How to Help the Medicine Go Down
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I have a confession to make. I’m a 40-year-old adult that cannot successfully swallow pills. Shocking…I know. However, it does give me a tremendous empathy for the many kids with special needs who must take one or multiple medication EVERY day. For many of these families, medication time is a daily struggle if not a daily battle!
For those of you who are already saying, “Oh it’s so easy, you just ….”. Plese stop. Every adult who has ever learned of my dilemma has shared his or her “no fail” strategy. Needless to say, they can’t claim they are “no fail” anymore. I think one of the problems is this — if you swallow pills easily it’s really hard for you to explain how you do it. You just DO it. In an effort to understand and ease my own situation and that of others like me, I went researching. Here are my findings, both the common and the “more creative”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Vibrational Medicine
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Vibrational medicine attempts to treat people with various forms of pure energy. The influence of alternative medical systems such as Chinese, Ayervedic or Tibetan medicine have led in part to the development of machines that can ‘image energy’. Heat energy imagers are an accepted part of our technology. We readily accept imaging heat, even though we can’t see it, because heat is something we can sense through touch. With the ‘energy body’ it is not so straightforward. Very few of us have experienced this for ourselves and there is apparently no sensory backup to tell us it is there.Experiments in ‘electro-acupuncture’ and Kirlian photography have led to an energy map of the body identical to that shown in traditional Chinese medicine. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Power of Ganoderma in Oriental Medicine
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Ganoderma, a rare variety of Mushroom credited with the highest medicinal qualities by the classic Chinese ‘Seng Nong’ is indeed a subject of much research from the ancient china of 100 B.C. or earlier to the modern times by various universities and research organizations. It is also known as Linghzi in China and Reishi in Japan.
It is said that in the ancient times anyone who found the rare Linghzi never revealed the place and kept it a secret of health, longevity and wealth. The Japanese revered the herb as ‘God’s Herb’ where it is known as Reishi.
Lingzhi in medicine was considered so auspicious that its medical efficacy has been attested to in the oldest Chinese medical text (over 2,000 years old). Read the rest of this entry »
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Saving up on Discounted Medicines
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Have you ever remembered a time when your health suffered and you did not bother about having a physician check you out and write out a prescription from for the medications you need to have? Well, we would understand you very much if you answer never. It explains a certain human logic: once your health is at stake, you will never consider not taking any kind of medication.
Fact is American consumers of health care products pay some of the most expensive prices for prescription medications in the world. No doubt, health care is one of the most high-priced industries in the U.S. Due to the increasingly high prices of medicines, more and more people are looking into online drug stores that offer discount medicines. So, is there anything the matter with discounted medicines? Read the rest of this entry »
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Herbs as medicines.
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Herbs or medicinal plants have a long history in treating disease. In traditional Chinese medicine, for example, the written history of herbal medicine goes back over 2000 years and herbalists in the West have used “weeds” equally long to treat that which ails us. We are all familiar with the virtues of Garlic, Chamomile, Peppermint, Lavender, and other common herbs.
Interest in medicinal herbs is on the rise again and the interest is primarily from the pharmaceutical industry, which is always looking for ‘new drugs’ and more effective substances to treat diseases, for which there may be no or very few drugs available.
Considering the very long traditional use of herbal medicines and the large body of evidence of their effectiveness, why is it that we are not generally encouraged to use traditional herbal medicine, Read the rest of this entry »
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INFERTILITY AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE PART II
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In Part I, we considered the proper treatment methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine and The Four Examinations,which date back over three thousand years.In this section, we will look at the mechanisms of action of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
It was shown in a study done at Harvard that stress reduces the hypothalamic-anterior pituitary-ovarian axis function, thus being a factor to be considered in the infertility work-up. Acupuncture releases endorphins which mitigate ones response to stressful stimuli thus enhancing the possibility for conception.
“Historically, infertility, particularly “functional” infertility, was attributed to abnormal psychological functioning on the part of one or both members of the couple. Read the rest of this entry »
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High Blood Pressure Medicines
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High Blood Pressure is a lifelong ailment for most of the patients. Taking medicines for this problem is a way of life for persons suffering from High Blood Pressure. But unlike common ailments the medicines for high Blood Pressure cannot be taken randomly. It is necessary that the patient discusses the problem with the doctor before starting the round of medicines. The patient must therefore concentrate on having a proper discussion to guide the doctor on the type of High Blood Pressure Medicines that can be taken.
As High Blood Pressure tends to fluctuate with the intake of medicines, it is necessary to keep a regular monitoring system for measuring High Blood Pressure on course. Thus, the first requirement is to have a Home Monitoring System for keeping a tab on High Blood Pressure. This is known as the Digital Electronic Sphygmomanometer. Read the rest of this entry »
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Can Western Medicine Accept Chinese Medicine?
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Q: My doctor is skeptical of Chinese medicine. Is there a way to make it acceptable to the western medicine way of thinking?
A: This is a complicated issue. Ideally, we could use scientific research to make this possible. This has been done to some extent. However, there are still problems with research and its acceptance.
Not Testing Authentic Chinese Medicine
Studies often diverge from authentic Chinese medicine methodology. Investigators rarely make use of pattern discrimination, which is fundamental to Chinese medicine. Also, studies have yet to acknowledge another reality of CM - its plurality. There are many ways to practice it, and many many herb formulas, herb combinations, acupuncture point combinations, and needling techniques. Read the rest of this entry »
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Why Choose Naturopathic Medicine?
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Naturopathic medicine is a system and philosophy of medicine that has been around for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. Before the advent of ‘conventional’ medicine, which uses a wide variety of drugs and surgical procedures, almost every doctor learned how to use herbs, minerals, homeopathy, and other natural methods to treat disease. Since the early 1900’s and with the discovery of antibiotics, usage and public knowledge of naturopathic medicine has declined. This was most likely due to the ‘quick fix’ nature of many of the new drugs developed and increased safety of surgical procedures. Diseases such as influenza and measles, which today are generally nuisances and easily treated in most people, were very scary and sometimes life threatening in these earlier times. The plague literally plagued people. Today we are blessed with better opportunities for proper nutrition, hygiene, and information about these diseases, all of which lessen the threat of many of the more common diseases becoming life threatening. The attraction that people had towards conventional medicine was and is understandable. Treatments that decrease symptoms of a disease are often well received by patients who are dealing with a troublesome condition. Most advances in technology are viewed as progress and people want the best, especially where their health or that of their loved ones is concerned Read the rest of this entry »
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Traditional Chinese Medicine and Infertility - Part II
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INFERTILITY AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE PART II
In Part I, we considered the proper treatment methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine and The Four Examinations,which date back over three thousand years.
In this section, we will look at the mechanisms of action of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
It was shown in a study done at Harvard that stress reduces the hypothalamic-anterior pituitary-ovarian axis function, thus being a factor to be considered in the infertility work-up. Acupuncture releases endorphins which mitigate ones response to stressful stimuli thus enhancing the possibility for conception.
“Historically, infertility, particularly “functional” infertility, was attributed to abnormal psychological functioning on the part of one or both members of the couple. Preliminary works in the 1940s and 1950s considered “psychogenic infertility” as the major cause of failure to conceive in as many as 50% of cases. As recently as the late 1960s, it was commonly believed that reproductive failure was the result of psychological and emotional factors. Psychogenic infertility was supposed to occur because of unconscious anxiety about sexual feelings, ambivalence toward motherhood, unresolved oedipal conflict, or conflicts of gender identity. Read the rest of this entry »
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