Does taking Western medication create liver heat?

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I am wondering if Western medicines can cause internal organs to

overheat, especially the liver and its sister organ, the gall

bladder. I do not like taking pharmaceutical drugs, but recently

started to use some natural thyroid medication, after using

traditional Chinese medicine herbs and acupuncture for kidney yang

(and probably also yin) deficiency (which improved my health, but I

never felt entirely well despite using herbs and acupuncture for over

two years). Now on natural thyroid medication I am feeling better,

and overall have more energy than I did before starting thyroid

medication. I have recently had some indication that the liver is

heating up (palms of hands are a bit pinker, the lung on the right

side seems to be feeling tight at times, and my sinus has started

again also on the right side where the kidney yang deficiency is),

therefore I am wondering if the thyroid medication could be the cause

of this. Any thoughts about this would be most welcome

 

Thank you,

 

Sarah

 

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>I am wondering if Western medicines can cause internal organs to

>overheat, especially the liver and its sister organ, the gall

>bladder.

 

Pharmaceuticals have energy properties just like herbs. For example,

antibiotics are cooling in nature and appropriate for cases of Excess Heat.

They can create problems if the person already is too Cold - unless their

cooling properties are kept in mind and countered.

 

I'm not familiar with the energetics of other pharmaceuticals. Perhaps

someone else on the list is.

 

>I do not like taking pharmaceutical drugs, but recently

>started to use some natural thyroid medication, after using

>traditional Chinese medicine herbs and acupuncture for kidney yang

>(and probably also yin) deficiency (which improved my health, but I

>never felt entirely well despite using herbs and acupuncture for over

>two years).

 

Sometimes pharmaceuticals alone are called for, but sometimes both TCM and

pharaceuticals are needed. BTW, I've heard a lot of people report that the

thyroid medication - either synthroid or natural replacement - never did the

job for them. The blood level of thyroxin would rise to normal and there

would be some improvement, but the person still suffered from many of the

signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism. I was one of those people. I never

fully lost they symptoms until after I was on Kidney Yang tonic herbs and

herbs to warm the Interior for a while. The natural thyroid did work better

for me than the synthroid did, but neither were adequate alone in my case.

 

>Now on natural thyroid medication I am feeling better,

>and overall have more energy than I did before starting thyroid

>medication. I have recently had some indication that the liver is

>heating up (palms of hands are a bit pinker, the lung on the right

>side seems to be feeling tight at times, and my sinus has started

>again also on the right side where the kidney yang deficiency is),

>therefore I am wondering if the thyroid medication could be the cause

>of this. Any thoughts about this would be most welcome

 

Kidney Yang Deficiency affects the entire body, not just one side. The

Kidneys supply Yang to the rest of the body. The fact that many of the

symptoms predomiate on the right side of the body suggests Qi Stagnation to

me. Other readers may have other ideas.

 

Is there more of a feeling of heat in the palms of the hands than there was

before? Warm palms are a sign of Yin Deficiency. When the Kidneys are Yang

Deficient, they almost always are Yin Deficient too, though in lesser

degree. (And vice versa.) Sometimes the Kidney Yang Deficiency will mask the

signs of the Kidney Yin Deficiency - until the Yang Deficiency is adequately

treated. As the Yang Deficieny improves, the signs and symptoms of the Yin

Deficiency become more pronounced - unless that too is addressed adequately.

 

There are some very effective acupoints for sinus problems in Gach's

Acupressure's Potent Points. Some of the same points recommended for colds

also are effective for sinus problems. I believe the chapter on colds is one

of the two sample chapters on the acupressure.com website.

 

It's not clear from your post if you're still having some energy problems

thought greatly improved thanks to the natural thyroid. When people have had

energy problems for a long time and start to improve, sometimes there is a

tendency to want to do more than the increased energy will allow. (Voice of

experience here.) This can be frustrating, and the Liver and Gall Bladder

are vulnerable to feelings of frustration (as well as the feelings of

anger). Qi Stagnation can cause Heat to build.

 

One of the areas that fascinates me is why one side of the body will be

affected more than the other side or the other side won't be affected at

all. Sometimes spinal misalignment will cause it. Sometimes, trauma to that

side of the body will set that side up to be more sensitive than the other.

When I had real severe headaches, they usually were on the right side and

the few on the left were less severe than the ones on the right. In my case

I was unusually sensitive to cold. I got to noticing that the few times I

got the headaches on the left were times following when I washed my hair.

I'm right-handed. I realized that I was failing to adequately dry my hair on

the left, and the chill was enough to trigger a headache on the left. Then I

realized that I favored my left side sleeping. The head and neck on the

right were more exposed at night than on the left. I never did figure out

why the ones on the right were more severe than the ones on the left. In my

case the headaches stopped once I discovered appropriate acupoints and once

I started to warm up with herbs to warm the Interior and herbs to warm the

Exterior.

 

Victoria

 

 

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