Guest guest Posted February 19, 2003 Report Share Posted February 19, 2003 on 2/19/03 2:18 AM, at wrote: > Re: minerals and bugs are not extractable It should be interesting when Andy Ellis finally publishes his new book on the use of powders - which should be in a couple of months.... Ken Bendat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 There are three reasons to have surgery for a uterine fibroid. 1. the mass is impinging on organ or structural function 2. there is bleeding that you have tried to stop but can't 3. there has been evidence of malignancy For an ovarian cyst 1. it is a dermoid cyst 2. there is evidence or likelihood of malignancy 3. it is twisted If your patient has none of these signs then I would advice her to wait re: surgery. I very much disagree with Gabrielle about using blood movers before the menses. If blood stasis is significant by which I mean painful menses or menses with clots, you have to use herbs to move the blood in order to stop bleeding. Any other approach with further stagnate the blood. Use herbs such as: Pu Huang Pu Huang Tan Qian Cao Gen large doses of Yi Mu Cao etc. When blood stasis is a major cause of heavy bleeding - which it so often is - you must move blood premenstrually and through the first part of the menses. This is the protocol taught to me by my gyn teacher in China and the protocol used in the many cases I have treated and translated. If there is blood stasis, this protocol will not cause excessive bleeding at all. I have also had many patient's fibroids shrink and go away. This is especially true if there is heavy bleeding. I don't treat the fibroid. I treat the bleeding based on the cause of the bleeding. The causes of bleeding are 1. Blood stasis 2. Qi deficiency (Spleen or Kidney) 3. Heat (empty or full) In many cases when the menstruation is balanced and regulated, the fibroid is gone. This is not true of pedunculated fibroids. Sharon On Mar 8, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Chinese Medicine wrote: > Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:59:10 -0000 > " gabriellemathieu " <gabriellemathieu > Re: uterine fibroids & ovarian cysts > > The uterine fibroids are not likely to shrink. You have to find out > what the chief complaints caused by the gynecological problem are. If > she feels bloated and has stabbing pains, for instance, you give her > herbs to treat that. There's no harm in waiting, but if she is > bleeding very heavily from the fibroid you shuld definitely be careful > not to give her blood movers right before her period. Give her stop > bleeding herbs or Yunnan Bai Yao. Also, in rare cases a fibroid can > grow on a stalk and twist-in that case ofcourse she needs intervention > right away. The doctor should have informed her of the nature of the > fibroids, and where in the tissue they are. Ovarian cysts are ok, > unless they rupture-then the pain is intense, but surgery will not > alleviate the pain of the ruptured cyst. The body just needs to > reabsorb it. If she has had cysts rupture before, adjust your herbal > formula accordingly. (I would personally not use Ziao Jiao Ci) > > Gabrielle Sharon Weizenbaum 86 Henry Street Amherst, MA 01002 413-549-4021 sweiz www.whitepinehealingarts.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Chinese Medicine , sharon weizenbaum <sweiz wrote: > I don't treat the > fibroid. I treat the bleeding based on the cause of the bleeding. Good comments Sharon. I have uploaded a file on uterine fibroids to the files section (called 1 Fibroids) that covers the pathomechanisms and treatment of uterine fibroids from a Chinese medical perspective, along with the three major traditional diseases that fibroids generally present with in Chinese medicine. These diseases are: concretions and conglomerations (zheng jia), profuse menstruation, and flooding and spotting. The material of this file is derived from compilation of Chinese language texts, primarily mainstream Chinese medical gynecology texts and integrated medical texts. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Eric, thank you very much for sharing this file- Tom. ---- Eric Brand 03/09/06 15:38:40 Chinese Medicine Re: Digest Number 1322 Good comments Sharon. I have uploaded a file on uterine fibroids to the files section (called 1 Fibroids) that covers the pathomechanisms and treatment of uterine fibroids from a Chinese medical perspective, along with the three major traditional diseases that fibroids generally present with in Chinese medicine. These diseases are: concretions and conglomerations (zheng jia), profuse menstruation, and flooding and spotting. The material of this file is derived from compilation of Chinese language texts, primarily mainstream Chinese medical gynecology texts and integrated medical texts. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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