Titled, “Emotional Style and Susceptibility to the Common Cold”, his article details how otherwise healthy adults were graded as to cheerfulness, happy, relaxation. The cold virus was introduced via nasal spray. What he reported in the July/August issue of Psychosomatic Medicine was a correlation between resistance to the cold virus and the degree of relaxation, cheerfulness, and being just plain happy. It has long been known that depression lowers one’s immune factor. A physician is much more likely to order chest x ray and other studies when a patient has a simple cough if the person is recently bereaved or otherwise depressed. In "The Sinus Cure" by Debra Bruce and Murray Grossan, MD, one of the seven steps to prevent and cure sinusitis is devoted to the use of stress reduction methods for sinusitis and allergy. The authors point out that you can’t wave a magic wand and make a person cheerful and happy. But the body can be helped by the easy methods detailed in step 6 of The Sinus Cure.
First Published: Late October 2003 .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ..................................................
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