INDEX
• Overview and Relevancy.
  1. Arousal, and, impotency.
  2. Stimulation, and, depression.
  3. Irritation, and, comfort.

• Pro-inflammatory Factors.
  • Toxins, inflammatory response

• Anti-Inflammatory Factors.
  • Basil: An herb for anti-inflammatory response.
  • Garlic: An anti-inflammatory herb.
  • Natural Sulphurs, anti-inflammatories.
  • Serrapeptase, anti-inflammatory enzyme.
  • Modifiable Risk Factors of Aging, pdf.
  • HIV ... in the intestines.
  • Hormone Toxicity.
  • North Pole Magnetic Field, Therapy.
  • Aphrodisiacs -- Sexual Libido influencing.

  1. Overview and Relevancy.
Contradictory responses are a frequent frustration for people with CFS-ME. It may be BEST for one's health and Recovery to AVOID foods, herbs, drugs, activities ... which one very much likes and would like to depend on. At the same time, there can be foods, herbs, drugs, activities ... which one does NOT like in the least, yet one's health can benefit from these quite substantially. It is very constructive to understand WHY these differences are Real and gain the motivation to make the Choices which will get you to Recovery faster. Chances are, they will return or advance you to the point where you CAN partake of all those delicious pleasures you would like to, faster, also.

Inflammation is the enlargement of body cells: Swelling.
It is not just one process or the result of one influence.
The major contributors to inflammation are:

• arousal
• stimulation
• irritation

Arousal occurs when nerves are activated, by thought or physical manipulation, and the result is an increased permeability for fluids to flow into the tissues. This creates a swelling of the tissues. Increased circulation in the area can result in an increase in skin/tissue temperature as well as an increased redness or color change in the tissue. If the state of arousal progresses to the point where the tissue surface is stretched towards the maximum, discomfort and pain can result. This limitation signal can encourage one to reduce this form of "inflammation" either through mental methods of relaxation, distraction, desensitization, or, through the repetition of a previous procedure by which relief was experienced. The latter could be by way of some form of orgasm such as sneezing, masturbatory, sexual.

Stimulation occurs when nerves are activated, by physical manipulation or exposure. This may be the result of internal changes in the position of muscles and bones, or the flow of fluids through areas which have sensory nerves. What may be felt can be a sense of pressure, flow, temperature, vibration, or pulse. Stimulation may be self driven as something we Choose to effect upon ourselves, or, on others. It can also be the result of actions either imposed upon us, or, provided to us, at our request, by the offer of someone else, or, through a reciprocal exchange of services or desires.

Stimulation can also be effected upon us by environmental factors which activate our sensory nerves. These can include plants brushing against us as we pass them. The sun warming us. The rain cooling us. Winds providing a sense of movement, pressure, and temperature. Clothing conveying to us a sense of softness, texture, color, tightness, weight. Stimulation is usually considered to always be a Passive or Active ACTION. Depending upon its degree of pleasure or discomfort it brings to us, the result may be to stimulate into inflammation, or, to depress into a comfortable, relaxed, calm.

Irritation occurs when our immune systems mount an attack against what it detects and translates as being a hostile invader. Killer cells are sent to the area with a purpose of eliminating, or reducing, the presence of potentially toxic or injurious bacteria, fungi, heavy metals, chemical irritants, neurotoxins from other parasites. Our Reptilian Structure has initiated an emergency response to a threat and it can demand that many other normal and healthy processes be reduced, or suspended, until the invader is stopped, bundled up, taken to the door, and, encouraged quietly or forcefully, to leave. IT sometimes cannot effectively "throw out" the invader. Then, it may have to have a prison built around the offender (cyst/tumor) which will keep it confined away from the healthy cells.

Some of the processes which are REDUCED with inflammation:

• Drainage of Fluids.

• Excretion of Toxins.
  • Lymph
  • Circulation
  • Energy
  • Endocrine gland activity
  • Absence of alcohol
  • Assimilation
  • Digestion/Elimination
  • Consciousness

• Healthy parasitic populations

• Endocrine gland structure

• Rest/Rebuild cycles

• Drainage of Fluids.
  This process is a benefit when it is removing toxins from cells through the lymph, circulation, lungs, skin, kidney, bladder, and intestines. This may be less effective when the toxins are difficult to remove, with just water, and when toxin production is faster than the body can eliminate it. Without a keen awareness, access to fluids for intake, and adequate opportunities for hydration ... the illness encouraging condition of dehydration can occur. To be effective, the drainage of toxin laden fluids must be short.

• Excretion of Toxins.
  Unless one is in good physical health to begin with, fluid drainage is complicated by almost any bodily system weakness. If one is not fully satisfied with nutrition and a storage of energy, minerals, hormones, and vitamins, the duration of the immune contest will be short. This will be encouraged by ..

  1. Lymph:
     Stagnation develops due to lack of regular exercise, parasites, inadequate fluids, high cortisol levels.

  2. Circulation:
     Fluid sluggishness can develop from longer-term poor quality diet, including enzyme robbed cooked foods, refined and nutrient drained vegetables, over-oxidized stored vegetables and fruits, as well as inadequately cleaned blood due to an overworked liver, pancreas, gall bladder, heart, lungs, kidney, and, bladder. Higher cortisol levels reduce inflammation response which encourages the release of complex immune fighting compounds BEFORE they have been metabolised into simpler, thinner, fluid components.

  3. Energy:
     Inadequate energy reserves can result from poor quality nutrition, physical overdemand, hormone overactivation, parasite distraction of the immune system, and, inappropriate longer-term release of cortisol. The energy bank drains dry while preparing for a constant severe offence. The longer the defence actions are delayed, the greater the battle they must wage.

  4. Endocrine gland activity:
     Fatigue will result when there are constant demands for fight or flight responses.
     This can include long-term (years) patterns of fear, and/or anxiety. The function of these glands becomes organ uniquely depressed, or combination depressed, or, uniformly fatigued. These include the adrenals, thyroid, pancreas, thymus, pituitary, pineal, ovary, testes, parathyroid, hypothalamus. These may, together or separately, temporarily, recover, or, worsen.

  5. Alcohol:
     Normally, for health, there is no or little alcohol in the physical system.
     Its presence is increased by fermentation and putrefaction of slower peristaltic action and increased and wider spreading action of destructive fungi. Alcohol presence weakens and damages the liver and depresses dozens of its metabolic and elimination processes.

  6. Assimilation:
     Nutrient extract and benefit from foods is decreased by an insufficiency of water and other fluids necessary to provide a medium for food nutrients, digestive parasites, breakdown and breakapart acids, and, metabolic catalysts to combine in. With lower amounts of resources being converted into building assets, more become waste.

  7. Digestive and elimination processes:
     A slowing of the these results in an escalation of all of the above declining efficiencies. Lymph and blood become thicker and move with greater difficulty. Declining energy availability, and increasing CO2 (carbon dioxide) makes the requirements for efficient metabolism inadequate. Gland fatigue makes hormonal levels, emotional expression, and participation more erratic, sensitive, and intense than during earlier more normal health periods. Alcohol presence sabotages digestion and depresses waste elimination. More minerals and vitamins are used in a constant immunity attack. With fewer assimilated nutrients from an equal caloric and fiber diet, more calories may be stored into fat and more waste products may be stored into organs and fat ... resulting in less energy for activity ....

  8. Consciousness:
     Mental fogginess through elevated levels of cell toxins through influence of the above. This can promote expressions of frustration, anger, impatience, irritability, diminished or enhanced hearing sensitivity, forgetfulness.
  
  

• Healthy parasitic populations:
  Inflammation is the Pause that allows for a survival effort in the face of challenge. By slowing down many fundamental life processes, inadequate oxidation of nutrients and sufficient removal of wastes from many origins results in a fall in fluid pH levels. Becoming more acidic, the environment for the thousands of kinds of bacteria which assist us in assimilation and excretion, becomes unfriendly. As this change becomes more acute, the burning waters mutate once cheerful friends into vengeful enemies. Troublemaking visitors who would normally find the more health and more alkaline environment distasteful, now begin to take comfort in their more preferred acidic landscape. More and more health enemies take up residence while our friends leave, or, misinterpret our inability to stop flooding them with pollution.

  Unhealthy parasitic populations begin to grow and are encouraged to attract and multiply in confidence by the increasing acidity of the environment, together with the acidity which they contribute through their own neurotoxin wastes. Like fungi growing on rotting material and manure, the greater and more intense the pile of refuse, the more they are encouraged to spawn, bloom, spread, and infect. While our Reptilian Structure is struggling to stay a tsunami of viral catalysts as they turn off and shut down cells and organs, the fungi cut and pierce, initiating more inflammation. This development adds to the acidic intensification and more friends are turned to enemies and more enemies heed the call of invitation. We are increasingly reducing our assimilation of nutrients, our weapons of defence ... and, increasing our store and density of waste ... and, inflammation grows.
  
  

• Endocrine gland structure:
  These are our branch offices and neighborhood factories.
  They depend upon the Head Office to send them supplies, pick up their garbage, pay their employees, and distribute their products and manage the services they provide. That, is healthy, orderly, and a balance of shared skills. Inflammation pauses this economic program. Inflammation is like the Head Office having a new computer network installed. It is intended to only take a day or two. Most of the staff will be given a holiday, without pay. They will return with the systems all working better than before. That, is the Plan. Our immune system will repair the breakdown, and everything will return to "normal".

  Temporary inflammation is like changing a destroyed or worn out machine with a new one. If inflammation becomes chronic and acute, the Plan, runs into serious trouble. The installers and repair persons arrive and begin to take out the old, rusty, worn out, cracked hardware. They are simply to remove the old stuff, put the new into place, make the connections, and, turn on the Power. But when they start they find that the old system has been "fried" by the competition. They thought they were coming just to swap out the diseased cells and implant new health ones. That is what the Head Office executive thought was all that was needed.

  Chronic inflammation is like arriving to do a routine and straightforward action only to find that no one adequately ran tests and determined WHAT the extent and the complexity of the malfunction was, BEFORE, calling the service company. The manager at the service office listened to the concerns loosely described. It was assumed that the problem was a major, yet general, problem. The Sales Department, those Rational negotiators with the optimism of the Easy Fix, was contacted and encouraged. They, in turn, convinced the Head Office executive to buy a new system. "Just Replace It", they said. A new system was purchased and sent. No one asked the Relevant questions. No one did the Relevant tests. Everyone assumed "the obvious" which had happened many times before.

  We have a really bad mess here, NOW.
  Now, we find out that there had been an unnoticed Power Surge and that some of the infrastructure optical cabling has been destroyed. We NEED this cabling to carry the signals between the components. It is what enables our "nerve center" to function. It runs through walls and floors, concrete and wood. It is no longer just a case of unhooking some components, removing them, putting the new ones in place, hooking them up, and, GO. It isn't just a simple remove the dead cells and the junk and replace with new cells. A virus has weakened the cabling electronics and the nerves are no longer carrying dependable signals. Some of the spots caught on fire and were doused with water. Water shorted some other circuits and there were more fires and damage. The wrong fire extinguishing fluid had been used and instead of quelling the flames, it only spread them, and multiplied them.

  Finally, we are getting the damage under control.
  The branch offices and neighborhood factories staff are calling.
  They were to take ONE day off work. This is day Two.
  Now, the repair and install people are on site.
  They can't decide IF they can complete the job.
  Some are talking about tearing down the whole building.
  Not possible. Too costly. Must get this one back online.
  Could be a week, maybe two, perhaps a month?
  And YOU expect the branch and factory staff to Wait!
  They need work hours, pay checks, materials, deliveries.
  Every day the renovation lingers on, more employees leave.
  The Head Office cannot survive if the factories shut down.
  Very Bad.

  Chronic inflammation can damage your endocrine glands.
  They are waiting for supplies and instructions, and, ...
  Nothing is coming!
  Branches are waiting to hear from the factories.
  Waste begins to build up. Temporary storage needed.
  Our thyroid say OK, send some here.
  It makes nodules and tumors to store the toxins.
  This lowers its circulation and function.
  Not enough space, need more locations.
  Other organs build cysts and tumors.
  If everything doesn't get fixed soon enough ...
  This is going to be a Very Bad Mess, FATAL.

  
  
  

• Rest/Rebuild cycles:
  Our body, in good health has many rest-rebuild patterns.
  All of these include periods of cell/tissue fill and drain.
  The FILL part is a form of inflammation.
  Nutrients and waste accumulate.
  During the DRAIN process, the waste is removed.
  Blood and lymph circulation enable the cycle.
  Life is enabled by the energy of nutrient conversion.
  A key catalyst to the Action in the process is oxygen.

  For persons with CFS-ME, oxygen can be scarce.
  With increasing parasitic interference, oxygen is robbed.
  If hormone resources are low, an emergency is signaled.
  Healthy organ functions are retarded by lack of hormones.
  Emergencies trigger cortisol to release energy & activate.
  But, cortisol resources are low and slow to be released.
  And, absence of other hormones prevents co-ordination.
  Actions are waiting for energy; waiting for resources.
  Fatigue induces changes in the CO2 reaction threshold.
  Lung function becomes depressed & CO2 levels increase.
  With decreased activity, there is decreased oxygen intake.
  Digestion is slower and assimilation becomes much slower.
  A DRAIN action cannot complete.
  A REBUILD action is on hold.
  The fuel tank is empty.

Temporary, is the healthy response duration of healthful inflammation.
When the Inflammation Response is not efficient, our Reptilian Structure remains on ALERT and busy activating the components of our immune system. This keeps our pH level lower and more acidic. On ALERT, our circulation is targeted to the more essential organs and the others begin to starve. We also begin to shut down our immune systems so they do not drag on our energy supplies while we are planning to run from a tiger, address a supervisor we hate, continue working a busy 12 hour shift, get the motivation to go to a stage and do publicly speak to an audience, ....

Temporary becomes translated into longer-term, at some threshold point. These metabolic and immunity activations, when extended into the longer-term, become both chronic, and, either corrective, or, remedial. Chronic conditions can hold other normal processes depressed until those parts of the body begin to weaken and become susceptible to illness or injury. This can complicate the unbalanced health position further. It is possible from a constant ALERT position that the Reptilian Structure may reallocate the inflammation threshold into a "normal" setting of ON, with a minimal opportunity to be satisfied and turned off.

Our bodies may be so constantly fighting for our return to health that they forget what the indicators of health WERE, and just keep on fighting, regardless of their success, or lack of it. This is a secondary consideration and possible contribution to CFS-ME. Cortisol is a hormone which the body releases under the influence of stress. Cortisol stimulates the pancreas to release the hormone insulin to metabolise starches into sugars and sugars into energy. This energy is to fund the fight or flight reaction, which is expected. Like a solar energy fed battery, there is only so much charge available.

Cortisol also REDUCES inflammation.
It can be as if we have been shot and we are making the effort to get to a nearby hospital. We go into shock so we can move and focus on the directions we must follow for a safe trip. We don't feel the pain. We breath slow. Our circulation slows. But, will we survive if we drive on forever and never reach the hospital? At some point, all of our hormone reserves will be depleted. Our easily accessible energy is depleted. It takes HIGH grade metabolism to convert fatty tissue and food. Our metabolism is turned OFF. Eventually our battery of cortisol is depleted and we slow down to a stop. We must now wait for our solar panels to recharge our batteries. Yet, it IS an emergency. As soon as we have a little bit of charge stored, off we go again, slow, but moving. And, every time we stop to charge, we bleed faster, as we wait.

Arousal and Impotency.

Arousal occurs when nerves are activated, by thought or physical manipulation, and the result is an increased permeability for fluids to flow into the tissues. This creates a swelling of the tissues. The swelling may bring nerves in the tissues either closer to the surface, or, by placing pressure on them, increase their sensitivity. Increased circulation in the area can result in an increase in skin/tissue temperature as well as an increased redness or color change in the tissue.

Discomfort and Pain can result if the state of arousal progresses to the point where the tissue surface is stretched towards the maximum. This limitation signal can encourage one to reduce this form of "inflammation" either through mental methods of relaxation, distraction, desensitization, or, through the repetition of a previous procedure by which relief was experienced. The latter could be by way of some form of orgasm such as sneezing, masturbation, sexual intimacy.

Physical shock:
Depending upon the context of the experience, a physical shock can result in associations with Fear, or, Confidence. A physical shock could be a loud or unexpected noise, a slap, a sudden change in temperature (usually to Cold), a verbalization. If the shock is responded to with an anticipation of something Joy filled, the thinking of the person will trigger nerve and gland reinforcement of additional inflammation/ enlargement. Alternatively, if the experience of shock is unexpected and unknown, a reaction of Fear is likely to occur and unconsciously directed nerve impulses will stimulate the release of Cortisol, in preparation for a fight or flight alertness. Engorged tissues will, normally, quickly be drained of additional fluids, and the distraction of arousal will disappear.

Fear, Frustration, Anxiety, Vengeance, Anger, and similar restrictive emotions will have a tendency to result in the release of Cortisol. Each of these emotions provides an unconscious activation of aggressiveness for expected defensive, or, anticipated offensive interactions or physical expressions. These expressions may be acting out forms in which the person is "blowing off steam." These often fast and erratic movements of the arms or legs, raised voice, and swearing or threatening words ... can often be misunderstood by others nearby, as threatening to themselves.

If a bystander assumes the actions of the other to be a threat, and involve themselves in defensive movements, this can trigger the acting out person to target them. In the intensity of the experience, the acting out person can sense, and misinterpret, the defensive actions or words of the bystander, as offensive. Rather than dumping energy into space, it can become directed at any living form perceived to be capable of adversity or harm to the acting out person, be it a pet, or a person. This can escalate the self-experience into an inter-action, which quickly becomes hazardous to both. Erogenous tissues can quickly deflate as some muscular tissues receive hormonal instructions to enlarge and prepare for a display of strength.

Arousal is a temporary, and often subjectively controlled, form of tissue engorgement and inflammation. The subjectivity of the experience relies upon our anticipations, expectations, desires, previous experiences, associations, and, hormonal capacities. If our "arousal" hormone supply has been exhausted from either repeated or chronic responses and reactions ... there will be no supply left for positive, pleasurable, relaxed, interpersonal sharing. This, for some persons with CFS-ME, can extend to reduced or an inability to appreciate sensual touch, sexual foreplay, food and environmental aromas, and, in other extremes, bright light or loud music and sounds. It can also, and often does, reduce one's libido. This latter result is often termed "impotency".

Stimulation, and, Depression.

Stimulation occurs when nerves are activated, by physical manipulation or exposure. This may be the result of internal changes in the position of muscles and bones, or the flow of fluids through areas which have sensory nerves. What may be felt can be a sense of pressure, flow, temperature, vibration, or pulse. Stimulation may be self driven as something we Choose to effect upon ourselves, or, on others. It can also be the result of actions either imposed upon us, or, provided to us, at our request, by the offer of someone else, or, through a reciprocal exchange of services or desires.

Stimulation can also be effected upon us by environmental factors which activate our sensory nerves. These can include plants brushing against us as we pass them. The sun warming us. The rain cooling us. Winds providing a sense of movement, pressure, and temperature. Clothing conveying to us a sense of softness, texture, color, tightness, weight. Stimulation is usually considered to always be a Passive or Active ACTION. Depending upon its degree of pleasure or discomfort it brings to us, the result may be to stimulate into inflammation, or, to depress into a comfortable, relaxed, calm.

Mucous erogenous membranes are dense with sensory nerves.
They include the lips, breast nipples, clitoris, penis glans, and anus.
Almost any region of the body can be heightened into an erogenous zone through conscious and trained associations with sexuality. Mucous membranes are usually those we define as tissues at openings to the body which are exposed to the air. Here, we are focusing on the intersection of these, mucous erogenous tissues. Because these are dense with nerves, they are relatively easy to stimulate, and, to overstimulate. With excess, the then skin layers in these areas can become inflamed, broken, irritated, and sore. These tissues are susceptible to over response from exposure to hormones.

Hormones are powerful biochemicals which travel around the inside of the body by way of blood and lymph circulatory passages. They are activity messengers between endocrine organ control "brains" (such as the pancreas, thyroid, adrenals) and between these organs and the more massive activity "production" organs (such as the stomach, lungs, heart, intestines). Hormones are either excitation-to-activity or de-activation-to-calm factors. Often, they can initiate almost immediate responses through the sensitization of specific nerves in the target areas. The activation variety, when added to supplements, used as special herbs, or combined in so-called anti-aging cremes ... are intended to work with low nerve density tissues. They are considered to be "toning" benefits which can either tighten skin and reduce wrinkles, or, inflame skin to become "fuller" and more aroused.

When applied to the general skin tissues, they tend to accentuate nerve growth towards the surface. This, enables greater sensitivity, and with an ability to have greater sensitivity comes an ability to stimulate the surrounding and underlaying musculature and blood vessels. There is an inflammatory growth of the tissues and an extension of the nerves. One feels more intense sensations from touch, or arousal, and, an subtle inflammation of the skin plumps it and fills in the wrinkles to result in a smoother, tighter, covering. One is always cautioned in the instructions to NEVER use any creme or solution with hormone additives, on a mucous, erogenous area.

Excessive stimulation can result in pain and develop through an oversensitization of the associated nerves. This true example happened to a male who wanted to use a creme to assist his masturbation technique. A woman whom he shared his residence with at the time had a small jar of hormone "night" face creme. One day, incorrectly assuming that the face creme was little different than a white vitamin A skin creme, which he had used before with success, he used the hormone creme. A small amount was applied to his penis and he masturbated to orgasm. As always, he washed afterwards. This error only happened once.

Several days later, a new experience began to develop.
Whenever the fellow had mildly erotic feelings about a potential sexual partner, he began to get an erection. This had happened before, though seldom in a way which was uncontrollable or uncomfortable. Now, as his penis became inflamed into a partial erection, he began to feel pain. Soon, he discovered that the nerves in his penis glans had GROWN closer to the surface AND become more sensitive than previously. By the time he had a partial erection, he felt burning, cutting pain as if his penis had become too large and as if the skin was so tight that it might break. At its worse, some of the veins in his penis, near the surface, would begin to bleed. It was a torturous 2 or 3 years before the condition calmed back to the previous normal. During that period, even the thought of sexual intercourse was to be avoided with every effort. Any context of erotic pleasure was torture.

Inflammation can bring severe pain,
even when stimulated by a thought.
Inflammation can become more painful through the sensitization of the nerves involved. One does not have to have tissue irritation in order to experience pain. If the reverse is equally possible, a thought may be able to reduce one's inflammation. We have heard of many examples when individuals have done this. Consciously, briefly, even longer-term, they have distracted their consciousness with other activities, and the sensation of pain has slid into the background. Through meditation, prayer, hypnosis, or spiritual training .. one can reduce one's readiness or compulsion to follow beliefs supported by restrictive emotions (like anger, hate, vengeance, grief, loss, envy, lust) and strengthen one's readiness to invite and express beliefs and sharing emotions (such as compassion, openness, faith, hope, charity, love, acknowledgement, joining-in).

If you have pain, check your beliefs.
Are they helping or hindering you.
It is not whether you are ill or injured.
It is a question of HOW you are Choosing to LIVE!

Irritation, and, Comfort.

Irritation occurs when our immune systems mount an attack against what it detects and translates as being a hostile invader. An immune system hostile invader is anything which is not recognized as a protein molecule NOT sharing the same DNA (biological identity) as the host, YOU. Killer cells are sent to the area with a purpose of eliminating, or reducing, the presence of potentially toxic or injurious bacteria, fungi, bio-chemical irritants, neurotoxins from other parasites. Our Reptilian Structure has initiated an emergency response to a threat and it can demand that many other normal and healthy processes be reduced, or suspended, until the invader is stopped, bundled up, taken to the door, and, encouraged quietly or forcefully, to leave. IT sometimes cannot effectively "throw out" the invader. Then, it may be necessary to build a prison (cyst/tumor) around the offender which will keep it confined away from the healthy cells.

I experienced my first severe motor vehicle accident whiplash injury in 1977. My recently new car was written off when another driver attempted to make a left hand turn at a rural stoplight intersection, through the driver's door. The speed limit, on a Green/Go light was 60 mph. The impact was likely similar to hitting a wall at 50 mph. After 3 days in a coma, I came back to consciousness, and went home. After about a week, I began to feel intense pain and discomfort in my neck, shoulders, and head. It is widely known that after such an accident one often does not feel the effects of pain and other ailments until the reality of physical shock is released. The longer it takes the body to cope with the health disaster, the more severe the injury is. If you go past a general threshold of 12 days after such an accident and have no acute symptoms, you are likely safe without a whiplash injury. If you have a whiplash injury, yet have no immediate indications of it, the closer you approach to the 12 day threshold, the more severe it is likely to be.

After the acute illness/accident symptoms had been addressed, the chronic ones appeared. I was doing my best to return to and maintain an active work schedule. This was increasingly being disrupted with severe headaches and other pains. They reached an intensity within hours, after days of initial absence. The medical routine of the time was to prescribe drugs. After taking high dose codeine for weeks, my doctor was surprised that a) I was not totally constipated from the usual side effect of such a dose, and b) that the pains had not subsided at all. I was experiencing constant intense pain as much of the 24 hours of the day that I was not asleep. Sleep was erratic, interrupted by the pain. I was scheduled for physiotherapy sessions. The local and only available physiotherapist then used a form of muscular manipulation that was often strong enough to leave bruising, unmediated by the deep heat and other assistive modalities used. Many of his referred patients quit after the first or second session. I attended the complete 20 session allotment. No benefit.

I suggested to my doctor that we try a chiropractic approach.
Such had worked in a positive way for me previously and I knew of many others who benefited. He was open to the possibility. Options for a medical doctor of the time were limited to drugs, physiotherapy, and, seldom, surgery. The chiropractic helped, but the results would only hold for minutes. The practitioner came to the region once a week. I made other adjustments and attempts towards recovery. None helped. Eventually, I was spending most of my time at home, or, resting in the back of my truck on my way to, or from, one of many often distant clients. The pain had become a constant irritation. Once it had presented, it had never left. I had used my will to soldier on through my work and other activities. I had tried HARD to resist, deny, and remedy the pain. Nothing worked! For 18 months!

Life no longer had any joy.
Life had become a contest of willpower to survive.
Life was a duration of pain, tension, fighting, despair.
One day, in prayer, I begged for the pain to end.
The answer came to me in a total change of belief.
I stopped Fighting the Pain and accepted it as a friend.
It was there to tell me that something was wrong.

I learned to Relax and accept the Pain; to relax to the pain.
Soon, the pain lessened, my sleep improved, my anxiety and despair reduced. It would be another 5-1/2 years before I was found the Balancing Therapy, release most of my energy blocks, and, totally, Recover from that whiplash injury and remain symptom free. The fighting spirit that had kept me alive had also condemned me to inflammation and pain. Inner peace did not deny the physical reality. It did enable an ability to work with the reality and change a constant irritation into an often frustration. I got most of my life back. I used my beliefs to reduce my inflammation.

Irritation can also be of an emotional nature, for humans, and many animals. This form of irritation can be experienced as any act or expression which is associated with any one or combination of fear, frustration, abandonment, rejection. The beliefs we have and the meaning we assign to such terms and movements make them Symbols. All forms of communication are dependent upon shared symbol meaning. We if do not share identical experiences of culture, education, sources of reading, religious instruction, language dialects and idioms, personal achievements and failures, age-related and peer involvements, social contact, business involvement, authority expression, and, gender inclinations ... our communication may be misinterpreted, fundamentally. And, in like pattern, we can misinterpret what and how others are attempting to communicate with us.

Miscommunications are often tremendously energy absorbing.
They require extended periods of discussion if the communication differences are to be recognized, as relevant. More time is required to Negotiate what the constructive options can be. Still more time and effort are demanded if one is to decide upon a strategy of Resolution. Such outcomes often include changes and acknowledgements which one, the other, or both parties initially find very demanding and humbling. At times, such changes can be impossible to immediately be activated, yet alone be accepted internally. We may intellectually realize the option and its benefits, yet, emotionally find that our Identity seems to be threatened by such changes, or, that the strong simplicity of decades old accepted patterns cannot be modified overnight. Failures which we seem to be unable to change and reduce, become irritations. Like a thorn under the foot which we cannot reach to remove, every time we move, we seem to be exposing ourselves to yet more Pain, when all that is desired is Presence.

Irritations are like mini cuts and fractures that never heal.
It seems that a major cut or break is easier to cope with mentally and physically. For those, there is major activation of the immune system. We accept that there MUST be major changes in our lifestyle (activities, diet, sleep), and, relationships. We know, from experience, that if we make these huge changes on a temporary basis, we will often be able to return to the Past reality and to the level of pleasures and stability we have learned to expect and appreciate. We know, often from the shared or inferred experiences of others, that if we fail to make the changes, or to allow for them, our lives will permanently be disfigured. We may even die.

Irritations take away most of the apparent certainties of life and expose us to an apparent anarchy of unfulfilled expectations and hopes. Decisions are less dramatic. We involve ourselves less in the outcome. The outcome falters with this lack of commitment. Inadequate resources of time, negotiation, and resolution ... often extend experiences of irritation into a lifestyle of despair and depression. Others seldom speak of their irritations, unless it is to suggest that such are resistant to change, even impossible to change. We have few cultural resources which prepare us for coping with realities in which a solution depends upon an aggressive approach to what seems to be non-life threatening intrusions on our health. The common context is one of denial. Just slow down, back off, take a placebo, give yourself time .. and the cold (virus), indigestion, or experience of anger .. will subside and go away.

Irritations are invasions of health destructive energies which keep replicating as fast as we address them. As fast as we try to destroy them with short-term toxic solutions, we encourage them to mutate into stronger and more deceptive adversaries. For the lack of a serious effort by the health departments of our governments, the incidence of chronic illness continues to escalate. For the pride of medical institutions to rest on their capacity to address acute health problems, the chronic ones are pushed aside as unimportant. For the passivity and ignorance of most citizens, WE allow ourselves to be sidelined out of the reality of life, as if we are playing a game with rules of justice and fairness. Irritations suck the life out of us by constantly draining away our ability to be self-sufficient and involved. Like the cortisol of the CFS-ME person, our energies are drained out of our lives with endless emergencies being presented to us for which we have no awareness to discern a relevant answer, no resources to effect a solution, and no support or acknowledgement from others to bridge the setbacks.

Comfort is only maintained when one remains aware, informed, involved, and joyful. With the complexity that is the Reality of CFS-ME, a Package of Illnesses, it is most difficult for anyone with it to reach an awareness, become informed, maintain involvement, or, experience Joy. With so many irritations, apparent inconsistencies, and lack of energy as a foundation, one's progress towards Recovery will often depend upon the assistance of others, who, have never had and do not understand what CFS-ME is. This is an impossible equation. If you find this material relevant, share it with others who do not have CFS-ME, yet. Encourage them to become aware of how THEIR loss of Comfort and Joy could lead to their loss of Libido.

Pro-inflammatory Factors. The following stimulate the increase of fluid in one's cells for a variety of purposes. More fluid may be triggered by a substance which is metabolically too strong, thick, unripe, or tissue complex for simple digestion (HFCS, borage oil, black current seed, eggplant, EPO, green peppers, vegetable oils, GLA). Some of these substances may require large amounts of energy in order to afford a metabolism of complex molecules (dairy, meat, eggs, shellfish). Still others, may normally be over-acidic in digestion.

• Hot temperatures
• Borage Oil
• Black Current Seed
• Dairy
• Eggplant
• Eggs
• Evening Primrose Oil (EPO)
• Green pepper
• High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
• Linoleic acid (GLA)
• Meats, High fat (grain-fed)
• Shellfish
• Tomatoes
• Vegetable oils
• Arousal/stimulation
• insect stings
• cuts, scratches
• bacteria
• fungi
• viruses

Herbs: depending upon quantity
• anise
• ashwaganda
• broomweed
• caffeine
• clove
• cacao
• country mallow
• clavohuasca vine
• ginseng, Asian/Siberian
• lavender
• licorice
• Oregon grape
• Spanish Fly

Prescription Drugs:
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• capecitabine
• levaquin
• oxycontin

• Environmental pollution: air, water, food
• Electromagnetic pollution/noise
• Cultural pollution:
  fears, restrictions, expectations, frustrations, anxieties, guilt, abandonment, ....

Stimulants and irritants are often substances which encourage inflammatory responses. Sometimes, it is the quantity of a stimulant which determines WHEN it will become an irritant. Ultimately, if you have CFS-ME, you are best to AVOID anything in these lists which you are unwilling, too lazy, or too fatigued to test yourself on. And, you can always ask someone else to do the checking for you, some, or all, of the time.

Dosages:
Taking a higher dose of anything for a constant (versus pulsed) duration and for a longer (weeks/months) duration (versus days or weeks) can encourage one's Reptilian Structure to reset its production threshold for that form of substance. If this happens, dependency and addiction will result, until the setpoint is readjusted back to a more relevant level.

Toxins, inflammatory response,
and the label "auto-immune condition".
A commentary by Dr. Ronald Drucker, (BS, MTASCP), DC,
From: http://www.molocure.com/inflammation.shtml

Digestive disorders, regardless of whether gastritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, constipation, diarrhea etc. share some features in common. In particular, these digestive disorders all share an inflammation of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract as part of their patho-physiological picture. Yet it is critical that we understand that the process of inflammation plays a key role in the body's attempts at detoxification, ridding the body of damaged and abnormal tissue and removing free radicals. ...

Informed independent researchers understand that if the detoxification process (as represented by the inflammatory response) is successful, a healing takes place and health is restored. If the detoxification process is chemically blocked, a focal lesion results at the place where the inflammatory process is unable to move forward to completion in its task of detoxification. Extended "treatments" of this chemically blocking nature can lead to severe and widespread tissue and organ damage at which time the patient is "recommended for surgery." Ironically, when the body is given proper support and stimulus, the inflammatory process can be brought under control while being allowed to accomplish it's goal of natural detoxification without chemical interference.

The process of inflammation is the body's desperate attempt to rid itself of harmful toxins, when the body's natural mechanism for detoxification, primarily the immune system, is not functioning properly or over burdened. Ideally, when inflammatory symptoms occur, the body should be aided via a gradual, gentle and non-irritating detoxification process, ridding the body of toxins which are the primary culprits of the inflammation, thus reducing inflammation and stress to the immune system, while simultaneously balancing and restoring proper immune function to alleviate auto-immune response. ...

The basic functions of the cell membrane are to take in nutrients (nutritive function), excrete waste products (detoxification function) and identifying "self" from "foreign" (immunological function). Glucopolysaccrides such as those found in a highly concentrated form in A.M.P. Molo-Cure, are essential components of the cell membrane, without which it could not function. To a large degree, the quality of the cell membrane and it's glucopolysaccrides determines it's ability to perform these vital functions.

Anti-Inflammatory Factors
These TEND to assist the body in cleansing itself of toxins.

• Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA)
• Enzymes
• Fish (cold water), salmon
• Flaxseeds
• Glucopolysaccrides
• Hempseeds
• Krill
• Meats, Low fat (grass-fed)
• MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane)
• Omega-3 fatty acids
• Onions
• Prostaglandins
• Serratiopeptidase enzyme
• Tuna
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin K
• Zinc

Herbs: depending upon quantity
• astragalus
• barberry root bark
• Basil
• bilberry
• blueberry leaf
• burdock root
• dandelion
• evening primrose
• Garlic
• ginseng, Asian/Siberian
• goldenseal
• rosemary
• Turmeric, curcumin
• Yarrow

birth control pills (no menstruation)

coma

Exercise (when not to excess)

fainting

laughter

orgasm (sneeze, cough, sexual, vomit)

salt (when not to excess)

Emotions of restriction

alcohol (self-destructive)

caffeine (self-sabotaging)

nicotine (self-defeating)

Cold temperatures

Prescription and Common Drugs:
• aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen
• hydrocortisone [cortisol]
• cyclosporin,
• Diclofenac,
• Licofelone,
• betamethasone,
• dexamethasone (sodium phosphate)
• methylprednisolone (acetate salt)

Gold (capture sulfur)

Lead (capture sulfur)

Mercury (capture sulfur)

Calm, Contentment, and Depression, can also be side benefits or disadvantages of anti-inflammatories. If they contribute to your life quality, they are a benefit. Some, like heavy metals, will depress organ functions, and thereby retard excretion of wastes and disrupt healthy hormone levels. This form of anti-inflammatory will impose, or encourage, constrictive emotions and mental confusion. Some anti-inflammatories may reduce some symptoms which are unhealthy when chronic, yet increase other symptom presence which are unhealthy in the shorter-term.

Dosages:
Taking a higher dose of anything for a constant (versus pulsed) duration and for a longer (weeks/months) duration (versus days or weeks) can encourage one's Reptilian Structure to reset its production threshold for that form of substance. If this happens, dependency and addiction will result, until the setpoint is readjusted back to a more relevant level.

Basil: An herb for anti-inflammatory response.

Basil is an herb with many health benefits. It has highly fragrant leaves and is often used in cooking with tomato.
There are more than 60 varieties of basil, all of which differ somewhat in appearance and taste. The oils in basil are highly volatile. It is best to add the herb near the END of a cooking process, so it can retain its maximum essence and flavor. Basil is a good source of nutrients: calcium, dietary fiber, iron, magnesium, manganese, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin K, and potassium.

The eugenol component of basil's volatile oils can block the activity of an enzyme called cyclooxygenase (COX), just like many non-steriodal over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDS), including aspirin and ibuprofen, as well as the commonly used medicine acetaminophen do. Two varieties of Basil that are widely used in Ayurvedic medicine have been scientifically shown to reduce inflammation and swelling.