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Allergy, the Plague of the Civilized World
Posted by Diana Jackson at Feb 28th, 2009 in Allergies
All allergic people know that their ailment has no known cure. All remedies have the sole purpose of making the symptoms milder, so patients can enjoy a better quality of life. This disease never goes away, but responsible persons can live for years without experiencing any symptoms at all.
Since each human body may have a different reaction to various stimulants, there is no such thing as an universal allergy relief. Each sufferer will know what works best fopr him and he will take care to take the medication every time he might be in danger to get exposed to the allergens he is sensitive to.
Diagnosing allergic patients has been a challenge for doctors for many years now. This happened because allergy is tricky, disguising itself like a common cold. Many sufferers thought they were catching too many colds a year, without suspecting they might be suffering from something else.
Almost everything in nature or made by humans can be an allergen. Dust is well known to give skin reactions in many people, as well as molds and mildew. Foods can also initiate an allergic response from the human body. Pollens threaten many allergic persons lives each spring and fall. There is a potential allergen in everything.
In this age when people tend to return to a more natural way of living, there’s no wonder they are seeking herbal remedies for anything, including allergy or asthma. Some sufferers have seen improvements, while others didn’t. Disease is not an objective experience, but rather a personal one.
Allergic reactions can manifest themselves in multiple ways: airborne allergens will rather give respiratory tract reactions like swelling, sneezing and cold-like symptoms. Contact allergies can give skin manifestations like urticaria, redness, itching or swelling of the limbs. All types of allergy can lead to death by chocking.
Life endangering, massive swelling can be neutered by epinephrine shots. This remedy needs to be administrated immediately, because a couple of minutes are enough to kill an sufferer. The brain cannot live without oxygen and if you can’t breathe, it will suffer irreversible damage.
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There are several soil-borne diseases that are able to destroy ornamental plants very quickly if left untreated;
1) Pythium
2) Phytophthora Root Rot
3) Fusarium
4) Sclerotinia
5) Verticillium wilt
6) Thielaviopsis
7) Rhizoctonia
As for my personal experiences with one of the aforementioned diseases…..I'd have to say Pythium is quite unique since it can remain dormant for many, many years in the soil. Growers can fumigate with methyl bromide yet it remains viable. It can be killed by subjecting it to steam. Their spores can be triggered by being exposed to simple sugars in the soil. The disease is spread quite quickly by water and can kill many plants in a relatively short amount of time. It's a problem in turf as well as in ornamentals.
There are many chemicals that are able to prevent it from becoming established or can eradicate it once it germinates.
The other 2 most commonly found soil-borne diseases are Phytopthora and Fusarium. Both are more difficult to eradicate and have cost many nurseries lots of money to control. Fusarium oxysporum, in particular, was one of the main reasons why carnations are not commonly grown in California these days. It killed devastated the carnation-growing industry and caused most growers to seek other crops as a means of making a living.
FYI– In the late '90's, there was an excellent natural product developed by Cornell University which is sold as "Bio-trek", "RootShield" or "PlantShield". It is a beneficial fungus called "Trichoderma harzianum", that has been found to effectively control Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, Pythium and Phytopthora in oramental and turf situations. I've used it many times and it's done a wonderful job preventing the establishment of those diseases in my plants and lawn.
Hope this answered your question. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions or need additional information.
-Certified Professional Crop Consultant with over 30 years of experience and a Degree in Plant Science
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That’s about all I can compliment you on right now, though. Folks like you with hatred of "entitlements" threaten my life. What is your solution for people who get very sick at age 23 instead of 73? Assistance programs (I don’t find the word "entitlements" to have the proper connotation) need a lot of modification. For example, a glitch has kept me from being able to try a home business, and I would really like this fixed, but it has actually been the conservatives among my own representatives who have completely stonewalled me rather than show an interest in my right to work.
As for your unemployed friends, please ask them to forward their job offers to my unemployed friends. The folks I know are taking any job, including temporary jobs, but do not know what to do about health care once their COBRA runs out. Pre-existing conditions often make health insurance unaffordable or unavailable.
Anyone who can’t balance a budget without literally killing people isn’t very good at what they do, so I do not believe in blindly slashing at assistance programs.
As for the carbon economy, I think that we are deluding ourselves if we insist that it does not harm the environment. At the very best it is polluting; that’s why people can kill themselves with the exhaust fumes from their cars in a closed garage.
Our Alaskan reserves do not appear large enough to fuel our growing appetite for energy. I’m not sure we should be betting our national security on OPEC and Russia.
As for recession/depression, the point is that a lot of folks are suffering now (I am at the point of getting my affairs in order since it looks like I may not make it through this myself) and what we want to avoid is more suffering. I guess some people don’t know there is a crisis until it bites them on the ass, so they don’t heed the warnings of those of us who have already been bitten.
Plants grow very well in well-watered and nutrient-rich soil with lots of sunlight. Those are the conditions that plants need and like.
"Basic," however could also be construed to mean "non-acidic." Plants prefer soil with neutral or slightly acidic pH. Extremes of soil pH can affect the uptake of ceertain nutrients.