The corollary also holds, however, whereby the adverse effects of drugs can be turned to therapeutic benefit in some really different – and difficult to treat – problem than that for which they were initially prescribed. Hence, the propensity for cancer chemotherapy to lead to serious nausea and vomiting proved a significant limiting aspect in its tolerability right up until the introduction, 20 many years ago, of the drug Ondansetron, which blocked the action of the chemical serotonin, which plays an important function in controlling the motility of the gut.
“My mother had been unwell for a number of years, however there was no purpose to suppose her death was imminent,” writes a lady from Shropshire. “One night, I awoke all of a sudden to discover her standing at the foot of my bed.” The telegram confirming her mother’s death arrived that following morning, the timing coinciding with her apparition in the bedroom.
The maternal telepathic intuition of a son’s death in wartime gives a variation on this theme, as Peter Hindes reports. The 22-year-previous son of his following door neighbour was killed whilst navigating a Lancaster bomber on his 86th mission over Germany. “She told us that at the time of his death in the early hours of Sunday morning, she was awoken from sleep to hear him shouting for support from his bedroom.” She went to investigate but identified his area empty.
These are, of course, just anecdotes. But Pulitzer prize-winner Deborah Hunt acknowledges in Ghost Hunters – her 2007 background of the scientific investigation of such supernatural phenomenon by such luminaries as William James and Henry Sidgwick – their findings are a lot much more persuasive than is typically recognised. She began as a sceptic, but ahead of extended, “I could feel the hinges of my brain, nearly virtually, creaking apart to make space for new ideas”.
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The gentleman, as featured last week, with severe bladder soreness for an hour right after (but never ever although) passing urine has prompted numerous further reviews, similarly unexplained, regardless of thorough investigation. None the less, a couple of readers declare that the soothing properties of pearl barley water (“rather gloopy and not to everyone’s taste”) helps to minimise the intensity of the soreness, as does consuming camomile herbal tea 3 instances everyday the energetic ingredient is bisabolah, which has anti-inflammatory properties.
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Lastly, my thanks to a self-styled “old wife” for passing on her personal encounter of a conventional remedy for the agonising nocturnal cramps to which the two she and her husband have been martyrs in current months. She managed with some problems to obtain two huge magnets from her regional farrier, who uses them to collect up utilized nails when shoeing horses. Considering that placing them in the marital bed, neither have had “a single twinge”.
E mail healthcare concerns confidentially to Dr James LeFanu at drjames@telegraph.co.uk. Answers will be published online each and every Friday at telegraph.co.uk/well being
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