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"The officials of metal are the lung and colon. The lung is the official of "rhythmic order" who sets the pace of our entire system through inhalation and exhalation. This official provides exchange between inner and outer and is where the balance of giving and receiving is found. Associated with air, the lung official receives inspiration from the heavens, refreshing us on all levels and giving us a strong sense of vital essence. The colon is the official of "drainage and dregs" whose job is to clean house." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Amiodarone, a drug used to treat heart arrhythmia, has been shown to cause severe lung diseases, from interstitial pneumonitis — swelling of the spaces between the lung's air sacs, causing oxygen starvation — to solitary lung mass. Methotrexate, a common drug for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, can weaken the lungs' natural protective pathways and allow for opportunistic infections. Aspirin and traditional anti-inflammatories can also encourage bronchial irritation by inhibiting COX-1, which, as it turns out, is also responsible for slowing down bronchial stress." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Lung infections occur to help destroy and remove any damaged, weak lung cells that otherwise would start rotting or have already been decomposed (pus formation). lung congestion prevents the natural removal of damaged or weak cells. If the congestion is not cleared up through natural means, or if it increases further through poor dietary habits, the pus will be trapped in the lung tissue. Naturally, destructive bacteria will increasingly populate the scene to assist the body in its desperate effort to clear up this congested area, which comprises decomposing cells and other waste products." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"The officials of metal are the lung and colon. The lung is the official of "rhythmic order" who sets the pace of our entire system through inhalation and exhalation. This official provides exchange between inner and outer and is where the balance of giving and receiving is found. Associated with air, the lung official receives inspiration from the heavens, refreshing us on all levels and giving us a strong sense of vital essence. The colon is the official of "drainage and dregs" whose job is to clean house." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"From a variety of allergic lung conditions, to defects in the lining of airways, to ulcers on the lung walls, to diffuse bleeding in the lungs and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, gluten-related problems abound in asthma. Poor breathing from lack of adequate oxygen exchange is often the result. lung disorders found in association with celiac disease sometimes show, on biopsy, evidence of a mucosal defect in the lungs that is similar in appearance to that found in the intestines. Therefore, chronic lung disease should also signal concerns about an underlying problem with gluten." - James Braly M.D. and Ron Hoggan M.A., Dangerous Grains: Why Gluten Cereal Grains May Be Hazardous To Your Health (Get the book.)

"To Mom's surprise, the x-rays revealed a suspicious spot on her lung, one that hadn't been there during her annual physical less than a year before. After further investigation, my mother discovered that she had scar tissue on her right lung from an illness that had healed during her childhood, and the spot had become cancerous. Three weeks later, she underwent surgery and the lower third of her right lung was completely removed." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"Lung Cancer Risk Reduced on Raw Food A study published in the Japanese Journal of Cancer Research (June 1993, PubMed ID 8340248) showed that the odds of incurring lung cancer among smokers and former smokers are reduced with raw vegetable and fruit consumption. The study was entitled "Protective effects of raw vegetables and fruit against lung cancer among smokers and ex-smokers: a case-control study in the Tokai area of Japan." 23. Raw Diet Is Best Vegetarian Diet for Mice Dr." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Because of possible damage to the lungs, you should have your lung function checked six months after starting to use inhalable insulin, and then every year thereafter. Furthermore, if you currently need injectable insulin, inhaled insulin can be used at mealtime, but not as a replacement for your longer-acting injections. Although we are enthusiastic about the mealtime convenience of inhaled insulin, there remain residual, open-ended questions about the possible long-term effects this type of insulin delivery system may have on the lungs." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Back then the idea of sensitivity to the environment was pretty far out — except we had seen it in lung patients. The lung is open to the outside, and every surgeon knows that environmental pollutants affect the lungs. Every surgeon knows about asbestos causing cancer of the lungs, cigarette smoke causing cancer of the lungs. You'd see black lung disease, valley fever, on and on. So the idea of sensitivity to the environment wasn't foreign to us, even though it was foreign to everybody else. To us it was common sense." - Peter Radetsky, Allergic to the Twentieth Century: The Explosion in Environmental Allergies--From Sick Buildings to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"After further investigation, my mother discovered that she had scar tissue on her right lung from an illness that had healed during her childhood, and the spot had become cancerous. Three weeks later, she underwent surgery and the lower third of her right lung was completely removed. As I spoke with the doctor in the recovery room afterward, he reiterated how "lucky" Mom was that the mass had been detected early on, especially since there were no telltale symptoms to alert her to any problems." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"In addition, roses can deter infection in the digestive tract and lungs as well as the cold and flu virus with aggravating symptoms of runny nose, sore throat, and lung congestion. Rose's decon-gesting quality carries into the reproductive system, relieving painful, heavy menstruation, irregularity, and infertility. Rose is also used for impotence in both men and women, not only on the physical level, but aiding in the emotional component of sexual insecurity." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Cancers of the prostate and breast will be the most frequently diagnosed cancers in men and women, respectively, followed by lung and colorectal cancers both in men and in women. Overall, the most common cancers—skin, lungs, breasts, kidneys, colorectal and prostate—are organs of excretion. It's possible that toxin accumulation for purpose of excretion may be a clue as to the connection between toxins and excretory organs." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"At age four he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. My daughter and I desperately sought help for my grandson. We read many books with alternate approaches to combat cancer and wrote letters to many authors. We never received answers. We contacted the Metropolitan Wellness Center in New York City. They were the only facility that responded. Luanne Pennesi requested my grandson's medical records. She felt the child's parents and I would learn and benefit from a Gary Null lecture. At that time my grandson's x-ray showed two frightening spots on his lungs. We spoke to Gary." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Peggy's mom had been taught by her own mother, Loukas's great-grandmother, that milk often makes a child with lung problems even more phlegmy and croupy. It was folk wisdom. And it is true. Moms know. Peggy took Loukas off dairy products right away, and his lung problems improved. Not long afterward, the family visited Peggy's parents in Hong Kong, where her father worked as an international businessman, and Peggy's mother-a health buff who looked about half her age-insisted that they take Loukas to a local doctor that she really liked." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"For example, he had been a smoker, and the lung Driver remedy had an immediate effect on his lung system. For a few days he coughed up thick mucus, perhaps from the cadmium and other tobacco-based toxins that had accumulated over the years from smoking. Soon, however, he felt that he could breathe freely and deeply again, something he had not felt in nearly a decade. The energetic correction to his nervous system resulted in subtler kinds of reactions. Harry said, "I noticed a really peculiar change." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"You may need more than 10 or 15 sessions to stop smoking. • lung Power to Quit Smoking J^Vlthough there is a flood of smoking-cessation products on the market, from gum to nicotine patches, one inexpensive and uncommon technique may catch on in coming years: Breathwork. A short series of deep breathing sessions, based on meditation and yoga principles, can train smokers to replace cigarettes with reliance on their own lung power for stress relief and instant feelings of calm. Obviously, it won't change a longtime smoker's habits overnight." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"History & Folklore According to the medieval Doctrine of Signatures, which held that a plant's appearance pointed to the ailment it treated, lungwort was effective for chest ailments because its leaves resemble lung tissue. Medicinal Actions & Uses Given its high mucilage content, lungwort is indeed a useful remedy for chest conditions, and it is particularly beneficial in cases of chronic bronchitis. It combines well with herbs such as coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara, p. 277) as a lungwort's speckled leaves were once considered a sign of its ability to cure lung problems." - Andrew Chevallier, The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"Pneumonia is an extreme catarrhal condition that should be diagnosed and treated by a doctor. lung congestion and pneumonia may be associated with heart trouble or with kidney problems. So you see that the lungs are a very important elimination channel to take care of. Nothing Wrong With My Lungs I treated a man a short time ago whose first analysis showed he had lung troubles. But he said, "I have nothing wrong with my lung structure." Four days later, he was in the hospital with pneumonia. He already had the problem beginning there." - B. Jensen, Arthritis, Rheumatism and Osteoporosis (Get the book.)

"Lung Disorders In studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine, women who took SSRI antidepressants in the third trimester of pregnancy, gave birth to babies who were six times more likely to have Primary Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (PPHN), or developing the lung disorder Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH), than babies not exposed to SSRIs (http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/case/ssri birth defects). PPH is a disorder of the lungs, which severely restricts the arteries, causing the blood pressure in the pulmonary artery of the heart to rise excessively." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "Prozac?and lung Disorders In studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine, women who took SSRI antidepressants in the third trimester of pregnancy, gave birth to babies who were six times more likely to have Primary Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (PPHN), or developing the lung disorder Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH), than babies not exposed to SSRIs (http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/case/ssri birth defects). PPH is a disorder of the lungs, which severely restricts the arteries, causing the blood pressure in the pulmonary artery of the heart to rise excessively." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Notice that advocates working to reduce smoking rates are in the field of "tobacco control," not "lung cancer" or "emphysema." (Among the few exceptions are the American lung Association and American Cancer Society, but these are organizations that mainly prefer to play it safe politically.) Just as lung cancer is one result of smoking (a bad habit encouraged by the savvy marketing strategies of the tobacco industry), obesity is one result of poor diet (another bad habit fostered by the equally manipulative marketing practices of the food industry)." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"But each lung, with its minute sacs, or alveoli, contains from 250 to 375 square feet of surface area, while the skin has only some 20 square feet of surface area. True, the skin is the largest in terms of mass or weight, yet the lungs expel more waste byproducts than the skin does. By this measure, the lungs rank first, the skin second, the colon third, and (depending on the individual) the kidneys and sinuses are a tie, being either fourth or fifth." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"These are the three chief catarrhal producers in the body, and they wear down the lung structure, especially if inherently weak. This is one of the reasons so many people develop pneumonia. Pneumonia is an extreme catarrhal condition that should be diagnosed and treated by a doctor. lung congestion and pneumonia may be associated with heart trouble or with kidney problems. So you see that the lungs are a very important elimination channel to take care of. Nothing Wrong With My Lungs I treated a man a short time ago whose first analysis showed he had lung troubles." - B. Jensen, Arthritis, Rheumatism and Osteoporosis (Get the book.)

"The lung is open to the outside, and every surgeon knows that environmental pollutants affect the lungs. Every surgeon knows about asbestos causing cancer of the lungs, cigarette smoke causing cancer of the lungs. You'd see black lung disease, valley fever, on and on. So the idea of sensitivity to the environment wasn't foreign to us, even though it was foreign to everybody else. To us it was common sense. "But I wondered about that after I wrote my first paper about chemicals causing blood clotting. I sent it to the Journal of the American Medical Association." - Peter Radetsky, Allergic to the Twentieth Century: The Explosion in Environmental Allergies--From Sick Buildings to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"The ER physician on call later explained to Jan and David that the area above Jan's diaphragm that had appeared tinted in that first Missoula X-ray had been, no doubt, the first lung tissue to be injured. The red line on Jan's arm hadn't progressed, so clearly the clots weren't originating from there. Additional ultrasounds revealed, however, that Jan's entire right leg vein was blocked from ankle to groin with a huge clot known as a deep vein thrombosis, or DVT. It was from this larger clot that smaller ones were traveling up to block the major arteries of her lungs." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"History & Folklore According to the medieval Doctrine of Signatures, which held that a plant's appearance pointed to the ailment it treated, lungwort was effective for chest ailments because its leaves resemble lung tissue. Medicinal Actions & Uses Given its high mucilage content, lungwort is indeed a useful remedy for chest conditions, and it is particularly beneficial in cases of chronic bronchitis. It combines well with herbs such as coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara, p. 277) as a lungwort's speckled leaves were once considered a sign of its ability to cure lung problems." - Andrew Chevallier, The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"The exact criteria required for a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome differ somewhat among about a half dozen organizations, including the World Health Organization; the American Heart Association; and the National Heart, lung, and Blood Institute. For discussion purposes, we will use the definition put forth by the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Although coenzyme Qiq is found in relatively high concentrations in the liver, the kidney, and the lung, the heart requires the highest levels of ATP activity because it is continually aerobic. Coenzyme Q10 support is essential for the healthy heart, and critical for the failing one. Tissue deficiencies and low serum blood levels of coenzyme Qio have been reported across a wide range of cardiovascular diseases, including congestive heart failure, hypertension, aortic valvular disease, and coronary artery disease." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"National Heart, lung, and Blood Institute statistics: www.nhlbi. nih.gov/hbp/hbp/whathbp.htm Reaven G. The metabolic syndrome: Is this diagnosis necessary? Am J Clin Nutr 2006 ]un; 83(6): 1237-47. Selvin E et al. Glycemic control and coronary heart disease risk in persons with and without diabetes: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study. Arch Intern Med 2005 Sep 12; l65(l6):1910-6. Tapsell LC et al. Including walnuts in a low-fat/modified-fat diet improves HDL cholesterol-to-total cholesterol ratios in patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care 2004; 27:2777'-83. Trouillas P." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Breast Cancer Breast cancer—the second most common cancer in women behind nonmelanoma skin cancer—is the sixth leading cause of death among American women and the second leading cause of cancer death behind lung cancer. Your risk of breast cancer increases with age. And you're more likely to die of breast cancer if you're African American than if you're European American. A key development for vitamin D was the appearance of increasing evidence that experts had detected a strong relationship between vitamin D and breast cancer risk." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

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