Spirituality
How to Have Family Worship
“In every family there should be a fixed time for morning and evening worship.” CG 520. Formula for Successful Family Worship: (1) Scripture reading, (2) Singing, and (3) Praying. “At family worship let the children take a part. Let all bring their Bibles and read a verse or two. Then let some familiar hymn be sung, followed by prayer.” CG 524. The counsel quoted above refers to reading from the Bible for worship. This then is pointed out as the best source of study. Bible story books often tend to speculate. Several methods of Bible reading are suggested below to help give ideas on how to use the Scriptures in family worship so as to hold the interest of the...
Read MoreMigraines
Headaches are certainly among the most frequent and perplexing of problems seen by physicians. Headache is the ninth most common cause of physician visits. Migraine affects about 20% of the adult population, with more women affected than men. One hundred and twenty children with migraines had an average onset of 5 to 15 years with about equal sex ratio under the age of nine. Family history was positive in 79%. Eye symptoms occurred in 43%. People with migraine often have a family history of �sick headaches,� or a history of digestive upsets, travel sickness, asthma, eczema, or hay fever. Symptoms The symptoms of migraine include headaches that last from three hours...
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Vitamin B12 Agatha M. Thrash, M.D. Preventive Medicine The small intestine of healthy humans can contain bacteria that are capable of producing vitamin B12. There are at least two groups of germs normally in the small bowel, Pseudomonas and Klebsiella. These may synthesize significant amounts of the vitamin, high enough in the intestinal tract to be absorbed in the terminal ileum (Nature 283:781; February 21, 1980). Both these germs can overgrow and cause an unhealthy small bowel. Around 3,000 men and women aged 26-83 investigated as a part of the Framingham offspring study showed a surprising 39 percent of the participants to have blood levels of B12 below 350, the...
Read MoreStomach Irritants
An inflamed and overworked stomach is so common that you rarely see one totally free from irritation. Many use a large variety of common stomach irritants. An inflamed stomach produces many problems. The body can lessen the toxic effects of chemical overload, but injuries are common and lead to accelerated aging. Because of the biochemical injury of the cells from the disordered chemistry, a tax is placed on the body which eventually results in wearing down the life forces. The tax on the digestive organs draws energy from the nervous system, giving the person less mental energy for perception, discernment, and decision. Americans have more peptic ulcers than any other...
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Problems with Vaccines While immunizations have been successfully used for many decades to control infectious disease in the world population, they are not entirely without ill effects or risks. Part of these ill effects are due to inadequacies of the vaccines themselves, as the following items attest: 1. DPT vaccination was followed by 4 deaths that occurred within 24 hours after the receipt of a vaccine in 1978-1979, compared with 2 deaths within 24 hours after DPT vaccination in the earlier 8 month period in Tennessee. 2. A scientific “scare” occurred in 1960. It was discovered that during the previous five years, millions of school children had been inoculated...
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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.