Sonntag, 1. April 2018

Naturalists and Biology

this i found on a friends fb page this morning:


i thought i'd share a little knowledge about it:

from the point of a nurses son and E-Course Biology Pupil with a+ grades that chart is almost absolute nonsense. i wanna see you giving your kid water to drink and light food while it's fighting with 41°C body temperatures.
it's true, fever is a response to infections. but usually its not nearly as adequate or "perfect" as you may think. and of course you have to fight the infection along with the fever.
Basically an infection is nothing more than a poisoning - on bacteria level.
bacteria are processing nutrients from your body and are basically "peeing and pooping" into your blood. those excrements are usually non-toxic for most of bacteria.
some although are exerting toxic excrements. that's when we're talking about infection.
so there are two ways to deal with those infecting bacteria:

a) kill them
b) neutralise their poisonous exertions

a) the body's own instrument to kill them is to have them eaten by anti-cells and by raising your temperature.
just that some of those bacteria are happy with higher temperatures, else evolution would have made them extinct long ago.
as a non-natural measure you usually use disinfectant on 'dead' materials as well as externally on living beings and antibiotics on the inside. as with everything you eat or drink, too much of those is poisonous as well.

b) thats what you can do with herbs, which are basically natural drugs, and chemical drugs. e.g. ibuprofene isnt just a feverkiller. it is anti-inflammatory and pain reducing as well. without the stress of pain and fever mammals are usually better able to fight infections.
ever heard of the proverbe 'a good night's rest is the best medicine' ?
it isnt coming out of nowhere.
or aspirine: actually the receipt was gotten from indians who used to chew willow leaves when in pain or use them on their sick. acetyliy salicylic acid is naturally coming from the leaves and the barks of willowtrees (salix = willowtree, salix alba salicaceae = white or silverwillow).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow#Uses


 

















 but enough of that. i guess you got my point.

Mittwoch, 3. Oktober 2012


Stell Dir vor es ist Nationalfeiertag...


...und keiner feiert!
So oder so ähnlich könnte man das beschreiben, was ich heute auf einer Runde durch Halle feststellen musste.
Leere Strassen, ein paar Leutz flanierten auf der Saalepromenade an der Giebichenstein, aber weder Fahnen noch was man den Leuten im TV und im Internet auf Video vorgaukelte.


Stattdessen gähnende Leere in der LuWu, einer der belebtesten Strassen der nördlichen Innenstadt.
Das selbe auf der Kröllwitzer Strasse: ein paar Autos, aber Fahnen oder feiernde Menschen sucht man vergebens.

Auf dem Markt und an anderen Orten war es dasselbe Bild. Offensichtlich war niemandem zum Feiern zumute in Halle. Ich bin zwar kein Nationalist, aber solche Bilder sollten selbst unserer Frau Merkel zu denken geben.
Traurig, traurig...
Ev