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National award for remarkable cat
A Two-year-old tabby called Speedy has been named Rescue Cat of the Year 2008 for her heroics in looking after her owner.
The 19 year old owner from Suffolk, suffers from epilepsy and progressive spinal ataxia. She also has severe learning difficulties.
As well as being a faithful companion, Speedy senses Miss Payne's seizures and alerts the teenager's parents. A Two-year-old tabby called Speedy has been named Rescue Cat of the Year 2008 for her heroics in looking after her owner. ... more -
Emperor - Chapter 7
Therapeutic Use of Cannabis
There are more than 60 therapeutic compounds in cannabis that are healing agents in medical and herbal treatments. The primary one is THC, and the effectiveness of therapy is directly proportionate to the herb’s potency or concentration of THC. Recent DEA reports of increasingly potent marijuana therefore represent a major medical advance; but, incredibly, the government uses these very numbers to solicit bigger budgets and harsher penalties.
On November 5, 1996, 56% of California citizens voted for the California Compassionate Use Act (medical marijuana initiative) ending all legal state efforts to keep marijuana from being used as medicine by California citizens.
Arizona citizens, in November 1996, also passed, by an even greater margin—
65%—a drug declassification initiative that included medical marijuana, backed by, among others, the late U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater.
Arizona’s governor and legislature, exercising their veto override ability on their state initiative laws for the first time in 90 years, struck down this popular initiative passed by the people. Arizona citizens angrily responded by recollecting more than 150,000 signatures in a 90-day referendum period and promptly returned the medical marijuana initiative to the ballot for November 1998.
The following explains how people will benefit when the freedom of choice of doctors and patients is once again respected. Therapeutic Use of Cannabis ... more -
THE MEDICINE OF THE TEMPLARS
At Paris, 18 March of 1314, on the island of the Seine in front of the Garden real, Jacques de Molay, the last Great Master of the Templars, and Geoffroy de Charny, preceptor of Normandy, were burned as heretics.
Thus finishes the history of the Knights of the Temple after two centuries. The Templars would have been in possession of the most hidden secrets of alchemy. They were first to use the IPERICO on burns and hurts from cut, like antiseptic, astringent, healing, and in order to improve humor of the soldiers that remained immobilized in bed for months.
The Templars created a mixture with pulp of Aloe, pulp of Hemp and wine of Palm called “ELISIR of GERUSALEM", with therapeutic and nourishing properties, they used the Arborescens ALOE for its antiseptic, bactericidal and fungicide actions and for its capacity to penetration in the deeper layers of the skin. Robert Anton Wilson, in his book on the Templars, asserts that they used the hashish and practiced a shape of Arabic Tantrism; the doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of oneness of one's self and the visible world, combining elements of hinduism and paganism, including magical and mystical elements.
The authors of Holy Blood and Holy Grail, Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, comment that the Templars need to treat wounds and illness, made them experts in the use of drugs and the Order in advance of their time regarded epilepsy not as demonic possession but as a controllable disease. Interestingly, cannabis is the safest natural or synthetic medication proven successful in the treatment of forms of epilepsy.
The esoteric inheritance and the alchemical-spagyrics acquaintances were handed from the Templars to the Crocifers. From these Orders, that one of Saint Giacomo or Jacobite managed many Hospitals during the XV century. To the Jacobite monks , in quality of experts in the cure of the diseases of the skin, the task was entrusted to cure the wounded soldiers during the Crusades, in the Hospitals of Malta and Cyprus.
To them, in fact, was attributed the capability to create miraculous ointments. In such historical context it must estimate the work of the Templars concluding with recognizing that they, anticipating the times, had a modern vision of the Medicine and, although were considered heretics and consigned to the fire, recently a document has been recovered in Archives Vaticans from the studious Barbara Frale that demonstrates as Pope Clemente V secretly pardoned Templars in 1314, acquitting their Great Master from the heresy accusation.
Prof. Camillo Di Cicco, MD At Paris, 18 March of 1314, on the island of the Seine in front of the Garden real, Jacques de Molay, the last Great Master of the Tem... more -
More proof that griefers know no boundaries
As if we needed any more proof. I can't believe that anyone would find this type of thing funny. Attacks on Internet communities have always been existent since the BBS days (possibly even before that), but this is a new low. Targeting a community of people with shared health conditions, and exploiting these conditions in a way that cause pain and suffering is sickening. As if we needed any more proof. I can't believe that anyone would find this type of thing funny. Attacks on Internet communities ... more
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Hackers Hate Epilepsy
This story boggles my mind at how hackers could get into this site and put flashing images and caused seizures....
Karma is a bitch man...
The girl pictured is one who suffered from a seizure during the hack attack*.
*Coined phrase by Morgan Tepsic This story boggles my mind at how hackers could get into this site and put flashing images and caused seizures.... ... more -
Gnarls Barkley's "Run" banned from US TV
"The video for Gnarls Barkley's new single, "Run," may feature a cameo from Justin Timberlake, but it's still not quite ready to air on MTV.
That's because of its strobe effects, which caused the clip to fail the Harding Test -- guidelines established to prevent TV images from triggering epileptic seizures."
Full story here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080305/en_nm/gnarls_dc_1 "The video for Gnarls Barkley's new single, "Run," may feature a cameo from Justin Timberlake, but it's still... more -
Epilepsy treatment and Suicide
Is this what killed Ian Curtis???
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Brain surgery lets woman listen to Sean Paul
Now that surgeons have operated on Stacey Gayle's brain, her favorite musician no longer makes her ill. Four years after being diagnosed with epilepsy, Gayle recently underwent brain surgery at Long Island Jewish Medical Center to cure a rare condition known as musicogenic epilepsy. Now that surgeons have operated on Stacey Gayle's brain, her favorite musician no longer makes her ill. Four years after being di... more
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A New Dawn for Disability
Sam Riley's depiction of Ian Curtis in the midst of an epileptic fit is refreshingly unstudied in Control. One hopes this is the shape of things to come. Sam Riley's depiction of Ian Curtis in the midst of an epileptic fit is refreshingly unstudied in Control. One hopes this is the ... more
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Mahjong game 'can cause epilepsy'
A study by doctors in Hong Kong has concluded that epilepsy can be induced by the Chinese tile game of mahjong. (BBC)
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