Неврозы – Neuroses

Some diseases of the respiratory system, such as allergies, may continue to bother you as you grow older. Antihistamines are effective for burning eyes, itching nose, or mucous drip that often occurs with allergies. Although these drugs may improve the symptoms, they may also cause excessive drowsiness and mental confusion and should not be taken if you are about to drive, and never when you drink alcohol. Preparations such as terfenadine and astemizole cause less drowsiness.

Bronchodilators relieve the wheezing and the shortness of breath that accompany acute and chronic bronchitis or asthma. An infection of the bronchi or lungs aggravates these symptoms. Bronchodilators widen the bronchi and allow more air to reach the lungs. However, they sometimes lead to an excessively fast heartbeat, mental confusion, nausea, and vomiting. Usually an adjustment of dosage will alleviate these side effects.

An important class of drugs in this family is theophylline, which can be taken as pills, syrup, injection, or suppository. It is often prescribed in combination with the beta-stimulators, a group of medications that mimic the effects of adrenaline. Among them are isoproterenol, salbutamol, orciprenaline, and terbutaline. They can be taken as pills or inhaled four or five times a day. The preparations preferred for use in older people have less stimulatory effect on the heart than adrenaline itself.

For severe respiratory problems, cortisone may be required. Many serious side effects are caused by cortisone when taken orally or by injection, and its prolonged use should be avoided. A type of cortisone has been developed that can be inhaled, which reduces the usual side effects. A number of these preparations, such as beclomethasone dipro-pionate, can be taken through an inhaler four or five times daily, often in conjunction with other bronchodilators. New and effective preparations for the control of asthma become available each year.

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Older people often raise the question of whether it is advisable to take biological calcium preparations, for example Urticalcin, or even to eat foods high in calcium, since it is known that in later years the potential danger of the hardening of the arteries and other body tissues is greater. It is an indisputable fact that during old age calcium is being withdrawn from the bones and deposited in vessels and tissues. This process causes the bones to become porous and fragile and the tissues, blood vessels and scar tissue to accumulate calcium deposits. At a quick glance, this argument would appear to favour a reduced intake of calcium. However, experience has proved that a diet low in calcium, surprisingly enough, can even promote osteoporosis, the loss of calcium from the bones.

How can this problem be solved? Calcium is a basic mineral that compounds easily with acids. If during the latter part of life the body accumulates certain acids, for example, oxalic and other acids, which should have been eliminated with the urine, the body compounds these with calcium to form calcium salts. When reduced to an unsaturated state in this way they are rendered less harmful. If we do not permit a deficiency to develop in the mineral metabolism, and we see to it that the calcium level remains normal, we can be sure that there will be no abnormal decalcification of the bones, even during old age. For this reason, too, there will be no calcium deposits in the blood vessels and tissues. This leads us to the question: what can be done to prevent premature aging?

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If you try to be conscientious in living according to these seven rules, you will definitely increase your life span and help yourself to avoid many health problems in your advanced years. For example, hardening of the arteries will not incapacitate you, neither will coronary thrombosis, and you will have no need to fear a sudden end through a heart attack. It is simple to obey nature, and doing so will reward us in turn with good health and long life.

Women especially suffer from swollen veins, which often occur after surgery or just after childbirth. Generally, the blocking of venous blood vessels happens sometime between the third and the eighth day following surgery or delivery. In such cases a physician will usually give anticoagulant and vasodilator injections. However, more appropriate and helpful than this medical intervention is the following prophylactic treatment, which is to be recommended to all those who show a congenital or acquired tendency to embolism and thrombosis, and in particular to people with varicose veins.

First of all, take proper care of the bowels, because intestinal disorders such as insufficient bowel movement or the retention of a faecal matter causes the blood, and hence the whole body, to become affected by metabolic toxins. Going on a juice diet for one day a week usually helps to improve regularity. The question of diet or nutrition for the rest of the week is no less important; only natural, unadulterated, unrefined foods will contribute to the eventual correction of irregular bowel movements.

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A narrowing or hardening of the arteries has serious, in time even incurable, consequences. The victim literally degenerates, both physically and mentally. To this day more people in the civilised, industrialised world, especially in Europe, the United States and Australia die of diseases of the arterial walls, and the number of deaths is on the increase. The length of our life is often determined solely by the condition of our arterial walls.

Hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis) begins with a small alteration, which looks like a flat sore or ulcer. This sore then develops into a growth of the connective tissue, followed by a deposit of calcium salts, with the result that the inside of the artery becomes gradually narrower and the blood has less space in which to circulate. The artery loses more and more of its elasticity, eventually becoming hard and brittle. The blood pressure then rises and the victim may eventually the brain or a cerebral haemorrhage. Dilation of the heart or haemorrhage of a blood vessel near the heart, as well as nephrosclerosis (nephritis due to a hardening of the kidney blood vessels ) may also occur.

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Thus far we have spoken of only one function of the circulatory system, the supply. But, as in every manufacturing plant, we must also concern ourselves with the waste products the body produces. They must be promptly eliminated if congestions, in other words breakdowns, are to be avoided. The train on its way back to Basel may be compared to our venous system, which is responsible for returning all the waste products resulting from burning-up processes, for example carbon dioxide and uric acid. Some of these waste products are recycled by the liver or eliminated with the help of the kidneys. If this process of transportation becomes obstructed, problems will be inevitable, since the accumulation of waste causes tension and pressure. The train may be derailed and the mail scattered, lying undelivered on the rails. In terms of our body this means the formation of varicose veins.

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