annoying legislation watch
Seasonal
Pending Food Safety Bill Could
Harm Organic Farmers
allergies? A
national food safety bill called the Food Safety
Enhancement Act of 2009 was passed by the
U.S. House of Representatives in July and now goes
Give Homeopathy a Try
to the Senate. It gives the Food and Drug Administra-
S
tep out into the evening air for a
tion more power to deal with food safety problems,
nice walk on the arroyo, and 20
but it also imposes a costly one-size-fits-all regulatory
minutes later you have a headache.
scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers, the same as if they were
Wake from a sweet sleep with a cool
multinational corporations. As it now stands, the bill threatens to undermine
morning breeze, and next thing you
organic farmers and others producing for local markets, advises the Organic Con-
know you are sneezing. These and
sumers Association (OrganicConsumers.org), and could easily put many small
other symptoms such as itchy eyes, ir-
farms out of business. OCA advocates: “H.R. 2749 needs to draw a clear line
ritating tickly cough, and stuffy sinuses
between small local growers and industrial/factory farms and processing plants,
are common allergic responses. Some-
where food-borne pathogens incubate, flourish and spread.”
times a homeopathic solution is only
minutes away.
In homeopathic treatment, the
Doodling aids Memory
cause of the allergy is not the deciding
factor when choosing a remedy. The
D
oodling might imply a wandering mind, but
according to a study published in the journal
symptoms, whether caused by cham-
Applied Cognitive Psychology, the contrary is true;
iso, juniper, lava dust or some other
doodling can actually help people remember details.
irritant, point to the right medicine.
Study participants who were directed to doodle
When repeated sneezing is the
while listening to a dull phone message demonstrated
most prevalent symptom, try Sabadilla
a 29 percent improved recall compared with their
first. Especially during hay fever sea-
non-doodling counterparts. “If someone is doing a
son, a person needing Sabadilla may
boring task, they may start to daydream. Daydream-
also have a craving for lemons! If you
ing distracts them from the task, resulting in poorer
find clear burning mucous and lots of
performance,” explains study co-author Jackie An-
it; and very watery (but not burning)
drade, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of Plymouth, in England.
eyes, Allium Cepa should be the first
“A simple task, like doodling, may be sufficient to stop daydreaming without af-
choice. Opposite to that, however, is
fecting performance on the main task.” It turns out that in everyday life, doodling
Euphrasia. Choose this medicine for
may be something we do because it helps us stay on track.
very watery and burning eyes with a
bland nasal discharge and a daytime
Source: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
cough.
When headaches are the most
bothersome symptom of allergies, two
directions are usually common. For a
stuffy headache that comes with runny
nose or clogged nose, again, Allium
Cepa may come to the rescue. Many
people, however, have a very dry
burning sensation in the sinuses with a
sleepy, drowsy headache. Phosphorus
may help and so may sulphur.
Provided by Donna J Caulton, MSN,
and family nurse practitioner. Her clas-
sical homeopathic medicine, Life Rem-
edies, is in Espanola, NM. For more
information call 505-753-9296 or visit
DCaultonHomeopathy.blogspot.com.
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