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An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but can an orange a day keep the constipation at bay? A woman on Instagram claimed in a viral video that eating an entire orange — peel included — can cure constipation in just minutes. The video, originally posted in Dec. 2022, has just recently gone viral after she reposted it in Dec. 2023, garnering a collective 23.6 million views. Instagrammer @lilsipper shared her step-by-step “cure” for constipation, which involves washing the outside of the orange, slicing it into wedges, coating each slice with cinnamon and cayenne pepper “generously” and eating the...

Men might soon no longer need a prescription to access medicines to treat erectile dysfunction.Men might soon no longer need a prescription to access medicines for erectile dysfunction (ED). The data on how many men suffer from erectile dysfunction vary, but the Massachusetts Male Aging Study found 52 percent of men aged 40-70 suffer from some form of ED, and “complete impotence tripled from 5 to 15%” from age 40 to 70.While more than half of men aged 40 to 70 suffer from ED, a growing number of young men are struggling. Research published 10 years ago in the Journal...

"ENOUGH ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE BECOMES PRETTY GOOD EVIDENCE." HYDROXYCHLORIQUINE (HCQ) FOR COVID-19 Current News (*Actual case known personally and verified Jan. 5, 2021): ___________________________________ What you read below is not published to sensationalize, but to urge all to put these things before their own physicians and insist on the availability of therapeutics for early outpatient treatment of Covid-19. ___________________________________ A 78 year-old preacher in southern Indiana with Covid-19 and multiple comorbidities is headed home after just a couple of days in the hospital. A year ago this dear Brother was prescribed (one-year prescription) HCQ for his arthritis. He stopped taking the...

Alternative remedies like homeopathic treatments have become popular in recent years and now make up a $3 billion industry. But the Food and Drug Administration will begin scrutinizing products that could be dangerous to vulnerable populations. Many homeopathic remedies are derived from plants and claim to treat everything from the common cold to serious diseases. But the FDA fears that these products can "bring little to no benefit in combating serious ailments, or worse — may cause significant and even irreparable harm because the products are poorly manufactured, or contain active ingredients that aren’t adequately tested or disclosed to patients,"...

Jennifer Mee of St. Petersburg has tried scores of remedies and seen several doctors. Still, the 15-year-old's hiccups persist. LINK at source above to hear her hiccups.ST. PETERSBURG — She has tried holding her breath. Drinking water from the far side of the glass. Putting sugar under her tongue. Sipping pickle juice. Holding a paper bag over her face as she inhales and exhales. None of that stops 15-year-old Jennifer Mee’s hiccups. It started more than three weeks ago during first-period science class at Northeast High School. After about 15 minutes of nonstop hiccuping, she went to the medical clinic...

I never thought I would be doing a vanity on this but here it goes. I am interested in knowing how people cope with Spring allergies. I have never had them until this year apparently. I have had a sore throat now going into day 18,I have seen the doctor twice where once gave me Ketex and decongestion meds and those did nothing,so they ruled out the common cold or flu or any bacterial infection. My throat is still red,I still am congested,I have regular acid reflux (gerd) to be exact so when I sleep at night all of the...

Conservatives and other normal people can politely note all we want that the Founding Fathers quite deliberately intended a benevolent and providential Creator to be at the heart of our concept of liberty and of law, and Leftists will not budge one inch as long as compliant judges conspire with them to treat the faithful majority like the Cossacks treated the Russian people under the last Romanov. A minority, a distinct minority, of Americans believe that God should be driven out of any school or civic activity. Those who maintain that the language in the foundational document of the American...

In a talk entitled “The Map of the Future” I gave recently in Dallas, I discussed which countries throughout the world were or could become the greatest threats to America’s national security. At the top of the list, more dangerous than Iran or North Korea or China, I placed Mexico. The bottomless inferiority complex that Mexico feels toward America is summed up in an old saying known to all Mexicans as “Mexico’s Curse,” the lament that their country is “So far from God, so close to the United States.” The truth, however, is the reverse. Today, Americans lament “America’s Curse,”...