Cure complicating the Problem?

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I didn't take any herbs for at least a month ... I noticed that the dark circles

under my eyes were going away.

Now I have resume taking the herbs for Menopause and they came back the very

next day after I re-started.

 

I am wondering if the herbs are causing kidney stress, which I don't need

obviously with my lung symptoms, whether I should discontinue them. They did

help the hotflashes and accompanying nausea, but that was convoluted with

simultaneous acupuncture treatments so there really is not way to tease out all

of the variables as far as what helped.

 

That is probably why many say that herbs are medicine and not to be taken over

the long term as in daily herb teas as an ongoing thing.

 

Cat

 

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[Guest guest]

On Feb 6, 2004, at 5:34 PM, Cat wrote:

 

> I didn't take any herbs for at least a month ... I noticed that the

> dark circles under my eyes were going away.

> Now I have resume taking the herbs for Menopause and they came back

> the very next day after I re-started.

>

> I am wondering if the herbs are causing kidney stress, which I don't

> need obviously with my lung symptoms, whether I should discontinue

> them. They did help the hotflashes and accompanying nausea, but

> that was convoluted with simultaneous acupuncture treatments so there

> really is not way to tease out all of the variables as far as what

> helped.

 

Generally, Kidney Yin tonics can be a problem to digest, but as for the

Kidneys, they should improve, which they did apparently with the hot

flashes going away.

 

Not sure how that would effect nausea, though. Liu Wei Di Huang Wan

and Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan have a few herbs to address dampness, I

suppose that's why they help.

 

As for the darkness beneath the eyes, there are a few different ways of

looking at them through the eyes of TCM. One is the so-called Five

Wheels which says that the flesh surrounding the eyes is associated

with the Spleen/Stomach. So, perhaps the yin tonics are aggravating an

already weakened digestion.

 

In which case the addition of something like Xiang Sha Liu Jun Zi Tang

might help you.

 

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