Soul Recovery and Extraction--A way to Heal Yourself

Hi Everyone!

Like every one else, I have many facets....or maybe you want to say I wear many hats. But, we all have this in us....and I’m not the Lone Ranger on it.

My father was one-quarter Eastern Cherokee. His great-grandmother was on the Trail of Tears, when the US Army forced most of the E. Cherokee out of their area along the Eastern Seaboard, inland, to Oklahoma. As the Trail got close to Kentucky, my great-great grandmother escaped. She eventually married Earl Gent and became part of the family.

My Aunt Elena, back in the 1970’s, who lived in West Virginia, showed me the only photo they had of her: she was a short, dark haired, dark skinned, dark brown eyed woman who wasn’t smiling in her calico dress and white apron. She was the ‘skeleton’ in my father’s family closet because being married to an Indian or carrying Indian blood wasn’t looked upon as a positive.

Nonetheless, my great-great grandmother managed to pass on what she knew; from one generation to another. Through my Aunt Elena (now deceased) we knew only two things of our E. Cherokee relative; she was a member of the Wolf Clan and from a ‘medicine’ family.

What was passed on or down to my father, was the genetic knowledge and heritage that she possessed. And then, it was passed down to me, the first born daughter of my generation. We never had a ‘name’ for our ‘medicine’ (skill or talent). At age nine, my father began to train me for the medicine. I was forty years old when I came into the medicine fully. And it wasn’t until about that time, around age 45, that I figured out what our ‘medicine’ that was being passed on through our family. One of my students, Dr. Michael Smith, who has written several academic books on worldwide shamanism, became a student of mine in the mid-1990’s. When he was done with the training, I asked him what type of shamanism was I teaching? He felt that what my family heritage was most closely aligned with from what he knew was Tibetan Shamanism.

Up until that time, I had no idea what our medicine was called. And really, it didn’t matter to me, personally. It was a healing tool and I was here to serve in that capacity; nameless or not. In the Native American way, our walk is our talk. We don’t necessarily give voice or labels to what we do. We SHOW what we can do. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.

And so, over the years, I began to choose worthy candidates to pass what I knew, on, to others. There’s a lot of shamans in the world. Did you know that EVERY country has their shamans? At one time, shamans were part and parcel of every village. They were the medicine man or woman. During the day, they were just like anyone else--taking care of family, tilling the soil, finding food to winter over. Only at night, did they do something extra or different--and that was to take a journey into nonordinary reality and reclaim pieces of energy or spirit that were either lost or stole--and brought back to the rightful person.

I’m pleased with my efforts to seed the world with my nameless medicine. I have seen so many lives changed for the positive because of Soul Recovery and Extraction--which is what I named what I was taught. It is a ‘medicine’--a tool--to be used to help others become whole once more.

We can lose pieces of ourselves through many different ways--and they are covered in my book, Soul Recovery and Extraction. But one way, a very simple example, is in a car accident. Most people lose a piece of energy from themselves during such a shock or trauma. That’s why many feel ‘out of body’ or ‘spacy’ or ‘not here’ after an accident. It is because that piece is missing. A shamanic facilitator can ‘call’ back this piece or go retrieve and bring it back to you. Once the piece is brought back and placed within you, you are whole once more--and you will feel it. Just as you felt the loss of the piece, you will feel the return and integration of it back into you.

Here are some excerpts from my book that I'd like to share with you:

If you experience any of the below, this can be a warning of soul loss (energy loss). A "piece" of energy can be taken from you, stolen or you may unconsciously give it to another person or situation. There are many ways to "retrieve" such pieces back. Therapy is one way; just growing through the experience, is another, and SR/E (soul recovery and extraction) is another way to retrieve these back. Whatever way feels most comfortable for you is the way you should choose to take. SR/E is not for everyone. If you do not believe in the process; do not try it. You MUST read Soul Recovery and Extraction by Ai Gvhdi Waya before having a journey to retrieve pieces by a shamanic facilitator.

WHAT IS SOUL LOSS?

Soul loss is about losing or unconsciously giving away part of our energy (our aura), to another person or situation. This energy is seen as ‘soul’ to some, and to others, a facet of our personality. The labels are meaningless, because something is lost that was once yours. Soul loss is usually undetected at first, but over time, the individual who has suffered the loss feels it in many ways that will be covered in my book. There are several way to lose a piece of your energy/aura/self and I’ll discuss a couple here (but there are many more in my book):

Accidents--if an elderly person trips and falls, they can lose a piece. Or a baby or child. Or a car accident. Or any accident that has traumatic, sudden jolting to the person. One person’s fall may mean nothing to another. So, the accident clearly has to be traumatic to the person who experienced it. If it is not, soul loss will not occur.

Emotions: this is the main arena of soul loss for all of us. These involve the death of a loved one, child, or otherwise, the death of a beloved pet that was your entire life, a divorce, a move from one state to another, from one country to another, being in a war zone, being in a dysfunctional family and abused in some way...and the list is endless. The sharper and more clear the emotion, the strong possibility of loss. And these are unhappy events, not happy ones. For a child, it could mean the divorce f her parents, the loss of a parent, being orphaned, moving from one foster family to another, as an example. Getting fired from a job can have a huge affect on our lives. The loss of a scholarship to a school can have life-altering meaning. Much of the time when we get hit emotionally or ‘gut-punched’, by whatever it is--and that importance has to mean something to you, not everyone else--this is when we stand to potentially lose a piece of energy from our spirit.

WARNINGS OF SOUL LOSS

1. Addictions / Addictive behavior (smoking, alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, comfort foods, danger/risk taking behavior, sex, codependency, ect.)

2. Emotional numbness (inability to feel, to cry, to love). Robot-like emotionally. No feelings. No reaction to normal things we’d react too (good news/bad news, ect.)

3. Inability to let go of the past, especially after the death of a loved one, divorce, abuse, trauma. Holds on to the past--blames the past for the way they are today. They never get over it, never get past it. Inability to live truly in the present.

4. Control / manipulation (being controlled and manipulated by others). Passive-aggressive behavior; triangulation. Growing up in a family where you felt out of control or had no control over anything.

5. Lack of direction, focus, purpose - Victim mentality (allowing oneself to be controlled and manipulated by others)

6. Shame, which leads to low self-confidence and / or self-esteem. Could have happened at a very early age or been a repeated message to the person as they grew up in a household.

7. Obesity (unless it is caused by a hypothyroid condition, eating the wrong foods, lack of exercise, can sometimes occur due to sexual molestation whether recalled or not). Fat is armor. Armor protects our vulnerable self. People who have been severely attacked in some way--on some level (mentally, emotionally, spiritually or physically), have suffered greatly and erect a ‘barrier’ to protect themselves. In this case, fat becomes the armor that the person can hide behind.

8. Depression

9. Ungroundedness (inability to function within daily boundaries, extreme daydreaming, spacey) or what we term ‘out-of-body’ or ‘nobody home’ syndrome. Has problems with discipline, organization, finishing what they start.

10. Memory loss (inability to remember large blocks of time). Blocks of memory loss--particularly as a child or baby. Or, block of memory loss after trauma such as auto accident, war wound, ect.

11. Childhood illness, both acute and chronic (particularly up to the age of 12). Children who are ‘always sick’ growing up--endless repetitions of ear aches, colds, flu that constantly come and go without reprieve or end.

12, Frequent illness in an adult (weakened immune system, leading to allergies, arthritis, constant colds).

13. Mental disorders (for instance, any psychotic break from reality such as schizophrenia or borderline).

14. MPD (multiple personality dysfunction). This occurs when a person has suffered a nearly irreparable trauma and the splits into different personalities in order to survive the experience.

For me, there is no more profound medicine in our world, than SRE. The only other medicine that can rival it is homeopathy. And I’m a homeopath just because I have seen it do just as great and world-changing work for a person as I have, SRE.


Copyright Moyra 1999
This is a digital painting that Moyra made of me and my shamanic guides who are surrounding me. http://moyra.com or email her at moyra@moyra.com

If you want to know more, here’s a lot of links below to help you out. Also, links to my shamanic facilitators whom I’ve trained--quite literally--around the world.

And, if you are interested in the book....you can buy it....and it can change your life. If you want!

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Shamanism Frequently Asked Questions:

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Prerequisites to ordering an SRE for yourself:

PREREQUISITES FOR ORDERING AN SRE FOR YOURSELF

SHAMANIC FACILITATORS ONLINE WEBSITE CONTACT

Shamanic Facilitators trained by Ai Gvhdi Way (NOTE: not all the trained facilitators in the Directory here in the book are on the Web. Some prefer not to participate in the web contact method and you must contact them yourself.

USA: USA SHAMANIC FACILITATOR DIRECTORY

EUROPE: EUROPEAN SHAMANIC FACILITATOR DIRECTORY

NEW ZEALAND/AUSTRALIA: AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND SHAMANIC FACILITATOR DIRECTORY

DON’T LIKE TO ORDER THROUGH THE WEB? EMAIL US...

Some people are not comfortable on the web and ordering. You can contact David Nauman, who handles all book and SRE orders at: stoneman2@sedona.net. We use Paypal or you can write us a personal check if in USA or international money order if from overseas. Whatever way you prefer to order the Soul Recovery and Extraction book, Dave will help you out. For USA orders, the book is $11.95 plus $4.00 s/h for priority mail. If Canadian, the book is $12.95 USD, and shipping must be determined and you must contact Dave for that info first. For foreign orders, you must contact Dave directly, first. For those who prefer ‘snail-mail’ by mail and postage, just send your order to: Blue Turtle Publishing, P.O. Box 2513, Cottonwood, AZ 86326. Please add your phone number and email address so Dave can notify you when your check or money order has arrived and when he is sending out your book. NOTE: All overseas orders will be sent AIR MAIL--no exceptions.

Healing is a matter of education and Ai Gvhdi Waya has asked that those who are drawn to this method first understand it before they choose it as a healing tool for themselves.

After reading the SRE book, send an email, use our website (or call) the facilitator of your choice and ask for their comprehensive brochure and an appointment. Or, go online at WORLDWIDE SHAMANIC FACILITATOR DIRECTORY and choose from there. Frequently, there is a bio and photo on some of the shamanic facilitators in order to help you make your decision. Do NOT ask Ai Gvhdi Waya to choose one for you--she will not do it. This is your task and responsibility to follow your intuition and honor your own, inner knowing.

Remember: SR/E can be performed LONG DISTANCE, so it is not a matter of choosing a facilitator closest to you. All facilitators can perform long-distance SR/E and most have a worldwide clientele. Some facilitators will allow you to come to their home for the SR/E to be performed. Others will come to your area, provided a workshop has been set up, and will stay until all is accomplished for those who want SR/E performed. Some will give workshops on SR/E, what it is and its benefits; others do not, so ask.

TWO facilitators in this directory have been approved by Ai Gvhdi Waya to teach her 3-year SR/E course for those who are interested in becoming a shamanic facilitator themselves. Please contact Gail Carswell and Michael Foltz for details about their SR/E training program by emailing them at: rockdoc@mindspring.com or visiting their website at: SHAMANIC TRAINING INFORMATION

NOTE: Ai Gvhdi Waya is NOT available to perform SR/E outside her many shamanic facilitators for whom she has a lifetime responsibility toward. instead, please choose one of her highly trained people from the Directory below, or from the website, http://www.medicinegarden.com Thank you.

DIRECTORY OF SHAMANIC FACILITATORS TRAINED BY AI GVHDI WAYA

Anna M. Bell. England. English. Email: anna_m_bell@msn.com.

Sue Bennett. Dutch and English. The Netherlands. Email: suebennett12@hotmail.com. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/Europe_shaman.html Phone: +31-(0)180-634871.

Alma Bocanegra. English and Spanish. Sedona, Arizona, USA. Email: soultouch@hotmail.com. Phone: 1-928-204-0812.

Rosemarie Brown, MSW. English. Address: PO Box 4255, Sedona, AZ 86340-4255, USA. Email: starrose@sedona.net. Phone: 1-928-204-5682. Website: http://www.rosemariebrown.com and http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html

Mary Buckner, RN. English. USA clients only. Address: P.O. Box 670. Kingston, OK 73439. USA. Email: soulbear@texoma-ok.com. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html Phone: 1-580-564-3737.

Michèle Burdet, BA., MS. Chesières, Switzerland. Email: alpine.healer@befree.ch. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/Europe_shaman.html English and French. Phone: (41) 24 495 2692.

Gail Carswell. English. Address: Owls Clover, Inc., 3037 James Ave., Fort Worth, Texas 76110, USA. Email: rockdoc@owlswebnest.com. Web Address: http://www.owlswebnest.com and http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html Phone: 817-921-5809.

Agaath Coolsma. Dutch. Netherlands. Email: agaath.coolsma@zonnet.nl. Phone: 0031503022171.

Vivienne Cruickshank, M.Appl.Sc. (hons), Dip Ther. Mass. Massage Therapist. English. Address: PDC Hikutaia, Paeroa, New Zealand. Email: horsewoman@clear.net.nz. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/NZ_shaman.html Phone: 0064 7 8624833.

Carol I. Cuzner. English. USA. Email: cicuzner@sonic.net. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html Phone: 707-545-6633.

Karen David, D.D. English. Address: P.O. Box 39216 Cleveland, Ohio 44139. USA. Email: kdmystic@aol.com. Phone: 1-440-439-9599. Website: http://www.kdmystic.net

Gail Patricia Derin, OMD. English. California, USA. Email: dr.gail@sbcglobal.net.

Lynn Doyle. English. Address: 633-8th Main Street, Canmore, Alberta, T1W 2B3, Canada. Email: SpiritoftheEarth@shaw.ca. Phone: 1-403-609-4456.

Cheri Dye. English. Illinois, USA. Email: jaguarshaman@gmail.com. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html Phone: 630-207-9424.

Michael J. Foltz. English. Address: Owls Clover, Inc., 3037 James Ave. Fort Worth Texas 76110, USA. Email: solardoc@owlswebnest.com. Website: http://www.owlswebnest.com and http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html Phone: 817 921 5809.

Marianne Fransen. The Netherlands. Dutch and English. Email: info@energy-healing.nl. Website: http://www.energy-healing.nl and http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/Europe_shaman.html Phone: 0(031)6 1559 7270.

Debbie Gent, CHt., English. Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Email: debbie@shamanicconnection.com. Website: http://www.shamanicconnection.com Phone: 1-602-896-0146.

Gary Gent. English. Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Email: gary@shamanicconnection.com. Website: http://www.shamanicconnection.com Phone: 1-602-439-5843.

Nina Gettler, M.A., R.C. (Registered Counselor in Washington State). German, Russian, English and French. Address: P.O. Box 60133, Seattle, WA 98160-0133, USA. Email: ninaget@aol.com, ninagettler@comcast.net. Website:
http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html Phone: 1-206-368-7355.

Yolande Grill. English. Arizona, USA. Email: y.grill@att.net. Phone: 1-480-488-6114.

Bev Haley. English. Address: c/o PO Box 11, Waitati, Otago, New Zealand. Email: bevhaley@actrix.co.nz. Phone: 0064 034730255.

Ingrid Kropf, RN,herbalist,homeopath. Dutch. Steenwijk, The Netherlands. Email: info@kruidenvakopleiding.nl. Phone: 06-303-80993.

Eileen Lunderman. Lakota. English and Lakota. Address: Pathways, PO Box 501, Mission, South Dakota 57555, USA.

Linda Metzler, PA-C, MPAS, ND. Arizona, USA. English. Email: Treblclf4@aol.com. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html Phone: 1-928-451-1138.

Cora Moore. English. Illinois, USA. Email: 2cora@earthlink.net. Website: http://www.metteeka.com and http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html Phone: 1-630-989-0028.

Robin Cunningham Myers, LMT, d.Hom, CH English. Address: Wholistic Alternatives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806, USA. Website: http://www.wholisticalternatives.byregion.net and http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html Email: sacredqi@cox.net. Phone: 1-225-907-7277.

Debbie Noah. English. Colorado, USA. Email: SeeksWithHeart@aol.com. Website: http://www.moonnodes.com and http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html Phone: 1-719-213-0112.

Pamela Powers. England/USA. English. Email: ppowers@hotmail.com. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/Europe_shaman.html

Patty Running. Lakota. English and Lakota. Address: Route 2, Box 27, Nibrara, Nebraska 68760, USA.

Alison Sinclair. Austria. English. Email: alisonsinc@gmail.com. Phone: +43 1 922-3084. Website: http://www.shaman.at and http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/Europe_shaman.html

Linda K. Skiba. English. Northville, Michigan, USA. Email: BlackHorseWoman@Comcast.net. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html Phone: 1-248-348-0490.

Joke Smith. Dutch. The Netherlands. Email: heartpower@quicknet.nl. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/Europe_shaman.html Phone: + 31 - (0)299 - 404787.

C. Michael Smith, Ph.D.- psychology. English. Author of A Little Psychology of the Heart. Address: 333 N. Second Street, Suite #304, Niles, MI 49120, USA. Email: ShamanicAR@aol.com. Phone: 1-(269) 687-9364.

Raewyn Stedman. English and German. Address: P O Box 5730, Moray Place, Dunedin, NZ. Email: bluestarwoman@actrix.co.nz. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/NZ_shaman.html Phone: NZ (03) 0064 03 4728999.

Coletta Swalley. Lakota. English and Lakota. Address: Pathways, PO Box 501, Mission, South Dakota 57555, USA.

Aminah Dean-Thambo. English. New York, USA. Email: Ms.Aminah@gmail.com. Phone:1-718-213-2784.

Els van der Werf. Netherlands. Dutch. Email: eivanderwerf@hetnet.nl Phone: +31 43 4090146

Astrid van Houwelingen. The Netherlands. Dutch. Email: avhouwelingen@homeotherapie.nl. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/Europe_shaman.html

Grace Verte. M.A., English and German. California, USA. Email: graceVerte@netsedona.com. Website: http://www.graceVerte.com and http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/USA_shaman.html

Lique Somer-Voorhoeve. Psychotherapy, Dru Yoga Teacher, IVN Nature guide, healing herbs, Reiki master. Dutch/English. Email: voorhoeve905@hotmail.com.

Maria de Vries. Belgium . Dutch. Email: mariahomdevries@hotmail.com. Phone: 0032 (0)89 762777.

Barbara Ward. English. Address: P.O Box 11, Waitati, Dunedin, NZ. Email: bmwhom@xtra.co.nz. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/NZ_shaman.html. Phone: NZ 03 4821148

Sylvia Williams. English and Welsh. England and New Zealand. Email: trueseer2003@yahoo.co.uk. Website: http://www.medicinegarden.com/SRE/Europe_shaman.html. Phone: UK 0044 (0) 7813275204. Phone: New Zealand 0064 (0) 210539032.

HOMEOPATHY: General Repertory translation

I've got some good articles on homeopathy that I'd like to share with you from time to time. This one was for my class I taught at DISCH, Desert Institute of Classical Homeopathy in Phoenix, Arizona.



Copyright Eileen Nauman 2006
Thunderstorm over the Mogollon Rim

I now share it with you


Copyright Eileen Nauman 2006
This is the womb where the tornados form--so cool to see these pendulus clouds--cumulonimbus mammatus.



HOMEOPATHY: GENERALITIES by Kent’s Repertory
by Eileen Nauman, DHM(UK)

Copyright 1998 Eileen Nauman
All Rights Reserved

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Email: docbones224@earthlink.net

Using Kent’s repertory, which is written in 19th century medicalese, is like trying to learn and understand a foreign language for people of the 21st century attempting to use his book to take a homeopathic case. I converted these 19th century medical terms into 21st century terms when I taught at the Desert Institute of Classical Homeopathy, Phoenix, Arizona. This was a hand-out to my students, but you can use it when you utilize “Generalities” in Kent’s Repertory. I hope you find this of some help.

NOTE:
agg.: stands for ‘aggravation’ or ‘worsening’ of a particular symptom



A
Abdomen swollen 545 (ABDOMEN, Distention)
Acid Reflux Disease 497 (STOMACH, Eructation's, water of, water brash)
Activity: Ascending,; Bath; Descending; Exertion; Jarring; Lifting; Menses: Motion: playing piano; Riding; Rising; Running; Sleep; Talking; Touching; Uncovering; Undressing; Vomiting; Walking.
Affects, of Sleep; Waking
Air: open, desire, sea, smoke, vault (see: Air, draft; Wind)

Abuser 70, 91
page 91 (MIND, Unfriendly humor)
page 91(MIND, VIOLENT, vehement, etc., deeds, rage, leading to)
page 70: (MIND, Rage, fury)

Achilles tendon 976 (EXTREMITIES, Cramps, ankle, Tendo-Achillis)
Adhesions (scar tissue) 822 (CHEST, Adhesion, sensation of)
Acne (Rosacea)--red rash across cheeks and nose--366 (ERUPTIONS, nose, acne)
Air passage irritation 749 (LARYNX and TRACHEA, Irritation in air passages)

Alcoholism 36, 57, 64, 71, 1397, 1422
page 36: (MIND, Dipsomania)
page 57 (MIND, Intoxication)
page 64: (MIND, Mania-A-Potu) delirium tremens
page 71: (MIND, Remorse)
page 1397 (GENERALITIES, Reveling, night, from)
page 1422 (GENERALITIES, Wine)

Allergies (seasonal) 326 (NOSE, Coryza, air, annual (hay fever))
Alzheimer’s 71 (MIND, Recognize, does not his relatives)

Angina 822, 880
page 822: (CHEST, Angina pectoris)
page 880: (CHEST, Stenocardia)

Anchylosis--stiffness--952 (EXTREMITIES, Anchylosis, elbow)
Anorexia 39 (MIND, Eat, refuses to)
Anus 606 (RECTUM)
Anesthesia 1303 (SKIN, Anesthesia (can’t feel skin--numb))
Aneurysm 541 (ABDOMEN, Aneurysm)
Apnea, sleep 763 (RESPIRATION, Arrested)
Appendicitis 553 (ABDOMEN, Inflammation)
Appetite 476 (STOMACH, Appetite--many types here)
A--continued
Arthritis 966 (EXTREMITIES, Contraction of muscles and tendons)
Asphyxia 763 (RESPIRATION, Asphyxia)

Asthma 763, 766, 782
page 763: (RESPIRATION, Asthmatic)
page 766: (RESPIRATION, Difficult)
page 782: (COUGH, Asthmatic)
Asthma, allergic 765 (RESPIRATION, Asthmatic)
Asthma, hay 765 (RESPIRATION, Asthmatic, hay asthma)
Autumnal 1281 (FEVER, Autumnal)
Aversions 480 (STOMACH, Aversions)


Copyright Eileen Nauman 2006
Here's a beautiful, huge Thunder Being forming on the Mogollon Rim around 3:00 p.m. today

B

Back injury 947 (BACK, Straining, easy)
Bed wetting 659 (URINATION, Interrupted, night: (incontinence in bed)
Belching 489 (STOMACH, Eructation's)
Bifida, spina 884 (BACK, Bifida)

Birth, after 723, 743
page 723 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Lochia (vaginal. discharge afterbirth)
page 743 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Prolapsed uterus)

Bites 1422 (GENERALITIES, Wounds and bites of poisonous animals)

Bladder infections 646, 656, 673
page 646 (BLADDER, inflammation)
page 656 (BLADDER, Urination, dribbling, dysuria (painful urination)
page 673 (URETHRA, Pain)

Bladder stones 645 (BLADDER, Calculi)
Bleeding gums 418 (MOUTH, Scorbutic Gums)
Blind 281 (VISION, Loss of vision (blindness)
Blind spot 283 (VISION, Scotoma)
Bloodshot eyes 238 (EYE, Ecchymosis (bruising))
Blood poisoning 1399 (GENERALITIES, septicemia)
Blushing 1376 (GENERALITIES, Orgasm of blood)
Body functions: Hemorrhage; Loss of fluids; Menses; Perspiration
Body type: Dwarfism, Nursing children; Old people; Thin--see: lean, Emaciation; Fat--see: Obesity; Flabby
Bone, outgrowth abnormal 1358 (GENERALITIES, Exotoses)
Bronchitis 835 (CHEST, Inflammation, bronchial tubes)
Bruxism (grinding of teeth) 432 (TEETH, Grinding) (See: TEETH, Clinch 431)
Bunions 954 (EXTREMITIES, Bunions, foot)
Burns 1303, 1346
page 1303 (GENERALITIES, Burning)
page 1346 (GENERALITIES, Burns)

Bursae 954 (EXTREMITIES, Bursae)
Butt 954 (EXTREMITIES, Bubbling sensation, nates)

C

Calluses 954 (EXTREMITIES, Callosities, horny,on hands)
Cancer 715, 1409, 1410
page 715 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Cancer of ovaries, uterus, vagina)
page (GENERALITIES, Tumors)
page 1410 (GENERALITIES, Ulcers, cancerous)

Candida 397 (MOUTH, Apthae (thrush/candida)
Carbuncle 1310 (SKIN, Eruptions, burning, carbuncle)
Catalepsy--trance/seizure/psychotic patient 1347 (GENERALITIES, Catalepsy)

Cataract 236, 279
page 236 (EYE, Cataract)
page (new one) 279 (VISION, Foggy, incipient cataract)

Canker sores 398 (MOUTH, Canker sores (See: Apthae 397)
Car sick 509 (STOMACH, Nausea, riding in a carriage or on the cars, while)
Cavities (teeth) 1346 (GENERALITIES, Caries of bone)
Chafed skin 1327 (SKIN, Intertrigo)
Chapping 1304 (SKIN, Chapping)
Chewing, pain 437 (TEETH, Pain, masticating, from)
Chilblains 955 (EXTREMITIES, Chilblains)
Chlorosis (anemia/green skin) 1347 (GENERALITIES, Chlorosis)

Chorea (muscle twitches) 956, 1347
page 956 (EXTREMITIES, Chorea)
page 1347 (GENERALITIES, Chorea)

Cicatrices (scar tissue) 1304 (SKIN, Cicatrices
Cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver 541 (ABDOMEN, Cirrhosis, liver)
Clammy 1295 (PERSPIRATION, Clammy)
Clenched teeth 431 (TEETH, Clinched, together and Clinched, firmly) See: Bruxism above
Coition (intercourse) 1348 (GENERALITIES, Coition)

Cold (virus) 325, 746, 1347
Page 325 (NOSE, Catarrh, post nasal (See: Discharge)
page 325 (NOSE, Coryza (runny discharge from nose during cold))
page 746 (LARYNX and TRACHEA, Catarrh (mucous)
page 1347 (GENERALITIES, Catarrh (mucous), suppressed)

Cold blooded 1259, 1261, 1296, 1349, 1366
page 1259 (CHILL, Morning, uncovered, if)
page 1261 (CHILL, Evening, undressing)
page 1296 Cold (feeling)
page 1296 (PERSPIRATION, Cold)
page 1349 (GENERALITIES, Cold, air, agg., becoming)
page 1349 (GENERALITIES, Cold, Becoming, place, entering a, agg.)
page 1366 (GENERALITIES, Heat, vital, lack of)

Cold sores 368, 369
page 368 (FACE, Eruptions, herpes)
page 369 (FACE, Eruptions, herpes, lips, mouth, around, nose)
Concussion 109 (HEAD, Concussion of brain)
Congestive heart failure (dropsy) 829 (CHEST, Dropsy)

Constipation 606, 621
page 606 (RECTUM, Constipation (See: Inactivity)
page 621 (RECTUM, Inactivity of rectum)

Contractions 716 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Contractions)

Convulsions 114, 357, 480, 489, 547, 968, 1351, 1352, 1353
page 114 (HEAD, Convulsions of the right side of head)
page 357 (FACE, Convulsions, spasms)
page 480 (STOMACH, Aura Epileptica, felt at solar plexus)
page 489 (STOMACH, Epileptic aura)
page 547 (ABDOMEN, Epilepsy, begins in)
page 968 (EXTREMITIES, Convulsion)
page 1351 (GENERALITIES, Convulsions)
page 1352 clonic (contraction/relax of muscles) (GENERALITIES, Convulsions, clonic)
page 1353 (GENERALITIES, Convulsions, epileptic, aura)
page 1355 tonic (muscles rigid) (GENERALITIES, Convulsions, tonic)

Crabs (men/sex) 694 (GENITALIA-MALE, Crab-lice)
Cracks 1305 (SKIN, Cracks)
Cramps 559 (ABDOMEN, Pain, Menses, before, during, after)
Cravings 483 (STOMACH, Desires)
Crossed-eyes 266 (EYE, Strabismus)
Croup 785 (COUGH, Croupy)

Cyanosis--face turns blue; lack of oxygen 359, 1356
page 359 (FACE, Discoloration bluish)
page 1356 (GENERALITIES, Cyanosis)

Cyst, vagina (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Tumors, ovaries, vagina, cysts)
Cyst, ovarian 745 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Tumors, Ovaries, cysts, fibroids, vagina)
Cyst, sebaceous (fat-filled) 1340 (SKIN, Wens)
Cystitis See: Bladder infection

D

D.T.’s (delirium tremens) 64 (MIND, Mania-A-Potu)
Deafness 323 (HEARING, Impaired, lost)
Decubis ulcer 1331 (SKIN, Sore, becomes (decubitus))
Dental cavities 1346 (GENERALITIES, Caries of bone)
Diabetes 691 (URINE, Sugar)
Diarrhea 609 (RECTUM, Diarrhea)
Discharge 1347 (GENERALITIES, Catarrh suppressed)
Discoloration 1305 (SKIN, discoloration)

Drafts 1344, 1422
page 1344 (GENERALITIES, Air, open, agg)
page 1422 (GENERALITIES, Wind)

Double-vision 277 (VISION, Diplopia)

Dreams 81, 86, 1235, 1242
page 81 sleepwalking (MIND, Somnambulism)
page 86 talking in sleep (MIND, talking, sleep, in)
page 1235 (SLEEP, Dreams)
page 1242 precognition dreams (SLEEP, prophetic)

Dropsy See: Edema
Dry eyes 238 (EYE, Dryness)
Dry heaves 525 (STOMACH, Retching)
Dyslexia 66 (MIND, Mistakes in calculating)


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Here's a lovely slice of the sunset forming

E

Ear infection (otitis media) 322 (HEARING, Impaired, catarrh of eustachian tube)
Ear wax (cerumen) 320 (EAR, Wax)

Edema (dropsy) 1199, 1356
page 1199 (EXTREMITIES, dropsical)
Edema
page 1356 (GENERALITIES, Dropsy)

Elbow (tip of) 1084 (EXTREMITIES, Pain, aching, elbow, olecranon)
Emaciation (skin and bones)
Endocarditis (inflammation of endocardium--transparent lining membrane of heart) 1198 (EXTREMITIES, endocarditis)
Enlarged heart 835 (CHEST, Hypertrophy of heart)
Epiglottis 748 (LARYNX and TRACHEA, Dryness, larynx, night, Epiglottis)
Epilepsy See: Convulsions
Erection, wanting 694 (GENITALIA-MALE, Erections, troublesome)
Exotoses--abnormal outgrowth of bone 1358 (GENERALITIES, Exotoses)
Eyes, blind spot 283 (VISION, Scotoma)

Eyes, cataract 236, 279
page 236 (VISION, Cataract)
page 279 (new one) (VISION, Foggy, incipient cataract)

Eyes, wandering 246, 268
page 246 (EYE, Movement, eyeballs, constant)
page 268 (EYE, Turned (See: Movement)

Eyebrows 355 (will find in FACE section)
Excrescence's (warts) (SKIN, Excrescence's)

F

Facial expressions 374 (FACE, Expression)
Farinaceous--loves cereals/starch/pasta type foods--480, 485
page 480 (STOMACH, Aversion, farinaceous food)
page 485 (STOMACH, Desire, farinaceous food)
Farsighted (eyes) 280 (VISION, Hypermetropia)
Farting 617 (RECTUM, Flatus)
Felon--suppuration of a join of finger/abscess--1005 (EXTREMITIES, Felon)

Fever, constant--an afternoon rise in temperature associated with TB--1287 (FEVER, Hectic fever)
Fever, every 7 days 1281 (FEVER, Autumnal)
Fever, hemorrhagic--manchurian fever-- 1285 (FEVER, Continued, hemorrhagic)
Fever, remittent (improves; doesn’t get well) 1289 (FEVER, Remittent)
Fever, one-sided 1290 (FEVER, Side, one-sided)
Fever, septic 1290 (FEVER, Septic fever)
Fever with stomach flu 1287 (FEVER, Gastric fever)
Fever, succession of stages 1290 (FEVER, Succession of stages)
Fever, with infectious disease--malaria/yellow fever 1292 (FEVER, Zymotic fevers)
Fibroids, ovaries 745 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Tumors, ovaries, fibroids)
Fibroids, uterus 745 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Tumors, ovaries, uterus)
Flooding--irregular and abnormal uterine bleeding--729 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Metrorrhgia)

Fingernails 956, 970
page 956 (EXTREMITIES, Claw-like finger nails)
page 970 (EXTREMITIES, Corrugated nails)

Flu 1347 (GENERALITIES, Catarrh suppressed)

Food 1362, 1346, 1357, 1361, 1367, 1403
page 1346, (GENERALITIES, Breakfast, after, agg.)
page 1362 (GENERALITIES, Food)
page 1357 (GENERALITIES, Eating, before...more rubrics here)
page 1361 (GENERALITIES, Fasting, while)
page 1367 (GENERALITIES, Hunger, from)
page 1403 (GENERALITIES, Starving)

Formication--bugs crawling on skin sensation 1364 (GENERALITIES, Formication)

G

Ganglion--encysted tumor--1009 (EXTREMITIES, Ganglion, wrist, on, hand, instep, sole)
Glaucoma 240 (EYE, Glaucoma)
Gonorrhea 1406 (GENERALITIES, Sycosis)
Goose bumps 1009 (EXTREMITIES, Goose-flesh)
Grave’s Disease: hyperthyroid (see: Throat, external, Goiter, Exophthalmic (bulging eyes))
Grinding of teeth 432 (TEETH, Grinding)
Guilt 6 (MIND, Conscience, of (as if guilty of a crime)
Gums, receding 399 (MOUTH, Detached from teeth, Gums)

H

Hardening of tissue 1367 (GENERALITIES, Indurations)
Hay fever 326 (NOSE, Coryza, air, annual (hay fever)
Headache 132 (HEAD, headache in general)
Hearing 321 (HEARING--sounds that originate INSIDE our ear)
Heart, enlarged 835 (CHEST, Hypertrophy of heart)
Heart murmur 838 (CHEST, Murmurs)
Heat without fever (hot flash) 1326 (SKIN, Heat without fever)
Heel (os Calcis) 1008 (EXTREMITIES, Formication, heel)
Hemorrhage; Injuries (see: Burns, Shock, Slow Repair of bones; Wounds; Head, Concussion; Head, Injuries to; Head, Sunstroke, Extremities, Injury, Skin, Stings of Insects)
Hemorrhoids 619 (RECTUM, Hemorrhoids)
Hernia 552 (ABDOMEN, Hernia, femoral)

Herpes 365, 368, 369, 378, 1312
page 365 (FACE, eruptions)
page 368 (FACE, Eruptions, eczema, herpes)
page 369 (FACE, Eruptions, herpes, lips, mouth, nose)
page 378 (FACE, Heavy feeling)
page 1312 (SKIN, Eruptions, herpetic)

Hiccups (hiccoughs) 501 (STOMACH, hiccough)

Hip bone 564 (ABDOMEN, Pain, hypochondria, walking, while, ilium, to)
Hip joint disease 1017 (EXTREMITIES, Hip-joint disease (See: Pain in Hip)
Hip replacement 1017 (EXTREMITIES, Hip-Joint disease) See: Pain in Hip

Hot flash 841, 894, 1326, 1365
page 841 (CHEST, Orgasm of blood (See: Heat Flushes)
page 894 (BACK, Orgasm in nape of neck, extending over top of head to forehead, afternoon during motion)
page 1326 (SKIN, Heat without fever)
page 1365 (GENERALITIES, Heat, flushes of)

Hoarse 758 (LARYNX and TRACHEA, hoarseness)
Homosexual 95 (MIND, Women, aversion to)
Hyperthyroid 262, 471, 472
page 262 (EYES, Protrusion, exophthalmus)
page 471 (EXTERNAL THROAT, Goiter)
page 472 (EXTERNAL THROAT, Goiter)
Hysteria 52 (MIND, Hysteria)

I

Ileo-cecal valve 565 (ABDOMEN, Pain, hypogastrium, ilio-caecal region)

Incontinence 655, 657, 659
page 655 (BLADDER, Urination, dribbling (by drops)
page 657 (BLADDER, feeble stream (slow))
page 657 (BLADDER, frequent)
page 659 (BLADDER, Urination involuntary, night (incontinence in bed)

Impetigo 369 (FACE, Eruptions, herpes, impetigo)
Impotence 695 (GENITALIA--MALE, incomplete)
Indigestibles, eating 485 (STOMACH, Desires, indigestible things)

Infertility 744 (GENITALIA--FEMALE, Sterility)

Inflammation 1326, 1368
page 1326 (SKIN, Inflammation)
page 1368 (GENERALITIES, Inflammation externally)

Insect bites 1331 (SKIN, Stings of insects)
Intercourse (see: Coition 1348)

J

Jaundice 1307 (SKIN, Discoloration, yellow, jaundice, etc.)

L

Lassitude--weak and exhausted feeling--1370 (GENERALITIES, Lassitude)
Laryngismus--crowing inspirations/inhalation, asthmatic or spasmodic croup--750 (LARYNX and TRACHEA, Laryngismus stridulus)
Lenticular--resembling a lens or lentil. Skin has crystalline appearance--1307 (SKIN, Discoloration, red spots, lenticular)
Leukemia 1370 (GENERALITIES, Leukemia)
Liver 553 (ABDOMEN, Liver and region of)
Loss of fluids (vomiting, sweating, bleeding, diarrhea) 1371 (GENERALITIES, Loss of fluids)
Lupus 1330 (SKIN, Lupus)

Lymph nodes swollen 472, 473
page 472 (EXTERNAL THROAT, Induration of glands)
page 472 (EXTERNAL THROAT, Pain, cervical glands)
page 473 (EXTERNAL THROAT, Pain, soreness, cervical glands)

M

Men, fear of (rape/abuse) 65 (MIND, Men, dread of) See: Company

O

Otitis media 322 See: Ear infection (HEARING, Impaired, catarrh of eustachian tube)
P

Pain, can’t feel 1345 (GENERALITIES, Analgesia)
Palpitations 873 (CHEST, Palpitation, heart)
Pimples (blackheads) 1305 (SKIN, Comedones--See: Face)
Pneumonia 835 (CHEST, Inflammation, bronchial tubes, Lungs)

Poisoned 1345 (GENERALITIES, Arsenical, (arsenic) poisoning)
Pregnancy, nausea 509 (STOMACH, Nausea, pregnancy, during)
Pulmonary edema 838 (CHEST, Edema, pulmonary)
R

Rape 65 (MIND, Men, dread of)
Relapse 1289 (FEVER, Relapsing)


S

Sex 1348, 1358, 1376, 1399
page 1348 (GENERALITIES, coition)
page 1358 (GENERALITIES, emissions)
page 1376 (GENERALITIES, Onanism, from --incomplete intercourse or masturbation)
page 1399 (GENERALITIES, Sexual excesses, after)

Sensitive, super 1369 (GENERALITIES, Irritability, excessive physical)
Serial killers (MIND, Estranged, society, from)
Sleepwalking 81 (MIND, Somnambulism)
Stiffness 952 (EXTREMITIES, Anchylosis, elbow)

Stroke 1345, 1390
page 1345 (GENERALITIES, Apoplexy)
page 1390 (GENERALITIES, Paralysis, one-sided--Hemiplegia--1176)

Syncope--faintness--1358 (GENERALITIES, Faintness, fainting)

T

Teeth, loose 432 (TEETH, Looseness of)

U

Upset stomach 504 (STOMACH, Nausea)
Upwards or moving up 1345 (GENERALITIES, Ascending)

W

Warm-blooded (gets hot or overheated easily--see: Fever) 1364, 1367, 1404,1412, 1417
page 1363 (GENERALITIES, Food, warm food agg.)
page 1367 (GENERALITIES, Heated, becoming)
page 1404 (GENERALITIES, Summer, in--Sun, from exposure to, agg)
page 1412 (GENERALITIES, Warm, agg)
W--continued
page 1417 (GENERALITIES, Weakness, heat, from--hot room--summer, of)

Warts See: Excrescence's


MAJOR AREAS FROM A-L IN GENERALITIES

1. TIME 1341-1343, periodicity 1390. Morning 6-9 am (see: Waking 1411)

2. COLD 1348-1350 (being cold) and COLD air and Cold, wet, weather agg.

3. Cold-blooded: Cold, tendency to take 1349, Heat, Lack of Vital 1366, Cold, becoming 1349, Cold, Entering a Cold Place 1349, Uncovering, Undressing; (see: CHILL section)

4. CONSTRICTION 1350--internally and externally felt/sensation

5. CONVULSIONS (epilepsy) 1351-1356

6. DROPSY 1356--edema, swelling of hands and feet--also congestive. heart failure

7. FAINTNESS 1358-1361--women did a lot of fainting in those days....

8. FOOD 1362-1364

9. HEAT, flushes of (hot flashes) menopause 1365

10. HEAT, sensation of 1366

11. HEAT, vital, lack of (always cold feeling....can’t get warmed up) 1366

12. INFLAMMATION--external and internal 1368

13. INJURIES (blows, falls, and bruises) 1368


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Here's tonight's sunset



In Spirit...

Jack of All Trades....

Hi Everyone

What a hectic day. I didn’t sleep well because at 3:00 a.m., I got boomed awake by a thunder storm rolling in. It took me nearly two hours to get to sleep.

Then....just as I was drifting off....

.....thunk....thunk....thunk....


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Yep, here's the "nefarious" mouse--a third one. She's bigger than the other two and I suspect, the mom of mouse #1 and #2 that I have already found in my paper shredder basket

Yep, you know that sound as well as I do by now! Groaning, I saw it was 5:00 a.m. on the clock, grabbed the flashlight, got out of bed and went over to my shredder waste basket.

Sure enough--there’s a mouse in it--trying to leap out of it!

That was THREE mice.


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Yep, it's a third mouse all right...the LAST one!

That’s it! Tomorrow night, I’m setting traps. They’ve had warning and have not heeded my request.

I removed the shredder from the top of the wastebasket.

Darned if this mouse, which was older and bigger than the other two (probably “Mom”), hopped right up and out of it and ran around on the edge of it!

I’m standing there groggy, sleep deprived, watching this mouse run around like she’s a trapeze artist on the quarter inch lip of the waste basket. What to do? My brain wasn’t functioning. I wasn’t functioning.

I set the shredder down. It fell down with a crash, waking Dave.

I straightened up and the mouse is looking at me. I cuffed it and sent it back into the waste basket.

“You’re outta here,” I growled, grabbing the waste basket. I stopped long enough to take photos and then opened the front door. It was raining. I did the old heave-ho with the basket and the mouse went flying off the porch and into the dirt. It promptly rolled, got up and scurried off.

By this time, I was in a very bad mood because now, I was awake. I was grumpy because I had to finish editing a chapter today or else. Getting coffee would help.

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Here is a Swallowtail butterfly on a Joe Pye weed in bloom near our greenhouse. I got this photo on the way up to take care of Cinnamon's leg this morning. A nice upper for the start of the day!

Then, the Unna’s Boot on Cinnamon’s leg had worked its way down--I had not wrapped it tight enough. This morning, Dave and I went up. I had my gloves, my bandages, my Unna Boot dressing, my scissors, my vet wrap....look like a doctor going to the office...

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Here is Cinnamon. She's wearing a fly mask. As you can see, her right front leg has the unna boot on it--but it has slid down because it wasn't wrapped tightly enough. Time to change it!

The good news was in two days of wearing the poultice, the swelling went down about 70%! I was amazed. And relieved. I’d rather wrap the horse’s leg and get the swelling down than give her a diuretic the rest of her life--which is very hard on her liver/kidneys--and I was resisting that completely.

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Here is a comparison of Cinnamon's front legs. It is the right front that has sustained the swelling. You can see the difference between it and her left front leg. Still, the swelling, thanks to the unna boot, is down by at least 70% and that is good news!

So, my mood improved because Cinnamon’s leg looked much better. Plus, there was less serum leakage out of her corona band as a result. Thank goodness! This time, I wrapped it a lot tighter. Cinnamon didn’t like it too much. She’d lift her left, point her toe to let me know. But, we’ll have to see if it’s too tight by tomorrow morning. I’ll know if it is because there will be fluid retention as a result. This is how it goes--you keep experimenting until you find the right pressure for the wrapping.

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Here is a look at the injured leg. You can see the grayness along her pastern and coronet band just above the hoof. This is indicative that blood is not flowing properly down to this hoot and so it 'grays' out.


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Here is the Unna boot poultice applied to Cinnamon's leg. As it dries, it will continue to draw out fluids, and I hope, the cactus spine lodged in her leg on the flexor tendon, according to the vet.


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Here is the finished wrapping--white adhesive tape at the top of the poultice/green vet wrap to hold it in place. Any time you wrap a joint, it's going to loosen over time. There's lots of'give' to the poultice gauze and to the vet wrap so this should ensure that it won't get too tight on Cinnamon's leg. We'll see!

Tonight, Linda M. came over and we walked the canyon together.


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Here is our pink Hibiscus blooming today!

It’s nice having company.


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Here is a close up on the Hibiscus--they are so beautiful and only last one day!

Not much of a sunset, but Linda had thoughtfully brought along some nuts for the Sunset Point ant hill from reading my blog. That was very thoughtful of her. She appreciated the beauty of the canyon, the wonderful fragrances, all different and euphoric. And tonight, because we got torrential rainstorms up in Sedona, Dry Creek, a tributary that flows into Oak Creek, ran heavy. When it does, Oak Creek becomes a blood red, opaque color. Dry Creek is just that--dry most of the time except in monsoon and winter season when there’s heavy run off around the Sedona area. It is red clay and sand. So, when a ‘flash flood’ scours through this tributary, it definitely muddies up Oak Creek for about a week afterward until the red silt settles.


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Here is Oak Creek 'blood red' from the infusion of soil from Dry Creek, that sits north of us. It will remain red and opaque looking for about a week before the silt settles to the bottom of the creek.


I got some great Thunder Being photos building today. We didn’t get any heavy rain (just a nice gentle rain this evening), but the one cloud had cumulonimbus mammatus--or what they call the ‘pendulous breasts’ that are the forewarning of tornados possibly forming from one of them. It’s an excellent shot and I hope you enjoy it.

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Tonight's sunset

In Spirit.....

Lightning Bolt Photos

Hi Everyone!

Today was a day of storms. We got another wonderful drenching by a monsoon line of thunderstorms coming in off the Rim area--about 4:00 p.m. it started. We got an hour’s worth of life-giving water....and so did the surrounding areas of Camp Verde and Cottonwood and Cornville, as well.

When the storms stopped, I went for a walk at 6:00 p.m. tonight with my trusty Nikon, my trusty Golden Retriever, Rocky, and my trusty white hefty garbage bag in case it started to rain on my camera.

There was a lot of lightning with these storms. As I walked up cardiac hill, there was bolt after bolt above Deer Mountain, which is at the top of the hill. So, I stopped and figured; why not? Well, I got a beauty as you can see below!

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This was taken as lightning arced over Deer Mountain, which is at the top of Cardiac Hill. Pretty cool!

Higher than a kite, I thought: maybe lightning can strike twice in the same place. Maybe I can get some more lighting bolt photos! I knew I’d never duplicate what I got a week ago--but now, I had bolt fever.

The storms were moving off to the southwest and the canyon walls were there so I knew I had to hot foot it up and out of the area and make it to Sunset Point where I could get a clean shot -- and a chance -- again -- to try for some great lightning photos.

We made it up to the Point and I first gave my red ant hill its offering of nuts--and they all swarmed over the food immediately. I think they know when I come because you can see them all peeking out of their holes waiting. And talk about swarming! These are red ants who love their nuts!

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Here's the red ant hill up at Sunset Point. I like to bring them a gift when I go up there. Just a neighborly thing to do.

I got settled in on my favorite lava rock, with Rocky laying beside me. Now, you have to picture this and remember it’s still dropping rain around us. I don’t dare let my Nikon get wet. So, I pull out my trusty white garbage bag and put it over the top of my head, over the bill of my baseball cap I’m wearing and bring the camera under the plastic. The only part of the camera that’s exposed is the end of it and the lens.

Lucky for me, there was no wind. So, I set the camera with elbows on my knees, two hands on the camera, and the button pushed half way down and wait.

I’m getting so I know that after one bolt flashes, I might have a minute or so until the next one. Still, hit’s hot and stuffy under that plastic bag that’s wrapped around my head. My glasses are steaming up so bad I can’t see through the viewfinder! And the no-seeums, a nasty little bug, are landing on my arms and exposed areas like I’m their favorite lollipop to be eaten.

I’m sitting there in the rain, the white bag over my head, the black lens peeking out of it, scrunched down, hunched over, elbows dug into my thighs to keep that camera steady. And then, I have red ants crawling up my legs!

Between all of that, I’ll let you see what I shot below. I sent three of the photos to Channel 12 and 15 down in Phoenix, AZ...they may show up at the 10 p.m. newscast....one never knows...but I try. And even if none of them make the news--YOU get to see them!


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Here's a beauty--look at the glow--this is over Cottonwood, AZ

Enjoy! Our Thunder Beings really cooperated with me tonight....


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Here's another lightning bolt over Cottonwood, AZ


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And last one is a beauty because you can see the 'head' of the bolt before it struck! I find this to be a fascinating photo!


In Spirit...

Sleep Deprivation and a Sick Horse

Hi Everyone


I don’t know about you, but there are nights that I can’t sleep. I’m like a canary in a mine picking up signals from the ethers that others don’t. I really dislike nights like that--the next day--I’m totaled.

And this was one of those days: a SD day.

On top of that, it was 107F yesterday here and today, 102F. The swamp coolers (which are 5 cents an hour electricity-wise) work like air conditioners in dry climates. Except when the dew point is 50% or more and then, we start feeling like steamed clams or maybe a steamed lobster. And that just knocks the stuffings out of me and everyone else, too.


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There was a beautiful moth on our screen this morning and I had to shoot it. Nature is amazing....moths always seem so drab....but look at the color they hide!

You have tiredness with high heat/humidity and you get an idea of the day for me.

On top of that, I had to edit a chapter of DARK TRUTH with my brain feeling like mush. And, the swamp cooler in my old office where I’m at isn’t doing well--and the heat rises in here in the afternoon and is unbearable. On most days, I can’t take it like a champ, but today, it drove me out.

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The other day we went to our friend's house for Sunday dinner and in their roadway was a Gambel Quail Family!

I decided to go to my new office that Dave is building for me--that is above flood levels here in the canyon--and turned on that swamp cooler to see if it would get any cooler. This is the first time it has been turned on this year so I won’t know until tomorrow afternoon when I go up there to work on my book.


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Isn't this a cute little Quail family????

Monday’s are always hectic and this one was no exception. Cinnamon, my 18 year old Arabian mare, has had an ongoing leg problem (right front) and we tried an enzyme treatment that didn’t do anything. So, our vet, whose just a super guy, Dr. Jim Bleek, came out at 10 a.m. this morning. I had “Plan C” and so did he. Interestingly enough, we were both thinking the same thing.


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Cinnamon has something (we both think it’s a cactus spine that worked its way in behind the ‘elbow’ or joint area of her front knee and then the body encapsulated it with a hard tumor like cyst to prevent it from doing any more damage. The only problem is: this tumor is pressing against where the lymph has to move down into and up and out of her leg and hoof region.

I have been aggressively massaging that area behind her knee and the big, watery lump above her knee. It has kept the leaking of the serum from the corona area (hairy area just above the hoof) to about 50% and the swelling has stayed at about 50% as a result. But unless I do this 2 times a day, it will get horribly swollen and hard and serum starts leaking out like a sieve from her corona band. And I have to, every morning, get a warm pail of water, soap, a washcloth, my calendula ointment and a towel, and clean off all the gooped up crap around her corona band and pastern. The calendula ointment is wonderful because it is antibacterial but it also coats the area and stops the opened wounds from becoming infected--which could be a real problem for us.

We’ve been waging this battle for over a month and I’m tired. When you have animals, especially horses, you often get into a problem where you can go weeks or months doing daily treatments on them. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t so doggone hot and muggy. And Cinnamon,the champ she is, is such a sweetie and tolerant and patient. She actually is not a horse--a human living inside a horse’s body!

Anyway, Jim put a needle into the upper bulge above her knee and yellow serum leaked out. We collected some in a test tube and capped it. I got to be vet assistant today which is always fun. And then, he inserted another needle to the worst area behind her knee and that fluid was orange colored. These tubes will be tested for all kinds of things, but in particular, bacteria. We suspect there is bacterial infection and toward that end, he gave Cinnamon some antibiotic (shot) afterward. He also took blood from her jugular vein and we’re going to run some standard tests to see what it looks like, too.

Then, Linda M. had suggested a poultice and Jim was very interested in that. It used to be called unna boot and it’s a product from Germany. It is a poultice used on humans, but I got one and told my vet I was going to use it on Cinnamon to see if we couldn’t pull out whatever was in her leg causing all these other problems. He agreed. And, Jim found the small, nubby, hard tumor on her flexor tendon behind her knee! I felt it too. He can’t cut into her leg and get it--you would have a another Barbro, the poor horse who broke his back leg, situation on your hands. So, we have to hope this poultice does the work. Keep your fingers crossed!

Tonight, at 7:00 p.m., Dave and I are up in Cinnamon’s corral, along with Rocky, and I wrap her leg in the poultice, then add some gauze around it, some vet tape and then some standard white tape at the top and bottom--to hopefully hold it all in place. It’s tough wrapping a horse’s front leg because that knee has to bend. And of course, where we need the poultice to DRAW is behind that joint. And you can’t wrap the dressings too tight or you cut off circulation. But then, if you don’t wrap it enough, it slips down and you’ve lost the battle and the war. So, it’s a fine balancing act.

Copyright Eileen Nauman 2006
Finally! I got a photo of one our local Desert Toads! I was out running around setting the huge lawn sprinklers at nightfall and there he was! He was nice enough to wait and let me run for the camera to take his photo. Isn't he CUTE??!!

Dave will go up before bedtime to see if Cinnamon’s dressing and poultice is still in place. If it isn’t, we’ll have to struggle with other ways to get this to hold in place. Everything with a large animal is a battle. She’s a thousand pound horse and it’s not like dealing with a sick baby! She is our baby, of course....just a big one!


Now....I gotta get a good night’s sleep. Too much going on and gotta stay on top of things!

Copyright Eileen Nauman 2006
This is an orographic cloud--often confused as a flying saucer or UFO--and it'sn not. These types of clouds form around mountains where the air currents are swirling...and so the clouds look like mushroom caps of a sort--or UFO's...if one wants to use their imagation. This was a particularly well formed one the day I shot it. Another way the clouds can form is due to clear air turbulance and this is why this one formed because we don't have any mountains--they are 50 miles north in Flagstaff!

In Spirit....

HOMEOPATHY, FIRST AID FOR HEAT SYMPTOMS

Hi Everyone

Carol B.Willis, who is cooking in San Jose, California, emailed me earlier today and ask if I'd do a blog on treating heat ailments. I said yes. So, here it is:


First Aid Treatment for for HEAT related symptoms, recognition of HEAT symptoms, plus a few homeopathic remedies that might be of help as well....


With the USA burning up due to Greenhouse Effect, homeopathy can help--but you can also help--avoid heat exhaustion, heat cramps and sunstroke. Here’s what YOU can do. This information does NOT replace a medical doctor’s advice--so follow it first. This is a ‘what else can I do?’ after taking with your MD or calling 911.

1. Stay hydrated! I can’t stress this enough. Drink at least 6-8 glasses of water a day. This does NOT mean soda pop or sugary drinks. This means WATER, folks. Gatorade, the original, is okay to add to this.

ELDERLY: they tend not to drink enough liquids at all. If you are caring for an elder, make sure they are getting enough to drink. For example, my mother is 89 years old and does not drink near enough liquids and she lives out here with us in Arizona...where it’s over 100F every day in the Summer. TIP: We found out she loves Starbucks Frapaccinos! So, we go to Safeway, where there is a Starbucks, and order her a Strawberries and Cream “venti” (largest one they have) for her daily. She drinks the whole thing! When you consider it’s about 80% ICE--you get the idea--lots of WATER in it. With Elders, don’t worry if the drink has sugar in it--unless of course--they are diabetic or their doctor says no sugar. It’s more important to get them to drink. Think about no sugar added fruit juices such as grape, apricot, peach, guava, grapefruit and orange juice. Another good one is Gatorade because it replenishes their sodium-potassium balance--which is more than likely to give out during heat and lack of drinking enough water.

If you are caring for an elder, find out what they like to drink and keep it on hand. It might save them from heat exhaustion, heat cramps or worse, heat stroke.

2. If you have to go outside, wear a HAT and a long sleeved WHITE cotton shirt or blouse. Both will protect you from the sun--not to mention--skin cancer.

3. Do all your work outside in early morning hours or in the evening after 5:00 p.m. Don’t be stupid and work out in the middle of the day when the temperature and humidity are at their highest.

4. If you must work outside--work in the SHADE, if possible.

5. Do not wear TIGHT-fitting clothing. Choose cotton, silk or any other natural kind of fabric that breathes. Keep clothing LOOSE; it allows for better circulation of air over your body plus allows your perspiration to dry up.

6. If you suspect any heat related condition, call the person’s medical doctor right away. Get instructions from him or her. Or, if you suspect heat/sun stroke, call 911 FIRST, then attend to the person as quickly thereafter as you can. Try to find out the person’s medical doctor--call when you can.

THREE HEAT RELATED CONDITIONS YOU NEED TO WATCH OUT FOR....

I’m putting the most life-threatening first, Heat or Sun Stroke, then non-life threatening, Heat Exhaustion and finally, Heat Cramps, last. Below these symptoms/treatment are some homeopathic remedies that might be used, providing the person matches the symptoms--right along and after treatment (and 911 has been called in the case of heat/sunstroke).
SUN STROKE or HEAT STROKE

This is a life-threatening condition. Call 911 immediately/first and then help the person. This is a condition where the body is unable to deal with the amount of head buildup within it and can’t cool itself down. The temperature rises rapidly and tissues are destroyed. It can occur outdoors, in closed, poorly ventilated, humid spaces (think of the elderly stuck in a little apartment here...), heat waves, vigorous physical outdoor activity, places without air conditioning, without good ventilation. Children left unattended in a locked car on a hot day (this happens all the time in Phoenix, unfortunately).

SYMPTOMS:
1. Often, symptoms of HEAT EXHAUSTION occur first before the onset of the life-threatening SUN STROKE symptoms come next. However, their skin may be sweaty and skin may still be moist or wet--and this is a SIGN that you’re dealing with sun stroke and not heat exhaustion.

2. Body core temperature rises rapidly up to 106F degrees. This is where brain injury can occur.

3. Change of behavior are usually the first sign of sunstroke. They may be confused, not know where they’re at, not know your name, or their name...wandering around....dazed...changing levels of consciousness...slurring words, incoherent, mumbling, not making sense when they talk, are all examples of changing behavior. They may be stumbling around, flailing around, awkward appearing, as if unsure of their balance.

4. Then, quickly after that, person becomes unresponsive. Semiconscious or unconscious.

5. Pulse is usually rapid and strong at first but as person becomes increasingly unresponsive to you, pulse becomes weaker and blood pressure begins to fall.

TREATMENT: Call 911 first and then.....

1. Get person out of hot environment and into a cooler one--such as a house or a room where there is air conditioning or at least, a fan. If air conditioner available, put on HIGH or MAXIMUM and put them in front of it if possible.

2. Remove person’s clothing (keep on bra/panties/boxer shorts, however).

3. Wrap person in soaking wet bath towels (drenched and dripping in cold water) or a sheet. (If you happen to be out without help and there is a stream or lake nearby--have person sit in it and sluice water over them--but always keep a hand on them--they could go unconscious on you and drown!! This is the MOST important part of sun stroke treatment is lowering that person’s temperature as fast as you can. If you can get them to sit in a tub of cool water--so much the better--but many are not in that kind of shape to walk to move. Do what you can, with what you have--keeping in mind lowering their temperature with cooling water on the outside of their body could save their life.

4. Put person wrapped in soaking wet towels/sheets directly in front of a fan. What you have to do is try and lower their body temperature as quickly as possible.

5. Pour cold water over their hair/head--this helps cool them down quickly. Or, another way is to put a soaking wet towel and wrap it around their head--this helps lower temperature in brain tremendously.

6. Put a bunch of ice cubes in a zip lock bag, wrap in small towel and gently but firmly place it around the back of their neck--this cools the blood going into and out of the the brain and helps bring back consciousness level.

7. If they are conscious, have them drink cold water and if they want, water with ice cubes in it.

9. Be prepared to deal with someone who may not be ‘all there’ because their brain is boiling at 106F, and they may be hallucinating, may be combative, spacy, semiconscious or just plain hard to handle. If you have help, call for it. Usually, the more people around to help this person before 911 arrives, the better. One person can run and go soak bath towels in a bathtub of running water. Another person can go pack ice cubes in a zip lock bag.




HEAT EXHAUSTION symptoms
(also known as: heat prostration heat stroke or heat collapse)

If you get any of these symptoms it is because your body has lost too much water and your electrolytes (sodium and potassium, among others) have decreased due to heavy sweating. In other words: you’re not drinking enough water, often enough and you’ve depleted your body of necessary fluids that keeps your body going.

People in the Southwest don’t feel the perspiration because of low humidity, so are very prone to this condition. People who have higher humidity can see their are sweating profusely and this is a signal to start drinking plenty of water to replace what you’re losing!

1. Skin is usually cool, cold or clammy feeling to touch

2. Person will admit they have been working hard (except in cases of elderly--all they have to do is sit there in a hot place and they sweat and become exhausted)

3. Feeling dizzy

4. Feeling weak

5. Feeling faint

6. May or may not be accompanied by nausea

7. Vital signs are normal, although pulse (put two fingers on the inside of a person’s wrist) may be rapid

8. body temperature is usually normal or slightly elevated. On rare occasions, it can climb to 104F.

TREATMENT:

1. Get person water to drink immediately. Gatorade is okay. They suggest a liter of water should be drank--but don’t force a person to glug it down. If they want to constantly sip water, that’s fine too.

2. Put person in the SHADE if outdoors. Or, get them indoors where it is cooler. Put a fan on them if available. Or place them where there is air conditioning.

3. Loosen their clothing.

4. Treat for shock--which means lay them down (pillow under head) and slightly elevate their feet by putting a pillow under their ankles. You can also put pillows under knees to support them, as well.

5. Never force fluids by mouth on a person who is not fully alert--the fluids can go into the lungs and then you have a life-threatening problem on your hands.

With this care, a person should snap out of it in about 30 minutes.

If they do not, and you see changing levels of consciousness (may or may not their name, your name, where they are, disoriented, confused, ect.) or their temperature elevates and climbs (or does not go back to normal), then call 911.

After you have done all the above, you may think about one of several homeopathic remedies. Remember: you match the homeopathic remedy with the person’s symptoms. If they do not match the person’s symptoms--do NOT give it to them!!!

HEAT CRAMPS

Is a condition where you develop what we call ‘charley horses’ or painful muscle spasms that usually occur after vigorous exercise. Or, they may show up in the middle of the night--waking you out of a dead sleep--with horrific pain. The mechanism for what brings on heat cramps is not well known. But what they do know is that your electrolyte balance is not what it should be--and they are not distributed evenly in your body like they are supposed to be. No one knows why this occurs--in some people--it just does. Usually, there can be a loss of salt and/or potassium for starters, that makes these knotty, painful muscle spasms occur. Sometimes heavy sweating and vigorous exercise can trip these symptoms into appearing. Dehydration is believed to play an important part in heat cramps occurring. Large amounts of water can be lost from the body as a result of excessive sweating. The loss of water may affect your muscles that are being stressed and this causes them to go into spasms/cramping.

Heat cramps usually occur in the leg or abdominal muscles. In the abdomen, it can make you think you have a severe and acute abdominal problem (think of appendix here....).

TREATMENT:

1. Remove the person from the hot environment and get them inside to air conditioning or a fan on them.

2. Loosen any tight clothing.

3. Replace fluids by mouth. Use water or diluted (half strength) balanced electrolyte solution such as Gatorade.

HOMEOPATHIC REMEDY TO USE: Natrum muriaticum 30C

I have found with myself, that I’m a thirstless person and don’t drink enough water. And when I do my two mile hike, sometimes I’ll end up with heat cramps in the middle of the night. I always have a bottle of Nat. Mur. 30C on my bed stand--I pop 2-3 pellets into my mouth and within ONE MINUTE, the cramps are gone. This is the remedy I specifically recommend for heat cramps. You won’t need Belladonna or Glonoine for this particular set of symptoms. Interestingly enough, Nat. Mur is common table salt. The homeopathic remedy helps redistribute the sodium-potassium balance in its correct levels with one another by taking this remedy. You will not need than 3 doses, five minutes apart, to handle these symptoms. If you do need more, you need to go call your medical doctor who will decide what should be done next.



HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES

If you don’t have these remedies, any good health food store should have them. Just call them up and ask. The POTENCY you want is: 30C.

If you can’t get the remedies, then perform the standard care and treatment as outlined above, instead.

Later, after the emergency is over, you might want to have these three on hand since Summer seems to be a pot boiling over for us. Here’s where you can order them online or via a toll free number:

Hahnemann Laboratories, Inc.
1940 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901
HOURS: Monday-Friday --- 9am-1pm & 2 pm - 6 pm
Michael Quinn, RpH, owner

1-888-427-6422--toll free in USA

To order on the internet:

HOW TO ORDER ON WEB SITE:
Please note: for each remedy you order, you must repeat the below procedure. You can’t order three at once. It is one remedy at a time.

Hahnemann Labs

Go to:
http://www.hahnemannlabs.com/
2. In the upper RIGHT hand corner of the front page it says: ORDER HERE
click on that
It will say: Select a Remedy in the box mid-page
write in: Natrum muriaticum (or Glonoine or Belladonna)
(default on blue button is the Search by Official Name--leave as is)
click on FIND REMEDY

3. This will lead you to Step 1
Click on C

4. Step 2 is selecting potency. See box
point/click on 30C
and then click on Continue Select Size of Vial

5. Step 3 is selecting size.
point/click on 1/2 dram 9.95
point/click on: add to shopping cart

6. From there, you can order however more remedies you need and then, fill out name/address, ect.


HEAT SYMPTOM RELATED HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES

DOSAGE: In acute cases, taking 3-6 pellets under the tongue, ten minutes apart, for three doses, should do it. If there is no change in symptoms within this time then continue on with your traditional care of the person per your medical doctor and/or 911 arrives.

POTENCY: Never anything but a 30C. It is strong enough to change the symptoms.

FINDING A PROFESSIONAL HOMEOPATH NEAR YOU:
Any higher potency for any homeoapthic remedy should be prescribed through your professional homeopath, not taken without specific direction. For homeopathic directory, to find a homeopath nearest you:

Homeopathic Directory

BELLADONNA atropa 30C

1. Cold hands and feet, but face is hot feeling, red or flushed looking.

2. Eyes are dilated--pupils are huge and black appearing.

3. Eyes may be red appearing, brilliant or shiny looking in appearance.

4. Eyes feel swollen ad protruding sensation. Or, sensations as if eyes are half closed--but they re not.

5. Emotionally volatile; may get angry all of a sudden, get combative and strike out at you, or bite you.

6. Headache pains made worse by least jarring, noise, direct (sunlight) or indirect light (light sensitive), by heat, stooping over or coughing. Pains are throbbing or knifelike. May feel pulsation or pounding. They may tell you it feels like their brains are going to explode out of their head or get pushed out their eyes or head.

7. They feel better from light covering, sitting semi-erect, resting in bed, leaning head against something (pillow is good), bending or turning the affected part.

8. The feel worse from heat of the sun, from drafts on head (they probably will not want to be fanned or in front of an air conditioner--but ask first and see), getting jarred (just walking worsens them), too much light (sunlight or a light overhead in the room where they are lying in the shock position), too much noise (they can’t stand ANY noise, even people talking....they want it quiet and non-disruptive), doesn’t want anyone touching them, being around running water agitates them, and doesn’t want to look at anything shiny or glistening (think of a mirror here).

GLONOINE 30C

Is a premier homeopathic sunstroke and heat stroke remedy. I always suggest having this when you take a vacation, trip, or are out on business or keeping it in your medicine cabinet at home. This is one of those remedies that may save a life some day.

1. Sensation of pulsing (throbbing, wavelike) motion in head or in some part--or all of their body.

2. Confusion with dizziness. Cannot bear any heart about their head.

3. Throbbing headache with a feeling of surging blood from heart into their head.

4. Bursting, expansive sensation in their head--as if their head were going to explode.

5. Extreme irritability; gets excited by the slightest opposition.

6. Confusion about where they are (even if it is a familiar place).

7. Clothing feels tight to them.

8. Violent convulsions associated with cerebral congestion in the head. They may say it feels like there’s too much blood pouring into their head.

9. Feels very tired, cannot work or move.

10. General pulsation's with numbness.

11. They feel better if in open air (a fan on them or being fanned or in front of an air conditioner), elevating their head just slightly, placing a hand on head with pressure, drinking fluids and cool/cold applications (wet cloth over brow, wiping off their face and arms with cool cloth).

12. They feel worse out in sun, tight collars, from motion or moving around (they want to lie down--let them and put them into shock position--see above), stooping, drinking any kinds of stimulants such as coffee, tea or soda, lying down on left side.

NATRUM MURIATICUM 30C
Is well known for helping to rebalance the electrolytes between sodium (salt) and potassium

1. Headache, throbbing , but feels like a hundred hammers pounding inside their skull.

2. Blinding kind of headache.

3. Craving for salt (these people do well if Gatorade is available--mix with water). They may want to eat salty things like Fritoes, peanuts or whatever. Let them....but also get them to be drinking water along with the salty snack.

4. Emotionally, they get irritable, fuss over details that aren’t important, awkward, hasty, wants to be left alone to cry. May joke or make fun of their situation when its not really funny at all.

5. Rapid heartbeat. Fluttering, palpating, or intermittent pulse.

6. May get cramping in extremities; particularly the calves of the legs.

7. Not thirsty. Thirstless. But needs to drink water.

8. Eyes feel bruised. Eyelids are heavy; hard to keep eyes open.

9. Palms of hands are hot and sweaty. Numbness or tingling in fingers and lower extremities may be there.

10. Can look very pale or waxen looking in the face. Like ‘death warmed over’ kind of look.

11. They feet better in open air, moving air (fan, being fanned or near air conditioning unit), cold bathing or cold cloth over face, arms, lying on right side. Pressure against the back (lying down on back in shock position).

12. They feel worse with noise, music, warm room, any mental exertion (even talking), they don’t want consolation, to be touched or made a fuss over, heat or talking.

HOMEOPATHIC KITS BY EILEEN NAUMAN

Eileen Nauman Homeopathic Kits

I have created several homeopathic kits based upon needs of the below books I have written over the years. Every home should have a homeopathic kit as far as I’m concerned. And if you need one, check mine out! You can also get kits at local health food stores who carry homeopathic remedies, too.



BOOKS ON HOMEOPATHY WRITTEN BY EILEEN NAUMAN

Homeopathy Books by Eileen Nauman

If you have an interest in Homeopathy, you might check these books out that I have written over the last 15 years:


HELP! And Homeopathy by Eileen Nauman, DHM (UK) : What do you do in an Emergency after call 911 and BEFORE help arrives? When an emergency happens at home, on the job, in the car, or on vacation, the moments that follow after you call 911 are critical. Now, you can learn how natural homeopathic remedies can be an effective first line of defense in times of crisis while waiting for help to arrive... Price $16.95 USD

Homeopathy for Epidemics by Eileen Nauman, DHM (UK) : Fearful of getting West Nile Virus? SARS got you up at night and worried about contracting it? Nowadays, we are on the defensive against not only 'Super Germs', but also haunted by Terrorism and their promise to kill people with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. How can you protect yourself against these threats? Homeopathy can help. For a brief overview of the contents, click here... Price $25.00 USD

Beauty in Bloom by Eileen Nauman, DHM (UK) : You don't need to suffer from menopause symptoms. They can be alleviated naturally with homeopathy, a wonderful alternative medicine practiced worldwide. Have hot flashes? Can't sleep at night? Sleep deprived? Your hair is falling out? Bladder troubles? Emotional swings? Read on. This book is for you... Price $24.95 USD

Some other references:

Hot Summer Days Can Make Sick People Sicker
http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/content/Article/88/100056.htm?pagenumber=1

Surviving Summer
http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/content/article/88/99850.htm

Understanding Heat-Related Illness -- Treatment
http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/content/article/54/61501.htm



In Spirit....

It's The Little Things....

Hi Everyone

Well, I’m not quite finished with my eight-legged tales. I just love how the Universe works. I’m wrapping up for the night in my office, shutting down the computer after posting the blog and getting ready to go to bed.

I turn and shut off the radio, and then head out the door. As I head out the door, I see a dark flash near the carpet on my left. At the same time, something hits me in the trouser on my left, lower leg. I stop, frown and look down. It’s ANOTHER Tarantula!!!

I groaned, “Oh, no...are you BACK???!!!”


Copyright Eileen Nauman 2006
He's BAAACKKK.....see that Tarantula? He's right inside my office! And he just leaped up on my leg! And fell off.

Taking a better look at this male Tarantula, he decidedly NOT the same one I put outside last night. Still, that makes TWO Tarantulas in our house!

And what happened tonight is I think the Tarantula was between the wall and the desk and I startled him and he leaped at me, struck my pant leg and fell off to the carpet!

Sheesh! Enough is enough!


So, I quickly got my trusty Nikon and took two shots to prove the story and then went and got my capture glass and he waited for me. I took him outside and put him even farther away than the first one!

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You can see this one has a lighter, almost cream colored shield on his back unlike the first one from the other night. About the same size, too. I think they both got in the back spa doorwhen it was accidentally left open one night--and they trunedled right into the house thinking they had swell digs!

I’m almost afraid to see what tonight will bring. Is there a THIRD Tarantula lurking somewhere around in our bedroom or office? Egads....

Today was a day of little things. For instance, Dave got the steel wire, a needle and we sat out on either side of the window screen enclosure around the main garden. What were we doing? Sewing up tears that had occurred in the screen. I had an animal--probably a skunk--come into the garden night before last. The reason I know is that there were two of my tomatoes, one green and one half ripe, eaten and laying on the red tile walks. I wasn’t happy at all about that. But we had plenty of entry points that we’d not attended too--and so I asked Dave to put in a new lower board on the screen door, plus, stapling the screen that tore loose from heavy monsoon winds at the base of the wood frame. We must have spent a good hour, each on one side of the screen, passing the needle with the fine, thin, steel thread back and forth.

It may sound boring, but I enjoy working with Dave. He’s my best friend and it’s a way to spend time with him. We work well together; we’re like two old work horses in a harness. We got the frame and the window screen all fixed, stapled back down and sewed up; and that ‘s a job that won’t have to be done for several more years unless or until we get another raging monsoon that can do damage to it.

The hike tonight was quiet. After so many exciting nights and days, I find there’s always a ‘down’ cycle, line a sine wave going up and down, to the up cycle. The sunset was a thin ribbon of orange against a very dark gray sky. Sometimes the monsoon clouds are very heavy and thick on the horizon. And when they are, you don’t get very pretty sunsets.

There’s an red ant hill up at Sunset Point. I make a point of carrying a snack on me--usually nuts, a protein bar--in case I get a hypoglycemic plunge. The last few nights, I’ve put some cashews and pinion nuts at the openings to this ant hill. It’s just a nice way to gift your neighbors. These are what they call ‘harvester’ ants--they are great garbage girls--they pick up all the seeds or anything edible and take it into their mound. When I put the nuts down for them they come bailing out of their holes in a swarm. Within 30 seconds, you can’t see the nuts--there’s so many red bodies swarming over them!

We have the mysterious and unique Desert Toads around here.....they hibernate in the mud, under ground, for 9 months out of the year. Usually, in July, they come out to mate. We have several around but I’m missing shots of them--every time I see them--I don’t have my camera with me! They have poison glands on either side of their heads. And stupid teenagers lick these glands thinking they’re going to get a hallucinogenic ‘high’ from it. What they get is a ride to the morgue. Stupid kid tricks...what ARE they thinking??? Well, actually, they aren’t, that’s the problem.


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Here is "Esmerelda" our Desert Toad. She used to visit us every night for three months out of the year. That's another story for another time. She's photographed sitting on our sundeck with some of our crystals I have around some of the pots. She was a sweetie!

One of these evenings, me and the Desert Toad will meet. There’s one up at our barn and one down by the front door. Dave almost stepped on it tonight by accident. And then he called me and by the time I got out there with the camera, the toad was gone. Patience.....I’ll get a photo sooner or later.

I had a lovely lunch with my friend, Linda M. at Murphy’s Grill today. We’re both on the Rosedale Diet (that’s a blog of its own) and I made up one of his salad dressings. That way, we didn’t get the bad fat in the restaurant dressing, we got the good stuff in the one I made. Misery loves company. Linda appreciated the salad dressing and it really was yummy on our salmon salads. Again, it’s the little things in life that I so appreciate. The important things are usually little things.


Copyright Eileen Nauman 2006
This is a sunset that comes closet to tonights, which was very piddly...but it is orange!

In Spirit....

Eight-legged Tales....

Hi Everyone!


Yesterday was one of those days that you just find magical, shocking and chaotic. As you recall, we started the day off with a green rattlesnake calmly lounging on my mother’s red tiles at the bottom of her stair steps. It was fortunate she didn’t go out the front door and onto the sun deck and step down those stairs. Usually, she goes out the back door, thank goodness. And her cat, Mozart, who is fourteen years old and doesn’t have a clue that a snake could hurt him, didn’t amble dumbly down those wooden stairs, ether.

And Dave was ten feet away, throwing gravel out of the pick up onto the road surface because the weekly monsoons were making it a little muddier than usual. If the snake had slithered off the red tiles, it would have head directly beneath his pickup. And there was the chance as he leaped out of the bed, of landing near enough to get bit by it--and he’d never seen it go beneath the truck.

Lots of luck yesterday.

And after we put the snake in the snake bagger and released him, I thought the day would begin to wind down--but it didn’t. Which is why I’m using today’s blog to cover other incidents and events that occurred after I posted the July 20th blog!

After my hike, we buttoned up for the night by last minute watering on certain plants, closing up the greenhouse, getting the horse’s fly mask off, feeding her and locking her up for the night. There’s a lot of little chores around her before we can really call it a night. And usually, by that time, it really is dark!

As I was finishing up last night, I heard our two resident Great Horned Owls hooting to one another just across Oak Creek and near our house. It was nice to heart them. The female has a more melodic, softer hoot and the male has a longer, more dramatic and stronger hoot. It’s easy to tell them apart. I was wishing I could get photos of them, but the trees along Oak Creek are thick and profuse, not lending itself to find these two largest owls in the USA. Instead, I enjoyed their night calls to one another.

After listing the blog, I got ready to go to bed. It felt great to get the sweat and salt off my skin with a wonderfully hot bath. Sweating is such a normal thing in Arizona at this time of year and Dave can go through two or three t-shirts a day--just perspiring. Plus, we are having the hottest July on record--ugh--and that doesn’t help either.

I was walking quickly through the house to go to our bedroom. I zoomed down the hall and as I made a quick right turn into my book room, there on the ivory carpet was--

-- a tarantula!!

Yep, there he was. Looking terribly out of place on our ivory nubby carpet. I screeched to a halt, nearly falling over myself when I spotted him in the middle of the room.


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Now, put yourself in MY place and you saw THIS on your carpet! What would YOU have done??!!

“Now, what are you doing in HERE?” I asked him, putting my hands on my hips.