Stop Sinus Stuff Before It Starts / Issue #150 - October 8, 2008

Home Spa Lady's
Tips of the Week
Issue # 150 - October 8, 2008
Publisher: Marilee Tolen RN
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Home Spa Lady ~ Simple Solutions for Self-Care At Home
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In This Issue
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1. Stop Sinus Stuff Before It Starts

2. Essential Oil Tip: Inhalation
(video 1 min 11 sec)

3. Success Tip: Buddha

4. Recipe of the Week: Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

5. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week

6. The "Green Tea with Marilee" Show
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James Oschman PhD
Bernie Siegel MD

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1. Stop Sinus Stuff Before It Starts
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Fall is a time of year when sinus-y
stuff starts to happen.

Many people attribute sinus problems
to the spring, but fall is also a major
time of difficulty for sinus sufferers.

Here are some reasons why:

--Mold produced by leaf decay
--Potent weed allergens
--Decay from bug death
--Heating systems coming on
--Less fresh air in households
--Cooler weather makes us crave sweets and carbs
(eating them can affect our sinuses too)

It is true that our external environment has
a huge role to play in attributing to sinus
problems, but our internal environment (inside
our bodies)has more of an influence on sinus
conditions than the outside of our body.

If our internal environment is in "good shape",
then it can help combat what we are exposed
to externally.

What constitutes "good shape"?

--Balanced ecology in the gut (decent population
of good bacteria with little yeast overgrowth)

--More alkaline and less acid (eating
veggies and fruits and not sugar, caffeine,
white flour)

--Well hydrated

--Well rested

--Well oxygenated (daily exercise)

--Well cleansed (bowels moving)


Why is balanced ecology in the gut such an
important factor as it relates to sinus health?

The entire alimentary canal (the gastrointestinal
system starting with the mouth and ending with the
anus) is made up of mucous membrane. We often call
the abdominal portion of the gastrointestinal system
"the gut".

When the gut has a good ecological terrain
of balanced flora it can influence the other
areas of the body that have the same mucous
membrane tissue.

Think about where else mucous membrane is in the body:

Respiratory System
--sinuses
--mouth
--nose
--windpipe and lungs

Urogential System
--vagina
--urethra
--urinary bladder

These areas are often affected by candida or yeast overgrowth
which can lead to symptoms which are often called 'infections'
(many times they are infections, but many times they are just an
overgrowth of yeast).

In the years of my practice, I saw many people with
sinus conditions. This condition was often accompanied by
other problems in the body - such as allergies,
skin disorders, frequent headaches, depression,
stomach problems, and colon issues to name a few.

Many of these people loved and often ate these foods:

--Cheeses, especially aged
--Wine
--Sugar
--Mushrooms
--Bread made with yeast
--Food with preservatives (packaged food)
--Cakes, pastries, cookies
--Pizza
--Acid forming beverages: coffee, tea, soda

And very often these folks were constipated.

Along with eating an balanced alkaline diet,
here are two very effective ways to deal with sinus
issues:

--Colon cleansing

Cleansing the colon can keep the overgrowth of
candida at bay.
Sinus conditions clear up when the colon is clear.

As a former Wellness Center owner, I used to observe
that when people had colonics with good results, they
almost always simultaneously experienced sinus drainage.
Any sinus congestion they had before their cleansing often
disappeared with the good results of the cleanse.

Nutritional products that you can use at home for cleansing,
and even foods that help cleanse the body, can offer the same
results as it relates to sinuses.


--Using therapeutic grade essential oils

This is a no brainer. If you understand how therapeutic
essential oils create an environment where overgrowth or
imbalance of micro-organisms can NOT take place - in other
words the overgrowth of yeast, fungus, and any pathogenic
organisms will not occur, then you can see why using these
for sinus problems can be very helpful.

Many microbes, especially the ones that don't serve us, love to
hang out in dark moist environments - and that is exactly what
our sinus cavities are (note how they are called 'cavities') -
a dark moist environment.

Inhalation, diffusing, and even taking essential oils
internally can be extremely helpful for sinus sufferers. If you
want to take them internally, make sure the label has
"Supplemental Facts" on it (overseen by the FDA) - this way you
know you can them take internally.
You may be hard pressed to find that on labels in essential
oils, but you will find it in Young Living oils - that is one
of the many reasons I love Young Living.

Make sure you see the short video clip below on how to use an
essential oil for inhalation.


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2. Essential Oil Tip: Inhalation
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A great way to use essential oils for
sinus issues is inhalation.

It's easy to conceive, but do you really
know how to do it?

Watch this 1 min 11 sec video and see the
steps you go through to inhale an essential
oil for sinus issues.

http://snipurl.com/vid_eos_4_sinuses

All essential oils mentioned are from Young
Living essential oils because they are the
most therapeutic essential oils on the market.

The suggestions in the video for sinuses are:

--RC
--Raven
--Peppermint

For more info or to order any of these Young Living
products see your Young Living Distributor or go to
http://tinyurl.com/aenfp


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3. Success Tip: Buddha
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To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

~Buddha


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4. Recipe of the Week: Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
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Ingredients:

--Pumpkin seeds
--Water
--Salt
--Melted butter
--Vegetable spray

Preparation:

--Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
--Rinse seeds well.
--For every 2 cups of seeds, put 4 cups of water and 2 tbsps of
salt into saucepan
--Add the seeds and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
--Drain well in strainer.
--Place on paper towels and pat dry.
--Toss the seeds with melted unsalted butter in a large bowl
until evenly coated.
--Spray cookie sheet with vegetable spray.
--Spread seeds over tray and bake for 30 minutes, stirring, and
tossing occasionally
--When seeds are golden brown they are ready.
--Store in airtight container in cool place.

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5. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week
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Colonoscopies can help to save lives from colon cancer.

Humor around this issue can help make the process more
tolerable.


This is from news hound Dave Barry's colonoscopy journal:

I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenteritis, to make an
appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office,
Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that
appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly
through Minneapolis.

Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a
thorough, reassuring and patient manner.
I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really hear anything he
said, because my brain was shrieking, quote, 'HE'S GOING TO STICK
A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!'

I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a
prescription for a product called 'MoviPrep,' which comes in a
box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss
MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must
never allow it to fall into the hands of America's enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being
nervous.

Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation.
In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food
that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water,
only with less flavor.

Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets
of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it
with lukewarm water.(For those unfamiliar with the metric system,
a liter is about 32 gallons.)

Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour,
because MoviPrep tastes - and here I am being kind
- like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a
hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with
a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose,
watery bowel movement may result.' This is kind of like saying
that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact
with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic,
here, but: Have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is
pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle.
There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You
spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom,
spurting violently. You eliminate everything.

And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have
to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I
can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start
eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The
next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous.
Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been
experiencing occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was
thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?'
How do you apologize to a friend for something like that?
Flowers would not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I
understood and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms
said. Then they led me to a room full of other colonoscopy
people, where I went inside a little curtained space and took off
my clothes and put on one of those hospital garments designed by
sadist perverts, the kind that, when you put it on, makes you
feel even more naked than when you are actually naked.

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my
left hand. Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very
good, and I was already lying down. Eddie also told me that some
people put vodka in their MoviPrep. At first I was ticked off
that I hadn't thought of this is, but then I pondered what would
happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom,
so you were staggering around in full Fire Hose Mode. You would
have no choice but to burn your house.

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure
room, where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an
anesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew
Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously
nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over on
my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up
to the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room,
and I realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA. I
remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that could be playing
during this particular procedure, 'Dancing Queen' had to be the
least appropriate.

'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind
me. 'Ha ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been
dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare
yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail,
exactly what it was like.

I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, ABBA
was yelling 'Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine,' and
the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a
very mellow mood.
Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt
excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that it
was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I
have never been prouder of an internal organ.

ABOUT THE WRITER
Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the
Miami Herald. On the subject of Colonoscopies... Colonoscopies
are no joke, but these comments during the exam were quite
humorous.....

A physician claimed that the following are actual comments made
by his patients (predominately male) while he was performing
their Colonoscopies:
1. 'Take it easy, Doc. You're boldly going where no man has
gone before!
2. 'Find Amelia Earhart yet?'
3. 'Can you hear me NOW?'
4. 'Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?'
5. 'You know, in Arkansas, we're now legally married.'
6. 'Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?'
7. 'You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out...'
8. 'Hey! Now I know how a Muppet feels!'
9. 'If your hand doesn't fit, you must quit!'
10. 'Hey Doc, let me know if you find my dignity.'
11. 'You used to be an executive at Enron, didn't you?'
And the best one of all.. . . .
12. 'Could you write a note for my wife saying that my head is
not up there?'

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