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Music as Medicine for Dementia After four months of Maguire’s singing regimen, test subjects demonstrated remarkable improvements in cognition.
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inda Maguire is an internationally renowned musician with a red-carpet career spanning 23 years. She has done more than 80 live radio
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We love this chickpea dish for its versatility. Prep a big batch and then enjoy it all week in a variety of ways. This is our vegan and gluten-free version of a healthy tuna or chicken salad, loaded with protein, fiber. and omega-3s (healthy fat). It takes five minutes to toss together, and you can enjoy it so many ways. Try serving it over a chopped spinach salad, make a “melt� on a slice of Ezekiel bread or a tortilla, fold in some chopped avocado, or enjoy it in a cabbage or collard green wrap. It is even delicious on its own as a side dish—so many possibilities. Don’t forget school lunches. Kids gave their stamp of approval too! Double the recipe below if you are prepping a larger batch. It stores for a week in the fridge or longer if you keep it in the freezer. Prepping ahead saves us time and money and helps reduce stress and meal-time struggles. We also love to get our kids involved in
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• 1 can (15 ounces) chickpeas, rinsed well, or about 2 cups cooked chickpeas • 2 tablespoons vegan mayonnaise • 1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon mustard • 1 medium size cucumber, chopped • 1/2 small red onion, thinly chopped • 1/2 cup black olives, chopped • 1 tablespoon hemp seeds • 1 teaspoon flax seeds • 1/2 cup dried currants
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DIRECTIONS Pulse in a blender or Vitamix: chickpeas, mustard, and mayo for two to three pulses. You want it to be rough, not creamy. Then pour into a bowl and mix all the remaining ingredients together. Garnish with microgreens and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Enjoy! Thanks to Elizabeth Stein of Purely Elizabeth for the inspiration.
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pain may benefit too. A rosemary bath, for example, has been used for centuries to treat stiff, painful joints. Problems of the liver and gallbladder— two organs that are often prone to congestion—have long been treated with rosemary. The herb is believed to soothe inflammation throughout the entire circulatory system, balance blood pressure, and prevent atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
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Preservative and Antioxidant Before refrigeration, rosemary played an important role in preserving meat and fish. Today, rosemary is still used in modern food production to lengthen the shelf life of baked goods, pet food, and other products. The food-preserving aspect of rosemary is thanks to an antioxidant known as carnosic acid, which has also been found to protect the brain from free radical damage. These free radicals have been linked to stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. Another antioxidant found in rosemary is rosmarinic acid, which acts as an antibacterial, antifungal, and antiinflammatory. This makes rosemary a good remedy for treating infections.
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Rosemary is one of the most important plants in ancient Greek herbalism and remains one of the top herbs in the modern spice rack. The name comes from the Romans who called it rosmarinus, which is Latin for “dew of the sea”—possibly a reference to its periwinkle-blue flowers. Rosemary has many applications, but it’s best known for memory. Shakespeare makes mention of this in “Hamlet,” but the connection came way before him. In ancient Greece, for example, students studying for exams would braid rosemary garlands into their hair to help with recall during tests. Many ancient herbalists familiar with rosemary recommended it for a weak or failing memory. Seventeenth-century herbalist Nicholas Culpeper was probably the most blunt. He wrote that rosemary was for “cold diseases of the head and brain,” including “dullness of the mind,” as well as “stupidness, the dumb palsy, or loss of speech.” The association to memory was so strong that the plant became a symbol of remembrance. Throughout Europe and Asia, rosemary was placed on graves to remember the dead, and men embarking on a journey might find sprigs of rosemary in their pockets so that they wouldn’t forget their wives back home. Rosemary’s memory-enhancing reputation remains strong today. One study from 2013 found that simply sniffing rosemary improved memory as much as 75 percent. Other research has found that rosemary prevents the breakdown of acetylcholine—a neurotransmitter connected with memory and learning.
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HOW TO USE Before refrigeration, rosemary played an important role in preserving meat and fish.
Circulation One aspect of rosemary’s memory-enhancing power comes from its ability to increase circulation, particularly to the head. Rosemary is warming and stimulating. In other words, it makes blood move. Rosemary’s knack for increasing blood flow not only improves cognitive function and lifts depression, but it relieves pain as well. Rosemary has long been used as a headache remedy, but other parts of the body suffering from
Culinary. Like other mints, rosemary is a favorite to flavor food. It’s approved by the German Commission on medicinal herbs to treat digestive issues, and it has a unique flavor: pine-like with a touch of sweetness. It pairs well with chicken, fish, tomato sauce, and particularly potatoes, but a little goes a long way. When using fresh rosemary, you can pluck the needle-like leaves off the woody branch and chop them finely, or if you’re making a soup or stew, toss the whole sprig in the pot and let it simmer. Remove before serving. As always, fresh is best, but the dry stuff will
work in a pinch, provided it cooks for long enough to soften. Otherwise, the sharp, dry needles can be unpleasant to eat. Incense. One way to release rosemary’s essential oils is through fire and smoke. The ancient Greeks often burned bundles of fragrant rosemary, and the tradition has continued ever since. Rosemary was burned to keep away evil spirits and in religious rituals when frankincense and myrrh were too expensive or hard to come by. An old French word for rosemary is “incensier.” Up until World War II, French hospitals burned rosemary and juniper to prevent infection. Bath and Massage. Rosemary is one of the least expensive essential oils on the market, but it should be reserved for external use only. Add a few drops to hot water for an invigorating bath, or add to coconut, almond, or olive oil for massage. Applied to the scalp, rosemary oil helps increase circulation to the hair follicles, offering a potential treatment for hair loss. Tea. You can brew up a cup of rosemary tea for headache, digestive problems, or just as a gentle morning pick-me-up in place of coffee. Boil water, drop in a sprig, turn off the heat, and cover to preserve the essential oils. Steep for at least 10 minutes. For a green herb, it makes a surprisingly red tea. Used properly, rosemary is a safe herb, but don’t overdo it. One or two cups of tea a day is plenty. Too much too fast may cause diarrhea or headaches. Some women use it to bring on a period, so it’s wise to avoid in medicinal doses during pregnancy. A little in food is fine, however. If you can’t stand the taste, or if making tea is not convenient, rosemary is also available in pills and tincture. Contact a qualified health care practitioner for an appropriate dose. Grow Your Own Like other mints, rosemary is very easy to grow, and you’re more apt to use it if there is a fragrant plant nearby. In warm climates, it’s green year round. In cold climates, this Mediterranean native must come indoors for the winter. It must be watered regularly for a couple weeks when it is first planted, but once it’s established, it is extremely drought-tolerant. In fact, don’t water an established plant too often because rosemary is prone to root rot.
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• Sit on a low bench or your foam roller so that you are as low as comfortable, and your knees are above your hips. Press your low back and head tightly to the wall. • Place the back of one wrist on the wall and slide it up toward your head, so the arm comes as close to vertical as possible. Hold your arm here for a second. • Slide the wrist back down keeping it in contact with the wall the whole time. • First master one arm. Then do two at a time. No need to rush. Focus on slow and methodic movement.
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The good old down dog from yoga can make big improvements in your ability to reach overhead. When you’re in position, keep these points in mind: • Extend your arms, fully pressing your palms into the floor with the fingertips spread. • Extend your lower back as much as you can. • Push your chest toward the floor. • Flex your knees to decrease tension in the hamstrings. This will allow a for a straighter and more extended spine.
Hold for three to five seconds at first. To rest in between, use a push-up plank or set your knees on the floor. Try to build up to holding for a full 30 seconds.
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Use a light kettlebell for this exercise. • Start the bell in the rack position (as pictured). Keep the wrist straight and stomach and buttocks tight. • Using two hands, press the bell into the overhead position. • Make sure that your elbow and wrist are straight when you hold and that the stomach and buttocks remain tight. • Lower the weight with two hands. When you feel stable and are painfree, you can use one hand to raise and lower. • It’s important to maintain a hard grip on the handle at all times. this will help cue your wrist to stay straight. Aim to eventually hold the kettlebell overhead for a full 30 seconds. But start easy with 5-second holds and focus on good form. Progress to 10-second holds and then to two 15-second holds. Use a heavier weight when you can hold 30 seconds with great form.
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Many dread the approaching winter—the darkness, frigid weather, and lower energy levels that blow in along with cold fronts and snowstorms. Inundated with headlines of looming “snowpocalypses,â€? most will begrudgingly grit out the winter months, grinding through dreary doldrums of January and February and counting down the days until spring. Some even succumb to seasonal aective disorder, a form of depression that tends to occur at higher rates in colder regions and is hypothesized to be related to the lack of daylight in those regions. But what about people who live in the coldest parts of the world, where the winters are longest and the summers fleeting? Do they similarly dread the winter? Or could they oer clues about how to avoid the wintertime blues? In August 2014, I moved to Tromso, Norway, an island of 70,000 people located over 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Tromso’s location is so extreme that they experience two months of “polar nightâ€? each year—when the sun does not rise above the horizon. Yet despite the extreme winter conditions, studies have shown that residents of Tromso do not experience as much seasonal depression and wintertime mental distress as you might expect. To try to figure out why, I spent 10 months studying how people in Tromso cope with— and even thrive during—the long, dark winters. My research led me to a surprising conclusion: Perhaps the psychological concept of mindset is the reason for their winter well-being. After arriving in Tromso, I was terrified at the thought of the impending winter. Months of friends and family telling me how they could “never move some place so cold and darkâ€? because the winter makes them “so depressedâ€? or “so tiredâ€? had me bracing for the worst-case scenario. But it didn’t take long for me to realize that most residents of Tromso weren’t viewing the upcoming winter with a sense of doom. In fact, to many locals, the original question I’d planned to ask—“Why aren’t people in Tromso more depressed during the winter?â€?—didn’t make sense. Most people I spoke to in Tromso were actually looking forward to the winter. They spoke enthusiastically about the ski season. They loved the opportunities for coziness provided by the winter months. As I experienced firsthand Tromso residents’ unique relationship to winter, a serendipitous conversation with Alia Crum, assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University, inspired me to consider mindset as a factor that might influence Tromso residents’ sunny perspective of the sunless winter. Crum defines mindsets as the “lenses through which information is perceived, organized, and interpreted.â€? Mindsets serve as an overarching framework for our everyday experiences—and they can profoundly influence how we react in a variety of situations. Crum’s work has shown that mindsets significantly influence both our physical and mental health in areas as diverse as exercise, stress, and diet. For example, according to Crum’s research, individuals can hold the mindset that stress is either debilitating (bad for your health and performance) or enhancing (motivating and performance-boosting). The truth is that stress is both. It can cause athletes to crumble under pressure and lead
CEOs to have heart attacks, but it can also sharpen focus and critical thinking, giving athletes, CEOs, and the rest of us the attention and adrenaline to succeed in high-pressure situations. According to Crum’s work, instead of the mere presence of stress, it is our mindset about stress—whether or not we perceive it as a help or a hindrance—that contributes most to health, performance, and psychological outcomes. After speaking with professor Crum, I began to wonder: Could it be that residents of Tromso possess a positive wintertime mindset, which allows them to not only persevere but also thrive during the polar night? Along with my advisor at the University of Tromso, Joar Vitterso, I developed a preliminary “Wintertime Mindset Scaleâ€? to measure how residents of Tromso view the winter. The Wintertime Mindset Scale asked our survey participants to agree or disagree with items such as “There are many things to enjoy about the winter,â€? and “I find the winter months dark and depressing.â€? The results of our study in Norway found that having a positive wintertime mindset was associated with greater life satisfaction, willingness to pursue the challenges that lead to personal growth, and positive emotions. This preliminary study has raised many new questions about the role mindset might play in seasonal wellness. Research indicates that 6 percent of the U.S. population suers from seasonal aective disorder, a form of major depression with a recurring seasonal pattern, which most often occurs during the winter months. Another 14 percent suer from a lesser pattern of seasonal mood changes known as the “winter blues.â€? These statistics are certainly troubling and raise questions about preventing and curing winter depression. But what about the other 80 percent of the U.S. population? Even excluding residents of sunny regions like Florida and California, the vast majority of Americans who live through the winter every year don’t get seasonal depression. Our pilot data suggest that the concept of wintertime mindset could add a positive component to the discussion of seasonal wellbeing, and that mindset may be an important addition to the theoretical and practical discussion of seasonal wellness. However, more research is needed to both refine the Wintertime Mindset Scale and further validate these initial findings. Back on the U.S. East Coast for the holidays, the chill in the air and the early nightfall already had some of my friends and family grumbling. But I was able to convince at least some of them to find what they love about winter and lean into it. Looking at winter as an opportunity rather than a burden can help people enjoy all that the season has to oer. I pointed out that Norwegians embrace the idea of “koselig,â€? or “cozinessâ€?—that making the conscious eort to light candles and fires, drink warm beverages, and snuggle under blankets can be enjoyable and relaxing. And taking the time to bundle up and get outside even in the worst weather can help you feel like winter isn’t limiting your opportunities for recreation. Norwegians have a saying that “there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing,â€? which typifies their ingrained belief that being active is part of a happy life— and, especially, a happy winter. Kari Leibowitz is a doctoral candidate in psychology at Stanford University. This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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Music continued from B1 The study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, looked at 45 patients with either Alzheimer’s or other dementia. Participants sang songs that Maguire selected for their therapeutic value. They included “Edelweiss” from the “Sound of Music,” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz.” There is no cure for Alzheimer’s, and after decades of research, no drugmaker has been able to create anything very effective in slowing the mental deterioration characteristic of the disease. However, after four months of Maguire’s singing regimen, test subjects demonstrated remarkable improvements in cognition.
They liked repetitive compositions in bright keys from Haydn, Mozart, Bach, and Clementi— the really clean, classical, highly structured compositions. Linda Maguire Previous research shows that music can influence positive improvements in heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, cortisol, dopamine, and melatonin levels. We usually think of music as entertainment, but in the ancient world, music was often considered a form of medicine. Apollo, for example, was the god of both healing and music. Plato declared that melody and rhythm could restore the soul. In the Chinese language, the character for music is the base of the character for medicine. Over the past few decades, scientists have rediscovered music’s healing abilities, and studies have shown that music can effectively treat conditions such as dementia, schizophrenia, depression, chronic pain, Parkinson’s, PTSD, and autism, help stroke patients recover, and more. Epoch Times talked to Maguire about how music can change our brain and
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Epoch Times: What has changed in the past few decades that we’re shifting our thinking of music from merely entertainment to a valid form of therapy? Linda Maguire: The top researchers are very interested in music because it’s the only thing that brings Alzheimer’s patients back. Drugs do not work, and they have a lot of side effects. But music has relatively zero side effects. It works, it stops the problem, it helps the behavior, and it helps the caregiver. In Alzheimer’s, music is said to improve overall quality of their lives. It provides social interaction with peers and caregivers, provides a sense of self (they remember circumstances of many songs they remember) and a sense of empowerment (in that they can control their memory of songs). It improves activity rate and simply provides pleasure for them. Music also reduces pain, and pain is a sensory thing. We’re feeling it. Music is also very sensory. The insula [a region of the brain deep inside the cerebral cortex] is very engaged when you’re listening to emotional music. It hijacks the system that pain grinds into. That’s a very specific reason why this works, and why you don’t just play anything. For pain, you want music that is emotional and very sensuous—long lines, rich, robust orchestration. Again, you want to keep in mind baseline heart rate of the patient and any other issues. It also depends on where the pain is. Music that is going to relax your hands is different from music that is going to take the pain away from your feet. For feet, you want music that has movement in it. Whereas if you’re trying to take away hand pain, you want to play something soft and lush on the piano. The brain has all sorts of mirror neurons. So when you see someone pick something up, your motor cortex is doing that too. When you hear piano playing, subconsciously, your fingers are also moving in premotor areas. There’s quite a few studies on Mozart’s K. 448. Just five minutes of this piano concerto stops epilepsy significantly, even in comatose patients. So what I did this summer was to dig into this thing. I printed out the music. It’s a concerto for two pianos, four hands. And it hijacks the system immediately. It starts out with a huge spread that outlines a D major chord. In K. 448, fast progressive rhythmic elements (all within the first 16 measures) quickly compound and go from half notes, into to quarter notes, trills, triplets, dotted rhythms, syncopations, eighth and 16th notes—all of which serve to engage, pair, and reshift neural networks through physiological response. The clinical implication is that epileptic pathways may progressively reform through precision music and transform to normal function. Epoch Times: Does the key a song is in also have an influence on physiology? Ms. Maguire: It really does. It has to do with
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I’m a music nutritionist. So if a patient likes the musical equivalent of Doritos, I’ll give them carrots and spicy hummus. Linda Maguire what area of tissue it targets. It has a frequency. You can play the song “If I Had a Million Dollars” in the original key and then knock it down a step, and the whole mood changes. Epoch Times: What made you interested in studying the effects of music on dementia patients? Ms. Maguire: I went to visit a friend who had developed dementia. She was in a room with all these other patients who were having severe problems: verbal outbursts, wandering, hand movements—and very confused. It was chaos. I had heard just in passing that people with Alzheimer’s like music. I saw a piano, so I sat down and I played something. I think it was the national anthem or “Amazing Grace.” They all stopped and started singing. I thought, “What is going on here?” It got me very interested in the power of music in dementia patients, and within in 10 years, I had a master’s degree in neuroscience. I realized that the brain was responding to music. I learned how you could wield music as a precision tool to change and transform different parts of the brain. So I started working with dementia patients once a week. I committed every Friday to go into these facilities and play the piano and sing songs and see what they reacted to—see what worked and what didn’t work. I realized they didn’t like emotional pieces like Strauss or Brahms or even Beethoven. They liked repetitive compositions in bright keys from Haydn, Mozart, Bach, and Clementi—the really clean, classical, highly structured compositions. So I developed six onehour programs where you play specific notes, and you just carve into their psyche and stop the problems. It’s music mostly that they’ve never heard before, and they love it.
Epoch Times: If music has the power to transform us for the better, are there certain songs that can harm us or keep us stuck? Ms. Maguire: Research finds that depressed people choose depressing music. They choose lower keys, lower tempi, and morbid, drooping songs. Why? Because it matches the way they feel. It matches their low heart rate and their droopy physiology. So when they listen to that music, they’re not alone anymore. That music keeps them company. For post-traumatic stress disorder veterans, they love heavy metal, hard metal, because that’s what they’re living. They have this grinding chaos in their head. But music has the power to transform, change key, raise the tempo, and leave them on a sunny hillside for two minutes, and they don’t even realize it’s happened. They just realize they feel different at the end of that song. So therapeutically, you want to get in through the problem. You want to get in through what’s working in the brain, and then tap into dysfunctional areas through that platform. The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. Read the full version at ept.ms/Music4Alzheimers
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Epoch Times: How does singing treat Alzheimer’s disease? Ms. Maguire: Music gives Alzheimer’s patients a sense of power and ownership. They can’t follow life. They can’t follow conversations. They
Epoch Times: As a musical nutritionist, what qualities do you look for when you select a piece of music for a patient? Ms. Maguire: First of all, there are different aspects of what I do and how it’s applied. The prescription part is really schedule-based and preferred-outcome based, while the working application of actually singing or playing an instrument is a tremendous sensory experience. My work in prescription music programming targets physiology. First of all, heart rate. If your goal is to relax the listener, the beat has to be slower than their heart rate, and the heart will respond to that immediately. Our body and brain have a relationship with our own heart rate before birth. When you introduce sustained organized resonance, as in music with a meter and rhythm and beat, it talks to the heartrate at a subconscious level. You’re going to get mood, cognitive, and behavioral changes because the heart rate is going to try to match it. Very basically, you want to raise or lower the heart rate, and when you do that, you’re raising or lowering blood pressure, you’re influencing cortisol and immunoglobulin response. There are also hormones and neurotransmitters that you can play with as well. If you want the patient to move, you want percussion—a strong rhythm. I look at a person’s schedule of activities, so if you’ve got a male Alzheimer’s patient who gets aggressive during bath time at 3 p.m., then five minutes before 3 p.m., you want to play something like Debussy’s “Clair De Lune.” It’s very relaxing. It’s almost like going to sleep. It disengages that aggression. You’re lowering the heart rate, lowering the blood pressure, and relaxing the physiology. So by 3, it’s almost impossible for that patient to get aggressive because you subvert those physiological parameters. That’s one example.
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Epoch Times: In the past few years, we’ve seen studies that suggest music can treat a number of different issues. But very few of these studies (2 percent) actually say what music they used. Your study is unique in that you were very specific about the music you chose. Why is this important? Ms. Maguire: There has to be some method to it. You can’t just have patients choosing their own stuff. If you talk about nutrition as other researchers talk about music in these studies, they would say, “We let them select their own food, or their caregivers told us what food they liked in the past, or what relaxed them.” But nobody is a nutritionist. I like Doritos, potato chips, and onion dip. I love it, but that’s not what I need. That’s not where I want to go. That’s not where my doctor wants me to go. I’m a music nutritionist. So if a patient likes the musical equivalent of Doritos, I’ll give them carrots and spicy hummus.
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don’t remember people. They get lost. They get confused. They’ve lost working memory. But because the part of the brain that internalizes music and marks rhythm particularly is very healthy in Alzheimer’s patients, they can follow music and remember it, and that makes them feel in control. They’re very keen listeners. The power of singing gives you better posture, better oxygenation. You can stimulate tissue. The heart and lungs are literally vibrating. ... Singing can potentially target your thalamus and your pituitary gland. You can make it shake. [sings high note] I get a little dizzy and disoriented when that happens. You can target resonance when you’re singing. When a neurotransmitter like dopamine is shot out of a synaptic terminal in the brain, that takes movement, and sound creates movement. It literally shakes that terminal. It’s like shaking apples out of a tree.
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Clean Lungs Heal Pets Too Animals can enjoy longevity in excellent health if accumulated toxins are eliminated through pulmonary cleansing Part 18 COURTESY OF DR. SEO HYO-SEOK
By Dr. Seo Hyo-seok Buddhist teachings tell us that if something is meant to be, it will happen naturally when the time is ripe. I never planned to create medicine for animals; however, that is what came about. In 2010, I spoke at a seminar in Osaka, Japan, on how to improve immunity and cope with allergies. After the lecture, I took questions from the audience, and the last question came from a woman who had cured her eczema by cleaning her lungs with the Korean herbal medicine formula I had developed. She asked, “What would happen if Korean herbal medicine for pulmonary cleansing were given to a dog?” I was quite taken aback by this question because although the formula has successfully cured 50,000 patients of chronic inflammation of the nose, 40,000 patients of atopic allergies, and 33,000 patients of asthma, I had never really considered offering it for dogs. As I hesitated, she explained the reasons for her question: “My dog suffered internal urine leakage, diabetes, and glaucoma. I shared the herbal medicine I was taking with my dog, and amazingly, my dog was completely cured of these chronic disease.” Intrigued by what she said, I considered pursuing joint research with a veterinarian when I returned to Korea. However, when I got back, I completely forgot about this because of my extremely busy schedule. Hoyoung and Hodong Two and a half years later, I was reminded again about treating animals with this formula when I received a detailed description of how two more dogs, Hoyoung and Hodong, had gotten well after cleansing their lungs with it. Their owner, Mrs. In-hee Kim, sent me two handwritten letters with photographs pasted in, telling me their stories and illustrating the how their treatment had proceeded. Nine years earlier, Mrs. Kim had found Hoyoung, still a young puppy, shivering outside in a spring cold snap. Hoyoung suffered from eczema that caused itchiness all over his body and was constantly scratching. Since she found the dog, Mrs. Kim had been taking him to a veterinarian who gave him steroid injections. This treatment made Hoyoung’s condition worse, and Mrs. Kim recalled, “Many times, family members stayed up at night to look after Hoyoung, who bled severely from injuries induced by scratching and biting his paws because of the constant itchiness.” In particular, Hoyoung suffered severe itchiness in and around the anus and often rubbed his buttocks against the floor, which made the skin dark, hard, and dry like tree bark. The areas around the dog’s eyes were always red, and his fur also stopped growing. Seeing how much the dog was suffering, Mrs. Kim had even considered euthanasia. Eventually, feeling helpless, she decided to give up
Canine eczema can be cleared up by detoxing the lungs. the steroid treatments. Around this time, one of Mrs. Kim’s friends who had cleaned her own lungs with the herbal formula I developed, recommended that she try it for Hoyoung. Mrs. Kim immediately took the train to Seoul to see me. At the time, she did not mention that the formula was going to be shared with her dog, but said it was for her because she had difficulty breathing and poor circulation. She did take the medicine herself, but also shared it with Hoyoung, who by this point was in a very bad state due to the steroid injections. She wrote that she did not expect to see any meaningful improvements in his condition, so she was amazed by the changes in him. The dog’s body, which has been swollen like a balloon, went back to normal size; his fur became lighter and softer; and new skin began to regenerate around his anus and genitals and became a natural pink color. Hoyoung was also markedly more cheerful.
She did not expect to see any meaningful improvement in his condition, so she was amazed by the changes. Thanks to Hoyoung’s sucess, Mrs. Kim decided to give the medicine to Hodong, then 19 years old. Over the previous seven months, Hodong had developed age-related cataracts and was constantly running into things because he could not see properly. Hodong was also very lethargic and had lost all his teeth, so his tongue perpetually hung out of his mouth. After taking the medicine twice a day for two years, Hodong’s deteriorating eyesight markedly improved, and he became much more lively as his overall physical condition got better. The overall health of Mrs. Kim also improved substantially, which led her to send me the letter and the journals to express her “abundance of gratitude for her improved health, which resulted from her desire to provide a better life for Hoyoung.” Research Results and Destiny After hearing about the successful treatment of these three dogs in Japan and Korea, I requested scientific experiments be undertaken by the department of veterinary science of Konkuk University in Seoul. The results of this research showed several striking outcomes. First, that my herbal medicine formula has no toxicCOURTESY OF IN-HEE KIM
ity of any kind, including for the liver or heart. Moreover, it was proven that the medicine prevents arteriosclerosis and increases levels of good HDL cholesterol. HDL is the cholesterol that cleans blood vessels and lowers levels of bad LDL cholesterol, which is what accumulates as plaque inside blood vessels. In addition, in spite of the short research period, the formula was found to be very effective for detoxifying from steroids, just as in the case of Hoyoung. On the day I received the results of the experiments from Konkuk University, I realized that this was meant to be, and I was reminded of a certain little dog from my past. Doldoli The story of this dog started 23 years ago when my oldest son brought home a small, white Maltese who looked to be around 3 years old. The dog had been tied to a bicycle and abandoned under a bridge where some boys had discovered it and started to bully it. Out of pity, my son untied the dog to allow it to run away; however, the dog followed my son and became a member of our family. We named him Doldoli, and perhaps because of his many worldly experiences, he proved to be extremely intelligent. After living with us for about 15 years, Doldoli began to age quickly. His body rapidly weakened. He slept most of the day and began to breathe with a wheezing sound and great difficulty. At the time, I thought that my herbal formula might help him, and I put sincere efforts into preparing some for him. Unfortunately, he refused to take the medicine. I still vividly remember the day he died. Just before he passed, Doldoli came to say his final good-bye to every one of my family members. He approached me first, staggering a bit and lightly colliding with me, but his gaze was tranquil. Doldoli then visited the room where my wife, second son, and daughter were, with an expression that seemed to say good-bye. Lastly, he approached my oldest son, who had brought him home, and passed away in his arms.
If toxins in the lungs are thoroughly cleaned out the whole body will regain its ability to eliminate toxins. The tranquil gaze of Doldoli as he looked gently into my eyes and breathed with great difficulty still remains vivid in my memory. On the surface, this appeared to be the first opportunity I had to realize that my herbal formula could treat animals; however, I could not help Doldoli because the time was not yet ripe. I firmly believe that clean lungs are the key to life for both humans and animals. Aging results from the accumulation of toxic substances in the body. If toxins in the lungs are thoroughly cleaned out, and the lungs become healthy, the whole body will regain its ability to eliminate toxins, thereby naturally delaying the process of aging. Eliminating toxins accumulated in the body is the secret to longevity with optimum health and is the cure for chronic diseases. Therefore, if you wish to live a long life in good health, cleanse your lungs. Dr. Seo Hyo-seok is the director of the Pyunkang Korean Medicine Hospital, which has seven branches in South Korea, one at Stanton University in California, and one in Atlanta. Dr. Seo entered Kyung Hee University in Korea at the top of his class and after years of research, developed the Pyunkang-Hwan herbal formula, which improves immunity by strengthening lung function. It has helped cure over 155,000 patients of various conditions.
Hoyoung (L) and Hodong in the arms of Mrs. In-hee Kim. Hoyoung was cured of eczema, and Hodong regained much of his vision that had been lost due to cataracts after cleansing their lungs with herbal medicine.
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