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© 2008/2010:Dr. V.M.Palaniappan

47. Hair Problems

My book entitled “Hair Problems: Causes, Cure and Prevention” (288 pages, published in 2005), has elaborate information on practically all aspects of hair problems.

A summary of the information would only be inadequate to reveal the full reality. Yet, for the benefit of the reader of this book, I am giving below an abstract of the details:

Hair dropping and premature greying are essentially due to (a) erroneous lifestyles of people, and (b) after-effect of diseases. The details on these two can be read in the above book.

Split hair, hair breakage, oily hair, dry hair, dandruff, scalp itch, frontal balding, balding along the parting, central balding, patchy balding, dormant hair, hirsutism, etc. can be prevented/cured by practising the following:

Hair care methods, within a nutshell:

· Massage scalp, the right way, for 15 seconds daily.

· Practise the eating habit of Perfect category people.

· Eat low-density foods.

· Eat more well-washed green leafy vegetables.

· Eat clean food, devoid of poisons.

· Eat acid and alkaline fruits daily.

· Do not take synthetic vitamin and mineral tablets.

· Avoid taking strong medications unnecessarily.

· Take more uniodised natural sea salt.

· Drink adequate purified water daily (about 2L).

· Urinate well, to keep the ‘Input/Output Ratio’ at 1.0.

· Do not consume powdered or very thick milk.

· Do not take chocolate drinks, especially with vitamin-D.
· Avoid smoking, alcoholic drinks, and tea.

· Cleanse intestine with a herbal laxative regularly.

· Do not use fan at high speed, especially while asleep.

· Do not do any sweat producing exercise.

· Avoid exposing your body to strong sunshine

· Do not use any of the mosquito poisons.

· Breathe good air, and keep bedroom windows open.

· Sleep well for 8 hours nightly, using a clean pillow.

· Do not rub hair oil on scalp.

· Do not use low-quality shampoos.

· Avoid over-rubbing even good quality shampoos.

· Use good water for hair wash.

· Wash hair often, using conditioner oil and shampoo.

· Never let a forceful jet of shower water hit your scalp.

· Comb hair once daily, holding a clean comb vertically.

HUMAN DISEASES REDEFINED

© 2008/2010:Dr. V.M.Palaniappan

46. Gout (Swelling in Knees and Ankles)

The muscles all around the knee or ankles swell up, giving pain to the person.

This is said to be an acute form of arthritis. If pressed, it would feel spongy as if the tissues are filled with water.

When the body fluid turns acidic (hyperacidosis), arthritis and gout develop. The cure for these two is to nullify the acidity, and turn the body’s reaction to a mildly alkaline state.

Lime juice, added with sugar to change the sour taste, and orange juice taken on empty stomach, twice daily for four or five days should correct the problem.

Other alkaline foods such as sea-coconut (the fruits of Borassus flabellifers), coconut water, unfermented freshly collected toddy (called ‘pathaneer’ in Tamil) etc. are other good sources for curing this problem.

Long-term chronic sufferers may need to take lime juice for more than a week. The details are given under arthritis.

The knee pain and associated swelling can occur in both the obese as well as the Skeletal or Thin people.

To prevent these problems, one should avoid overly acidifying the body at a rapid speed. A slow change over from alkalinity to acidity does not give rise this problem.

See Arthritis, Rheumatism.

HUMAN DISEASES REDEFINED

© 2008/2010:Dr. V.M.Palaniappan

45. Grey Hair / White Hair

I have written in elaborate detail a book on hair problems (Palaniappan, 2005). The causes for greying, cure for the problem, and the method for the prevention of greying, etc. are well described in it.

Hair becomes grey in people under the age of about 40 because of iron inadequacy or its depletion.

The black pigment-producing cell called melanocyte present at the base of the hair stops its productivity when people become older, and that too makes the hair grey.

Eating food that does not contain enough iron, the unavailability of the iron present in some of the vegetable matter, or the loss of iron due to its removal by alkaline substances can result in iron inadequacy leading to premature greying.

In the obese people, and also in the asthmatics, there is abundant calcium accumulation because of under-urination.

Additionally, these people tend to eat calcium-enriched food items, or even take calcium tablets, believing that it is good for them.
Calcium being an alkaline substance, makes all heavy metals, including iron, unavailable to the body for use.

This is the reason why the asthmatics and the obese develop premature grey hair.

The cure rests upon the efficient removal of the hurdles that prevent iron availability.

Therefore, a drastic reduction of the excessive calcium from the body would set right the premature greying in the asthmatics and the obese.

As described earlier, one should drink more water, urinate nearly all of it, eat slightly more of the acid-natured vegetable matter such as garlic, mangos, and the like that taste sour to the tongue.

The grey can most probably be seen turning blackish in about four months. However, one should remember not to overdo when it comes to the consumption of acid foods, for the rule is ‘anything in excess will become dangerous’.

See Hair Problems.

HUMAN DISEASES REDEFINED

© 2008/2010:Dr. V.M.Palaniappan

44. Goitre (Swelling of Thyroid Gland)

Hashimoto’s type of hypothyroidism develops in some of the obese people (Obesity Types III and IV, with calf hardness of anything between 61% and 100%) who suffer from the inadequacy of iodine caused by the near-total avoidance of consuming salt, fish, cabbage, etc.

In iodine insufficiency, the thyroid gland swells up, and such a swelling is called goitre.

Even if the obese were to consume reduced quantities of the iodised salt, without increasing water intake and urina-tion, they would not suffer from hypothyroidism any more.

However, if such obese people took plenty of salt, irrespective of its iodine status, they would develop hyper-tension, for the salt excesses would only stay within the body (in the blood) because of their under-urination habit.

The non-overweight people, otherwise categorised as the Skeletal and the Thin, normally do not develop hypothy-roidism or goitre, for they always take plenty of salt, and thereby their iodine requirement would get satisfied.

However, if the Skeletal, Thin and Perfect people consume the iodine-enriched salt, the iodine would become excessive in their body. As a result of such an excess, their thyroid gland would secrete excessive thyroxin hormone, giving them hyperthyroidism, which would make them hyperactive.

As a result, the Skeletal people can never put on any weight. Instead, the more food (thereby more salt) they eat, the more will be the hyperactive state of such people.

Any attempt to correct the hyperactivity of the Skeletal people should centre around the elimination of iodine from their body, coupled with the consumption of iodine-free salt.

In addition, the hyperactive people should not consume at all any of the iodine-rich foods such as cabbage, agar-agar jelly, and the ‘sea-foods’ (e.g., sea fish, prawns, etc.).

If the hyperactive Skeletal, Thin or Perfect category people consume far too much of the iodine-enriched salts through their foods and drinks, then, the hypothalamus gland located at the brain would produce a substance called the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH).

The TSH would induce the Thyroid gland to secrete far too much of the Thyroxin hormone.

Such an abundant Thyroxin will increase hyperactivity in the person to an unusual extreme - beyond his body’s tolerance limit.

At this, the brain, in order to save him from collapsing, induces the hypothalamus gland to secrete another sub-stance, viz., thyroid auto-antibodies, and they are called Thyroglobulin antibody and Microsomal antibody.

These antibodies are carried in the blood to the thyroid gland, and they destroy the thyroid gland itself, in a suicidal manner.

As a result, the thyroxin secretion totally stops, leading to the malfunctioning of the body physiology in several ways.

The above action is very much similar to the withdrawal of insulin in the case of type-1 diabetics.

The sufferer is given a daily dose of synthetic Thyroxin hormone, with which he can carry on living almost similar to a normal person. There will be no other choice.

However, minor problems related to slight dosage excess or inadequacy are bound to occur every now and then. Therefore, proper monitoring to decide the right dosage becomes a necessity among this group of people.

Often, all the ill-informed health advocates advise all people to reduce their salt consumption.

The obese people listen to them, and reduce their daily iodised salt consumption. Whereas, those who are thin continue taking plenty of it in their foods.

In some countries, the governments have made it into a law to force the salt manufacturers to enrich all their products with extra iodine.
When the obese people consume reduced quantities of the iodised salt, their health remains alright.

But, when the thin people take plenty of the iodised salt, they initially become innocent victims of iodine over-consumption that makes them into hyperactive people.

As said earlier, at its extreme, they develop hypothy-roidism due to the total dysfunction and death of the thyroid gland.

As per my findings, those who consume more of the natural, uniodised salt (to taste) will remain very healthy.By right, the governments should advocate only the obese people to take less of the iodised salt, while at the same time, make available uniodised natural sea salt for the benefit of the thin people.

HUMAN DISEASES REDEFINED

c) 2008, 2010: Dr. V.M. Palaniappan

43. German Measles

This disease is caused by ‘virus’. If and when the body of a person becomes extremely acidic (hyperacidosis) for a prolonged period, he/she develops this measles. Children appear to be more prone to this.

There does not seem to exist any drug or herbal medicine for curing this problem.

The disease rapidly subsides and recovery gets speeded up when these patients are administered with alkaline foods and fruits e.g., sea coconut, coconut water, its tender meat, ‘pathaneer’, etc). Drinking small quantities of water very mildly alkalised with a tiny bit of calcium hydroxide (= burnt lime/ kapur/ chunnambu that is used for betel chewing) (to pH 7.2 or so) helps substantially*. This neutralises the acidity. Acid foods, fruits and drinks should not be given at all, as these would worsen the situation. Bed-rest is a must.

(* This must be carefully done by an experienced person. Careless application of excessive lime may harm the person. So, great care must be exercised in treating all kinds of virus infected persons, including those with measles)

See Virus Infections, Immunity Against Virus Diseases, and Body Heat/ Heaty Body.

Human Diseases Redefined

(c) 2008, 2010: Dr. V.M. Palaniappan

42. Gastric Problems / Indigestion

It appears that all the people, without exception, suffer on and off from some from of gastric problem.

When improper digestion of certain foods makes us uncomfortable, we call it a gastric problem, or gastritis. Even constipation forms part of the problem.

Late night dining of oily and high protein foods, sleeping immediately after dinner, etc. seem to give gastric problems.

Biscuits, several nuts (including peanuts), food items made of refined wheat flour, including several of the bakery items, etc. do not get digested properly. They cause constipation.

Oils and sugars tend to promote digestion. Often, knowingly or unknowingly, we take sweet deserts towards the end of a meal, and that helps substantially in digestion*.

( * South Indians have the habit of serving sweetened deserts called payasam, towards the end of a meal.)

Oily foods are best eaten at the beginning of a meal, for as it is swallowed, an enzyme called cholecystokinen gets secreted. This in turn pumps out the bile juice for the digestion of fats and oils.

If oil is totally kept away from being part of the food, then, digestion of fats and oil will get impeded, and that will give rise to indigestion. Such a situation will pave a way for the formation of gall stone as well.

On the other hand, if one consumes too much of oil, even if happens to be good cholesterol (HDL) containing gingerly or olive oil, it will induce the production of excessive bile salts. This, on breaking down, will turn into cholesterol. So, only normal amount of oils and fats should be consumed.

When indigestion occurs, the digestive fluids and some of the foods can get back into the oesophagus, giving rise to a burning sensation, which people often mistake it to be a heart pain, otherwise called angina.

If the duodenum (smaller upper part of the small intestine) happens to remain in an acid medium, or if indigestion continues, the cholesterol content of the blood tends to increase.

Gastric problem certainly increases blood sugar level in diabetic patients. Chronic type of constipation (i.e., frequent defecation of slimy stools) also worsens the diabetic situation in the sufferer.

Frequent cleansing (once in three months or so) of the intestine, colon, rectum, etc. with the use of a safe herbal laxative should prove very useful in the upkeep of a healthy intestinal tract.

Whatever, one should not try to bear and live with the gastric problems for too long.

Better to remember that severe constipation at the colon for prolonged periods can give rise to colo-rectal cancer.

Human Diseases Redefined

(c) 2008, 2010: Dr. V.M. Palaniappan

41. Gastrectasia / Gastrectasis (Enlarged Stomach)

The stomach (not the abdomen as such) becomes dilated (enlarged), either temporarily or permanently.

Overeating is said to be one of the reasons for this problem.

I have traced this to be due to the wearing of tight belts, elastic-fitted hard-gripping underwear, pants, skirts, etc.

Very tight waist-ware reduces the abdominal volume, within which the stomach would normally extend when that gets filled with food and liquids.

Within a short while after eating, as the food gets down into the intestinal tract, the stomach bulge normally subsides.

But, if the waist area is narrowed by mechanical tightening, then the pylorus region (that is below the stomach) gets constricted, and therefore, the stomach has no choice except to getting distended and enlarged.

If one eats stomach full and wears loose clothes at the waist (without elastic material), only temporary gastrectasia forms, and that will subside in one or two hours.

It is the hard-pressed abdomen that gives rise to permanent gastrectasia. Some policemen wearing tight belt for most part of the day daily develop pot-belly, and they form good examples of this kind.

Of course, calcification of the cells that make up the stomach and the abdomen too would give rise to potbelly.

See Gastritis.