pulmonary hypertension

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Does anyone have any ideas about TCM methods that can help this condition?

It is an offshoot of scleroderma, My sister in has them and cannot stop

coughing, she has aged tremendously in the past year she is 57 and look 87. It

was

heart wrenching to be around her.

thanks

Rabiah

 

 

 

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Chinese Traditional Medicine , Remediesbyrabiah@a... wrote:

>

> Does anyone have any ideas about TCM methods that can help this

condition?

> It is an offshoot of scleroderma, My sister in has them and cannot

stop

> coughing, she has aged tremendously in the past year she is 57 and

look 87. It was

> heart wrenching to be around her.

 

I was hoping that one of the professional healers on the list would

reply to this. I was able to find some articles which may be helpful:

 

TREATING SCLERODERMA WITH CHINESE HERBS

 

by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional

Medicine, Portland, Oregon

 

http://www.itmonline.org/arts/scleroderma.htm

 

Scleroderma and Traditional in China

 

http://www.tcmtreatment.com/images/diseases/scleroderma.htm

 

The second link is the most basic. The first has more in-depth,

professional information.

 

Keep in mind while reading both that scleroderma can have different

TCM Roots. Fix the TCM Roots in your mind. Maybe even make a list of

the possible Roots which can underlie sleroderma.

 

I also recommend checking the Edgar Cayce material on scleroderma.

He gave a number of readings on the condition as someone close to

him had it. Keep in mind the possible TCM Roots as you read the

Cayce material. A lot of stuff will click into place.

 

OVERVIEW OF SCLERODERMA:

 

http://www.edgarcayce.org/health/database/chdata/data/prscle3.html

 

Edgar Cayce's Scleroderma Treatment: Case Studies

 

http://www.webspawner.com/users/sclerodermacases/

 

There is an amazing overlap between what TCM and an American psychic

had to say about scleroderma back in the first half of the 20th.

century. (However he got his information, Cayce has an amazing

track record on healing info. Some of the treatments and guides for

health that were revolutionary when he first uttered them have since

become standard medical treatment and advice, discovered in many

cases independently by health care professionals and in other cases

substantiated by them.)

 

One of the main Roots that is mentioned in the TCM literature is

Blood imbalance. Cayce also emphasized the role of " sick " blood.

Blood that no longer could perform its functions properly.

 

TCM talks about Kidney imbalance in some of these cases. The TCM

concept of the Kidneys includes many of the functions of the adrenal

glands and other endocrine glands. Note the Cayce references to

glandular imbalanes. Also refer back to the post I did earlier today

on Jing, particularly the section about Kidney Jing. One of the

symptoms of Kidney Jing Deficiency is premature aging.

 

The TCM material talks about Spleen Deficiency in some of these

cases; the Cayce material talks about the need for proper nutrition.

 

I want to go into one of the nutritional treatments mentioned in the

Cayce material: Beef juice. It's prepared by placing small cubes of

lean beef into a glass jar - like a canning jar, covering it loosely

(like with a canning lid not completely screwed down), placing the

jar into water in a pot, and heating the pot. A type of double-

boiler. As the water boils or simmers, the juice will come out of

the beef. Beef juice is one of the most nutritious and easily

assimilated foods there is. Both nutrition and assimilation are

important. It doesn't matter how nutritious a food is if the body

can't assimilate the nutrition. Beef juice is particularly good when

a person has digestive problems, especially assimilation problems.

From a TCM standpoint, the Spleen and Stomach are weak. It's not

only good for humans, it's good for any carnivoires. Like dogs and

cats. When they are very sick and not eating, it can be fed via a

medicine dropper.

 

The castor oil packs have been discussed on here before, but the

quickest and easiest way to get info on them would be to Google for

it. (The search function in the message base on here leaves a lot to

be desired.) Since castor oil packs are used in a number of

conditions, a reminder that they are contraindicated when a woman is

having her period and in cases of cancer. They fight work to help

the body to fight infection and to increase lymph flow (cleansing).

 

It's best that your sister-in-law consult a trained TCM healer if

one is available as scleroderma is a fairly complex condition. Due

to the nature and seriousness of this condition, she is going to

have to be very much a partner in her healing. This is not

something that one can be passive about, content to just take a pill

that someone prescribes. For a while her career is going to have to

be treating her sclerodrma, learning all she can about it, talking

with others that have it, changing her diet, and doing the other

things which are recommended like the castor oil packs, the Qi Gong

exercises, brewing up the TCM herbal teas, etc.

 

A general comment to the healers on the list. Different healers have

different areas of expertise. Very often what leads to a healer

becoming an expert in a particular disease or medical condition is

that someone close to the healer or future healer develops it. For

example, one D.O. I used to see was an expert on treating asthma

because his mother had it. Something else that can lead a healer

into becoming an expert on a particular condition is that the healer

or future healer witnesses a dramatic turn-around in someone with

the condition.

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for your response Victoria, I really appreciate it I had

of course been talking to her and sharing things with her all along. She is a

chemist and has an extensive background as a professional, so she takes a dim

view of the information I share with her.

I have been copying and pasting, sending her info , but she really is in a

bad way she cannot sat at the pc. She is argumentative by nature and I have not

the skills nor the inclination to do so. You have to want the info and the

help, she does want the help she has moved to near a mayo clinic and al;Al

they are doing is taking her money. she complains about her legs all the time

but the thing that hurts me is the cough, I just wish I could help with that it

is awful and I cannot stand to talk to her because of it it make me cry

because you know that it hurts and she can't stop it. I really would appreciate

any comments that you all have to contribute.

In reality she needs someone to stay with her and care for her, they gave

her two yrs to live and one is gone. she is taking all sorts of meds, but one

cost he 5,000 a mth!

can you believe that?

I sent the latest post by Vinod on jing to her , well I sent them all hoping

she will get the connection, I hope that is no violation of list protocol,

or anything , is it? If so I'll stop, I doubt she reads them anyway. I am

trying to find an approach that will reach her and open her mind up to the

possibilities.

thanks again to you Victoria and to anyone else who take the time to respond.

Sincerely

Rabiah