Pulmonary tuberculosis (or Consumption) is one of the most dreaded diseases. The cause of the disease is described as infection due to tubercle bacillus, which affects the lungs and slowly starts consuming their vitality.
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Obesity, too, is a disease. It is due to accumulation of fat under the skin and around certain body organs. It is now a matter of prevalent craze among people, especially ladies to reduce weight as a means of slimming and reducing the body’s fat.
It is a common and rather troublesome disease. It is the inflammation of the skin with watery discharge. The papules and pimples on the skin cause a burning and itching sensation. Scratching only worsens the condition.
Anemia is the deficiency of blood, that is, a person is said to be anemic, whose blood is deficient in quantity, as well as quality. Due to toxic effect of accumulated waste material in the blood arteries, a deficiency of Haemoglobin occurs.
Hemoglobin contains iron of the blood, which is essential for body’s health and life, because it takes up oxygen from the air and carries it in combination to the cells of the organs for their sustenance. Haemoglobin is a red-colouring matter in the blood.
That is why an anaemic person loses the colour of his face.
Treatment
The medical science gives iron to the patient in his blood, by medicine or injection, but their effect is not lasting, because it is inorganic, while the blood needs organic iron, which is available from natural foods.
As a treatment, the anemic person should have an exclusive source of all-fruit diet for a week or so, using juicy fruit, orange, papaya, etc. After that milk should be added to the diet for another fortnight.
During this period constipation has to be avoided by using enema daily, along with dry massage and hip-baths. Breathing exercises and walks should be regularly taken as also sun-bath.
This is the result of extra force exerted by the heart to pump blood through arteries clogged with toxic waste. The causes of toxic waste are excessive use of alcohol and smoking besides wrong in-take of foods. Hence, it occurs in the middle life of man.
The symptoms are pain or noises in the head, irritants of temper, dizziness, short-breathing and disordered digestion, due to hardened and inelastic arteries.
Treatment
A fast on exclusive fresh fruit diet for a week or fortnight is advised as the period for self-cleansing. During the first week warm water enema should be taken at night, to keep the bowels clear.
This should be followed by regular diet, excluding all refined foods and their products, sugar, sweets and confectionary of all kinds, spices and jams etc. Occasional short fasts are also advised.
Dry massage, breathing exercises, walks, sponging and hip-baths should be taken daily.
Low Blood Pressure
It is a condition in which the heart’s action in forcing blood through the arteries is rendered, rather week, due to devitalised system of the body. Like anemia, it is not a disease, but a condition. The same treatment as advised for anemia may be followed.
Apoplexy, commonly known as Paralysis, is also called cerebral haemorrhage in medical science. Its stroke is a very serious condition, involving one’s life also, if ignored.
The initial cause of apoplexy is the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain, as a consequence of excessively high blood pressure. As already explained under the relevant heading that at the back of blood pressure is wrong dieting, as excess of acidic materials and beverages.
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This is a disease of the gums, which is due to negligence in the proper cleaning of teeth daily, as a morning practice and also after every meal, etc. The membranes surrounding the tooth-root get affected, which causes the loosening of the teeth.
Arthritis relates to the diseases of the joints, gout, ankylosing spondylitis, septic arthritis, fibrosis, lumbago, pott’s disease and synovitis.
Gout causes swelling in the joint connecting the big toe and the foot, caused due to excess of uric acid in the blood.
Cold and catarrh relate to similar conditions, when the mucous membranes of the nose and the throat glands are inflamed, causing sneezing, running of the nose and cough. Such a condition of the nose is called as ‘the cold’ and that in which the throat feels irritation and cough is called the ‘catarrh’.
Due to the inflammation of a portion of the ear directly behind the ear-drum, the discharge of matter takes place into the ear. With the trouble continuing, the inner ear becomes seriously affected and hearing is impaired more and more.