Disease of hypochondria

The term hypochondria comes from the Greek hypocondros It means that "under the ribs" and actually refers to the lateral regions of the upper abdomen. In such reglones are the lower rib cage.

Hipocondral largest organ is the liver, and curiously the syndrome of hypochondria takes this name because the Greeks believed that the disease originated in the malfunction of the liver to secrete bile. The disease is that the hypochondriac feel sick and stressed, even if the doctor says no, and in fact, is not wrong, only that their illness is emotional. The hardest thing to deal with these healthy patients is that they need their illnesses because they are symptoms of other problems that simply refuse to face.

It can be a kind of defense or can function as a way to draw attention, but regardless, diseases are perceived to know that the key person is not calm in emotional level. Removed to prevent their disease, will refuse to attend a psychologist and looking to live up to the doctor who tells you it is sick, or even look at other options such as traditional healers or medicine that is not traditional, to follow sending medicines and who not to deny their illness.

The problem is that at very advanced levels, the patient is imagining your symptoms, just imagine the disease, but pain, fever, vomiting, heartburn, or any other sign of the disease is real, as he himself the causes from his unconscious. One of the main problems is that these patients are taking medications for many diseases that do not exist, they cause damage to your body that can become really sick.

The importance of the liver

In this organ of our body, was awarded more than 500 functions. Among many others, to store sugar and fat, the formation of antibodies, the elimination of toxins, digestion and absorption of fats and vitamins A, D, K and E.

Many hormones are processed in the liver, hence that when it fails it can cause alterations in the hormonal functions.

Moreover, cholesterol, from which they form the so-called "sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone), needed when the liver was severely affected, causing thus disturbances in the menstrual cycle.

And that's not all: this is a body self-sufficient, being able to regenerate quickly. Even though much of its substance has been removed by surgery, in a few months the liver grows, standardizing its activity almost completely.

Kidney Stones

The kidney stones in fact are not formed in the kidney, but in the urinary channels. They are due to the precipitation you usually substantiates existing cristaloides in the urination in oversaturation state.

When the size of the crystalline precipitate concretions is very petty, forming a powder epsecie that you edimenta in the excreted urination, we have the calls "sands." If the crystalline masses form concretions of more size, they are described as stones or calculations.

According to your chemical composition, the calculations are usually: of oxalates, of uric acid or of phosphates and carbonates.

The stone formation can be due to many lawsuits. You are sometimes about general illnesses, of metabolic type that you/they give place to an urinary excessive deletion of certain substances, facilitating your precipitation. This mechanism can appraise it in the trend to the dormación of calculations that exist in the drop and in the hyperparathyroidism. In other occasions, the calculations taducen a stasis urinal or infections of the urinary channels; in these cases they are of phosphates and carbonates. Finally, the sour urinations facilitate the precipitation of the uric acid and of your salts (urates) and of the calcium oxalate.

The treatment of the urinary calculations will be, in general, physician. You will only be indebted the surgical intervention when a calculation located in the uréter puts in hazard to the kidney, or when they are responsible for haemorrhages or of relapsing infections.

The diet will depend on the chemical composition of the calculations. In the uric acid calculations, they will be prohibited the liver, the kidney, the pig and the alcohol; and the diets will be recommended in fruits and vegetables; these patients alkaline (bicarbonatadas) waters will also ingest, to diminish the acidity of the urination and with it to increase the solubility of the urates. In the trend to the oxalic stone formation, the spinaches are outlawed, beets, dry figs, paprika, cocoa and you will combat the hiperacedéz. To avoid the excessive deletion of calcium for the urination, you will decrease the ingestion of milk and derivates (cheese, curd, butter, etc.); they will also be prohibited the alkaline ones, to avoid the precipitation of the calcium, and vitamin D won't be administered, because you favor the absorption from the ion calcium to level of the intestine, with what your rate rises in blood and in urination.

Marrubium Vulgare

Marrubium Vulgare, is a plant of European origin that in its birthplaces, he/she has varieties and possibly hybrid.

It is herbaceous, of semi-woody, robust base, generally very ramosa; it reaches a height 60 centimeters not very more or less and he/she has indumento tomentoso or target-lanate.

Their sheets are of sheet oavada, something thick, rugose, of edge abnormally dentrado - crenado, subglabra in the higher face and densely white-tomentosa in the inferior one, from 3 to 5 centimeters long.

Their flowers are petty, of white corolla hardly salient of the chalice, prepared in spherical axillary verticiclos.

He/she lives in spontaneous state in almost everybody. It is easy to find it in landfills, banks of roads and also, near populations in general.

The horehound is an aromatic plant and of extremely acrid flavor. He/she has substances that influence on the organs of the respiration, for what is frequent that their tizanas is used against colds, bronchitis and asthma (20 or 30 grams of fresh plant in a liter of water).

Their toned and excitant qualities owe you at the beginning acrid that contain their sheets and the florid tops, being a valuable agent in the inappetence.

It excites the urinary secretions and it is recommended in the affections of the heart and of the liver.

The prolonged use of horehound tizanas has good effect to also combat the obesity.

The infusion of 10 grams, in a liter of water is spasmodic anti.

The infusions of the florid tops are more effective than that of the sheets.

The root is diruetic and it is used in the illnesses of the liver and kidneys.

Cholesterol

The blood has two types of cholesterol. One of those types is LDL, frequently compound number as bad" "cholesterol. The other type of cholesterol is HDL, also "good called cholesterol." This last help to prevent illnesses of the heart and to delete the bad" "cholesterol of the body. LDL on the other hand, lets that the fat accumulates inside the blood vessels.

If somebody has a lot of LDL, more risk runs of suffering illnesses of the heart. Therefore, it is good to have high HDL and low LDL. If the level of HDL is among 40 or more, it is at a healthy level. If it is in less than 40, he is not.
It is necessary to have present that the organism all the cholesterol that he/she needs to be healthy takes place. The same one arrives to the organism with the foods of high content of saturated (whole milk, lard, cheeses cream, pig fat, vegetable lard, fat flesh, cold cuts, inlaid) fats; and the cholesterol (egg yolk, viscera: liver, brains, kidneys). It is necessary to limit the usage of these foods since with the years the cumulative cholesterol it can clog up the arteries.

It is necessary to maintain the cholesterol to less than 200. if somebody has the cholesterol between 200 and 239, it is in risk and it is necessary that in an urgent way he/she makes changes in the power supply, diminishing the usage of saturated fats and cholesterol. For ésto, it will raise the usage of fruits, vegetables and grains, as well as the physical activity. If the you live them off cholesterol they are in more than 240, the person has a cardiac high risk and you/he/she should consult to her physician in immediate form.

To reduce or to maintain the cholesterol level in normal blood, of debit side to delete the most possible thing, the use of fat of animal origin: the most high and rich font in saturated fats. In such a case, fish will be chosen that is rich in fat desaturadas (omega 3). It will also raise the fiber usage adding to the diet breads, cookies and rice integrals. He/she will also have breakfast a bowl of rich cereal in fiber, preferably oat; and to raise the usage of dry such vegetables as lentils, beans of soy, beans, chickpeas that can be added in salads, soups and stews. It is convenient to add bran of oat in the foods like stews, to thicken and I eat element of union or in the mixture for pancakes.

It is necessary to use milk descremada and to avoid the caffeine, as well as to consume a maximum of two cups of up-to-date coffee and to reduce the usage of sodas queue, chocolate and tea. It is important to include five portions of fruits (with shell when it is possible) or up-to-date vegetables. During the preparedness of flesh, it is necessary to try to delete all the visible fat, and to the chicken to remove him/her the skin before cooking it.
It is advisable also, to include protein of soy in the power supply like part of a low diet in gr4asas and cholesterol. He/she can reduce the risk of cardiovascular illness and it is enough with 25 grs. up-to-date.

It is important the usage of dry fruits for their contribution of set up fat poli. He/she should decrease the calories serving pettier portions and in pettier plates that seem full. Not to chop foods to untimely moment or for pleasure, neither to be served in excess. It is necessary to eat slowly and to reduce the usage of alcoholic drinks. It should not be bought worthless nutritional products by temptation and less to try to take them to the homestead.

It is necessary to know that the changes in the cholesterol induced by the diet begin to the 3 or 4 weeks and they remain stable while the diet is continued. It should be controlled that the children don't abuse of the goodies, fast food, and industrial bollería. It is necessary to teach them to consume fruits in their school snacks. It is not about prohibiting, but of educating in a healthy and equilibrated power supply that he/she will help them to transform into healthy adults.