Natural Health Help

Essential Oils can be powerful medicine to help you fall asleep. Your sense of smell, and the olfactory nerve are a major pathway defining your mood and your physical energy. Essential oils are a safe, effective and non-drug method you can use to produce a deep, restful sleep. They are great when added to an Epsom salt bath or infused into your room. Read the rest of this entry »

If you arrived here through my main practice website, drnandunne.com, you may have seen the new notice in the upper left corner. It says “Please help 9 year old Logan Smith fight his cancer”. Logan is a regular kid, part of a regular family here in my town, Missoula, MT. He has kidney cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

It is clear that carrying too much extra fat will hurt you. Fat cells are not simple sacks of nothing much. In fact they are tiny factories for making chemical trouble in your body- inflammation being the #1 cause of the trouble. Normal inflammation is an essential part of healing and health- but too much inflammation is the beginning of major illnesses. The damage to your blood vessel walls that results in hardening of your arteries, and leads to high blood pressure and heart attacks, starts as inflammation. Chronic pain like arthritis in your knees or your low back, bursitis of your shoulders or hip joint, gut ulcers and sinusitis are just some of the ways that inflammation causes disease and discomfort. The more extra fat you have, the more inflammation you create in your body every day.

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In order to use herbal medicines to cure a bladder inflammation or especially an infection it is crucial to engage a dual purpose plan. You must create in your urinary tract an environment that is hostile to bacteria at the same time as you soothe your inflamed tissues. It is also very important to be wise about your effectiveness- if you don’t see significant and steady improvement within 24 hours of beginning this treatment, you must consider antibiotic therapy. A kidney infection is worth avoiding.

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Background:
The castor bean (Oleum ricini), also known as Palma Christi, due to it’s shape and healing properties, has been known primarily as a cathartic (a strong laxative when taken by mouth). The famed healer Edgar Cayce, indicated in his readings a gentler use, of castor oil, in the form of an external application to the skin of the abdomen, usually assisted by heat. The oil is absorbed into the lymphatic circulation to provide a soothing, nutritive, muscle relaxing treatment. The relaxation of the muscle of the blood vessels allows for freer flow of oxygen, nutrition and waste removal. The relaxation of the smooth muscle of internal organs, such as the stomach, intestines, gall bladder and liver (via it’s rich supply of blood vessels), and uterus is highly effective for pain relief in these areas.

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Eicosanoids (eye-kah-sah-noids) are a kind of hormone messenger that tell our cells what to do at a very basic level. People have been making guesses about the function of these cellular instructors since the 1930’s. It wasn’t till the 1980’s however that the technology to see eicosanoids in action was developed. Most of us are familiar with endocrine hormones, like estrogen and testosterone. Those familiar hormones are secreted into the blood to be delivered to their target tissues. Eicosanoids are another kind of hormone. They are born in and never leave the cell. So we can’t study them by looking at the amounts in our blood. Our understanding of how important eicosanoids are is growing by leaps every year. Unfortunately, conventional medicine and nutrition has been very slow to incorporate new information about cellular hormones and health. In the case of eicosanoids, incorporating the growing body of knowledge about how they work means significantly changing the ways we look at health and disease.

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“Pain is a silent epidemic in the United States. An estimated 50 million Americans live with chronic pain caused by disease, disorder or accident. An additional 25 million people suffer acute pain resulting from surgery or accident. Approximately two thirds of these individuals in pain have been living with this pain for more than five years. The most common types of pain include arthritis, lower back, bone/joint pain, muscle pain and fibromyalgia. The loss of productivity and daily activity due to pain is substantial. In a study done in 2000 it was reported that 36 million Americans missed work in the previous year due to pain and that 83 million indicated that pain affected their participation in various activities.” Kathryn Weiner, PhD. Director, American Academy of Pain Management

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