Guest guest Posted July 2, 2007 Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 Hey Shawna, Please let me introduce you to our friends here. It is so heartwarming to know you are sometimes visiting with us here! Please share any related inspirations also from your recent conference? Dear Group Members, Shawna has a lively medical office serving north Florida (Alachua). She was a lay midwife for years before becoming a nurse practitioner, and has taught (are you still?) with the local midwifery school among favorite faculty. (This ARNP profession, for those who may not know, is close to MD in training, skill, and licensure, except for no surgery/hospital priveleges). Shawna also worked for 18 years alongside an MD sought out internationally for effective treatments for serious diseases including cancers, and works with protocols, assessment tools and results quite beyond the medical norm. Shawna has spent a week or more in herbal studies with Dr. Vasant Lad, while working in an office which included Ayurvedic panchakarma and other therapies. We enjoyed attending the first NAMA (National Ayurvedic Medical Association) conference together, and I've treasured the rare opportunity to professionally discuss clients with her embrace as well as broad familiarity for alternative modalities alongside medical accountability. Shawna's deeply felt concern and down to earth wisdom around perinatal needs for mothers and babies, as well as her networking commitment with local practitioners for community building and sense of humor makes her very dear to my heart. Her suggestion regarding the post below was spoken so humbly, but be assured she has years of experience behind it! Shawna, forgive me for not saying so as I added my comments on another post. Of course, many of you probably are already familiar with this measure, suggested to me also by a midwife after my son's birth 34 years ago, but then I was rather too shy to do much about it. I did like to feel of the ghee better, though it was not properly used either (oh, the intimate secrets, please excuse!). My guess (an educated guess, based on much less client experience with this than you) is that perhaps more kapha moms may do better with the witch hazel as their tissues are naturally more unctuous already, and perhaps the more vata moms will respond particularly well to the ghee. Witchhazel pads are of course a low cost readily available item in the US, perhaps more familiar than ghee though working differently with the astringent/drawing properties at work. WArm Regards, Ysha Shawna Doran <shawnadoran wrote: > i am thinking gentle pressure to ease hemmorhoids inside > with witch hazel cold compresses (keep 4 by 4's in refig, > with witch hazel in bowl), take out and use after each > bowel movement. > > This will shrink hemmorhoids and you can gently ease them > inside and make disappear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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