May 2012
This is a nice article connecting the gastrointestinal tract with heart disease. I have many people who have over the years had heart issues. Most of them have undiagnosable heart problems-typically feelings in the heart but, there is nothing actually wrong. Some have diagnosis. In Chinese medicine, we look at all of the organ sysems and how the interact and effect one another. Bladder problems may often be accompanied by heart issues. This is one reason why I thought this article was interesting.
I have been having a few challenges lately. Personal ones, I wont go into them-nothing health related for those of you who were thinking that. They have been incredibly frustrating beyond words.
It has made me feel really upset, and even angry-angrier than I thought I was capable of being.
As I was driving down the road today entering into a state of spiraiing negativity I thought about my worst fear.
A patient said something to me yesterday and a light went on in my head. Sometimes it is something so small and simple to strike a chord.
So, I just palced an order and will make available these really cool baby blue wrist bands for those who want to support this organization and others in need. They read ICAMA.org on one side and on the other "changing lives".
I will take 100% of the funds produced from the wrist bands and place it aside for those truly in need. It will cost $5.00 and can make a huge difference!
Many new patients come in here horrified when I suggest drinking raw milk. I do not suggest it for my IC patients until they are well into my program and doing well enough to tolerate it. But, for little ones, I often will recommend it right away (if they do not have IC). However, their parents often feel like this is a huge risk and copt out of that advice, which, I understand. If one does not have experience with something, they are not likely to try it on their children.
My husband caught up with a very old friend the other day. Long story short, one of his daughters, had become paralyzed after having a life saving brain surgery. The following is her account of that experience. I wanted to share it with all of you because it illustrates how powerful our minds are, and how we can defy what has been handed us in life.
The first link, is something rather negative, or, is it positive? A trend that is not so great in medicine today. However, although this is a negative, in Chinese medicine, we say that every extremem turns ot its opposite. This is true in disease and in life. Given this, I believe, that this negative trend is why althernative emdicines of all kinds are becoming more prevalent. People want answers to their problems, they want healing, and they wont stand for anything less. The sad part is that we don't all have equal access due to the fact that we are not all on an equal financial footing.
I can't tell you the number of times that I have heard that comment from the various types of MDs that my patients have gone to--dermatologists, opthamologists, even internists, insisting that things like eye drops, cortizone cremes, and the like will have no effect on the body as a whole because it will be limited to the location that it is being placed upon.
The end is rather funny, but, there is a lot of meaty information in here. It is a very good read:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/dietandfitness/9160114/The-bitter-trut...
