I’m suffering from a kick-ass fever.
If anyone knows the "best" ways to overcome a fever, tell me please!!
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Yong J. Bakos
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA
yjb…@lulu.acns.nwu.edu
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Can someone explain the difference between chromium picolinate and GTF
chromium???
THANKS!
I posted:
: Just "doing"
: acupuncture is near worthless if there isn’t a decent (East-Asian
: Traditional Healing) diagnosis and treatment plan. What does her
: doctor say?
Robert responded:
: Why would you not expect an acupuncturist to give a decent diagnosis?
: That’s what they’re trained to do.
:
: >Plenty of acupuncturists are not up to treating such a thing.
:
: Why not? I think most acupuncturists would take offense at this.
: How about, "plenty of "East-Asian Traditional Healers" are not up
: to the task." Doesn’t feel to good, does it?
Acupuncturists _are_ East-Asian Traditional Healers–I’m not making a
mutually-exclusive statement here, Robert. Plenty of acupuncturists did three
years of school and know next to nothing about treating serious disease.
Plenty is not all, thankfully–but if your acupuncturist doesn’t give a
diagnosis and treatment plan on request, they may well be part of that
plenty.
: >may not remove the underlying problems, so it worth her while to
: continue to try and ’solve’ (as in dissolve) her Blood Stagnation
: pattern, whole. To do that, she certainly needs a diagnosis. WHY is
: her Blood Stagnation so acute? If she hasn’t demanded a diagnosis
: from her acupuncturist, she isn’t getting her money’s worth. If
: s/he cannot give one, she is probably wasting her money.
:
: This is true. Of course, any doctor practicing any healing method
: should provide a proper diagnosis. What’s your point? —
: ********************************************************************
: ********* Robert Greenstein
My point? They often DON’T. A large part of my practice is people who have
gone to acupuncturists religiously for two years for nothing. An example is a
client in San Francisco who was treated by a Chinese acupuncturist/herbalist
for two years for chronic colds and malaise. The diagnosis: Heat!
The man is deeply Kidney Yang deficient and only thirty years old. Six months
of steak and mustard meals, Rehmannia 8, and about ten other herbal formulas
in fairly big quantities (not all at the same time of course), and his life
is his again. A portion of that time period was spent rebuilding his Spleen
Qi from all the Cold herbals he drank for two years. That acupuncturist was
puzzled…just couldn’t get the Heat to go away. Interestingly, I did achieve
a further improvement in his case with Tian Wang Bu Xin Dan. So there was
some Heat present, but it was due to Yang failing to Consolidate Yin–not
Kidney Yin Deficiency Heat as diagnosed.
Others of my clients received NO diagnosis in their two years. One
acupuncturist I worked with for a short while used to come out of his
consultations and ask me in a whisper "what do you think is wrong with her? I
think it’s something with her Yang, or her Blood, or could it be her Yin or
her Qi?" I kid you not. This man has a ’successful’ practice here.
In another recent example, the MD acupuncturist who failed to diagnose the
collapsed Lung case last December that I wrote about here, or worse (in ETH
terms), failed to note that this woman had very deep Heat lodged all the way
down to her bones that brought about the collapse to begin with.
So don’t take what I say amiss. I know several excellent practitioners. I
know a lot of poor ones. The TCM schools in California turn out a lot of
lousy doctors, I’m sorry to say. Part of the reason is a lack of faith in the
tradition, appreciation for the necessity to study East-Asian history and
language, and TCM’s overemphasis on the Liver, which I believe follows from a
failure to note that the U.S. (and the West) is a Wood culture, while China
(and agrarian cultures) is an Earth culture. Therefore, conditions that would
be very serious Liver problems in China are run-of-the-mill here. Usually, it
is the lifestyle that needs addressing, not the Liver.
P_Iann…@lamg.com (Paul Iannone, P.O.B. 66843, L.A., CA 90066).
:
: Paul, I have *not* applied the term ‘placebo effect’ to every cure.
: I have applied it where scientific research supports that belief:
: i.e. homeopathy. It is not a slur, but mearly a statement, based on
: scientific research, describing the most likely reasons for the
: observed effect.
:
: I refer to homeopathy as ‘homeopathy’. I could easily refer to homeopathy
: as quackery, and those who promote it as unethical quacks, for they
: don’t inform the consumer about the state of affairs conserning the
: scientific research. However, I *choose* to be civil, to bite my
: tongue, and to finish the act by putting Paul into my killfile.
:
: Good by, Paul
:
: DragonSlayer
Sounds just like 000 to me. I guess you won’t be bothered by my ‘advise’
anymore. Now if we could only get the rest of the Sci-med’s to put the
Health-Alt’s in their killfile–we could have the newsgroup back!
P_Iann…@lamg.com (Paul Iannone, P.O.B. 66843, L.A., CA 90066).
: In article <3g6hbl…@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, kali…@aol.com
: (KaliMur) writes: |> You could also try for acute anxiety attacks:
: |>
: |> Bach Flower Remedy called Rescue Remedy.
:
: That’s if you want to take your placebo in whiskey…
:
: DragonSlayer
Rescue remedy seems to be very useful at times, whether due to placebo effect
or due to an unknown capacity for such things to affect the relatively
unknown human being.
If it works, you can stay off the Prozac, and be blessed for it.
P_Iann…@lamg.com (Paul Iannone, P.O.B. 66843, L.A., CA 90066).
: A cup of RR tea is a mild uterine
: >tonic. Big deal. Been used for maybe a thousand years or two for that
: >purpose–you’d think they would notice in that time if it sped
: parturition. >After all, this isn’t birth defects we’re talking
: about, but an obviously >observed dose effect.
: >
: >If you have facts to post otherwise, let’s see ‘em.
: >
: Does that mean you agree? It’s a good Herb?
If you’re waiting for Camilla to agree with me before following an
alternative route, you will wait until your child is a thousand years old.
Even her favorite expert admits that Red Raspberry is probably safe and
effective. Who cares what evil spirits hide under her bed?
P_Iann…@lamg.com (Paul Iannone, P.O.B. 66843, L.A., CA 90066).
: Any of you aloe experts have other theories for my skin’s remarkable
: response to aloe? And are there any potential side effects/dangers
: in long-term aloe consumption? I’ve been assuming it’s just a food….
:
: Giselle Bisson
Well, don’t do that. Aloe vera is nothing like a food and everything like an
herbal. It is indeed laxative and diuretic, and very Cooling, so if you
continue to use it over the long term, you will develop constipation all over
again, but in this case it will be constipation due to Cold in the Stomach as
opposed to your previous constipation due to Heat. Please do not forget Yin
and Yang alternate–and don’t overdo a good thing. All cleansing practices
should be dramatically reduced to occasional practices after the initial few
months. The body in health is entirely self-cleansing–it is only our
lifestyles that clutter it. The proper course is to improve your
lifestyle–not become habituated to a certain herbal. Don’t skip meals, eat
warm, freshly prepared food, rest more, exercise daily, go to bed
early…this will lead to consistent good health.
P_Iann…@lamg.com (Paul Iannone, P.O.B. 66843, L.A., CA 90066).
I’ve a friend(s) with celoids. From her description, she says that
celoids are "growing" scar tissue. Evidently they grow, then shrink,
then grow, change color, change shape, etc. Every time she goes in for a
physical she has them checked and the doctor usually says "Yup, that’s a
celoid allright!"
Is there a bacteria causing this growth of scar tissue? Maybe a fungus?
What really is a celoid? Or is this a genetic thing (since I know that
her mother has a few too) that nothing (other than surgery or hormone
shots) will remove/lessen these epidermal anomalies?
Email or re-post with a reply. I surf through here every couple of days.
Tyler
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Hi,
Does anyone know of a listserv or newsgroup devoted to yoga? I am particularly
interested in astanga yoga, which I practice. thanks in advance. Please
post privately to Lenore Beaky, be…@cunyvm.cuny.edu.
In article <4177985534.3283…@lamg.com> P_Iann…@lamg.com (Paul Iannone) writes:
> Scott Ballantyne posted some information from a contact:
> : [Amardeo Sarma, who lives in Rossdorf, Germany said]:
> : By the way, this is always
> : a good opportunity to ask some of these cranks why they use
> : homeopathic remedies that have mercury (or arsenic) in them.
> It is not that simple. First of all, mercury is of course not found in any
> homepathic medicine over 26X, which is most of them. Such small amounts would
> be present in lower potencies, at the dosage levels commonly used, as to be
> utterly non-toxic, especially since mercury is poorly-absorbed in the gut.
> The primary problem with fillings is INHALATION, not swallowing, of mercury
> VAPOR. So I don’t think the cranks have much to explain to your friend.
Well, the cranks in question don’t appear to have grasped the concept
that ‘the dose makes the poison’ prefering to substitute the principle
of ‘you can’t be too careful’ – except with regard to homeopathic
remedies. So it seems that Amardeo’s suggestion is a good one.
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