The HERBAL MEDICINE ELECTRIC BOILER will stop boiling when the water inside goes down to about 200 ml. You start boiling the herbs with about 1,250 ml. of water adding to the herbs. Then it will keep warm until you switch off the electric.
PARALYSIS
What is a Paralysis ?
Definition
Paralysis is defined as complete loss of strength in an affected limb or muscle group.
Description
The chain of nerve cells that runs from the brain through the spinal cord out to the muscle is called the motor pathway. Normal muscle function requires intact connections all along this motor pathway. Damage at any point reduces the brain's ability to control the muscle's movements. This reduced efficiency causes weakness, also called paresis. Complete loss of communication prevents any willed movement at all. This lack of control is called paralysis. Certain inherited abnormalities in muscle cause periodic paralysis, in which the weakness comes and goes.
The line between weakness and paralysis is not absolute. A condition causing weakness may progress to paralysis. On the other hand, strength may be restored to a paralyzed limb. Nerve regeneration or regrow is one way in which strength can return to a paralyzed muscle. Paralysis almost always causes a change in muscle tone. Paralyzed muscle may be flaccid, flabby, and without appreciable tone, or it may be spastic, tight, and with abnormally high tone that increases when the muscle is moved.
Paralysis may affect an individual muscle, but it usually affects an entire body region. The distribution of weakness is an important clue to the location of the nerve damage that is causing the paralysis. Words describing the distribution of paralysis use the suffix "-plegia," from the Greek word for "stroke." The types of paralysis are classified by region: -
monoplegia, affecting only one limb
diplegia, affecting the same body region on both sides of the body (both arms, for example, or both sides of the face)
hemiplegia, affecting one side of the body
paraplegia, affecting both legs and the trunk
quadriplegia, affecting all four limbs and the trunk
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