Intoxicants
Caffeine
Our national drink is a caffeinated beverage: tea, coffee or colas. Caffeine is also present in chocolate. caffeine has many pharmacologic actions in the body, including excitation of the nerves followed by a sort of paralysis or depression. The stomach and bladder are irritated by caffeine and there is widespread interference in various enzyme systems, damage to the chromosomes of the sex cells and other body cells, and many other unwanted actions. Just as we have a national drink, we also have a national disease–heart disease–which will account for 53% of the deaths in America this year. Heart disease shows a stronger association with coffee drinking than...
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Alcohol injures every cell it touches. It interferes with the enzyme system of cells, and is classed as a poison by physicians and pharmacologists. It is as reasonable to take some other poison such as arsenic, cyanide, or strychnine as to take alcohol. Even though drinking is a commonplace practice, we should train ourselves to feel uneasy or even shocked when somebody takes a drink. It should seem strange. Now that everybody’s health is everybody else’s business, with Medicare, etc., each of us has both a personal and financial interest in the health of others. Alcohol causes a reduction in muscular coordination. In competitive sports, alcohol is known to interfere...
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Agatha Thrash M. D. graduated from the Medical College of Georgia and did specialty training in Pathology at Emory University. She was certified by the American Board of Pathology, and practiced hospital and private pathology for about 15 years, and Forensic pathology part time for about 35 years. She serves on staff at Uchee Pines Institute practicing natural medicine for the last 37 years. She ran a home birth service in Russell County, Alabama for ten years, and served as the Public Health officer head of the Lay Midwife Association of Russell County. During this time she has written a number of books about natural medicine, and hundreds of counseling papers on a variety of topics for patients. She lectures widely in Natural Remedies and Nutrition.