Health, Doctors and Common Sense

Eat lot of vegetables, both green and leafy, and fruits ! This is what many suggest. But why ? Because they are good sources of antioxidants. Antioxidants help your body from numerous infections and possibly diseases like cancer. They protect against free radicals. Free radicals are chemicals formed in the body as part of the metabolism and defense against bacteria. But factors like exposure to environmental pollution or ultraviolet light, illness and cigarette smoke can cause the body to increase the production of free radicals to a level more than required. These free radicals have been associated with aging, cancer, blood pressure, immune deficiency etc.,

Recent research suggests that dietary supplements containing such antioxidants may offer protection against certain cancer and may help in premature aging. Science daily, quoting the researchers of Penn State University, reported that the mushrooms are as good a source of antioxidants as vegetables. The commonly consumed Button mushrooms rank with carrots, green beans, red peppers and broccoli as good sources of dietary antioxidants.

Epidemiological studies have shown that those who eat the most fruits and vegetables rich in antioxidants have lower incidence of diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s and atherosclerosis.

“O.K . What if I do not enjoy eating the vegetables ? Can I still get the benefits of antioxidants “ , you may wonder . Yes ! There is an option . And an easier option. This nutritional supplement with many other vital ingredients are available for consumption in liquid form for easier consumption and absorption in to the body system.

Enjoy the healthy life

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In response to a growing demand on the part of consumers, more and more organic foods are flooding the market. However, many shoppers only seem to have an abstract understanding of the benefits of organic foods on the environment and their health. Organic food are not only better for your health, but it is also better for the environment.  

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Throughout this history, the focus of agricultural research, and the majority of publicized scientific findings, has been on chemical, not organic farming. Surprisingly, few empirical analyses studies have addressed the question of pesticide residue on produce.  Many believe that eating organic foods does help children ingest fewer pesticides, since logically organic foods would have significantly less pesticide residue than nonorganics, but no actionable studies have been conducted. Although this is obviously very important.

Organic Research and Harmful Pesticides

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In this four part series, I will describe what’s missing from Western Medicine that can get us well or keep us sick, and offer practical tools for harnessing this power.

Part I:  What Western Medicine can Learn from the Scientists and the Mystics

What distinguishes Western medicine from all other healing traditions on the planet are several key concepts:  the separation of mind and body, and the notion that all of nature can be explained via a materialistic world view.  On the other hand, every single non-Western healing tradition recognizes the inextricable link between psyche and soma.  “Dis-ease” is not limited to the physical body; thoughts and emotions are causative factors.  And healing necessitates addressing these elements of our being.  Getting well is not just about fixing the physical body. 

Our thoughts are omnipotent.  Thoughts are powerful vibrations that can make us well or make us sick.  Negative thoughts can make us sick and keep us sick.  Positive thoughts can heal us and transform our lives.  These concepts do not come from the realms of pseudoscience.  In fact, there is a tremendous body of scientific research that can support these notions. 

Most notably, researchers in physics and engineering labs have been conducting experiments that suggest the profound effect of consciousness on the material world:  how our thoughts can affect us, literally, and physically1-4.  For over 25 years, scientists at Princeton University’s PEAR Laboratory have demonstrated powerful correlations between human intention and machine behavior.  They have shown that untrained individuals can influence the output of random mechanical and electronic number generators, just by “thinking” in which direction the numbers should go.  These effects were found to be independent of space and time.  Effects persisted when the individual was thousands of miles away, and, when the individual influenced the machine before and even after it was run.

These ideas are millennia old, and have roots in many of the world’s ancient traditions from cultures outside of our Western culture, and are implicit aspects of healing traditions throughout the globe. 

However, Western medicine has remained unaware of these notions, and, unaware of this research.  Most medical students took the easy college physics course to get into medical school, and were never exposed to the paradigm-changing observations that modern physicists made in the early part of the twentieth century, leading to the models of quantum mechanics and relativity. 

These models dramatically influenced our understanding of nature, and, ironically, given that they were the result of sophisticated, technologically advanced research, led scientists to become more philosophers than technicians.  And in these new notions of nature, were parallels to the ancient traditions of other cultures, to the healing traditions of other cultures, and to mystical, non-Cartesian views of life. 

These notions are not new; again, they are millennia old.  The ancient traditions of Chinese medicine and Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine), for example, draw links between bodily symptoms and emotions.  In Chinese medicine, the lung is the repository for grief, the liver for rage, and the kidney for fear.  In Ayurveda, the vata dosha may yield arthritides and worry, the pitta, ulcers and rage.  To even consider a separation between these elements is contrived.

In Part II, I will continue to describe the dichotomy between Western Medicine, and the concept of inherent connectedness of mind and body.

References

1. Tiller, W.A., Dibble, W., Kohane, M.  Conscious Acts of Creation.  Walnut Creek, CA:  Pavior Publishing;2001.

2.  Tiller, W.A. Science and Human Transformation:  Subtle Energies, Intentionality, and Consciousness.  Walnut Creek, CA:  Pavior Publishing;1997.

3.  Jahn RG, Dunne BJ. Margins of Reality:  The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World.  New York, NY:  Harcourt Brace;1997.

4.  Jahn RG, Dunne BJ. On the quantum mechanics of consciousness with applications to anomalous phenomena.  Foundations of Physics 1986;16:721-772.

2006 Patricia A. Muehsam, M.D.

Dr. Muehsam is a holistic medical doctor practicing in New York City. She can be reached by phone at (212) 946 – 5700.

Click HERE to see Dr. Muehsams listing on The Healing Directory.

• A version of this article was published in The Epoch Times on July 17, 2006

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Part II: In Part II, I continue to describe the dichotomy within Western Medicine, and the concept of inherent connectedness of mind and body.

Not so long ago, before the advent of the pharmaceutical machine, with its vast offerings of new fixes for our physical failings, physicians were the consummate healers.  Voltaire described our role as that of the amuser, to keep the patient amused long enough so that nature could do her healing work.  And Sir William Osler, considered one of Western medicine’s founding fathers, maintained that it was more important to know the patient that had the disease, than to know what kind of disease the patient had.

However, Western medicine is not employed in the business of healing.  Rather, this is a disease care system.  For, by its very nature, our Western medical model makes people sick and keeps people sick.  Indeed, Western medicine’s approach to chronic illness cures no one of anything.  Pharmaceuticals merely suppress symptoms, interfering with the true and natural healing mechanism of the human organism.  Skeptics, and those who espouse our dominant biomedical paradigm, relegate inexplicable cures to the realms of placebo or perhaps an initial incorrect diagnosis.  And, in fact, they are ignoring that most powerful mediator of healing of all time:  the mind, intention, consciousness.

All these ancient notions, once lost, are now seeking resurgence with the advent of unhappy consumers, and truth–seeking scientists.  These scientists are the pharmacologists, experimental toxicologists, and immunologists doing low dose research to support the veracity of the homeopathic phenomenon.  They are the physicists and engineers mentioned earlier.  They are the parapsychologists and psychoneuroimmunologists, lending credence to the notion of mind affecting matter, and mind affecting body.  They are the open-minded physicians and other researchers conducting research on the power of prayer, and on the healer phenomenon1-9.

Some examples of how literally our minds can affect our bodies and our health include the following research outcomes:  positive thinking lowered blood sugar levels in diabetics, lessened asthma attacks, reduced colitis symptoms, and improved immune function in HIV-infected individuals10-12.  And not only can our thoughts affect on our bodies, but our thoughts can affect others:  numerous studies have demonstrated the clinical efficacy of prayer, most notably the positive effect of prayer on patients in a coronary care unit13.

In addition to this concept of the inherent connectedness of mind and body, as suggested by both ancient wisdom and modern science, is the existence of some ineffable source – entity, energy, connectedness – that embraces all and affects us all.  Some may call this entity God, or Allah.  Others may call it the power of intention, thought, or energy.  Healing traditions throughout the globe draw on this source as a conduit to healing. 

While we may delight in acknowledging this ancient wisdom, and be encouraged that the evergrowing field of complementary and alternative medicine has lent support to the notion of mind-body medicine, we are still missing the link.  Until we can realize that the mind is more powerful than molecules, than pharmaceuticals, and that we can apply this concept to actually heal our own bodies, we are not realizing the full potential that lies within each of us.

In Parts III and IV, I will describe techniques for harnessing the powers of our minds, for healing ourselves, and even impacting on situations and circumstances in our lives.

References

1.  Bellavite, P., Signorini, A.  The Emerging Science of Homeopathy: 

Complexity, Biodynamics, and Nanopharmacology.  Berkely, CA:  North

Atlantic Books;2002.

2.  Schulte J, Endler PC, eds.  Fundamental research in ultra high dilution and

homeopathy.  Dordrecht:  Kluwer Academic Publishers;1998.

3.  Radin, D.  The Conscious Universe:  The Scientific Truth of Psychic

Phenomena.  San Fransisco:  Harper’s Edge;1997.

4.  Ader, R., Felton, D., Cohen, N., eds.  Psychoneuroimmunology.  Philadelphia: 

Elsevier Academic Press;2001.

5.  Jonas, W., Crawford, C.  Healing, Intention, and Energy Medicine:  Science,

Research, and Clinical Implications.  London, UK:  Churchill Livingstone,

2003.

6.  Dossey L.  Healing words.  San Francisco, CA:  Harper San Francisco; 1993.

7.  Astin JA, Harkness E, Ernst E.  The efficacy of “distant healing”:  a systematic

review of randomized trials.  Ann Intern Med 2000;132:903-909.

8.  Benor D.  Healing research:  vol. 1, Spiritual Healing:  Scientific Validation of

a Healing Revolution.  Southfield, MI.  Vision Publications;2000.

9.  Muehsam DJ, Markov MS, Muehsam PA, Pilla AP, Shen T, Wu Y.  Effects of

Qigong on cell-free myosin phosphorylation:  preliminary experiments. 

Subtle Energies 994;5:93-108.

10. Talbot, M. The Placebo Prescription.  The New York Times Magazine; January 9,

2000:  http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000109mag-talbot7.html. 

Accessed 7/4/06.

11.  Antoni, MH.  Psychosocial stressors and behavioral interactions in gay men with

HIV infection.  Int. Rev Psychiatry:  1991;3:383-399.

12.  Astin JA, Harkness E, Ernst E.  The efficacy of “distant healing”:  a systematic

review of randomized trials.  Ann Intern Med 2000;132:903-909.

2006 Patricia A. Muehsam, M.D.

Dr. Muehsam is a holistic medical doctor practicing in New York City. She can be reached by phone at (212) 946 – 5700.

Click HERE to see Dr. Muehsams listing on The Healing Directory.

• A version of this article was published in The Epoch Times on July 24, 2006

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Part III: Our thoughts and emotions can get us well and keep us well, or get us sick and keep us sick:  practical tools for harnessing the power of intention in our lives.

In Parts I and II, I discussed how ancient wisdom and modern science describe for us the inherent link between mind and body, and described scientific research that demonstrates, unequivocably, the effect of thoughts and feelings on our physical health.  In Part III, I give practical tools for harnessing the power of intention in our lives, for healing and transformation.

Our thoughts and feelings affect us, literally.  They can affect all aspects of our lives:  our health, relationships, even finances, and can make us well or keep us sick, help or hinder our relationships, and contribute to either our prosperity or our poverty.  Fears about finances can keep you poor.  Thinking you are fat can keep you fat.  Fears about illness can make you sick.  What I come across most often in my work, is the impact of thoughts and feelings on health.  Our thoughts, literally, make us sick. Negative thoughts and unexpressed feelings can create energetic blockages which become foci for disease.

Our culture doesn’t readily support being in touch with our emotions, especially ones that are judged to be negative.  Many of us spend our lives not even knowing how we feel, let alone being able to express feelings.  Instead, we may medicate ourselves with activity to avoid feeling uncomfortable feelings.  Workaholism, food, alcohol, addiction to exercise, dependence on pharmaceuticals, and even relationships, are some of the ways we can avoid knowing our feelings and ourselves. 

Feelings are normal and natural.  Anger, sadness, fear, whatever you are feeling, is completely normal and natural.  It’s what we do in response to our natural feeling state than can become harmful to us.  Keeping uncomfortable feelings inside, literally, can make us sick.  And as I’ve written in Parts I and II, science has proven this age old wisdom to be true.

When we can learn to feel our feelings, and “just be” with them, rather than keeping them stuck, literally, inside our bodies, we can harness the amazing inherent power that each and every one of us holds.  We can transform our lives:  we can heal ourselves, our relationships, be prosperous, and have happy, joyous and balanced lives. 

The following simple writing techniques will help you to get in touch with feelings, and to transform negative thoughts and uncomfortable feelings.  All you need is pen and paper.  You don’t need to have experience writing, an advanced degree, or expert spelling and penmanship.  In fact, the less formal education you have, the easier it will be for you to access the power of these techniques.

Getting started: ideally, get a notebook or composition book that can serve as your journal.  But paper and pen are good enough. It helps if you can commit to this daily practice, and start your day with it.  If your schedule doesn’t permit, any time is better than none.  Soon you will feel attached to this daily routine, and miss it when you don’t do it!  If you can take your journal around with you during the day, then it can be a source of comfort when situations arise that bring up uncomfortable feelings for you.  If not, just find pen and paper. 

1) Stream of consciousness technique:  write all your feelings down: fears, resentments, anxieties.  Whatever you are feeling and thinking.  If you are not certain, then write just that.  Literally, whatever is on your mind.  Even if you are feeling that you don’t want to write, write that down.  The point is to be “in the moment” with whatever is going on for you.  Do not censor or judge what you are writing, or worry what your handwriting looks like.  If it looks like chicken scratch, that’s okay. The purpose is to get it all out.  Take your feelings to the limit.  For example, if you are worried about money, write why, what might happen, your innermost and deepest fears.  If you are having a hard time with a partner or co-worker, write about this.  If you are angry at your spouse, write about this.  Again, do not judge yourself.  As you are engaged in this process, your mind will naturally have reflective thoughts in response:  difficult feelings will transit to positive responses.  Write these too.  If more feelings come up, continue with these until you can write no more. 

2) Non-dominant hand response writing:  After you have written feelings down, write with your non-dominant hand: if you are right-handed, use the left, and vice versa.  Do not censor, and, most importantly, don’t worry what your penmanship looks like.  Just let your hand do the writing.  Don’t worry about what to write.  Just write whatever comes to mind.  See what happens – you will most likely be very surprised!

References and Suggested Readings

1.  Capacchione, L. The Power of Your Other Hand:  A Course in Channeling the Inner

Wisdom of Your Right Brain.  Franklin Lakes, NJ:  The Career Press; 2003.

2.  Hay, Louise L.  You Can Heal Your Life.  Carson, CA:  Hay House, Inc.  1983.

2006 Patricia A. Muehsam, M.D.

Dr. Muehsam is a holistic medical doctor practicing in New York City. She can be reached by phone at (212) 946 – 5700.

Click HERE to see Dr. Muehsams listing on The Healing Directory.

• A version of this article was published in The Epoch Times on July 31, 2006

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Part IV: Our thoughts and emotions can get us well and keep us well, or get us sick and keep us sick:  more practical tools for harnessing the power of intention in our lives.

In Parts I and II, I discussed how ancient wisdom and modern science describe for us the inherent link between mind and body.  Part IV is a continuation of Part III, in which I gave practical tools for harnessing the power of intention in our lives, for healing and transformation. 

To summarize the first three parts of this series:  our thoughts and emotions can get us well and keep us well, or get us sick and keep us sick.  Both modern science and ancient wisdom confirm these truths.  In fact, our minds are more potent than matter, and the impact on our health can be immediate.  In an earlier series of articles in this publication, “Food as Medicine,”1-4 I discussed the importance of wholesome food choices.  However, even the purest of foods will be received as poison by our bodies if negative thoughts and feelings plague us as we eat. 

What follows are two more simple writing techniques to help transform negative thoughts and feelings.  The first involves releasing resentments; the second involves the power of affirmations. 

1) Resentments:  resentments keep us stuck, blocked, more than any other emotion.  In Chinese medicine, anger is a source of many physical diseases.  A specific writing exercise to release resentments is as follows:  Make 3 columns on your page.  In column 1, write down all the people you have ever felt angry or resentful towards, as way back in your life as you can remember.  Kindergarden included!  Don’t just include people:  include institutions, organizations, and even societal injustices that you may feel angry about.  In column 2, write down why:  what were the circumstances that made you feel this way.  In column 3, write down how this situation made you feel.  Be specific:  not just “angry” or “resentful,” but, for example, not honored, not respected, not taken seriously, etc.  In the process of writing, you will discover that these feelings will transit.

2) Affirmations:  In list form, write down all that you dream of and desire.  Limit yourself in no way whatsoever.  Your present personal, financial, employment, or geographical circumstances are irrelevant.  Do not allow any of these situations to limit your creative imagining.  Write about your ideal partner, job, home, vacation activity, financial needs.  For example, if you dream of a new job, describe your ideal job:  what you do, location, co-workers, how much money you make.  And, most importantly, write in the present tense, as if you have all these desires now.  Imagine how you feel in these circumstances.  Write these feelings down. 

And finally, if you are without pen and paper, and are feeling stuck in a negative mode of thinking, or feeling uncomfortable feelings, (like fear, anxiety, frustration, or anger), you can shift these thought/feeling patterns just with your intention to do so, and a simple technique.  Imagine the scenarios you wrote about above:  your specific dreams and desires.  With your eyes closed, slow your breathing down, breathe fully and deeply into your abdomen, and imagine these ideal circumstances.  Visualize them if you can, note the feelings you have about them, feel any sensations you may have.  Note how the negative feelings have shifted.  The point is to turn on positive thoughts, and turn off the negative ones.  And remember, you can do this anytime, anywhere.

In my next series of articles, I will discuss the simple and lost art of breathing:  what ancient wisdom teaches us, and what modern science has confirmed.  Proper breathing techniques can have immediate and profound affects on mental, emotional, and even physical states of imbalance or “dis”-ease.

References

1. Muehsam, P.A.  Food as Medicine:  Parts I-IV. http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-4-3/40022.html.

2. Muehsam, P.A.  Food as Medicine:  Part II.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-4-11/40316.html

3. Muehsam, P.A.  Food as Medicine:  Part III.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-4-16/40485.html

4. Muehsam, P.A.  Food as Medicine:  Part IV.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-4-23/40733.html

2006 Patricia A. Muehsam, M.D.

Dr. Muehsam is a holistic medical doctor practicing in New York City. She can be reached by phone at (212) 946 – 5700.

Click HERE to see Dr. Muehsams listing on The Healing Directory.

• A version of this article was published in The Epoch Times on August 07, 2006

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The potential of modern organic farming is thus largely unrealised, but organic and local food markets are reaching a tipping point.  The rise of organic farming was driven by small, independent producers, and by consumers.  The organic movement has develped in response to this growing demand.

In the 1980s, around the world, various farming and consumer groups began seriously pressuring for government regulation of organic production. The federal government began taking the first steps toward regulating organic, and so-called natural, foods.

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Our thoughts are omnipotent.  Thoughts are powerful vibrations that can make us well or make us sick.  Negative thoughts can make us sick and keep us sick.  Positive thoughts can heal us and transform our lives.  These concepts do not come from the realms of pseudoscience.  In fact, scientists in the fields of physics and engineering are involved in research to demonstrate the profound effect of consciousness on the material world:  how our thoughts can affect us, literally, and physically.  These ideas are millennia old, and have roots in many of the world’s ancient traditions from cultures outside of our Western one, and are implicit aspects of healing traditions throughout the globe. 

Say this mantra at least 3 times a day in front of a mirror. 

Speak with your most powerful voice, from your “dan tien”, the source of universal energy, about 3 inches below your belly button. 

Feel your voice coming from this point as you speak. 

As you say the mantra, do the “Tarzan Thump”.  Make a gentle fist with both hands and tap/beat firmly on your chest on your “power points”:  approximately 3 inches below your collarbone and 2 inches from the midline.

Watch you life transform and unfold beyond your wildest dreams!

I LOVE MYSELF.

I AM BEAUTIFUL INSIDE AND OUT.

I LOVE MY BODY.  I TREAT IT WITH GENTLENESS AND RESPECT.

MY BIRTHRIGHT IS INFINITE ABUNDANCE

AND PROSPERITY.

I HAVE ALL THAT I DREAM OF AND DESIRE.

ALL MY NEEDS ARE FULFILLED.

Copyright © 2006 Patricia A. Muehsam, M.D.

Dr. Muehsam is a holistic medical doctor practicing in New York City. She can be reached by phone at (212) 946 – 5700.

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Technique #1:  for instant relaxation:

1)Either sitting or lying, cross left ankle over right.

2)Put back of right hand on top of back of left hand, turn palms together and

clasp fingers, and bring arms to chest.

3)Place tip of tongue 1/4” behind upper teeth (soft/hard palate junction.)

4)Breathe deeply for 2 minutes.

Technique #2:  for centering/unblocking repetitive thoughts, anxiety, behaviors, and mental/emotional root causes of physical symptoms:

1)Tap with 3 middle left hand fingers from left temple bone back to over ear, stating a negatively worded affirmation, e.g.:  “Even though I no longer need to overeat ice cream for comfort, I love and accept myself completely” or, “I no longer need to have my sinusitis,” (specific problem, emotional state, or physical health issue) and I love and accept myself completely.”

2)Tap with 3 middle right hand fingers from right temple bone back to over

ear stating a positively worded affirmation:  e.g. “I eat perfect amounts for

my body’s needs,” or “My sinuses are perfectly healthy,” “My intestines are perfect healthy.”

Technique# 3:  for instant centering/focusing:

1)Extend right arm in front of face with thumb pointing upward.

2With head straight, trace infinity sign (∞) in one direction, 3 times, then in

the opposite direction.

3)Repeat movements with left arm.

4)Now put both thumbs together and repeat:  one direction and then the other.

Technique #4:  for instant visualization:

1)Concentrate on a memory of a positive feeling:  of feeling happy, confident, strong, grateful,

peaceful, whatever you want to feel.  You can go back to a place you’ve known in your life, or a time in your life, where and when you felt peaceful and happy. 

Or, you can create an image of yourself, in this state of mind/emotion.  Whatever this image is (i.e. healthy, thin, free from specific illness, situation), feel the sensations that occur when you do this:  lightness, freedom, peace, etc.

2)Tap on third eye point (in between and slightly above eyebrows with first 3 fingers of each hand together (thumb, first and second fingers.)

3)Tap for at least 1 minute while concentrating on these thoughts/feelings.

Technique #5:  good for centering, focusing, and relaxation; to immediately shift from obsessive/anxiety thinking (”cross crawl exercise”)

1)While standing or sitting, raise left knee towards chin and tap it with right elbow.

2)Raise right knee toward chin and tap with left elbow.

3)Repeat pattern back and forth for at least 1 minute or until you feel more clarity.

These techniques were developed by Robert Callahan, Donna Eden, Fred Gallo, Carol Look, and Rob Williams.  For more details, Donna Eden’s book:  “Energy Medicine,” is an excellent resource. 

Copyright © 2006 Patricia A. Muehsam, M.D.

Dr. Muehsam is a holistic medical doctor practicing in New York City. She can be reached by phone at (212) 946 – 5700.

Click HERE to see Dr. Muehsams listing on The Healing Directory.

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