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Treatment For HIV-Positive Patients

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

aids hiv logo101 Treatment For HIV Positive PatientsHIV-positive patient should be given early treatment before the disease lead to severe stage. This early treatment will provide an opportunity to stay healthy and live longer. Early treatment for HIV patients is able to prevent what so-called opportunistic infections, including tuberculosis (TB), which is the biggest killer for HIV patients.

Death due to TB can be reduced to 90 percent if the patients with HIV and TB began their treatment earlier, or when their immune system has not been weakened by the virus. Its development has shown largest increases over the last year. The development is very encouraging so it would need more programs to help the patients who receive treatment.

WHO estimates that deaths due to HIV can be reduced by 20 percent between 2010 and 2015 if the new treatment guidelines implemented thoroughly. Evidence from scientific studies also showed that early treatment could be an effective way to prevent the spreading of the virus.

Kidney Failure Treatment Using Herbs

Friday, September 17th, 2010

Kidney is an organ in the body which has important functions. The kidney is functioning to filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and throw it away with water form of urine. Consider it’s very important function, the kidney health must be maintained. Even minor damage might disrupt other organs, including the heart.

genPopKidniesPict Kidney Failure Treatment Using HerbsAccording to several acupuncture experts, the kidney has a very special relationship with the heart so that if the kidney has problem, then the heart will also have problem. Although there are two kidneys inside the human body, it is possible that someone could be damaged those two.

Kidney failure is the kidney’s most feared problem because we have to do dialysis continuously, or the other option is transplantation. For someone who has experienced kidney failure and has to dialysis, then the chance to be cure is very small. Even though they are using herbal treatments, it is usually only to help reduce the dialysis frequency.

Accelerate urinating. Different with those who ‘only’ having a kidney failure, people with kidney stones can be helped with herbal medicine. Some medicinal plants can help to clean the kidney stones that clogged the bladder (urinary calculus).

According to the experts, medicinal plants that help clean up kidney stones include cat’s whiskers and kiji shard. Both these plants have diuretic effect that helps accelerate the urination and also could help shed the stones.

Nerves Surgery

Monday, July 26th, 2010

neurosurgery1 Nerves SurgeryIn the field of neurosurgery, almost all surgery techniques that conducted for nerves recovery are invasive or in other words have to make cuts and open the skull to access into the brain tissue or commonly referred to as craniotomy. With the development of information technology, neurosurgery techniques become more advanced.

Similarly, the development of modern imaging technology has provided very significant contribution to the success of nerves recovery surgery. Visualization by using a microscope at the time of operation, increasing the success and safety for post-surgery patients.

More sophisticated, endoscopy equipment has helped the neurosurgeon to see every angle in the human brain to determine the position of aneurism. In the last decade, the action neurosurgery with computer-assisted image-guided (neuronavigation) has been developed to assist neurosurgeons performs safety surgery.

Leech Therapy For Chronic Diseases

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

leeches Leech Therapy For Chronic DiseasesLeech is a quite feared animal. But do not be paranoid about it, because leeches have a significant efficacy for treating diseases like diabetes, heart disease, migraines, trapped nerves, sinusitis, muscle injuries and diseases due to dirty blood. The diseases that are mostly curable with leech therapy are coronary heart disease, heart failure, heart leakage, swelling of the heart and migraine.

Leeches can regenerate the dead nerve which is a very good therapy to treat neurological and cardiovascular disease, so not all diseases can be cured with leech therapy. Leeches that are used for this therapy is a medicinalis species while leeches that are exist in the fields or in the mud is no longer sterile. You can also use the Medicinalis leeches that are breed. In this therapy the process is by attaching 2 leeches at the points that become the center of the disease for half to one hour, and then that leeches are removed and the patient will be given herbal medicine to support its recovery.

By the time these leeches are attached, the leeches will expel mucus that is useful to regenerate nerves, expel dirty blood, and cure the disease, in this case there is no oil because 99% leech’s body consists of water or mucus. Besides these diseases, this leech therapy can also cure cancer but it takes much longer time, probably for months depending on its condition.

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