無手勝流は戦国時代の剣士、塚原卜伝（ぼくでん）の流儀で、武力行使せずに機知や知恵による策によって相手に勝つことを言います。病気、エクササイズなどに関する記事を配信しています。
Mutekatsu-ryu is a fashion employed by Bokuden Tsukahara, a samurai in the Warring States Period in Japan, by which he succeeded in winning in the fighting against his opponents with his wit and wisdom and least use of force. Articles on struggling with illness, keeping health, and making use of supplements, exercises will be given to you here.
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Venous blood flowing in the veins contains carbon
dioxide (CO2), which returns to the heart and is then transported to the
lungs, where CO2 is exchanged for oxygen in the alveoli of the lungs,
and then to various parts of the body as oxygenated arterial blood. The
alveoli of the lungs are an important place to blood flow in this
process, and the kidneys, where blood flowing through the arteries is
filtered, are another important place to blood flow, where necessary
substances are reabsorbed, with waste products and unneeded salt
discharged as urine.
While arterial blood flows at high speeds,
sometimes up to 200 km/h, due to the powerful pumping force of the
heart, venous blood, especially from the lower extremities, returns
slowly due to the weak pumping force of the calf muscles and the upward
movement against gravity. Therefore, if one is engaged in standing or
seated work, the veins of the lower extremities become tortuous or
knobbly. This suggests that blood vessels are regenerated, not only
veins, but also arteries, even in obstructive disease, can be
regenerated by walking, for example.
In severe cases, varicose veins can affect walking.
The author has had difficulty with them for many years. The treatment
of varicose veins seems to be a surgical technique in which the veins
are cleaned up and organized by burning off the veins with a laser or
other means or pulling out the cut ones. There is no so-called ointment
for it. There are no drugs to apply. But there are creams that can be
applied. The author seems to have been able to clean up an apparent mass
by using Varicose Vein Cream, a large 237 ml tube of which the name is
exactly the same. Surgery is probably the best option for a fast and
reliable cleanup.
It seems that veins and arteries are connected by a
loophole. Normally, the barrier is closed, but it can open at any
moment and arterial blood can flow into the vein as Dr. Sato says. The
doctor recommends wrapping tape around the artery. Wrapping it certainly
improves the effectiveness of the treatment.
It seems that arterial and venous blood are usually
exchange themselves through capillaries, not through loopholes.
Capillaries account for more than 90% of the blood vessels in the body,
so they are very important organs for human beings.
Arteries and veins seem to be connected via
capillaries, but the author does not know if they are really connected.
It can be said that waste products go from the tissues to the veins via
capillaries, and nutrients go from the arteries to the tissues via
capillaries. At this point, do the capillaries form a single mass with
each other? Capillaries account for more than 90% of all blood vessels
in the body, making them an extremely important organ for human beings.
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I began to use Gymnema in 2017, seven years ago. Here are some documents from that time.
2017年9/23
身長 164
体重 Weight 61.8
体脂肪率 Body fat percentage 20.7
皮下脂肪率 Subcutaneous fat percentage 16.5
内臓脂肪率 Visceral fat ratio 10.0
基礎代謝 Basal metabolism 1330
BMI 23
筋肉レベル Muscle level 5
骨レベル Bone level 5
体年齢 Body Age 65
2024年10/9
身長 163.5
体重 53.0
体脂肪率 13.1
皮下脂肪率 10.2
内臓脂肪率 6.5
基礎代謝 1261
BMI 19.7
筋肉レベル 4
骨レベル 5
体年齢 58
Of the above, the body age is incorrect because the
actual age is set incorrectly, but the Panasonic composition analyzer
that I am using usually evaluates me much younger than my actual age(^^.
Aside from that, I lost 8.8 kg. My fat percentage is down about 5 to 7%. Not as much as Tsuru-chan, but a lot less.
Gymnema suppresses the absorption of carbohydrates
in the small intestine. The components of gymnema cause carbohydrates to
adhere to themselves and be expelled. This means that even if you eat a
lot of carbohydrates, you will not have eaten any.
It seemed like an ideal diet, but after recently
experiencing a high blood sugar level of 500, I reflected on it. I
thought about it a lot. What went wrong?
The conclusion was that the pancreas' production of
insulin had also decreased to match the decrease in absorbed
carbohydrates, and as a result, if I took a break from taking gymnema
when I was losing a lot of weight, my body would not be able to produce
insulin in time, which could lead to very high blood sugar levels.
This made sense. I should not have rested. I now
believe that I should have continued to take 1 grain instead of the more
extreme 3 grains, so that I would not have suffered significant weight
loss.
However, it is a very difficult adjustment, so I
have decided to give up gymnema now that I am on diabetes medication and
insulin injections.
For foreigners who are involved in Japanese-related
work or studying Japanese as a learner, the reading of kanji, hiragana
and katakana in romaji would be key data. I believe that few attempts
have been made in the past to add romaji readings to the Japanese
sentences.
Therefore, software to convert kanji, hiragana and
katakana to romaji would be very valuable, and it is. This software is
called kakasi, which I recently installed for my blog. My regular
operating system is linux xubuntu, and I usually do most of my work in
an editor called emacs, which can easily read long sentences in outline
mode, is pleasant to use because it can colourise, and has various
macros to make it easy to work with.
In emacs, if you have a Japanese section selected
and issue the command romaji-region, the romaji reading will appear
nearby. Not everything can necessarily be converted with kakasi, but it
is somewhat easier than typing by hand.
I think kakasi works on Windows. I'm on ubuntu because my productivity drops to about 10% on Windows.
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The sentence "Yoshiko hit Waruo." is here now. This
is a sentence from a report of an event in the real world. Yoshiko did
it, and Waruo was beaten. If we were to express this "who and whom"
relationship in a Japanese sentence, it would be expressed by combining
the case particle "who ga whom wo". The semantic relation ”who hit and
who was hit" is expressed by the combination of particles, ga and wo.
In English, this semantic relationship is expressed
in word order: Yoshiko hit Waruo. If the word order is switched to
Waruo hit Yoshiko, the "did it, got it" relationship is reversed. Waruo
hit her, Yoshiko was hit by Waruo.
In Japanese, this semantic reversal is not done by
switching the word order, but by switching the case particle. Let's
switch "wo" and "ga". Waruo hit Yoshiko --> Yoshiko wo Waruo ga
becomes Waruo hit Yoshiko. The order can also be changed to "Waruo hit
Yoshiko," but this change in order makes no difference to the basic
semantic relationship.
The real activiteis in Japanese and English
language are very different. That is why it is difficult for native
Japanese speakers to learn English. However, it is not difficult to
learn both languages together from birth and switch between them in
one's head. The brain does it for you.
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Teeth become wobbly when they are attacked by gum
disease, a bacteria that is extremely bad for teeth. Wobbly teeth are
more likely to fall out.
However, the angle of wobble matters, and in some cases, depending on the angle, a dying tooth can be saved.
If the angle is very small, finger pressure on the
gums can eliminate the wobble and make the tooth stronger and more
secure in a few days. I have been able to confirm this with a rather
small tooth on the left side of my upper teeth, which is shorter than
others in length. Presumably, the pressure on this tooth fended off the
attack by the periodontal bacteria.
Shiatsu is a technique that Mr Tokujiro Namikoshi
used to show on TV, saying: ‘The heart of shiatsu is the mother's heart.
If you press, the fountain of life will spring forth’, followed by “Wa
ha ha ha ha ha”, which led to the establishment of a shiatsu school.
That shows it is indeed a powerful method to keep health.
Many doctors have pointed out that acupressure on
the blood vessels produces nitric oxide in the blood vessels and that
this gas works to repair the inner walls of the blood vessels. This is a
credible physiological fact, magic, that many doctors on the internet
say.
So, if you have wobbly teeth, but not so much yet, I urge you to try it.
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I have already mentioned about the eye floaters
that I have been experiencing, in which black garbage that looks like
giant logs and lumbers were rolling around in my field of vision. And
now a new enemy has appeared in front of me, so I am adding this
article. This time, I have not yet seen a doctor, although I am very
afraid of it because of my aging condition.
That first happened right after I rubbed my eye over my eyelid. If you don't like creepy stories, stop reading immediately.
The situation occurred on the highway, in the
passenger seat of my wife's car, who is a licensed driver marked with a
maple leaf symbol. Several purple polka dot patterns appeared above and
at the breaks in the white lines on the center and side lines. Had they
been red, I might have been more surprised. They were annoying,
obtrusive, and made me difficult to see. However, their appearance and
disappearance only repeated a few times and then became less common.
Since it is only visible when the sky is very clear, perhaps it is
caused by some mechanism that warns of an increase in the brightness of
the surroundings.
When I had log-rolling floaters in the eyes, I
would also get these sickening psychedelic lights that would run and
glow in the corners of my vision. I noticed this phenomenon some times
in the middle of the night when I was trying to get up from my bed for
some reason. I said psychedelic. I meant in terms of color. The colors
were blue, green, and red, overlapping each other in a crescent shape. I
later learned that this was a symptom of photopsia, a condition that
occurs when the retina is pulled and stretched.
The blue field entoptic phenomenon is one in which
everyone experiences discomfort, but does not usually seek medical help
because it is painless and short-lived. This is somewhat different for
everyone, but in my case, it turned into a flaming, silvery, flipping,
peeling theater that made me think that the films in my eyes were
peeling off. It often occurred when I stood in front of the washbasin to
wash my face or brush my teeth. This flaring up is caused by the
visible flow of white blood cells. Since it is not a disease, it does
not have a syndrome or symptom in its name. Tinnitus is an internal
sound, but sometimes you can see something inside.
These phenomenons of light are caused by the
structure of the eye, and stem from the tremendous fate of our
heartbeat, which is initiated by an electrical signal and continues and
sustains itself for hundreds of millions of times. The human body is a
tremendous infrastructure with electricity, running water, and gas.
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Health practices have a natural enemy: "Easier said
than done." Even though I know that light exercise is fine even if it
is not sports, I always find a reason to evade practice, which is
shameful.
You can do a little bit every day, whether it's a heel drop or standing on one leg. Just do it, I always say to myself.
There are 9 small hiragana characters in Japanese: "ぁぃぅぇぉ ゃゅょ っ".
If you use the Japanese IME (Input Method Editor)
on a Japanese keyboard and type "kya" with the IME turned on, you will
get "きゃ"; if you type "syo" or "sho", you will get "しょ". If you want to
put "ゃ" or "ょ" by itself, use "x." If you type "xa" in Japanese mode
with the IME turned on, you will get "ぁ." If you type "xya", you will
get "ゃ".
The dog's cry, "きゃいん" means "I give up, it hurts,
I'm done," but "きゃいん" still has energy left in it. More pitiful would be
"きゃぃん."
A crow cawing "かあ" is a normal state of mind. "かぁ" means a crow is a newborn child or a dying crow.
"ぐああああ" is the scream of a young male who has been beaten. "ぐあああぁぁぁぁぁ" is a fading scream of despair.
"はい" is a good response, and "はぃ" is a bad or sullen response.
A cat's "にゃああ" is scary and "にゃぁぁ" is cute. Does a cat who is a native English speaker say "mew"?
Let's write it out poetically.
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Today, I realized that I can walk in the way that I used to do about ten years ago.
I have continued to massage my legs and to do the
ebizori exercise, arching your body backwards like a shrimp, in bed
during my waking hours. While the exercise seemed like a great idea to
me, it was hard to imagine that it would bring about any sudden dramatic
changes.
So what is it?
In fact, last night I found a very small grain of
pills lying around in my bed. A grain about 3 mm in diameter. I wonder
if you would understand if I told you that they were the grains of
Ontake-san's Hyakusogan. When I took some of them out of the bottle and
swallowed them for my reflux stomach, one of them seemed to have spilled
into the bedclothes. When I found it, I rolled it around with the sole
of my foot and played with it.
As I followed the grain with my sole, my foot made
various movements. Such foot movements were rare these days. During the
process, the leg on the same side almost cramped up. Avoiding such a
situation, I rolled and played with it for a while. It did not feel bad.
The only possibility was, just as the morning after
I did the ebizori, the sciatica that had kept me awake and aching for a
week had disappeared, my leg came to life again. There is an outdoor
gym in a nearby park, and I used to stretch my legs on the treadmill,
but today the aspect of my movements there changed completely. I was
able to do it with the strength of an athlete, and I had no problem with
it. This was something I had never seen before.
It's nice when something magical happens. To celebrate, I bought a bottle of whiskey and boiled octopus at a nearby co-op.
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When you get unexpectedly half-awake while you are
in bed, Leftsy, your left foot and Rightsy, your right foot, can be
good friends. The toes of either foot can quickly trace the keys of the
counterpart and make a tune. This is not a masterpiece, but anyone can
easily explore and strum on the keyboard consisting of five toes, from
left to right or right to left, either on the front of the instep or the
back of the foot.
When this is done, to my surprise, a certain
reaction occurs quite a bit higher up in the mouth. The teeth begin to
slide out on their own. The upper and lower teeth slide sideways and
take on a movement that matches the key stroking, attracting saliva and
moistening the mouth suffering from dry mouth. In other words, toe
keyboard play can improve dry mouth. I have no idea of the mechanism,
but perhaps the similarity of the alignment between the toe keys and
the teeth might be a trigger.
The foot has a very complex structure. There are 27
bones on each side of the foot, and 1/4 of all the bones in the body,
that is 54 in number, are in the feet. The toes, like the fingers,
consist of two bones in the thumb and three bones in the other toes.
Since it is difficult to bend a finger with only one long bone, God made
more bones and connected them with joints. Because of this large number
of bones, they feel like a keyboard. The fingers don't move much when
rubbed together, but the toes make music when rubbed together. The feet
have an advantage in this regard.
Just as the hands have carpal tunnel, the feet have
tarsal tunnel. These are not bones but tubes, with nerves and blood
vessels running through them. If water or other substances leak from the
blood vessels, the nerves are compressed, causing numbness in the sole
of the foot and a feeling of discomfort, as if a rice cake is sticking
to the back of the foot. Walking is also affected.
The long history of suffering from tarsal tunnel
syndrome is probably due to bad veins. After continued massaging to
relieve the lumps on the outside of the calves and shins, my legs have
cleared up.
The most impressive massage, however, was the arch
massage. This arch is called "tsuchi-fumazu" in Japanese, and it is
unique to humans, who walk on two legs, and cannot be seen in other
primates.
According to AI information, the arch is composed
of three parts: the medial arch, the lateral arch, and the transverse
arch. Each of these arches is composed of metatarsals, ligaments, and
muscles, but the important thing is not so much as that, but rather that
the ceilings of these arches are unexplored regions.
Therefore, when the left and right foot work
together to massage the unexplored area, it feels great, and of course,
it is healthy.
If you have bad feet, the ceiling may hurt. But if you carefully rubbing them together, it will get better.
After this massage, a long and slow massage between the right and left instep will take you to heaven.
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I believed I was flu-free thanks to taking
Chlorella every day after meals. However, for the past three days, I
have suffered from flu symptoms such as sore throat, runny nose, and
mild cough. It turns out that Chlorella doesn't make you immune to the
flu.
I believe that the cause of the flu symptoms was
that I unexpectedly inhaled a piece of tangerine in the direction of my
airway, coughing it up and damaging the junction of the airway and
esophagus in my throat, allowing the virus to enter through the wound.
I have been away from influenza for more than 10
years. I have no experience with the new coronavirus. I had forgotten
what kind of symptoms the flu can cause, but I remembered that the runny
nose and cough were very bothersome.
I did not take any medicine. I half won out by
applying essential oil frankincense to the entrance of my nasal
passages, peppermint oil, squalene oil, and patience. I was surprised
that my favorite herbal remedy, cinnamon, worked against this virus. As
soon as I licked half a teaspoonful of cinnamon powder and swallowed it
down with water, I noticed I felt excellent immediately. Is cinnamon a
panacea? I licked honey, whisky, and Japanese sake, and slept well. They
gave me a complete victory.
About the aftereffects: The cold symptoms subsided
in three or four days, but the aftereffects lingered. The immune
system's function to keep viruses at bay caused a sticking of
low-moisture mucus in the airways at the back of the nose. That could
happen at a moment's notice, even if you don't have a cold. In some
cases, it could be scary because you might choke to death.
In my long life, however, this has happened at
least once or twice a year since I was over 30 years old. In total, it
has happened about 80 to 150 times. Since I have somehow managed to
survive them, I may not have to be afraid of choking.
One technique I have developed this time was to
stick a roll of tissues in my mouth and wipe away the phlegm that had
appeared in the danger zone. Anything that lightens the effort to expel
the phlegm is good.
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Currently, I don't mind tinnitus much anymore. I indeed have tinnitus, but it is not so bad that it becomes painful.
In the past, I have suffered from tinnitus until it
became painful. I have even tried tinnitus medication. If you start
worrying about it, there will be no end.
I have actually developed a technique for such a situation.
Use the plastic case that contains the pills. A
plastic case for lozenges will do good. Take some of the cases
containing one or two of these pills apart and stroke them with
fingertips close to the eardrum. You will hear a pleasant
chitter-chitter-chitter-chitter sound. As you listen to it, the painful
sound of tinnitus will subside. It's a trick. It's a Mutekatsu-ryu.
The key is to stop worrying about internal sounds
because it is an unnecessary thing: Turn your attention to external
sounds. With this change in awareness, tinnitus becomes less painful.
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I once had a dermatitis that lasted for a while on
my left leg near the ankle instep, the area where I do instep kicks in
soccer. This round, red spot was about 10 mm in diameter and looked like
a clammy, red ulcer when the symptoms were at their worst.
Upon further study, it turned out to be a congestive dermatitis caused by stagnation of the surrounding venous blood.
Previously, the right leg was affected by
arteriosclerosis of the lower extremities (ASO). Recently, however, he
had no pain or numbness at all in the right leg, but had ASO-like
symptoms on the opposite leg, the left leg, along with varicose
vein-like symptoms, and after a while of walking, his legs and feet
became painful, numb, and heavy. And it has stayed for an incredibly
long time. Maybe this is an area where MUTEKATSU is out of reach. It may
be my fatal disease.
My left leg had been my pivot leg for a long time
before that. My right leg is my dominant leg and has been assisting my
axis leg. Whenever the left leg wobbled, the right leg immediately
adjusted the angle and supported it.
The left leg had once suffered a severe sprain. I
was about to cross the driveway to the sidewalk after buying a roast pig
at the butcher shop across the street from our house when a car making a
sharp left turn from a nearby intersection forced me to make a hasty
jump over a shrub, failing to land and badly twisting my left leg.
Eventually, the entire area from the ankle down swelled up, and I had a
lot of trouble sleeping with my leg up, walking with a limp, and so on.
During this time, my right leg took the role of the pivot leg, and I
dragged the other side of my leg to keep going.
The sprain healed within a year or so without a
doctor's visit, but it may have been the cause of long-term problems
with my left leg.
A few years after the sprain, my left leg problems
began with what is called intermittent claudication. After a short walk,
it would become painful and I would limp. I had experienced this
symptom when I had ASO in my right leg, so I actually had an optimistic
outlook that it would go away if I walked. However, something was
different from the right leg event.
I wondered what it was. It wouldn't be surprising
if I had scoliosis as my age progressed, or it could be varicose veins
or ASO. It could also be tarsal tunnel syndrome. All sorts of diseases
rush in to kill the host. That is life.
I would often sit on the bench and count the years, wondering how long I have left to die. This is Mutemake-ryu as it is.
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One day, 13 years ago, I suddenly had the idea to quit smoking cigarettes once and for all. Partly because I was coughing frequently, my throat discharge was very high, and I was not feeling comfortable around my airways, but the biggest reason was the equation that formed in my brain: "Smoke all the time = Not smoke at all."
This equation, at first glance, seems illogical.
However, you may find at least a little room to think, "If you are
constantly puffing on a cigarette at every waking moment, is it the same
as not puffing at all?" Moreover, you may have a chance of succeeding
in quitting smoking.
Smoking cigarettes has many positive effects, such
as giving one a pleasant sensation, relieving drowsiness and fatigue, as
well as increasing concentration. Many people continue to smoke because
of these benefits. Although these effects are temporary, they are quite
attractive.
However, if you continue to smoke and start to
worry about respiratory problems and cerebrovascular shrinkage, you
should consider taking up the equation above for your health and money.
You should start a non-smoking savings account.
Write down the total amount of cigarettes you have not smoked every day
in a notebook, for example, +800. Your savings will increase
dramatically in a week or so.
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I think my ability in English started to improve
when my English teacher encouraged me to participate in a reading
contest in my third year of junior high. Two students, including me,
were chosen presumably because of having a great voice. I repeatedly
listened to the BBC reading of the text on a cheap record player, which
began with the words "Sojo was a little boy in India."
After that, as anyone would normally do, I
continued to study English grammar and tried to increase my ability in
reading and vocabulary until the day before the university entrance
exam. I remember I had a hard time remembering English words in
particular. I made word cards and memorized them with conscious effort.
When I first entered college, my English teacher in
the liberal arts program adopted as a textbook a very boring book in
The Penguins Books written by a British author named Cyril Connolly.
What I was overwhelmed was the overwhelming lack of vocabulary of mine
and felt that I had had enough of English.
When I proceeded to school, I first entered the
Faculty of Law, but soon became disenchanted and transferred to the
Faculty of Arts and Letters. The system required a one-year leave of
absence to transfer. I chose Japanese literature at first and studied
Otomo no Yakamochi and Buson mainly according to my professors'
specialty, but without satisfaction, I moved on to English and
English-American literature. After that, I came across Sherwood
Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Faulkner's Sound and Fury, and other works
of American literature. I also read Tom Jones, Pride and Prejudice, and
Shakespeare. Gradually, my English language skills began to improve.
For my thesis, I studied the works of Noam Chomsky
and Jakendoff, who were the generative grammarians of their day.
Studying generative grammar required some elements of science and
engineering, which made it more difficult to study for me, but my
English skills improved dramatically.
When I was interviewed for graduation, my
professors in American Literature and English Language respectively said
to me, "Well, what are you going to do?" I knew I was worried about my
job prospects. But I dared them to say, "No, thank you. I will do it by
myself." When I told them I wanted to write novels, the professor of
American literature said, "Then you are just like me." He had his
students read 'The Rhetoric of Fiction' by Wayne C. Booth in class.
After graduation, I earned my living by writing
books on English for entrance examinations and exam questions, and my
vocabulary naturally grew to the point where I no longer needed to refer
to the thesaurus, which I had been referring to many times. I thought I
might have gotten near to a bilingual, but this is actually an ego
trip, and I think that my English proficiency is about 80 points out of
100.
When I first entered college, my English teacher in
the liberal arts program adopted as a textbook a very boring book in
The Penguins Books written by a British author named Cyril Connolly.
What I was overwhelmed was the overwhelming lack of vocabulary of mine
and felt that I had had enough of English.
When I proceeded to school, I first entered the
Faculty of Law, but soon became disenchanted and transferred to the
Faculty of Arts and Letters. The system required a one-year leave of
absence to transfer. I chose Japanese literature at first and studied
Otomo no Yakamochi and Buson mainly according to my professors'
specialty, but without satisfaction, I moved on to English and
English-American literature. After that, I came across Sherwood
Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Faulkner's Sound and Fury, and other works
of American literature. I also read Tom Jones, Pride and Prejudice, and
Shakespeare. Gradually, my English language skills began to improve.
For my thesis, I studied the works of Noam Chomsky
and Jakendoff, who were the generative grammarians of their day.
Studying generative grammar required some elements of science and
engineering, which made it more difficult to study for me, but my
English skills improved dramatically.
When I was interviewed for graduation, my
professors in American Literature and English Language respectively said
to me, "Well, what are you going to do?" I knew I was worried about my
job prospects. But I dared them to say, "No, thank you. I will do it by
myself." When I told them I wanted to write novels, the professor of
American literature said, "Then you are just like me." He had his
students read 'The Rhetoric of Fiction' by Wayne C. Booth in class.
After graduation, I earned my living by writing
books on English for entrance examinations and exam questions, and my
vocabulary naturally grew to the point where I no longer needed to refer
to the thesaurus, which I had been referring to many times. I thought I
might have gotten near to a bilingual, but this is actually an ego
trip, and I think that my English proficiency is about 80 points out of
100.
I had never lived in an English-speaking country. I
was a self-taught person, so to speak, who really only studied in
Japan. However, as I continued my studies, I believe that I gradually
developed an English-language cranial nerve circuit, which seems to have
a period of rapid growth by the providence of nature. If you continue
to work hard, one day you will unexpectedly suddenly be rewarded.
I had never lived in an English-speaking country. I
was a self-taught person, so to speak, who really only studied in
Japan. However, as I continued my studies, I believe that I gradually
developed an English-language cranial nerve circuit, which seems to have
a period of rapid growth by the providence of nature. If you continue
to work hard, one day you will unexpectedly suddenly be rewarded.
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The most depressing experience in receiving medical care was when I had a "T-wave abnormality" stamped on my medical record. Instead of writing it down, the doctor just put a stamp of it on the paper. That suggested a bad thing.
This abnormality, which is called "T-wave
abnormality", shows the waveform that should normally rise upward on an
EKG becomes concave and negative. Normally, T-waves should rise in the
positive direction, and a negative concavity is considered abnormal.
However, after having lived with this ECG for 77 years, it is not good
to be branded as a T-waver.
In Japan, it is said that being fair-skinned hides
seven disadvantages, but all of my classmates and relatives of the same
age who died of heart disease while young were fair-skinned. A girl in
my junior high school class who died of a heart condition was always
worried by her close classmates. Her condition must have been that bad.
She died suddenly, and all her classmates attended her funeral. Looking
at her in the coffin, everyone wiped tears.
A fair-skinned, baseball-loving boy who had
inherited fairness from his mother also died suddenly. And, according
to my mother, one of my cousins, my mother's brother's son, a
fair-skinned boy, had also died of a heart disease. If you are Japanese
and strikingly fair-skinned, you may have a bad heart condition.
The black colored cat that died of a heart attack
was our cat, Pitch. This black and gold-haired feline had one of the
kidneys atrophied and became very sick. At the time of her death, she
was on my lap, but as soon as I put her down, she passed away after she
had her tail puffed out in terror. She might have been in great pain
from being taken off my lap, or she might have had a myocardial
infarction.
As for me, as you can see from the fact that I have
been nicknamed sometimes "white pig" and sometimes "our bride" by my
classmates, I was rather pale, but I did not die young, and have
survived to be 77 years old. Therefore, the question arises about
whether the T-wave abnormality is true or not in my case.
According to doctors on the Web, T-wave
abnormalities can be benign. One medical center stated that it is too
early to be pessimistic about such a finding, as ST-T changes and T-wave
abnormalities may not be pathological. T-wave abnormalities can also
occur in the absence of problems. Reading ECGs seems to be difficult
even for experts.
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Floaters begin at a very young age, in one's
twenties. Almost every member of the human race becomes aware of a
visual abnormality, such as mosquitoes flying in the eye or a few tiny
frog eggs floating in the air. Since almost all members of human beings
become aware of this visual abnormality, this is hardly called a
disease; more akin to human physiology.
A large portion of the eye is filled with a
jelly-like substance called vitreous. This gel, according to my
ophthalmologist, turns into sol as we get older. In this mixture, when
something like debris floats around, it can interfere with our vision
depending on the light.
One time there was a change in my flying
mosquitoes. Trash perceived as huge, gigantically large, drifted into my
field of vision. It was as if large, black pieces of lumber were
rolling around on the right and left sides of my eyeballs. I knew it was
bad.
I went to see my ophthalmologist. She said it was a
posterior vitreous detachment. In other words, the back part of the
vitreous is detached from the retina. This was, however, also a common
occurrence, especially in nearsighted people, and could be called a
physiological condition caused by aging.
As for the large debris, my ophthalmologist said,
"it will be absorbed," but it did not go away soon and remained there.
However, when I noticed it, it was gone. If you wait a very long span of
time, it is indeed absorbed. Currently, the sky is cloudy with about 20
frog eggs and one misty gray cloud floating.
In the end, the two most common eye-related visual
abnormalities that should be a problem are the black curtain pulling
wide due to the retinal detachment and the retinal detachment due to the
retinal rupture. Because they cause a loss of part of the visual field
and a significant change in vision, both are easily recognizable. When
this happens, you have no choice but to rush to the hospital because you
will lose by mutekatsu-ryu.
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This looks extremely serious because a significant
portion of the white of the eye is stained red with fresh blood from the
hemorrhage, and your look becomes greatly frightening. The bleeding
occurs in the sclera, which appears white under the conjunctiva, the
transparent mucous membrane that covers the surface of the eye, and
spreads as if red ink had just dripped into the very narrow space
between two glass plates. It cannot be removed with the fingers, nor can
it be washed away with water.
There are several membranes in and around the eye
that perform important functions. The retina is of exceptional
importance because it is a screen at the innermost part of the eye. The
cornea of the black eye covers a lens-like object called the crystal
lens. The cornea is transparent, and it has no blood vessels. The
conjunctiva, as its name implies, primarily serves to connect the eye to
the eyelid, and although it can become bloodshot due to conjunctivitis
and other conditions, it does not bleed. The white of the eye, however,
has blood vessels and can bleed in some cases.
In my case, my internist prescribed a drug called
cilostazol, which makes the blood thinner. This caused bleeding in the
whites of my eyes during a period of increased bleeding to the point
where blood oozed from the surface of my tongue. Startled, I went to my
doctor's office.
The ophthalmologist, the daughter of the father
internist, said something frightening: "You must have broken a blood
vessel." She seemed to want to say that she was glad it was not a blood
vessel in the brain.
The doctor went off to the internal medicine section of the clinic. I did not know what the outcome of the discussion was.
The disease is not related to massive bleeding.
The amount of bleeding is usually negligible. Therefore, a hasty visit
to the ophthalmologist would not result in any treatment. No mydriatic
drops were placed in the eye to look at the fundus. No eye drops are
given.
"The bleeding blood will be absorbed in time," she said.
As I get older, my meibomitis glands on the edges
of the upper and lower eyelids tend to become blocked, causing
uncomfortable symptoms. A meibomitis gland is a type of sebaceous gland
that normally produces oil on the surface of the eye to prevent
evaporation of tears. However, due to aging and other factors, as early
as the age of 50, people will be faced with the problem of the clogging
of the meibomian glands' outlets by the hardened oil. When you press
your eyelids, you may find a round, white mass of oil appear. This mass
is getting bigger and bigger. I believe it has something to do with the
look in my eyes and other aspects of my appearance.
The major glands in the human body are the thyroid
gland, tonsils, lymph glands, digestive glands, and prostate gland. Each
of these can harbor serious diseases.
Even if a serious disease could be avoided, there are so many glands in the body that can cause malfunctions.
In my case, I suffer from a great
self-contradiction: the fat from the meibomitis glands attacks my eyes.
The fat hardens like a needle, and sticks to my pupils and the white of
my eyes as if it were an inverted eyelash. When a stabbing incident with
an inverted meibomian fat needle occurs, I can't prevent tears from
overflowing and can't stand the pain.
The other sebaceous glands seem to have hairs, but
the meibomian glands do not. So it is not due to an inverted hair, but a
fatty needle.
The lady doctor at the nearby ophthalmologist, the
daughter of the man who used to be my family physician, used an
instrument with a magnifying glass to pull it out with tweezers. It
would be the best ophthalmological method.
She said, "This is cut in half, isn't it? This is a
problem, so please let us take care of them instead of pulling them out
by yourself."
It is true that if I use a hair plucking tool while
looking in the mirror, I sometimes end up with a cut in the middle and
the rest of the hair remaining. Doing it by myself, I pull it out
forcefully as my enemy. It hurts.
I have to go to see the doctor, enduring the long
waiting time? Some old men, even though they are not sick, come to see
the female doctor, calling it a regular physical checkup.
But if you do it yourself, it's free and it works quickly. I'm in a dilemma.
A measure to prevent grease from hardening would be
to warm the area around the eyes. Grease melts with heat. For this
purpose, it would be normal to apply a hot compress (a treatment method
in Chinese medicine, in which a part of the body is warmed to improve
the condition of the patient). If you believe in the power of the
Japanese word "teate" (hand treatment), in addition to commercially
available products such as hot eye masks, the method of applying the
palms of your hands on your eyes will be the most effective and
inexpensive method next to steamed towels.
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What surprised me about the exercises was that the
sciatica I suffered, which was so numbing and painful that I could not
sleep at night, went away the next day after I watched a video of an
exercise and tried it once. This made me fall in love with the
exercises. I downloaded the video somewhere on my computer, but I can't
find it now.
The sciatica I experienced made my left leg tingle
and pain in the thigh area. I don't think this went on for up to a week,
but I had nights when I would wake up with a nagging pain for several
days. The sciatic nerve is a thick nerve that extends from the area
around the hips, where the sciatic bone is located, to the feet. This
nerve can become painful when cartilage in the spine around the lower
back pops out or is pushed by it. The reason my symptoms disappeared so
quickly was probably because it was an acute, not a chronic, spike.
The specific exercise I tried was to lie on my back
with my painful left leg bent at the knee, bend my right leg under the
bent left leg, leverage the right leg, stretch from the left leg to the
lower back, and bend my backward. My lower back was effectively
stretched. In the next morning, the dreaded sciatic pain completely
disappeared (I searched for something similar and found it at Takeyauchi
Clinic. They seem to do it on all fours like a cat).
I recommended this to a friend who had sciatica.
After he tried it, he said his symptoms got worse. Perhaps it was not
sciatica, but scoliosis. The recommended exercise for the latter does
not include back stretching. Oppositely, a rounded style with the knees
held up is recommended.
These exercises are not hard ones, but just light
ones and they are so languid as to be called light exercises. However,
once you get into it, it works. It may be similar to yoga.
I have tried standing on one leg, standing on my toes, lying on my back on the floor with arms and legs dangling in the air, and rocking my lower body sideways. As for standing on one leg, the same or better effect can be expected as walking, since walking is, in essence, standing on one leg. Standing on your toes stretches your calves and strengthens the muscles in that area. This may help with varicose veins. Lying down and swinging your limbs brings venous blood back to the heart. Side-to-side rocking of the lower body increases the duration of standing on one leg. It may only increase time on the second time scale.
There are many interesting things like yoga and tai
chi. Formal ones may be difficult to learn, so you may want to aim for
something that is a bit like yoga or a bit like tai chi, which is easier
and more casual.
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In the Autogenic Training Method, you will use
self-hypnosis as a way of therapy. In order to succeed in it, you will
need a quiet environment without any disturbance. If there is a
hindrance, the hypnosis will be obstructed.
To achieve a hypnotic state, you lie down and tell yourself that you feel calm.
After that, give yourself a suggestion that "the right foot is heavy and warm" or "the left foot is heavy and warm".
What you must note is the choice of words to put
yourself in the hypnotic state. Instead of the word "Calm yourself" or
"Calm down", you should tell yourself "I'm calm", the words of
suggestions to put yourself in a calm state. And neither "Make your feet
heavy" nor "Make your feet warm", you must use the implication of
"heavy and warm" as you are already in the midst of that state.
Perhaps "heavy" and "warm" are connected. You can see that the legs are getting warmer when you grab the kids.
I bought a thick book whose title, "Autogenic
Training Method", was printed with gold letters on its red cover when I
was a university student. It was a Japanese translation of a book
written by a German psychiatrist, Johannes Heinrich Schultz.
I once received regularly mental health
consultations from a doctor in the university campus. One afternoon,
when I told the psychiatrist that I was trying the autogenic training
method, he definitely said, "It isn't so effective, is it?"
So I thought the method was not a major one as a
therapy. But I did it at least for 10 years. I was eager to do that in
the beginning. After that, I gradually reduced the frequency of doing it
and at last stopped doing it.
Recently, I'm thinking more and more that this
training method is to give a comfortable experience rather than to serve
as a training method. In other words, I have reached a recognition
that by the hypnosis you can ensure the parasympathetic nervous system
more dominant in the autonomic nervous system.
When the parasympathetic nervous system is
dominant, you will become sleepy and fall asleep even in a hypnotic
state. However, once you fall asleep, the hypnosis is unravelled with
no problem. Normally, in order to break out of self-hypnosis and wake
up, you are recommended to take a deep breath and open your eyes.
It may be good for those who are suffering from coldness of legs and feet.
About this training method, I once said it
intervenes in the function of the autonomic nervous system by self
-hypnosis, but I think it was too exaggerated. I should have said the
the method eventually may have some effects on the nervous system.
In my case, the vein slightly raised on the side of
my shin on my left leg broke and bled a little. I also found redness in
the surrounding area.
Around the affected area, engorgement of the veins
was generally observed. The varicose veins intensified in the
surrounding area.
Because of my sitting job, I have varicose veins in
my legs. My weakness in veins is inherited from my mother. When
getting an injection, it is difficult for the nurses to determine the
right position to insert the needle.
There are two types of veins: those deep in the
body, and those superficial near the surface of the body. If a blood
clot forms in a deep vein, it can lead to the well-known traveller's
thrombosis (economy class syndrome), which is a serious condition with
swollen legs and discoloured skin. If this clot clogs an artery in the
lungs, it can be fatal. Very dangerous.
On the other hand, thrombophlebitis, which I
suffered from, has a scary name but seems to have a good prognosis. The
clots disappear spontaneously and there are no aftereffects.
I used, surprisingly, Oronine ointment and olive
oil for the treatment. I tried them alternately. Olive oil, like
cinnamon introduced in "Aerophagia", has a strong astringent effect and
is good for the vascular and skin systems. Oronine originally contains
olive oil.
Periodontal bacteria are sometimes named as a cause
of thrombophlebitis. These are not confined to the teeth and their
surrounding areas but travel to many places through the bloodstream at
the maximum speed of about 200 kilometers per hour and play tricks.
When targeted, the inner walls of blood vessels weaken, which can lead to blood clots and atherosclerosis.
Blood vessels seem to do better when pressed. It
seems that nitric oxide (NO) is generated in blood vessels when pressed
with a finger, palm, foot, etc. Of course, I have never seen it before,
but it is said that when this occurs, damaged areas in the inner walls
of blood vessels are repaired.
It is a wonder of the human body.
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I was in my twenties when I was suffering from the
symptom. For example, what to do if I was in a college classroom and
needed to go to the bathroom was a big problem back then. It is not easy
to raise your hand and say, "Excuse me, sir, I need to go to the
restroom," because you are not in elementary school. But what I want to
get out, I want to get out; what I wanted to let out I wanted to let
out.
Why were other people so unconcerned? I was greatly troubled.
I went on a trip to Tohoku with a friend. We
visited Lake Tazawa and took a bus from there. I don't remember where we
were going. The bus took us on an endless mountain road. Eventually,
the vibrations made me aware of the condition of my bladder.
Unable to resist, I walked to the front of the bus and told the driver, "I have to go to the bathroom."
The driver stopped the bus.
After peeing and standing up at a certain spot in the mountains, I returned to the bus.
I thought it was a perfectly normal thing to do,
but my friend said, "Wow, you stopped the bus. That's great." But then
again, I wondered if this was a great thing to do.
Even if I went to the bathroom before getting on
the bus or entering the classroom, I would still feel the need to go
again soon. I wanted to rant about how should this kind of person live
on.
After a long time, I have learned to forget about
the proximity to the bathroom. It was mainly due to the information that
what was lodged in my bladder would be collected by my body for
recycling if I left it there. Knowledge was power. Then I thought I
should just let it go. I cursed why neither my parents nor my teachers
had taught me such a thing.
In this case, I think that anticipatory anxiety has
a lot to do with it. If a person tends to panic, frequent urination is
more likely to occur. Women seem to urinate more frequently with age.
Recently my symptoms have disappeared and I'm getting out of the air or gas troubles.
For some time in early summer I have been troubled
by the severe symptoms due to the air or gas in my body, including
burping, farting, or accumulation and swelling of air or gas. Occurring
only about once every three years, the severe symptoms torture me
especially when the stressful conditions last. In other cases, it
continues like a continuous bass.
The cause of these symptoms is swallowing air
consciously or unconsciously, as well as the possibility of the
irritable bowel syndrome.
As for air swallowing, you should stop taking in
air consciously. You must tell yourself that it never benefits you. A
ball of air is felt very hard in your abdomen. Moreover, it swells when
your body is warming up. It affects the small and large intestines.
Even If you don't have a habit of swallowing air
consciously, air is taken into your body unconsciously during your
meals, and gas is generated in your intestines, and you are not
perfectly free from the swelling gas. The gas will be generated. If
merged with aerophagia and the disorder due to the irritable bowel
syndrome, the symptom will be severer.
In my case, if my body temperature rises, I
sometimes feel pain in the side. When that happens during sleep , I get
up and massage my flank, improve my posture, and remove gas out of the
gastrointestinal tract.
I found recently powdered cinnamon bark is
surprisingly effective to this disorder. The powder is a natural
astringent, and it can be expected that the stomach capillaries will be
contracted and the stomach itself will become better in condition. It is
not clear why aerophagia is curable by the astringent effect, but it
works. The powder can also be found at the supermarket in the
confectionery ingredients selling space.
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I was once a high school teacher for a while.
One day, while giving afternoon lesson on the
platform in front of the blackboard of a classroom, I noticed that my
legs were tight and uncomfortable. I thought what was the matter with
them. I went on my speech, because I felt neither pain nor itch and
perceived no numbness, either. However, the early days began at the time
as just beginning.
10年ほどして血圧の治療を受けていた近所の医院で2、3度診察を受けるうちに右足の冷たさを訴えたところ、大きな病院での検査を勧められた。
After about 10 years, I went to see the doctor at a nearby clinic for the treatment of hypertension. I had consultations a few times, and during that time I told of the coldness of my right foot. Then I was encouraged to have an inspection at a larger hospital.
The hospital recommended by the doctor had a device
for blood pressure measurement at ankles. It was placed where the
corridor is ending, as it might have few demands.
Lying on the bed, I was mounted measuring gadgets.
The result was immediately turned out that there was a clear difference
in blood pressure on the ankles on the left and right. The MRI test was
ordered by the alleged arteriosclerosis of the lower limb.
Arteriosclerosis, called ASO in short, is the
desease in which vessels become hardened. Smokers often suffer ASO in
later years. If merged with diabetes, and especially when a gangrene,
decay in body parts due to stoppage of blood supply, occurs on the
toes, severe illnesses would develop that might lead to the cutting of
the lower limb. I was not a heavy smoker but consumed mildly 2 boxes of
1mg Kent a day.
MRIはドーム状の装置の中に入れられて、内部を撮影される。今回は下肢のほか、心臓の冠動脈3本も対象にされた。そのため、心臓拡大収縮の速度を緩めるβ遮断剤をMRI当日朝に服用し来院することになった。
MRI means that the inside is shot in a dome-shaped
device. In addition to the lower limbs, three cardiac muscles were also
targeted this time. Therefore, a β-blocker was taken on the morning of
the shooting that loosens the speed of the heart expansion and
contraction before I came to the hospital.
But, I was very worried. Because the β-blocker
issued by the hospital was 3.5mg. It was a big tablet. I usually took
2.2mg, Moreover, because I thought it was a drastic medicine I only
took a quarter to half at one time by splitting them. The tablet of
3.5mg was about 1.5 times bigger than 2.2mg.
MRIの当日、私は1錠では多いのではないかとなおも迷ったものの、MRI用には多くないとだめなのかとも考え、半錠に割らずに指定された量をすべて服用した。
On the morning of MRI, I still thought that a whole
tablet would be too much. But, on the other hand, if I took only half
of it, and if it might make MRI shooting useless, I would regret the
outcome. So I took it as a whole without cutting it into half.
I arrived at the hospital by bus, and while sitting
on the bench in the waiting place, I realized that I was unable to
articulate properly. It was, off course, because of the dangerous drug.
What would happen to me, I wonder. I was very much worried about
suffering cerebral infarction.
In any way, the MRI ended. After a few days, I was
given an explanation from the doctor in charge. All three coronary
arteries seemed to have no problem. About the arteriosclerosis of the
legs, however, he told me not to leave it uncontrolled and to place the
stent in the affected part, showing the image of the lower limb blood
vessel model.
The stent is a metal cylindrical net to spread a
blood vessel, and is often left in a place where blood vessels are
clogged. I tried hard to gather related information on the net. As a
result, I concluded that if you put a stent in the part below the knee,
it would not be so good and sometimes it would need second surgery.
Therefore, I didn't take surgery and chose to treat it with medicine
from the physician. I walked about 3 kilometres everyday. As a result,
I'm getting better. Two of the four brothers have a stent in the
coronary artery, and they appear to be healthy. The stent seems good for
your heart.
By the way, I've found out a strange thing. That is, when you rub your right leg's shin or calf, the skin of the opposite leg, in this case the skin of your left leg, will be reddish in colour and vice versa. I don't know from what kind of mechanism the event comes, and that may be one of the mysteries of the human body, but the vessel is only branching to the let and the right, and that's no wonder.
After all, ASO would be treated and remission would
be achieved by walking a long distance. The vessels are remade and
renewed by doing that. If you suffer diabetes, take care of yourself
and try not to develop gangrene in your toes.
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The strongest of all the illnesses I have had is a
group of panic disorder signs. The worst symptoms appeared at
Takadanobaba station on the Seibu Shinjuku line. I was in my
mid-thirties at the time.
1. 高田馬場事件
1. The Takadanobaba Incident
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It was the evening rush hour when everyone was
heading home. From Oji, where Sundai Gakuen High School is located,
after finishing a remedial class, I went to Tabata, Ikebukuro, and
Takadanobaba. I proceeded to Tabata, Ikebukuro, and Takadanobaba, and as
soon as I looked up the stairs at Takadanobaba Station on the Seibu
Shinjuku Line after transferring from the JR line, I thought, "Oh, no, I
can't. I'm in pain."
What was wrong with me was that my heart was pounding. And it never stops.
It's not the heart. It's the pounding.
I ran into the stall of the restroom at the station. I tried to calm down and get back to my normal state anyway.
But my heart would not return to normal beat for
any length of time. Time went on and on. When will I be able to return
to a real human being? I suffered in the small space.
At the end of my agony, I went outside. My heart
was still pounding and I didn't feel alive. I asked an older man, who
seemed to be a salaried man, to help me. He told me to ask the station
staff.
I went to what looked like a station clerk's office
in the middle of the station stairs and complained that I was not
feeling well. There was a tatami room where I rested for a while. My
heart was still pounding.
Eventually, perhaps because I did not come back to
life too soon, one of the station attendants asked me if I wanted to
call an ambulance. I said yes.
The ambulance came immediately. I was put on a
stretcher, which rattled through the station yard. "What's that?" I
heard a child asking his parents. I got into the ambulance and was taken
to the Tokyo Medical University Emergency Center. I was lying alone in a
dark place with the lights dimmed.
At first, when I was asked for my address, name,
and phone number I somehow managed to answer. But later on, when the
woman doctor asked me, "How did this happen?" I could not answer at all.
The doctor ran her hand over my lower abdomen. She seemed to palpate my lower abdomen to see if I had colon cancer.
Soon after, my wife and child, who had been
summoned by phone. They came from faraway Saitama by car. I felt like I
was finally saved. On the way home, I was so shocked that I did not say
much at all.
2. 病気への対策
2. countermeasures against the disease
The panic syndrome was treated with beta-blockers and alcohol.
The beta-blockers were first prescribed by a local
doctor who himself had throat cancer and had a toilsome last years of
life. He prescribed them as an antihypertensive for people who were
easily agitated. It was a very effective and great drug. With one shot
of the drug, the pounding of my heart would subside, though not
immediately.
However, I found that alcohol was just as effective
as the beta-blocker. I put sake in miniature whiskey bottles, and I
decided on my own that I would carry them around with me as a
countermeasure.
It worked great. The number of times I was forced
to confine myself to a private restroom at train stations was
drastically reduced. When I opened the lid of the miniature bottle on
the train, everyone smelled it and became restless as if they would like
to say, "What is it?" But, I was not concerned about it, I didn't mind.
I could close the lid in a second.
Gradually, I outgrew my panic disorder.
3. パニックになる局面
3. phases of panic
I did not know when to panic.
I avoided, as much as possible, situations that could cause panic attacks. As a result, I did not go out much or at all.
However, I often visited Yamada electronics store
in the city, and one day, on my way home from there, I panicked at a
roadside at McDonald's. I went into the shop, told one of the
waitresses that I was sick, and took a seat on the far side to rest. I
had not ordered anything but the waitress gave me a glass of water.
I had my cell phone with me at the time and called my daughter to come over. When my daughter came, I was able to manage.
By the way, although traveling by train was painful, traveling by car driven by my wife was comfortable.
However, I noticed that when I got stuck in traffic on the highway, panic returned.
Although I did not have to be aware of the eyes of
others as I was on the train, there was no escape from the car in the
traffic jam.
At this point, I used the distraction medication.
In this case, it would be claustrophobia with no
escape. However, the fear of wide open spaces that I experienced at
Seibu Stadium was also a type of panic disorder.
The stadium was a large place as far as the eye could see. Just like in a car in a traffic jam, there was no escape.
I felt like a cat worrying about escape, but when a
friend of my wife's visited our house shortly after we were married,
she commented that I was like a cat. A good observation.
4. パニック障害の症状
4. Symptoms of panic disorder
In my case, the main symptom was a pounding heart.
I became so focused on it that I began to suffer from a vicious cycle of wondering why it kept going on and on.
Some people also suffer from breathing difficulties, dizziness, nausea, etc., but for me, it was mainly heart palpitations.
・他者の目を気にしないこと
・自身が他者にどう見えるかを気にしないこと
が重要なのだと思う。
I thought I could force myself to overcome the
symptoms with a little help from drinking alcohol, but mentally, I was
not able to do so. I think it is important not to worry about how you
look to others or what others think of you too much.
When I was a student, I received mental health care
at an on-campus institution for other disorders. I was told to shrug
things off. Those two points have much in common with what I was
instructed to do.
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ポイ活初体験
ポイ活はどうなのかやってみることにしました。
以下その体験記。
１．アンケートに回答してポイントゲット
ポイ活はポイントゲット活動のことでしょう。
マイポイ活はアンケート回答から始まりました。
アンケートは、企業や研究所にとって民意を知る手段として
たいへん重要な位置を占めているようです。
ですから、ほんとは回答完了で１ポイントや２ポイントなどじゃなく、
もっと出してもらいたいものですが、
残念ながら報酬としてはあまり期待できないものになっています。
あさはかな私は、
アンケートのあるポイ活サイトのできるだけ多くに登録することで、
もらえるポイントを全体として増やそうとしました。
「マクロミル」から始めて、
「モッピー」
「ポイントインカム」
「ハピタス」
「フルーツメール」
「ユーボイス」
「InfoQ」
「ECナビ」
「ポイントタウン」
「ワラウ」
などです。
2023年5月中旬から開始して必死で、アンケートに回答し続けました。
しかし、5月末までにわずかしかポイントがたまりませんでした。
情けない。ちょっと続けるのはむりか？
でした。
さらに6月ごろから、そもそもアンケートにあまりありつけなくなりました。
よく考えなくとも理由はすぐにわかりました。
トシです。
年齢が大体70を超えるとクレカにも自動的にキャッシングはつかなくなります。
同様に、購買力のない高齢者に商品のアンケートを出しても
しようがないわけですね。
それでプロフィールが合わない、回答却下となることが
ものすごく増えました。
若くて年収が多く既婚者で子供もいるあなたなら
購買力ある層として
米中のアンケート会社からも注目されていますから、
高齢者よりはポイント稼ぎはうまくいくでしょう。
各サイトのうち、マクロミル、ユーボイス、InfoQは
他のサイトとは違ってはでな広告はありません。
マクロミルはアンケートと商品モニターが中心、
ユーボイスはPCやスマホでどのようなことをしたかの調査協力が主体、
InfoQは地味にアンケート主体です。
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２．クレカ申込みでポイントをもらう
こつこつやってもアンケートではポイントがなかなかたまりません。
そこで、
高額ポイントがほしかったので、
クレカを3枚作りました。
比較的近くに店があって1か月に1回くらいは行くウェルシアのカード、
Tカードもいくつかの店で使っていたのでTカードプレミアム、
それにセゾンDigital。
ウェルシアカードはモッピーのサイトでウェルシアカードのバナーを見つけ、
クリックしてウェルシアのサイトに飛び、
そこから申し込みました。
申込みは入力することがけっこう多いのでスマホはきらって、
PCのFirefoxで行きました。
数字はたいてい半角（日本語オフにして英語）で入力しますが、
住所の場合は不思議と数字を全角（日本語）にしないといけないサイトが多いようです。
ウェルシアカードの申し込みでは
モッピーから7,500ポイント（7,500円相当）もらいましたが、
獲得までに2か月かかりました。
成約後、ある程度の額以上のクレジットでの買い物が条件です。
この点、注意が必要です。
TカードはYahooとマルエツの2枚を持っていましたが、
初めてのTカード発行（発行元：Jaccs）とみなされてすんなり通り、
なんと10日ほどでやはりモッピーから5,000ポイント受け取りました。
モッピーは1ポイント1円、5,000ポイントは5,000円ですよ！
失敗したのはセゾンカードでした。
Tカード同様セゾンカードはすでに2枚持っていましたが、
発行元は全部当然ながらセゾンです。
Tカードで成功したので、こちらももしかしたら審査は通るのじゃないか
という甘い見通しを持っていました。
しかし、それはこちらの勝手な思い込みにすぎず、
あちらが出した結果は「無効」でした。
すでにセゾンの会員なのにまた会員になろうとした、
初めてのカード発行ではないということで無効になりました。
Tカードの複数発行でうまくいった経験はここでは災いになりました。
発行元をよく調べて確認しないとだめです。
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３．株の口座開設でポイントをもらう
クレカのたねが尽きたので、
証券にも手を出すことにしました。株ですね。
競馬が儲からない、当たらないので株にしようとずっと思っていました。
まずはポイントインカムで
125,000ポイント（12,500円相当）だった「マネックス証券」を選びました。
これならだれしも魅力的と認めるでしょう。
条件は申込み後、口座に入金し、1取引すればいいのです。
証券会社の口座開設は
スマホでやるのがベストでしょう。
なぜならマイナカードの写真撮影はスマホがいちばんやりやすいし
送りやすいからです。
最初、私は株はどの銘柄を買えばいいのか、
まったくわかりませんでした。
しかし、情報収集の結果、
日本の株は通常100株単位（単元株という）での取引になるが、
米国株は1株から買えて
しかもりっぱな（?）株主になれるということでした。
アメリカは自由の国です。
日本はちょっとしばりがある。
私は結局2万円を口座に入れました。
そしてコカ・コーラなど水商売を中心にしていくつか1株ずつ買いました。
なぜなら水商売は水が原料、コストが最低なのです。
水商売は儲かります。
2万円入れても12,500円相当帰ってきました。
したがって実質7,500円で株デビューできました。
競馬ばかりだった自分と決別して、大きなジャンプ！
画期的！ 変身！
この変化がいい！実存主義哲学者サルトルが言うところの投機です。
自分の殻を脱いで飛躍してみましょう。
【追記】
・マネックスのポイントは比較的早く届きました。
今では松井証券とau株.comもやっています。
ポイ活としてはクレカより自由でいい。
大和コネクト証券はモバイル証券ですから
スマホから申し込みましょう。モッピーはこれの前の
「２．クレカ申込みでポイントをもらう」の広告にリンクがあります。
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４．まとめのかわり
そのほかショッピングでもポイ活サイトを通すとポイントが2重にもらえます。
また、アンケートが嫌だったら、ゲームで同じくらい稼げます。
ポイ活は多くを期待してはいけませんが、
たとえば消費税がいやでたまらない人はその分くらいはポイ活で出ます。
また、失業者は、ゲームをするだけでも元気が出ます。
したがって私はポイ活賛成派です。
ただし、しょぼいのばかりではだめ、
うつになるから。だから、たまにはどかーんといきましょう。
ポイントは
そもそもサービス利用のご褒美として付与されるもので
金銭に換算するとわずかでしかありません。
ポイ活を主な経済活動にみなすのは無理があります。
高額ポイントをゲットできるものを2，3月置きに利用し、
アンケートなどで獲得したしょぼいポイントと組み合わせると
しょぼい分が早く換金でき、
けっこうやる気が出ます。
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Gymnema is a very good supplement of plant origin, from southern and central India and Sri Lanka.
Gymnema research seems to be ongoing at the
University of Tokyo and the Kyushu University, being partipated by
several researches including Assistant Professor Toshiaki Imoto of the
Tottori University School of Medicine. I personally started in 2017 and
have been taking the supplement, and conducting my own research for
about 6 years now. I have been working as an experimental subject on
behalf of you all(~~);.
As a result, I have lost weight from 61.8Kg on
September 23, 2017 to 55.5Kg on August 15, 2023 (about -6Kg). No side
effects have been appeared, I think. In addition to weight loss, it also
lowers your blood sugar levels. It is believed to be effective against
diabetes in India. My symptoms caused by hypertension have disappeared,
just as the doctor at the local clinic said, "Patients will see their
blood pressure go down as their metabolic syndrome is cured."
I did not fully understand how Gymnema worked. I
read Dr. Imoto's paper ("Sugar Acceptance in the Living Body and the
Plant Glycoside Gymnemic Acid":
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biophys1961/30/3/30_3_146/_pdf),
but it was too difficult for me to understand. Now, after re-reading it,
I have come to a conclusion that the supplement made from the leaves of
the gymnema prevents the absorption of sugar in the small intestine by
binding the ingredient to sugar.
The glycosides (bindings) that have not been
absorbed are also supposed to have some weight. If it holds true, the
gymnema seems to increase the amount of defecation.
I was afraid of side effects from takin in
something like herbal medicine, so I, at first, limited the amount I
took. At that time, I did not see much effect. But later, when I doubled
the dosage from the initial one, I started to lose a lot of weight in a
short period of time, which made me sometimes worried that maybe I had a
cancer somewhere. However, when I stopped taking it, I returned to my
original weight and realized that there was nothing to worry about.
One of my favorite herbal medicines of plant origin includes Mt. Ontake's Hyakusogan. Plants have mysterious effects.
Never eat the leaves or flowers of hydrangea. They contain cyanide glycosides.
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