San Francisco is an interesting city. It’s the thirteenth most populated city in the U.S. but when it comes to population density it’s ranked second.
It’s very expensive to live in San Francisco. The city’s property values have escalated to among the highest in the nation. However, San Francisco residents have the highest income in the country.
Since it’s so expensive to live in the city, middle class families have moved out and young, single, professionals have moved in.
To accommodate these affluent and childless denizens, a plethora of restaurants, nightclubs and bars have sprung up all over the city. In other words, there’s a lot to do in San Francisco after the sun goes down. (If you want things to do in San Francisco with children, click here.)
Following is an itinerary to utilize everything the nightlife in San Francisco has to offer. During your trip, you’ll tour several of the city’s unique districts and visit many of the city’s main attractions. It won’t take long for you to realize that the “City by the Bay” is just as exciting at night as it is during the day.
SOMA
As the sun sets on San Francisco, you find yourself standing in the SOMA district.
SOMA stands for “South of Market.” This area is located in the eastern part of the city and is home to San Francisco’s top art galleries.
As night descends, you browse through the latest exhibits at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (151 Third Street) and then at the newest editions to the Yerba Buena Arts Center (701 Mission Street).
Looking at art can make one thirsty, so you grab a cocktail at one of the many art-gallery-slash-cocktail-lounges. The Minna Gallery (111 Minna Street) and the Mezzanine (444 Jessie Street) are two of the most popular.
You can stay in SOMA for dinner, but tonight you’re out to see as much of the city as possible, so you continue on to your next destination.
Of course, if you had dined in SOMA you might have visited the Salt House (545 Mission Street) for some excellent American cuisine or the cozy Fringale (570 4th Street) for their exquisite French faire.
And if you had dined in SOMA, you probably would have visited the Supperclub (657 Harrison Street) afterwards. This ultra cool club has patrons dining on beds and sipping pricey cocktails while watching Cirque du Soleil-type shows. It’s a feast for the senses.
THE CASTRO
Your next stop is the Castro district-center of the city’s gay culture. It was here that Harvey Milk, recently portrayed in the movie Milk by actor Sean Penn, opened a camera shop and began his political activism.
You’re traveling to the Castro district to visit the historic movie palace, the Castro Theater (428 Castro Street). This theater shows new and old, domestic and foreign, and mainstream and independent films. It’s also quite the social hot spots for movie buffs.
After taking in a movie, you might want to dine at 2223 Restaurant (2223 Market Street). This affordable restaurant is known to have some of the best food in the city. If you’re not in the mood for American food, the Thai House Express on Castro (599 Castro Street) always receives rave reviews.
After dinner, you partake in some wine tasting at the Swirl on Castro (572 Castro Street). You not only taste wines that come from all over the world but you also browse their showroom full of gifts and wine accessories.
Next stop is the Bar on Church (198 Church). This legendary hot spot has trendsetting deejays, retro furnishing and a patio bar. It is the place to be when you’re in the Castro.
THE FILLMORE
You could hang out at the Bar on Church all night, but you have places to go and a rock band to see. You head north to the historic Fillmore (1805 Geary Boulevard) to catch your favorite band live on stage.
One of the cathedrals of America music, the Fillmore has seen legendary rock bands like the Grateful Dead, The Who, The Doors and The Jimi Hendrix Experience perform on its stage. Today, it books such diverse artists as Blondie, Eagles of Death Metal and DeVotchKa.
THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT
Wanting to relax after the high energy concert (and wanting the ringing from your ears to dissipate), you venture northeast and visit the Cigar Bar & Grill (850 Montgomery Street). You unwind with a nice Montecristo and some smooth Courvosier.
The Cigar Bar & Grill has a friendly, causal atmosphere and is one of the few places open late at night in the Financial District.
MISSION DISTRICT
The night is still young and you’re still thirsty. You venture down to San Francisco’s Mission District for a little bar hoping.
The Mission District is home to a slew of great neighborhood bars like the Thieves Tavern (496 14th Street), Elxir (3200 16th Street), 500 Club (500 Guerrero Street), Delirium (3139 16th Street) and Gestalt Haus (3159 16th Street).
The Beauty Bar (2299 Mission Street) is decorated with the salvaged interior from a Long Island salon. The bar offers music and cocktails seven days a week, but Thursday through Sunday you can get a manicure.
PRESIDIO PET CEMETERY
Now that you’re liquored up and your nails are nicely manicured, you decide it’s time to creep yourself out. So you drop in on the Presidio Pet Cemetery.
It was once the unofficial burial site for deceased pets belonging to families stationed at the Presidio-a former military installation but since 1994 it has belonged to the National Park Service.
Currently, the cemetery is closed to new members, but that doesn’t stop some grieving pet owners from secretly burying their departed loved ones. Of course burials at the Presidio now have to be done under the cover of night to avoid the wrath of law enforcement.
HAIGHT-ASHBURY
With the sun about to rise and a tear in your eye from reading Fluffy’s tombstone, you stroll into the Haight-Ashbury neighbor for some breakfast.
After all, where else can you go when you reek of smoke, alcohol and dead pets but the birthplace of the hippies?
You grab a coffee at the extremely laid-back Horseshoe Cafe (566 Haight Street). And then you have breakfast at Kate’s Kitchen (471 Haight Street). You had to wait for a table, but breakfast at Kate’s is always worth it.
Since the morning is still crisp, you take a leisurely stroll around Golden Gate Park before returning home.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
The San Francisco Giants play at AT&T Park (24 Willie Mays Plaza). The park is located in the SOMA district and is surrounded by a bevy of restaurants and bars.
Civic Center/Tenderloin is San Francisco’s own theater district. There you’ll find the Curran, Golden Gate, Herbst, Orpheum and Warfield Theaters. It’s also the home to the War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, the San Francisco Opera (the second largest opera company on the continent) and the San Francisco Ballet.
Beach Blanket Babylon is a San Francisco institution. The zany musical spoof of pop culture performs at Club Fugazi (678 Green Street) in San Francisco’s North Beach district. Now in its 34th year, it’s the longest running musical revue in theatre history.
SAYING GOODBYE TO THE CITY BY THE BAY
Regardless of where you start or where you finish, San Francisco is rich in culture, arts and entertainment. The city is well organized, easy to navigate and teeming with vivacious nightlife.
While it’s possible to see a lot of the city in one night, it’s also possible to spend multiple nights exploring just one neighborhood. For these culturally rich and fascinating districts make San Francisco a truly unique American city.
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what is the point of the cold and flu germ? are they a life species in ther own right, and need to feed and multiplty on humans and other creatures just to survive? or are they just put on this planet to make us miserable? or is it just one of them things?!
I ask this as i’ve been feelin particularly ill and miserable for three days now, and i’m wondering why?! xx
Most viruses and bacteria are harmless to people. Many are helpful.
Bacteria
The making of vitamin bB12 is aided by bacteria, The normal intestinal flora help keep harmful bacteria from growing through competition. They are part of the food chain. They get rid of all the dead stuff. You call it rot. But, things rot away are are recycled into the ecosystem.
Virus
Well, not sure about helpful viruses. They can cause mutations. Mutations are part of evolution. Fighting off viruses does make a organism stronger. This is a strange example, but remember War of the World the movie? It was the bacteria/viruses that caused the demise of the evil Martians. We are stronger and more resilient than thousands of years ago because of our constant battle with viruses for our cells.
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Learning To Live Again With Congestive Heart Failure
Congestive heart failure, as well as all the risks that go along with it, can be a terrifying prospect for any man, woman or child. The affect of a heart, the body’s central tool for survival, no longer performing may appear like the very beginning of the end. The nice news is, by establishing an effective treatment plan with your cardiologist the prognosis, and the chances for you to lead a typical life, grow exponentially.
Congestive heart failure starts while the heart can no longer efficiently pump blood through the body. The blood pools, and whilst organs are poor of vital, life conveying oxygen and nutrients the excess sodium that would ordinarily be excreted in the urine builds up in the tissues, resulting in fluid retention that leads to to organ tension and the dyspnea that is so typical in cases of congestive heart failure. Left untreated, the oxygen impoverished organs will in time cease to work and the patient will die.
Fortunately, there are now innumerable ways to contend against the mortality aspect allied with heart failure. Doctors can prescribe medications to promote the flow of blood all through the body and take some of the pressure off the heart; blood thinners can decrease the chances of clots forming in the veins. Leaving out medicinal means, there are many and various factors that may be altered in your lifestyle to influence the prognosis of your disease.
It is of vital importance that the body be allowed adequate time to take a rest during the day. While at ease the heart can more readily pump blood around the body; just as you would relax an injured leg when it began to hurt, you ought to take it easy your heart also. On the flip side, it is significant to establish an every day work-out routine. It doesn’t have to be three hours of aerobics; a half hour walk every day would carry a greater impact on your physical being than nothing whatever. Sit down together with your medical practitioner to find the course of action that works best for your individual circumstances.
As well as a course of action you must work with your attending physician to find the best diet format for you. In most cases a low sodium diet is recommended to help lower fluid retention. Diuretics can significantly affect the levels of potassium in the body causing hypokalemia, which can lead to muscle weakness, paralysis and a fatal cardiac arrhythmia; therefore, very often if you been prescribed a diuretic a daily a potassium supplement will also be given
Nicotine can bring forth a serious issue for patients with heart failure. It increases the heart rate and blood pressure while having a detrimental affect on the oxygen level in the blood. All of these things cause the heart to function harder. It is strongly recommended that if you have been diagnosed with congestiveheart failure you withdraw from smoking completely.
Hand in glove with smoking are the intrinsic dangers associated with contracting a case of pneumonia or flu. If you are able you had better lay hands on an yearly flu shot, as well as the one time dose of pneumococcal vaccine. This will provide some level of protection against pneumococci bacteria, the major source of bacterial pneumonia. Pneumonia is an issue for the same reasons as smoking; the decreased oxygen levels in the blood make the heart work harder in an attempt to compensate and get oxygen to the organs and tissues. If possible, steer clear of crowded areas during cold and flu season, and stay away from people you understand are affected
Amazingly, something as simple as the clothes you wear can impact your condition if you have suffered congestive heart failure. Tight clothing can be the cause of blood clots and restrict blood flow to the extremities. In addition, in cases of excessive temperature your clothes ought to be weather appropriate; if the body has to function harder to uphold its temperature the heart will have to work so much more.
Sexual relations can on the whole be continued as before; yet, they should occur in as peaceful an environment as is possible to ward off any undue pressure. If your condition is severe it is significant that you talk over this with your family doctor; it may be important to forego sexual relations for a time in favor of other, less tiring shows of affection.
Each and every one of these steps will help you continue to live much as you did prior to being diagnosed. Congestive heart failure will certainly influence your life; it is entirely up to you how much.
Over the years I’ve often had to move websites from one server to another. It’s not rocket science, but if you don’t have a plan and a very clear picture in your mind of exactly what you need to achieve then it can go pear shaped fairly quickly. So, here’s my ’standard plan’ for moving a server that runs some sort of script (i.e. directory site, traffic exchange etc) and a MySQL database. Let’s assume the old domain is domain.com and the new IP number is 1.2.3.4.
Step 1: Send an email to your member list 48 hours before the move.
Step 2: Create the domain.com account (CPanel etc) on the new server.
Step 3: Take a full backup of all data on the server and all data in the MySQL database(s) and restore them on the new server. Restore the MySQL database(s).
Step 4: Edit your windows hosts file (C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetchosts) and add an entry for domain.com with the new IP address.
Step 5: Flush your windows DNS cache (open a CMD window and enter the command ‘ipconfig /flushdns’).
Step 6: Open your browser to domain.com. It should now be opening on the new server due to the hosts file entry. Just to be sure, place a comment in the home page file (index.html/index.php) like . That way, you can just view the source of the homepage to verify that you really are on the new server.
Step 7: Test EVERYTHING. Test the script. If it has an admin area, test the admin functions. Follow all the hyperlinks and make sure that everything is working correctly.
Step 8: Once you are sure the new site is working correctly, place an alternate homepage on the old server that says something like ‘We are moving to a new, faster server. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause’. Now reboot the (old) server. This will kick anyone out that is currently logged in.
Step 9: The files should all be okay (unless you have some sort of funky file-based database). Now it’s time to take the ‘real’ database backup. You don’t want anyone losing anything, so you need to take a backup of the database again at the point where you prevented people from logging in.
Step 10: Delete the database on the new server and do a restore of the database backup that you just did from the old server. You now have the most current database data and everyone should be happy when they get to log back in.
Step 11: Update the DNS at your registrar to point at the new DNS servers.
There you have it. Eleven easy steps to a smooth server move :). You may get the odd person who says that they got to the new server but then it went to the old one again. That will be something to do with the DNS propagation and can be safely responded to with ‘give it a little while longer and all will be well’. If you still see or are alerted to problems after 72 hours then there may be something up with the DNS config on the new server but it would have to be a fairly obvious mistake and easily rectified if that were the case.
About the Author
Gary Smith, the business owner, has been programming since 1980 and has run his own successful IT consulting and ISP businesses since 1995. More information about dedicated servers is available from The Dedicated Server Doctor
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Ultraviolet (UV) technology has been used for more than seven decades to eliminate disease-causing microorganisms, primarily in industrial and commercial applications. Today; however, this technology is gaining popularity in the residential sector because it can be applied to almost any water system, It adds no chemicals to the water, It wastes no water and it’s inexpensive to maintain.
To produce UV energy, electrical current stimulates mercury vapor held between the electrodes of a fluorescent-like lamp. The most commonly used UV lamp is a low pressure mercury vapor lamp with an energy output close to 265 nm most effective at killing microbes. Germicidal UV lamps are made with “hard glass” quartz which transmits 92 percent of UV energy far more than alternative materials.
Waterborne diseases may be caused by a wide variety of pathogenic microorganisms. Most are made up of a cell wall, a cytoplasm membrane and a DNA-bearing nucleic acid. Microbes are destroyed when UV light penetrates the cell wall and cytoplasm membrane and is absorbed by the nucleic acids. The UV energy rearranges DNA molecules and prevent the cells from reproducing. It’s then considered dead for all practical purposes. The degree of destruction of microbes is a product of UV intensity multiplied by contact time.
Ultraviolet is a safe, clean, easy-to- maintain method of assuring that water is free of bacteria. It is a proven technology that has no significant drawbacks. In some applications, its initial cost is a bit more than chlorination, but because of its low operating cost, it quickly pays for itself. It is essentially trouble-free. Most systems require only an annual change of lamp—like changing a light bulb—and a change of filter cartridges if the unit has accompanying filters.
The whole house Pura UV systems are design to convert common tap water into disinfected and pure water. The Ultraviolet Filtration System filters water at a flow rate of 8-10 gallons per minutes. Water is channel through a Stainless Steel UV Reaction Chamber. This point of entry (POE) Ultraviolet Filtration is usually installed in the main water feed of the house and its advance technology ensures the removal of microbiological contaminants. It’s a perfect companion for a Water softener system.
Pura systems come in various sizes, from small one gallon-per-minute undersink units for drinking water to the 15-gallon-per minute “Big Boy” series. Most of Pura sales are in the eight-to-ten gallon-per-minute “UV 20” whole house series.
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AIDS IS THE OUTCOME OF NEGATIVE AS WELL AS WRONG APPROACH?
Recently news about the death of an HIV positive woman appeared in the media. She was stoned to death in a village of Andhra Pradesh. This was really a shocking incident but, it has certainly not perturbed me, because such kind of treatment being met by HIV/AIDS victims – was predicted in the media nearly a decade ago. Keeping in view the increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases with every passing day, the time is not far away when persons suffering from AIDS would die like flies – had also been reported in the media.
Although there is no possibility of doing any compulsory blood testing for the presence of HIV even in distant future for obvious reasons best known to the authority concerned/Govt, otherwise it would be found to have an average one HIV affected person in a family in every country world over.
For the sake of knowledge of everybody, we can draw a comparison between two recent – past man made discoveries: The Television and the AIDS. How the news about TV surfaced very casually in the media in the late 60s. TV is now a commodity of every household world over. Similarly news about AIDS – mainly a disease of homosexuals in America, came to notice in the 70s. The word AIDS has definitely reached to every nook and corner of the world and the disease AIDS has may have either spread or going to spread very soon with the prevailing conditions. This is despite billions of dollars being spent on prevention or control programme of HIV/AIDS currently invogue all over the world.
Interestingly, the first case of AIDS came to light in India, was in 1986 and the cause was attributed to blood transfusion having HIV infected blood during bypass surgery in the USA. Since then, the estimated number of HIV/AIDS victims has crossed over to fifty lakhs and nearly five lakh persons have died due to AIDS – as per latest media report. This is when blood testing for HIV is either accidental or very casual. As said above, a lot of man power, money and time are involved in the prevention/control of HIV/AIDS through advertisements, distribution of literature in specially arranged seminars, camps held at schools, colleges, transport areas, labour colonies, etc in order to create awareness among the masses about HIV/AIDS. As a result, the common man has certainly become much aware. But, still why the number of HIV/AIDS is increasing day by day, instead of getting stabilized or decline in the number?
This is ample enough to suggest that whatever had been said and is being done at the present is contrary to the truth, since the cause of the AIDS is not based on facts. To say that Retrovirus, also called Human T-cell Lymphotrophic virus –III commonly known as HIV, is the real cause of AIDS is merely to divert the attention of gullible persons from the real cause, which is something else and lies somewhere else. The virus has simply been maligned by unscrupulous persons like Robert Gallo of America and Montaigner of France. The virus is not new and had been existing since there was nothing heard about AIDS, although AIDS like conditions had started sometime in the 50s or 60s – as per PANOS, a London based voluntary and human rights organization’s publication. HIV is the most fragile virus known so far. It dies within 30 minutes of its air exposure or at a temperature of 56 centigrade.
Like the proverb: Ant kills the elephant is merely a saying, and has not come to notice in reality so far. But to prove this saying right, it can be logically argued that if an ant bites an elephant and the bitten part is treated in such a way (by wrong medication)that instead of good, there occurs deterioration in the conditions of the animal that the elephant dies. Similar is the case with HIV/AIDS victims
It is well known that about 99% victims of HIV/AIDS are sexually active men and women. This is because they acquire sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), Syphilis and Gonorrhoea the main, from their infected partners. These diseases generally have three stages: Primary, secondary and tertiary. The patients are treated by a course of B-Lactam group of antibiotics and chief antibiotic is Penicillin *(Penidura). Whether it is the first, second or third stage of the diseases, but, Penicillin has been proved causing suppression of first stage of both Syphilis and Gonorrhoea and remains ineffective in (even to palliate) the second and third stages of both.
Since there are no effective drugs for the total eradication of the above noted diseases, Penicillin is therefore supplemented by a course of corticosteroids. Both the drugs are not only found to suppress the diseases, but are also known to cause strong immunosuppression to the infected person. Once the affected person is treated by above noted drugs, he/she is declared HIV positive on the basis of blood test, the common ELISA (enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assay) test.
This above noted fact may create doubts in the minds of concerned authorities. The same can be removed through practical demonstration on a patient who has been treated for his/her STD by Penicillin and steroids course. On the other hand, it has also been noticed that if a person acquires syphilis or gonorrhoea and is directed to go for Elisa test prior to the commencement of the treatment, the blood test for HIV is found to be negative. This sufficiently proves the role of the above noted drugs in the development of HIV growth in the body (for those who are firmly harbouring Retrovirus as the cause of AIDS).
Uptil now, no one in India or abroad, has isolated HIV from the body of the AIDS patient, when he/she was alive or after death. What is found abnormal in the blood as a proof of HIV, is the rise in the particular kind of antibodies titre (level). Antibodies are in fact the part of a human immune system, and they develop against foreign antigen(s) whether living or non-living, but basically proteinous in nature. All kinds of antibiotics including the Penicillin notatum are proteinous substances obtained from fungi.
Once a person is declared HIV positive on the basis of Elisa test, which is said to be the preliminary test but the most commonly performed test in India. This is an indirect test in first instance and has also been found positive in nearly 10 to 12 disease conditions. To name a few are- Hepatitis B, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Herpes, STDs, Typhoid, Jaundice, Pneumonia, Malnutrition, etc. Unless there is history of sexual contact with STD (HIV/AIDS) infected partner and appearance of certain signs and symptoms of STDs, the syphilis/gonorrhoea etc, treatment with immunosuppressive drugs and Elisa is further confirmed by Western blot test, the positive Elisa has no specific significance.
But, in established practice, merely on the basis of positive Elisa, a person is declared HIV/AIDS patient. This is because the Western blot test, which is said to be the confirmatory test and is a must, rather mandatory for all Elisa positive cases, but a costly affair (per test costs Rs. 1000/-) on one hand, is available at sero-surveillance center, like PGIMER, Chandigarh of this region. This test has never been found positive in the initial stage of HIV. Therefore Elisa positive cases normally remain unconfirmed HIV positive or negative on the other hand. The victims or the attendants may be given one or another excuse by the concerned authority ostensibly to wait till the time his/her health deteriorates due to taking of unwarranted and wrong medicines, otherwise owing to AIDS phobia to a positive Elisa report, so that the Western blot test might give a positive finding.
Here the patient is quite ignorant about the real inside story but definitely consults the physicians, preferably of modern medicines in order to get rid of HIV. He/she is generally prescribed such drugs which are detrimental to health. Very few doctors at Govt. Hospitals, who know the reality don’t prescribe the oral drugs but advise the patients to use some topical medicines on warty growths (the syphilitic or gonorrhoeal condylomata), which develop on genitals following sexual intercourse with an infected partner suffering form STD (HIV), the most commonly observed sign in Elisa positive (HIV) cases. Wrong medication certainly leads to weight loss and later on development of fever after sometime, the two main symptoms are observed in such cases. The drugs constituting Penicillin and steroids in the modern medicines definitely cause havoc to the extent that his/her immune system breaks down and the Western blot test may give positive finding. Once positive Western blot means confirmation of AIDS, by the time, victim has reached the terminal stage of health and dies within a short time, sometime within a year after starting treatment for positive Elisa (HIV/AIDS).
It is to be noted further that Western blot test is not at all a full proof test and has 4-6% error chances, at times this is enough to ruin any one who so ever is given false(Western blot) positive report.
In the context of HIV AIDS, it was being advertised until few years ago that STDs are curable but not the AIDS, the only treatment of AIDS is prevention. Such kinds of ads by the Govt. agencies are not seen now, because various pharmaceutical companies have jumped in to reap the rich harvest of HIV (STDs)/AIDS with their advertisements about certain drugs to treat the victims. As reported in media, the treatment of AIDS patients in a leading Govt. hospital had been costing to an IPD patient approximately Rs 25,000/- to Rs 30,000/- month. The recent news about 72 deaths of AIDS patients from the same hospital appeared in the media. It may be with equal number of admissions. This sufficiently proves the inefficacy f the treatment of HIV (STDs)/AIDS patients through modern medicines.
In a seminar on AIDS held at PGIMER, Chandigarh in the recent past, a doctor among the audience asked the speaker about the use of spending so much on the treatment of HIV/AIDS, when the victim ultimately has to die? The answer of speaker was: The drugs are prescribed to the patients in order to prolong their lives. What a stupid explanation indeed it was. The life in fact is getting shortened after commencement of harmful treatment.
I being a keen observer (Researcher) by virtue of having been a teacher of medical (Allied) subjects and physician of alternative system of medicine, the Homoeopathy, for nearly 30 years, have come across all types of HIV/AIDS victims, who had been taking treatment of modern medicines before and after getting declared HIV/AIDS patients. But they were still symptomatic HIV/AIDS cases. The only common ting found in them was, the mode of treatment, which they took for their STDs and non-STDs infections in the past. Penicillin was the drug of choice before they all got declared as HIV positive cases. A few of them were made symptoms free through Homoeopathic treatment. One was declared HIV negative once by a private lab. The patient concerned, although is hale and hearty even after 5 years of contracting STD and starting treatment of modern medicines in turn found Elisa positive (HIV Positive).
He is presently being given homoeopathic treatment in order to bring his raised antibodies titre to normal level. He would definitely remain healthy, so long he follows certain instructions of mine. It is hoped that he would be free from HIV stigma one day, so that he gets married and starts his marital life afresh. The victim has never been found a case of positive Western blot test. Attendants of another AIDS patient approached me, when he had already been injected more than 50 penicillin injections. The patient was in moribund state of health and must have died soon owing to total breakdown of the immune system as a result of wrong medicines.
To sum up above details, it is clear that neither there is a cure for STDs nor of HIV/AIDS in the modern medicines. Therefore, whenever any sexually active person contracts Syphilis/Gonorrhoea, he/she should refrain from taking a course of Penicillin or its substitutes (when person concerned is sensitive to Penicillin) and Steroids drugs, rather ought to consult a physician of alternative system, preferably a Homoeopath, since Homeopathy does not treat the disease by name, but the diseased person as a whole (holistic approach) and annihilates the diseases including STDs (HIV/AIDS) in its whole extent permanently.
Those who had history of STDs in the past and were treated by routine course of penicillin and steroids, both of which cause immuosuppression in man, should not think themselves free from the said diseases, since these must have been suppressed and chances of their becoming HIV victims is as high as 100%, provided their blood is tested for the same.
It is better not to take treatment for HIV/AIDS rather than taking a harmful and immuno-suppressive treatment of so called anti-AIDS drugs and becoming an actual AIDS patient to die soon.
Authorities at the helm of HIV/AIDS affairs ought to understand that the way they have been following or understanding the western agencies dealing with HIV/AIDS, have brought doom to millions and if the same (negative as well as wrong approach) remains continuing, it might become a question of survival of human race in the days to come. Therefore, they must understand the gravity of the situation in order to change their present attitude in tackling HIV/AIDS problem. I consider persons/agencies, who pretend to be the controllers including physicians of modern medicine, who advocate HIV as the cause of AIDS, Pharmaceutical companies and the media-a trinity, responsible for the present day HIV/AIDS scenario all over the world, since these three have vested interest in keeping the HIV/AIDS fire burning.
For me AIDS is a man-made problem as a result of ignorance at the authority as well as at the victim levels plus a negative as well as a wrong approach of the so called controllers (in fact they are the real propagators of HIV/AIDS) in league with unscrupulous people with selfish interest.
*Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Flemming in 1945. It was considered a Panacea for all kinds of diseases and was misused a lot, until its harmful effects became visible. Only then its use became selective.
Tetracycline, Doxacycline, Minocycline, Oxitetracycline and Erythromycine are the other backup medicines for STDs in those who are allergic to penicillin but have perhaps a larger array of immune system adverse reactions than penicillin.
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Indian council of medical research (ICMR)-AIDS unit, New Delhi, took cognizance of my work on HIV/AIDS in 1993 and asked repeatedly to submit a detailed project- proposal in order to carry out further research on large number of HIV/AIDS patients. When adhoc research project: “Treatment of HIV/AIDS patients through Homoeopathic System of Medicine” was submitted in 30 copies on ICMR prescribed format on 28th September, 1998, there was no response of any kind since then. This is despite reminders including personal visit to the said office and letters to Union Health Secretary, Health Ministers and Prime-Minister from time to time in this regard.
Similarly, when project Director, Punjab AIDS Control Society, Chandigarh, was approached by me sometime back and brought the work done on HIV/AIDS patients to his notice, the said official instead extending a few words of appreciation, threatened to hand over such persons to police, who claim to have helped(treated/cured) HIV/AIDS victims on their own(Alternative) treatment.
These are the two cases of two different offices/officers concerned with control/cure of HIV/AIDS patients working under the guidelines and monetary aid of WHO/World Bank. Their attitude is found not only discriminatory but most hostile too. What else can be expected from such kind of offices/officers concerned other than increase in the number of HIV/AIDS victims day after day.
2. AIDS and Syphilis, the hidden link, Harris. D Coulter, Ph.D.
3. AIDS: Facts & Myths, By Writer.
4. An encounter with HIV/AIDS patient, by Writer.
5. How HIV/AIDS patient became symptoms free, by Writer.
6. What else is found common amongst HIV/AIDS patients, by Writer.
WHAT ELSE IS FOUND COMMON AMONGST HIV/AIDS VICTIMS
After having given treatment to 5 different types of HIV/AIDS patients, besides presence of HIV and low body resistance, another important thing has been observed common in all these patients. Before I reveal it just now, let us go through first for the brief case histories so as to clear my viewpoint strongly acceptable to all the concerned.
CASE I
Mr. M.S. 25-year-old married male, truck driver, a resident of Sunam, Punjab. The patient before contracting the disease, was plying a truck on Punjab-Delhi-Bombay route. He frequented brothels of Kamatipura of Bombay or elsewhere enroute and thus acquired some kind of STD (syphilis or Gonorrhea) vide OPD ticket No. 439 of PGIMER, Chandigarh dated 27.11.91. The patient must have taken routine course of Penicillin injections and other associated drugs as the treatment in order to get ridof his STD problem. He subsequently suffered from some common problems which ultimately led to be diagnosed as immunothrombocytopennia with sessile type of Condylomata acuminate plus recurrent Herpes progenitalis.
The blood report for HIV was found negative both by Elisa and Western Blot tests done on 13.12.91. His VDRL test was also found nonreactive. However, in
mid-January 1992 blood sample of the patient was found positive for HIV-I by Elisa test alone. Later, on 12.2.92 the blood report was found negative by Eliisa test vide Cr. No. 2536-89.
The patient was brought to me in a critical stage on 4.5.92. Symptomatically, there was profuse (about mouth full) bleeding from gums daily specially in the morning. He was also getting high grade (104 degrees Fahrenhheit) fever on and off, which would come down with the useof drugs viz. Sporidex, Wysolone, and Crosin. At times, injections of Vetenisol, Calcium sandose and Dextrose would also be given I.V. He was also given Homoeopathic medicines along with above noted drugs for a brief period. As a result, so long the patient was taking both the systems of medicines, the temperature never roe beyond 102 degrees Fahrenheit. However, the patient discontinued homoeopathic treatment, reasons best known to his attendant. Later on, sometimes in autumn of 1992 he succumbed to the fatal disease.
The point to be noted here in this case is; that the patient died within one year after contracting STD vis-à-vis HIV infection and treatment taken thereof.
CASE-II
Mr. A.S., 27-year-old married male, resident of a nearby village in U.T. Chandigarh. The patient was working as an electrician in Dubai for some years. There he contracted syphilis some time in 1991 through sexual contact with prostitutes. Although, the patient got himself treated with a course of Penicillin and other associated drugs, he subsequently suffered from malarial fever. The fever was controlled by some strong injections and tablets. As a result, the patient started passing blood in his stool.
According to the rules prevalent in that country, every foreigner was liable to undergo HIV test once in 3 years. He too had to undergo this task second time of f 6 years. He was found HIV positive and deported to India.
After coming here in Chandigarh, the patient got himself verified for his being a HIV positive case from PGIMER Chandigarh. He took 15 injections from a private physician –1 injection on alternate day and found himself still a HIV positive case at the end of treatment on the basis of blood test done from PGIMER, Chandigarh.
When the patient consulted me on 9.11.92, he presented his disease like this; bleeding per anus at the end of every evacuation which were at times loose, as the main symptom. There were some other vague symptoms also, which got okayed with the first prescription of mine. The hard labour and regular treatment made the patient symptoms free. But, I am in this opinion that he might still be a HIV positive case. This is because he had stopped the treatment as soon as he became symptoms free. The patient would have not reported to me about his being symptoms free case, had he not suffered from barking type cough. The cough developed as a consequence of malaria. Although, I had already instructed the patient not to take medicines of any other systems so long I am (Homoeopath) available for treatment for malaria. In fact, according to homoeopathic concept of the disease and the cure; return of old and suppressed symptom of malaria was indeed a positive sign for the cure. Anyhow, I directed the patient to get his blood tested for HIV from PGIMER, Chandigarh in order to know that the patient was still a sero positive case.
From the details given above, it can be concluded that Mr. A.S. responded favourably to the timely employment of homoeopathic medicines and when the body’s immunity (vitality) was not downed to the extent of irreversible stage ostensibly due to non-intake of immunosuppressive drugs.
CASE III
Mr. B.S. 29-year-old married male, a resident of a nearby village of district Karnal, Haryana. The patient contracted Gonorrhoeal infection as a result of sexual contact with a prostitute at Hissar in Haryana some time in February/March 1993. He was treated with 5 injections of Penicillin plus some other tablets – one injection on alternate day.
Since September 1993, the patient developed Condylomata acuminate in the prepuce (outer covering of penis). He had some vague symptoms also viz; deep brown discoloration on the sides of the wings of the nostrils, gastritis, prostaturia while straining for stool, night pollution, dandruff, dry cough, spurting of urine while coughing, chronic coryza associated with choked nostril at night, swelling of the eyelids, watering from the eyes, pain in the nape of the neck and in the lumbosacral area of vertebral column, in precordium and belly, anxiety and disturbed sleep since early age. He was lean and thin and seemed to be of tubercular constitution.
O/E: Besides Condylomata acuminate, there was a painful bluish nodule below the mandible on the left side of external throat for the last one year which would suppurate and heal repeatedly.
The patient consulted me on 30.12.93, while he was still going to skin and STD Clinic at PGIMER, Chandigarh every week, where he would receive T.C.A. cauterization and Podo as an external application for condylomata acuminate. Except Fortisol for 7 days in the first prescription, no other medicine of any kind was prescribed to him between 18.11.93 to 22.12.93; the time during which he was going to PGIMER, Chandigarh. However, there was a mention of Candidial balanoposthitis on the outpatient ticket of the patient.
Most of the above noted symptoms either got vanished or lessened with the use of homoeopathic medicines. During the treatment a cord like hard but painless swelling developed in his left mid-axillary line which disappeared within a fortnight time and without any change in the prescription.
Although Condylomata acuminate still existed, the patient had now stopped going to PGIMER, Chandigarh for cauterization. Unlike before, the prepuce (foreskin) would now move easily.
As narrated to me the patient regularly took the SOS medicine given to him for his gastritis till all got finished in 5-6 days and that too without actual need. As a result or something else Mr. B.S. developed fever, which was brought down with the use of allopathic drugs. Thereafter lymph nodes of inguinal region got enlarged and the patient had also started feeling cutting pain in the basal part of the urethra and painful erections. Meanwhile Mr. B.S. developed Candidial balanoposthitis (white fungus growth) and applied some Ayurvedic ointment. As a result the patient felt anxiety, pain in the chest and loose motions. Although, appearance of the old but suppressed symptom of cutting pain at the basal part of urethra was indeed a good sign according to homoeopathic concept of cure, since cutting pain had also appeared prior to the commencement of gonorrhoeal discharge, but enlargement of inguinal lymph nodes was certainly a bad omen. Whether or not the patient got gonorrhoeal discharge after the last prescription made on 29.3.94 is not yet known, as the patient did not turn up since then. However, I received a postcard dated 23.12.94 from the patient in which he sought the address of Haemophilic sero-positive Ahuja brothers of New Delhi. Later, on 19.6.95 I came to know from Skin and STD Clinic that Mr. B.S. had succumbed to his fatal disease in May 95 – as reported by the father of the deceased to the Deptt’s personnel.
CASE IV
Mr. B.S. 30-year-old married male, a resident of nearby village in district Ludhiana, Punjab. The patient had worked at Dubai and was now plying his own truck on various highway routes of the country. As in Dubai, the patient was still visiting brothels of metropolitan cities, but in fact never contracted any kind of STD. The history of the case revealed that the patient was operated for Hydrocele in 1987. In August/September 1990, he suffered from sore throat and ulcerations, skin eruptions and as a consequence septic condition. He was given two injections of Penicillin –one on alternate day plus some tablets and ointment for external use.
Thereafter the patient started getting fever on and off, which would at times come to normal without any medicine but most of the time with the help of allopathic medicines.
As reported by the patient; once he planned to go abroad. In order to know his blood condition, he simply got his blood tested at National Institute of Communicable Disease, New Delhi, some time in Sept./Oct. 1993. He was found HIV positive case by Elisa test alone. The patient consulted a Professor of Medicine at Ludhiana, Punjab, who prescribed him a course of AZT(Zidovudine) 100 tablets for a period of 35 days. As a result, the patient did not get fever but he was still a HIV carrier on the basis of Elisa and Western Blot tests (or T4 and T8) count and ratio were found to be normal. Although the patient did not bring these test reports but his version was taken true on the basis of personal verification.
In the beginning the patient did not give picture of any disease. On my persistent interrogation he presented some vague symptoms viz. pain and cracking in knees for the last 3-4 months, redness of the eyes and occasional night sweats. The patient was a habitual taker of about 2.5 grams of Opium husk (Dode) for the last 2 years, crude tobacco (Jarda) and about half liter of liquor daily for the last 20 years.
The patient in fact consulted me first time on 14.3.94, not for the sake of the treatment of above noted symptoms and habits but mainly to make him free from HIV. When he consulted me second time on 6.4.94, he was almost free from above noted symptoms. He had also stopped taking opium husk but not the crude tobacco and liquor. He was taking liquor once in 5-6 days. The patient reported that during treatment once he got it treated with allopathic drugs. The patient after receiving medicines did not turn up till date.
CASE V
Master M.J.S. 4-1/2-year-old s/o Mr. I.P.S., resident of a village in Tehsil Mukerian, Distt. Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Discharge crd mentioned following problems: HIV infection
C/O fever on and off x 6 months
Decreased appetite x 6 months
Failure to gain weight x 6 months
Emaciated uniformly, dark complexioned having body weight 11 kg.
Cough is associated with expectoration of whitish sputum, no hemoptysis.
Past history of blood transfusion at 1-1/2 months of age for anemia, since then gets upper respiratory infection on and off and not gaining weight, was treated with A.T.T. for nearly 6 months at C.M.C. Ludhiana at the age of 3-1/2 years, diagnosed as HIV at Canada and was on tablets Zidovudine.
O/E: poorly built and malnourished.
P.R. - 106/min., R.R. -30/min., afebrile and anhydrated.
Both cervical lymph nodes enlarged 2 cms in size, firm, and nontender.
R.S. - Bil. air entry equal, diffuse crepitations.
C.V.S. – S1, S2 normal, no murmur.
P/A: Hepatosplenomegaly 3.5 cm, span 11 cm, splenomegaly 2 cm.
C.N.S. - Normal.
Investigations done.
1. Hmg. i. Hb-7.9 gm.% ii. P. C.V.-28%
2. i. Platelet count- 2.37 x (10)5 (10 raised to power 5)
ii. T.L.C. – 10,000 cells/cmm.
iii. D.L.C. – P-50%, L-30%, M-12%, Metacytes-1%, Metamylocytes-1%
Course and management: Pt’s. status remained afebrile throughout the hospital stay (7.5.94 to 17.7.94). No fresh problem received.
One blood transfusion on 14.5.94
Status at discharge:-
Afebrile, active, accepting feed well.
P.R. -100/min., B.P. -90/60 Hg., R.S. –Bil. fine crepitation.
C.V.S. – S1, S2 normal
R.R. – 30/min.
P/A: Hepatomegaly -8.5 cm. span – 11 cm.
Splenomegaly -2cm.
CNS: Normal
HIV: Positive by Elisa
CD4: CD8, Ratio is 1:5
There is marked leucopenia of CD4 cells.
There is also suggestion of gross Lymphopenia.
Mother: HIV –ve
N.B.: Above is the presentation of a typical HIV positive child victim as per discharge note of PGIMER, Chandigarh
Symptomaticaly; the patient showed traces of white milky coating in the center only. Pigeon chest (Rickets), Rattling cough on and off, more in the morning hours when patient was still in the bed. Low appetite. Desire for juicy things, milk mixed with tea during fever. The child would take a little water 3-4 times a day
The father narrated the history of the present condition like this:
At the age of 1.1/2 months the child got fever. He was admitted to a hospital where he was transfused O-Rh. –ve blood, whereas the child’s blood group was O-Rh.+ve. As a result he became restless. With the help of some injections and tablets the child survived and was discharged from hospital after a week. Thereafter he got loose motions and temperature for about 3-4 months until he was treated with the help of Gentamycin and Penicillin injectons plus some tablets and steam inhalation.
The child later on started getting Pneumonic attacks in the following winter. Meanwhile Montoux test was found positive. The child was given a course of Rifamcin for about 3-4 months. When the child was 2-1/2 years old, he was diagnosed Tubercular and admitted at C.M.C. Ludhiana and given antitubercular treatment. After 3-4 months the child was again admitted to another hospital for 15 days and given antitubecular treatment.
When the child was about 3-1/2 years of age the family moved to Canada. There he was diagnosed HIV +ve case. The doctors suspected that the donor who had donated O-Rh.-ve blood to the child, might have been HIV carrier. They prescribed AZT (Zidovudine) and some other drugs for a month. As a result the child gained 5 kg weight in 6 months time. The family then returned to India. Within 4-5 days of their arrival, the child got attack of Broncho pneumonia and loose motions after 3 months. He was then brought to admission in PGIMER, Chandigarh.
The child was given homoeopathic treatment during the admission at PGIMER, Chandigarh. After 10 days stay, he was discharged from the hospital. Since the parents wanted to take him to their village, medicines for about 15 days were given on this assurance from the father that he would come to report about the condition of his son in time. The discharge note of the hospital too had a mention of review on 21.6.94 but the father did not come to report till date.
ANALYSIS
On analysing details of the above mentioned cases, the first thing which has been observed by me is; lack of cooperation either by the victims or their attendants while treating diseases like HIV/AIDS by homoeopathy. Although they had been taking costly allopathic medicines for a long time without any improvement rather deterioration in their body condition. They did not keep the same patience when they started homoeopathic treatment, that too despite appreciable improvement inn one or other aspect of the HIV/AIDS. Even if the patient becomes symptoms free, it could be called miracle in context to HIV/AIDS. One could be made free from HIV sooner or later provided he/she continues the treatment and follows the instructions of the attending physician properly, which is most important not only for the curative point of view but also from the future relapses and prevention in case of other who have not yet been infected but may likely to become infected in the future. For this, at least this much time is required as was taken in the development of existing state of the disease.
Now, the most important thing found common amongst all the HIV/AIDS victims is the mode of the treatment received by all the victims at one or other time during the development of the HIV/AIDS. The treatment taken by them is; B-LACTAM antibiotics and the principal drug found common in all the prescription was Penicillin. Use of cortico steroids certainly acted fuel to the fire owing to their immuno deficiency may also be iatrogenic, for example as a result of treatment with Cortico-steroids or other immunosuppressive drug”. (vide Davidson’s Principle and Practice of Medicine, 16th Edition).
Further, “In many sero-positive cases from high risk groups screened (by the local sero surveillance center of the region; the PGIMER Chandigarh) exact source could not be delineated as these patients had never been out of Punjab.” (vide THREAT OF AIDS IN PUNJAB – The Tribune, Chandigarh, dated 29th Oct. 1991)
My observations (on the basis of above described cases) are: Penicillin or its
equivalent antibiotic drugs at some stage of the disease have certainly played some
unknown but vital role in making the conditions favourable for the growth, invasion
and spread of HIV in the body of the victims.
Now, the question arises. How, the question arises. How is the Penicillin or its equivalent drugs and cortico steroids are responsible for the HIV growth in the body? The answer is in fact the matter of actual research work. The researchers should find the relation between these two things. Until then it can only be postulated that the entry of the Penicillin or its equivalent drugs must be creating such conditions in the body which are not only favourable for the growth of HIV but also of other opportunistic organisms viz. viruses, bacteria and parasites. Although I can support my viewpoint by enumerating various other similar examples based on my clinical observations. At this juncture, I do not want to mention them here but at the same time, would like to mention them here but at the same time, would certainly like to do so if somebody concerned inn this field asks me to elaborate them in near future.
It would be proper to add that the history of AIDS relates to the discovery of Penicillin made some time in (40s or 50s). According to PANOS( A London based voluntary and human rights organization, publication – ‘The Third World Epidemic repercussion of the Fear of AIDS’: AIDS started some time in 50s or 60s but the symptoms of the second epidemic AIDS or HIV infection became visible in 1980-81. Moreover, it is a well-known fact that antibiotics primarily help in arresting the growth of infective organisms particularly the bacteria but secondarily these are definitely lowering body’s resistance (immunity). As a result, the person becomes susceptible to subsequent infections and relapses.
Why researchers working on HIV/AIDS have failed to achieve even an iota of success in knowing fully the nature of HIV vis-à-vis cure/control of AIDS despite spending millions of dollars, energy, and time? This is because investigators have focussed their all attention towards the outcome of some internal body disorder for getting HIV growth only, completely overlooking basic concept of the disease mechanism.
William Boyd M.D., the great Pathologist has a mention in his ‘Text book of Pathology’: “But we must admit however unwillingly that we seldom or never really
know the cause of any thing. Many beautiful ideas have been slain by ugly fact. We merely know a constant association with one thing always following another. We say
Tubercle bacillus is the cause of Tuberculosis. That is merely of saying that bacillus is associated with a constant type of lesion; it is no explanation of how the lesions are produced by the bacillus. Nor does it explain why some persons and animals are susceptible to the infection, while others are immune…”
In other words we can say; prior to the development of these infective agents, something ‘else’ happens to the body. In context of AIDS we can say that body’s immunity is weakened first and HIV growth follows afterwards. The day we accept this view of the disease concept, not only the mystery of HIV/AIDS but also that of other non genetic incurable diseases such as Cancer etc. could be solved.
What the HIV/AIDS researchers and experts have contributed to the mankind till date other than fear Psychosis; that the HIV/AIDS is not a curable disease, since there is no treatment for this. They did not even give a second thought to the basic concept of origin of life as well as fragile and innocent nature of HIV before declaring it the cause of AIDS. After all HIV is not a recent discovery. It was very much known for a long time as one of the Retro viruses. Moreover, it is not a single entity, since it has several types and strains. Can all be made responsible for creating AIDS conditions? If the disease is yes, then does it fit to the principles of the disease. If the answer is no, then what ‘else’ is responsible for AIDS?
HIV is like any other opportunistic organism which develops in the body having low body immunity. Still we say that HIV is the cause for the low body immunity and in turn AIDS. It is just to make ignorant and gullible masses understandable but not the persons who are truth seekers and investigators in real sense.
Those who believe in the Nature’s principles and consider HIV/AIDS as the natural disease or nature’s punishment to mankind for the wrongs done, then it can be said; the nature cannot be so cruel if it does not provide cure. If it is a man created disease, even then there ought to be definite cure.
It is a fact that negative opinion (antagonistic approach) spreads more readily like a wild fire than the truth (protagonistic approach). Similar things happened in the case of HIV. The proposition of HIV/AIDS put forward by Robert Gallo of USA and Montagnier of France has now reached to every nook and corner but the truth spoken by Peter Duesberg; a professor of Virology Deptt. At University of California, Berkley, has not even reached to these researches of HIV/AIDS.
Another pertinent point on which I would like to draw the attention of the HIV/AIDS Researchers; if the criteria for declaring a person HIV +ve is the positive Elisa and Western blot tests, the same tests if found negative in a HIV/AIDS patient after the treatment, must be taken as the criteria for declaring him/her free from HIV. But according to Dr. D.P. Rastogi, Director, Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, New Delhi; “The western authorities are not accepting their claim of making HIV +ve patients free from HIV on the basis of above said criteria.” The patients were treated by the Bombay’s unit of C.C.R.H., New Delhi. Dr. Rastogi further adds that the International authorities suggest some other tests, which they say; are at present being used for the confirmation of HIV presence in the blood by the western countries. Let the Director, National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) throw light on this controversy.
Further, it is quite clear that Elisa and Western blot tests which are presently being conducted to know whether a person is infected with HIV or not by the various Sero Surveillance Centers of India are both indirect tests, since these only show the antibodies titre against HIV, not the actual presence of HIV in the blood. Moreover, none is absolutely free from error. For example – Western blot, which is considered confirmatory test for HIV presence, has the reliability of 94% to 96% i.e. having 4 to 6% error. Aren’t these figures sufficient enough for the false sero positivity or negativity at many times?
I would emphasize on the relapses of the HIV/AIDS patients, who have not only become asymptomatic but virus free also by the treatment of any system of medicine, that they must not resort to such mode of treatment for any disease in future which
be given immuno suppressive drugs at any cost, otherwise, fatal outcome is certain.
The reality is that we are now in such a situation from where no one likes to listen anything against anything against the false but well established concept of HIV/AIDS. Lest it may be either due to lack of truth seekers or vested interests, who have spread their business tentacles over the poor and developing nations. Few years ago, not a single case of HIV/AIDS was detected but now it is being said that by 2000 A.D. the number of such cases could go to one crore or more in the Asian countries alone. Still, if it is taken true then the most important reason could be the indiscriminate use
of antibiotics and corticosteroids both (the immuno supressive drugs) in these
developing countries of Indian subcontinent and elsewhere.
Millions of dollars are received as loan in the name of Research and Control of AIDS. But the AIDS is becoming like a household commodity in each passing day and the money received from WHO is either being utilised in luxuries of the persons who may have not even seen the HIV/AIDS’s patients, what to talk of treatment/ cure/control by them or, in the propagation and spread of the AIDS. The pity of the common man and the poor countries is; that these persons concerned with AIDS have accepted every thing in toto whatever is being thrusted on them by the clever persons of developed nations. It is highly surprising that not a single Virologist, Pathologist or Medical personnel from the developing countries particularly that of Indian subcontinent has come forward to challenge and rectify the concept of HIV/AIDS till date.
Last but not the least, I would certainly have a mention about the treatment given to the above noted HIV/AIDS patients and the observations gathered thereof in the form of suggestions/proposals. The same were sent to various concerned Govt. Deptts. of India some times in Jul./Aug. 1993. None other except Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, acknowledged my contribution made till date. The ICMR has recently asked me to submit the details of the homoeopathic drugs which I intend to use for the treatment of HIV/AIDS patients.
RECURRENT BRONCHIAL DISEASES
A child was given bath at a hospital at the time of birth, got exposure and in turn suffered from Pneumonia. Thereafter the child suffered from 3 more attacks of Pneumonia up to the age of 3 years. Another child of 4 months of age was given bath in summer and was put to bed in a whirling fan. The child developed Pneumonia. Since then the child suffered several attacks of bronchitis and broncho pneumonia.
These are 2 cases treated homeopathically and recoded out of 20 such cases. But there are numerous victims who are suffering from cold and cough, bronchitis, broncho-pneumonia and bronchial asthma frequently.
The victims are mainly young children both male and female, generally between 4 and 6 years old. They seem to be in normal health but are mostly lean and thin, occasionally found with liver enlargement. They complain of rattling sound while coughing with a feeling of congestion of throat and chest but no actual congestion is noticed on auscultation. The voice may be hoarse or of normal pitch. Lack of appetite in a majority of the children has been observed. They do not feel hunger as healthy children generally do. “The child brings his only Chapati back home in tiffin” may be the complaint of mothers of these sick children. But they are fond of piquant things like ice-cream, toffee, golgappa, and other sweet of saltish preparations. And therefore show reluctance for their normal meal when they are offered food. Their appetite vanishes on seeing food or after taking a little food. They may have a desire for cold drinks even during winter season. Grinding of the teeth at night along with excessive salivation while asleep and complaints of mild pain in the belly indicating wormy symptoms. There may be a history of prolonged diarrhoea before the onset of bronchial trouble or the diarrhoea may be ushered during the latent phase of the diseases. Mentally such children are either sharp or of normal intelligence. In most of the victims tonsils are also found to be enlarged especially after taking sour or cold things.
Owing to frequent relapses in the nature of these diseases, parents get worried for the well-being of their children. Doctors, in order to give relief to such victims do their best and try drugs of common use to special ones with every successive attack but relapses do occur.
The attacks of these diseases are more frequent in winter but in true cases these come in summer too, when the conditions are rampant for such diseases. An average of one child out of 10 may be easily traced. Early age and exposure to cold act as predisposing factors and are responsible for making the young children susceptible to these diseases. Infection fist settles in the upper respiratory tract and later may pass in to the lower one. This is commonly seen in cases of bronchitis or cold, where the first one turns to bronchopneumonia and the latter to congestion of the chest.
Why should a child be sensitive to such diseases in early life, can be well understood by the following facts:
1) The respiratory system of a newborn and infants is not well developed. There are only 17 generative branches in the respiratory system of a newborn as compared to 23 in a grown-up person. Accordingly, the volume of the lung tissue is bigger in an adult, therefore better resistance system as compared to the young ones.
2) The child may get an initial attack of any of such diseases due to the carelessness of the parents or as a manifestation of the some other existing trouble. This is especially seen when the child is not treated in such a way where the resistance of the body particularly the respiratory system is maintained. Thus in these diseases a previous attack predisposes to repetition rather than giving immunity. In fact only those children get subsequent attacks whose body resistance is weakened either by diseases or because of drugs abuse especially the broad spectrum antibiotics viz Gentamycin.
Role of Vitamins: Vitamins, especially vitamins A and C play an important role in the proper maintenance of integrity and activity of normal epithelial tissue of the respiratory system. Vitamin A is also known as the anti-infective vitamin which along with pathological tissue change in the lining of the lungs i.e. transformation of the simple squamous (pavement) epithelium to stratified squamous epithelium which may undergo degeneration. As a result local resistance to infection is reduced, hence infection from these sites easily takes place. Vitamin C maintains the normal state of the intercellular substance, the acid mucpolysaccharide, along with vitamin A. Susceptibility to
Infection increases due to deficiency of the acid mucopolysaccharide. Vitamin B by the name of B complex has a wide range of actions but is mainly concerned with tissue metabolic activities. Thus it is recommended that vitamin A and C used along with B when the patient is to be treated with broad spectrum antibiotics in modern or allopathic system of medicine.ss
Homoeopathic View: According to Dr. W.A. Dewey; “Though giving vitamins rich food is the prevailing custom, it is a crude and uncertain method for the condition may not be altogether due to a lack of them in the food, but also and perhaps preponderately to the lack of power of the system to appropriate them”. Therefore, we must find a remedy to restore this vitamin function of the system that is lacking or deranged and this can be done in the homoeopathic way by attenuating remedies so that the system will absorb them.
As per the homoeopathic system,”Disease is nothing more than an alteration inn the state of health of the individual which express themselves by perceptible symptoms. For treatment; the totality of the symptoms mentioned above constitute the disease.” Hahnemann considered the totality of symptoms as the living or dynamic pathology of the patient. If all the symptoms are eradicated the disease is cured internally. Drugs are administered to diseased persons with the idea that if a morbid vital process is changed to the original normal state, the pathological changes in the organism would be restored to physiological, structural and functional state of the individual. In other words resistance is built by correcting the normal functioning of the tissue cells of the respiratory system in particular and the body in general. Thus the disease is annihilated permanently and no further relapses occur.
Therapeutic Hints: The basic aim of treating patients of recurrent bronchial diseases is to change their constitution. Since these patient are susceptible to cold in general owing to lack of vitality, therefore, medicines which generally bring about change in the body are deep acting constitutional remedies. No doubt in the acute phase of the disease, on the basis of prevailing symptoms, we should also prescribe short acting medicines. Thus the lowered vitality is to be corrected by increasing the resistance. The most commonly used medicines are as under:-
Nature’s Role: In case the victims are not fortunate enough to receive treatment which would , otherwise make them free from frequent relapses of the ailments, then nature has its own role to play. This is bringing a change in the body through hormones especially the androgens at the commencement of puberty. After this the troubles are normally overcome automatically.
TRAUMA: An important exciting cause of Cancer
A teenager got his left hand’s finger traumatised while cutting vegetable with a kitchen knife. After some time, a big hard swelling developed on his left upper arm. Doctors in a govt. hospital diagnosed it to be a case of caner and advised the parents of the amputation of the arm. The parents did not agree to the advice. They took the boy to a quack. He is said to have incised the swelling and sprinkled a mixture of some toxic ingredients on the wound.
Subsequently, either due to the action of toxic substance or the spread of the disease, the whole limb got enormously swollen and oozed abnormal serous discharge, the arm looking like mummy. Meanwhile, the parents consulted physicians of other alternative system of medicine but of no use. The progress of the disease after the incision was so rapid that the development of hard nodular swelling itself was an indication of advanced stage of the disease pathology. The boy died within 6 months after inflicting injury to his finger.
Another teenager, while driving a motor cycle, was suddenly stopped by some lads in a city market to offer him “Sharbat” on a religious day. He could not control the vehicle and fell down. His visceras were severely traumatised. Splenectomy was performed. He had bled profusely and could be saved by giving heavy blood transfusion only.
About 10 years after the said incident, the boy developed a pain like that of Appendicitis and got his appendix removed by a private surgeon. After that a couple of months of the appendectomy, there appeared to be a big nodular swelling of lymph node on the right side of the neck of the patient. On detailed investigations, doctors found carcinoma of right kidney as the cause. Nephrectomy was done at a medical college hospital, after which the swelling subsided but ultrasound report showed infiltration in the surrounding visceral lymph nodes and the liver.
The patient started having low-grade fever some time after nephrectomy, which could not subside even by antipyretics prescribed by the concerned doctors. The other day, temperature rose to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. The patient also felt cramping pain in the belly. The attendant consulted doctors of alternative system of medicine who though brought down the temperature and pain but the patient meanwhile developed severe Jaundice, Ascites, loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting. For tapping of ascetic fluid, the patient got admitted in the hospital quite often. Meanwhile, the patient became very weak and remained in moribund condition for some days and then died.
Mr. Rajja Pahalwi, the late Shah of Iran, some time after his deportment developed cancer. He seemed to have got a severe shock, rather traumatised due to the manner, he was dethroned and deported to an alien country as a refugee. In spite of the best available treatment which the Shah might have got, he died of cancer.
(As reported in media)
Begum Nusrat Bhutto, widow of the former Pak P.M. Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto, developed cancer soon after her husband was hanged to death. She might have been tormented during her husband’s trial and hence got traumatised. Soon after the ailment was diagnosed as cancer, she was treated successfully. She had been very much active in public life until a few years ago and is still leading a normal life.
(As reported in media)
The late cine artist, Sanjeev Kumar (Hari Bhai Jariwala, Mumbai, India) was a bachelor whole life. He was very much attached to his mother, who always wished him to marry. But Sanjeev Kumar could not find the lady of his choice. His mother died without her cherished desire being fulfilled to see her “Bahu”. Mr. Kumar might have got a shock on 2 counts, first he could not fulfil his mother’s wish and 2, he could not marry the woman whom he loved most. This mental trauma could have been the cause for Kumar developing cancer. He died despite the best available treatment, which he might have received.
(As reported in media)
Then there is a case of a lady who was of 50+ age. She was suspected cancer of bowel but could not be diagnosed so as she refused to undergo the biopsy test for confirmation. Instead of going in for pathological investigation, she chose for an alternative system of medicine. As luck would have been, she got right kind of treatment, at the right time and was saved from becoming an actual cancer patient and certain death as a result thereof. Her story goes thus:
Mrs. Y.K. was a mother of 3 grown up daughters. 2 of them were well off, the third an engineering graduate and of marriageable age. Her husband was a gazetted officer in the state govt. service. The lady once suffered from loose motions. She consulted an allopath postgraduate degree holder but could not be cured. Rather the disease took chronic course of dysentery. The attending physician ultimately referred the patient for biopsy examination, suspecting her a case of bowel malignancy. As referred earlier, instead of biopsy test, she consulted the writer.
On the basis of presenting symptoms as narrated by the patient, she got relief with the very first prescription in the beginning but the symptoms subsequently got relapsed. Once her husband came alone and reminded me about the history of cancer in the family, which in fact, I had missed to take cognizance of. On her next visit, I examined the case afresh.
She was a gentle looking and mild natured, fair in complexion, medium built and a graduate. She told me that she had no worry or tension of any kind except that her husband least talked to her whenever he is at home. He on the other hand, was very talkative and friendly with their daughters as well as whoever came to their house. Her only grievance was that she sacrificed her education for the sake of the family’s welfare but her husband never paid the due attention she deserved.
In fact, she needed caressing which she might have been getting during her unmarried and early married life, and which normally is not possible in the advanced age. In other words she was being traumatised and proceeding towards cancer of the bowel or the rectum. The medicine was selected on the basis of her mental state and not only her physical ailment of dysenteric stools became all right but her mental trauma also got cured. Later, she was given a medicine based on her family history to get removed her cancer diathesis. Thereafter no relapse of the said disease occurred. She is hale and hearty even after 10 years now.
The above noted causes of cancer fall mainly in 2 categories so far the disease pathology is concerned: (1) The reversible and (2) the irreversible stages of the disease. The patient who respond to any kind of treatment, medicinal or surgical, and remain okay for a long time belong to reversible stage of the disease pathology. Those who do not respond to any kind of treatment and ultimately die due to the disease, belong to irreversible stage of the disease pathology.
ABOUT CANCER
One need not be surprised to learn that cancer is not a disease in itself but is the outcome of some kind of internal disturbance that takes place at the mental/physical or both the planes as a result of trauma whether physical, mental, or both and “where there is perverted attempt of the natural healing of the body. Actual disease is already the whole systemic trouble and the body tries to localize the condition which is the so called cancer”.
(Dr. W.E. Jackson, M.D.)
Some of the cancer cases mentioned above were treated successfully while a few could not be. These are only a handful cases out of innumerable cases which the physicians of all systems of medicine encounter day today. Although each case seems different from one another depending upon the age, sex, and cell-tissue, organ involved, there are many common features in cancer patients such as unbearable pain, anxiety-restlessness, fear of death, protracted illness, cancer cachexia, etc. Most of the cancer patients have one thing very common; that is their stamina or the endurance to tolerate all above noted sufferings.
It can be safely concluded that cancer is the outcome of the exciting cause; the trauma and the greater bearing power of the person concerned. In other words, we can say that the cancer is the ailment affecting those whose body did not suffer much physically or mentally in the past and thus reacts more vigorously to any kind of exciting or triggering factor; the trauma. Ask any cancer patient, you will come to know that he/she was the person who had had rarely suffered from any kind of trauma previously. Had their trauma bearing power involved as in the case of other people who suffer from one or other kind of the traumatic effects, their trauma bearing mechanism would have been well adapted.
“The law of causation teaches that no internal effect can arise without any external cause and that effect itself may in turn become a cause of further changes.
(Further) “The law of vis-inertie (internal constitution) teaches that all changes of bodies in nature are the result of an external cause for without this all bodies would remain in the same state in which they are placed.
“Disease resulting from mental or physical trauma occurs as a result of toxic chemical or physical changes that
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I have found some really beautiful toasting flutes and cake cutting sets but I wonder whether it is worth buying them. I mean the flutes we will only really use once as they would be personalised for our wedding day, maybe use them on an aniversary and the cake cutters…well we don’t eat cake all that often.
Should we bother getting them?
Are you going to buy them or just use whatever is on hand on the day?
Please feel free to suggest other little things that you don’t think are needed on the wedding day (please don’t say the whole wedding)
We used the flutes and cake cutter at the venue. We dont like keepsakes and engraved items.
I think you should decide based on whether you like keepsake items - are you going to use them again? Or are they going to go in a box in the basement?
Other things I think are not necessary:
limos
favors
pew bows/superfluous flowers at ceremony
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