Qin Shi was the first emperor of China. After his mother betrayed him as a young ruler of Qi, he determined that he would destroy all of his enemies. Over the next twenty years he systematically destroyed all of the other provinces in China. He was a vast warrior at one time commanding an army of 600,000 men, much larger than Alexander the Spacious and Napoleon. China is named after him and he also built the Great Wall of China.
But later on in his rein he went mad, suffering from psychotic paranoia. He was also a megalomaniac who thought he was a god and would live forever. When his body started failing him at the young age of 49, he decided to consult the court physicians and alchemists, who were very afraid of him because he had put so many other people to death if they displeased him slightly.
So they made for him potions that they said would allow him to live forever and cure any disease that he may have had. One of the main ingredients in the potion was mercury, which is highly poisonous. He slowly became sicker and sicker and died. It seems ironic, but mercury is one of the problems that we have with food and children’s toys that we import from China today.
A while back I was diagnosed with diabetes. I went to a Chinese herbal doctor. He prescribed a vast collection of herbs. The herbs were things that I had never heard of before. They were also expensive. My insurance wouldn’t cover them so I discontinued using them, probably the best thing for my health. Even if the herbs listed on the bottle were beneficial or at least harmless, who knows what kind of chemicals were used in the manufacturing process? Mercury perhaps?
Current manufacturers of herbal remedies in the United States don’t have to abide by any regulations that say they are safe and effective. According to Medical News Today: “In their September 2010 report published on Tuesday, the consumer magazine describes how the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has little power to regulate dietary supplements under the “industry-friendly” 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), and where it does have power, it hardly ever uses it.”
” he report says that of the 54,000 and more dietary supplement products listed in the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, only about a third have any scientific evidence to support some level of safety and effectiveness.” Some may even be harmful.
So it’s wise to approach these natural remedies with caution. I recently published a list of natural remedies that are safe, effective, and have been tested by the National Institutes of Health. Stick with them.
Source:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/196787.php
Filed under Aaa Auto Insurance by on Feb 17th, 2011. Comment. 
Ed Malone and Ethel Fitzgerald Malone
In 1996 my husband and I moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin a month after we were married in Virginia. Upon hearing the news via my mother, my paternal grandmother wrote me a note that her Great-Aunt lived in the area. So, I wrote a price introducing myself to my Great-Grand Aunt. In it I explained that my grandmother was Kathleen Fitzgerald Kinross and her mother was Mildred Fitzgerald who married Bob Kinross. I received a phone call from Mrs. Malone inviting us over. This began a wonderfully rich, although very short, friendship.
Ethel Fitzgerald Malone was born in 1907 according to her gravestone but I thought she told me 1901. Ed was born in 1903 according to his gravestone. So by 1996, well they were up in years; he was 93 or so and she was about 89 years venerable. They were full of life, read the papers, had ideas and opinions on everything.
Uncle Ed, as I called him, had learned how to use a computer and had written himself a program to keep up with his statistics. My husband, a computer geek by trade, often tells people to this day that if his 90-year-old Uncle wasn’t afraid to learn new things then they have no excuse. One of Uncle Ed’s mammoth interests was baseball statistics. He kept records of all the baseball players and was so meticulous about it that Ethel says he was known for his accuracy and the newspapers would call him if a fact needed to be checked out. Chicago was their team.
Ed also had a admire for sailing and art. He was a watercolorist and a few of his things were on the wall. I own he worked for the railroads throughout his working life.
Aunt Ethel worked at Thresher men’s insurance, which is now Society Insurance. She was so spunky and was once a red head. Uncle Ed would say, “When Ethel was upset you could tell there was “fire in the mountain.” “
I asked Ethel once about World War 1. She didn’t seem to remember being too affected by the war itself but she told me that when peace had been announced she and her brother Emmet went to the pasture and rode around the horse hollering “to hell with the Kaiser!” at the top of her lungs. It was hysterical to see this 90-year-old lady tell me this, with her blue eyes twinkling, and her fist over her head.
I asked what she did when World War Two ended. “Oh? ” she said. “We went to church and prayed.” But she says it with a mischievous grin.
She tells me that when she became old enough to go to dances she always arrived with her brother. The girls would invite her to come with them as a group but Ethel disdainfully points out that she wanted to have a worthy time and dance. Whenever she arrived with her brother, she said hello to his friends and one of them would ask her to dance and she’d spend the whole time dancing. She didn’t scrutinize the point in going to the dance with girls.
When Uncle Ed became interested in courting Ethel for marriage, Ethel said she discouraged him. It was during the Great Depression and she wasn’t going to get married to anyone who didn’t have a good job. She was living with her newly married sister, Mildred, my great grandmother, and working as a bookkeeper for Thresher men’s Insurance. She tells of a time she went and bought herself a rather nice dress and saw the doctor’s wife in it and wondered if she had spent too much on herself.
She had wonderful things to say about fashion. She refused to wear pants ever and was appalled at what the girls were wearing to work in the 1990′s. “I wouldn’t got to the grocery store in those clothes!” She said. She taught me that a girl should put her gloves on before leaving the house, her mother always said “only the serving girls put their gloves on in the street.”
Ethel and Ed did not have children and lived a comfortable life with little extravagance. The did proceed to Ireland several times in search of family lineage, and Ethel had copies of marriage, birth and death certificates regarding Fitzgerald’s and Martin’s going back to the 1700′s in Massachusetts. For a time they traveled to Florida on a yearly basis. When they died they purportedly left their estate in good order, medical bills were all paid, and they left a significant amount of money to the church.
Ethel and Ed were improbable people for myself and my husband to meet. We were young, newly married and far from home. In the Malone’s we found family, history, and life lessons we carry today. I was in Fond du Lac recently and took my children to St. Charles Cemetery to pay a visit to Ethel and Ed. We brought them flowers which would have made Ethel smile. She was always worried there would be no one left to remember her.
Filed under Aaa Auto Insurance by on Jan 20th, 2011. Comment.
