April 2009 Archives

2nd day of loose stools, went to ER last night 

They gave me about 2 liters of an IV and sent me on my way. I can keep anything in my stomach. I just keep passing water. Is there anything I can do to stop the runs? I've tried Maalox and eating bread, bananas, and peanut butter. Nothing has worked.

ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

LoperamideHydrochloride {Imodium} over counter

 

I agree with this. However no one knows exact causes. It might be from virus. Imodium could make to stop, but virus might remain. My suggestion is to take charcoal capsule. Charcoal will absorb all bacteria or virus, but stopping diarrhea might take a little longer time than Imodium.

Strange combination of symptoms... any ideas?

I can TELL something's wrong with me, but I don't have a clue what it is. Normally I would go see a doctor, but my insurance is messed up right now, and I can't afford to pay out of pocket... So it might be a few weeks until I'm able to.

Meanwhile, wondering if this odd combination rings any bells?
- Sudden weight gain
- Sharp, piercing abdominal pain
- Hot flashes
- Fatigue
- Erratic sleep pattern
- Thirsty
- Acne outbreaks

I feel like it could be something hormonal, but I don't think it's menopause because I had my hormone levels checked quite recently, and my doc said I wasn't even close yet.
I'm 42 and in very good overall health, active and fit. I haven't changed my eating pattern or work-out. In fact, the only major change recently has been a stressful family situation, which has me feeling very low. But I've suffered from depression in the past, and these symptoms are different. In fact, they are similar to when I was experiencing heavy side-effects from medication, in that they are sudden and severe. Except that I'm not on any medication!

Any ideas? Thanks!!!

 

Premenopausal symptom + stomach heat

Abdominal pain, gaining weight, thirsty and acne are from heat from stomach. This could be a very early symptom of diabetes. Everyone knows three symptoms, drinking more water, frequent urination and eating more. You mention only thirsty and weight gain. But you mention no change of eating pattern. We need more diagnose to solve this contradictory. When stomach heat is reduced, all above symptoms will be solved automatically. This is simple to do with acupuncture treatment for early symptom of diabetes like yours. If not taken care of it early enough, it becomes difficult to treat and take a longer time. Hot flash and erratic sleep pattern could take longer treatment than the above as kidney and heart functional decreases cause these symptoms. Kidney function represents water and heart fire. Kidney belongs to winter and heart summer. Hot flash means more hot than water. That is the imbalance between yin(cold) and yang(warm) according to acupuncture theory in this case. It might be strange theory for you, but understandable to everyone, as everyone talks about hormone in stead. But we believe kidney function includes hormone etc. We generally look at whole picture for our body.  

 

 

A pimple is a result of blockage of the skin's pore.
It can be a pustule or papule. Pimples are shown more at puberty. Old saying pimples are symbol of youth. Youngsters are very sensitive about their face. It is advisable for parents to take care of children's' pimples. Some kids are engaged in pimples, instead of studying in their room. Most pimples are on forehead or chicks or around mouth. Some has pimples behind the back. Not many people concern pimples behind the back as they can hide easily by clothes. The problem pimples are the ones on the face.

Pimples are usually products of heat from organs in the body.
Pimples are red. Red color means heat according to acupuncture theory. Heat has a tendency to rise from lower area to top. In this case heat rises from lower body to face. Therefore we just reduce heat from related organs to take care of pimples. Pimples are just manifestation on the face. The origin is from certain organs. The real focus is where the heat comes from. As long as we find which organs produce heat, we remove excessive portions of heat by balancing with other organs.

Stuffy nose brings about anxiety symptoms

At least it does for me. I realized that yesterday. I'm weaned off of my antidepressant and having been hanging in there with some mild anxiety.

But my sinuses are acting up as they usually do around the Spring. It's kind of early this year I guess. Anyway... if I did the slightest notion of problems breathing my anxiety starts acting up. Not full blown anxiety attacks where I start hugging everyone goodbye b/c I think I'm about to die.

It's one layer of irritation (trying unsuccessfully to unclog nasal passage or clear the throat...) upon another that's causing these anxious feelings.

 

Your body might have a tendency of weak spleen function (this is a term of traditional Chinese medicine=TCM). When we think too much, spleen function could be damaged, and then loss of appetite and loose stool follow. Or we are inherited weak spleen function from the birth. When spleen function becomes weak, anxiety and pensiveness follow. TCM says spleen function control moisture and dampness. When spleen function weakens, this dampness begins to accumulate in the body. TCM also says dampness is made by spleen and stores in lungs. Your two problems could be related with weak spleen function. As soon as your weak function of spleen is treated well, you are going to be free from depression and sinus problem or allergy. And you are not going to die, but rather you are going to have full energy and enjoy your life.

 

Strange combination of symptoms... any ideas?

I can TELL something's wrong with me, but I don't have a clue what it is. Normally I would go see a doctor, but my insurance is messed up right now, and I can't afford to pay out of pocket... So it might be a few weeks until I'm able to.

Meanwhile, wondering if this odd combination rings any bells?
- Sudden weight gain
- Sharp, piercing abdominal pain
- Hot flashes
- Fatigue
- Erratic sleep pattern
- Thirsty
- Acne outbreaks

I feel like it could be something hormonal, but I don't think it's menopause because I had my hormone levels checked quite recently, and my doc said I wasn't even close yet.
I'm 42 and in very good overall health, active and fit. I haven't changed my eating pattern or work-out. In fact, the only major change recently has been a stressful family situation, which has me feeling very low. But I've suffered from depression in the past, and these symptoms are different. In fact, they are similar to when I was experiencing heavy side-effects from medication, in that they are sudden and severe. Except that I'm not on any medication!

Any ideas? Thanks!!!

 

Premenopausal symptom + stomach heat

Abdominal pain, gaining weight, thirsty and acne are from heat from stomach. This could be a very early symptom of diabetes. Everyone knows three symptoms, drinking more water, frequent urination and eating more. You mention only thirsty and weight gain. But you mention no change of eating pattern. We need more diagnose to solve this contradictory. When stomach heat is reduced, all above symptoms will be solved automatically. This is simple to do with acupuncture treatment for early symptom of diabetes like yours. If not taken care of it early enough, it becomes difficult to treat and take a longer time. Hot flash and erratic sleep pattern could take longer treatment than the above as kidney and heart functional decreases cause these symptoms. Kidney function represents water and heart fire. Kidney belongs to winter and heart summer. Hot flash means more hot than water. That is the imbalance between yin(cold) and yang(warm) according to acupuncture theory in this case. It might be strange theory for you, but understandable to everyone, as everyone talks about hormone in stead. But we believe kidney function includes hormone etc. We generally look at whole picture for our body.  

 

Heal is all with raw food!

Raw plant food is the only food we need?
Sound crazy?
Cures it all.
All disease is a product of malnutrition.
Our bodies are self-healing miracle workers when given the right fuel.
Eat as much as you want.
Clearer skin!
Brighter eyes!
Natural weight!
Softer hair!
Better breath!
Better body smell! And I mean ALL body smells!
Better taste! that's right!

What the heck am I talking about?
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sounds bonkers i know < rawgoddessssss > 04/10 23:38:56

i know!! sounds too good to be true but it is WILD!! amazing changes happen.
live food (uncooked) is full of enzymes and nutrients in the natural way the earth intended. We're the only species that heats our food and we're also the only ones that get the diseases we do. except of course domesticated animals that eat dead cooked pet food

 

 

There are two theories. Yours is one of two developed in the west. The other is of course cooked food. Raw food contains all vitamins without damaging, especially vegetables. We can say raw food is better way to eat for preserving nutrition's. However in the east, we believe cooked food is better than raw food. Teeth must work harder to break hard nuts. There are lots of people who broke their teeth because of hard nuts or piece of bones etc. Stomach is one of main organ for digestion that prepares foods for absorption. Raw foods make stomach work lot harder than cooked foods. What is raw food good for this sense? We don't provide the sick raw food at all. Why? It will take a longer time to digest making delay to recover, therefore soup is much better.

Let us assume absorption rate of nuts is 40% and soup 95% in the stomach. The nutritional preserving rate of raw food is 100% and cooked food 40%. Numbers is assumption in this example. Raw food then 40% and cooked food 38%. In the end it becomes almost the same.

We always say YIN and YANG. We don't go to one side only of extreme. We just try to make a balance. Someone could benefit from raw food like you. I prefer cooked food. This is my suggestion to everyone who read. Try raw food for a weak and if you feel good, then take more raw foods. If not, when we prepare vegetables, cook slightly not to destroy all nutrition's.

So, since October I have been having a period every two weeks. Before then I would only have them every couple months or so. On the 1st I started again after ending my last period on the 17th and it has been close to two weeks and it still hasn't stopped. This is extremely weird for me. I haven't gained/lost any weight. The only thing I have been doing differently is drinking a lot of water. Not sure whats going on, I don't have medical and PPH is too expensive now. I am worried that I have cervical cancer or something. Any advice?

 

There could be two reasons for early period. When you don't have enough energy to hold, that is one case. We call this Qi (energy) deficiency. Second case is more heat in the body than necessary. This heat could be in the whole body or just part of body. The magic word from your statement is you drink lots of water. As you have heat in the body, your body wants to cool down temperature, that's why you drink water. This is very common case for clinics. So don't worry too much. It can be treated well.

Examine blood carefully. If the blood becomes harder, go to see doctor immediately. It is possible for a bad case. If the blood doesn't become harder, you might rule out cervical cancer.

 

My feet are so cold all the time. I've been told I have Reynaud's Syndrome. I've been wearing wool socks all winter long. I haven't worn anything like "dress shoes" since Thanksgiving.

The only shoes I'm finding that are warm enough to keep my feet from going numb, don't have enough arch support, even with orthotics.

So now I have cold feet with sore arches. What the hell do I do????

 

Reynaud's syndrome only is not enough information to determine the cause. In order to make warm and hot, nature requires more oxygen. Without oxygen fire can't be made. Coal can't make itself burn.  Coal needs some kind of ignition of fire and continuous of supply of oxygen.  When we extinguish burning charcoal, we just cover the container holding charcoal or pour water.

Any food we take would relate with cause. If you take cold food like cold soda, it could make worse your conditions. I suggest eating and drinking more warm food like hot soup. We call this yin (cold) and yang (warm) balance. If cold, treat with warm. I also suggest warm or hot food. I also live in NYC and give you more details. Ginger itself is acrid and hot nature. Raw ginger is too hot to eat a lot. Go to Korean supermarket in Flushing. Look for ginger snack. This ginger snack is cooked already and tastes very good too. Many women who eat this ginger snack report me that their hands and feet become warmer.  I usually keep some sample in my clinic to show. Ginger is also used to treat cold stomach, epigastrium and abdomen and restore devastated yang with icy-cold extremities.

The above foods might be coal itself. Now you need more oxygen. How? It is from lung. You do need more exercise to get more oxygen. Deep breathing is very good one. The method of deep breathing is to breathe in with nose and breathe out from mouth. If you have a short of breath or easily catching cold or allergy, you need treatments. You don't mention any digestion issue. I suspect there could be some issues to be discussed.   

The last thing is how to convey warmth to cold feet. Blood, especially red blood cells convey nutrition and warmth.  If there is lack of blood, it will be difficult to reach extremities. Hands and feet become cold. Women also have a tendency of lack of blood because of menstruation. If you belong to this case, you need improvements in digestive system to make more blood, Even though blood is made in bones, ultimately everything come from food we eat.   

No Lower Back Pain with Oxygen and Nutrition provided into the pain area

Most people experience lower back pain at least once in their life time. Lifting something is one of most causes. Rest is one of the best ways. Sometimes rest alone doesn't help. People depend on pain killers. These help sometimes. If symptoms are severe, patients can not stand up and walk. Pains could radiate to legs if not treated on time.

All these pains come from some kind of blockages. They could be Qi(energy) and blood deficiency or stagnation, stasis(more severe condition) or phlegm. Most cases do not require a surgery. Even disc with involvement on nerve problem could be treated. Success rate is very high with acupuncture treatment.

Acupuncturists try to find the cause for the pain and remove the cause. Once the blockage is removed, then blood circulation improves. New oxygen and nutrition will be provided into the pain area and the pain will be removed.

One 73 years old man came to the clinic. He could not walk without a help from other people. He didn't remember what caused him in pain. While he filled out some papers on the chair, he felt a sudden pain once in a while even he moved his arm. The clinic put him on the table and gave an acupuncture treatment. The clinic asked him to come down the table after 30 minutes later. He came down very timidly and tried to walk. He discovered there was no more pain at all. Yes, acupuncture removes the blockage and results in no pain

Please visit the following website and find what the acupuncture is and what acupuncture can do for you.

There are many reasons for tinnitus. Most commons are age related hearing loss, Meniere's disease, exposure to loud noise such as working on heavy noise factory or listening loud music, earwax buildup or blockage, stress related etc. Many patients visit an otorhinolaryngologist to check ears and find that there is no specific cause for tinnitus. Some medical doctors suggest alternatives treatment such as acupuncture.

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, kidney function is manifested on ears. This means that the original cause is weakening on kidney function. Some accompany with edema such as acute and chronic nephritic syndrome, congestive heart failure, hepatocirrhosis, endocrine disorders, malnutrition, taking medicine such as prednisone, estrogen and insulin etc. Some accompany with seminal emission such as Prostatitis or neurosis, and impotence and enuresis, urinary dribbling, urinary frequency, incontinence of urine and nocturia. Some complain lower back pain. As you understand, all organs' function is interrelated. Kidney is not working alone. Tinnitus from kidney dysfunction is that noise stops once in a while, louder noise when tired, noise reduced when pressing ear and dizziness accompanied.

Some are caused by liver hyperactivity, we call liver yang rising. Meniere's disease could belong to liver dysfunction. I don't mention all related symptoms with liver as it is too long. Tinnitus related with liver is that noise is constant without stopping.

Another main cause is from neurotic disease (this is what I name). There is no specific reason. Patients hear sound of wind, whistle blows or the chirp of a cicada. Some complain nervous prostration, hysteria, depression, anxiety and fretfulness. Some accompany with headache, dizziness and insomnia etc.

The first step for treatment is to make the balance of yin and yang. It is easy to say, but the theory itself is profound and difficult to discuss for non professionals. To make a long story short, most of us are strong and healthy on twenties. As time passes by, strong body begins to diminish due to slow metabolism. We call this deficiency. Some organs begin to lose function slowly and some excessively depending on body conditions. For example, extremities are colder than body, upper body is warmer than lower body, poor digestion, obesity and etc, making impossible to name them. The principal treatment is to make balance:

If deficiency, tonify

If excessive, sedate

If warm, make cool

If cool, make warm   

If tinnitus is less than 2 years, the success rate is high. If more than 5 years, the success rate is very low. As soon as anyone notices any abnormal symptom, we highly recommend seeing professionals right away.

Some believe going to bathroom every 2 or 3 days is not constipation. I have a different opinion. Eating food from the mouth to rectum takes about 12 hours. If we finish dinner at 6:30 in the evening and go to bathroom at 6:30 in the next morning, we excrete all foods eaten yesterday. Otherwise we carry unnecessary stools in our body at least one more day. Is there any good reason to carry unnecessary stool in our body? Only reason I can think is that too skinny person wants to look plump. Whatever it is, we must not carry it to next day.

Women have more tendencies to have constipation than man. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, women belong to yin and men belong to yang. Yin's character is gathering and contraction. Yang's is dispersing and expansion. Of course this is a general concept only and doesn't apply to all cases. Men can suffer with constipation and women with diarrhea, too. Some experience with alternate constipation and diarrhea which is irritable bowel syndrome. I will discuss this syndrome separately.

Some says drinking water helps. The fact is to make more frequent urination and not better for constipation. Some suggest eating more fibers. Yes, this helps definitely. However some who eats lots of fiber suffer with constipation. Some take laxatives or enema everyday or whenever necessary. If constipation returns without laxatives, we have to remember that large intestine function would be decreased ultimately. Some dig out into rectum by finger wearing vinyl glove. When those who suffer with constipation get colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy etc, some kinds of polyps, inflamed tissues or even cancer could be found more often than normal person.

Some are afraid of going to bathroom because of constipation. Some suffer with bellyache, unnecessary weight gains, look ugly on the lower abdomen, cause hemorrhoid making bleeding due to breaking rectum. There are some other symptoms not known to western field. Frontal headache, skin dryness and roughness, acnes, and atopic skin could follow due to toxic gas rising accumulated in the large intestine. Stools cannot move to small intestine, but gas can. This kind of gas contains heat, causing moisturized skin dry including neck and face. This is oxidant causing less supply of nutrition and oxygen to head area. This will cause skin get older fast and make more wrinkles.

There are lots of reasons for constipation according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. There are heat in the large intestine, Qi and blood deficiency especially from old aged and etc. All these subjects are difficult for ordinary people to understand. The best way in my opinion is to activate function of large intestine which is peristaltic movement by activation of Qi and blood and removing heat accumulated in the large intestine.

Clinical case: One old couple came for treatment of constipation.  They tried everything such as more fibers, stool softener, laxative and etc. After the first treatment, they felt something moving, but not enough power to excrete easily. The second session gave the husband full power to excrete every thing remained in the body. According to them, a toilet bowl was full of stool and they couldn't flush with water. A superintendent came and made it to go. The wife had same experience like the husband after third sessions and called the superintendant. They felt their body become light and walk in the air.

Parkinson's disease (PD) belongs to a group of conditions called motor system disorders, which are the result of the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells. The primary symptoms of PD are tremor, or trembling in hands, arms, legs, jaw, and face; rigidity, or stiffness of the limbs and trunk; slowness of movement; and postural instability, or impaired balance and coordination. You can check more details through internet. The causes and treatments are not much known yet.

This is my point of view from Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Major symptom of PD is trembling. Trembling is moving in another word. Look at the nature. Nature has some components; such as wind, warmth, dampness, dryness and coldness. What makes moving from them? We can imagine coldness makes trembling. When we come out from warm place to cold, we tremble, isn't it? When wind blows, many things move, depending on how strong the wind is. There could be hurricane, storm or breeze depending on the wind strength in the nature. Wind comes and combines with other forces; such as dampness, dryness, warmth and coldness. Same things happen in our body like in nature; this is TCM point's view.

Let us think about motor systems in the body. Motor systems are combined with bones, tendon, muscle, skin and blood & vessels and nerve. If any one of them is wrong, motor systems will be dysfunctional. Those motor systems combine with nature components (wind, warmth, dampness, dryness and coldness) in the body. All components of motor systems are related with our organs; such as liver, heart, lungs, kidney and spleen (pancreas) according to TCM. All these organs relate with head producing dopamine etc. directly and indirectly.

Therefore we find the cause of trembling from organs. As soon as we find the cause, we can adjust the function of organs; if excessive, sedation is the answer and if deficiency, tonifying is the answer. All these are possible as these concepts are the basic of TCM.

Real example: A man, 58 years old came for prostate problem. He used to have blood in urine, frequent and painful urination. He has poor digestion and constipation. He also got a little hearing loss and sleeping disorder. His weight was 250 lbs. I noticed trembling on his right arm and left leg while diagnosing every 3-5 minutes. He told me this trembling getting often lot more and worse. After 8 treatments he lost 30 lbs and his belt was reduced by 6 inches. He felt much younger than before. No more blood in urine, no more pain during urination. He still gets up twice, but sleeping quality is much better. His frequency of trembling is noticeably reduced now, 2-3 times per hour according to the patient. All these happen by adjusting related organs' function.