Topic: Personal Opinions – Herbal Medicine Before western and modern medicine‚ herbal medicine was used to cure almost every kind of sickness in a natural way. Herbal medicine enhances the biological natural healing ability of our body‚ so that the recovery process gets accelerated and the body is able to maintain an ideal internal environment that is crucial for such recovery. A lot of herbs work by stimulating various glands so that appropriate hormones are activated. These hormones carry the
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This essay “Kidneys” is from the book “Strangers Drowning” written by Larissa MacFarquhar‚ which is about kidney donors and how they go on about their lives after the ‘satisfaction’ of saving someone’s life‚ or just for pure altruism. The story clearly states how one of the donors in this piece‚ Paul Wagner‚ didn’t feel as much as a hero afterward. He lived off the attention from the media‚ admiration from the people around him‚ and “had loved telling people that he was donating a kidney to a stranger
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Mammalian Kidney Investigation Background Information: The kidneys are dark red bean -shaped organs that are a very important pair of organs that perform many functions. The kidneys have a convex side and a concave side. They are each about the size of a fist. The kidneys are located near the middle back of a human‚ just below the rib cage‚ one on each side of the spine. One kidney is located below the spleen on the left side of the body‚ whereas the other kidney is located just below the liver
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AB FLO Manufacturer Lupin Laboratories Ltd. Generic Acebrophylline Package/s Capsule 100 mg‚ (Rs. 75.00) About Acebrophylline Bronchodilator‚ Mucoregulator‚ Antiinflamatory drug‚salt of theophylline-7- acetic acid with ambroxol.More details..... Dosage Adult : 100 mg twice daily Children up to 2 years‚ it`s half a teaspoon‚ twice daily. Age 2 to 5 is half a teaspoon‚ three times a day Children ag....More details..... Pregnancy Contraindicated Breast
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Introduction Chronic kidney disease is defined as presence of kidney damage or decreased kidney function for three or more months‚ irrespective of the cause[1]. Persistent damage or decrease in kidney function for at least three months‚ is necessary to differentiate between acute and chronic renal disease. There are different stages of CKD and different diagnostic methods by which it can be diagnosed. Stages of CKD: Stage1 − GFR >90 mL/min per 1.73 m2 Stage 2 − GFR 60 to 89 mL/min per 1.73
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KIDNEY SALE: LEGAL OR ILLEGAL? Introduction: Organ transplantation is a recently developed technology used to replace faulty organs with new ones. The most common form of transplant after the corneal one is the kidney transplant. It is the most effective and efficient way of resuming kidney function in the body caused due to kidney failure (various causes) and is proven to be more effective than dialysis. The number of people waiting for a kidney transplant is growing and the number of kidney donors
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The words ‘medicine’ and ’drug’ are often used in our country to mean the same substances: any substance‚ manufactured artificially‚ which can help recovery from sickness‚ relieve symptoms or modify a natural process in the body. A medicine is often a mixture of several chemical compounds. Even if it has only one active component compound often other substances are used as fillers or binders to give it bulk. Chemistry‚ the science related to chemical substances‚ provides us the tools to make and
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Kidney Diseases in America Nhia Yang‚ Tour’e Gates‚ Margarita Giannasidou‚ Benjamin Jensen‚ Daniel Olajonlu Advanced Program in Technology and Science Saint Cloud State University July 2013 Causes of Chronic Kidney Disease People usually say “yes‚ yes‚ we know‚ we know” about the diseases‚ but they don’t really know the true purpose behind that. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a disease that makes kidney not as functional. The reason behind this is that it’s either from a long-term course
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A kidney stone is a hard piece of material that is formed from substances in the urine and develops in a kidney. These hard stones may often come loose and move down the urinary tract. If it is small enough‚ it can pass through in the urine with little pain. However‚ the bigger kidney stones can lodge somewhere in the urinary tract‚ get stuck‚ and cause a lot of pain. It can also obstruct the flow of urine. This article explains what causes them‚ and describes several different treatments for them
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Homeostasis: The process of the body maintaining a constant internal environment‚ despite any external changes. Homeostasis ensures that the following are kept the same: Body temperature Amount of water in our body Blood glucose levels Breathing rate Heart rate How are things kept the same? 1. Receptors: They detect a change in the things such as temperature 2. Processing: Centre receives information and coordinates a response 3. Effects: Produce a response that ensures our body temperature stays
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