The Unknown Causes of Disease, The Idiopathic Nature of Medicine

The Unknown Causes of Disease, The Idiopathic Nature of Medicine
Author: Rui Alexandre Gabirro
Publisher: Order of the Good News
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2020-07-14
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1916050913

CONTENTS Introduction...............................................................................1 Chapter 1 On the Nature of Disease........................................................4 General Pathology....................................................................9 Dyspepsia................................................................................10 Artificial Dyspepsia................................................................11 Gastro-Enteric Rheumatism..................................................11 Chapter 2 Diseases of Unknown Cause................................................12 Chapter 3 Medicine, its Practice in General..........................................19 To the Rising Generation of Medical Practitioners............19 The Never Ending Difference of Opinions.........................20 The interpretation of Clinical Test Results..........................20 The Proximate Cause.............................................................21 Disease its Nature and Manifestation.................................22 The Nonconformist................................................................23 Scientific Medicine.................................................................24 Medicine..................................................................................26 Chapter 4 Who Speaks for Medicine?....................................................28 Correspondence with Medical Institutions........................29 Chapter 5 Medicine Practice...................................................................35 Health & Disease....................................................................39 Body Mind Soul......................................................................43 Chapter 6 Disease as a Crime..................................................................46 Chapter 7 Understanding the Causes....................................................48 Origin of Disease....................................................................51 Immune Complex Disease....................................................54 Gastrointestinal Tract Plays Important Role Regulating Many Activities of the Human Organism...............................55 Leaky-Gut Syndrome.............................................................59 Intestinal Permeability...........................................................60 On the Natural Faculties.......................................................60 The Cause of Disease.............................................................63 Major Maladies and Their Treatment..................................64 Cause of Physical Disease.....................................................64 Internal Cleansing..................................................................65 Health and Habit....................................................................65 Chapter 8 Alzheimer's Dementia and the Reversal of Cognitive Decline..........................................................................................67 Main Drivers of Alzheimer's.................................................68 Parkinson’s Begins in the Gastrointestinal Tract................68 The Influence of the Brain–Gut axis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease..............................................................................69 Chapter 9 Sinusitis....................................................................................70 Focal Infections from the Accessory Sinuses......................70 Chapter 10 Cause of Paralysis...................................................................73 Beriberi, Pellagra, and Nerve Disorders.............................73 The Irritability of the Nervous System...............................74 Chapter 11 Causes of Mental Disease......................................................76 Mental Influence.....................................................................77 Auto-Intoxication as an Etiological Factor in Many Forms of so-called Mental Disease.......................................................78 The Relation of Oral Infection to Mental Diseases............97 Secondary Foci of Infection...................................................98 General Considerations on Nervous and Mental Diseases......................................................................................100 Psychological Disorders......................................................103 The Aetiological Factors in the Psychoses........................104 Delirium.................................................................................104 Bidirectional link Between the Brain, Gut and Microbiome................................................................................104 The Role of Auto-Intoxication in Mental Disorders.......105 Chapter 12 Constipation..........................................................................120 Heart Symptoms Associated With Constipation.............122 Severe Constipation.............................................................125 Chronic Constipation from Disease...................................127 Atony of the Intestine (Darmatonie) Causes and their Mode of Action..........................................................................127 Diseases of the genital organs in young women.............132 Chronic Enteritis, Chronic Entero-Colitis, Chronic Intestinal Catarrh, Chronic Diarrhea, Chronic Dysentery, Chronic Colitis, Chronic Proctitis......................................133 The Colon as a Site of Focal Infection in Nonspecific Urethritis....................................................................................134 The Clinical Findings of Dr Mayr......................................134 Chapter 13 Headaches & Migraines......................................................136 Head Dizziness.....................................................................137 Remarks on Headaches in General....................................138 Headache...............................................................................138 Cephalalgia Headache.........................................................139 Headache is a Symptomatic Neurosis...............................140 Headache How Caused and Cured...................................143 History of Migraines............................................................145 1 in 7 People suffers from Migraines.................................146 Migraine and Intestinal Stasis............................................147 A Causal Link Between Recurrent Abdominal Pain and Migraine.....................................................................................148 The Gastrointestinal Origin of Migraine...........................148 Migraine and Chronic Intestinal Stasis, Their Relationship and Treatment....................................................151 Etiology and Treatment of Migraine.................................157 Chapter 14 Causes of Skin Disease.........................................................162 Autotoxic Cutaneous Diseases...........................................162 Diseases of the Skin and Kidneys......................................163 Diseases of the Skin..............................................................163 Skin lesions due to Toxemia................................................172 Skin and Psoric Conditions.................................................172 Jaundice.................................................................................173 The control of Health after Eczema and Psoriasis...........174 Nutrition, Health, and Disease...........................................174 The Nutrition of the Skin.....................................................176 Treatment of Psoriasis..........................................................178 Infantile Eczema and Indigestion......................................178 Phenomenon in Eczema......................................................180 Acne Vulgaris........................................................................181 Chapter 15 Arthritis .................................................................................182 Factors to Predispose to Arthritis.......................................183 Principles of Treatment …...................................................184 Evidence of Colonic Disturbance Chronic Arthritis........184 The Rectal Tract as a Source of Focal Infection................185 Colonic Therapy....................................................................186 Clinical Study of the Causation of Arthritis.....................186 The Colon in Relation to Chronic Arthritis......................187 Chapter 16 Atherosclerosis Coronary Heart Disease ….....................191 Chapter 17 Diabetes .................................................................................192 The Chief Cause of Diabetes...............................................193 Type 2 Diabetes it's a Completely Reversible Condition....................................................................................196 Treatment of Diabetes..........................................................197 Chapter 18 Fevers ....................................................................................199 Perspiration is to Eliminate.................................................199 Chapter 19 Rheumatism .........................................................................201 How is Toxemia to be Overcome.......................................202 My First Discovery................................................................202 Rheumatism and Arthritis Showing Colonic Symptoms...................................................................................203 Aetiology of Rheumatism...................................................204 Treatment of Rheumatism and Allied Conditions...........206 Rheumatism Control............................................................209 Rheumatism Disease at the Blood......................................210 Chapter 20 Curing Diseases of Heart and Arteries ….........................212 Correct Treatment of Acute Heart Disease.......................214 Chapter 21 Blood Pressure......................................................................215 The Role of the Alloxuric Bases in the Production of the Cardiovascular Changes of Nephritis....................................216 Relationship Between Certain Products of Metabolism and Arterial Hypertension.......................................................221 Diet in High Blood Pressure...............................................223 The Treatment of Confirmed Cases of High Blood Pressure......................................................................................224 All Varieties of Hypertension Are of Renal Origin..........224 Hypertension and Kidney Disease....................................225 High Tension Pulse..............................................................226 Tinnitus or Mêniêre's Syndromes......................................227 Tinnitus Aurium...................................................................228 Gastro-Intestinal Sepsis, a Cause of Ménière's Symptoms...................................................................................228 Chapter 22 Asthma ..................................................................................231 Vasomotor Instability: Closely Related to such conditions as Asthma...................................................................................232 Raynaud's Disease................................................................234 The Vagus & Vasomotors Influence, or Govern Circulation, Respiration and Digestion.................................234 The Use of Adrenal Substance in the Treatment of Asthma........................................................................................235 The Term Ataxia...................................................................237 Chapter 23 Epilepsy..................................................................................239 Epilepsy: A Study of the Idiopathic Disease....................240 The Fluids and Secretions of the Body in Epilepsy Chemical Pathology Auto- Intoxication................................241 Toxaemia as a Factor in the Cause of Epilepsy.................242 Attacks of Convulsions can be Avoided or Lessened.....243 Acid Intoxication in Epilepsy..............................................243 Gluttony or Food Poisoning As a Cause of Symptomatic Epileptic Convulsions...............................................................244 Dental Irritation as a Factor in the Cause of Epilepsy.....247 Chapter 24 Back Pain ...............................................................................258 Backache and its Treatment................................................258 Chapter 25 The Cause of Acquired Gout..............................................260 The Formation and Excretion of Uric Acid: considered with reference to Gout and Allied Diseases ….....................261 What is the Real Etiology of Gout?....................................268 Gout its Etiology and Treatment........................................269 Chapter 26 Insomnia................................................................................271 Poisons Causing Intrinsic Insomnia..................................271 The Insomnia of Stomach and Intestinal Disease...........274 Chapter 27 On the Origin of Cancer.......................................................275 The Nature of Cancer...........................................................276 Cancer Research....................................................................277 Cancer its Causes..................................................................278 Proportion of Cancers Attributed to Different Factors.........................................................................................280 Lymph-Stasis, Precursor and Factor in some Forms of Cancer.........................................................................................281 Understanding the Causes..................................................283 Natural Washing Out...........................................................283 Avoid Disease by keeping your Body Clean....................284 Cancer of the Colon.............................................................286 Colon Cancer.........................................................................287 Treatment of Cancer with the High Frequency Spark and High Tension Current...............................................................288 Cancer of the Colon Its Causation and Treatment...........289 Cancer of the Colon and Rectum.......................................291 What Causes Cancer............................................................293 Jordan on Cancer..................................................................294 Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, MD, FRCS, on Cancer.................294 The Origin of Cancer of the Colon and Rectum..............295 Oral Sepsis in Relation to Cancer.......................................296 Cancer is Never Primary......................................................301 Chemotherapy.......................................................................303 The Cancer Patient's Dilemma............................................304 Chapter 28 Postpartum Depression.......................................................307 Postpartum Depression Factors to Successful Nursing.......................................................................................307 Some Causes of Insulin Resistance....................................308 Chapter 29 Mental Troubles and Physical Causes...............................309 Colon Irrigation in the Treatment of Mental Disease......313 Dangerous Psychiatry..........................................................316 Balance in Mind and Temper..............................................318 The State of the Colon and its Relation to Human Health.........................................................................................322 Mental Conditions and its Relation to the Colon............322 Case in which Loss of Memory suggestive of Double Personality was due to Colon Disturbance...........................323 A Case of Mania....................................................................324 Vertiginous Attacks Cured by Treatment of Tonic Colon Hardening..................................................................................324 Headaches due to reflex disturbances of Abdominal Origin..........................................................................................324 Mental Depression Associated with Attacks of Colon Pain..............................................................................................325 Colon Origin..........................................................................326 Chapter 30 Sciatica....................................................................................328 The Treatment of Sciatica....................................................328 The Relation of Arthritis of the Sacro-Iliac Joint to Sciatica, With Analysis of 100 cases.......................................................329 Plombieres Treatment..........................................................331 Turpentine in Sciatica...........................................................332 Woman with Sciatica and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.....333 Sciatic Nerve Largest and Longest Spinal Nerve.............333 Chapter 31 The Effect of Intestinal Toxicity..........................................335 Questionnaires to the “Profession”....................................335 Speciality Internal Medicine...............................................336 Speciality Gastro-Enterology..............................................336 Speciality Cardiology...........................................................337 Speciality Neuropsychiatry and Neurology.....................337 Speciality Orthopedics.........................................................337 Speciality Otorhinolaryngology ........................................337 Speciality Ophthalmology...................................................337 Speciality Dermatology........................................................338 Speciality Urology................................................................338 Speciality Gynecology..........................................................338 Speciality Pediatrics.............................................................338 Chapter 32 Bowel Stagnation..................................................................339 Action of the Bowels............................................................341 Impermeability of the Intestine..........................................345 Areas of the Colon where Cancer is More Prevalent......346 Chronic Intestinal Stasis......................................................346 Contribution to the Study of Chronic Intestinal Stasis............................................................................................350 Intestinal Obstruction..........................................................352 Stasis.......................................................................................352 Symptomatology...................................................................353 Classification of Cases of Intestinal Stasis into Clinical Groups, According to Predominant Symptoms...................355 When God created Man He Pronounced His work Good............................................................................................357 The Necessary Enema..........................................................358 Chapter 33 Relation of Colitis to Other Diseases.................................360 Pneumonia, Cystitis, Bright’s Disease...............................362 Neurasthenia and the Neuroses Generally.......................362 Gout an Autotoxis................................................................362 Relation of Gout to Goitre...................................................363 Teeth and General Health...................................................363 Relation of Gout to Colitis...................................................363 Neuroses................................................................................364 Chapter 34 Pellagra...................................................................................365 Chapter 35 Causes that Produce Diseases............................................369 The Source of all Acute Diseases as it is a Consequence of all Chronical ones......................................................................371 How to supply the Place of Medicines by Diet................371 Pathological State of the Intestines of Sick People...........371 All Maladies are Due to the Lack of Certain Food Principles....................................................................................372 Dr Kellogg on Chronic Disease..........................................372 Chronic Rheumatism and Osteo-Arthritis........................372 The Skin.................................................................................373 Eczema...................................................................................373 Psoriasis.................................................................................373 Vertigo....................................................................................373 Disorders of the Urinary and Generative Organs...........374 Foul Tongue and Bad Breath..............................................374 Premature Senility................................................................374 Disease of the Kidneys.........................................................374 Intestinal Toxemia a Cause of Senility...............................374 The Physical Causes of Senility..........................................374 Dr Bieler on Cause and Cure of Disease...........................375 Causes of Diseases of Chest................................................376 Processed Food & Disease...................................................376 The Problems with the Medical Theory on Disease........377 Prevention and Treatment...................................................377 The True Cause of Disease..................................................378 There Is Only One Cause For Disease...............................378 Here, in a nutshell, lies the Secret of Disease...................380 Microzyma …........................................................................388 Autointoxication, The Cause of Most of All Disease.......388 Internal Cleanliness is Health.............................................389 One True Cause and Not Many Different Diseases........390 Dr Ulric Gaster Williams, MD of New Zealand...............391 There are 3 Absolute Indispensables of Good Health.....391 Encumbered, Painful Menstruation...................................393 Chapter 36 What is Disease.....................................................................394 Let me illustrate my meaning.............................................397 The fact is, that the blood is an ever-changing fluid.......407 Edema.....................................................................................404 Chapter 37 Two Factors in Producing Disease.....................................419 Chapter 38 Effects of Diet of the Human System.................................423 A Note on the Work of Denis P. Burkitt............................425 Half the Chronic Disease in Advancing Years due to Dietetic Errors............................................................................425 Life is Found Only in Live Foods.......................................426 Chapter 39 Auto-Intoxication s a Cause and Complication of Disease........................................................................................429 Chronic Excessive Intestinal Toxemia...............................432 Interpretation and Symptoms............................................433 Toxic Causes of Maladies of the Heart..............................434 Chapter 40 The Causes of Disease..........................................................436 Toxaemia: The Understanding of Disease........................438 Acute Malignancy.................................................................440 The Causes of Fatality..........................................................440 Causes of Enervation...........................................................441 Forced Feeding to Increase Weight....................................441 Children Pampered and Spoiled........................................442 The Role of Attitude in Disease..........................................442 The Gluttonous Build Putrefaction in the Bowels...........445 The wise will get busy and correct appetites...................446 Retrospection........................................................................446 Chapter 41 Toxaemia................................................................................447 Poisonous Metabolic Products...........................................447 Toxaemia................................................................................448 What is Toxaemia.................................................................449 The Development and Increasing Symptoms of Disease........................................................................................449 For Toxaemia is the Basic Cause of Chronic Diseases.....450 Chronic Intestinal Toxemia.................................................451 You Cannot Heal Selectively...............................................453 Lane’s Picture of Auto-Intoxication...................................454 Pyorrhoea...............................................................................456 Tuberculosis..........................................................................456 Rheumatoid Arthritis and Loose Joints.............................456 Chapter 42 Intestinal Toxaemia..............................................................457 Stomach Disturbances.........................................................458 Constipation..........................................................................459 Natural Foods.......................................................................459 Exercise..................................................................................460 Water.......................................................................................460 Epilepsy..................................................................................460 Sciatic Neuralgia...................................................................460 Eczema...................................................................................461 Psoriasis.................................................................................461 Cancer.....................................................................................461 Prolapsus...............................................................................462 Cysts on the Ovaries............................................................463 Chronic Diseases..................................................................463 Hemiplegia............................................................................463 Relation of Cardiovascular Disease to Hemiplegia.........464 Dilatation of the Stomach on Gastroptosis.......................464 Etiology of Chronic Dilatation of the Stomach................465 Chronic Intestinal Toxemia and Its Treatment.................466 Chronic Ulcerative Colitis...................................................467 Chapter 43 The Bacterial Process in Toxaemia.....................................468 Focal Infection.......................................................................470 Chronic ill Health.................................................................470 Dental Sepsis.........................................................................471 Elcampsia...............................................................................471 Intestinal Toxemia Eclampsia.............................................472 Cardiac Arrest.......................................................................474 Eclampsia...............................................................................474 Chapter 44 Simplicity in Diet .................................................................478 Faulty Food and Digestive Tract Infection........................481 Modern Milk Baby Formula...............................................486 Milk “Formulas” List of Ingredients................................486 Fast Food................................................................................488 Defective Diet and Bad Habits...........................................488 Comorbid and Bipolar Disorders.......................................489 Prevention of Disease...........................................................490 Chapter 45 It's in the Blood ....................................................................491 Inflammation and Chronic Disease...................................492 Causes of Inflammation.......................................................492 Acidosis..................................................................................493 Nephritis, Inflammation of the Kidneys...........................493 Nephritis & Shortness of Breath (Dyspnea).....................494 In Medicine 1,140 Blood Tests Available...........................494 Index..................................................................................498

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