Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous 2015. Leave behind your sorrows and step into the new year with a smile.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Monday, December 29, 2014
EVEN IF YOUR HEART IS BEATING - YOU CAN BE "DEAD" - "BRAIN DEAD"
In 1975, a 21 year old Karen Ann Quinlan, collapsed after coming home. Before the paramedics arrived, she stopped breathing TWICE for more than 15 minutes or more!!! She was taken to a hospital and she lapsed into a "persistent vegetative state". After months of ventilation support (breathing support using a machine), her parents requested the hospital to stop ventilation support. The hospital refused and the matter went to court. The court ruled in favour of the parents and the hospital removed the ventilation support. But do you know what happened? Karen lived in the same persistent vegetative state for another 10 years without ventilation support !!!
Do you know that kids born without even a brain have lived for more than 2 years? The condition is called anencephaly.
From the above two examples alone - you can realize that "brain death" is a load of crap.... What is true is that there is a huge demand for infant organs. And as long as such a demand exists and when patients are willing to pay huge sums of money, the doctors will hurry to classify even coma patients as brain-dead.
Now, read the following chronology of what happened to a small kid in bangalore - see how the doctors butchered a living kid and then donated his organs.
Dec 12, 2014 : A 2 year and 10 month old kid was admitted in a hospital for a simple high fever (not for any other organ problem). Doctors gave an injection but there was no improvement in the kid's condition (this is the only information available online about the treatment given)
Dec 14, 2014 : The kid is shifted to Manipal Hospital.
Dec 18, 2014 : At 4.30 p.m the kid is declared "brain dead" and zonal coordination committee of Karnataka is informed (ZCCK). The zcck informs other private hospitals in karnataka and nearby states about the availability of organs.
Dec 19, 2014 : By 2.00 p.m the heart was in chennai (Fortis Malar Hospital) to be fitted into a russian kid.
In short - within a week - a living kid with fever was butchered so that the merchants of death could benefit hugely by transplanting his heart, liver, eyes and kidneys!!!! It is even more disturbing to know that the same hospital in Adyar had resorted to the same tactic on September 3, 2014 to fit a 37 year old woman's heart into a 60 year old patient.
Some disturbing questions :
What exactly is "brain death"? Brain has so many parts - so how do you define brain death? Death of cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem, right side brain, left side brain, cortex, neocortex or death of all these put together?
Does India have any legal definition for brain death or can the doctors arbitrarily decide it?
If the donor kid was declared brain dead on Thursday - how did his heart survive until Friday afternoon? Normally heart becomes useless within 6 hours of death. Therefore, if the heart was functioning until Friday afternoon - it only means that the kid was alive even on Friday. Is it not?
If the kid was alive even on Friday - it means that the doctors "killed" the kid when they removed his heart. It is accepted by everybody that if the heart is beating, the person is alive. So how come the doctors in Manipal hospital and Fortis Malar hospital alone chose to call the patient "dead"? I really cannot understand how someone can be called dead if his heart is beating!!!! Somebody please enlighten me.
It is really surprising that no Indian kid needed a heart transplant and that only a Russian kid was in need in India for a heart!!! Is there any transplant registry that is maintained nation wide? The very fact that zcck had to inform hospitals about the availability of organs shows that there is no such nation wide registry. If the registry was available - there was no need to inform all the hospitals. It would be enough to inform only one hospital where the organ was needed.
Based on the facts available, I am led to believe that one little kid was cut open to satisfy the greed of doctors and the need of rich recipients.
Do you know that kids born without even a brain have lived for more than 2 years? The condition is called anencephaly.
From the above two examples alone - you can realize that "brain death" is a load of crap.... What is true is that there is a huge demand for infant organs. And as long as such a demand exists and when patients are willing to pay huge sums of money, the doctors will hurry to classify even coma patients as brain-dead.
Now, read the following chronology of what happened to a small kid in bangalore - see how the doctors butchered a living kid and then donated his organs.
Dec 12, 2014 : A 2 year and 10 month old kid was admitted in a hospital for a simple high fever (not for any other organ problem). Doctors gave an injection but there was no improvement in the kid's condition (this is the only information available online about the treatment given)
Dec 14, 2014 : The kid is shifted to Manipal Hospital.
Dec 18, 2014 : At 4.30 p.m the kid is declared "brain dead" and zonal coordination committee of Karnataka is informed (ZCCK). The zcck informs other private hospitals in karnataka and nearby states about the availability of organs.
Dec 19, 2014 : By 2.00 p.m the heart was in chennai (Fortis Malar Hospital) to be fitted into a russian kid.
In short - within a week - a living kid with fever was butchered so that the merchants of death could benefit hugely by transplanting his heart, liver, eyes and kidneys!!!! It is even more disturbing to know that the same hospital in Adyar had resorted to the same tactic on September 3, 2014 to fit a 37 year old woman's heart into a 60 year old patient.
Some disturbing questions :
What exactly is "brain death"? Brain has so many parts - so how do you define brain death? Death of cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem, right side brain, left side brain, cortex, neocortex or death of all these put together?
Does India have any legal definition for brain death or can the doctors arbitrarily decide it?
If the donor kid was declared brain dead on Thursday - how did his heart survive until Friday afternoon? Normally heart becomes useless within 6 hours of death. Therefore, if the heart was functioning until Friday afternoon - it only means that the kid was alive even on Friday. Is it not?
If the kid was alive even on Friday - it means that the doctors "killed" the kid when they removed his heart. It is accepted by everybody that if the heart is beating, the person is alive. So how come the doctors in Manipal hospital and Fortis Malar hospital alone chose to call the patient "dead"? I really cannot understand how someone can be called dead if his heart is beating!!!! Somebody please enlighten me.
It is really surprising that no Indian kid needed a heart transplant and that only a Russian kid was in need in India for a heart!!! Is there any transplant registry that is maintained nation wide? The very fact that zcck had to inform hospitals about the availability of organs shows that there is no such nation wide registry. If the registry was available - there was no need to inform all the hospitals. It would be enough to inform only one hospital where the organ was needed.
Based on the facts available, I am led to believe that one little kid was cut open to satisfy the greed of doctors and the need of rich recipients.
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
BRAIN DEATH - BULL SHIT!!!
In 1975, a 21 year old Karen Ann Quinlan, collapsed after coming home. Before the paramedics arrived, she stopped breathing TWICE for more than 15 minutes or more!!! She was taken to a hospital and she lapsed into a "persistent vegetative state". After months of ventilation support (breathing support using a machine), her parents requested the hospital to stop ventilation support. The hospital refused and the matter went to court. The court ruled in favour of the parents and the hospital removed the ventilation support. But do you know what happened? Karen lived in the same persistent vegetative state for another 10 years without ventilation support !!!
Do you know that kids born without even a brain have lived for more than 2 years? The condition is called anencephaly.
From the above two examples alone - you can realize that "brain death" is a load of crap.... What is true is that there is a huge demand for infant organs. And as long as such a demand exists and when patients are willing to pay huge sums of money, the doctors will hurry to classify even coma patients as brain-dead.
Now, read the following chronology of what happened to a small kid in bangalore - see how the doctors butchered a living kid and then donated his organs.
Dec 12, 2014 : A 2 year and 10 month old kid was admitted in a hospital for a simple high fever (not for any other organ problem). Doctors gave an injection but there was no improvement in the kid's condition (this is the only information available online about the treatment given)
Dec 14, 2014 : The kid is shifted to Manipal Hospital.
Dec 18, 2014 : At 4.30 p.m the kid is declared "brain dead" and zonal coordination committee of Karnataka is informed (ZCCK). The zcck informs other private hospitals in karnataka and nearby states about the availability of organs.
Dec 19, 2014 : By 2.00 p.m the heart was in chennai (Fortis Malar Hospital) to be fitted into a russian kid.
In short - within a week - a living kid with fever was butchered so that the merchants of death could benefit hugely by transplanting his heart, liver, eyes and kidneys!!!! It is even more disturbing to know that the same hospital in Adyar had resorted to the same tactic on September 3, 2014 to fit a 37 year old woman's heart into a 60 year old patient.
Some disturbing questions :
What exactly is "brain death"? Brain has so many parts - so how do you define brain death? Death of cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem, right side brain, left side brain, cortex, neocortex or death of all these put together?
Does India have any legal definition for brain death or can the doctors arbitrarily decide it?
If the donor kid was declared brain dead on Thursday - how did his heart survive until Friday afternoon? Normally heart becomes useless within 6 hours of death. Therefore, if the heart was functioning until Friday afternoon - it only means that the kid was alive even on Friday. Is it not?
If the kid was alive even on Friday - it means that the doctors "killed" the kid when they removed his heart. It is accepted by everybody that if the heart is beating, the person is alive. So how come the doctors in Manipal hospital and Fortis Malar hospital alone chose to call the patient "dead"? I really cannot understand how someone can be called dead if his heart is beating!!!! Somebody please enlighten me.
It is really surprising that no Indian kid needed a heart transplant and that only a Russian kid was in need in India for a heart!!! Is there any transplant registry that is maintained nation wide? The very fact that zcck had to inform hospitals about the availability of organs shows that there is no such nation wide registry. If the registry was available - there was no need to inform all the hospitals. It would be enough to inform only one hospital where the organ was needed.
Based on the facts available, I am led to believe that one little kid was cut open to satisfy the greed of doctors and the need of rich recipients.
Do you know that kids born without even a brain have lived for more than 2 years? The condition is called anencephaly.
From the above two examples alone - you can realize that "brain death" is a load of crap.... What is true is that there is a huge demand for infant organs. And as long as such a demand exists and when patients are willing to pay huge sums of money, the doctors will hurry to classify even coma patients as brain-dead.
Now, read the following chronology of what happened to a small kid in bangalore - see how the doctors butchered a living kid and then donated his organs.
Dec 12, 2014 : A 2 year and 10 month old kid was admitted in a hospital for a simple high fever (not for any other organ problem). Doctors gave an injection but there was no improvement in the kid's condition (this is the only information available online about the treatment given)
Dec 14, 2014 : The kid is shifted to Manipal Hospital.
Dec 18, 2014 : At 4.30 p.m the kid is declared "brain dead" and zonal coordination committee of Karnataka is informed (ZCCK). The zcck informs other private hospitals in karnataka and nearby states about the availability of organs.
Dec 19, 2014 : By 2.00 p.m the heart was in chennai (Fortis Malar Hospital) to be fitted into a russian kid.
In short - within a week - a living kid with fever was butchered so that the merchants of death could benefit hugely by transplanting his heart, liver, eyes and kidneys!!!! It is even more disturbing to know that the same hospital in Adyar had resorted to the same tactic on September 3, 2014 to fit a 37 year old woman's heart into a 60 year old patient.
Some disturbing questions :
What exactly is "brain death"? Brain has so many parts - so how do you define brain death? Death of cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem, right side brain, left side brain, cortex, neocortex or death of all these put together?
Does India have any legal definition for brain death or can the doctors arbitrarily decide it?
If the donor kid was declared brain dead on Thursday - how did his heart survive until Friday afternoon? Normally heart becomes useless within 6 hours of death. Therefore, if the heart was functioning until Friday afternoon - it only means that the kid was alive even on Friday. Is it not?
If the kid was alive even on Friday - it means that the doctors "killed" the kid when they removed his heart. It is accepted by everybody that if the heart is beating, the person is alive. So how come the doctors in Manipal hospital and Fortis Malar hospital alone chose to call the patient "dead"? I really cannot understand how someone can be called dead if his heart is beating!!!! Somebody please enlighten me.
It is really surprising that no Indian kid needed a heart transplant and that only a Russian kid was in need in India for a heart!!! Is there any transplant registry that is maintained nation wide? The very fact that zcck had to inform hospitals about the availability of organs shows that there is no such nation wide registry. If the registry was available - there was no need to inform all the hospitals. It would be enough to inform only one hospital where the organ was needed.
Based on the facts available, I am led to believe that one little kid was cut open to satisfy the greed of doctors and the need of rich recipients.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
LOOK YOUNGER WITH ACUPUNCTURE
All
of us want to look younger. There is no dearth of creams and lotions and
cosmetic products which advertise to make us look younger. Some of us choose
the knife by opting for surgeries that promise to make us look younger. But
beauty eludes us and despite all these ads - all of us KNOW that beauty comes
from within - both literally and figuratively.
Did
you all know that acupuncture can make you look younger?
Kidney
is the reservoir of life and the storage tank of our ancestral energy. Any
kidney deficiency can lead to premature aging - withered and wrinkled look.
Without knowing this or by completely ignoring this essential aspect of the
kidney - modern medicine (allopathy) equates kidney to a mere filter or a
purifier. That is why patients who undergo dialysis will hardly recover because
the machine can only filter - but kidney can infuse life into the blood along
with filtering. Acupuncture can strengthen your kidney and thereby make you
look younger by postponing the ageing effect.
The modern lifestyle has managed to produce flabby looking
individuals - both men and women alike. No - I am not talking about obesity. I
am talking about average men and women - who have drooping bellies - fat and
flabby biceps - tyre like muscles around their waist - double and triple chins
- foreams that look as if they are swollen.... The spleen is the organ
responsible for keeping organs in their place and to tone up our muscles. This
organ is very very vulnerable to sugar. People with spleen deficiency often
have sugar rush or sugar cravings. Moderating your sugar intake and
acupuncture can strengthen your spleen and make you look younger with a toned
body.
As
we age – our flexibility goes for a toss and we start becoming stiff. It
becomes difficult to bend down and get up. Unlike kids, we become inflexible.
This happens because our liver qi gets stuck due to everyday stressors leading
to liver qi stagnation. Since liver qi is responsible for free flow throughout
the body – nourishing connective tissue, tendons and ligaments, stagnation in liver
qi can lead to restrictions in movement. Acupuncture can release this stuck
liver qi and make you younger by giving you a greater range of movement.
Try
a acupuncture treatment today and you will start wondering as to why you missed
such a wonderful system of holistic health upto now.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
DIGESTION - PART 2
In DIGESTION - PART 1 we saw how all our senses are involved in the process of digestion.
We ignore this essential aspect for wholesome digestion in today's world.
We try to eat while reading something or while watching television or listening to music. We have perfected this into an art of eating pop corn while watching a movie. By dissociating the eyes (and other senses) from the process of digestion, we are harming our own selves. The body - deprived of the advance warning from the eyes and ears - has to react to the food AFTER it enters the mouth. Our mind is also kept busy in some other thing - hence there is no real "wanting" the food. Without the mind and five senses participating in digestion - our body does not digest the food properly. Eating becomes mechanical. When eating food is mechanical - the body does not warn you when you overeat. That is why people end up eating even a big bucket of pop corn.
Another crazy thing that we do - and that which baffles me - is the use of a cold drink while eating or eating an ice cream after the meal. You walk into any hotel - you will see at least one person having a pepsi or a coke by the side of their plate. When we eat food - the stomach produces renin and pepsin to digest the food. Both renin and pepsin need normal temperature to be effective. When you drink something that is cold or eat an ice cream which is extremely cold - these two enzymes do not function. Therefore, digestion is literally halted. Improper digestion is the result. If this becomes a habit - then cancer can result due to this improper digestion. Indians were aware of the need for a hot environment for proper digestion - that is why pepper water (rasam) was eaten - and rasam was served hot during the meal!!! Today - many of us have stopped the habit of having pepper water totally - because it is not advertised anywhere. We forget that business houses will not advertise anything that is healthy because there is no money there.
In the next post - let us see how digestion is a step by step process and how to eat properly.
We ignore this essential aspect for wholesome digestion in today's world.
We try to eat while reading something or while watching television or listening to music. We have perfected this into an art of eating pop corn while watching a movie. By dissociating the eyes (and other senses) from the process of digestion, we are harming our own selves. The body - deprived of the advance warning from the eyes and ears - has to react to the food AFTER it enters the mouth. Our mind is also kept busy in some other thing - hence there is no real "wanting" the food. Without the mind and five senses participating in digestion - our body does not digest the food properly. Eating becomes mechanical. When eating food is mechanical - the body does not warn you when you overeat. That is why people end up eating even a big bucket of pop corn.
Another crazy thing that we do - and that which baffles me - is the use of a cold drink while eating or eating an ice cream after the meal. You walk into any hotel - you will see at least one person having a pepsi or a coke by the side of their plate. When we eat food - the stomach produces renin and pepsin to digest the food. Both renin and pepsin need normal temperature to be effective. When you drink something that is cold or eat an ice cream which is extremely cold - these two enzymes do not function. Therefore, digestion is literally halted. Improper digestion is the result. If this becomes a habit - then cancer can result due to this improper digestion. Indians were aware of the need for a hot environment for proper digestion - that is why pepper water (rasam) was eaten - and rasam was served hot during the meal!!! Today - many of us have stopped the habit of having pepper water totally - because it is not advertised anywhere. We forget that business houses will not advertise anything that is healthy because there is no money there.
In the next post - let us see how digestion is a step by step process and how to eat properly.
Monday, December 8, 2014
DIGESTION - PART 1
Digestion is a process that is easily misunderstood and restricted to the "stomach" alone. You ask a kid "where does digestion take place?" and the kid will immediately reply "in the stomach". All of us around the kid will not find it difficult to agree with the "cute" and "Correct" answer. But is this answer really correct?
What is obvious is that the entire digestive tract - starting from the mouth to the rectum are involved in digestion. But what is not so obvious is the fact that all our five senses are also involved in digestion.
Digestion starts with the eyes.
The moment you look at a food - the entire digestive system gets stimulated.
The nose smells the aroma (hence the insistence in tropical countries to eat "hot food" - bcos heat releases the aroma from the food.
The mind wants it.
The mouth starts to secrete saliva.
The production of saliva and the change in the mind - activates the spleen -
The stomach prepares to digest the food that the eyes sighted.
The small intestine tries to make space to receive the chyme that will come from crushing the food item.
The large intestine compresses and solidifies the existing waste matter.
The moment you touch the food - your sense of touch is activated. You feel if the food is soft or hard - hot or cold etc...
The moment you put the food in the mouth and crunch it or crush it or even lick it - the ears jump into the process.
Thus all five senses - sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch are involved in digestion. But this is not so obvious.
What is obvious is that the entire digestive tract - starting from the mouth to the rectum are involved in digestion. But what is not so obvious is the fact that all our five senses are also involved in digestion.
Digestion starts with the eyes.
The moment you look at a food - the entire digestive system gets stimulated.
The nose smells the aroma (hence the insistence in tropical countries to eat "hot food" - bcos heat releases the aroma from the food.
The mind wants it.
The mouth starts to secrete saliva.
The production of saliva and the change in the mind - activates the spleen -
The stomach prepares to digest the food that the eyes sighted.
The small intestine tries to make space to receive the chyme that will come from crushing the food item.
The large intestine compresses and solidifies the existing waste matter.
The moment you touch the food - your sense of touch is activated. You feel if the food is soft or hard - hot or cold etc...
The moment you put the food in the mouth and crunch it or crush it or even lick it - the ears jump into the process.
Thus all five senses - sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch are involved in digestion. But this is not so obvious.
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