To Vinod and Amy ...weak stomach in TCM ??

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Chinese Traditional Medicine , " Mrs. Barley "

<chosenbarley wrote:

 

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> These 2 diets, as well as countless others, will indeed be successful

> if the dieter can stick with them. But people can't stick with them

> for long: something in the person is not being satisfied with

> restricted diets.

 

This is true of all health recovery - if an individual can not

participate in their own recovery their chances of recovering are very

small. All healing is self healing - the medicines and other therapies

we take are only aids in our struggle to find balance and recovery in

ourselves. It is our ownselves that must walk every step of our lives

- there are no magic bullets that somone is holding out there - if we

could just find that person. There is no such person. My father has

always said about this " The recovery from disease is actually just

common sense and most people already know at least some of the things

they need to do or stop doing to recover their health - and the world

is full of healing modalaties and always has been since ancient times

- yet the majority of people are full of disease and they will never

recover from these diseases - they will die from these diseases. "

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> I think it is time for promoters of weight-loss/insulin

> resistance-curing diets to delve into

> WHY people can't stick with diets for as long as they need to, to lose

> their excess fat. " Just follow the diet " is not good enough any more.

> It is not that simple.

 

Nobody says that recovery from disease is easy - it is not.

Traditional science has always known the nature of disease and they

know why people are unable to follow diets - are in many cases even

take their medicines. They are suffering from a pathology which has

seperated them from their own ability to help themselves by eating and

living in a less harmful way - they have lost their energy and their

will power and motivation to succeed in life. This for many is an

incurable life threating disease. Physicians generally have no power

over these existenial facts. When I as a physician am advising anyone

in anything - I do not know if this will be useful to a particular

person or not. I am not the determiner of any other persons life -

they make their own choices - and physicians do not feel responsible

for that - they give the little they have to offer - those who use

that in a useful way do it out of their own choice from their own

motivations - the ones who can not follow our advise are not the ones

we can help.

 

Millions of people have overcome disease process and been healed of

serious disease by following diferent regimes. I advocate certain

diets because I believe at least in part in the theory behind it and

or I feel that it is the easiest way for many. For those who can not

do it - that's the way it is.

 

If it were any good at all, there'd be no fat

> people, because all these diets are so highly publicized nowadays.

>

It is not the fault of the diet that people can not follow it - it is

their own pathology. The major reasons why people can not lose weight

on diets is because they do not follow the diet. They are under the

sway of serious compulsions that are destroying them but they can not

stop. These are often psychological attachments to foods or lifestyles

or whatever. They are not serious about healing or they are trapped by

these compulsions.

 

> I hear that mercury and other toxicity as well as hormonal

> disturbances (which might be caused by the toxicity) are two possible

> causes for some people's

> inability to lose weight or their inability to stick with a diet for

> the necessary period of time.

 

There are many reasons why people can not lose weight and why they can

not stick to diets - whatever it is you will have to find someone who

understands what is wrong with you - BUT - even if you do find that

person they will only be able to help if you can follow their advise.

Do not expect to go to an Endocrinologist (hormones) or a Chelation

therapist (mercury) and they will have a magic bullet that you can

just walk into the office and pay for - and all your problems will be

solved - life is not so simple. Example I have been an Endocrinologist

for over forty years and there are several Endocrinological theories

about how to lose weight - but none of them achieve their goals

without the full participation of the patient. If the patient can not

follow the protocol then all theories are useless. The patient has

wasted their money and time going to that person - and they have also

wasted the physicians time - but the physician does not feel

responsible - at least they got their fee.

 

All of this is the reason why I belive in 'natural' medicine - it

works on the whole person - and it has some scope to break through

some of these compulsons and irrational behavior patterns - but even

the most profound medical concept and the greatest physician in the

world can not help if the patient is not able to at least take the

medicines and therapies - coming reguarly for the apppointments. Most

patients go to a physician for only a few appointments (many only come

once)- and becuase the physician did not have any magic to heal long

term chronic disease in a few weeks they move on to the next thing -

then the next -----

 

Anecdote - I was setting in my cousins clinic observing him with his

patients - An old fellow came in carried by his sons - he had severe

arthritis and was unable to walk and was full of pain - he was to get

heat treatments on his knees - I walked over to this man and asked him

how he was doing - he looked sheepishly at my cousin and whispered to

me - his medicine is no good - I asked what was the problem - he said

- I took his medicines and it did not work - I said - what medicines

did you take - he pulled a bottle from his pocket and showed me - it

was a bottle of a classic medicine given for arthritis pain - it was

about 3/4 full - I said Sir you did not take this medicine - you only

took about a fourth of the bottle - he said - Oh doctor I stopped

taking that medicine because it did not work - he pulled another

bottle from his pocket and showed me it was a bottle of Darvon (an

alopathic analgesic)- my cousin asked him well did you take the foods

I told you to take - that will help to take the water and heat out -

his son said - doctor we can not do like that - my mother will never

prepare two meals one for the family and one for father - it is too

much bother - my cousin and I looked at each other helplessly - the

old man siad - sir you are University proffesor what do you think I

should do the pain is unbearable sometimes I feel I do not want live

like this - I said - take your Darvon and come here for the heat

treatments. My cousin is a purist in natural healing and does not

believe in analgesics as they have side-effects - so he was surprised

to hear my answer - ;ater he asked me - Vinod why have you told the

man to take poison i know you do not believe in that stuff - I said -

I said it out of compassion for the mans situation - he has few choices.

 

Physicians and healers constantly face such delimmas - we are not at

fault and the patient is not at fault - life has dealt such cards and

what can anyone do about it.