Simultaneous hot and cold

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BTW, there are several formulas proven to reduce glucose and insulin, so i

don't really understand the claims on this one. Maybe it's the only

commercially available in the US one.

 

> . In a person who is too

> Hot, this particular property doesn't present a problem. But in a

> person who is too Cold, even though the infection clears up, other

> problems that the person has may now be worse. Western medicine has

> no framework at present for understanding what happened. TCM does.

 

I have a question along these lines, I'm hoping some of the experienced

herbalists might try and answer it. How do you tackle cold in the

extremities, and the surface - ie cold ears, cold skin, when there is also

heat in the centre? That heat is largely St/Lv, largely circulatory, and

seems to be caused mostly by the blocking action of phlegm and damp. This is

one form of insulin resistance, the precursor to diabetes, and reacts very

badly to spleen/kd tonic herbs. Insulin is being shown to have powerful

circulatory functions - dilating blood vessels so that tissues can 'accept'

blood glucose is an important part of it's function, and insulin resistance

is characterised by circulatory dysfunction at an earlier stage than

previously understood it seems, and long before there are gross coronary

implications.

 

Attacking phelgm and damp and blood heat with cooling, draining herbs such

as poria, red and white peony, plantaigo, bamboo shavings, artimesia deals

with the heat and starts to move the damp, but how best to tackle the

peripheral coldness without setting off the heat again?

 

Jackie