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My 4 year old girl had tummy ache and sore throat and we cured her fast

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Last night my 4 year old girl was complaining of a tummy ache.  Maybe she ate too much.  This girl tends to eat too much.  Auntie tapped lightly on her big tummy and sure enough it sounded like a little drum.  Too much air, gas trapped inside.  Time for some gas relieving measures.

First on my mind was manzanilla, a cheap green oil, asked the maid to fetch it but they said they ran out.  I smelled liniment, no!  No to liniment!  I opened the maids room and said no to liniment ever, I said that the brand Pau that is commercially sold is NOT Pau d’ Arco the original real thing that contained the South American bark Pao d’ Arco, the Pau sold here is liniment is just plain liniment… a marketing gimmick.

My wife called on our senior nannie and she knew some herbal relief.  She chopped some red onions and juiced it and wiped the juice on her tummy.  Asked my little girl to lie on her back and rubbed some onion juice at the bottom of her spine.  A few minutes later I heard them say my little girl had puked and sure enough I saw she puked a lot on the floor.  I think this was pure gluttony.  I should see her more during the afternoons and see what they are feeding her.

This morning she immediately complained of pain in her throat, pain swallowing anything. So much pain she can’t even have breakfast.  We were having watermelon and she cannot even eat watermelon.  Bad sign.  I needed something that worked fast.

For the soar throat I got 1/4 cup of water and put 10 drops of Quantum Minerals Plus in it.  I asked her to gargle it, immitating me.  Raise her head and gargle for 1 minute each time until she finishes the 1/4 cup.  The first gargle, I asked her to swallow.  The next gargles I asked her to spit it out.

And to top it all off, my wife asked our maid to freshly squeeze some oregano leaves and asked our little girl to drink a good maybe 1 tablespoon or more from a small cup.

Our 4 year old girl went with us to her older brothers’ school.  We had a meeting there with the Eurythmy doctor for our eldest boy.

Around 10pm I asked my little girl if there was still any tummy pain.  None she said.  I asked if there was any throat pain, none whatsoever.

It feels great to be able to fix your child’s problems on the spot.  I remember with our oldest boy we were still bumbling parents.

My 7 year old woke up with eye irritation and inflammation cured immediately with Eli Clear Herbal Drops

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Our 7 year old boy was slow to breakfast this morning.  I went to him and saw him still lying down rubbing his right eye.  I see it was itching and inflamed and red.  Oh no, does this mean another missed day at school?

I remembered I had Eli Clear herbal drops invented by Mike Bote.  On the label it says the ingredients are: gotu-kola, hibiscus rosa sinensis, sebania grandi flora, kalanchoe pinnata.  Made in the laboratory of our neighbor SNBC for MC BOte Health Care, 573 Lecheria, Calamba City, Laguna.

Back to my boy, I just put one drop in his irritated right eye and I went back to breakfast.  A few minutes I checked up on him and to my surprise he was already dressed for school!  Ha ha, the Eli Clear worked instantly and my boy felt great the rest of the day.

Isn’t it nice to have these herbal things handy at home?  You can order Eli Clear directly from Mike Bote by calling his cell phones at 0922-8001790 and 0922-8593827.

Eli Clear is used for the ears, eyes and nose.

My 5 year old boy who had tummy ache now cured and had gone to school today

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My 5 year old boy started having his tummy ache last Monday morning and threw up empty fluid.  I think it was due to either bad food, maybe from the tiny oranges kyat kyat imported from China and / or that “cake” called “sansrival” that was given to him behind me and my wife’s back last Sunday afternoon and / or maybe it is because we ate out Saturday evening at a restaurant.  Maybe there is a parasite component to this upset stomach, maybe I passed it on to him as a week ago I myself had tummy aches.

What we did were these.  I gave him barefoot herbalist dewormer every morning for 4 straight days 1 teaspoon in 1/4 cup of water.  No food was given until he asked for it and we followed what he wanted.  I gave him Dr. Tam’s Miracle Tea for colon cleansing on the first day of the problem to flush out whatever it was bothering him… not much came out but his poop stinked real bad.  I ordered a temporary stop of his vitamins and supplements, the calcon 1 and 2 supplements, and the vitamin c, and the multivitamins of the anthroposophic doctor.  I witheld toothpaste, even if our toothpaste was non-flouride, and witheld soap and shampoo as well.

Our boy missed 3 days of school.  He went back this morning.  No more pain in his tummy and he seems to have a healthy appetite today.  And he was playing, running, jumping, swinging on a rope, and climbing the monkey bars in school.  All good signs that all is well.

My 5 year old boy has stomach pain and threw up this morning

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This morning my 5 year old boy was not able to go to school.  He had stomach pain.  He threw up some fluid this morning.  Not food.  In fact last night he only had tiny oranges for dinner… kyat kyat they call it.

Last night we went to an at home party.  But all the food there was contradictory to his eczema.  His left ear was beginning to act up again so as is good practice, we be strict with his diet immediately.  The party last night had everything bad for him: non-organic chicken, fish pond grown prawns, crabs, toasted bread, noodles / pasta.  The only item there safe for him were tiny oranges, kyat kyat.

My boy did not mind.  I forgot to feed him when we got home.  He didn’t ask for anything.  So he slept.  But this morning there was his stomach pain.  He barfed some fluid on the couch, then I got him to barf some more on the sink.  I told him to barf until he felt better.  I was with him throughout… kids need parental presence at this age.  He wanted to poop, but there was no poop.  He asked for Dr. Tam’s Miracle tea.  Boy knows some parental taught remedy.

Remedy I did for my boy was this:  If he were hyperacidic, I had him eat some cooked ground beef he was supposed to have for lunch in school.  I had my boy drink 1 teaspoon of barefoot herbalist dewormer mixed in 1/4 cup of water.  If he had some nasty parasite, that will calm down his stomach.  And a while later I had him drink 1/4 cup of Dr. Tam’s Miracle tea so he can poop his troubles away.  I left the house at 10am.  He says his tummy feels just a little better.  But he is playing with his sister and a visitor baby Dane.

I have 2 possible lunches for him later.  I’m making raw steak tartare for myself and there is the kinilaw tanguigue for lunch, also more cooked ground beef if he prefers cooked… and maybe some indian ghee. Let’s see.

Update: at lunch my boy was still in no mood to eat.  I just made sure he wasn’t dehydrated by coaxing him to drink fresh coconut juice when thirsty.

After I had lunch my boy barfed on the couch, the same cooked ground beef he ate in the morning, undigested.  So much for the hyperacity theory. Seems his digestion is shut down either due to parasites or some junk food he must have eaten, or the kyat kyat imported from China last night.

His poop stinks.  Had 2 movements after I had lunch.  Smelled bad.  But not much mass.  Maybe he has old stuff in his bowels.  Maybe it was that darn cake he was given sneekily Sunday after lunch.

Around 5pm my wife arrived.  I was back in the office checking on things.  My boy seemed better.  But I arrived and he got worse again.  I was frustrated to find out he was given those awful bottled vitamin C and multivitamins I’ve been having arguments with my wife against.  grrr… I discussed that this was not the time to give our boy anything synthetic, any food, anything non-healing.

The boy is not hungry, don’t feed him.  Follow his body wisdom.  He gets thirsty sometimes, give him coconut juice.  My wife suggested salabat / ginger tea, good idea, may it calm down his tummy.

Tomorrow he stays home for observation.  I’ll give him another dose of the dewormer first thing in the morning.

Television is all bad… bad for adults, bad for teenagers, bad for children

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I do not own a television.  We gave away our tiny television 7 years ago.  I own a couple of computers personally and in my company office for my employees… but none of them have television transmission receivers, no cable subscriptions.  You should try zero television for at least 1 year and see how much personal growth can happen to you.  For starters, television is so darn awful and conclusively harmful for babies.  They need personal, human stimulation and interaction.  Would you want your children to grow up st—-?

In my son’s school, Manila Waldorf, everyone knows how bad television is for children.  Anthroposophic medicine knows, all the natural and holistic healers know, anyone not aligned with profiteering from television knows how awful television is.

For starters, the scenes on TV change every few seconds… children’s mental wirings are not yet complete so they grow up damaged.  The conversations on scripted and edited television are unnatural and non-interactive, the children grow up damaged.  And children grow up to be commanded by the television marketing advertising machine… they become zombies, slaves to advertising… you see it everyday… pathetic.  Mental faculties?  Thinking capacities?  Situation analysis?  Reasoning?  Confined in the idiot box, the boob tube… laughable… but profitable!  Ummm yeah, I want to get my shot at marketing to zombies too and getting some of that cash too…

You think television only stunts children?  Television stops adults from growing up too!  In my case, I am glad that in 2005 when I got sick of eczema I was no longer a tv watcher, I was able to think a way out of the mental confines of the western medical / drug establishment.  I don’t use shampoo, I don’t use soap when I bathe, I don’t use commercial deodorants… you wouldn’t know unless I told you. I no longer yearn for any mass marketing ploy, toy, gadget, fast food… because I don’t watch any advertising.  This non watching of television has made it pretty easy for me to try out and stick to diets that I know are awesomly beneficial.  As some of you know, I promote a Raw Paleolithic Diet.  I’m the network administrator of http://www.rawpaleoforum.com , come and join us there and experience a whole new world of health.

The UK Daily Telegraph has gotten wind of just how bad television is… you won’t see this on TV, so you had better surf on over to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4074606/Two-year-olds-to-be-screened-for-speech-problems.html

Not watching television will free you from many mental shackles… TV is a selling box to benefit the advertisers and will only say positive things about the advertisers.  My in laws have a television set with no antena and no cable subscription, it is merely hooked up to a DVD / USB player and they watch movies or documentaries they choose to watch.

Not watching television is one of the first freedoms you should experience.  Freedom from the matrix of conformity, freedom of time… now you have so much more time with your family, your hobbies, expanding your mind, in more engaging activities.  Freedom to seek and expand knowledge.  There is no hope of expanding knowledge with TV as the purpose of TV is to focus your attention to be commanded to buy, buy, buy.

We escape the pollution of the new year fireworks by driving up the Sierra Madre mountains

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Again this year my family escaped the new year fireworks smoke and pollution.  This time we drove up to sleep over at the Sierra Madre hotel on top of the Sierra Madre mountains… probably still part of the province of Rizal.  Majestic view, clean, windy and pure mountain air, far away from civilization.

The Sierra Madre hotel is not professionally run.  You go there to commune with nature, not to expect  trained hotel staff and maintenance of facilities.  My wife is a high powered multinational corporate executive and was apalled at the untrained provincial staff and non-system.  I call it maski-pops… maski – papaano… anything goes.  I just told the woman at check out that the owner should hire a hotel consultant to live there for a couple of days and point out all the details that need work and to have a system made for the staff to follow.

To give you an example, this is what we experienced and my wife complained about:

  • The toilet smelled bad, even after cleaning.
  • The toilet did not have a toilet seat, we had to ask twice to get a toilet seat installed.
  • The toilet flush link was broken, we had to get it fixed by the staff.
  • In the late evening until the early morning, the water system was turned off.
  • The toilet door knob was faulty, the lock was stuck at lock, and I turned it this way and that for a minute to unlock it.
  • The staff did not hand me a key to the main door.  I had to ask for it.
  • The main door knob key did not work, nor did the other spare keys they had, our maid successfully luckily chanced upon unlocking the door.
  • The sliding windows were not maintained and were rusting and not sliding smoothly, nor locking smoothly.
  • The lights on the stairs were not turned on outside and thus a hazard to guests, we asked the staff to turn it on.
  • When we asked for bowls for the soup we prepared for ourselves, the bowls were dirty… seems to have been in stock for some time, needed dusting, we had to ask for napkins because they didn’t provide napkins on the dinner table.
  • We checked in and out without even registering a name!

Pretty common provincial fare.  I expected this level of non-service, but my 5 star wife found this attrocious.

I recommend the place heartily just for the place.  Who wants to drive to far away Baguio City to get this much fresh and cool air?  Not me.  This place is just 1 hour away from my place in Marikina City.

Call Sierra Madre hotel for accomodations at 02-913-2001 and 0919-8674985.

We spent P 3,000 for one night of non-service.  Was it worth it?  You bet.  To escape the smokey pollution of the new year, it was worth my money.  The kids are safe, no asthma, no breathing problems, no firecracker dangers.

I just heard from our maid that our neighbour across the street’s 5 year old kid has gone deaf, maybe temporarily because she lit a firecracker and it exploded near her right ear.  Not fun at all.  My in laws used to light firecrackers every year until my wife’s cousin lost his right hand while holding a “crying cow” which exploded instead of cried in his hand.

My children prefer raw beef liver versus half cooked liver

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Yesterday I had our cook prepare half cooked beef liver steaks for my children as part of my push for the tooth decay cure for my 7 year old boy.  I had the cook set aside a hand sized slice for myself but it was too late, she had already marinated it in some raw calamansi juice and fermented soy sauce. I said that was acceptable and had that for my lunch.

I handed out the half-cooked beef liver to my 7 year old boy.  He said he didn’t like the taste.  Uh oh, that bitter cooked liver taste.  I remember that when I was young.  He rejected the half-cooked liver.  So I asked him to try my raw liver.  My boy liked the raw liver.  He said that raw liver tasted much better and the cooked liver tasted bad.  Same opinion with my 5 year old and my 4 year old… or they just copy whatever their eldest sibling says.  Whatever the reason, at least they get to eat raw liver… and in front of my wife and the grand parents at that.  It’s part of the cure for tooth decay I said, that’s what Rami Nagel, Weston Price and the raw paleo diet community has recommended.  Besides, I’ve been eating raw liver myself so I have the authority and experience to recommend it to my children. And I chose and bought that fresh raw liver at the wet market, personally.