People who easily get irritated tend to have seasonal allergies!
People who easily get irritated emit age-related body odor regardless of their ages. The odor collects mites causing house dust allergy. 80 % of people who have the antibody of house dust allergy have the antibody of cedar pollen allergy. Therefore, people with house dust allergy tend to have cedar pollen allergy. The pollens becoming small cause the increase of serious pollen allergy’s patients! The size of a cedar pollen is usually one third of human hair, but the size of PM 2.5 which is chemical substance discharged from factories is one thirtieth of human hair can makes a pollen smaller. The attachment of PM 2.5 to a pollen makes cracks on the pollen, water in the air comes into the pollen from the cracks, the pollen is enlarged and broken down, producing very small pieces of the pollen. If the size of the pollens is the original size, they are passed from the body sticking to nasal discharge, but the pollens becoming small pieces pass through the back of the nose and invade deep parts of the body such as the bronchial tubes or the lungs, causing cough which doesn’t stop. Too much use of nasal sprays is dangerous! Collunarium such as nasal sprays or nasal drops contains vasoconstrictor that causes narrowing of the blood vessel. So collunarium contracts the blood vessels in the nose and temporally suppresses stuffy nose. If you use collunarium too much, the inside of the nose can be swollen on the contrary. Recommended food to prevent pollen allergy The recommended food is a lotus root. Lotus root has been very famous for improving any lung problems in the eastern medicine. When a pollen go into our body, the antibodies called IgE are produced. The more IgE is produced, the worse the symptoms of the pollen allergies become. Therefore, to prevent allergies’ symptoms, it is better not to produce IgE. Lotus roots contain polyphenol which suppresses the production of IgE. If you want to make the action of lotus roots more effective, it is good to eat with lactic acid. Polyphenol is contained more in the skin of lotus roots. It is recommended to drink amazake (sweet fermented rice drink) which contains lactic acid, adding grated lotus roots. Lotus roots also contain mucin which strengthens the barrier function of membranes, preventing the invasion of pollens.
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Q9. Which food’s absorption of nutrition is better when it is eaten for breakfast?
(A) Meat (vitamin B1) (B) Fish (EPA, DHA) A9. (B) Fish. According to a research using a mouse, a mouse eating feed with fish oil in the morning had more EPA and DHA in the blood than a mouse eating feed with fish oil in the evening. EPA and DHA are burned during sleep so when EPA and DHA are taken in the morning, they are not burned but stored in the body. Q10. Which way of eating can you take more nutrition of fish (EPA, DHA)? (A) Grilled fish (B) Raw fish A10. (B) Raw fish. When fish is grilled, EPA and DHA decrease by about 20 %. EPA and DHA (Omega-3) are weak against heat. To avoid losing 20 % of EPA and DHA when they are grilled, it is good to grill in a foil wrapper and eat everything in the foil including the flown oil. Q11. Which fish is rich in nutrition (EPA and DHA)? (A) Cultured fish (B) Natural fish A11. (A) Cultured fish. Because cultured fish is given good feed steadily compared to natural fish. Total of EPA and DHA required to take for a day is about 1 gram which is 4 pieces of cultured tuna sushi, but if it is natural, 40 pieces are required. By the way, by what time should breakfast be eaten at the latest? Breakfast should be eaten by 9 am because blood sugar reaches its peak at 2 hours after eating and gradually lowers so if you eat breakfast before 9 am, at the time of lunch, blood sugar becomes low. According to the latest research that was performed to 5000 students about the contents and the amount of their breakfast for 6 months, the rate that the students who ate breakfast got better grade than the average is more than 2 times as high as the rate of the students who didn’t eat breakfast. It is important to absorb glucose taken from breakfast slowly and to keep sending the glucose to the brain for a long. Q12. Which bread can provide the brain with energy for a long time? (A) White bread (B) Whole wheat bread A12. (B) Whole wheat bread. It is important that glucose as energy for the brain is in the blood stream stably. Dietary fiber of whole wheat suppresses the absorption of glucose so the supply of glucose to the brain becomes slower. While white bread contains about 2.7 grams of dietary fiber per 100 grams, whole wheat bread contains about 11.2 grams of dietary fiber per 100 grams. Q13. Which bread can easily provide the brain with energy for a long time? (A) Toasted bread (B) Not toasted bread A13. (A) Toasted bread. Starch of bread becomes difficult to absorb by toasting, making the absorption of sugar slower and suppressing the rapid elevation of blood sugar. Q14. According to the latest research, if you eat breakfast, you don’t gain weight. What is the reason? (A) Because the amount of sweat increases. (B) Because the amount of meals per day decreases. A14. (B) Because the amount of meals per day decreases. If you skip breakfast, you feel hungry and your brain orders you to eat a lot. According to the latest research of University of Missouri, when you eat high protein food such as eggs, cheese, yogurt, natto or young anchovies for breakfast, the activities related to appetite in the brain declines. Q1. Which is better to absorb nutrition if you eat for breakfast?
(A) Tomato (B) Spinach A1. (A) Tomato. The longer the fasting period is, the better the absorption ratio of lycopene is. Lycopene is good to prevent hardening of blood vessels. So if you eat tomato for breakfast, lycopene contained in tomato is easily absorbed. If you eat breakfast deliciously, the rate of digestion and absorption in the intestines will be better because the brain and the intestines are closely related. Q2. Which way of eating is more effective to absorb lycopene contained in a tomato? (A) As a raw tomato (B) As a heated soup A2. (B) As a heated soup. Heated tomato makes the absorption of lycopene 3 times better. Lycopene is difficult to absorb, but when lycopene is heated, the absorption from the intestines will be better because lycopene is transformed into a form easily absorbed. Required lycopene for a day is equivalent to 3 tomatoes. It is a little difficult to eat them raw. But a can of tomato juice contains the same amount. If you heat a can of tomato juice with microwave, you can easily take required lycopene for a day. Another vegetable recommended to heat is a carrot. A carrot contains beta-carotene which is expected to strengthen the immune system. Beta-carotene is soluble in oil and strong against heat. Q3. Which tomato contains more lycopene? (A) Deep red (B) Pale red A3. (A) Deep red. Ripe and deep red tomatoes contain about 3 times more lycopene than pale ones. Q4. Which symptom’s risk goes up if you keep skipping breakfast? (A) Heat in the upper body (B) Sensitivity to cold A4. (B) Sensitivity to cold. In the morning, the internal organs in the body start to move so they need a certain amount of energy. When you eat breakfast, blood starts to flow all over the body. When we don’t eat breakfast, energy stored in the body is used and the decrease of the energy makes us feel cold. Eating warm food is important to raise the body temperature. Also something you need to chew well is good to eat because chewing a lot uses the muscles around the mouth, generating heat. Q5. Which serious disease’s risk goes up if you keep skipping breakfast? (A) Cerebral hemorrhage (brain hemorrhage) (B) Stomach cancer A5. (A) Cerebral hemorrhage. If you keep skipping breakfast, the risk of cerebral hemorrhage goes up by 36 %. According to a research that 80000 people were surveyed about whether they ate breakfast or not for 13 years, people who ate breakfast 0 to 2 times a week, the risk of cerebral hemorrhage goes up by 36 %. Cerebral hemorrhage tends to happen to people with high blood pressure. Skipping breakfast makes you hungry, causing stress which tends to cause high blood pressure. Stress activates the sympathetic nerve in the brain. The activation of the sympathetic nerve contracts the blood vessels of the whole body, causing high blood pressure. Skipping breakfast continuously elevates blood pressure causing high blood pressure and as a result, the risk of cerebral hemorrhage becomes higher substantially. Q6. Which banana is expected to prevent a common cold when you eat it in the breakfast? (A) Yellow banana (B) Ripe banana with black spots A6. (B) Ripe banana with black spots. According to the newest research using mouse, ripe banana can be expected to have about 8 times more activation effect of immune system than yellow banana. Q7. Which way of making green tea can produce more catechin which is effective for the prevention of a cold? (A) With lukewarm water (60 degrees C) (B) With hot boiled water (100 degrees C) A7. (B) With hot boiled water. Catechin is easily extracted by water with high-temperature. Q8. Which grated daikon is more effective to prevent a cold and suppress the inflammation of the throat? (A) Close to the tip (B) Close to the leaves A8. (A) Close to the tip. Pungent component of daikon called isothiocyanate contains sterilizing component. The part close to the tip of daikon contains 10 times more isothiocyanate than the part close to the leaves. But the pungent component is weak at heat so it is better to eat grated daikon without boiling it. This is my recent experience. I sprained my right ankle while I was running. It was not so serious and happened when the running almost ended so there was no problem coming back. Right after the running, I treated the area where I sprained with Dispersion Needle. That was the outside of my ankle and hurt with inversion. After the needles, there was no pain in the area with inversion. I ran again two days later but there was no pain in my ankle while I was running. Dispersion needle is very convenient for acute joint problems. When you sprain your ankle, Cozy Acupuncture in Salem MA is here to help you. Call to set up an appointment: 617-584-8703 or book Online.
Spinal canal stenosis and lumber herniated disk are a part of 15 % of known causes of low back pain, but the causes of 85 % of low back pain are unknown.
By the recent research of brain science, it turned out that some of the low back pain which cause is unknown and difficult to treat are related to the decline of the brain function caused by the decrease of blood flow in a part of the brain where is related to pain. 73 years old woman had been suffering from the pain and tingling sensation in her lower back and legs which cause was unknown. Her MRI images don’t show any abnormality causing spinal canal stenosis and lumber herniated disk. When she keeps sitting posture, pain and tingling sensation in her lower back and legs get worse. When we feel pain, our brain secretes substance which suppresses the pain so the pain gradually decreases. But if we are under too much stress, the secretion of the substance which suppresses the pain decreases. That makes us sensitive to small stimulation that usually doesn’t cause pain. In her case, it was assumed that some kinds of stress lowered the function of the brain and she felt pain by small stimulation. She started rehabilitation of the brain in a hospital. The first step of brain rehabilitation is probing the cause of psychological stress lowering the function of the brain. What she talked about was that she had been regretting that she might not understand her husband who had passed away 9 years ago after his 7 years’ life of fighting cancer. Stress caused by the death of her husband could be the main reason of the lower function of her brain. Awareness of the events causing the stress is the first step. The second step of brain’s rehabilitation is physical therapy. It is assumed that self-confidence and a sense of accomplishment have good influence on the function of the brain and lead to increase the substance that alleviates pain. After 3 weeks’ of brain’s rehabilitation, her pain level decreased and she had more confidence and looked happier. Low Back Pain Type 2
Stage 1 47 years old woman. Sudden severe pain in her lower back occurred when she lifted up a heavy box at her work. The pain was like shock struck by a hammer. After 10 minutes’ rest, she was able to walk a little. Stage 2 Since then, she tried not to lift a heavy stuff but when she was in the kitchen to prepare dinner and bent forward to pick up dishes from a lower shelf, sudden severe pain in her lower back and tingling sensation and sharp pain radiating to her thigh and calf in her right leg occurred. After that, every time she bent forward, she suffered from low back pain, and pain and tingling sensation in her leg. Stage 3 6 months after the first low back pain, when she tried to climb up 1 stair, the low back pain and pain and tingling sensation in her leg started. Pain and tingling sensation which obstruct daily life occurs. Type 2 is herniated disk which is the disease that the contents of the disk comes out and presses the nerve causing pain. The disks are elastic at the age of 10s, containing a lot of water. But aging takes away the water, making the disks hard. Countermeasure to prevent Stage 3: Stage 1 When she lifted up a heavy stuff, her disk got cracks. That caused the pain like being hit by a hammer. At that time, the contents of the disk soaked into the cracks and inflammation occurred, causing chronic pain. Strengthening the muscles around the disks reduces the burden on the cracked disk, alleviating the pain and preventing the recurrence. Denting Abdomen Exercise 1. Sit on a chair, straighten your back and relax. 2. Dent your abdomen. (Fig. 1) 3. Put your hands on both sides of your abdomen and tighten your abdomen. (Feel the muscles are tight.) (Fig. 2) 4. Keep tightening your abdomen for 5 seconds and relax your abdomen. It is expected that doing this exercise 10 times a day reduces and prevent the pain. Stage 2 Bending forward caused strong pressure in the front of the disk and the contents of the disk came out, pressuring the nerve running near the disk. Taking a rest without bending forward reduced the pain because the stimulation to the nerve by the pressure became less. The contents of the disk usually come out to one side so the symptom appears in one side of the legs. Pappy Position Pappy position is a stretch like a baby bends the back backward raising the head. 1. Lie on your stomach bending your arms. (Fig. 3) 2. Raise your upper body making your arms vertical. (stop the exercise if you feel any pain.) (Fig. 4) 3. Keep the posture for 1 minute. 4. Go back to the relaxed position. It is effective to do this exercise more than 2 times a day.
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