Thursday, December 16, 2010

Toyota Estima CVT Gearbox

My estima (ACR50) 2.4 vvti auto transmission suddenly stalled while engine was running. I tried to change the transmission but it seems that the gear failed to engage. It feels like the transmission was at Neutral position.

When tested, all the sensors and circuits are normal, mechanic can't fault anything. The real problem was the CVT chain lifespan, the chain broke.

Solutions:
1. Change a whole new gearbox which cost will be more than RM20k
2. Buy a second hand gearbox around RM10k
3. Rebuild the gearbox by changing the parts for RM5k++




Friday, September 4, 2009

B17 Therapy

B17 Therapy is in town. B17 (from natural sources) Therapy is an alternative treatment for cancer patients. Say good bye to operation, radiation and last but not least, the poisonous chemotherapy. Coupled with bioresonance technique (Chinese accupunture and German technology), the earliest detection and treatment are possible, even can beat the advanced technology like PET/CT Scan.

This therapy is different from chemotherapy. The B17 attacks and kills cancer cells silently, the same way they attack us.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Foods Containing B17 (Nitrilosides)



Vitamin B17 appears in abundance in untamed nature. Because B17 is bitter to the taste, in man's attempt to improve tastes and flavors for his own pleasure, he has eliminated bitter substances like B17 by selection and cross-breeding. It can be stated as a general rule that many of the foods that have been domesticated still contain the vitamin B17 in that part not eaten by modem man, such as the seeds in apricots. Listed below is an evaluation of some of the more common foods. Keep in mind that these are averages only and that specimens vary widely depending on variety, locale, soil, and climate.

 

Fruits Range*
blackberry, domesticlow
blackberry, wildhigh
boysenberrymed.
choke cherryhigh
wild crabapplehigh
market cranberrylow
Swedish (lignon) cranberryhigh
currantmed.
elderberrymed. to high
gooseberry.med.
huckleberrymed.
loganberrymed.
mulberrymed.
quincemed.
raspberrymed.

 

Seeds Range*
apple seedshigh
apricot seedhigh
buckwheatmed.
cherry seedhigh
flaxmed.
milletmed.
nectarine seedhigh
peach seedhigh
pear seedshigh
plum seedhigh
prune seedhigh
squash seedsmed.

 

Beans Range*
blacklow
black-eyed peaslow
favahigh
garbanzolow to med.
green pealow
kidneylow to med.
lentilsmed.
lima, U.S. low
lima, Burmamed.
mungmed. to high
shelllow

 

Nuts (all raw) Range*
bitter almondhigh
cashewlow
macadamiamed. to high

 

Sprouts Range*
alfalfamed.
bamboohigh
favamed.
garbanzomed.
mungmed.

 

Leaves Range*
alfalfahigh
beet topslow
eucalyptushigh
spinachlow
water cresslow

 

Tubers Range*
cassavahigh
sweet potatolow
yamslow

 

Range*

High — above 500 mgs. nitriloside per 100 grams food

Medium — above 100 mgs. per 100 grams food

Low — below 100 mgs. per 100 grams food

Given to my wife...

MIRROR, MIRROR: WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BODY?

My Loss Was So Great

I caught a glimpse of my marred body in the mirror. One week out of surgery from breast cancer had left me emotionally devastated over the loss of my breast. How could this happen to me? I thought. I was not at high risk as a young woman. Yet, at age 34, I had breast cancer. At that time one woman in eleven faced breast cancer in her lifetime. Now it is one in eight. Early detection saved my life 28 years ago and saves women's lives today.
I avoided looking in the mirror for several days after surgery because I didn't want to face the fact that I had lost the loveliest part of my body. Having breast cancer to me was like losing a dear friend. My breast was a part of my body and the pain of its loss left me sad and hurt. Since I could not look at my own body without crying, how could I expect any other person to accept my disfigurement? What I was left with was not only a broken body, but also a broken heart.

Facing Reality

That day finally came when I stopped dead on facing the mirror and paused a long time to look at myself with pity and remorse. Then I thought, I can't go through my life feeling sorry for myself or self-loathing my body or I will be a miserable human being.

I hung my head and softly cried in despair, saying aloud, "God help me see myself as you see me." That's all I said, but it came from the depth of my heart.


At the moment the words left my mouth, peace settled over me like a soft cloud and swept from the top of my head all the way down to my feet with a release as a gentle rain on a parched, dry summer day. What I experienced was God's presence in my life in a great moment of need. 

Unexpected Answer to Prayer

A flood of gratitude encompassed me. Then I looked down at my feet and said aloud, "I have two feet that can take me where I need to go."

I looked at my hands as I held them in front of me and said, "I have two hands that can work."

I spoke out, "I have a mouth to speak and a heart to care."

Then I said, "Thank you, God. I see myself as you see me, as a beautiful child, perfect and complete in your eyes." That was the beginning of my journey away from devastation to the joy of living. 

Keep on Living

There is life after breast cancer. Make it a good one. If you are experiencing breast cancer, I want you to know that there are caring friends in our online community who want to help you. Please click MyNBCF to join our community.

Stop and take a few minutes to be thankful for the good people that are in your life to help you along the way. Most of all, thank God for His help.
 
Live Life,

Janelle

Fresh Lemon Grass Drink Causes Apoptosis to Cancer Cells

This is an article by Allison Kaplan Sommer 02, April 2006

(apoptosis) noun: a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal’s survival.

 

Fresh lemon grass fields in Israel become Mecca for cancer patients

 

A drink with as little as one gram of lemon grass contains enough citral to prompt cancer cells to commit suicide in the test tube.
Israeli researchers find way to make cancer cells self-destruct -Ben Gurion University
 
At first, Benny Zabidov, an Israeli agriculturalist who grows greenhouses full of lush spices on a pastoral farm in Kfar Yedidya in the Sharon region, couldn’t understand why so many cancer patients from around the country were showing up on his doorstep asking for fresh lemon grass. It turned out that their doctors had sent them. ‘They had been told to drink eight glasses of hot water with fresh lemon grass steeped in it on the days that they went for their radiation and chemotherapy treatments,’ Zabidov told ISRAEL21c. ‘And this is the place you go to in Israel for fresh lemon grass.’
 
It all began when researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev discovered last year that the lemon aroma in herbs like lemon grass kills cancer cells in vitro, while leaving healthy cells unharmed. The research team was led by Dr. Rivka Ofir and Prof. Yakov Weinstein, incumbent of the Albert Katz Chair in Cell-Differentiation and Malignant Diseases, from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at BGU.

Citral is the key component that gives the lemony aroma and taste in several herbal plants such as lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus), melissa (Melissa officinalis) and verbena (Verbena officinalis.)

According to Ofir, the study found that citral causes cancer cells to ‘commit suicide: using apoptosis, a mechanism called programmed cell death.’ A drink with as little as one gram of lemon grass contains enough citral to prompt the cancer cells to commit suicide in the test tube.

The BGU investigators checked the influence of the citral on cancerous cells by adding them to both cancerous cells and normal cells that were grown in a petri dish. The quantity added in the concentrate was equivalent to the amount contained in a cup of regular tea using one gram of lemon herbs in hot water. While the citral killed the cancerous cells, the normal cells remained unharmed.

The findings were published in the scientific journal Planta Medica, which highlights research on alternative and herbal remedies. Shortly afterwards, the discovery was featured in the popular Israeli press.

Why does it work? Nobody knows for certain, but the BGU scientists have a theory. ‘In each cell in our body, there is a genetic program which causes programmed cell death. When something goes wrong, the cells divide with no control and become cancer cells. In normal cells, when the cell discovers that the control system is not operating correctly - for example, when it recognizes that a cell contains faulty genetic material following cell division - it triggers cell death,’ explains Weinstein. ‘This research may explain the medical benefit of these herbs.’

The success of their research led them to the conclusion that herbs containing citral may be consumed as a preventative measure against certain cancerous cells. As they learned of the BGU findings in the press, many physicians in Israel began to believe that while the research certainly needed to be explored further, in the meantime it would be advisable for their patients, who were looking for any possible tool to fight their condition, to try to harness the cancer-destroying properties of citral.

That’s why Zabidov’s farm - the only major grower of fresh lemon grass in Israel - has become a pilgrimage destination for these patients. Luckily, they found themselves in sympathetic hands. Zabidov greets visitors with a large kettle of aromatic lemon grass tea, a plate of cookies, and a supportive attitude. ‘My father died of cancer, and my wife’s sister died young because of cancer,’ said Zabidov. ‘So I understand what they are dealing with. And I may not know anything about medicine, but I’m a good listener. And so they tell me about their expensive painful treatments and what they’ve been through. I would never tell them to stop being treated, but it’s great that they are exploring alternatives and drinking the lemon grass tea as well.’

Zabidov knew from a young age that agriculture was his calling. At age 14, he enrolled in the Kfar Hayarok Agricultural high school. After his army service, he joined an idealistic group which headed south, in the Arava desert region, to found a new moshav (agricultural settlement) called Tsofar. ‘We were very successful; we raised fruits and vegetables, and,’ he notes with a smile, ‘We raised some very nice children.’

On a trip to Europe in the mid-80s, he began to become interested in herbs. Israel, at the time, was nothing like the trend-conscious cuisine-oriented country it is today, and the only spices being grown commercially were basics like parsley, dill, and coriander. Wandering in the Paris market, looking at the variety of herbs and spices, Zabidov realized that there was a great export potential in this niche. He brought samples back home with him, ‘which was technically illegal,’ he says with a guilty smile, to see how they would grow in his desert greenhouses. Soon, he was growing basil, oregano, tarragon, chives, sage, marjoram and melissa, and mint just to name a few.

His business began to outgrow his desert facilities, and so he decided to move north, settling in the moshav of Kfar Yedidya, an hour and a half north of Tel Aviv. He is now selling ’several hundred kilos’ of lemon grass per week, and has signed with a distributor to package and put it in health food stores. Zabidov has taken it upon himself to learn more about the properties of citral, and help his customers learn more, and has invited medical experts to his farm to give lectures about how the citral works and why.

He also felt a responsibility to know what to tell his customers about its use. ‘When I realized what was happening, I picked up the phone and called Dr. Weinstein at Ben-Gurion University, because these people were asking me exactly the best way to consume the citral. He said to put the loose grass in hot water, and drink about eight glasses each day.’


Zabidov is pleased by the findings, not simply because it means business for his farm, but because it might influence his own health. Even before the news of its benefits were demonstrated, he and his family had been drinking lemon grass in hot water for years, ‘just because it tastes good.’