Here is a newly posted awesome qigong video with Master Liu He demonstrating an immune boost set.Therapeutic Drug Use
In the west we do not focus on strengthening the immune system as a preventative or health maintenance practice either in our daily life or within the health care system itself. In fact the contrary is true. Some of the greatest devastating impacts of modern society on the human immune system is rooted in two areas:
- the use of antibiotics used in commercial meat production and
- a health care system encouraging rather indiscriminate use of antibiotics and pharmaceuticals
From the Center for Disease Control website we find the following statistics. The total number of drugs ordered and provided during combined physician office visits, hospital outpatient department visits and hospital emergency visits in the United States in
===> 2008 was 2,818,300,000 <===
(Data are for the U.S.)
Physician office visits
- Number of drugs ordered or provided: 2.3 billion
- Percent of visits involving drug therapy: 74%
Hospital outpatient department visits
- Number of drugs ordered or provided: 280.1 million
- Percent of visits involving drug therapy: 76%
Hospital emergency department visits
- Number of drugs ordered or provided: 238.3 million
- Percent of visits involving drug therapy: 78%
And from another page on the CDC website, here's great reason to start focusing on improving the immune system:
Antibiotic use has been beneficial and, when prescribed and taken correctly, their value in patient care is enormous. However, these drugs have been used so widely and for so long that the infectious organisms the antibiotics are designed to kill have adapted to them, making the drugs less effective. People infected with antimicrobial-resistant organisms are more likely to have longer, more expensive hospital stays, and may be more likely to die as a result of the infection.
Here is the link to a great qigong set that does just that, it's called the immune boost.
Antibiotics kill the healthy flora in the intestinal tract and weaken the natural immune system of the body. They are necessary to fight infections but they should never be taken when not necessary because it weakens the efficacy the more frequently we put them into the body. At the same time, while it kills an infection, we become more susceptible to illness until our system reestablishes its natural immune system balance.
Please make comments and start practicing this or something like it for your own benefit. There are also immune boosting foods. Read, research and start eating them.
