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put in to enrich the blood and eliminate gas. When the inflammation
is gone the heart returns to its normal size and leakage is stopped.
HOW TO CARE FOR THE HEART IN NATURE'S WAY
Just as the sun is the fire element of nature, so is the heart the fire
element of the human body. Of all the elements, the fire element is the
most active. A sudden shock has a more noticeable effect upon the
heart than upon any of the other organs, When the blood, the muscle
of the valve of the heart, or the heart itself is inflamed or is overtaxed
because of exertion or sudden fright the heart beats fast. Pain, leakage
or rush of blood to the head may ensue. Physicians have termed the
latter "high blood pressure." It is variously accompanied by gas, diz-
ziness, sleeplessness, difficult breathing, paralytic stroke, etc.
The Heart
STARTLING STATISTICS
A cablegram to the press received
from Shanghai in May, 1926, stated
that the discrepancy between the per-
centage of insane in China and in the
United States was indeed great.
Al-
though the population of China ap-
proximates 450,000,000, the United
States has 20 insane persons to every
one in China.
A telegram to the press from Wash-
ington, D. C., dated Dec. 27, 1925, stat-
ed that the investigations of the De-
partment of Commerce had revealed
that in 1924 twice as many persons in
the United States had died from ail-
ments of the heart as from all other
diseases combined.
A COMMON SOURCE
The foregoing are statements of genuine facts. The explanation may
be found in the fact that thousands of years ago the Chinese arrived at
the conclusion that insanity is caused by inflammation of the heart,
which condition affects the nerves leading to the brain; and that there-
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