Elson Haas, MD
Swallow a tablespoon of honey topped with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice to calm inflamed tissues and a dash of cayenne to stimulate circulation.
Elson Haas, MD
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IGM® acupressure balances the body's energy by applying pressure to 50 specific points along energy channels (the Chi or Qi). It is easy to misunderstand the term "pressure" since it actually uses a very light touch. During a session, I will use my fingertips to make contact with the body. What is important is the location of the contact, not the amount of pressure.
You may ask how lightly touching the surface of the body can affect the balance of energy. The answer is that the viscera (internal organs in the main cavities of the body, esp. those in the abdomen, the intestines) are connected with the skin and muscles of our bodies through energy channels, as well as by networks of small connecting vessels. There will be people who like firm, strong pressure and others preferring a light one. In either case, I can adjust the amount of pressure to suit you. Just remember, IGM® does not depend on pressure in order to be effective. Just a few spices you should know about:
GARLIC: anti-bacterial, antiviral, anti-fungal, thins the blood. ROSEMARY: This is a memory herb. For a quick snack (or light lunch) cut up a potato and put in a baking pan with olive oil and put rosemary on it. Bake at 425. THYME: A decongestant/expectorant. A digestive aid which relaxes muscles in your colon. OREGANO: Ant-fungal, Anti-parasitic, Anti-bacterial BASIL: Cough suppressant. When i had a really bad cough in Florida, I was in the Asian grocery with my mom getting some food and the woman there told me to boil basil in water and drink it as a tea. It calmed my cough immediately. CINNAMON: Regulates glucose, brings blood pressure down and good for digestion and urinary tract infections. DILL: A great digestive aid and good for gas. CLOVE: Have a toothache and can't see a doctor yet, try the essential oil of clove on the tooth. Instant relief! Always keep turmeric (curcumin) in your pantry. Here's the reason why.
Straight from the NIH (National Institute of Health) site: "Although safe in most cases, ancient treatments are ignored because neither their active component nor their molecular targets are well defined. This is not the case, however, with curcumin, a yellow-pigment substance and component of turmeric (Curcuma longa), which was identified more than a century ago. For centuries it has been known that turmeric exhibits anti-inflammatory activity, but extensive research performed within the past two decades has shown that the this activity of turmeric is due to curcumin, a diferuloylmethane. This agent has been shown to regulate numerous transcription factors, cytokines, protein kinases, adhesion molecules, redox status and enzymes that have been linked to inflammation. The process of inflammation has been shown to play a major role in most chronic illnesses, including neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, autoimmune and neoplastic diseases. In the current review, we provide evidence for the potential role of curcumin in the prevention and treatment of various pro-inflammatory chronic diseases. These features, combined with the pharmacological safety and negligible cost, render curcumin an attractive agent to explore further." I cook with turmeric every chance I get. But I also learned of a great tea in which you boil 2 cups of water (or any kind of milk including nut milks - they just have more calories), add a teaspoon each of turmeric and ginger powder. Let boil for 10 minutes and add sweetener to taste. I use a special pot for this since the turmeric stains everything but the taste is wonderful and it's MY pick me up in the morning instead of coffee. And...it can help stave off the pain in my joints. I cannot stress enough how important having an aloe plant (or a few of them) in your home is. One time, while driving to one of my clients in the Bronx, I spilled scalding hot tea onmy chest. I had it in a really great thermos cup (so it was REALLY hot) and forgot that I had loosened the lid to cool it down. While driving down the NYS Thruway, I lifted the thermos and brought it to my mouth and poured. Well, I cannot begin to explain how extremely shocked and in pain I was when the tea spilled all over my chest. It was a wonder I didn't get into an accident. I could feel the trickle of the hot liquid going down. It was excruciating! I got off the first possible exit and went home. Luckily, Bill was there and began cutting up a few aloe leaves. I lay on the bed and he placed each one on me and the soothing gel was a welcome relief. I kept the aloe on for a couple of days - changing the leaves a couple of times a day. It had just begun to blister but with the aloe, it never did fully. The pictures show the before and after. Today, I have no scarring from it at all.
I urge you to keep aloe around - if you can't have or don't want the plants, then buy some aloe gel to keep around. It's not as good as the real thing, but it's better than nothing. I've also read that putting frozen french green beans on a burn helps a lot too! Just put the beans on the burn. Pour the juice of it on and wrap in a towel for 15 minutes. Repeat again for another 15 minutes. In 1997, Don Miguel Ruiz came out with a book called "The Four Agreements" - a best seller on the NYTimes Bestseller list for over 8 years. Ruiz says "Everything we do is based on agreements we have made - agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible. One single agreement is not such a problem, but we have many agreements that come from fear, deplete our energy, and diminish our self-worth."
The Four Agreements are:
Recently, Ruiz wrote "The Fifth Agreement." In it, he adds 5. Be skeptical, but learn to listen. (Understand that everyone has his or her own perspective and agenda reflected in their words. It is up to us to discern the truth behind the words, but always to be respectful of another's right to his or her views, even if we don't share them. Each of us is the artist of our own life, the director of our own play, and we can make it an adventure or a drama - heaven or hell, it's up to us.) These are some great agreements to live by. We, all of us, can benefit from incorporating these ideas into our everyday life. The Fifth agreement is deceptively simple, yet incredibly profound. While the first four agreements deal with our relationship to ourselves and how to create a happy life, the fifth agreement deals with our relationship to others, and how to create a better world. It's a good start if you want to make a difference in your own life or the lives of others. Did you know that a hamburger from a single cow on one farm is much less likely to be contaminated with E. coli than standard supermarket hamburger, which can contain meat from up to eight different animals? The story is the same for bagged spinach: leaves from many different fields are mixed together in large processing facilities, spreading any contamination around and magnifying the problem. Support your local farmers markets and food co-ops. They are the way to go these days. Get your local vegetables and fruits as well as meats there. I like going to Warwick Farmer's Market on Sundays. I just love the atmosphere. More often than not, though, I buy my veggies and fruits from Hungry Hollow Food Co-op in Chestnut Ridge, NY (www.hungryhollow.org). You can "Like" them on Facebook too! But there are local farmers markets everywhere. Check out "Local Harvest" and find one near you.
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In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), any sleep disturbance is seen as a disorder of the heart. I'm not just talking about you actual beating heart. Our very spirit makes its home in the heart. If the spirit cannot find rest in the heart, the mind will be restless. If your spirit is affected, then this affects your body instantaneously (ever have one of those nights of tossing and turning because you just can't turn your mind off). It pays to examine your life for symptoms of emotional or spiritual unrest and work on that. Not always easy to do. Isabell Gatto (the nurse who developed the IGM Acupressure treatment I am certified in) gives this advice - If you are disturbed by someone or something, write a letter to the person or situation that is disturbing you. Everything - write everything! Good, Bad, Ugly (especially the bad and ugly). Now, once you've written that all down in the letter, take the letter, read it one last time, rip it up. Throw the letter into the toilet (not the garbage mind you), poop on it (this is key here - you must poop on it - it's symbolic) and flush the toilet. Sometimes just getting those words out, even if the letter is written to someone you love, is important - you NEED to write them. Then just move on with your life as best you can. Sound advice? It's worked for me.
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