日常起居六忌

清晨忌吸煙
人甦醒時新陳代謝尚未恢復到正常水平，呼吸的頻率較慢，體內積滯的二氧化碳較多，這時吸煙會使支氣管因抽煙的刺激而導痙攣收縮，使二氧化碳的排出受阻，從而產生氣悶、頭暈、乏力等症狀。

空腹忌喝牛奶
牛奶中的蛋白質經過胃與小腸消化成氨基酸才能在小腸被吸收，而空腹喝牛奶時胃排空很快，蛋白質還不及被吸收即排到大腸，不但造成營養的浪費，而且蛋白質還會在大腸內腐敗成有毒物質。

如廁忌看報
大便是人的神經低級和高級中樞共同參與的活動，許多人習慣於拿上一份報紙或一本書，一蹲就是小半天。如廁看書報不但會使排便意識受到抑制。失去了直腸對糞便刺激的敏感性，久而久之會引起便秘。

室內忌養飛鳥
鳥糞中帶有鸚鵡病毒、島型結核桿菌及寄瞞，鳥糞被烏踏碎以後，病毒與病菌便飛揚在空氣中，這對室內的身體健康很不利。若人體長時間吸入，會誘發呼吸道黏膜充血、咳嗽、痰多、發燒等症狀，嚴重者還會出現肺炎與休克。

洗澡時間忌過長
洗澡時，熱水產生出大量的水蒸氣，附在水中的有毒物質如三氯乙烯、三氯甲烷等分別被蒸發80%和50%以上。有些有毒物質隨蒸氣而被身體部份吸收，進入血液循環系統，危害很大。而且，在較熱的水中洗澡時間過久，對心臟也不利。

睡覺窗戶忌緊閉
人人睡後，每分鐘要吸入300毫升氧氣，呼出250毫升二氧化碳，如果門窗緊閉，密不透風，不消3小時，室內約二氧化碳量就會增加3倍以上，細菌、塵埃等有害物質也會成倍增長。因此，睡覺時應留些窗縫，以便讓室外新鮮空氣不斷流入，室內二氧化碳及時排出。

Papaya Leave Juice - Cure for Dengue Fever

There is no medicine to cure dengue fever. What you can rely on is only your immune system. Doctors will normally advise dengue patients to take more fruits to boost up the immune system to recover from the dengue fever.

In this case, I believe papaya leave juice shall be the most appropriate juice to help in fighting the dengue virus.

Below are 2 stories explain how papaya leave juice help the dengue patients as well as the method of preparing it.

Story 1
I would like to share this interesting discovery from a classmate's son who has just recovered from dengue fever. Apparently, his son was in the critical stage at the ICU when his blood platelet count drops to 15 after 15 litres of blood transfusion.

His father was so worried that he seeks another friend's recommendation and his son was saved. He confessed to me that he gave his son raw juice of the papaya leaves. From a platelet count of 45 after 20 liters of blood transfusion, and after drinking the raw papaya leaf juice, his platelet count jumps instantly to 135. Even the doctors and nurses were surprised. After the second day he was discharged. So he asked me to pass this good news around.

Accordingly it is raw papaya leaves, 2pcs just cleaned and pound and squeeze with filter cloth. You will only get one tablespoon per leaf. So two tablespoon per serving once a day. Do not boil or cook or rinse with hot water, it will loose its strength. Only the leafy part and no stem or sap. It is very bitter and you have to swallow it like "Won Low Kat". But it works.

Story 2
You may have heard this elsewhere but if not I am glad to inform you that papaya juice is a natural cure for dengue fever. As dengue fever is rampant now, I think it's good to share this with all.

A friend of mine had dengue last year. It was a very serious situation for her as her platelet count had dropped to 28,000 after 3 days in hospital and water has started to fill up her lung. She had difficulty in breathing. She was only 32-year old. Doctor says there's no cure for dengue. We just have to wait for her body immune system to build up resistance against dengue and fight its own battle. She already had 2 blood transfusion and all of us were praying very hard as her platelet continued to drop since the first day she was admitted.

Fortunately her mother-in-law heard that papaya juice would help to reduce the fever and got some papaya leaves, pounded them and squeeze the juice out for her. The next day, her platelet count started to increase, her fever subside. We continued to feed her with papaya juice and she recovered after 3 days!!!

Amazing but it's true. It's believed one's body would be overheated when one is down with dengue and that also caused the patient to have fever papaya juice has cooling effect. Thus, it helps to reduce the level of heat in one's body, thus the fever will go away. I found that it's also good when one is having sore throat or suffering from heat.

Please spread the news about this as lately there are many dengue cases.. It's great if such natural cure could help to ease the sufferings of dengue patients.

Furthermore it's so easily available.
Blend them and squeeze the juice! It's simple and miraculously effective!

Skin Whitening

What is skin whitening? In the history of Japan, geishas are known for their painted white skin which represents beauty, grace and high social status. In today’s changing modern society, the perception of fairer skin is evolving, where some say fair skin is white skin while others would argue that fair skin is just that: fair skin.

But how does one get fairer skin then? Do you hide under the shade? Apply skin whitening products? Or do you make your own remedy? In the world today, skin whitening products are available in various forms. Be it creams, soaps, pills and lotions, all of them serve only one purpose, to help our skin become fairer. There are of course simple remedies and courses that can be taken to whiten our skin.

Source: Health care booklet from Guardian pharmacy

Marco's comment:

It is true that fair skin somehow looks better, provided you looks healthy as well.

指甲半月痕

其實什麽是半月痕？瓣開你的手指,在指甲的開端,會有一個宛如半月的白色痕跡,這個就是半月痕。如果你發現,你的十個手指裏面已經沒有了半月痕,那麽,你的身體健康狀況並不如你所想的理想哦!不知道在哪裏？

就算你看到你的手指有半月痕,你也別高興得太早哦!真正健康的半月痕的顔色是白色!其他顔色的話,那就是說不是很健康了!

半月痕其實是陰陽經脈界線,代表著人體的精氣和健康。所以如果健康不佳,消化不良,半月痕就會變得細小,模糊,甚至消失。

怎樣才是正常的半月痕呢？拌開你的雙手,8-10個手指都有半月痕是為佳,而它的面積是指甲的五分之一,顔色為乳白色為好,越白越好。如果半月痕小于五分之一,则表示精力不足,肠胃吸收能力差。如半月痕突然晦暗、缩细、消失,往往会患有消耗性的疾病、肿瘤、出血等。而如果半月痕較面積五分之一大,多为心肌肥大,易患心脑血管、高血压、中风等疾病。

而不正常的半月痕為數量少的半月痕。數量越少,表示體質越寒,所以手腳冰冷而免疫力弱。

寒底型
• 半月痕少至無
• 臟腑功能低,氣血運行慢所以容易疲勞以及精神不振,但卻嗜睡
• 面色蒼白,手腳冰冷,容易感冒
• 气滞血瘀,痰湿停滞,痰湿结节
• 消化不良,吸收能力差,體質下降

熱底型
• 凡小指都有半月痕。
• 半月痕大于指甲的五分之一
• 體内陽氣較旺,臟腑功能較強所以體質較好
• 但是因爲陽氣較旺盛,所以有面紅的跡象,容易上火煩躁,便秘、口干、食量大
• 手腳不怕冷,好動
• 血壓高,血糖高,易中風

寒熱交錯型
• 半月痕的边界模糊不清、颜色逐渐接近甲体颜色者,属寒热交
• 错或阴阳失调。
• 初期:半月痕边缘开始不清,如放光芒状
• 中期:半月痕开始缩小
• 后期:半月痕逐渐减少并消失

而半月痕的顔色能告知你某些健康的秘密哦!
1. 奶白色 - 正常,精力強壯,體質好
2. 灰色 - 精弱,脾胃消化吸收功能不好,容易貧血+疲倦
3. 粉紅色 - 臟腑功能下降,體力消耗過大,容易引起糖尿病、甲肮等病症
4. 紫色 - 容易引起心脑血管血液循环不良,供血供氧不足,易头晕、头痛、脑动脉硬化
5. 黑色 - 多见于严重的心脏病、肿瘤或长期服药引起药物和重金属中毒

而每一個手指的半月痕都和身體的某一部分有著不可磨滅的關係。

拇指
• 肺脾
• 呈粉红色时,表示胰脏机能不良,容易感冒、反复感冒、疲劳,严重时易患糖尿
• 病

食指
• 肠胃
• 呈粉红色时,表示胃、大肠的循环不良,食欲自然减退

中指
• 心包经、神志
• 呈粉红色时,表示精神过度紧张,易头晕、头痛、思路不清、脑涨、失眠、多梦

無名指
• 内分泌
• 呈粉红色时,表示运行于无名指的三焦经发生异常,易体质下降、阴阳失调,人容
• 易有种说不出的不舒服感,女性会得月经不调等妇科病

小指
• 心肾
• 小指一般很难长出半月痕,出现时,多为热症
• 呈红色时,易患严重的心脏病

如何再次長出半月痕？半月痕和身體的精髓元氣大有關聯。而以中醫學來説元氣是用來濡养全身五脏六腑以及推動五臟六腑的氣血運行,進而增強免疫功能以及长寿抗衰老物质。所以,儅一個人精力不足時,最先要補充的就是蛋白質。當然,如果能適時地補充其他的維他命和礦物質是對身體更加的好!而優質的蛋白質為中性為好,比如, 蛋類、豆類、魚類、黑色性食物(補腎)、种籽性食物、胚胎性食物等。堅持一、兩個月以後,就可以看到半月痕的出現了。

你的半月痕還在嗎？

Shaken Baby Syndrome

Nowadays, majority of the couples (husbands and wives) need to go out to work to survive the family. The babies and children are sent to baby care centres or the responsibilities of mothers have been passed on to the maids or paid baby sitters.

Below is an article from a forwarded email that may inspire us to change our social lifestyle to give better attention to our next generation especially while they are still a baby or young child.

December 4th, 2007, Jessica Sherwood had to do something no mother should ever have to do. At 2:29 pm Jessica made a very tough, but the right decision to take her little 3 month old daughter off life support.

In memory of little London Marie, i thought id start a little forward.
Jessica had a message that i want every one to know.
This is what Jessica said:

"If anyone has kids, make sure that you keep them with you the whole time. Don't give then to anyone that you don't trust. Trust me, I thought that I trusted Josh. But now as of December 4, 2007 at 2:29 AM, she is gone. My one & only baby and he is going to pay forever, even if he gets out of jail scott free, he will be punished no matter what. And to all my friends that know London , I am very angry & upset that I lost the love of my life, my babygirl. She passed away on her three month birthday .

London had six fractured ribs, both of her legs were fracture, & her brain was so damaged that if she were to live she would be a vegetable. So I did what was right & what was best for her & took her off life support.

That's what you call Shaken Baby Sydrome [SBS]"

For those of you who dont know what Shaken Baby Syndrome check out the facts ;
-Shaking, jerking and jolting can cause blood vessels in the head to tear or burst.

Shaken Baby Syndrome is the shaking of an infant or child by the arms, legs, or shoulders with or without impact of the head.

This trauma can result in bleeding and brain injury with no outward signs of abuse. Often frustrated caregivers feel that shaking a baby or small child is a harmless way to make the child stop crying. However, a baby's brain and blood vessels are vulnerable to whiplash motions, such as shaking, jerking, jolting, and impact.

The neck muscles of an infant or small child are weak, so the child's head is relatively heavy and the neck cannot support the stress of shaking or impact.

Shaking a very young child, with or without impact of the head, can cause irreversible brain damage, blindness, cerebral palsy, hearing loss, spinal cord injury, seizures, learning disabilities, and even death.

It is tragic that healthy, intelligent babies are suffering these disabilities simply because their caregivers don't know about the dangers associated with Shaken Baby Syndrome.

An estimated 1,200 to 1,400 cases of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) occur each year in the United States .

Only 1 out of 4 babies pass away of Shaken Baby Syndrome. However, the other three babies will need ongoing medical attention for the rest of their short lifespans.