benefits of these herbal preparations

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

 

Glad to have found your group. A little intro on myself- I have beeen

sick for 14 years with an ailment called "Chronic Fatigue Immune

Dysfunction Syndrome". I am 28 years old female.

 

My doctors in USA are suspecting it might have been caused due to

mercury toxicity and combined with intracellular bacterial infections

like mycoplasma and other infections like toxoplasmosis, eptein barr

virus, coagulase negative staph. I dont have any current active

infections right now, but they suspect that my immunesystem is unable

to attack them now and hence there are no active infections shown in

the lab tests, but that their damage is still going on as indicated

by my troublesome symptoms and that of the lab tests indicating very

porr metabolism, low blood volume, orthostatic intolerance, adrenal

weakness, hypothalamus pituitary axis malfunction.

 

My symptoms are extreme fatigue and weakness, taking a shower daily

feels very difficult as my symptoms increase on standing a bit or

walking a bit (This is not due to deconditioning- we tested and found

even a mild exercise is detrimental to my body as indicated by the

very low oxygen transport).

 

I rest all day at home unable to do any meaningful activity,

dependant on others for help. I have a lot of cognitive difficulty.

My head feels very heavy and foggy. Hence concentration on a

conversation or reading a book is very very difficult. I find it hard

to focus and brain gets very tired quickly.

I have shortness of breath, more so on standing and walking and lot

more symptoms.

 

I recently went to an ayurvedic nursing home ( a very good reputable

one) in kerala for 7 weeks treatment. They did Abhyanga, Navarakizhi,

Dhara, pichu. They did not explain the nature of my symptoms as to

what dosha I am etc. They were trying things on a trial and error

basis. After teh treatment I was given the following medications to

be taken for 3 months. I am yet to see a progress. I saw some 5%

improvement afte rteh treatment but that tooo seems like fading.

This is my treatment program there.

 

1. Abhyangam- first 2 days and last 14 days.

2. Saksheeram Navarakizhi- 12 days

3. Thaila dhara for 14 days

4. Pichu - 14 days

5. one day of Mathravasti with Pippalayadi.

The oil used for the body was Sahacharadi thailam and Brahat Narayana

thailam. For the head, they used Asaneladi thailam and

Brahat Nirgunyadi thailam.

 

Thye have asked me to take the follwing medicine for 3 months. Can

someone please tell in what way these herbs will help me? I am yet to

see a benefit.

 

 

1. Dadimashtakam with buttermilk before breakfast

2. SiddaMakaradwajam + Brahmarasayanam after lunch (I take 2 small

packets of SiddaMakaradwajam in 2 spoons of Brahmarasayanam)

after lunch

3. Sathavaree gritham, Manasamithram, Dhanwantri followed by

Jeevanthee Ksheeram at night

4. Brahat Nirgunyadi, Asaneladi thailam for head

5. Sahacharadi thailam and Brahat Narayana thailam for body.

 

Thanks a lot for your replies,

I greatly appreciate it,

 

Gayu.

[Guest guest]

Namaste Gayu!

 

Seems like you may have a lot of Ama, in which case Shatavari ghritam

is usually proscribed. However many of the other medicines are

generally of the beneficial kind.

 

I am from Kerala and there are lot of good ayurvedic panchakarma

centres springing up; but the KEY point is to find out a outstanding

vaidya (who are very rare and are also not well advertised). But

since you stay in the US, you may want to consult with Dr. Vasant

Lad. Whatever they say about Lad ( he has his share of critics), he

is an outstanding doctor, who I think has siddhi in healing (his

amazing insights have fascinated many students, and he has many

ayurvedic shishyas who have dropped their pre-med program to focus on

ayurveda- that should tell you something).

 

Other things-

 

1) one of the first line of attacks should be a proper breathing

technique; many of the symptoms that you describe can be attributed

to hyperventilation. There are several good books on breathing (eg by

Robert Fried : Breath well be well) and I would seriously advice you

to take some breath training. See how many times you breath in a

minute, I will bet that you breath rate is more than 20 times per

minute (which can cause many of the symptoms you describe)

 

 

2) important to combine wholistic healing with mantra practice. The

maha-mrityumjaya mantra is the foremost mantra for healing all kinds

of illnesses- for quick effect it must be chanted several thousand

times a day (at least a 1000 times same place, same time and

preferably before sunrise). I have first hand experience of its

healing effects from a chronic ailment.

 

 

3) Lastly everybody's healing journey is unique and I want to urge

you to plod on to get totally healed.

 

Regards,

-yogaman

 

ayurveda, "gayu_pwc7" <gayu_pwc7>

wrote:

> Hi everyone,

>

> Glad to have found your group. A little intro on myself- I have

beeen

> sick for 14 years with an ailment called "Chronic Fatigue Immune

> Dysfunction Syndrome". I am 28 years old female.

>

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

I had the treatment done in Vaidyarathnam Nursing home in Trissur. I

heard from a lot of folks(inclusing Ayurvedic physicians) that this

was very good hospital. My only concern when I was there, was that

the doctors were dismissing my symptoms as though I was a

hypochondraic and the cheif physician is very very hot tempered that

I could not talk to him openly about my symptoms.

 

Thanks for your recommendation on Dr. Lad.

 

I have leart a lot of breathing exercises from a yoga teacher. Since

I am mainly bedbound most of the time and have very little energy to

accomplish my daily chores, I find it hard to do these breathing

exercises regularly. But I do deep breathing (deep abdominal

breathing all the time). I never do shallow breathing.

 

And we did Mmrityumjaya homam (ritual done with fire and reciting

mantras by several Branhmins) at home in 2000 along with Sudarshana

homam for helping me heal. I do listen to vedic chanting. I find it

hard to chant aloud as I feel short of breath. Thanks for telling me

your testimony.

 

 

Thanks

Gayu.

[Guest guest]

Hi,

 

I had one more question on this same thread of mine. Below, I had

written about the list of herbs that the doctors prescribed for me. I

am taking everything except for SiddaMakaradwajam as I am concerned

about the purity of this preparation. I came to know that this is

made of mercury, sulphur, Gold.

I also read in a few articles that the mercury needs to be prepared

in a certain way to become harmless. I asked the doctors in the

nursing home about this and they dismissed me saying I was too

analytical.

 

I am already undergoing treatment for mercury toxicity and hence I

was very concerned using this preparation which has mercury in it. So

I stopped taking it.

 

Has anyone taken this preparation? Is it very very safe?

 

Thanks,

gayu.

[Guest guest]

> hypochondraic and the cheif physician is very very hot tempered

that

> I could not talk to him openly about my symptoms.

 

That is a really bad doctor!!!

 

> I have leart a lot of breathing exercises from a yoga teacher.

Since

> I am mainly bedbound most of the time and have very little energy

to

> accomplish my daily chores, I find it hard to do these breathing

> exercises regularly. But I do deep breathing (deep abdominal

> breathing all the time). I never do shallow breathing.

 

Yogic breathing and therapeutic breathing are very different. It is

not enough to do deep breathing, but the breath must also be very

slow. This is the 5 second solution to feel a high- breath at the

rate of 3-4 times or lower every minute and you will feel a rush of

endorphins (if you do get the chance, please refer to the book i

mentioned).

 

 

 

> And we did Mmrityumjaya homam (ritual done with fire and reciting

> mantras by several Branhmins) at home in 2000 along with Sudarshana

> homam for helping me heal. I do listen to vedic chanting. I find it

> hard to chant aloud as I feel short of breath. Thanks for telling m

 

It is good to have someone else doing homas but IMO the greatest

benefit comes from chanting oneself. It does not have to be aloud, in

fact mental chanting is the best.

 

-yogaman