THE HEALTH IDEA FROM THE OLD
by Efren Z Dela Cruz
December 12, 2011
Some folks are sick and tired of being sick and sick of medical and hospital bills. They are now turning to the so-called “alternative.” Ironically, this so-called “alternative” was here before the considered traditional medicine arrived. The idea is understanding what our body needs, how our bodies function and treat it the way it should be. If we have such understanding we won’t be in so much mess with our health condition. We can go back to natural diet and lifestyle.
When it comes to food, we decide mostly by sight and taste, less aware of the reason and purpose why we eat... We should think of the fundamental use of food as fuel for our bodies, like gas for the car. You cannot feed a diesel engine with gasoline. There are things we eat or ingest that we should not.
Substances like white sugar, MSG, sodium nitrite, bromated, modern food concoctions, etc... are some of the things we can live without. Many of these excite the taste buds but are the causes of many sicknesses. Many times we don’t realize that our bodies have become a compost pit of variety of well advertised and highly hyped products. We are happy about eating at the mouth area, and if lucky, at the gut area. But the cells of the different parts of the body are starved, if not damaged.
Today, to learn and put into action good health practices may seem tedious or even impractical, if not strange. The fast pace of life and its attendant demands may justify neglect for proper nutrition and healthy lifestyle. But we pay a dear price for it and sometimes terrible sufferings and grief to self and family. Not everything that’s tasty is healthy, and not everything that’s healthy and tasty.
God did not intend man to live a sickly life and suffer, for our bodies are the temple of the living God. (1 Cor 3:16, 1 Cor 6:19 & 2 Cor 6:16). True, because of sin man’s body began to deteriorate. But our life expectancy should be longer and life enjoyable. Holy men in the Bible lived long because of healthy lifestyle. Moses – 120 yrs, Joseph – 130 yrs, Abraham – 175 yrs, Noah – 930 yrs, Methuselah – 969 yrs. There’s a matter of the maintenance work of cleaning the filters of our bodies and our garbage dumps, as the colon, kidneys, liver, bladder, etc. If we can give our anatomy regular servicing,
there’s no telling how much better we can enjoy life minus unnecessary expenses, inconvenience and sufferings.
SOME GOOD HEALTH PRACTICES
by Efren Z Dela Cruz
December 14, 2011
People die on colon cancer but hardly know why. Our colon is the depository of our body’s solid waste before exiting. You may move bowel 2 or 3 times a day but layers of residue build into it thru time. They get to where you get a bulging tummy and mistake it to be part of you. It’s actually unevacuated waste. This mounting proof of waste can recycle into your entire body and deliver toxins at will. Thus, the headache, feeling of weakness, dizziness, toxic blood, tumors and worse, colon cancer. Among few good health practices is regular cleansing of the colon. Imagine the deaths, grief and sorrow colon cancer has brought to many.
A simple monthly or bi-monthly cleansing of the colon can save us the trouble. Frequency may likewise depend on what’s on the colon. You have to feel it out.
Our body is like a factory. It needs raw material to process, though really for self use. Solid foods enter the mouth to be broken down to small pieces and to mix with our oral enzymes (saliva). This part alone is already critical. We must understand why we chew food. It is the first step to nutrition and to supply energy to our body so we can continue to live and be healthy. The next stage is in the stomach. Our stomach can only better take a finely broken down food with lots of enzymes from the mouth. Otherwise, it will not be able to digest. And because it cannot digest it will either give you indigestion, diarrhea or putrid stomach, lots of stomach acid, stomachache, headache, or just simply spoil your day.
Having a complete dental structure is essential to masticating process. Chewing properly 20-40 times before swallowing is vital to good health. You have to give time for saliva and food to mix and with enough amounts so the stomach will welcome food with joy and your body will not stagger.
While eating and your stomach is processing with more enzymes, you don’t disturb it by drinking lots of liquid (water, juice or any liquid) and wash enzymes away. Give your stomach 45 minutes to 1 hour before you enjoy your liquids. In the meantime, wash down perhaps = to a glass of liquid just to clear mouth and send everything down to the stomach. Better drink a glass or two of water some 15 minutes before meals.
This done, blood will now take over and delivery of still halfly processed food will begin at the small intestines. This will be discussed in another segment. Let’s bypass this and proceed to waste disposal first. There must be a regular disposal of urine and solid waste from the colon. Undisposed waste will create problems in the body and unimaginable health care bills, plus anxiety, suffering and perhaps painful death.
Food must be continuously replenished and loss of fluid thru urine must be continuously replenished by drinking an average of 8 to 12 glasses of water a day. These are the two basic things commonly taken for granted, and are causes of much sickness. Gladly, many are now becoming aware of this and are doing something about it.
BLOOD CIRCULATION
by Efren Z Dela Cruz
December 16, 2011
From the readings, research, hearings and personal experiences, we gathered some helpful tips we like to share with you. God classified blood as non-food (Gen 9:3-5; Acts 15; Leviticus 3:17 to cite a few reference). Together with animal fat, blood was banned from man’s diet. Now you see why many are ill. Besides many other causes of ailments, blood and fats, popularly delectable, people’s choice (in lechon con dinuguan) stand the mighty winner over our benighted dietary innocence or perhaps in our plain laziness to care for our health.
Fats as most of us know now, clog the blood vessels. Thus, impeding blood circulation. Our blood vessels must be clear of obstructions so the heart will not have difficulty pumping blood all throughout the body. Our BP rises because the heart forces blood to circulate when there’s clogging. Over time, the heart may lose strength and collapse. Blood must be allowed to flow freely to all parts of the body. Its function is to deliver food and oxygen. Then collect byproducts of the final food processing (garbage) in the cells and deliver them to our body filter for disposal. So, blood delivers life and maintains it.
With this understanding, you may have control over your health and avoid unnecessary worry, harrowing medical bills, inconvenience and sufferings. Let’s have health education rather than medication. Prevention is better than cure. Life is enjoyable in health than wealth without health. Or better still, have health and wealth together. That’s the way life should be.
We gather that food journeys from the mouth to the stomach. And move on to the small intestines, where the blood starts picking it up for processing. Starting from the small intestines blood takes the food to the liver for initial processing, and then brings it to the right side of the heart. The right side of the heart pumps it to the lungs to pick up oxygen. From there it goes to the left side of the heart where it is now pumped for distribution to the different parts of the body where cellular processing will take place. The cell is the final processor of food for end use of body. They have garbage too to dispose of which the blood collects and brings to the kidneys for filtering, then the blood goes back and repeats the cycle.
If you kill an animal and eat the blood, you get the food in the blood and likewise you get the garbage. That, our innocence will bring us misery. God prohibited blood-eating before there was any religion. So it’s not a religious issue. It became one when religious sects adopted it as doctrine.
So blood has to circulate freely. Our unhealthy diet and unhealthy lifestyle create a lot of blockages and calcified fats in the blood vessels. God is still good to us. Despite abuse to our bodies, there are still types of foods and supplements we can use to remedy and improve if not completely restore our health. How wonderful it is if at 64 we still have the health of a 20-year old and we don’t have the pains and aches in the different joints and muscles. Wishful thinking or reality? We’ll see.
Take heart my friend. There’s still cayenne, garlic, onions, fish oil, lecithin, brewers yeasts, alambrillo, Indian tree, lemon grass (tanglad), ginger, tawa-tawa, sambag-sambag, huya-huya, alstar-c, Jessa and the works, that will make life better for you.
In time, we will endeavour to write on the marvelous benefits of natural things God has made for us. To start with, cayenne removes blockages in your blood vessels, and then your BP will normalize. It will likewise restore youthful elasticity so they won’t easily harden and break. Cayenne is known to cure prostate, breast and colon cancer beside many other benefits. It will quickly deliver a person from stroke or heart attack with 1 teaspoon of its powder in a glass of warm water. Contrary to common notion cayenne will cure hemorrhoids. You can start with < teaspoon in warm half cup of water, 2x to 3x a day. Then increase as you go. You have to get used to the heat. When you make it a part of your daily life, you will consider it a friend and pleasant to drink. Not everything that’s healthy is tasty and vise versa.
HEALTH IS WEALTH
by Efren Z Dela Cruz
December 21, 2011
Health is a major issue that is usually being treated last. Trouble is when health breaks down and everything else goes down with it. The grinding stops and gloom sets in. Then what? It’s miserable to watch the world around you do their thing and have you wished you could join them. You remember the days of youth when you were free from sickness. There are some things you still like to do if you were only physically able. Some folks usually resign to self-sentence…”well, that’s life.” Well, it would have been different if we have treated our health with some respect and some importance. As it was and as it is our diet is usually based on the appearance and taste of the dish.
The so-called delicacy foods are usually taken from the scavengers of the sea. God prescribed a diet for Israel’s consumption in air, sea and land. (Lev. 11 & Deut. 14) for their health. Oysters, crabs, scale-less or finless fishes, clams, shrimps, lobsters, escargot (snails) (Whew! I’m making enemies now) etc…Such creatures were designed to absorb the garbage that goes into the rivers, lakes and seas so that water creatures destined for our tables will be fit for consumption. And because we were so drivenly ignorant about these things, we pay the high price of delicacy foods and the high price of being ill.
This Christmas season is a season to watch. Some are already watching and circumspectly careful. Because it’s party time and the table become so irresistible. Just think of the crispness of the skin of the pig with apple on its mouth, the ears and the tail. The trick is… “just a bite once in a while.” But that’s once in a while everytime you have a chance. Hehe…Really, my own trick is once and for all.
I think we just need to educate ourselves in what’s good and what’s bad for our health and perhaps decide what risks to take. Our modern lifestyles and diet surely produces side effects on our health, that’s a fact. That’s why we advocate “education rather than medication and prevention rather than cure.” We like to enjoy moving about on a well-functioning body. It’s sad to note that impairments caused by diabetes, high blood pressure, uric acid, hyperacidity, aneurism, Alzheimer disease, stroke, cancer, etc…transcends all walks of life and all professions. Most, if not all, of these can be prevented.
For diabetes, as in most health problems, a change of lifestyle and diet could bring you great relief or even back to normal condition. Eat more raw vegetable if possible. Sadly, cooking veggies destroys most of its nutrients. And many times eating becomes a waste of time and money. Its stomach gratification and cellular starvation. The cells of the body should receive the food; the stomach is only a transit point or transloading station.
It’s been found that to simmer the bark of Indian tree for 30 mins. (drink 3-4 glasses a day) could bring down blood sugar. Boiled Mimosa (locally, huya-huya), boiled Chanca Piedra (sambag-sambag locally), cucumber juice, cayenne and brewers yeast (1tab 3x a day unless you have high uric acid) lower blood sugar, to name a few.
BRAIN POTENTIAL
by Efren Z Dela Cruz
February 6, 2011
Study shows that people utilize only 4% to 10% of their brain capacity. What does it mean? Are people lazy, unwilling, unaware or just plain stuck-up or dumb to use their brain? For one thing, if there’s a will there’s a way. If a person wants to improve he/she can improve, no matter how much failure and frustrations are in the way. If a person wants to fail, all he has to do is do nothing. To succeed it entails hardwork and determination. We have so much power within our “coconut shell” waiting to be unlocked if we only have the will. Imagine what it would be if, say, we can utilize our brain capacity by 20%, 30% or 50%? If knowledge is power, then the door is wide open for us to find and grab opportunities to prosper or rise above the state of poverty. In the same manner, it’s in our choice to sulk, to remain depressed, to be ever frustrated, defeated, downtrodden, or upbeat, glad and steady despite the odds.
J.K. Rowling's was in a state of limbo or some kind of depression when something clicked and she began to write; now you have Harry Potter. She was unaware of her talent until she started cranking her brain. People like Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Charles Goodyear, Chuck Yeager, Thomas Edison, Alexander Bell, Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Oppenheimer, George Eastman, Dale Carnegie, John Maxwell….and the list goes on, are unique and have excelled in their chosen fields because they utilized their brain potentials. But they belong to the minority. And why can’t we belong to the minority, too?
How we wish, that in the 3rd world country like ours, our political leaders should take interest in elevating the mental capacities of our people. But that should be as remote as Jupiter and Mars. With the crop of leaders that we have our only hope is to turn to God our Saviour. Or, for everyone to make their own initiative to strive for success. Don’t wait for anyone or the government. Now and then we get to watch a costly spectacle called “congressional inquiry”. The inquisitors and the pre-varicating characters in question are playing verbal cat-and-mouse in the show of the hour. Who’s benefiting and who’s losing? At least, for a change we seem to be getting some sense with the present inquiry because of Heidi Mendoza and our politicians are getting somewhat serious and seem to have matured.
“The Filipino is worth dying for.” Nice political slogan. What about other countries and nationalities who are better than us? Aren’t they also worth dying for? I’m afraid that’s rather self-centric to say. Why, are we the only people worth dying for? Pardon me, but I suspect the statement was uttered to serve a political agenda. And what did it do for the Filipino? It gave the Filipino a false sense of pride and false sense of value which fueled their already deep cognitive-dissonance in their view of the circumstances of life. Some politicians are really good with political semantics. I wonder who would run for political office for salary and plain public service. And those corrupt generals? Huh!!! You could weep for the soldier in the field.
Health is a primary issue that should be given serious but non-commercial attention. The grasses around us, leaves of trees and other natural substances are within easy reach, endemic, often free, safe and effective. God is the one who formulated them and so the formulas are perfect. I do not question God how much money HE is making out of these grasses and what is HIS motive in making them. I’m perfectly at peace with it. And I find peace, joy, satisfaction and most of all healing in using them, And I gladly tell others about them so they can likewise find the same peace, joy satisfaction and most of all healing like me and my friends.
Check in the internet for PHILIPPINE MEDICINAL PLANTS. Example of herbs:
For CANCER:
- Tanglad (lemon grass, boiled)
- Luya (ginger,boiled)
- Guyabano (babana, graviola-boiled leaves, fruit)
- Flower of male papata (boil)
- Cayenne pepper (on warm water, no to capsule)
- Ayapane (boil leaves)
- Mangosteen
- Turmeric (powder or root)
For DIABETES:
- Bark of Indian Tree (boil and simmer for 30 min)
- Huya-huya (mimosa, boil entire plant)
- Cayenne pepper
- Cat’s whiskers (Kubling Gubat, wachichao, boil leaves)
- Tsitsirika (Periwinkle, boil leaves)
- Bahubahu (Lantana, boil leaves)
- Alambrillo (boil leaves)
- Takinis (Asis, Alagasi, boil mature leaves)
For KIDNEY STONE:
- Cat’s whiskers (Kubling Gubat, wachichao, boil leaves)
- Chanca Piedra (Sambag-sambagan, stone breaker, boil leaves)
- Cranberry (capsule or juice)
- Cayenne pepper
- Bohok sang mais
For HIGH BLOOD:
- Fish oil ( 1 cap 3x a day)
- Sodium Ascorbate-Alstar C (consult dosage)
- Cayenne
- Tanglad
- Luya
- Serpentina (Rauwolfia)
Don’t forget to drink 8 to 10 glasses of water daily. Often, headaches, sluggishness, joint pain and other discomforts are caused by lack of water in the body.
CANCER SOCIETY
by Efren Z Dela Cruz
February 8, 2011
It’s a pity how our world today is besieged by so much evil, that somebody like Heide Mendoza comes like rain in a thirsty ground. Our culture of cheating and evading of rules is costing us much more than we realize. It’s like a bulging tummy mistaken as physical gain, but when put under the knife is found to be unevacuated fecal waste thru years of ignoring and negligence. Doctor’s conclusion? Colon cancer. Somehow, thru time, the colon retains layer upon layer of waste that is not disposed by normal process. The layers build up to where the protective mucus in the colon can no longer contain them. The tendency is for the waste (poison actually) to recycle into your system and will damage your internal organs like the kidney, liver and all. It’s a domino effect. And you don’t introduce another poison, like chemo, to an already poisoned body. Imagine an anthill (bongsod sang anay) that’s sending termites into all directions with the message “to whom it may concern”. Tumor can occur anywhere with a rotten colon.
The pathetic and shameful habit that has crept into our national psyche is, in more ways than one, analogous to this colon condition. The malady has been ignored, untreated, tolerated and even enjoyed by some political malefactors to their gain. In the absence of good and responsible governance, we have people circulating in society with feelings of insecurity, unsure of themselves, turning to gimmicks to cover for low self-esteem, fearful of surroundings, self-righteous, social incompetents, emotional incompetents, confused, evildoers, cretins and vermins of society, vandals, drunkards, drug addicts, morons, corrupt people and crooks, swindlers, criminals and what not. Pardon my litany, but it’s good to put these things in the open, that we might be able to help ourselves. If you are aware of the extent of the problems you might be able to do something about it.
Instead of aggrandizing themselves with people’s money and filling their homes with plaques of appreciation and picture frames with powerful and well known figures and some preparing for their political legacy, our politicians should get busy looking to the welfare of their constituents, taking primary sight on health and education. The feeling of hopelessness and resignation by the man on the street is further fueling this social cancer due to the absence of accountability and retribution to the offenders. This is where benign dictators may come in. But God knows that maybe wishing beyond the Milky Way. Because the ones who should be responsible for change are deeply entrench in the comforts and overflowing benefits of their fiefdoms. And who would think that they’ll ever want to change the system?
Every home should protect their children from this social cancer, or, you can just throw your hands in the air in disgust and resignation and give up and just flow with the tide. Why, the “regular” senate and congressional investigations only show that “almost” everyone in the government cannot be trusted with money. The investigator, likewise, need to be investigated. Add to it the telenovelas, noontime shows and radio dramas that only drain your time and opportunities. Families should get hold of their lives and pray to God for guidance and focus on clean living, giving importance on values and principles. It could be your only hope.
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