Homeopathic Approach to Addiction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avghi Constantinides ◽  
Shahla J. Modir
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Observational Data ◽  
Vital Force ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Homeopathic Remedy ◽  
Homeopathic Medicine ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
History Of ◽  
Homeopathic Remedies

This chapter describes the homeopathic approach to the treatment of addiction, exploring both how homeopathy works and how it is helpful in the treatment of various addictions. It reviews the history of homeopathy, the homeopathic paradigm of disease, and the principles of remedy choice from a homeopathic perspective. It discusses the laws of homeopathy, including the law of similar vital force, treatment of the whole person, and the principle of minimum dose. The chapter provides case examples for alcohol, stimulants, and opiate addictions that utilize case study and observational data suggesting the value of homeopathic remedies. It reviews the administration of a homeopathic remedy including potency, frequency, contraindications, and side effects. It discusses the differences between acute and chronic homeopathy including the contrasting relationship between Western and homeopathic medicine.

scholarly journals The Window Tax: A Case Study in Excess Burden

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wallace E. Oates ◽  
Robert M. Schwab
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Deadweight Loss ◽  
Excess Burden ◽  
Adverse Side Effects ◽  
Fiscal System ◽  
History Of

The window tax provides a dramatic and transparent historical example of the potential distorting effects of taxation. Imposed in England in 1696, the tax—a kind of predecessor of the modern property tax—was levied on dwellings with the tax liability based on the number of windows. The tax led to efforts to reduce tax bills through such measures as the boarding up of windows and the construction of houses with very few windows. In spite of the pernicious health and aesthetic effects and despite widespread protests, the tax persisted for over a century and a half: it was finally repealed in 1851. Our purpose in this paper is threefold. First, we provide a brief history of the tax with a discussion of its rationale, its role in the British fiscal system, and its economic and political ramifications. Second, we have assembled a dataset from microfilms of local tax records during this period that indicate the numbers of windows in individual dwellings. Drawing on these data, we are able to test some basic hypotheses concerning the effect of the tax on the number of windows and to calculate an admittedly rough measure of the excess burden associated with the window tax. Third, we have in mind a pedagogical objective. The concept of excess burden (or “deadweight loss”) is for economists part of the meat and potatoes of tax analysis. But to the laity the notion is actually rather arcane; public-finance economists often have some difficulty, for example, in explaining to taxpayers the welfare costs of tax-induced distortions in resource allocation. The window tax is a textbook example of how a tax can have serious adverse side effects on social welfare. In addition to its objectionable consequences for tax equity, the window tax resulted in obvious and costly misallocations of resources.

scholarly journals Palliative Nursing and Sacred Medicine: A Holistic Stance on Entheogens, Healing, and Spiritual Care

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Rosa ◽  
Stephanie Hope ◽  
Marianne Matzo
Keyword(s):  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Holistic Nursing ◽  
Serious Illness ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Healing Environments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nursing Literature

The fields of palliative and holistic nursing both maintain a commitment to the care of the whole person, including a focus on spiritual care. Advanced serious illness may pose a plethora of challenges to patients seeking to create meaning and purpose in their lives. The purpose of this article is to introduce scholarly dialogue on the integration of entheogens, medicines that engender an experience of the sacred, into the spiritual and holistic care of patients experiencing advanced serious illness. A brief history of the global use of entheogens as well as a case study are provided. Clinical trials show impressive preliminary findings regarding the healing potential of these medicinal agents. While other professions, such as psychology, pharmacy, and medicine, are disseminating data related to patient outcomes secondary to entheogen administration, the nursing literature has not been involved in raising awareness of such advancements. Research is illustrating their effectiveness in achieving integrative experiences for patients confronting advanced serious illness and their ability to promote presence, introspection, decreased fear, and increased joy and acceptance. Evidence-based knowledge surrounding this potentially sensitive topic is necessary to invite understanding, promote scientific knowledge development, and create healing environments for patients, nurses, and researchers alike.

The Doctrine of Signatures: a historical, philosophical, scientific view (II)

2000 ◽  
Vol 89 (01) ◽  
pp. 26-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Richardson-Boedler
Keyword(s):  
Disease Process ◽  
Active Principle ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Vital Force ◽  
Homeopathic Medicine ◽  
Curative Action ◽  
History Of ◽  
Doctrine Of Signatures

AbstractThe first part of this article discussed the history of the Doctrine of Signatures. Bach developed a series of Flower Remedies for emotional states. On the basis of the Doctrine of Signatures, these can liberate the vital force from an alien disease process or ‘archeus’. An understanding of the role of the active principle of a homeopathic medicine, in the physiology of its source, may aid understanding of a curative action.

scholarly journals EFFECT OF BALA SIDDHA TAILA MATRA BASTI AND YONI PICHU IN ACHIEVING SUKHPRASAVA: A CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
Swati Malsariya ◽  
K. Bharathi ◽  
B. Pushpalatha
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Active Phase ◽  
Chief Complaint ◽  
Labor Pain ◽  
Healthy Male ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Normal Delivery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Vertex Presentation

Background: A primigravida female patient of age 22 years came to NIA Prasuti ward on date 25th August 2019 with chief complaint of Amenorrhea since 9 months and labor pain since morning with no history of leaking and bleeding per vaginal. Methodology: The patient first visited NIA OPD on 2nd April 2019 for routine Antenatal check up with 5th months of pregnancy. Thereafter she was regularly visiting NIA Prasutitantra OPD for her routine ANC check up and was given routine Ayurvedic anetanatal medications like Mukta Shukti Bhasma and Shatawari churna with milk, Punarnawa Mandoor with buttermilk. She also followed all prenatal advice given to her time to time. The patient had not reported any complication related to pregnancy, or medical problems and side-effects of medications during her course of pregnancy. Patient had given Bala siddha Taila Matra Basti from 37 weeks of gestation twice a week up to the delivery and Bala siddha Taila Yoni Pichu during her active phase of labor up to full dilatation of cervix. Result: A full term normal delivery with right medio-lateral episiotomy with vertex presentation delivered an alive healthy male child of weight 2.7kg on 25th August 2019 at 2:00pm.

AMA Guides, Sixth Edition: Spinal Impairment Case Examples

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Hazlewood ◽  
James B. Talmage ◽  
Marjorie Eskay-Auerbach
Keyword(s):  
Radicular Pain ◽  
Leg Pain ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chemical Irritation ◽  
History Of Pain ◽  
Pain Reports ◽  
Herniated Discs

Abstract Chapter 17, The Spine and Pelvis, of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), Sixth Edition, is used frequently when determining an individual's permanent impairment rating at maximum medical improvement (MMI). Frequently, ratings for diagnoses of “nonverifiable back pain,” herniated discs, nonverifiable radicular pain, and radiculopathy are requested. Definitions of terminology used in the AMA Guides may differ from those used by some physicians when they see patients, and evaluators should use terminology that is consistent with that of the AMA Guides. For example, for the purposes of the AMA Guides, radiculopathy is defined as “significant alteration in the function of a single or multiple nerve roots and is usually caused by mechanical or chemical irritation of one or several nerves.” This article presents fifteen cases, the whole person impairment associated with each case, and a discussion of the process whereby the rating was obtained. Accurate and fair ratings of common cases of injury-related back and leg pain require a thorough knowledge of the definitions outlined in the AMA Guides, Sixth Edition, as well as thorough knowledge of the peripheral nervous system. Also, an accurate and detailed subjective history of pain reports (including true “radicular” referral patterns) and objective physical examination, as well as a review of the medical records and previous documentations, are essential.

Impairment Tutorial: Neurological Impairment Evaluation: Overview of Sixth Edition Approaches

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Lorne Direnfeld ◽  
Christopher R. Brigham ◽  
Elizabeth Genovese
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Neurological Impairment ◽  
Diagnostic Techniques ◽  
Neurological Deficits ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Pain Disability ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Disability Questionnaire ◽  
Cervical Plating

Abstract The AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), does not provide a Diagnosis-based estimate of impairment due to syringomyelia, a disorder in which a cyst (syrinx), develops within the central spinal cord and destroys neural tissue as it expands. The AMA Guides, however, does provide an approach to rating a syringomyelia based on objective findings of neurological deficits identified during a neurological examination and demonstrated by standard diagnostic techniques. Syringomelia may occur after spinal cord trauma, including a contusion of the cord. A case study illustrates the rating process: The case patient is a 46-year-old male who fell backwards, landing on his upper back and head; over a five-year period he received a T5-6 laminectomy and later partial corpectomies of C5, C6, and C7, cervical discectomy C5-6 and C6-7; iliac crest strut graft fusion of C5-6 and C6-7; and anterior cervical plating of C5 to C7 for treatment of myelopathy; postoperatively, the patient developed dysphagia. The evaluating physician should determine which conditions are ratable, rate each of these components, and combine the resulting whole person impairments without omission or duplication of a ratable impairment. The article includes a pain disability questionnaire that can be used in conjunction with evaluations conducted according to Chapter 3, Pain, and Chapter 17, The Spine.

Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Moreau
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
North Africa ◽  
World War ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores movement and circulation across the Mediterranean and seeks to contribute to a history of proto-nationalism in the Maghrib and the Middle East at a particular moment prior to World War I. The discussion is particularly concerned with the interface of two Mediterranean spaces: the Middle East (Egypt, Ottoman Empire) and North Africa (Morocco), where the latter is viewed as a case study where resistance movements sought external allies as a way of compensating for their internal weakness. Applying methods developed by Subaltern Studies, and linking macro-historical approaches, namely of a translocal movement in the Muslim Mediterranean, it explores how the Egypt-based society, al-Ittihad al-Maghribi, through its agent, Aref Taher, used the press as an instrument for political propaganda, promoting its Pan-Islamic programme and its goal of uniting North Africa.

Probiotics in gastroenterology – from a different angle

2013 ◽  
Vol 154 (8) ◽  
pp. 294-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
György Miklós Buzás
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Beneficial Effect ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gastrointestinal Diseases ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Probiotic Treatment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Irritable Bowel

After a short overview of the history of probiotics, the author presents the development of human intestinal microflora based on the newest genetic data and the microbiological features of main probiotics. The indications of probiotic administration have been defined and extended in recent years. The author reviews significant results of probiotic treatment in some gastrointestinal diseases based on meta-analytical data. Probiotics are useful in preventing and treating diarrhoea caused by antibiotics and Clostridium difficile caused diarrhoea. In the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection, preparations containing certain Lactobacillus,Bifidobacterium strains or Saccaromyces boulardii could enhance by 5–10% the rate of successful eradication and reduce the incidence and severity of the side effects. Some symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome and thus the quality of life can be improved by probiotics. Their beneficial effect in ulcerative colitis was proven, while in Crohn’s disease has not yet been defined. The use of probiotics is not included in guidelines, with the exception of the Maastricht IV/Florence consensus. For each disease it is advisable to use probiotics containing strains only with proven beneficial effect. The efficiency of preparations containing mixed strains has not yet been properly investigated. The author reviews the rare but potentially serious side effects of probiotics. In Hungary, there are many probiotic preparations available which can be purchased in pharmacies without prescription: their use is more empirical than evidence-based. The European Food Safety Authority has recently rejected claims for probiotics to be classed as medicines given the lack of convincing evidence on the effects of probiotics on human health and well-being. Clearly, further research is needed to collect evidence which could be incorporated into the international guidelines. Orv. Hetil., 2013, 154, 294–304.

Turning Aliens into Socialists

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Jessica Moberg
Keyword(s):  
Outer Space ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Swedish History ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Highly Evolved

Immediately after the Second World War Sweden was struck by a wave of sightings of strange flying objects. In some cases these mass sightings resulted in panic, particularly after authorities failed to identify them. Decades later, these phenomena were interpreted by two members of the Swedish UFO movement, Erland Sandqvist and Gösta Rehn, as alien spaceships, or UFOs. Rehn argued that ‘[t]here is nothing so dramatic in the Swedish history of UFOs as this invasion of alien fly-things’ (Rehn 1969: 50). In this article the interpretation of such sightings proposed by these authors, namely that we are visited by extraterrestrials from outer space, is approached from the perspective of myth theory. According to this mythical theme, not only are we are not alone in the universe, but also the history of humankind has been shaped by encounters with more highly-evolved alien beings. In their modern day form, these kinds of ideas about aliens and UFOs originated in the United States. The reasoning of Sandqvist and Rehn exemplifies the localization process that took place as members of the Swedish UFO movement began to produce their own narratives about aliens and UFOs. The question I will address is: in what ways do these stories change in new contexts? Texts produced by the Swedish UFO movement are analyzed as a case study of this process.

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