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Anyone out there have a bipolar spouse? I have been married for 10 years and it has been a tremendous struggle. I have now separated from my wife who refuses treatment. Her rages are incredible, and the roller coaster ride is something akin to torture. Anyone else have some experience with this illness? Thx.

When she is angry or in fear, she will refuse any treatments. Wait until she calms down or depressed and suggest or give treatments. Acupuncture is very good for bipolar. The success rate is different with acupuncturists. The problem is her anger or emotion may be changed anytime, even during treatments. I suggest one method which is MD injects for sleeping pill and an acupuncturist give treatment during her sleep. Once she gets better with acupuncture treatments, she looks forward treatments. Some patients refuse regular treatments due to lots of side effects of medicines. Acupuncture is almost no side effect.

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.