Health
Our readers ask...
"I would like to get in touch with a Romanian doctor."
Although I live in Usa, I read each and every article of your wonderful and interesting magazine. Congratulations! I do not intend to remain here because I already miss my country after only three months. Your magazine represents one of my connections with my country. I have been so impressed by the cleanness of the towns from here, I like the fact that the laws are stable and generally respected, but, although people are polite, our people"s kindness and hospitality is completely missing. Everything is business and profit. In this letter I would like to ask you something: please put me in touch with a good doctor (by e-mail if possible) for the illness that I suffer of. I have been diagnosed with polyfibromatous uterus. I"m 45 years old, I got married pretty late and I do not have children. Still, I do not want to undergo surgery. I would like to undergo a treatment following the prescriptions of a good Romanian doctor. As I do not have a job for the moment, I do not have medical insurance either and I cannot beneficiate of medical assistance in this country but for some enormous sums of money, which I do not have right now. I wish you a long and healthy life!
Elena Vinatoru - Cleveland, Ohio
E-mail: avinatoru@aol.com
"I have a secretion at my throat-level"
I am 34 years old and I was seized by a smarting pain in my throat (trachea, larynx, and pharynx) and by an abundant secretion at my throat-level. I saw many doctors: Orl doctors, endocrinologists. I underwent many cures for chronic pharyngitis and oral candidiasis. I took some allergy tests which proved that I was not allergic. The pharyngeal exudates did not show anything either. I still do not have a clear diagnosis and my health is getting worth, my throat secretion becomes more and more bothering. I have smarting and suffocating sensations and a constant expectoration. Please, I would like to know some specialists" opinion about this or a natural treatment if you could recommend me one. Thank you.
Cornel Panait
"I suffer from bilateral hypertrophy of the submaxillary glands"
I am 26 years old and my salivary glands have been obstructed, generating calculus under my tongue. I went through a few surgeries to eliminate the calculus but with no result. The calculi reappear more numerous all the time. Right now I have four calculi. There are also some ganglions formed which hurt from time to time. After a Ct I was diagnosed with bilateral hypertrophy of the submaxillary glands. I also have another problem that is my ankles, knees and legs swell. I have undergone all the possible analysis and they are good. I also underwent the Doppler scan and I have a venous deficiency, but the doctor told me that that was not the cause of my problem. If you know a treatment for this problem, please help me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Nicoleta Ivan - Bucharest
E-mail: nicoletaivan@yahoo.com
"How could diplopia be cured?"
After having been bitten by a tick, my 15 years old son was infected with Borellia. The disease is called neuroborelliosis. He underwent a treatment for curing the disease but he was left with diplopia (double peripherical eyesight). If there is anyone who knows a natural or a medicinal treatment, I kindly ask him to send it to me through the intermediary of the magazine. I"m looking forward for your advice. Respectfully yours,
Elena - Targu-Jiu
"I"ve been diagnosed with a pseudo-bulbous syndrome"
I am 69 years old and I have been suffering from a pseudo-bulbous syndrome for one year. I lose equilibrium, I cannot speak clearly and I have a slight deglutition, I cannot write cursively, I cannot concentrate and I forget easily. I cannot walk, I drag my feet, I do not answer to commands. I went to a hospital to see a doctor and I was prescribed a treatment with Oxibral, Pyracetam and Aspirin but there has not been any improvement until now. If there is anyone who knows a treatment for this illness, I kindly ask him to help me. Thank you in advance,
F.I. - Oradea
"Where shall I go in order to be correctly diagnosed?".
I write to you hoping that you would help me overcome an illness which could not be diagnosed by doctors. I have been sick for four years. At the beginning I fell ill with cystitis, marked by haematuria which was sometimes macroscopic and sometimes microscopic. I have undergone cystoscopies, urographies but with no result. My lymphatic ganglions either grow or diminish; I have diffuse pains in my entire body, I sometimes cannot control my legs, my joints pulsate terrible and they ache. I have undergone difficult and painful analyses which have traumatized me: myelographies, cutaneous biopsy, ganglionic biopsy, bone punction, cystoscopies, and colonoscopies. As the doctors could not diagnose me, I also underwent a computerized tomography after which I was suspected of lymphoma (Thank God, the investigations made at Fundeni Hospital refuted this illness). But I cannot go on like this! There have been four years of pains, blood analyses, other investigations, hospitals. I kindly ask you to help me or to tell me where to go to be correctly diagnosed. I am looking forward for your answer and I thank you.
Mihaela Ghiban - Piatra-Neamt
"My husband suffers from idiopathic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation"
My 38 years old husband suffers from idiopathic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. The attack occurs every two-three months, only in the morning, between 4:00 and 8:00. He was hospitalized at the cardiology department of the Cluj hospital, also at the Heart Institute in Iasi, and at the Zalau hospital. Although a lot of investigations have been made, no one knows the cause of this disease. The doctors he has seen say that his heart is not sick. It has been supposed that the thyroid gland may be one possibility. After the investigations undergone in Cluj, he was prescribed Quinidine - 300 mg/day (three times a day, 100 mg each). When the attack occurs, the doctors at the local hospital administrate him a larger dose of Quinidine. The situation is not improving because during the last years the attacks became more frequent. I confidently turn to the readers of the "Formula As" magazine. Maybe there is a treatment for this disease too. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Dana Nichita - Visinilor, Building 2A, apt.3, Zalau, Salaj County, tel.060/61.22.70
"Do you know any natural treatment for colon cancer?"
My mother was diagnosed with rectal neoplasm. Her bally has swollen for a week and she has terrible pains. She is constipated but every 3-4 days she has diarrhea. I realize that there are small chances but, please, recommend me a natural treatment for my mother before it is too late. Thank you very much.
Elena Magazin - 6 Cuza Voda St., Building 66, staircase C, apt.2, Burdujeni, Suceava County.
(Contact as soon as possible Mr. Nicolae Pop from Cluj-Napoca, tel.064/17.06.77, who successfully treats the colon cancer.)
"I"m looking for a treatment for ulcerous - hemorrhagic rectocolitis"
I am 29 years old and I was diagnosed with ulcerous - hemorrhagic rectocolitis three months ago (I have 4 -5 diarrheic stools, with blood, mucosities and pus). I have been hospitalized for 10 days in Botosani but with no amelioration, and then at the "Sfantul Spiridon" Emergency Hospital in Iasi, where after 11 days I felt better. I have undergone a treatment with Salazopirin, but because of the side-effects I took Salofalk. Now I feel a little bit better but I am not cured. Let me tell you that since I got sick I have been on a very strict diet. If there is anyone who has been confronted with the same situation and who knows a treatment for it, I ask him to answer me through the intermediary of the magazine. Thank you in advance.
Simona Budai - Botosani
"I have been confronting a skin infection for four years"
I am 21 years old and I have big problems with my skin. For four years, my face keeps on turning red around my forehead and my nose. For a few days I have some crusts which fall when touched. They give me smarting pain and they itch. When I wash myself with warm water, the affected areas turn white. My skin head is also full of crusts but without being red like my face. I saw many doctors but each of them gave a different diagnosis. I also took antibiotics and vitamins. The creams that I have used have helped me; after 2-3 days everything is gone but after I stop using them it reappears in a few days and this has been happening for four years. I have tried many treatments but the infection reappears. If you know any cure, please let me know about it. With gratitude and hope,
Cosmin Telescu - 15 Mures St., staircase B, apt.7, Timisoara, tel. 093/05.46.10
Our readers answer...
"I suffer from dehydrosis"
(Answer for Carmen Romanof - Toronto, Canada, F. As no. 500)
15 years ago, my nice suffered from the same disease. The very same happened to her. The fingers flash were exfoliating and her nails were wore out from the bottom. A good friend of mine showed me a plant called common celandine (Chelidonum majus), she told me that it was the queen of medicinal plants and she taught me how to use it. The plant is very good when it is raw, in May when it blooms. Take a full hand of common celandine and pound it in a wooden nut and rub your fingers with this composition a few times a day. After rubbing you must keep your fingers away from any liquid for 2 hours. The treatment is as follows: one day you have to rub your finger with the composition described above and the other day you put your fingers in common celandine infusion(a full tea-spoon of wheat common celandine in 200 ml of water - leave it infusing for 30 minutes),for 15-20 minutes. You must not wipe your fingers after you take them out of the infusion bowl, you must let them dry. You have to repeat the treatment 3-4 times per day until your wounds are cured. During the treatment you must not put your fingers in detergent solutions, vinegar or salted water. Use gloves for house working. It is good for you to be on diet during the treatment: eat a lot of fresh vegetables, black bread; it would be advisable to avoid frying and animal fats. Every 2-3 days keep your fingers for an hour in wheat husk soaked in warm water, then in home-made wine, for 30 minutes. You must not use any hand cream or ointment. After 3 weeks, following this treatment, my nice was cured. Another solved case is that of my sister-in-law. For a period of 5 years she has been hospitalized in many hospitals, having dermatological problems. From fingers to elbows she had opened wounds. She was ashamed to stay at the same table with somebody else. She got cured in only 2 weeks after having undergone the same treatment.
I have also learned of another method from my grand-mother, who was a Bulgarian woman famous for her treatments using medicinal plants and other substances. During springtime snakes change their skin. You should look for their skins in the vineyards where they usually lay. Find a snake skin, pound it in small pieces (like a powder) and mix it with home-made butter until it becomes a cream. Use this cream on the affected area (wounds, eczema, and all kind of pimples).The cure is guaranteed. I wish you a quick healing.
Eleonora Oprea - 2 Luceafarului St., building A4, staircase A, Apt. 19, Ramnicu-Valcea, Valcea County.
"What is badger fat good for?"
(Answer for Silvia Maftei, F, As No. 506)
Badger fat is a real medicine because it is very efficient in treating and curing tuberculosis, even with a Koch bacillus. Badger fat may be easily eaten, having bearable taste. I know a case when a patient with Koch bacillus tuberculosis underwent a treatment with four kg of badger fat and was cured-when the patient was 22 years old-from 4, 7 respectively tuberculosis cavities on both lungs. Badger fat is also a very good medicine for the air wave"s diseases especially for the bronchial asthma .It is eaten in warm milk .You should try this treatment.
Elvira-Suceava, tel.030/219686
"I have beaks on my spine"
(Answer for Stefan C. - Vaslui, F. As nr.508)
Let me suggest you a recipe with Daphne leaves (Laurus nobilis). The first three days: in the evening, boil over a low heat gently 25 gr of Daphne leaves in 250 ml of water for 5 minutes. Put the resulted tea, together with the leaves, into a Thermos-bottle and leave it till next morning. During the next day, take a full spoon of this tea every half an hour. The next seven days: put 100 gr of Daphne leaves in 250 ml of water and let the tea brew and then go on as mentioned above. Take one week break and then repeat the treatment. If the beaks are very old and soft (just like the knots), repeat the treatment every two weeks, with one week break, until the complete elimination of the beaks. During the treatment it is also advisable to eat germinated wheat (washed and soaked in a pot of water and rinsed three times a day - after two or three days it can germinate). You should also eat soaked rice, minced and mixed up with a small quantity of under-boiled milk and with a full spoon of honey. It is compulsory for you to drink 3 l of stinging nettle infusion (Urtica dioica) (one full spoon of this plant for 250 ml of water). I wish every body suffering from this disease a quick healing.
Saveta Barba - loc. Fantanele no.262, Arad County, code 2918, tel. 057/45.62.86
I suffer from thyroids cancer and my son has polypus"
(Answer for Angela - Usa, F. As no.509)
In 1999 I had terrible health problems. Although I was not given a certain diagnosis (I was feeling very tired, my liver was enlarged and I was suspected of chronic hepatitis), being a regular reader of the "Formula As" magazine (I have the entire collection since 1995 when I found out about it), I underwent almost all the published treatments coming from its readers - both for enlarged liver and for hepatitis, even for hepatic cirrhosis. Little by little, my health condition has improved and now I"m fine. Finally, the diagnosis was also given: hepatitis type B; I lived with it without being hospitalized and without at least one day of sick leave. Moreover, not only that the disease has not become chronic but it is cured. I would like to use this opportunity to thank the readers who published those natural treatments which were really useful to me, as well as to the wonderful staff of "Formula As" leaded by Mrs. Sanziana Pop.
In the following lines I shall suggest you one receipt for curing the thyroid cancer and one for polypus elimination without surgery. For the latter it is advisable to undergo a very deep gargle, as many times as possible per day with Lady"s bedstraw (Galium verum) and common mallow (Malva silvestris) tea. You shall use the same fresh plants (Lady"s bedstraw blooms at the end of June) to apply compresses during the night. The fresh plants are washed, squashed on a wooden board with the help of a rolling pin till you get a pulpy mass; then apply this composition on the affected area and cover with a clean cloth. As for the dry plants, the remnants from the gargle tea are warmed up with a little water, then rubbed with barley flour (you may found it at any mill or at the Plants shops (Plafar); then they are laid on a cloth which is applied on the affected area and covered with a muffler in order to keep it still. During the day you should apply compresses with horse tail (Equisetum): two hands full of the plant are put into a sieve or into a metal strainer, laid over a pot with boiling water; they are covered with a lid and left to soak. They are turned on the other side from time to time. When the plants are hot and soft, they are wrapped up with a linen or cotton cloth and applied on the affected area. You should cover this cloth with another dried one, for thermic isolation. They must be warm when applied and they should be left to operate for two hours. It would be advisable that they should be applied in the morning and that the patient should stay in bed, well covered. The compressions with Swedish bitter are also advisable. First the area should be oiled with pork fat or with crowfoot (Ranunculus) ointment (home made or bought from the Plants Shop - Plafar); then you should apply a piece of cotton wool (its seize depends on the affected area) soaked with Swedish Bitter. You should also apply another dry cotton wool, for thermic isolation, covered with a piece of plastic material and tied up with a cloth. The patient may ware this compression while at home or he may apply it in the evening, before going to bed and keep it over night. After removing the compression the skin should be powdered with talcum in order to prevent the smarting pains. Still, if there are any skin irritations, the compression should be used for a shorter period of time or removed from time to time.
Preparation of the crowfoot (Ranunculus) ointment: Heat up 500 g of fresh (not-salted) pork fat in an enameled pot and add two hands full of the minced plant (only the flowers) twice. You should wait for the composition to sizzle, and then continue to mix it up; put the pot aside, cover it with a lid and leave it to get cold over night. Next day you should warm the composition up a little, strain it through a piece of lint and then put the warm ointment into clean glass jars.
Anticancerigenic Tea: drink every day, very slowly (one full teaspoon every 15-20 minutes), 1,5 - 2 l of tea made up a mixture of crowfoot (Ranunculus), milfoil (Achillea milefolium) and stinging nettle (Urtica dioica), in equal parts (one teaspoon for 250 ml of water). You should drink a half of cup of tea of the total daily quantity (which should be kept warm in a Thermos-bottle), mixed up with a teaspoon of Swedish Bitter, before and after every meal.
For polypuses elimination without surgery: make small pieces of 15 g of anise (Pimpella anisum) in a wooden nut, put it into a bottle and pour 100 ml of medicinal spirits over it. Then leave it to steep for ten days in a dark place and stir it up from time to time. After ten days, strain the steeping through a piece of lint folded in three, and then water it down with boiled and cooled water on a mass proportion of 1:3 (1 part of steeping and 3 parts of water). You should pour 10-15 drops in each nostril three times a day till the polypuses are eliminated. The long time use of the horse tail tea is also advisable (one full teaspoon for 250 ml of boiling water - cover it with a lid, let it brew for 2 minutes, strain it and drink it warm). I wish you and your son to be in good health!
Maria Constantinescu - 9 Moldovita St., Bucharest
"I have a wound at my leg which seems not to cure anymore, it keeps on festering"
(Answer for Gheorghe Caliniciu - Ivanesti Commune, Vaslui County, F.As no.510)
1. My 78 years old mother had a similar wound and I treated it with argil. I applied argil cataplasms directly on the wound. I took the argil from Mr. Mircea Bocan from Alba Iulia (tel. 058/86.56.77). It is a very good cure and it does not imply any risk. You may also find argil in pharmacies or in the natural products shops. God help you! I wish you a quick curing.
Viorica Prusu - Tasca Commune, Neamt County, tel. 033/25.50.74
2. Although you do not either specify what kind of wound you have at your leg, or what diagnosis you were given by your family doctor, if you suffer from diabetics (this is a very important aspect) I would like to suggest you an universal cure which, if carefully applied, shall heal you from many health problems. Buy one 25 ml bottle of oily blackwort (Symphytum officinale) extract, one bottle of oily crowfoot (Ranunculus) extract and one bottle of oily hardhay (Hypericun perforatum) extract from any pharmacy. Mix up their contents in a glass jar tightly closed with a lid. Apply a thin lay of this composition on the wound three times a day. Do not cover the leg with stocking! The specific contents of these oils (alantoin, rezine, haemostatic substances, minerals etc) have a strong cicatrizing re-epithelazing effect on the wound. The wound will heal in a very short time. It is important to believe in the treatment and it will soon yield results.
Paul Nicolita - Nicolae Titulescu, Building H1, apt.7, Craiova, tel. 094/52.15.35
"My sister has a cyst on her right kidney"
(Answer for Carausi Constantin - Galati, F.As no.510)
I would like to recommend you the following treatment: take two hands full of minced horse tail (it is advisable to use the whole plant, bought from the collector himself), put them in a natural linen cloth and knot it. Then, put a pot full of water on the cooker and when it starts boiling, introduce the linen with the plant in it, and keep it there for 2-3 minutes. Squeeze it a little and press it hot on the sick area. Tide it up with a scarf and hold it for two hours. Use the remaining tea to bathe your seat. Repeat the procedure for at least one week, even twice a day. I wish you to be in good health!
Marcela - Buzau
"I would like to find out if there is any center that practices permanent depilation somewhere in Galati or Constanta"
(Answer for Loredana Dumitrascu - Galati, F.As no.510)
There is a centre in Galati where permanent depilation is practiced. It is located behind "Dunarea" Hotel. The prices vary according to the area to be depilated and to the thickness of the hair. (The payment is in Usd).
Daniela Negru - Galati, tel.036/46.29.18
"My little girl has warts around the anus"
(Answer for Elena Pavel - Timisoara, F.As no.512)
Dear Mrs. Elena, I had the same problem with my son when he was three years old. I recommend you a simple and efficient treatment: wash the area with water and soap 3-4 times a day, then wad over it with tincture of iodine and Baneocim powder (that you may buy from the pharmacy). After a month of treatment the warts will withdraw. I wish you to be in good health!
Doina Ghita - Bucuresti
"Is there anybody who knows a treatment for sudden hypocusis of perception - injure of the auditory nerve - with tingles "
(Answer for Iulia Daniela Negru - Galati, F.As no.512)
I would like to ask Iulia if she has seen a neurologist. Hypocusis of perception with injure of the auditory nerve and with tingles is the worst disease of deafening, meaning that there is neither cure nor surgery to heal it. I have been confronting with this disease for 30 years. The doctors from the Orl department prescribed me Sansurdal, but it had no effect. I have also undergone a treatment with Hydergin, Sydergin, Redergin and Cavinton. Smoking - in case you are a smoker - worsens the disease as the noises in the ear are stronger. It seems that the disease is also strongly connected to blood pressure. Victim of circumstances, I was sent to the neurologist by Orl doctor. The former immediately realized what I was suffering from and he told me that my ears were the cause of my problems that I cannot hear. He diagnosed me with comp. vestibule- cochlear syndrome. All this time I have undergone all kinds of treatments, but all of them were meant to distend the cranial vessels - vessel ventilation. Now, I ware a hearing aid and the noises have completely disappeared. Be careful to these vessels -dilating drugs because you must not expose yourself to the son and you should always have your head covered. I suggest you a hearing aid, made up according to the audiogram record that you can get from Bucharest.
Camelia Andronescu - 7A Aleea Barajul Sadului, Building M4a2, Staircase A, apt.27, Bucharest, 3rd ward
"I would like an anti-perspiration treatment"
(Answer for Cristi - Usa, F.As no.513)
I know a cure to get rid of the stinking feet perspiration for good. Buy boric acid. In the morning, before leaving for work, put one full teaspoon of boric acid into each of your socks, in the toes area, and keep it there the whole day. In the evening, after coming back from work, change your socks and wash your feet. When your feet start perspiring again, repeat the treatment and it will heal you for good. The treatment is guaranteed. I tried it myself and I got rid of stinking perspiration for good.
Petre Nicolae - 1 Arinului St., Building 46, Staircase D, apt.67, Ploiesti, Prahova County, code 2000