Guest guest Posted June 22, 2001 Report Share Posted June 22, 2001 Sorry Folks: Can't believe I posted that LOOOONNNG post and forgot some really important stuff: I'm not on ANY type of hormones (e.g., birth control). I'm not on any prescription or OTC meds. Fact is, I haven't seen an M.D. in ummmm, what year is it? I have a problem with " conventional " medicine. Thanks again, Light & Laughter Harriet a.k.a. OneGreyOwl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 5, 2001 Report Share Posted July 5, 2001 Dear Harriet, I'd very strongly recommend the "Total Body Cleanse" as listed in the Files. By all indications your body is still highly toxic and needs a thorough mega cleansing. Your reaction to the milk thistle is the tell tale sign here. I have several questions for you which will lead to several others depending on your answers so I suggest you give me a phone call to cut through the red tape. If you have all the herbs in the "Total Body Cleanse", I highly recommend you get started right away. Love, Doc Ian "Doc" Shillington N.D.505-772-5889Dr.IanShillington I'm extremely new to the list (I just joined yesterday!) but I've had an interest in herbs, dietary supplements and a non-allopathic approach to health care for most of my adult life. I'm really hoping to get some input; I'm sort of at an impasse with my own treatment.My problem started almost three years ago I was suffering from chronic insomnia. No matter how exhausted I was I could not fall asleep without a sleeping pill or tranquilizer. Then my face broke out, but only on my chin. These were very large (some about the size of pencil erasers!), very tender sometimes slightly itchy violently red bumps. They looked like pimples that wouldn't come to a head. Now mind you, I was 33 years old at the time and have always had a "peaches and cream" complexion. Very clear, even in my teen years. These lumps would not go away. They would crop up and stay for upwards of two or three weeks, then finally subside, but not before others were erupting to take their place. At the time I had just moved and was going through a divorce, so I ascribed this to stress. Messing with them made them worse, the few OTC medications that I tried almost seemed to burn my skin. I figured nature would take care of things eventually. Mind you I still couldn't sleep.Finally I got heartburn, constant, continual, everyday, no matter what I ate or drank. Life was not fun.I'm running very long on this, but eventually I discovered the heartburn and insomnia stemmed from consumption of fluoridated water (I had moved from a non-fluoridated town into a fluoridated town). This discovery has caused me to follow a very difficult path to eliminate what else I'm allergic or sensitive to while trying to re-balance my body. I've eliminated the heartburn and insomnia, and no longer get the very large lumps I did. But my skin is still breaking out in very small pustules that break when I wash my face and leave a red mark for a few days. I want to eliminate this. I'm greedy, I want my face back. I'm using my face, something I can clearly see and judge, to "guesstimate" my total body health. I figure if my skin is still erupting, however small, then there is still an inbalance.My overall health is pretty good as long as I respect the fact that essentially I'm allergic to the man-made world. My multiple chemical sensitivity is quite severe and unfortunately, it has also created allergies to foods which I previously did not have. Finally, I think my hormones are sort of out of whack. After two years of treatment that has included very stringent dietary modifications (I was already a lacto-ovo vegetarian, but now I eat real healthy, real whole, no artificial colors, flavors, etc., cut out sodas/soft drinks, eliminating wheat/gluten and nightshades due to apparent sensitivity), a complete upheaval of my life (had to go to TOTALLY natural soaps for body/hair and laundry for me AND my family, I was even breaking out from hypo-allergenic laundry detergent and reacting to soaps my husband used); strictly spring water for consumption and washing my face; some vitamins, herbs and colloidal silver and several treatments for leaky gut syndrome.I've taken, with success, milk thistle, red clover, burdock, yellow dock, valerian, skullcap, and kava. I just started on sarsparilla last night. In addition to that I'm also currently taking the first four herbs I listed. Milk thistle actually seems to be too strong for me now and I only take it when I've been exposed to toxic situations. Red clover was terrific when I first took it but it too seems too strong. Currently I'm taking cat's claw, pau d'arco, dandelion, and vitex (monk's pepper). I'm not too sure about how to take the vitex, though. It definitely helped with the breakouts I was getting pre- menstrually, but post-menstrually my skin used to be as good as it would ever get that month, and this month, blech. Should I be taking vitex for an entire month, that's just too much for me, taking it from the second half of the month until day one seemed to be the most help. My skin definitely seems to be breaking out in relation to my hormonal cycle and that's what I'm trying to balance out. I've tried natural transdermal progesterone cream but that seemed to exacerbate the situation. That's why I added sarsparilla.I'm really sorry for running for so long, but I really wanted to be thorough. I would sincerely appreciate any help or suggestions.Best regards,Harriet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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