Random thoughts on pain

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> vaulter), but I also want to help those with chronic

> pain. I suffered from severe chronic pain for almost 3

> years and I'm still incredibly discouraged with how

> the western medical community addresses these issues,

> and I truly feel there is a better way by addressing

> the whole body, mind and spirit.

 

Just a little random info on pain: Two things that can lower the

pain threshold are magnesium deificiency and Yin Deficiency. If

either or both of these two are deficient, supplementing them won't

necessarily relieve all the pain, just lessen it by bringing the

pain threshold back up to normal. But just lessening it can mean a

lot to a person who is in chronic pain.

 

Also, never underestimate just how painful external Pernicious Evils

like Wind, Cold, and Damp invading the Exterior can be. The Exterior

is the head, neck, arms, legs, skin, muscles, meridians, and bones.

(The Interior of the body is the trunk, specifically the Organs.)

 

While it's true that Exterior conditions are less serious than and

easier to treat than Interior conditions, that doesn't begin to

convey just how painful and even debilitating Wind, Cold, and/or

Damp invading the Exterior can be. Voice of experience with

debilitating migraines for years (decades) that a shot of Demerol in

the emergency room couldn't even stop, only blunt somewhat. And they

were due to Wind Cold in the Bladder and Small Intestine meridians.

The Bladder and Small Intestine meridians! The Bladder and Small

Intestine meridians are the most external of the meridians. The

first ones to be hit when Pernicious Evils invade. When the

Pernicious Evils invaded deeper, that's when the intense and extreme

nausea appeared along with the intense pain. The pain alone of a

full-blown migraine was enough to keep me from doing anything from

lying in a darkened room, not daring to move my head because that

made the pain worse, and at best managing to sleep through the worst

of it (with some help from the Demerol). And when one of these

headaches reached full-blown status, they would last at the very

least another day. Sometimes more.

 

To my great amazement, these severe headaches that a shot of Demerol

would only blunt enough that sleep was possible were knocked out in

seconds by pressure and/or heat on a few acupoints.

 

Headaches can have many different causes (Roots). The treatments

will be different depending on what the Root is. For me the Root was

Wind Cold in the Bladder and Small Intestines meridians. For

someone else it could be Wind Heat invading. For another person,

Liver Yang Rising (which is an Interior condition). Etc. What

helped me would worsen the headache of someone with a Root of Wind

Heat invading because the person is already too Hot. What would help

a person with Wind Heat invading would make me sicker because I was

having a problem with Cold.