the traditional medicine of north thailand

Even today traditional medicine in North Thailand is flourishing and its roots stretch back to many hundreds of years.In North Thailand, the art of healing is passed on by the traditional healer to his student by the word of mouth. There is no formal training institute to learn the art of traditional medicine. Traditional medicine is quite popular in rural areas and villages in North Thailand.North Thailand is home to many hill tribes and all these tribes follow traditional medicine practices. Each hill tribe has its own traditional medicine though...

The Diabetes Diet

Medical Author: Melissa Conrad Stapler, MD Medical Editor: Ruchi Mathur, MDProper nutrition is essential for anyone living with diabetes. Control of blood glucose levels is only one goal of a healthy eating plan for people with diabetes. A diet for those with diabetes should also help achieve and maintain a normal body weight as well as prevent heart and vascular disease, which are frequent complications of diabetes.There is no prescribed diet plan for those with diabetes. Rather, eating plans are tailored to fit an individual needs, schedules,...

What is Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels, which result from defects in insulin secretion, or action, or both. Diabetes mellitus, commonly referred to as diabetes (as it will be in this article) was first identified as a disease associated with 搒weet urine," and excessive muscle loss in the ancient world. Elevated levels of blood glucose (hyperglycemia) lead to spillage of glucose into the urine, hence the term sweet urine. Normally, blood glucose levels are tightly controlled by insulin,...

Head Cold Drug

It drug, i make the corn soup cream mudlled by the han foot, make it is easy, only like we make the dayly soup and ate when it hot, and then eat the papaya and orange muchly and drink the considerable white water and drink the formula 44 vicks drug. but this really make us be sleepy and directly ploong :d and we can't sleep, because our nose be choke. i maked the salep drug that is maked from the nutmeg and tamarind nad give alittle of water...

INJURIES RECEIVED DURING BIRTH

If a labour be long and tedious, the head and body of the child may bebruised and disfigured.The shape of the head is frequently altered by the compression it hasundergone, so that it may be elongated, and measure from the chin tothe back of the head as much as six or seven inches. This alwaysexcites surprise, sometimes apprehension, in the minds of theattendants: there is no ground for it. It must be allowed to regain itsnatural shape without interference.Tumours...

THE BREATHING AND COUGH

The breathing of a child in health is formed of equal inspirations andexpirations, and it breathes quietly, regularly, inaudibly, and withouteffort. But let inflammation of the air-tubes or lungs take place, andthe inspiration will become in a few hours so quickened and hurried,and perhaps audible, that the attention has only to be directed to thecircumstance to be at once perceived.Now all changes which occur in the breathing from its healthystandard, however slight the shades of difference may be, it is mostimportant should be noticed early....

MAGNESIA AND RHUBARB

Magnesia, besides being a laxative, allays irritability of thestomach; it is consequently useful during dentition, at which periodthere is both much irritability and a prevailing acescency of thestomach. The dose is from five grains to ten for an infant, increasingthe quantity to fifteen grains or twenty to children of nine or tenyears of age. When taken alone the best vehicle is hot milk, whichgreatly quickens its aperient operation. And whenever the bowels aredistended with wind, the pure magnesia is preferable to the carbonate.It is well to...

ARTIFICIAL, FEEDING, OR BRINGING UP BY HAND

Extreme delicacy of constitution, diseased condition of the frame,defective secretion of milk, and other causes, may forbid the mothersuckling her child; and unless she can perform this office with safetyto herself, and benefit to her infant, she ought not to attempt it. Inthis case a young and healthy wet-nurse is the best substitute; buteven this resource is not always attainable. Under these circumstances,the child must be brought up on an artificial diet "by hand,"--as it ispopularly called.To accomplish this with success requires the most...

DIET AND REGIMEN OF A WET-NURSE

The regimen of a wet-nurse should not differ much from that to whichshe has been accustomed; and any change which it may be necessary tomake in it should be gradual. It is erroneous to suppose that womenwhen nursing require to be much more highly fed than at other times: agood nurse does not need this, and a bad one will not be the better forit. The quantity which many nurses eat and drink, and the indolent lifewhich they too often lead, have the effect of deranging their digestiveorgans, and frequently induce a state of febrile excitement, whichalways...

WET-NURSE SUCKLING

Ill health and many other circumstances may prevent a parent fromsuckling her child, and render a wet-nurse necessary. Now, although shewill do wisely to leave the choice of one to her medical attendant,still, as some difficulty may attend this, and as most certainly themother herself ought to be acquainted with the principal points towhich his attention is directed in the selection of a good nurse, itwill be well to point out in what they consi...

DEFICIENCY OF MILK

If this deficiency exist from the earliest weeks after delivery, andit is not quickly remedied by the means presently to be pointed out, awet-nurse must be obtained. It will be of no avail partially to nurse,and partially to feed the infant at this period and under suchcircumstances, for if it is not soon lost, it will only live for a fewmonths, or a year at most, and be an object of the greatest anxiety andgrief to its parent. This condition arises...