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RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: DEALING WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY

From their perspective, your loved ones are also struggling with this new situation. They may be uncertain about how to approach you. Should they offer their help? Should they allow you to do what you can? Should they pretend that nothing’s changed? They will need your guidance. You must set the tone and direction for your future interactions. Your messages to others should be clear and concise. You must communicate with them and not expect them to understand simply because they love you. Mixed messages result in misunderstandings and hurt feelings.

Asking for Help
It’s difficult to ask for help with tasks that you once were able to do on your own, but you’ll need to do this from time to time. If you learn to ask for help in a way that lets you keep your sense of independence and confidence, you’re much more likely to ask for the help you need, and then your feelings of frustration or anger can be avoided. Learn to ask clearly, and without ambiguity, so that the person you’re asking knows exactly how you’d like to be helped. Consider the following unproductive approaches:
“I’ll just do it myself.” (Martyrdom is overvalued.)
“Can’t you see I’m in pain and can’t do this?” (It does no good to try to induce guilt in someone else.) “Wash the dishes or else.” (People who feel as if they are being punished for your arthritis will sooner or later come to resent your requests for assistance.) “I can do it, but I think it’s about time for you to do something around here.” (Denial has the potential to develop into antagonism.)
Now consider the following requests, messages that preserve self-esteem while constructively conveying the need for assistance:
“Here’s what I need help with. I know I can count on you.” (Describe the task and show appreciation; the response will almost certainly be positive.)
“I’m certain I can do this part alone, but I could really use your help with the rest of it.” (Be specific about your needs, including what you don’t need help with.)
“I’ll clean up the living room if you’ll vacuum the rug.” (Negotiation allows equal input from everyone.)
Remember, your attitude has a far greater effect on your personal interactions than your disabilities do.
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USE OF HERBAL MEDICINES FOR MASSES: NATURE’S LAW OF CURE

The modern men is so much awed by the nomenclature of diseases, the medical terminologies and the plentitude of drugs and wonder drugs, that he is not ready to believe that God, the almighty has provided us with a very simple and benevolent law of cure. Simple, yet to be realised by the acute observer only. One can easily observe this law in everyday life.

(i)    The bee-sting produces swelling and stinging pains, ameliorated by cold. Yet if, there is swelling, with stinging pain which is ameliorated by cold, it is cured by applying macerated bees on the spot.

(ii)    If there is blood discharge from the eyes excoriating discharge from the nose, which is ameliorated by cold, it is Cured by taking small amounts of diluted onion juice.

(iii)    Continuous intake of juice of peepal leaf produces haemorrhage of bright red blood from the orifices of the body. Yet if there is haemorrhage of bright red blood, it is cured by taking a few drops of juice of peepal leaf.

These are simple examples expressed in a simple way. Every drug has wide range of action on the whole body. For proper application of drugs we have to study minutely the primary action of drugs in large doses on the human body. When we have fully understood and observed it’s action, then the same drug in small doses will be able to cure a similar condition which it is able to produce, and it is the natural law of cure:
“A drug which in large doses produce a disease in a healthy being is in small doses able to cure a person suffering from a similar disease”.

The approach of the so-called modern medicine is to suppress a single aspect of the disease by a number of drugs. The disease remains in the body, complexed with the remaining manifestations of the drug called it’s side-effects. The result is that there is a continuous attack on the immune system of the body resulting in a number of dreadful diseases.
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SICK BUILDING SYNDROME: FINDING AN INDOOR POLLUTION SOLUTION

If your office building had an ignition system, it could probably be launched into orbit and serve nicely as a space station. That’s because skyrocketing energy costs have caused engineers to seal off the buildings they design as tightly as possible from the outside environment.
The idea—to conserve heat in the winter and air-conditioning in the summer—is a good one, but there’s a catch. The air in your office might have pollutants in it that you’d rather be flushed out the window, pollutants that are believed to cause the array of illnesses and allergies that have come to be called sick building syndrome.
The specific causes of sick building syndrome have proven hard enough to pin down that some researchers still believe it’s more of a psychological than physical malady. But Bill C. Wolverton, Ph.D., an environmental research scientist and consultant and president of Wolverton Environmental Services in Picayune, Mississippi, isn’t one of them. Literally hundreds of chemical by-products of various types have been found in office environments, he says. They range from copy machine chemicals to gases given off by the glues and fibers in carpeting. From formaldehyde emitted by particleboard shelves to cleaning solvents and air fresheners. From insecticides and paint fumes to insulation dust. From molds and mildew to cigarette smoke, not to mention the carbon dioxide exhaled by you and your fellow workers.
Any one of those elements alone may not be present in levels high enough to cause problems, Dr. Wolverton and others believe, but if you mix them all together and combine them with lousy ventilation, you have all the ingredients for a potentially dangerous toxic stew. “There’s no mystery to me why sick building syndrome is happening,” Dr. Wolverton says. “When you have an environment like that, how could it possibly be healthy?”
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