Ah Ha -- now that is a moment to remember. Some say we have only a few defining moments in our lives and that we should know them. They build our character and shape who we are. I know I've found many such moments. In medicine I find there are many defining moments in a patient relationship. Only two people share it. Ah ha, this works!
I sincerely encourage you to keep seeking care for problems that are difficult or undefinable until you begin to have some ah ha moments. Remember to take an active part in that journey. Patients who feel the problem can often know more about it than the practitioner. I love the story of Thomas Edison on his death bed who began to read all about his physical problems. He was on a journey to know all about it. I think that is healthy. Today we have radically different treatments between the various models of medicine. You can easily learn several different approaches. That is a good thing. Go at it from several different angles. Don't give up. Remember always that hope helps fuel the immune system. Mentally be on top of your problem. It does make a difference. Ah ha -- this works.
This week I began to work on a lupus patient and usually worked on the front. I went through all the alarm points and they all were like 10 out of ten -- bad news. So I turned them over and worked on the back with moxa across the ming men (the source of fire for the water element) to boost yang. They were weak and almost unable to move. After a good back treatment I turned them over and re-checked the alarm points. All were strong. I finish with a qi threading session through all their major (and some minor) chakras of the body. I called them later in the week to check out how it worked out. Ah ha -- that worked.
So what is your defining moment? Follow your passion in life!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Hybrid Means Synergistic Life
How I love that name -- the hybrid. Today there are many hybrid cars with plenty of new designs. We live in a time when many people want to invest in renewable sources of energy ... or in highly accessible non-polluting sources of energy. Wind, solar, compressed air, steam, hydrogen, bio fuels, electricity, nuclear power, brown's gas -- are but a few of them.
See the hybrids most advertised today here.
I love the air compressed car they plan to release in the United States for about $18,000 with a seating of six passengers. It gets 106 MPG and has half the pollution of a Toyota prius. I'm told it goes up to 96 miles per hour on the highway. Under 35 MPG it runs solely on compressed air. It needs oil changes only once every 50,000 miles.
Is this only more compressed air? Judge for yourself here.
I love the idea of 20 percent of our energy coming from giant wind turbines that span the middle of the United States. This would free up natural gas for trucks and reduce our dependence on foreign oil while we improve renewable resources. George Pickens has a distant cousin, T. Boone Pickens, who heads up an initiative to do it. He is already spending his own resources and building fields of mega-wind mills in Texas. Anyone of us can join this effort in our own way -- he has a grand web of sites to organize. On my web site I keep a link. I invite you to join us and begin fighting a renewable energy future.
I love the idea of using more solar and wind for electrical generation. Did you see the car in the 2007 Time inventions of the year that ran on a windmill (on the roof) and solar panels. What a crackup. It used electricity with batteries. I love it! Check it out.
I love the idea of hydrogen with hydride storage which reduces hydrogen to 4 X less space. It used to take a 60 gallon tank to hold what 15 gallons of gasoline provides -- no longer. With hydride storage you can shoot a bullet through the tank and it will simply create a momentary flicker of flame and go out. No explosion! Thank you Roger Billings for yet another hydrogen related invention. Hydrogen could now become a reality. I noticed a recent invention with hydrogen cartridges for hydrogen cars -- printer anyone?
Check an an early article on Roger Billings drinking water from the exhaust!
Or how about the new hydrogen fuel cell released by Honda -- invented by Roger Billings years a go but Honda has worked out a hydrogen plan that can work from your home storage system using natural gas. Okay, I think there are better renewable energy sources for hydrogen in our oceans with wave action. Isn't that obvious? Others have converted water to hydrogen with solar, wind, and even pulsed sound generation.
See the California effort with hydrogen cars.
See many hydrogen options here.
Did you love that Hybrid that works on electricity designed by a physics inventor for Volvo? The engine is in the wheels and so the brakes are actually removed. Why use brakes if you can do breaking with an engine that puts the energy back into the car. Look ma -- no engine!
I see them using the radiator steam to put back 40 percent more power to the engine from an inventor in San Diego. I heard that the Germans had done the same thing only with a 15 percent recycling rate and 14 percent additional horsepower. Don't you love American inventors? He did it without using a radiator and making it six strokes. Talk about a hot run!
Many of these cars are running on the fuel of your choice. It reminds me of camper stoves in days past. Bruce Crower, an American Steam Engine inventor, says this will run on almost any fuel! What an advantage. A veritable montage of choices.
Brown's gas is a gas -- almost hydrogen. No storage at all but a conversion of water to brown's gas which has more hydrogen in it. And then it boosts your car's output with plain water. And the conversion kits are often done at home by everyday ordinary people. American ingenuity. I was so sad the day that inventor died. If you ever see his youtube demonstrations -- he'll win you over in a moment.
What an age to live in.
I used to say that cars were 76 percent of the pollution that we have in the United States. But that can change. We have the ability to change it. And the ability to reduce allergies, asthma, cancer, and many other diseases from it. It is not the only area that needs a hybrid solution.
How about all the pollution from our pharmaceuticals entering the water stream by throwing pills in the trash? Or from batteries with mercury in the trash? Or by strong lobbyists who put the run-off aluminum manufacturing waste into our water? Be informed, fight for a cleaner environment. Make manufacturers offer a synergistic self-feeding system of renewable energy. Better yet, start buying from those who do it now.
In all of this I see hope. Great pollutions are filling up the air, the water, the ground fills, and many areas but we have a choice. Even local organic food can be a choice we make. I live in a senior complex where we have over 60 plots of gardens. Some of them live out of their gardens for 100 percent of their food. Amazing. Many local growers actually deliver locally grown vegetables weekly for a fee -- direct marketing for local, organic food.
Enter your zip code and food basket at this website. Or check out all the links in your area.
Life needs synergy. Maybe that is why I'm so intrigued with hybrids. They use the best of what we have got and improve upon it. Every tree we grow has the synergy of microbials and fungi all around it. This symbiotic relationship gives more to life. Food grown with the same rich microbial environment gives back to us many fold. Bio-intensive farming actually increases the loam of soil 12 to 60 times each year. Over the years it is richer, not poorer. Pests are not controlled, they are condoned and pick off the weaker plants we should not be eating. Companion planting helps control the life cycle of pests in a positive way.
It is ironic that the Chinese who had to feed a billion figured this all out long before we did and created renewable energy resources, acupuncture for healthy animals, and a self-feeding system that fed the cycle of life upon itself. It is ironic that we polluted them with our cars, our style of agriculture, and crazy need to put TVs, radios, electronics, and noise in every home. Today we import their style of farming to over 100 countries through Stanford University.
Even in our lifestyle, the hybrid design can be an incredible tool. My brother now takes tai chi chuan in classes and herbs. I wake up early to an hour of Qi Qong every day. It is my hybrid design with American ingenuity. We can make this life synergistically better in every way.
I plan to give my life to hybrids and a synergistic life and I hope you will join me.
See the hybrids most advertised today here.
I love the air compressed car they plan to release in the United States for about $18,000 with a seating of six passengers. It gets 106 MPG and has half the pollution of a Toyota prius. I'm told it goes up to 96 miles per hour on the highway. Under 35 MPG it runs solely on compressed air. It needs oil changes only once every 50,000 miles.
Is this only more compressed air? Judge for yourself here.
I love the idea of 20 percent of our energy coming from giant wind turbines that span the middle of the United States. This would free up natural gas for trucks and reduce our dependence on foreign oil while we improve renewable resources. George Pickens has a distant cousin, T. Boone Pickens, who heads up an initiative to do it. He is already spending his own resources and building fields of mega-wind mills in Texas. Anyone of us can join this effort in our own way -- he has a grand web of sites to organize. On my web site I keep a link. I invite you to join us and begin fighting a renewable energy future.
I love the idea of using more solar and wind for electrical generation. Did you see the car in the 2007 Time inventions of the year that ran on a windmill (on the roof) and solar panels. What a crackup. It used electricity with batteries. I love it! Check it out.
I love the idea of hydrogen with hydride storage which reduces hydrogen to 4 X less space. It used to take a 60 gallon tank to hold what 15 gallons of gasoline provides -- no longer. With hydride storage you can shoot a bullet through the tank and it will simply create a momentary flicker of flame and go out. No explosion! Thank you Roger Billings for yet another hydrogen related invention. Hydrogen could now become a reality. I noticed a recent invention with hydrogen cartridges for hydrogen cars -- printer anyone?
Check an an early article on Roger Billings drinking water from the exhaust!
Or how about the new hydrogen fuel cell released by Honda -- invented by Roger Billings years a go but Honda has worked out a hydrogen plan that can work from your home storage system using natural gas. Okay, I think there are better renewable energy sources for hydrogen in our oceans with wave action. Isn't that obvious? Others have converted water to hydrogen with solar, wind, and even pulsed sound generation.
See the California effort with hydrogen cars.
See many hydrogen options here.
Did you love that Hybrid that works on electricity designed by a physics inventor for Volvo? The engine is in the wheels and so the brakes are actually removed. Why use brakes if you can do breaking with an engine that puts the energy back into the car. Look ma -- no engine!
I see them using the radiator steam to put back 40 percent more power to the engine from an inventor in San Diego. I heard that the Germans had done the same thing only with a 15 percent recycling rate and 14 percent additional horsepower. Don't you love American inventors? He did it without using a radiator and making it six strokes. Talk about a hot run!
Many of these cars are running on the fuel of your choice. It reminds me of camper stoves in days past. Bruce Crower, an American Steam Engine inventor, says this will run on almost any fuel! What an advantage. A veritable montage of choices.
Brown's gas is a gas -- almost hydrogen. No storage at all but a conversion of water to brown's gas which has more hydrogen in it. And then it boosts your car's output with plain water. And the conversion kits are often done at home by everyday ordinary people. American ingenuity. I was so sad the day that inventor died. If you ever see his youtube demonstrations -- he'll win you over in a moment.
What an age to live in.
I used to say that cars were 76 percent of the pollution that we have in the United States. But that can change. We have the ability to change it. And the ability to reduce allergies, asthma, cancer, and many other diseases from it. It is not the only area that needs a hybrid solution.
How about all the pollution from our pharmaceuticals entering the water stream by throwing pills in the trash? Or from batteries with mercury in the trash? Or by strong lobbyists who put the run-off aluminum manufacturing waste into our water? Be informed, fight for a cleaner environment. Make manufacturers offer a synergistic self-feeding system of renewable energy. Better yet, start buying from those who do it now.
In all of this I see hope. Great pollutions are filling up the air, the water, the ground fills, and many areas but we have a choice. Even local organic food can be a choice we make. I live in a senior complex where we have over 60 plots of gardens. Some of them live out of their gardens for 100 percent of their food. Amazing. Many local growers actually deliver locally grown vegetables weekly for a fee -- direct marketing for local, organic food.
Enter your zip code and food basket at this website. Or check out all the links in your area.
Life needs synergy. Maybe that is why I'm so intrigued with hybrids. They use the best of what we have got and improve upon it. Every tree we grow has the synergy of microbials and fungi all around it. This symbiotic relationship gives more to life. Food grown with the same rich microbial environment gives back to us many fold. Bio-intensive farming actually increases the loam of soil 12 to 60 times each year. Over the years it is richer, not poorer. Pests are not controlled, they are condoned and pick off the weaker plants we should not be eating. Companion planting helps control the life cycle of pests in a positive way.
It is ironic that the Chinese who had to feed a billion figured this all out long before we did and created renewable energy resources, acupuncture for healthy animals, and a self-feeding system that fed the cycle of life upon itself. It is ironic that we polluted them with our cars, our style of agriculture, and crazy need to put TVs, radios, electronics, and noise in every home. Today we import their style of farming to over 100 countries through Stanford University.
Even in our lifestyle, the hybrid design can be an incredible tool. My brother now takes tai chi chuan in classes and herbs. I wake up early to an hour of Qi Qong every day. It is my hybrid design with American ingenuity. We can make this life synergistically better in every way.
I plan to give my life to hybrids and a synergistic life and I hope you will join me.
Tenacity
I think that tenacity is a quality that is quite often needed in hard times. Do we stick to the task at hand and complete it. And when it fails do we adaptively do better. Kaizen, some would say, is the Japanese secret to a step-wise incremental improvement process that comes from a time when warriors were known for their fastidious attention to the details.
Most of the time I believe it is best to create win - win scenarios in business, family, or even in personal relationships. Still, at times, it requires more. That is when negotiation breaks down and the other side is pointing fingers.
I feel like I'm in a hole with no where to go but one thing I do know. The other side of the coin is someone who is dying from chemical restraint. So my efforts, however frustrating to me, will be as much as I can do in this lifetime. And that is a price I have to pay.
I now understand the idea of secret combinations where a committee or group get together and plot to do their work behind the scenes without any view of the consequences to others. The hidden agenda is this case is the money they think they gain. What a sad day for humanity. So I wake up each day to do more, to say more, to be more than I am today.
Most of the time I believe it is best to create win - win scenarios in business, family, or even in personal relationships. Still, at times, it requires more. That is when negotiation breaks down and the other side is pointing fingers.
I feel like I'm in a hole with no where to go but one thing I do know. The other side of the coin is someone who is dying from chemical restraint. So my efforts, however frustrating to me, will be as much as I can do in this lifetime. And that is a price I have to pay.
I now understand the idea of secret combinations where a committee or group get together and plot to do their work behind the scenes without any view of the consequences to others. The hidden agenda is this case is the money they think they gain. What a sad day for humanity. So I wake up each day to do more, to say more, to be more than I am today.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Reconciliation
That last post was a might harsh. Even if true, none of us are helpless. We choose to allow things to have an effect on us. The nature of life is to re-act, not act. And the power is there within me to do all I can to help them live as best they can. So that is what we do. And if we are unable to free them from their current circumstances, we can at least be there when we are able to share their lives with good times.
Secondly, if I hold on to the anger and anguish it hurts me. I can feel its effect in my body. I'm sure it effects our spirits -- pulling us down and moving us away from the central theme of life. I know it effects me mentally with exhaustion at a time when I need to be focused on the acupuncture boards.
Letting go is the only answer I know of to fill in these empty spaces. I have to give this burden up and pray for their well-being. We are not the controllers of the universe. I sense they understand the dilemma. I always get the same message from both parents -- "how are you", I always ask. "Fine, now that you are hear" -- is their reply.
In those special visits the message from them to me is clear. You can take away my freedom but you can never take away my spirit. Even death is a victory.
I know I need to let go, do what I can, and reconcile the fact that I am not in control.
Secondly, if I hold on to the anger and anguish it hurts me. I can feel its effect in my body. I'm sure it effects our spirits -- pulling us down and moving us away from the central theme of life. I know it effects me mentally with exhaustion at a time when I need to be focused on the acupuncture boards.
Letting go is the only answer I know of to fill in these empty spaces. I have to give this burden up and pray for their well-being. We are not the controllers of the universe. I sense they understand the dilemma. I always get the same message from both parents -- "how are you", I always ask. "Fine, now that you are hear" -- is their reply.
In those special visits the message from them to me is clear. You can take away my freedom but you can never take away my spirit. Even death is a victory.
I know I need to let go, do what I can, and reconcile the fact that I am not in control.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Watching Helplessly While Someone Dies
Have you ever felt like you are watching from the outside of something while it tears you apart on the inside? That is what if feels like when you love someone and their life goes downhill while under the care of someone else with power of attorney who ignores them and does not respond to their health needs. Whatever you do, if you choose a power of attorney, make sure that person has the goodness and wisdom to actually care enough to take care of you. Because they may park you somewhere in a home and not even visit enough to understand your needs. That is a non-caring, non-seeing mis-management of end-of-life care. Someone with power of attorney has the right to block visits, limit health care, pour on more drugs so that the person is chemically bound, and even structure the information flow for all providers to that person so that the day to day helpers feel the worsening condition is only a mirror of their bad health -- not the cause. Still there is a lack of water, inability to eat food, absence of caring actions, and constant feeding of psychotropic restraining drugs.
Today we have a revolution of psychotropic drugs to treat the elderly. They generally use small amounts. However, with a zealous, hateful person in charge of medication -- this can become a living nightmare as a person can no longer dress, go the bathroom, speak, eat, drink, walk, and so forth because their medication is so strong. The head of the department of the lock down facility at UCSD Medical Hospital told us that the amount can not even be measured with a blood test. How convenient!
As I speak to the doctors, they feel bad because number one -- he is worse and number two -- we have no input to his medical care. They don't feel bad enough to stop it. They call it a difference in style. One family member would take care of an elderly person at their own home with daily visits. The other family member wants to keep them in a nice home where they can park them with few visits and a mentality that this is the end. The doctors react with surprise as we inform them -- not with action. Lawyers pass us from lawyer to lawyer because the money to fight the case resides with the power of attorney. Ombudsman and government agencies grind to a halt as they get hung up in the quagmire -- the home looks good, the helpers are nice, the person making the decisions seems to have answers like it is an advancing decline.
What do I call it? Murder in the first degree.
It takes me 2 hours at times to revive him. I'm losing my resolve and will to fight on. I don't know what to do about it. Maybe that is life. There are many seniors parked in worse conditions that have no one to visit them, no way to fight on. I do what I can and then I have to let go, go home, and sleep in my comfortable apartment with a wonderful wife.
And when my Father-In-Law passes away, what will I feel? I'll always remember those who took his life inappropriately. How they blamed him for their own problems, how they hid his money, how they sold his things off even before he could be stabilized in a home, how they chose to ignore him, and how they chose to let him deteriorate by chemically restraining him to the point where he could not live. In all I do as a practitioner, I will stand for better choices for the elderly, for all patients that may be weak or incapacitated.
I am not against drugs. I am against the misuse of drugs. I am against using drugs as the first line of defense in all medicine. I am against using drugs when there is a natural choice that is symbiotic with our human species. I am for balancing the body when you need drugs so that the drugs you take are far less. And I know that many western medicine practitioners believe the same way as I do. Check out Sanesco which represents a new generation of doctors who are balancing the body. Or look into the "The Cardiovascular Cure: How to Strenghthen Your Self defense Against Heart Attack and Stroke" by Dr. John P. Cooke and Judith Zimmer. There you have a doctor saying you do the right thing for the body and it has a marvelous capacity to heal itself. Interestingly enough, in this book they use food to treat -- that is why I like the Chinese approach so well. There is a great rash of medical books on this same topic.
Today we have a revolution of psychotropic drugs to treat the elderly. They generally use small amounts. However, with a zealous, hateful person in charge of medication -- this can become a living nightmare as a person can no longer dress, go the bathroom, speak, eat, drink, walk, and so forth because their medication is so strong. The head of the department of the lock down facility at UCSD Medical Hospital told us that the amount can not even be measured with a blood test. How convenient!
As I speak to the doctors, they feel bad because number one -- he is worse and number two -- we have no input to his medical care. They don't feel bad enough to stop it. They call it a difference in style. One family member would take care of an elderly person at their own home with daily visits. The other family member wants to keep them in a nice home where they can park them with few visits and a mentality that this is the end. The doctors react with surprise as we inform them -- not with action. Lawyers pass us from lawyer to lawyer because the money to fight the case resides with the power of attorney. Ombudsman and government agencies grind to a halt as they get hung up in the quagmire -- the home looks good, the helpers are nice, the person making the decisions seems to have answers like it is an advancing decline.
What do I call it? Murder in the first degree.
It takes me 2 hours at times to revive him. I'm losing my resolve and will to fight on. I don't know what to do about it. Maybe that is life. There are many seniors parked in worse conditions that have no one to visit them, no way to fight on. I do what I can and then I have to let go, go home, and sleep in my comfortable apartment with a wonderful wife.
And when my Father-In-Law passes away, what will I feel? I'll always remember those who took his life inappropriately. How they blamed him for their own problems, how they hid his money, how they sold his things off even before he could be stabilized in a home, how they chose to ignore him, and how they chose to let him deteriorate by chemically restraining him to the point where he could not live. In all I do as a practitioner, I will stand for better choices for the elderly, for all patients that may be weak or incapacitated.
I am not against drugs. I am against the misuse of drugs. I am against using drugs as the first line of defense in all medicine. I am against using drugs when there is a natural choice that is symbiotic with our human species. I am for balancing the body when you need drugs so that the drugs you take are far less. And I know that many western medicine practitioners believe the same way as I do. Check out Sanesco which represents a new generation of doctors who are balancing the body. Or look into the "The Cardiovascular Cure: How to Strenghthen Your Self defense Against Heart Attack and Stroke" by Dr. John P. Cooke and Judith Zimmer. There you have a doctor saying you do the right thing for the body and it has a marvelous capacity to heal itself. Interestingly enough, in this book they use food to treat -- that is why I like the Chinese approach so well. There is a great rash of medical books on this same topic.
Acute Inflammation
I've seen this before many times, a bubble around the injury. Most people end up resting and on pain killers. We leave them to stew in their problem. So what would I do differently? Lots, and it all depends on what I see. It is not that difficult to treat and after you do it a hundred times, you intuitively know what to expect.
As a practitioner it is best to begin any such session with the proper acu-points to help increase energy flow in the area and to alleviate the pain. When in doubt Large Intestine 4 and Liver 3 on opposite sides is a good choice.
Go outside the bubble where it does not hurt ... maybe 3 inches out. Map out the courses of energy that lead to the bubble and gently create a stream away from the conflict. I use the Chinese meridians as my guide along with the movement of energy as felt from practicing Qi Qong daily. Below the wound -- press gently below it. Above the wound, press gently above it. Move like a stream with an even steady stream of pressure -- best done with lotion that has anti-inflammatory properties. I recommend TRAUMEEL® which is an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-edematous, anti-exudative combination formulation of 12 botanical and 2 mineral substances. Magically, the bubble corners begin to soften.
Continue in those same course of energy but encroach upon the bubbles boundary -- a tad closer, not so close that it elicits pain. Make sure the stream follows its course a ways down or up -- always moving away from the conflict or bubble of inflammation. Notice the melting away of the boundary continues only more remarkably.
Now reach the boundary and begin the gentle pulling away in all directions from the bubble. Work even more gently as you are in the area of damage control for the body. From here on out it all depends where the trauma is -- pay attention to the structure of the underlying area for it is best to reinforce the underlying healthy movement of that structure. Pay attention to the extent of the damage and be gentle enough to keep receding the fluids.
A good follow up at this point is a lymph massage. That is like a sweeping brush of the hands and fingers in opposite directions, at opposite points on either side of the injury. A book could be written on how to move lymph so this is best demonstrated. It is best to match the technique to the specific injury. A number of the soft arts like Qi Qong and Tai Chi Chuan will move lymph. Moving up and down on a mini-trampoline without leaving the surface will move lymph.
At this point an experienced practitioner can go a bit deeper and help align the structure so that it sets properly while healing.
As a practitioner it is best to begin any such session with the proper acu-points to help increase energy flow in the area and to alleviate the pain. When in doubt Large Intestine 4 and Liver 3 on opposite sides is a good choice.
Go outside the bubble where it does not hurt ... maybe 3 inches out. Map out the courses of energy that lead to the bubble and gently create a stream away from the conflict. I use the Chinese meridians as my guide along with the movement of energy as felt from practicing Qi Qong daily. Below the wound -- press gently below it. Above the wound, press gently above it. Move like a stream with an even steady stream of pressure -- best done with lotion that has anti-inflammatory properties. I recommend TRAUMEEL® which is an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-edematous, anti-exudative combination formulation of 12 botanical and 2 mineral substances. Magically, the bubble corners begin to soften.
Continue in those same course of energy but encroach upon the bubbles boundary -- a tad closer, not so close that it elicits pain. Make sure the stream follows its course a ways down or up -- always moving away from the conflict or bubble of inflammation. Notice the melting away of the boundary continues only more remarkably.
Now reach the boundary and begin the gentle pulling away in all directions from the bubble. Work even more gently as you are in the area of damage control for the body. From here on out it all depends where the trauma is -- pay attention to the structure of the underlying area for it is best to reinforce the underlying healthy movement of that structure. Pay attention to the extent of the damage and be gentle enough to keep receding the fluids.
A good follow up at this point is a lymph massage. That is like a sweeping brush of the hands and fingers in opposite directions, at opposite points on either side of the injury. A book could be written on how to move lymph so this is best demonstrated. It is best to match the technique to the specific injury. A number of the soft arts like Qi Qong and Tai Chi Chuan will move lymph. Moving up and down on a mini-trampoline without leaving the surface will move lymph.
At this point an experienced practitioner can go a bit deeper and help align the structure so that it sets properly while healing.
Cats and Fleas
I laid down on a pillow today and a flea crossed my eyelids. I instinctively picked it off and took it to the sink where the water took it down the drain. We quickly pulled out the chemical advantage for our two cats and treated them. Don't we all reach for some chemical when nearly anything happens in our life. So I began reading about it.
Garlic, onion, and brewer's yeast make your body unfavorable for fleas. Wow, maybe I can feed the cats some garlic, onion treats. On further reading cats have a hemolytic reaction to garlic, onions, shallots, and a few other things. Somewhere in my memory worms are the nature predator for fleas -- sure enough, simple nematodes. Yes, but it must be in a moist environment. Somehow I can't see moist carpet in my apartment flooded with little worms. It does work for the outside. And I found plenty of product in that area. How about that diatomaceous earth I used for ants a while back and before that for parasites for a friend of mine? Yes, that does it -- dust your pet with this specially shaped earth and it has sharp edges that destroy the fleas, cockroaches, silver fish and a ton of other insects. It can be used in the garden, the home, the fur of the furry critters and even in our digestive system for parasites.
This gives new meaning to eating dirt, or even eating worms. And cats hate baths -- or at least our cats do. Water naturally drowns fleas. Soapy water dishes put where the fleas are abounding can cut the adults out quite a bit. In fact, some people make flea traps which catch them on a sticky that can be replaced. For every flea you see on an animal (or yourself), there are 30 more waiting in the wings. An adult flea can produce 60 larvae a day. They love a messy house with dirt, clothes, things to breed on. Need I say more?
I began to realize that the diatomaceous earth cost about $16, a trap cost about $16, soap with water is already available, and cleaning the house is sorta free -- all in all it sure beats a chemical solution which means you have to apply it monthly and spend some real money! A box of nematode worms for the yard is about twenty dollars.
So for dinner tonight I loaded up on garlic and onion -- we had black beans with turkey and split pea soup.
Garlic, onion, and brewer's yeast make your body unfavorable for fleas. Wow, maybe I can feed the cats some garlic, onion treats. On further reading cats have a hemolytic reaction to garlic, onions, shallots, and a few other things. Somewhere in my memory worms are the nature predator for fleas -- sure enough, simple nematodes. Yes, but it must be in a moist environment. Somehow I can't see moist carpet in my apartment flooded with little worms. It does work for the outside. And I found plenty of product in that area. How about that diatomaceous earth I used for ants a while back and before that for parasites for a friend of mine? Yes, that does it -- dust your pet with this specially shaped earth and it has sharp edges that destroy the fleas, cockroaches, silver fish and a ton of other insects. It can be used in the garden, the home, the fur of the furry critters and even in our digestive system for parasites.
This gives new meaning to eating dirt, or even eating worms. And cats hate baths -- or at least our cats do. Water naturally drowns fleas. Soapy water dishes put where the fleas are abounding can cut the adults out quite a bit. In fact, some people make flea traps which catch them on a sticky that can be replaced. For every flea you see on an animal (or yourself), there are 30 more waiting in the wings. An adult flea can produce 60 larvae a day. They love a messy house with dirt, clothes, things to breed on. Need I say more?
I began to realize that the diatomaceous earth cost about $16, a trap cost about $16, soap with water is already available, and cleaning the house is sorta free -- all in all it sure beats a chemical solution which means you have to apply it monthly and spend some real money! A box of nematode worms for the yard is about twenty dollars.
So for dinner tonight I loaded up on garlic and onion -- we had black beans with turkey and split pea soup.
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