Guest guest Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Did your friend every look into a food relationship to her high blood pressure? My blood pressure was going up in my late twenties and I found eating sugar and corn caused it to go up like mad. I don't have a problem because I stopped eating this stuff. My reading are very good now. Also caffiene! Liz D. - chinesehealing 3/17/2004 1:54:21 PM [Chinese Traditional Medicine] HBP I have a friend who has High blood pressure has had it for a long time and been on allopathic meds for awhile. She is now experiencing tinnitus , that keeps her up and night and asking for advice on how to deal with it. thsi is very troubling to her and causing much added stress. I have heard that it is not good to take herbs and allopathic meds for this disease simultaneously. Any one care to elaborate or share anything they know about the truth or falicy of this ? Rabiah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I have a friend who has High blood pressure has had it for a long time and been on allopathic meds for awhile. She is now experiencing tinnitus , that keeps her up and night and asking for advice on how to deal with it. thsi is very troubling to her and causing much added stress. I have heard that it is not good to take herbs and allopathic meds for this disease simultaneously. Any one care to elaborate or share anything they know about the truth or falicy of this ? Rabiah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 I had heard that Niacin supplements can help with tinnitus. I haven't tried it because my tinnitus isn't that bad yet. Karen in San Diego topshelf wrote: > I have a friend who has High blood pressure has had it for a long time > and > been on allopathic meds for awhile. She is now experiencing tinnitus > , that > keeps her up and night and asking for advice on how to deal with it. > thsi is very > troubling to her and causing much added stress. I have heard that it > is not > good to take herbs and allopathic meds for this disease > simultaneously. Any one > care to elaborate or share anything they know about the truth or > falicy of > this ? > Rabiah > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 In a message dated 3/18/04 1:27:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, Rabbitbrain writes: > Did your friend every look into a food relationship to her > high blood pressure? My blood pressure was going up > in my late twenties and I found eating sugar and corn caused > it to go up like mad. I don't have a problem because I stopped > eating this stuff. My reading are very good now. > > I know that she uses a lot of sugar in her cooking we talked about getting it out of her diet,but you know how insidious sugar is, its in everything and she probably still consumes a lot of it though she says she has cut back. Glad it worked for you though. Did you just stop using it cold turkey or go to a substitute, or what? Rabiah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 In a message dated 3/17/04 11:31:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, kpeterha writes: > I had heard that Niacin supplements can help with tinnitus. I haven't > tried it because my tinnitus isn't that bad yet. > > Karen thanks I will inform her and look into it myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 I stopped using it cold turkey because it made me feel so bad eventually. It was then I noticed my blood pressure normalized. I had found out that many of my symptoms were yeast connected so I had to cut it out of bread also. It is hard to find a bread without sugar. Bread isn't in the candida diet either but when I began to feel better I could eat some now and then. I found fruit juices to substitute some recipes and stevia helpful. I am skeptic about artificial sweetness but have to admit I ate sugar free candies to save my sweet sanity from time to time. You are supposed to be able to test your pulse rate about 4-20 minutes after eating a food that bothers you. Your pulse rate will go up. Maybe this will help your friend determine if food is her problem. Liz D. - Chinese Traditional Medicine 3/18/2004 2:54:33 AM Re: [Chinese Traditional Medicine] HBP I know that she uses a lot of sugar in her cooking we talked about getting it out of her diet,but you know how insidious sugar is, its in everything and she probably still consumes a lot of it though she says she has cut back. Glad it worked for you though. Did you just stop using it cold turkey or go to a substitute, or what? Rabiah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 I was sick for 12 years before I read two books on Candida. My symptoms were so bad that I found them all in those two books. One book had a doctors listing in the back and I found one locally. He gave me oral powdered nystain and it helped so much. But you have to stay on a candida diet. Books on the subject mention what the diets are. One book will conflict with another and it can be confusing. Then when you try the diet it doesn't seem to work exactly as it says it will because we are all made diffferenly. And your yeast might eat foods that my yeast doesn't. So a safe food might be bad. It is a diet eating low carb, no refined carbs. No breads or sugars and limited fruit because yeast feeds on sugars of all kinds. Meats are pretty good as long as it isn't very processed meats like lunch meats. I swear I must have spent mostly eating tuna and chicken with vegetables. No junk snack foods like chips either. Even though potatoes are good foods it is not the best for eating in this diet because of the high carb content. Carrots are good food too but they have a high sugar content and you should limit this yummy vegetable. And if you are sensitive to any foods you must stay off of them too. This diet isn't easy and it is a good way of trying to find a better way of cooking and eating. The doctor I went to see had a dark field test. Took a drop of blood and added a dye. If it turned green then you had it for sure. Mine was granny apple green. I had a friend that had the test and she showed green only in spots. This tests doesn't determine what strain of yeast you have. I found this information out later. You will find people swearing on a herb that cleared them of the yeast but it did nothing for you. Mainly because your yeast is resistant to the herb and it is not an enemy. It is hard to get a positive test result for yeast but if you can find out what kind you have it is easier to treat. They can match the strain with a antifungal herb and clear it up in no time. Liz D. - Chinese Traditional Medicine 3/19/2004 9:32:35 AM Re: [Chinese Traditional Medicine] HBP In a message dated 3/19/04 5:03:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, Rabbitbrain writes: > Bread isn't in the candida > diet either but when I began to feel better I could eat some > now and then. > > Liz tell me about the candida diet. How did you confirm that you had it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 Thanks Liz and Victoria, for your responses to this. i sent your respobses directly to her , hopefully she will derive some benefit and perhaps some interest in TCM for her mdical care. Victoria as usual I found the information you directed me to educational. I went and did the search at the message boards and found the post from Al stone, thanks Al . I am always encouraged when the information that I share is confirmed by a knowledgeable source, in this instance all of the info I gave her at first is being confirmed. s anyone out there familiar with an herb call raulwolfia(i know it is spelled wrong) It is used to lower blood pressure, ans works well from what i understand works along the same lines as the allopathic meds,(blood thinner) Rabiah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 Well that is a lot of stuff and a long time to be sick I have been sick for about 12 years myself right after I had my last child I never got my energy back after years of wandering from doctor to dor for a diagnosis i finally got one, Hypothyroid , and lupus, osteoarthirtis , etc. As an herbalist there were things that I could handle with herbs but the fight got too hard after awhile and I gave in started taking the meds the doctors suggested. the plaqunil and sythroid I still take along with some pain med for this bum knee that I am about to have replaced. If anyone knows a better way please yell at me now . i wake up from the pain 3 or 4 times a night and it is constant. Even though I was taking the allopathic meds. I still had no energy or stamina. It is is only since I have strated understanding my body from the TCM standpoint ,diet as medicine have I really been help . it is a dramatic change , that Tcm makes. I have come across info about candida that has it indicatd for everything, just like the stuff you read about parasites. So I was a little skeptical about the diagnosis. I wanted to know in case I come across some one else as I have in the past who said this was what was troubling them. I was at a loss to help them. All I could think of was diet but as to what i hadn't a clue. the infor you shard helped clarify that for me. Look for foods from other cultures that comply with your dietary needs to add some variety. it must be tiresome to be so restricted with what you eat. I enjoy food I feel it should be enjoyed. You need it for fuel , but you are not a car a Thanks RBIAH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 One thing that you need to do with Candida is to treat the Chinese Spleen at the same time as you are on the diet. The diet does not rebuild the damage to the TCM spleen which is why it keeps recurring. Paul Pritchfords book has a whole section on Candida. Shad Reinstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 THe knee is arthritic, all the cartiledge is gone its bone on bone with a lot of erosion and spurs. I never had an injury, to the knee . The closet thing to one is years of yoga and forcing my legs into a full lotus. that's the only i can think that might have precipitated the type of damage I have now. Of course that was many years ago in my foolish youth . I can place my leg in a half lotus now , but not for long, I have to keep adjusting and rubbing. I have tried the castor oil , liniments, massage oils, heating pads etc. I have had synvisc injections and cortisone, nothing works for long. Not even the pain meds. I am ready to do this surgery just fr the relief, and to be able to walk again without pain and for pleasure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 Karen Peterson wrote: >I had heard that Niacin supplements can help with tinnitus. I haven't >tried it because my tinnitus isn't that bad yet. Interesting, because I notice that my tinnitus will return or get worse sometimes after eating . . . but it doesn't need to be a starchy or sugary food, sometimes just meat. ^. .^ ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2004 Report Share Posted March 20, 2004 > sythroid I still take along with some pain med for this bum knee that I am > about to have replaced. If anyone knows a better way please yell at me now . i > wake up from the pain 3 or 4 times a night and it is constant. What is the nature of your knee problem? Bursitis, arthritis, tear, etc? For some cases of bursitis and arthritis, a castor oil pack might relieve the condition. You don't take the castor oil internally, you apply it to 2 or 3 thicknesses of flannel, wrap it around the knee, cover it with a towel or plastic wrap (to keep your sheets or bedspread from getting oily), and put a heating pad over the area. Leave on for at least an hour. I used to leave them on all night. Castor oil packs reduce inflammation. They also improve lymph flow. The packs are contraindicated in cases of cancer and for women when they are having their period. This doesn't always work. Also keep in mind that whenever there is trouble with the knees, suspect and rule in or rule out Kidney imbalance. If Kidney imbalance is present, eventually that will have to be addressed even if you do have the operation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 I do not wish to cross the lines of TCM, but alot of acupucturists are learning this system so I guess I'll mention it again.It is great for addressing infectious agents in the body and wonderful for pain. Please check out www.neuromodulationtechnique.com and see what you think. It was build on meridian theory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 sammorris1125 wrote: >I do not wish to cross the lines of TCM, but alot of acupucturists are learning this system so I guess I'll mention it again. It is great for addressing infectious agents in the body and wonderful for pain. Please check out http://www.neuromodulationtechnique.com and see what you think. It was build on meridian theory. I noticed the comments by the person with FM on the web site. Has anyone on this list used this procedure for their own health concerns? Cat ^. .^ ~ " Optimism is magic! " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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