Digest Number 1065 Fibromyalgia/Cherry Juice

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In a message dated 3/19/2004 8:12:08 AM Eastern Standard Time,

Chinese Traditional Medicine writes:

" victoria_dragon " <victoria_dragon

Re: Fibromyalgia

 

> Have you tried the cherry juice which is not processed to be shelf

stable?

 

>>No, I haven't. Thanks for the tip. It's a long time to cherry

season.

 

>>BTW, after we moved, among the first things I planted were cherry

trees. I actually got a few the first year.

Great, I hope that the years will give you amounts in greater abundance.

Food as medicine when it works always seems best.

 

 

<<Please let me know how the cherry juice works out for you.

 

I will do that. So far I am noticing that the juice is forcing out some sort

of crystal like substance through the skin (ear). This ear has been

bothering me ever since I had the flu about four years ago. Herbs sometimes

have done

this too (each time the ear feels better and the fleeting pains within it

lessen), so I think that the juice is having a cleansing effect on my body.

Hopefully this extends to the kidneys. The book I mentioned earlier (What Your

Doctor May Not Tell You about Fibromyalgia) discusses the fact that because the

phosphorus/calcium becomes unbalanced and thus accumulates in the body as

crystals this can cause many sorts of seemingly disparate symptoms, including

joint pain, muscle pain, irritable bladder/bowels, sinus, migraines, cold

symptoms, chronic fatigue and on and on. I found the linking of all these

disparate

symptoms (Western style) interesting and as usual it seems that mainstream

medicine is ignoring this protocol despite some pretty good evidence that it

works for many who have this diagnosis. Unlike most doctors this physician has

done some long term research with his patients and has some impressive

credentials with the medical school at UCLA. I also found it interesting that

Dr. Amand

talked about gout which, while he does not feel it is connected to

fibromyalgia itself, perhaps shows a similar inability of the body to deal with

minerals

properly. He attributes this to a lack of the right enzymes in the body, a

genetic problem. Personally I would opt for illnesses over a life time

triggering this reaction in genetically susceptible people. If the illness

works

down into the body instead of being brought out to the surface and expelled (as

is done in TCM) then it will settle in to work its mischief.

 

Anyway, the drug he uses can actually make symptoms improve to almost

nothing, but the protocol is, as are most Western medicine protocols, life long

and

involves too many no no's to make me comfortable plus the use of a chemical

drug long term. So you can see why when I read on the juice site that the

cherry juice was helping people with both gout and fibromyalgia my ears sort of

perked up. Perhaps it cleanses the kidneys in a way similar to the drug (which

is derived from the herb guiacom or ironwood). Anyway, if it works as the drug

does symptoms may worsen for a while and mine seem to be (sinus is acting up,

stomach is acting up, I have had some transient pains in my legs and have

felt headachey, though due to TCM I do not think I will have the severe symptoms

of the past--herbs too can help. I am convinced of that). I am more willing

to drink a glass or two of cherry juice for life than I am to take a drug

which, in order to work, would restrict my ability to use herbs and eat a lot of

foods which contain larger amounts of salicylates or even to use cleaning

products or toiletries which contain them--all plants have them to greater or

lesser

extents.

 

Sarah

 

 

 

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In a message dated 3/19/04 2:44:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,

bonmotSarah writes:

 

 

> Anyway, if it works as the drug

> does symptoms may worsen for a while and mine seem to be (sinus is acting

> up,

> stomach is acting up, I have had some transient pains in my legs and have

> felt headachey, though due to TCM I do not think I will have the severe

> symptoms

> of the past--herbs too can help.

 

This is interesting , In Tibb Medicine, the first step is to detox the body,

which can take from3 days to a week, normally or longer if the illness was

an extended one. After this time 3 days or more a crisis point is reached and

where the patient gets worse before they get better. they may have headaches ,

vomit , nausea, etc. this is due to toxins being resolved and the bodily

humors coming into balance. in effect the cure has taken place and the patient

must

then adopt a diet and lifestyle to maintain their health.