5 Temmuz 2012 Perşembe

Q and A: Endometriosis

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Q: Dear Dr. Lan,

I have been diagnosed with endometriosis.  I was told my options include pain killers or surgery to cut out my uterus. Are there other options?

A:  You have effective, safe and time tested options that don't require hacking out reproductive organs.  According to large scale clinical trials, the effect of administering herbs on a daily basis for 2-3 months is that 78-88% of patients experience relief of common symptoms, such as painful menstruation and excessive menstrual bleeding.  The herbs were shown to reduce prostaglandins, regulate hormones and immune response.  Complete treatment time is around 3-6 months. The best results come from a customized herbal formula tailored for your individual needs.  We determine this based on classical diagnostic criteria and compare this with labs for T, FSH, LH, PRLand E2.  You don't need to suffer needlessly when a better way has been around for thousands of years.

The Ultimate Diet

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The Ultimate Diet


1.  Decide your movement.  Go hiking, dancing or anything that gives you exercise and puts you in touch with your bdoy.  If the movement is good for you, it will tell you what to eat.  Avoid extremes.

Begin gradually, then scale a waterfall.

Martial arts are a great way to get in shape and get in touch with your natural instincts.


Too tired to move?  Start with this.  It is a great way to begin exercising from the inside out and it will also reprogram your body to start craving what is good for it.





2.  If eating tells you how to move, you will become unhealthy.
What do you feel like doing after cheesy poofs?

Exactly, sitting down and using your brain.  The fastest way to throw your body off balance.  You crave easy sugar because your brain is consuming sugar faster than your body can produce it.

3. Check your tongue coating.  If its thick and heavily coated, move more, eat less and return to step one. 

Intestines are coated with food sitting in moist tropical temperatures.  Fungal party waiting to happen.  Checking your tongue is the easiest way to tell how efficiently you are digesting.


Sweet flavor slows down qi and brings people joy.  Most of this food is used to balance emotions temporarily at the expense of the body and long term emotional health.  Move and get sun, fresh air and your qi will flow making you happy.

Eat to jump, climb, kick and dive.

Fight HIV with Chinese Medicine

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Fight HIV with Chinese Medicine

 Qiu Xuelan Ph.D


Zhang Zhong Jing in published a powerful antiviral herbal formula 2,000 years in his book, "The Treatise of Cold Diseases"  It appears to interfere with viral transcription and makes it harder to aquire viruses, including HIV.  It has been in continuous use since that time and his formulas are some of the most commonly prescribed in Chinese Hospitals today.
Everyone should have immediate access to Xiao Chai Hu Tang.  At high doses in animal studies it can eliminate HIV if its taken within a 24 hour period.

Hospitals have similar antivirals, but those antivirals can't be farmed.  The processing of the herbs can likewise be done with basic cooking methods.  For the price of seeds this could be available to millions of people around the world.

Zhang's orginal vision was that everyone would memorize these formulas as children to prevent epidemics in the future.  Currently pharmaceuticla companies are looking at how to isolate and patent an extract of this formula, but you can already have it for free.  This belongs to humanity.  Spread the word, spread the formula and thank Dr. Zhang AD 240 for thinking about us in the future.

This formula is composed of seven herbs.  One of them is raw ginger.  That leaves six which need to be grown.  These can be grown on every arable continent.  It is a great antiviral formula.  There will always be viruses we need to contend with.  Zhang's gift to humanity will preserve us as it has the Chinese people.


The Formula:



Xiao Chai Hu Tang (Lesser Bupleuri Soup)


Chai Hu (radix bupleuri)…12g

Huang Qin (radix scutellariae)…9g

Ban Xia (rhizome pinelliae ternatae)…12g

Sheng Jiang (rhizome zingiberis officinalis recens)…9g

Ren Shen (radix ginseng)…9g

Zhi Gan Cao (honey fried radix glycyrrhizae uralensis)…6g
Da Zao (fructus zizyphi jujubae)…4 pieces

You can get seeds for most of these herbs here

The herbs can also be bulk ordered through Chinese Pharmaceutical companies.  The formula is also available in granule, powder and capsule form.


American Journal of Chinese Medicine / Wntr, 2001

Anti-HIV Activity of Medicinal Herbs: Usage and Potential Development

by Ji An Wu, Anoja S. Attele, Liu Zhang, Chun-Su Yuan 

 

Monograph on Xiao Chai Hu Tang

Dr. Zhang has saved millions of lives over the past 2,000 years and is highly respected.

My Grandma's home remedy for cough & sore throat

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Sore Throat Home Remedy
Qiu Xuelan Ph.D
This is an old family home remedy for cough or sore throat.  Its not as complex as Chinese Medical formulas and is easily made with things already found in the kitchen.

1. Wash the peels from two grapefruit.2. Allow the peels to dry.3. Slice the peels and put them in a jar.4. Put honey into the jar. Make sure that the peels are all covered with honey. Put the lid on the jar.5. Let it sit for a week and it's ready.
When you have a sore throat and/ or cough, take a couple of slices of the honey-covered grapefruit peels +a spoon of the honey around it. Put them in the warm water (above 97 degree but lower than 140 degree), stir. Drink the water and if you like, even eat the peels.
Take it 3 times a day and you'll recover quickly.

A Folk Cure for Early Stage Common cold.

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 A Folk Cure for Early Stage Common cold.

Qiu Xuelan Ph.D

While Chinese Medicine has many proper treatments for the common cold, most Chinese Families use folk remedies rather than Chinese Medicine as a first line of defense. 

Early stage common cold is marked by:
Slight runny nose, stiff neck and headaches.  Most Americas do not consider this a cold at all and will ignore it. This is the ideal time to induce sweating and then protect the body from reentry.

Recipe 1:    50g of fresh ginger, 50g of brown sugar and tea leaves 2.5g.  Boil together in water.  Drink this warm and cover up.  This will induce a slight sweat.  Showering can be a mistake as it will open the pores and that rapidly cool the body.  Break a sweat and stay warm and hydrated.  The cold will pass within the hour.





4 Temmuz 2012 Çarşamba

Sickness, Baby Love, and New 'Dos

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The past few weeks have flown by in a blur of sickness.  We've had ear infections, sinus infections, walking pneumonia, bronchitis, high fevers, body aches, coughing, sneezing, and just all around misery.  It came to a head last Sunday when the fevers sky-rocketed in three of the children.  We took all last week off from school and just focused on getting better.  Of course, there were two dance rehearsals and recitals late in the week that couldn't be missed...but other than that we laid low.  So, many doctor visits and a few prescriptions later, we're back at it this week!  It feels good to be back in our routine.

Little Peter is 3 months old already!  He is cooing and smiling up a storm.  He is beginning to sleep better at night and will usually have 5-6 hours of sleep before waking to nurse.  He has outgrown his first set of clothes and has moved into size 2 diapers....I wish babies didn't grow so fast!  Needless to say, we are all smitten with our littlest man!

I couldn't get him to take his eyes off of the ceiling fan!
After their dance recitals, Madeline and Lillian both decided to cut off their hair and donate it to Locks of Love.  My girls are so laid back about their hair.  We pulled it back into a low ponytail and braided it.  Then I got out the scissors and chopped it off.  They are both quite happy with their new 'dos and I think they both look adorable. Perhaps I am a bit biased!

Lillian before....

and after!

Madeline before...

and after!

I'm hoping to get back into routine here and do a better job of posting more regularly.  I spend a lot of time sitting and nursing the baby, so I have many thoughts going through my head.  Now if I can just get some time to type them out...I'm sure you can't wait!

God Bless!

Heather :-)

Have you ever...

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...been asked to leave the library because your children were too loud?  I have!  Yep.  Let me paint the picture for you.  We had been on the run for about 4 hours.  It's monsoon season here in Minnesota and the rains were unreal.  Our last stop of the afternoon was the library.  This is our favorite library with a humongous children's section loaded with puzzles, learning activities, computers, and of course books. Save the best for last, right?!  It's not your typical "you can only talk in whispers" type of library, but it is filled with children and liveliness. We walked in the door and the big 4 kids all scatter to their favorite location to look for books.  That leaves me with the 4 year old, 2 year old (who we had just woken up because she dozed in the car), and the hungry 3 month old.  We settle in and I get out my handy-dandy nursing cover to feed Peter.  Eleanor and Esther wander about 8 feet away from me and  proceed to choose the same toy and argue loudly.  I get up (while nursing the baby) and walk over to them to break up the argument.  They settle down.  I sit close by to keep the peace.  Problem solved, right?!  No, not exactly.


The man in the dark blue uniform with the word "SECURITY" where a name badge belong approaches me and the children.  He opens with, "Hello.  How are you doing today?" and then moves into, "We've had some complaints about your children.  If you can't keep it down, I'm going to have to ask you to leave."  I smiled and said, "OK."  He walked away and continued to survey the situation from a safe distance.

My mind was racing.  Really?  REALLY?!  The security guard was sent to warn the mom with the kids about her arguing preschooler and toddler?  Don't get me wrong.  They were loud and clearly not demonstrating proper library etiquette.  But, I had remedied the situation.  Why send in the "big guns" when a librarian clearly could have taken this "teachable moment" to chat with the kids about how to behave in a library. 

Why didn't the security guard head out the doors and inform the woman who parked in the no-parking zone to "just run in quick" that she was actually breaking the law?  Why didn't the security guard suggest to the teenagers watching inappropriate you-tube videos that they could find something better to do with their time?

Or, more importantly, why didn't I stand up for myself?  Why didn't I ask who had complained and could I talk to them?   Why didn't I point out that these were children in the children's section of the library playing with the toys that the library provided for them?  Are there seriously people out there who hunker down near the children's section to do some intense studying that requires complete silence?

The other piece that really gets me is why did the person/people who complained complain to the security guard and not come talk to me?  I was sitting there, nursing a baby while trying to break up an argument between two little girls.  I clearly could have used some help. Gone are the times when we help each other out with parenting, I guess.

Alright, I'll end my rant.  This whole situation was so weird.  What do you think?  I'm interested to hear other moms thoughts about this.

God Bless!

Heather :-)