking, which is the condition in which someone breathes the secondhand smoke of a smoker. This used to take place most often in bars and offices, but smoking there has now been banned, so it is likely that most passive smoking now takes place in the home, which puts children most at danger. There are equivalent experiences to passive smoking from pollutants from vehicles.

The difficulty with lung cancer is that there is no cure. Your body can repair itself if you give it a fair chance, but it does need a fair opportunity. Many people have been able to do well with a little lung cancer, but you cannot do well with merely a couple of percent of your lungs.

This is why some of the symptoms of lung cancer are coughing, wheezing, blood in the phlegm that smokers cough up, being out of breath and having chest pains. Heavy smokers who are developing lung cancer are often under weight as well.

Regrettably, chemotherapy and radiotherapy do not have a immense deal of effect on this form of cancer. The most a sufferer can look forward to is a wheezy life in an oxygen tent. And not a long life at that. Drugs can alleviate the pain and ease breathing, but not much more.

Surgery can help, but you merely have so much lung capacity and if that is cut away it will not grow back. You can do pretty well with just one lung, but a full and active normal life is a problem. You would require an inhaler to walk any distance.

The other thing is that blood flows through the lungs to pick up oxygen which it distributes to each part of your body. Whilst it is oxygenating this blood it will also pick up cancerous cells and distribute these over your whole body too. It could well be that it is one of these secondary cancers that will kill you.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a number of subjects, but is now involved with the stages of ovarian cancer. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at Signs and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

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Places Where Individuals Live Longer

June 11th, 2011 by Owen Jones

Most people do not look forward to death. They want to live a long life and endeavour to remain eternally young. The peoples of every country spend billions each year on health care and beauty products.

Some people think that the length of time you live is written in fate and there is nothing that you can do to change it, others think that we only have a definite number of heart beats, but most people think that genetics, diet and lifestyle are the major influences.

However, there may be another factor worth looking at: your place of residence. There are a couple of places in the world where people appear to live longer, on average, than is standard for their country or globally.

Take the city of Okinawa in southern Japan. Okinawa has more than a million inhabitants, 900 of whom are over 100 years of age. Japan has an aging populace in general, but nowhere there is the same as Okinawa for longevity and the percentage of centenarians is between four and five times higher than in the UK or the USA.

Not only do Okinawans live longer, but they also tend to stay healthy until their dying days, which is everybody’s dream. Diet is thought to be the main reason why Okinawans live such long, healthy lives. They consume a great deal of fish, tofu, soya and seaweed and swill it down with lots of tea.

This makes their diet low in saturated fats and pretty low in salt. However, it is also a widely-held belief in Okinawa that one should only eat until one is 80% full not 100% This might put less strain on the digestive system, but no one is quite sure yet if this has a bearing on living a longer, healthy life.

Then there is Loma Linda in California, the USA. The citizens of Loma Linda live an average of five to ten years longer than the residents of near-by towns. The town is mainly Seventh Day Adventist, which preaches vegetarianism, no smoking and no alcohol. Some will look to these reasons as the reasons for living longer.

However, this does not account for why nearly everybody, even the smoking, alcohol-drinking, meat-eating inhabitants, lives longer. Others put the longevity down to religious belief, but researchers are mystified. Maybe going to church and relying on God relieves believers of some of the stress of daily life and stress is famous to be a cause of major diseases.

Another strange place is Owoda on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. It is just a village of less than 2,000 residents but it has far more than the average number of 100 year olds than elsewhere. What is even stranger is that there are as many old men as old women which is not the standard anywhere else in the world.

The well-known Mediterranean diet and the pleasant climate are considered to be factors at play here, but it may also have something to do with their genes. The inhabitants were virtually isolated for hundreds of years and marriage among relatives was not uncommon. Usually this is not recommended because it can cause abnormalities. It looks like the abnormality that inter-marriage caused for the Owodans is longevity.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with the cause of macular degeneration. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Macular Degenerative Disease

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Eyesight Improvement

June 10th, 2011 by Owen Jones

We are under great pressure not to look old, not to look our age. One of the best compliments people of more than 21 years think that they can receive is: ‘Really? You do not look it!’ To a certain extent this obsession with a youthful appearance has always been with us, but the pressure has ratcheted up due to films and television.

Film stars and pharmaceutical companies unscrupulously team up to persuade us that we need this surgery too in order to become popular. What they do not tell you is that the pharmaceutical businesses have paid the film stars to have free treatment and then paid (or sponsored) the chat shows that so blatantly promote them.

And ageism is rife as well, both among the young, whose worst insults usually have the word ‘old’ included and among employers who can not wait to be rid of employees at 65 after a lifetime of service. Governments or at least some governments are exactly as bad, penalizing pensioners with a meager salary after fifty years of paying taxes.

People used to grow old gracefully, now it is a sin. There is a long list of ‘improvements’ that you can work your way through: face lift, liposuction, hair transplants, dentures and several others, but the one that actually makes sense to me is sight improvement by whatever technique works.

We live in a beautiful world and it is a shame that whilst we are at the correct stage in our life to enjoy it – that is while we have more time, more money and have become more philosophical, we begin to go blind. At the same time as your grandchildren begin arriving, your eyesight begins to go.

There are numerous reasons why you could start losing your vision besides only old age, but old age does play a role in some of them too.

Macular degeneration is usually called age-related macular degeneration, but there is a rare kind that has an impact on the young. There are two kinds wet and dry. The dry kind is less severe, but the wet kind is more easily treated.

Cataracts are thought to be age-related as well, but I had premature senile cataracts 20 years early. Fortunately these are easily treated as well with only a couple of minutes of surgery. Glaucoma is a vicious one, which can leave you totally blind, if you do not catch it soon enough and have it treated.

The key to success with all of these eyesight impairments is tackling them early. If you suspect that anything is not right with your eyes, go to a GP or optician immediately. Do not get fooled by quack cures that you may see advertised on late night TV or in the small ads. They should be banned.

Eye exercises and eye drops are fine for healthy eyes, but they will not help you if you have a problem, only a fully qualified expert can do that. These advertisers prey on individuals who either do not have the money for surgery or who are frightened of it and there are lots of them around too.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with macular degeneration glasses. If you want to know more, please visit our site at Macular Degenerative Disease

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Cancer Prevention And Green Tea Consumption

June 9th, 2011 by Owen Jones

Most people are scared stiff of contracting cancer. That is perfectly understandable – who wants to spend a couple of years experiencing chemotherapy just to die a couple of years later? Or even if you recover it is a couple of years out of your life that have been worrying and gruelling. And not merely for the patient but for friends and family too.

So, some people do everything possible to reduce the risks of developing cancer. Most of us do not believe we know how to do this, others are not sure, but they have heard or read something that sounds ‘about correct’ and others are convinced that they know how to avoid developing cancer.

My wife is convinced that I may get cancer from eating burnt toast and others are convinced that they can stave off cancer by saturating their body with green tea. It has often been pointed out and for decades too, that countries where green tea is the norm, say the Far East, have a much lower incidence of cancer than we do in the West.

And this is almost certainly the case at the moment. But why is it the case? I live in Asia and diabetes is the number one killer near me. Do Asians not get cancer as much as we do because they drink green tea or for other reasons?

In fact, where I live in Northern Thailand, I have never seen anyone drink tea or coffee or accept a cup off me, except my wife. People here drink water or alcohol, depending on the time of day. Kids like Cola or Sprite or whatever because they watch as well much TV, but drink a lot of water.

It is said that green tea is an anti-oxidant and it is alleged that anti-oxidants help get rid of free radicals which could cause cancer. If this is true, then the claims for green tea are maybe more substantial.

However, the claims are so all-embracing that it makes me sceptical. I am reading a report just now that claims that green tea will prevent the formation of cancerous cells in the: “… aesophagus, bladder, on the skin, in the ovaries, the pancreas and the prostate”.

That is a very tall order indeed.

The problem for me with all these claims is that they are not corroborated – there are no references that you can follow that do not lead to firms selling green tea. This is a difficulty.

Some will say that the government or the pharmaceutical businesses are suppressing the information because they want to sell more expensive drugs – and this might be the case – grist to the mill for conspiracy theorists and retailers of Chinese tea.

Now that we appear to be entering into a ‘new era’, a more sceptical and more enlightened era (thanks a great deal to the World Wide Web), couldn’t someone do some investigation on green tea and Acai berries and all the rest of the stuff you read of in your junk emails and put an end once and for all to the false hopes, if that is what they are, that we are being sold each day by unscrupulous advertisers hoping for a quick buck?

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of topics, but is now involved with the stages of ovarian cancer. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at Signs and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

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Water, Exercise And Dehydration

June 5th, 2011 by Owen Jones

We, as human beings, as very dependent on water. We are roughly 70% water and we cannot live without it. In fact, we can go weeks without food, but just about three days without water.

One of the sad things about the Western diet is that a great deal of people no longer drink water. They have completely replaced water with sugary soft drinks, which of course contain enough water but also contain too much sugar or sugar substitute.

The first step that these people have to take in order to be back on track is to give up this silly, childish habit and start drinking plain water again. It has been estimated that about two-thirds of individuals do not drink enough water, which is saying that they are in a permanent state of partial dehydration.

Water has a number of important functions in our bodies, but one of the most important ones is to flush out toxins. It is worth realizing that if you feel thirsty, your body has arrived at a state where it is crying out for water. In other words, it has already passed the state where it requires water, so endeavour not to wait until you are thirsty before you take a drink.

Another fact is that tea, coffee and alcohol (some of our most well-liked adult drinks) are diuretics, which is to say that they force urination, often more than they replace. So you can put 250mm in but you may lose 270mm. This is naturally not the purpose of drinking if you are thirsty

Exercise is another reason why we lose water. In fact, merely by being alive, we lose water due to body heat and evaporation, but when we are actually doing something, we lose water fairly rapidly. You might be worried about drinking water before going to bed, but if you can do it, it is a very healthy idea.

If you wake up a bit groggy each day and have to have breakfast, tea or coffee before you can actually wake up, it might be because of dehydration, not because you have problems waking up. Being dehydrated causes drowsiness and lack of concentration.

In fact, dehydration is a major killer in the Third World. This is not because there is no water, but because the water is contaminated. This contaminated water causes diarrhoea which causes dehydration. It is vital to continue drinking when you are sick even if you do not feel like eating.

It is suggested that we drink at least eight glasses of water (say, of 250mm each) a day. More if you are exercising or sick. It sounds like a great deal of water, but most people are awake for around 16 hours a day, so eight tumblers works out to only one each two hours.

It is more of a difficulty to get into the habit of drinking water on a regular basis than it is to really do the drinking, but once you have established the habit, you will feel better on a day-to-day basis. It will not prevent you from getting sick, but your general degree of health will improve, because you are getting rid of toxins.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with Sundance hot tubs. If you would like to know more, please visit our site at Hot Springs Spa Parts

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Ancient Medicines

June 1st, 2011 by Owen Jones

As you all know, the way that it works with medicine is: you get sick, you go to the medical doctor, he/she gives you a prescription, you buy that, take it and hopefully make a full recovery. In a way, it has always been like that. Individuals went to the most skilled person in the village for advice on how to cure an ailment, a couple of herbs were prescribed and a donation was given.

The only real dissimilarity in the course of action nowadays is that then, there was a far higher general awareness of the power of herbs. Nowadays, in the West at least, the medical profession and the pharmaceuticals have managed to wean us off herbs by one manner or another – normally fear.

The fact is that most drugs are manufactured from herbs or plants or from synthesized chemicals found in herbs and plants. In a way, all we have done is substituted purchasing for picking.

OK, I know that it is more complicated than that. Drugs are often combinations that work well together and being told to take one tablet a day saves you having to worry about overdosing, but there are still often side-effects. Just read the leaflet inside the box of your next box of pills.

Mine says: anxiety, fainting, erectile dysfunction, low blood pressure, diarrheoa and heart failure. Enchanting, isn’t it? They are pills for high blood pressure (beta-blockers). I live in a small village in northern Thailand, where high blood pressure is not a difficulty, but I know one old lady who has it and high cholesterol and her nurse showed her which tree to choose leaves from to make a tea. She does not take tablets, but I still do.

There is also a woman who started coming into our garden four months ago to pick purple flowers off a kind of wisteria that we grow (dork anchan). ‘It is for my son’s very bad cough’, she said. Asthma, I think she meant.

Anyway, she picks a handful a week and her son is fine. I had a cough at Christmas and tried it myself. I drank two cups of tea before going to bed and I drank the cold dregs in the morning, but my cough had already gone.

The hottest time of the year here is March – May, after which it is still hot but the monsoons come and cool it down. Last year, for the first time in my life I suffered from prickly heat in the hot spell. This year it started again, but someone suggested Aloe Vera.

‘Of course’, said my wife and went into the garden to cut some. She cut two small ‘leaves’ and I spent three days smearing the sap onto the affected parts. It had almost gone on the second day, but it vanished on the third day and has not come back in spite of the fact that it has got hotter since then.

A lot of individuals are taking another look at traditional treatments and I am going to be one of them. The problem in our village is that my Thai is not good, just my wife speaks some English and individuals are scared to talk about the old methods in case I think that they are backward.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with the macular degeneration test. If you would like to know more, please go to our site at Macular Degenerative Disease

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