“Windows of the soul,” the poet said of the eyes. With this observation we have no quarrel, but from a more practical standÂpoint, doctors have found the eye an extremely important weather vane for the detection of diseases or disturbances elsewhere in the body.
Prominent among these are certain disturbances which are due to disturbances within [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Eye Diseases and Colitis
Liver Damage Gall Bladder Disease and Colitis Disease
If you will recall in one of the first posts in how to control a crazy colon I pointed out that the food digestion tract was a hollow tube that passed through our anatomy in a peculiarly intimate manner. In this tube or canal, food was passed on by the act of swallowing and into [...]
Amebic Dysentery and Colitis
The lowly ameba so familiar to high school students in biology has a famous cousin, technically known as the ameba histolytica. This microscopic animal is the cause of amebic dysentery, one of the diseases dreaded by folks who live or travel in the jungle. To anyone acquainted with the tropics and of the difficulties and [...]
Skin Diseases, Liver Spots and Colitis
Liver spots are light brown patches of irregular shape and size which usually appear on the skin of the face, on the cheeks, and over the bridge of the nose, though they may occur anywhere else on the body. Their occurrence has traditionally, though without scientific basis of fact, been associated with disorders of the [...]
So You’re Psychosomatic! (Nervous Breakdown and Colitis)
A time there was when many of the hidden ailments of the colon were considered merely the “vapors” or vagaries of the mind. People who were prone to be sensitive were observed also to be prone to vague abdominal distress. The logical deduction seemed to be that since this distress was due to their sensitive [...]
Bladder Cystitis Trouble, “Weak Kidneys” and Colitis
An ailment, cystitis, distressingly frequent among women, has as its chief symptom a markedly increased desire to urinate frequently. This act is attended with much distress and often with a sharp or burning painful sensation. Not infrequently the condition of bladder cystitis costs the patient a good night’s sleep because of the frequency with which [...]
