Health Notes

Hutt News, Volume 18, Issue 1, 7 June 1944, Page 8

Health Notes

By H. K. & D. W. Adamson, (Osteopaths).

A week or two ago we made the ® statement that drugging was by no E means confined to the victims of opium, morphia or other opium derivatives. Far more people drug themselves (or some function) into g varying degrees of insensibility medium of the tea cup, cigarettee or s other so-called social habit and here j is one function that is affected in this manner. We refer to the cir- f culation of the blood. The amount of pressure that is exerted up on the walls of theaa- t teries reflects the amount of power ' that is being exerted by the heart 1 to force the blood through the cir- ( culation. Young people seldom have ' their attention brought to this sub- f ject, but many of their elders live ' in fear and trembling of their blood A pressure. To them, blood pressure ' means high blood pressure, which is 1 a condition of considerable gravity, varying of course upon the degree of pressure. If the pressure remains twenty to thirty points above nor- . mal, the sufferer may never become , aware of it, but if it rises to a hundred or more points above as it frequently does, then the position of the sufferer becomes about as comfortably secure as the rider of a motor cycle whose old and delapidated tyres are grossly over inflated. Anything is liable to happen. High blood pressure occurs—and can only occur—when some restriction is imposed upon the normal flow of blood, when the heart is forced to use more power to propel |iiic blood through its circulatrj ; eh,i ii liii'it blood pressure is a •n■ r • -s: i i\\ i-.-i! am.' '".-all,- wmv tin' • Jit'i'-THr- :usr i itcir norma! i-lusi icny i>: s in :w! V'ri i .nr i;<::r :;' a ! ."en i sri- i io:i <>!' ' 11.r r;.i |iii!ari"r-\ or <>: ')!i" which !!!••>' |.a:s. i!: :[■ ,'<■:• ;.-:r-i.~> >;i i'p. blcau; < :c. i !:y t !i.- ur,i w iii •! t; lit am I". inilliMv f-!:;, iiy < < !in i in- i • in ix'i'ai u !'<• '!' \a: ions i.issu'--: i< >f ! i;" bod y. scion Ii -i ■■= ''a va ma d: • | 1 M.me r.i! !>• r .-lo • !•(.;: u =.-<"■ V'Toa- i«• ! ;:a ritit)of variou- j.oiso;!uils i; i>si: i! i' s. Tbay f i;\ • fmiudi j i l;;t« iih-oi im- i(» t'lli.fr.'i ami c.-ii!Vino| liti r.ofit'i' can.-.:' ca ill! la r\ i-o m i n <"l ii> n j |to a ma r';• :d <!<. ;j;rv . Tea acts jji a ; :siini!ar mammr, ami. li.-avy an-at! :. ai an, |U'mm !i')ii!c,h i o;ai con ■ j iiain.- an nr<.*»uii<' v 'isl o v.'h i<*h I t;ts a,! i similar ehoi:>i' , ai \ < ac! ion ay t J i\:;i'eine in coffee. ! Indulgence in tobacco, coffee, tea and excessive meat eating are all conducive to the development of high blood pressure through causing constriction or spasiji of the capillaries. Constriction of the capillaries not only offers direct opposition to the flow of blood, but as the arteries themselves are nourished through the capillary system in their walls, any such derangement of the capillaries must interfere with the nutrition of the arteries and their subsequent deterioration as a pipe line for the blood. Thickening of the walls or hardening of the arteries.

I ; h!r.;h oh/u'.i lij'L.s.-n «■ S• >1! in<: ! I iiroiiij Losis) etc. are merely links in the chain which lead to apolexy (a iro !•.<.■ > with its accompanying paralysis or death. Not all tea drinkers or smokers will end this way, because many have sufficient natural resistance to these poisons to provide them with some degree of immunity in this direction, but what they miss in one way. they are almost certain to catch in another.