anti-inflammatory

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I have a patient who is getting a series of injections in her hip to

promote the healing of a ligament. Apparently, she can not take

anything that is anti-inflammatory while she is having this treatment.

I am treating her primarily for Raynaud's and fibromyalgia like

symptoms. I have been using herbs to move liver qi/ blood, nourish

liver blood/ yin and support spleen function. I switched her to a more

nourishing formula with no moving herbs because I was concerned that the

moving herbs could have anti-inflammatory properties. Unfortunately a

lot of her symptoms are coming back now- she really needs that liver qi

moved!

 

I am wondering if moving herbs are actually anti-inflammatory at all. I

know that they promote healing and reduce inflammation, but I think they

probably do this in a very different way than NSAIDS. As I understand

it, NSAIDS stop the inflammatory process all together. I would think

moving herbs would just speed up the healing process as opposed to

stopping the inflammatory process, which shouldn't conflict with her hip

treatment.

 

Any thoughts? Do any herbs have straight out anti-inflammatory

properties. Do you think it is safe to use herbs like chai hu, chuan

lian zi, dan shen, xiang fu, yin chen hao, zhi mu...?

 

Ariel