Show home remedies reme es often prevent eilt finding cause by DR JAMES W BARTON released by western newspaper union t WHEN W HEN you you have a headache you may take as birin caffeine or other pain relieving drug in a short time the 11 dis d or is so dulled that HEALTH you are not in COLUMN any distress L similarly you may get a pain in the stomach which you think is due to gas and a hau half teaspoon of baking soda may give relief perhaps you have attacks of dizziness with nausea and vomiting thinking this is due to sluggish liver and gall bladder you take one or two teaspoons of epsom salts any itching anywhere in the the body Is treated with a solution of baking soda or the application of some ointment any ache or pain dr barton in joints or muscles is treated by heat together with some pain relieving drug your physician is not likely to criticize any of the above methods methodi of treatment except taking epson epsom salts or other purgative for the pain in the abdomen the abdominal pain might be appendicitis and taking a purge is the cause of most deaths from this ailment in other words the taking of a home remedy occasionally is not likely to do much harm or hide any underlying ailment where the harm does occur however is the taking of a drug regularly or often for some ailment because the drug relieves the symptoms for the time being drug obscures the reason why is the taking ot of a drug regularly likely to do harm there must be some reason for the headache the pain in abdomen the nausea and vomiting the intense itching if a drug is taken regularly and relief obtained the cause of the ailment is not sought and the condition may become progressively worse even dangerous thus the headache may be due to anemia or high blood pressure pain in stomach to ulcer pain in abdomen to gall bladder disease or constipation the point then is that while the use of home remd iea occasionally should cause little or no harm symptoms which occur regularly or even irregularly but often should not be treated with pain killing drugs A visit to your physician and dentist to find the cause of the symptoms is the sensible thing to do drug addicts not physical weaklings Wea klings 0 NE of the impressions of drug addicts many of us have is that they are thin undersized pale individuals vi duals and we are apparently jus us in this belief because of the pale appearance and hollow eyes present in so many of them it is only natural therefore that we think of them as becoming addicted to drugs because they are weak physically even if not weak mentally it may come as a surprise 4 therefore to learn that a study of the body build of drug drua addicts shows that they are not weak del delicate acate individuals dividu divi duals als but are of normal build dr R R brown in public health reports washington D C re reports ports the results of his studies of native white addicts following their admission to the united states penitentiary annex fort leavenworth kan every case was definitely proved to be a drug addict not just an occasional user of the drug measurements were taken of the unclothed patients and a record made of appearances it was found that these drug addicts were not of the weak thin undersized der sized type but were slightly above the average in both bei height and weight under treatment at the institution ution there was an average gain in weight ot of about 6 pounds aft after r 5 months what does docs the above teach us the lesson for all of us is that the is no not t due du temptation to use drugs to grass gross constitutional weakness of the body it is something wro wren ng that in makeup u our character or makes us want to use a to ug to put P us in a dream state so that we do noi have to face difficulties and trials |