Very sick please help

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Hi there,

I wanted to say thank you to Victoria for all the info on Magnesium.I went thru and read those posts out of curiouisty and found that it described almost to a "T" alot of the symptoms that I have.Im a 22 yr old male and I feel like Im about 100. No energy, emaciated-cant gain any weight no matter how much I eat, apathetic, severe depression, over active sex drive, bad skin, unexplainable rashes that wont go away, and Im starting to loose my hair. Ive been to an acupuncturist here and it was doing wonders, I was beginning to feel almost human again but I lost my job and I am broke so....

Im curious though, I am studying Acupuncture on my own until I get my undergrad degree so I can go to a good TCM school. I was wondering if any of you could possibly tell by the symptoms listed above what might be the root of my illness besides an obvious magnesium deficiency and what possible acupoints I could stimulate on my own to acheive balance.

Thank you.

Erik

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> I went thru and read those posts out of curiouisty and found

> that it described almost to a " T " alot of the symptoms that I have.

 

There is a long list of medical problems linked to magnesium

deficiency. These include immune system irregularities, some cases of

allergies, one type of kidney stone, some cases of high blood

pressure, asthma, and a tendency to form blood clots among others. As

one of the articles pointed out, there is a concern with getting

enough calcium, but almost no concern with getting enough Mg.

 

I found out about the link to asthma when I told the D.O. (Doctor of

Osteopathy) whom I was seeing that the oyster shell not only relieved

my leg cramps, it relieved my breathing problems. He said he was not

surprised as he used IV Mg in ER to stop asthma attacks that the

strongest anti-asthma drugs could not relieve. (Mg relaxes muscles

and dilates broncial tubes.)

 

> Im a 22 yr old male and I feel like Im about 100.

 

I had the gait of a very, very old woman - when I was able to walk.

 

Mg did not relieve all my problems, but I sure took a big step upward

in health, functioning, and ability once I started on the shots. A

few years later when I saw a TCM herbalist, I took an even bigger

step up.

 

> No energy,

> emaciated-cant gain any weight no matter how much I eat, apathetic,

severe depression, over active sex drive, bad skin, unexplainable

rashes that wont go away, and Im starting to loose my hair. Ive been

to an acupuncturist here and it was doing wonders, I was beginning to

feel almost human again but I lost my job and I am broke so....

>

> Im curious though, I am studying Acupuncture on my own until I get

my undergrad degree so I can go to a good TCM school. I was wondering

if any of you could possibly tell by the symptoms listed above what

might be the root of my illness besides an obvious magnesium

deficiency and what possible acupoints I could stimulate on my own to

acheive balance.

 

No diagnoses can be made via email. All posters on here can tell you

are things you may want to research further. It's best to see a

trained TCM healer in person. If the acupuncturist you saw also had

training in TCM (not all of them do), you may want to ask him for

your TCM diagnosis.

 

Western doctors often are taught to mistrust their own observations

as well as those of their patients in favor of supposedly objective

tests. TCM is the opposite. From the time you first walk in, the

TCM healer is observing you and filing away observations for

analysis. How fast or slow do you walk, move, talk? (Fast suggest

Heat; slow suggests Cold. The same remarks apply to the pulse.) Is

the voice normal strong, excessively strong and booming (suggests

Excess problem), or weak (suggests Deficiency). What about your

complexion and skin tones. Reddish suggest Heat, pale suggests Cold

(or Blood Deficiency if dull pale, Qi Deficiency or Yang Deficiency

if shiny pale.) Dark tones suggest Kidney problems. A yellowish cast

suggests Spleen imbalance. Greenish suggests Liver imbalance. Etc.

(The catch-22 of the Western approach is how does one do the best job

of knowing which tests to order and how to interpret them if one

doubts one's own powers of observation?)

 

The earliest posts in the message base will walk readers through the

fundamentals of TCM. Some students use them for review.

 

In some states it is possible to apprentice as an acupuncturist.

There also is interlibrary loan. If your local library does not have

a copy of a book you want, the library will first check the county

system, then check the state system, and then start checking other

states until it locates a copy of the book you want. In some areas

this is a free service; in others, you pay the cost of the book

postage.

 

I have found anatomy and physiology classes to be helpful to me. I

took them after graduating (engineering degree - Biological

Agricultural Engineering) because I wanted to go back to school and

become a chiropractor. Unfortunately, by then I already was too sick

for this. But in my case, the anatomy and physiology has been useful.

 

When I saw the TCM herbalist, the initial visit took almost 2 hours.

(I had a lot wrong with me. An initial consultation usually takes an

hour to an hour an a half.) He examined my tongue. (More

information on tongue analysis in message base.) He did a pulse

diagnosis. He also checked my blood pressure. (I personally

recommend that TCM healers learn to do this as some herbs will raise

or lower blood pressure. Taking the blood pressure makes for being a

better healer.) Then he asked a lot of questions. They were grouped

according to meridians/ Organs. When we got to the Kidney section, I

answered " yes " to just about every question in that section. The

Kidney imbalance was very obvious and a standout in my case. There

were several pages of questions. There were medical history

questions in addition to the meridian/ Organ questions.

 

I have found The Foundations of by Giovanni Maciocia

to be a particularly helpful book. It does list some acupoints for

various imbalances. I first read it as an interlibrary loan book.

It was good enough that I eventually bought my own copy. BTW, some

Western medical schools (as well as other colleges and universities)

now have TCM books in their libraries. The Foudations book I first

got on interlibrary loan came from a medical school library in

Colorado. Used book stores also can be a source of TCM books. The

Web That Has No Weaver is considered a classic in the field.

 

Maciocia also has a website. There is a tongue gallary on it with

pictures of tongues. Blue Poppy Press offers a free online

newsletter with a lot of good articles. The website acupuncture.com

is a goldmine of good articles. The acupressure.com website offers

some good drawings and descriptions of some select acupoints in the

articles section. I also find a lot of good information using the

Google search engine.

 

Victoria

[Guest guest]

> I am studying Acupuncture on my own until I get my undergrad degree so I

can go to a good TCM school.

Hi Erik,

You might want to check with the school that you are intended to attend.

The school that I attend

AOMA in Austin, TX only requires a certain number of hours undergrad....60,

I think. Not sure

about others.

 

>I have found anatomy and physiology classes to be helpful to me.(Victoria)

 

You also may want to check and see what might be counted as transfer credits.

Many that came out of pre-med or were nurses with recent studies were able to

transfer their A & P and other Western Med. classes. I was able to transfer

required business credits.

[Guest guest]

--- Erik Christopher <qopnicin wrote: >

> good TCM school. I was wondering if any of you could

> possibly tell by the symptoms listed above what

> might be the root of my illness besides an obvious

 

You need to get a professional diagnosis, but you

might want to start looking in the yin deficiency

category.

 

Bye for now,

Hugo

 

 

 

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