Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) is a water-soluble nutrient that forms one of the B-complex vitamins. It is important to the body because it serves many functions: (a) it helps the body convert carbohydrates and fat into energy, (b) it helps in the normal growth and development of the body, and (c) it helps maintain proper functioning of the heart, as well as the nervous and digestive systems. Thiamine cannot be stored in the body but once it is absorbed, it can be concentrated in muscle tissue.

1. Uses of vitamin B1 (Thiamine)

B1 (Thiamine) helps enhance circulation and blood formation, and helps with metabolism of fat and carbohydrates. It is required for maintaining a healthy nervous system and is used in the biosynthesis of various cell constituents such as gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

B1 (thiamine) also plays a part in digestion – it is used in the manufacture of hydrochloric acid. It also assists in memory and learning, helps fight depression, and is required for children’s normal growth. Several studies have also proven that it is helpful in countering arthritis, infertility, and cataracts.

2. Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) deficiencies

B1 (Thiamine) deficiencies lead to irritability, constipation, extreme fatigue, edema, enlarged liver, forgetfulness, neurodegeneration, gastrointestinal disturbances, heart changes, labored breathing, and loss of appetite. Syndromes caused by thiamine deficiencies include beriberi and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.

Lack of thiamine in the body can cause nervousness, pain and sensitivity, numbness of the hands and feet, weak and sore muscles, poor coordination, severe weight loss, and tingling sensations. In extreme cases, it can even lead to wasting and death.

The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for Thiamine is: male; 1.4 mg per day, and female; 1.0 mg per day.

3. Food sources of B1 (Thiamine)

Food sources of Vitamin B1 include: seafood, green peas, spinach, pork, beef, beef liver, wheat bran, sunflower seeds, peanuts, egg-yolk, beans, soybeans, whole-grain, enriched cereals, bread, and legumes. B1 vitamins are also available supplements, usually compounded with B-complex vitamins or in multi-vitamin supplements.

4. When more B1 (Thiamine) is required

Your body needs more thiamine if you are taking birth control pills, antacids, and alcohol. People who are undergoing hormone replacement therapy, people suffering from anxiety or depression, people who are in health conditions that cause them to pass large volumes of urine, and people suffering from serious infections also need more than the usual amount of thiamine. Never self-diagnose, though – consult you physician to find out if you require higher intake, as toxicity due to overdose is possible.

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Mercury, the only liquid metal at room temperature, has long been known for its dual nature. While elemental mercury found use in medical therapy, mercury toxicity has also been appreciated from the Middle-Ages. Mercury toxicity results when this heavy metal interferes with critical cellular enzymes and functional proteins. All three forms of mercury, elemental, inorganic and organic, have unique patterns of toxicity.

Elemental mercury, used in traditional remedies, dental amalgam, barometers, thermometers and photography, can cause toxicity when absorbed as vapors through the lung. Even a small accidental spill of elemental mercury can result in acute toxicity. Effects of elemental mercury toxicity are mainly seen in the lung and the brain. The airways and alveoli of the lung become irritated, leading to bronchitis and pneumonia. In severe cases respiratory failure presents with cough, breathlessness and low oxygen levels in blood. Involvement of the central nervous system in mercury toxicity causes convulsions and headache. Ingestion of elemental mercury does not cause mercury toxicity as long as the intestinal mucosa is normal. However, people with gut problems like gastrointestinal disorders like diverticulosis and fistula may be at risk of mercury toxicity after ingestion.

Besides the tremors, irritation of the oral cavity, excessive salivation and sweating, chronic elemental mercury toxicity causes some unique symptoms labeled as erethism. It includes extreme shyness, emotional instability, nervousness, insomnia, memory problems, and an inability to concentrate. Signs of chronic toxicity may even mimic Parkinson’s disease with the characteristic shuffling gait and hand tremors.

Inorganic mercury (e.g. mercuric dichloride) is very toxic and may even be fatal on ingestion. It presents with vomiting of blood (hematemesis), abdominal pain and kidney failure. Death usually occurs due to shock and cardiovascular collapse. Chronic inorganic mercury toxicity, often seen in the hatting and furring industry, are similar to those of elemental mercury and include erethism. Lewis Carroll’s mad hatter in Alice in Wonderland seems to have been inspired by the symptoms of erethism. The mad hatter presumably suffered from chronic mercury toxicity due to the now abandoned process of carroting felt in hat manufacture.

Long-chain organic mercury causes toxicity similar to that seen in contamination with chronic inorganic mercury. Short-chain inorganic mercury compounds are readily absorbed on ingestion and affect the central nervous system. Erethism, gait disturbance (ataxia), uncoordinated speech, a narrow visual field, and abnormal sensations (paresthesias) in the limbs result from organic mercury activity.

These short-chain organic compounds, like methyl mercury, readily cross the placenta to inhibit brain development in the fetus. Congenital organic mercury poisoning was perhaps most poignantly illustrated by the severe outbreak in Minamata, Japan, in the1950s. Various congenital defects including microcephaly (small brain), mental retardation, blindness, motor defects, and difficulty in swallowing result from congenital organic mercury poisoning.

During the 1930s and 1940s, 500 children died in the UK due to the Pink disease, which is caused by mercury containing calomel teething powder. Pink disease is characterized by pink, swollen painful limbs with a peeling skin. Other associated symptoms include fear of light (photophobia), low muscle tone, insomnia, and apathy alternating with irritability. Nowadays, Pink disease is occasionally reported due to absorption of mercury from diapers contaminated with phenyl mercury. It is not known whether pink disease reflects mercury toxicity or a hypersensitivity reaction to it.
awakennutrition.com/mercurytoxicity.html Mercury Toxicity is diagnosed by testing blood, scalp hair and 24-hour urine samples for mercury levels. Mercury levels in hair and urine are raised in both acute and chronic exposure whereas blood levels only reflect recent toxicity. However, some forms of mercury poisoning may not show up in the urine.

The Minimata exposure was estimated on the basis of 16 blood and hair samples, while urine excretion was minimal. Therefore, scalp hair testing may be a good way to test for chronic mercury toxicity, subject to the reliability of the commercial kit used. Mercury levels in scalp hair above 20 ppm may result in nerve system damage. Pubic hair or nails testing may not be as sensitive to mercury exposure as scalp hair. Oral chelation therapy, along with decontamination, forms the corner stone of medical treatment of mercury toxicity.

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The protein in the food debris are degraded by the anaerobic bacteria present in the mouth.Offenssive odor is produced due to release of some gases like hydrogen sulphide,skatol ect due to bacterial activity.Formation of a thin sticky membrane on the tongue favoures bacterial growth.Bactrera are also seen in the crypts of tonsils ,dental caries,dental pockets ect.Bad breath is associated with oral hygiene,caries,gingivitis,tonsillitis,tonsillar plaques,food habits,water intake ,tobacco chewing,stomach and liver diseases and ect.

Homoeopathy is a system of medicine introduced by a german physician Dr Samuel Hahnemann.Homoeopathy treats the diseased individual as a whole rather than treating diseased parts or organs.The physical,mental,emotional,social spheres of a person is considered for a permanent cure.This system believes that the diseases are caused due to the derangement of vital force which is an invisible power in every individual.In a healthy state the vital force maintains the equilibrium of mind body and soul .During this man will have normal sensations and functions.When the vital force gets affected there will be external manifestations in the form of signs and symptoms.The imbalance in the body functions makes a shelter for forign organisms(bacteria,viruses,fungi,protozoa ect) and allow them to proliferate &produce so called diseases.Homoeopathy believes thet the real desease comes before the bacteria & viruses,hence the root cause of the disease has to be treated for a permenent cure.The antibacterial and antiviral agents only remove the secondary causes mentioned above.

Diseases are produced by noxious morbific agents called Miasms which are dynamic influences which affect the vital force.There are mainly three miasms PSORA ,SYPHILIS&SYCOSIS. These three causes are accepted by other schools of medicine but called by different names. Psora causes functional disturbances, syphilis cause structural changes in the form of destructions and sycosis causes changes in the form of overgrowth.These three miasms can act individually or in combined form producing different disease conditions.

To treat bad breath with homoeopathic medicine is easy if correct remedy in suitable dose is given. In the homoeopathic medical repertory by Dr Robin Murphy there are 140 homoeopathic drugs mentioned for bad breath.So just giving one drug for bad breath may not give good result.To come to a correct remedial diagnosis we should have the symptomatology of the person .It is the total symptoms of a person which includes mental generals,physical generals,particular symptoms ect.Bad breath is considered as a physical general symptom .Eventhough it comes only from a part of the body it affects the whole individual.

Symptoms related with appetite,thirst,bowels ect are included in physical generals.
All signs and symptoms (mental&physical)of the person is taken in detail.Knowledge about past illneses,family history of diseases,food & bowel habits,relation to climatic changes and constitution ect are noted down in a systematic order.

Mental symptoms:

example: fear,anxiety,depression,anger,jealousy and ect….

Physical symptoms:

example: Body makeup,appetite,thirst,desires,aversions,bowels,urination,sleep,taste, nature of smell,discharges any abnormal sensations like pain, burning, climatic changes,thermal relations, and ect….

Peculiar uncommon symptoms:

This is the speciality of homoeopathic system of medicine.For the selection of a suitable remedy these symptoms are very important. Common symptoms which are seen almost in all patients are least important.

particular/local signs&symptoms:

This include signs &symptoms related to body parts &organs.

example: Coating on the tongue,nature of mucus membrane of oral cavity, tonsils, gums, teeth, ulcers, discolourations ect are considered here.

Systemic & general physical examination:-

Bad breath can be due to various systemic and disorders.Hence all systems ( respiratory system ,digestive system,nervous system, cardio vascular system and ect )and parts from head to foot should be examined.

provisional disease diagnosis; Here probable diseases are diagnosed. In homoeopathy disease diagnosis is not that much important for the selection of a remedy,but needed for general management and to know the prognosis.

Investigations:

This includes lab investigations and other methods to find out any other major illnesses.

Final disease diagnosis:

After doing all investigations the disease is diagnosed.

Remedial diagnosis:

This is the most importnant part as far as homoeopathy is concerned. For this the selected symptoms are arranged in a systematic order on the basis of importance.
symptoms are analysed to find out the importance of each symptom for the selection of a remedy.Remedies are selected on the basis of similarity.[the basic principle of homoeopathy is 'similia similibus curenter' means like cures like.A medicine which can produce some symptoms in a healthy man can be used as a remedy to trea the similar symptoms in a diseased person.Each homoeopathic drug is proved on healthy human beings and the symptoms collected by this process(drug proving) is written in meteria medica.]

Suitable remedies are diagnosed by a process called repertorisation. Here books called repertories are used. Repertory is the index of symptoms of materia medica(books which contain the symptoms of drugs).Nowadays computer softwares are used for repertorisalion.By this process we will get the remedies covering maximum important symptom of the patient.

Amoung this group of remedies the most suitable remedy is selected by referring various books and history of the patient..The selected medicine is given in suitable potency & dose.

ANTI MIASMATIC TREATMENT:

The root cause of disease is miasms which should be eradicated using suitable anti miasmatic drugs.Every drug can eradicate the miasm if there is symptom similarity.there are anti psoric drugs,anti syphilitic drugs and anti sycotic drugs.After diagnosing the miasm suitable anti miasmatic drug has to be given to complete the cure.

[In homoeopathy medicines are prepared from different sources like minerals, plants, animals, toxins, diseased parts ect. Medicines are prepared from these substances by a special process called potentisation.Here the soluble substances are potentised by diluting with spirit and insoluble substances by grinding with sugar of milk.The crude drug substance is first mixed with a calculated quantity of spirit and water and kept for few days .From this mixture extract is taken and is called mother tincture(denoted as Q).From this mother tincture dilutions are prepared by potentisation.Potentisation is a mathematical process by which the quantity of original drug substance reduces but medicinal power increases. Depending upon the ratio of quantity of drug substance and vehicle(spirit or sugar of milk)there are different scales for this process.Each scale has got different potencies which indicate power of medicine.Example in decimal scale 3x,6x.12x ect.in centisimal scale there is 30c,200c ect,in LM poteny there are 0/1,0/2,0/3 ect.potency is written after the name of every medicine]

Same medicine is available in different potencies. Suitable potency is selected according to so many facters like sevearity,depth of disease,condition of the patient ,nature of disease ,type of symptoms,age of patient and ect.

Peter Bishop manages the health info portal at spiritualhome.info spiritualhome.info and researches alternative ways of live for years.

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Try this. Close your eyes and try to quiet your mind. Do that now, for just a moment. Then return to the page.

Did you notice that quieting your mind was no easy task? Usually, when I try this, I become anxious and agitated. That happens because, without the practice of dis-identifying ourselves from thought, we believe that we are our mind, so it has ultimate sway over our attention. If you find yourself saying, “I don’t think I’m my mind,” guess who said that? Right, your mind!

Now try this. Close your eyes once again, and place all of your attention not on your thoughts but on the sensations you feel in your body. Perhaps you can rest your attention on the temperature of your hands or on the weight of your legs or on the tension in your face. Be careful not to observe emotions, but rather sensations.

If you notice that you’re feeling sad, for example, go deeper into the inquiry, and study what sadness feels like. Pay no attention to what thoughts are associated with the sadness or to the undesirability of the emotion. Just observe where sadness resides in your body. What, in fact, is sadness? Is it tightness in your face? Heaviness in your throat? Fluttering in your belly? Whatever it is, let it be. It’s entirely OK. Study it as you imagine a scientist would study it. Try to dissect it with your consciousness. Notice how long it lasts and how it dissipates, how it goes away, with no mental effort on your part.

Notice how all sensations in or on your body have this same quality. They arise, remain for a time, and then cease. Be kind to yourself. Whatever you feel is OK. In fact, think of the sensations as fuel for your consciousness. What Ram Dass calls “grist for the mill.” There is no prerequisite to enlightenment. It can’t happen in the future. It can only happen now. As Ram Dass says, “Be here now.”

Twelve steps for a simple meditation practice:

1. Sit comfortably in an upright position with your back straight, arms comfortably in your lap.

2. Keep your eyes and your mouth closed.

3. Take three “cleansing breaths,” forgetting your cares.

4. Commit to using this time for self-inquiry, not thought.

5. Focus on your breath as it enters and leaves your nostrils.

6. Don’t try to change anything you notice. Accept it as it is.

7. Give yourself a brief reminder to maintain perfect awareness and perfect equanimity or acceptance throughout this process.

8. Begin to become aware of the sensations over your body. Move your attention up and down your body, uncritically noticing whatever feelings arise.

9. If you become bored, distracted, frustrated, or overwhelmed, realize that these, too, are just sensations. Observe them as you do all other sensations or thoughts.

10. Practice for at least twenty minutes. Do as much as an hour at a time. It’s best to practice both in the morning and in the evening.

11. Use this same practice any time something upsetting or stressful occurs during your day. Bring your attention, as quickly as possible, into your body and away from your thoughts.

12. Remind yourself that you are not your thoughts; you are not your mind.

Because of the habit of your mind to take over, you’ll believe you have to think about this. You don’t. According to the Third Zen Patriarch,

“Stop talking and thinking, and there’s nothing you can’t know.”

I’ve often found it helpful, when my mind picks up a train of thought that it doesn’t want to let go, to remind myself of Barry Weiss’ words. “Your mind will constantly try to fool you into believing that whatever you’re thinking about right now is vitally important.” Don’t let it fool you!

The practice of observing your sensations will lead you towards liberation. You should commit yourself to at least twenty minutes per day, simply observing your sensation, noticing when your mind tries to take over the show and draw you into a thought loop. Whenever that happens, simply smile at the current habit pattern of your mind and return your attention to your sensation. Notice how it flows and changes. Watch how what started as what some might call bad feelings will often melt into good ones. Begin to recognize how feelings you used to suppress or indulge become like clouds moving across the sky. They come, and they go.

As you practice the art of simple observation, what the Buddha called ‘vipassana’ meaning wisdom, a very interesting thing will begin to happen to you. As situations arise in your life which used to cause you to react negatively, you’ll find yourself more and more quickly leaving behind the churning of your mind; the part that says, “This shouldn’t be!” and directing your attention with curiosity and wonder at your inner sensations.

Since you’re learning to experience the temporary nature of your feelings, you’ve nothing to fear and nothing to fix. The problem will take care of itself. In fact, if anything, you’ll appreciate the opportunity to feel the emotion and get in touch with areas of your consciousness in places where you’ve become addicted to certain outcomes. You’ll learn to laugh at yourself and have compassion for both yourself and the people or situations which generated your negativity … all in all, a pretty remarkable benefit for a reasonably meager investment of time.

Dr. Steve Taubman is a hypnotist and physician, and the author of UnHypnosis: How to Wake Up, Start Over, and Create the Life You’re Meant to Live. His writings and teachings guide people in the use of tools of transformation, and bring esoteric spiritual principles down to earth. Learn more about UnHypnosis by visiting unhypnosis.com unhypnosis.com

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