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| yass | Feb 9 2011, 08:40 PM Post #1 |
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I read this years ago and have tried to find it time and time again with no luck. I thought about it again lately and figured my biggest problem was figuring out the ethnic garment that was used. I was sure the garment was some type of ethnic head scarf or shawl. Yesterday I put 'ethnic head wrap scarf' into search. A wiki page I turned up kind of annoyed me because it had varying pictures of women wearing head wrap and scarves and described the nationality of each woman pictured (wearing some type of head garment) but it didn't name the scarves per se and that's what I was looking for. Looking back I realize it had the word I woke up with on the page... but at the time it didn't register or ring any bells. This morning I'd been having dreams that I wanted to remember as I was waking but it all fell away quickly except for one word, which I thought was rather unrelated to the dreams I'd just been having. The word, though, was 'Dupatta'. The word dupatta ringing in my mind after waking only reminded me of my quest to find this information and I went straightway to putting it into search adding a few more words: filtered water using old dupatta Number nine. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
A sari is not a dupatta, but that is so beside the point. The point is the word dupatta, that my dream brought into my waking moments, led me to the information I had long sought! Simple sari prevents cholera Cholera, which is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, kills tens of thousands of people around the world each year and is often transmitted via contaminated drinking water. "It's been long known that if you can control the quality of drinking water, you can eliminate epidemics," says Steven Blanke, associate professor of biology and biochemistry at the University of Houston. Rita Colwell, the lead author of the study and a professor of microbiology and molecular biology at the University of Maryland, discovered years ago that water plankton harbour the bacterium. In fact, in Bangladesh, where this study took place, the September-to-October plankton bloom is followed by cholera outbreaks. "It is naturally occurring, so it occurred to us as we did these studies that we could help people in Bangladesh - where I've done work for 25 years - [and] that simply filtering out copepods [tiny, shrimp-like structures which are a type of plankton] should reduce cholera," says Colwell, who is also head of the National Science Foundation.Because the copepod is 200 to 500 times larger than the bacterium, it is much more easily filtered, Blanke says. As effective as designer filters Villagers in Bangladesh commonly use untreated water from ponds and rivers for drinking and other purposes. "The most straightforward way to get rid of the bacteria is boiling, but that is not always possible," Blanke says. Often fuel, especially firewood, is in short supply. An electron microscope told the researchers that a sari cloth, folded four to eight times, could remove all zooplankton and most phytoplankton and the cholera-causing bacterium. The researchers then set out to test the method in the field, namely in 65 villages in rural Bangladesh, representing a population of about 133 000. When the cloth was folded at least four times, the results were astounding: cholera was reduced by about half the historical average. When people did still get sick, the severity seemed to be less. "It was enormously successful and it can be implemented particularly in areas where you don't have enough fuel for boiling," Colwell says. "The method of choice is to boil water, but often they don't have the fuel. Women collect cow dung and dry it to use as fuel to cook meals." The filtration process had another unforeseen benefit: Mothers reported that their children had less diarrhoea. In addition to being cheap and convenient, using an old sari or other type of cloth has the advantage of being easily adopted by villagers. Colwell says that when she first proposed this study, one of the reviewers expressed concern that men might not drink water that was filtered through women's clothing. In fact, the research team discovered that women had already been filtering water through folded cloth to remove flies and other visible detritus. "This offers a potentially simple and inexpensive solution to a global problem," Blanke says. "It also showed, in part, that not only with cholera but perhaps with other diseases, solutions can be offered from understanding the basic ecology, the source of the disease and mechanisms of disease transmission", (Health 24, Tuesday, February 03, 2004). http://www.sos-arsenic.net/lovingbengal/womens-culture.html |
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| yass | Feb 9 2011, 08:47 PM Post #2 |
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As more science began to enter the picture, Louis Pasteur demonstrated, in 1858, that garlic could kill infectious germs. Albert Schweizer, in the early and mid-20th century, used garlic in Africa to cure typhoid fever and cholera. http://www.holistichealthliving.com/the-history-of-garlic-for-health-and-healing/ |
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| yass | Feb 9 2011, 08:48 PM Post #3 |
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Lime, lemon nature’s cure for cholera, food-borne diseases Written by Sade Oguntola Thursday, 23 September 2010 If you worried about contracting cholera from food items like meat, fruits and vegetables on sale in the market, nature’s solution worth trying out are lemon and lime, which experts have confirmed good arsenal against the germ that causes cholera. Lemon and lime are popular citrus fruits used as food ingredients for flavouring and in fact in parts of the world such as Japan, it is common dietary habit to add lime juice to raw or grilled fish. Epidemiological studies have shown that food plays an important role in the transmission of Vibrio cholerae, (the germ that causes cholera) and different foods have been incriminated in many epidemic outbreaks of cholera. But fallouts from community and laboratory studies in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, indicated in the 2001 edition of Tropical Medicine & International Health that adding lime juice to food protects from cholera. During an epidemic caused by cholera in Guinea-Bissau in 1996, a case control study was conducted in the capital Bissau, the main affected region with an attack rate of 7.4 per cent. Cases were hospitalised patients and controls were matched for area, gender and age. Lime juice in the sauce eaten with rice gave a strong protective effect and tomato sauce was also protective. Laboratory experiments to explain the inhibitory effect of different concentrations of lime juice on survival of cholera germ in meals showed that the germ thrives in rice with peanut sauce, but lime juice inhibited its growth. According to the researchers, “since lime juice is a common ingredient of sauces, its use should be further encouraged to prevent food borne transmission in the household during cholera outbreaks.” In addition, a trial of lime juice in extinction of cholera in contaminated vegetables such as cabbage and lettuce showed that the lethal effect of lime juice on the germ that can easily be in millions on cabbage and lettuce. Researchers, documenting this in the 1994 edition of the journal of Revista de Biologia Tropical, stated that the lethal effect of lime juice on cholera germ was evident within five minutes of exposure to lime juice. In fact, they found out that more than 99.9 per cent of the initial germs on these vegetables were effectively destroyed, adding that “the time interval needed for the killing was smaller than the usual waiting time for serving food in homes and restaurants.” Given this finding, they strongly recommended the addition of lime juice to non-acidic foods, beverages and water to prevent infection with cholera and other acid-sensitive microorganisms, especially in rural and slum populations in the tropics and subtropics. Nonetheless, the effectiveness of lime and lemon juices in disinfecting foods of germs that could lead to cholera and other food-borne germs can be attributed to its antibacterial effect. Researchers testing out the antibacterial activity of citrus juices against cholera germ stated in the Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology stated that citrus fruit juices were effective in preventing infection with all variants of cholera germs. They reported that citric acid, the major organic acid in these juices, actual was responsible for the effectiveness of these juices in preventing the growth of the eight different varieties of cholera germs. At present one of the cholera germ varieties is the most important food-borne disease–causing germ in Taiwan, Japan and other coastal regions. The high incidence of food-borne diseases caused by this germ results from frequent consumption of marine foods in these regions. Although most food-borne diseases are usually sterilised by heat treatment before eating, marine foods are often consumed raw and this is the reason why the incidence of food poisoning from cholera germ is so high in such environments. “If we can sterilise V. parahaemolytics not by heat treatment but by the addition of some acidic ingredients before eating, it would be one of the safest and most convenient ways to avoid infection with V. parahaemolytics,” they wrote in the publication. Vinegar is also a food ingredient for adding acidity. According to the researchers, vinegar also works against many food-borne diseases, inclusive of cholera. In addition, researchers in an assessment of extracts of 16 edible plant species for antibacterial properties against 10 disease-causing germs in fish, stated that the use of garlic, Citrus microcarpa(chinese orange) and lime and swingle have great potential to replace commercial antibiotics that are available in the market to combat systemic bacterial disease infection in cultured fishes. Citrus fruits are among the most accepted and well preferred fruits in the world not only due to their flavour, but also for its taste and benefits in general health. They have been valued for a very long time because of their nutrition and as part of a tasty diet. Citrus and its products are a very good source of vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre that are needed for growth, development and overall nutritional well-being. It is also found that the other biologically active, non-nutrient compounds (phytochemicals) found in citrus fruits help to reduce the threat of many persistently occurring diseases. In a study conducted to know the benefits of lemon on disorders such as cancers of the breast, skin, lung, mouth, stomach and colon in animal studies and laboratory tests with human cells, lemon was found to have certain chemical compounds known as limonoids that is highly potent in preventing the spread of cancer owing to their increased availability in our body for a prolonged duration after being absorbed. Lemon has a class of organic substance called polyphenols that are present in high amounts in the lemon peel. These dietary lemon polyphenols were fed to obese experimental animals to study the effects of polyphenol on obesity. It was found from the study that polyphenol significantly suppressed different aspects of obesity such as weight gain, fat accumulation, development of high blood cholesterol level, high blood glucose levels, and insulin resistance. Citrus peel contains a range of essential oils. These essential oils are found to inhibit the growth of or kill bacteria which are pathogenic in nature. It is well recorded since ages in traditional Chinese medicine that the peels of the dried citrus peels are useful as remedies to ease coughs and reduce phlegm. http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/natural-health/11448-lime-lemon-natures-cure-for-cholera-food-borne-diseases Edited by yass, Feb 9 2011, 08:48 PM.
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| yass | Nov 25 2015, 07:12 PM Post #4 |
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Significantly, bubonic and pneumonic plagues were not the only infectious diseases in history to be spread on strange lethal fogs. The deadly intestinal disease, cholera, was another: When cholera broke out on board Her Majesty’s ship Britannia in the Black Sea in 1854, several officers and men asserted positively that, immediately prior to the outbreak, a curious dark mist swept up from the sea and passed over the ship. The mist had barely cleared the vessel when the first case of disease was announced. Blue mists were also reported in connection with the cholera outbreaks of 1832 and 1848-1849 in England. http://www.think-aboutit.com/gods-eden/ |
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| yass | Jul 22 2017, 07:53 AM Post #5 |
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They need all the help they can get in Yemen.
Might add some activated charcoal to the regimen, as long as it's not within a two hour window of taking medications which would be rendered ineffective if taken less than two hours before or after the activated charcoal. Not only helpful with diarrhea
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