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"Consider the patients whose intentions about living fully are so compelling they take morphine patches, oxygen tanks, and wheelchairs on cruises. One patient was bed-bound and could only spend a few minutes at a time in a wheelchair but still took his wife on a carefully orchestrated Caribbean cruise so they could enjoy their last anniversary. Accountability Even facing death, the healthiest patients pull out of their victim brains into the higher-brain functions." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "A recent series of studies on the placebo effect reported that, when patients are told about the expected impact of a pain medication like morphine, the painkilling effect could have almost double the impact than when the patients don't know what they're taking. The theory is that thinking about a drug's effectiveness and the belief that it will work generates biochemisty that combines with the drug's actual physical properties and amplifies its strength. How We Do It: Imagery 101 To begin, define the outcome you would like to achieve." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"At double the dose of THC, morphine's effect is ten times greater. According to Sandra Welch, "One major advantage to a cannabis-morphine combination would be to reduce both the morphine component and a major morphine side effect, depression of the respiratory system. It has already been confirmed that cannabis has no effect on the medulla, the center of the brain that controls respiration."37 To treat alcoholism. In the nineteenth century U.S. doctors recommended cannabis as a treatment for delirium tremens. In 1953 Drs. L. Thompson and R." - Rowan Robinson, The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World's Most Extraordinary Plant (Get the book.)

"Bayer also invented methadone, which is synthetic morphine. This was to be used as a painkiller in World War II. Eli Lilly and Dupont are American manufacturers of methadone. Today, methadone is used as a treatment for heroin addiction. Drug companies profits from both sides of the problem. Many of the chemicals used to make cocaine, such as ammonium chloride, acetic anhydride, acetone, hydrochloric acid, and ether are also used to transform opium into morphine and heroin. These chemicals are made by Eli Lilly, Dupont, and others. Why Was Eli Lilly Involved in Homeland Security?" - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Among the articles in the Gazette was a series in the 1880s on how morphine addicts could be cured with the company's elixir of cocaine. A physician writing one of the articles had quoted from the company's advertising label, which claimed that large doses of the coca elixir produced "a general excitation of the circulatory and nervous systems, imparting increased vigor to the muscles as well as to the intellect, with an indescribable feeling of satisfaction." The articles attracted attention far and wide, including that of the Viennese physician Dr. Sigmund Freud. At the time, Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The last two days it was so bad he had to take morphine. My father was a true Renaissance Man. He had enough talents and hobbies for several lifetimes, but he especially identified with being a WW II Royal Air Force veteran. The love of his life was flying. The day before Dad died, I had a few minutes alone with him. I will never forget the sense of urgency in his eyes as he struggled to give me some profound words of wisdom: "Life is here, then gone tomorrow!" As all of his family hovered around him, Dad went into a period of intense, labored breathing until he gasped his last breath." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "For those who are extremely sick and hooked on morphine, coffee enemas are reported to reduce pain very effectively. Dr. Max Gerson weaned all of his cancer patients from pain medication with the use of coffee enemas, which he explains in "The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30 years of clinical experimentation" (Physiological Chemistry and Physics, 1978, Vol. 10, Issue 5, pp. 449?64). Medical monopolies don't like that kind of competition. Is it any wonder he was forced to move his clinic to Mexico? Dr. J. W." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Endocannabinoids are to THC as endorphins are to morphine — substances produced in the body that elicit the same effect as a drug. Likewise, they both dull pain. Scientists discovered the endocannabinoids in the early 1990s after realizing that THC binds to specialized receptors in the brain. These receptors didn't evolve for us to enjoy marijuana, obviously, so there had to be some natural substance the body produces for them. What they found were the neurotransmitters anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG)." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"In 1931 a Chinese scientist reported in the Chinese Journal of Physiology that lecithin could prevent morphine dependence and facilitate morphine recovery in mice. Years later, in 1982, a few Israeli scientists repeated this work and reported their results. They found that phosphatidylcholine did not alleviate withdrawal symptoms in morphine-addicted mice and actually made them worse. They did find, however, that a phosphatidylcholine-containing substance called AL 721 was highly beneficial in alleviating withdrawal symptoms of morphine-addicted mice." - Sheldon Saul Hendler, The Doctor's Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia (Get the book.)

"An example would be when nausea, pruritus (severe itching of the skin) or urinary retention are encountered as side effects when morphine has been given to alleviate pain. "307 But in spite of the different definitions, here is the situation: we face a huge under-reporting when it comes to drug reactions 306 http://www.nihtraining.com/ohsrsite/irb/attachments/5-l O_serious_adverse_ event_rep.htm 307 http://www.who.int/patientsafety/taxonomy/Report_Delphi_Survey_ICPS." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Beyond giving us an often much-needed perspective, laughter helps us breathe deeply, uses our core muscles, massages the inner organs, boosts the immune system, releases endorphins (more powerful than morphine), and relieves pain. And when we are stressed and Spent, it is as important to laugh as it is to sleep. Not only do we need to laugh at ourselves, we need to laugh with others—watching funny movies, hanging out with children, listening to a friend tell jokes. As you know, a working day filled with laughter is much shorter." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) "An appropriate touch triggers the release of brain endorphins—an endogenous analgesic more powerful than heroin or morphine. This said, I am not suggesting you make an inappropriate pass at a workmate or friend. I am talking about healing touch, where both parties feel comfortable, at ease, and even enlivened by the exchange. Old friends hugging when reuniting. Kissing someone hello or good-bye on the cheek. Snuggling with your child or partner as you read to him or her. A massage. Some people don't like being touched, particularly on the front of the body." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"From ancient times until the nineteenth century, the most common sleeping potions contained alcohol, opium, or a dilute solution of the active ingredient in the opium poppy, morphine. morphine, of course, was and still is used mostly as a painkiller. It also affects the digestive system, and a tincture of morphine called laudanum was long used as a treatment for stomach problems. The trouble with morphine derivatives is that they induce virtually every side effect that we wish to avoid in a sleeping pill." - William C. Dement, Christopher Vaughan, The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep (Get the book.)

"Kyllonen's body contained a potentially lethal dose of morphine. As the state investigator put it, "the blood total morphine concentration . . . would likely cause toxicity and probably contributed to his death." No one, it turned out, was keeping track of all the morphine and other painkillers pumped into Kyllonen after his operation. Not all victims of medical mistakes die. Many survive, but they leave hospitals in far worse shape than when they arrived. Some are paralyzed; some are brain-damaged; some contract virulent infections." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

"These other drugs can be any one of the following: other antidepressants such as Paxil or Sera/em, weight loss medications such as Fen-Phen, or even pain killers such as morphine or codeine or Dextromethorphan (commonly used in cough syrups). So what is the chance that the patient might get the right (or should we say wrong in this case) combination of drugs and thereby find his demise? TABOO: FEAR! You understand that we, the authors, are not really interested in telling you that Prozac is a bad drug, if you understand our cynical and ironic remark correctly." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Naltrexone, which blocks the painkilling effect of opioid drugs such as morphine and heroin, works by sitting in the beta-endorphin receptors and preventing them from receiving the soothing, painkilling message that beta-endorphin wants to transmit to the body. Blass reasoned that if Naltrexone also blocked the painkilling effect of sugar (which he would learn by observing whether the mice reacted quickly or not to the hot plate), it would mean that sugar acted on the brain—and specifically the beta-endorphin system—like an opioid." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.) "This addiction is physiological and affects the same biochemical systems in your body as do drugs like morphine and heroin. You can actually get high on sugar. Eating it can make you feel euphoric immediately afterwards. If you don't have your regular sugar "fix," you may experience withdrawal symptoms. Yes, you can become physiologically dependent upon the effect the sugars have on your body. Being sugar sensitive means you have a special biochemistry. You have a different relationship to sugar than a person with a "normal" biochemistry." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"The proteins are called gluteomorphins and caseomorphins, because they affect the morphine or opium receptors in the brain. Gluteomorphins and caseomorphins are absorbed from the gut and find their way to the brain, causing much mischief, manifesting as mood and behavior problems. In the case above, I found out about this problem through a urine analysis. Peptides can be measured in the urine, because after they are absorbed into the body they must be excreted.These funny molecules cause their mischief in one of two ways." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"In 1931 a Chinese scientist reported in the Chinese Journal of Physiology that lecithin could prevent morphine dependence and facilitate morphine recovery in mice. Years later, in 1982, a few Israeli scientists repeated this work and reported their results. They found that phosphatidylcholine did not alleviate withdrawal symptoms in morphine-addicted mice and actually made them worse. They did find, however, that a phosphatidylcholine-containing substance called AL 721 was highly beneficial in alleviating withdrawal symptoms of morphine-addicted mice." - Sheldon Saul Hendler, The Doctor's Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia (Get the book.)

"Painkillers like morphine work because their molecules are shaped like beta-endorphin molecules. They fit into the beta-endorphin receptors and pass along the painkilling message. But when you take a painkilling drug, you get many more hits than you would normally. So your brain, which values balance above all else, wants to get things back to normal. After a while it closes down some of its receptors. In other words, it downregulates. Downregulation means your brain cells are getting fewer hits, so the same amount of your painkiller has less effect." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.) "Narcotics such as morphine, heroin and codeine work like beta-endorphin because their molecules have the same shape. They can fit into the beta-endorphin receptor sites and fool the brain into thinking that more natural beta-endorphin was sent. The result is the same as that produced by our own beta-endorphin: high tolerance to pain, a sense of euphoria, optimism and high self-esteem. As we saw in the case of Joe, alcohol also has a beta-endorphin effect on the brain." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"A novel study from researchers in Iran recently examined how exercise affects rats on morphine. Their hypothesis was that since exercise influences dopamine and plasticity in the same brain areas involved with addiction and learning, maybe it would counteract the memory loss that goes along with being high. The scientists conditioned the rats by putting them in a dark box in which the floor shocked their feet, and then they did follow-up tests to measure how long it took the rats to move to another box that was harmless but well-lit (rodents prefer darkness)." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Ritalin, the most commonly prescribed psychiatric drug for children, is currently administrated to one in every 30 children between the ages of 5 and 18, but Ritalin is classified in the same group of drugs as opium, morphine and cocaine. Side effects of its use include: stunted growth, weight loss, maniac behavior, future drug dependence, heart palpitations, cardiac arrhythmia, anxiety, insomnia, violent behavior and even death.15* Violence is one result of this, anxiety another." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The changes in the behavior and brains of these animals were like those seen with highly addictive drugs, such as morphine, leading the scientists to suggest that the rats had become sugar-dependent. "Laboratory rats given a high-sugar diet and then withdrawn from sugar experience changes in both behavior and brain chemistry similar to those seen during withdrawal from morphine or nicotine."43 —Princeton University scientists These are startling findings but coincide with what little is known from work with humans." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"Benedetti discovered that the morphine was up to 50 percent more effective when patients knew it was coming. Their brains immediately released more endorphins—chemicals that act as natural painkillers by blocking the transmission of pain signals between nerve cells—and they felt better. Expecting a benefit can cause the same release of natural painkilling chemicals as the real drug. The placebo effect alters how the neurons in our brains fire, a measurable physical and psychological demonstration of the power of expectations." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"David's physician stopped the morphine prescription and documented his patient's improvement. While he couldn't believe it, the doctor couldn't deny it either. David's greatest thrill was when he was able to go back and take his driver's license exam and actually pass. After all those years of testing others, he was able to drive by himself again. David still has his disease. He is not cured. But he, rather than the disease, is in control of his life. He still has a funny walk, but he doesn't mind. Every time I see David I have to smile. It has been a delight watching his progress." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"Methylphenidate (Ritalin and Concerta) and amphetamine (Adderall) are listed by the DEA as Schedule II drugs along with morphine, opium, cocaine and the heroin substitute methadone." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Aspirin, caffeine, cannabinoids (THC, THCV, CBD, CBC, anandamide), cocaine, morphine, nicotine, etc. are all alkaloids. Alkaloids provide the heating quality in hot peppers. Peyote probably contains the most powerful alkaloids that we know of. Drugs such as ecstasy, in their original plant derivation (from sassafras and nutmeg), contain alkaloids as their active agents. Joshua Rainbow, a one-time fruitarian activist, described in his booklet, Biotrophic Protocol that when alkaloids are introduced into a body with an acidic biochemistry, tney neutralize the acid and eliminate acid-induced pain." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"BERBERIDIS RADICIS CORTEX Medical use: For opium or morphine withdrawal. In folk medicine, the bark is used for liver malfunctions, gallbladder disease, jaundice, splenopathy, indigestion, diarrhea, especially linked to scrofulosis and tuberculosis, piles, renal disease, urinary tract disorders, gout, rheumatism, arthritis, lumbago, malaria, and leishmaniasis. Efficacy has not been proven. Use for these indications is not advised." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

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