Guest guest Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 I'm pretty sure that I have a food sensitivity to Bai Zhu or some persevative in it. One of my patients goes ballistic on herbs from Qualiherb- It is so consistently tied to her taking them, no matter what the formula and immediate acting I know it must be a sensitivity/ allergy. She has the exact same reaction from processed foods containing processed soy. doug > > This is complicated all my Chinese teachers from 20 years ago insisted that > patients could not be allergic to the herbs, rather it was a wrong > prescription. That has changed and the Chinese faculty at Emperor's consider allergy as a > potential complication of herbal therapy. >> Best - > > Will > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 26, 2004 Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 I checked a few years back and at that time Sheng Chang/Qualiherb used barley malt as the carrier for most of their herbs. They may have switched but that would be worth asking about. Stephen [] Saturday, September 25, 2004 9:17 PM allrgies I'm pretty sure that I have a food sensitivity to Bai Zhu or some persevative in it. One of my patients goes ballistic on herbs from Qualiherb- It is so consistently tied to her taking them, no matter what the formula and immediate acting I know it must be a sensitivity/ allergy. She has the exact same reaction from processed foods containing processed soy. doug > > This is complicated all my Chinese teachers from 20 years ago insisted that > patients could not be allergic to the herbs, rather it was a wrong > prescription. That has changed and the Chinese faculty at Emperor's consider allergy as a > potential complication of herbal therapy. >> Best - > > Will > Chinese Herbal Medicine offers various professional services, including board approved continuing education classes, an annual conference and a free discussion forum in Chinese Herbal Medicine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 26, 2004 Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 Interesting... she also has a food sensititity to alcohol, wine etc... makes you want to believe in homeopathy... ;-) doug , " Stephen " <stephen@b...> wrote: > I checked a few years back and at that time Sheng Chang/Qualiherb used > barley malt as the carrier for most of their herbs. They may have > switched but that would be worth asking about. > Stephen > > I'm pretty sure that I have a food sensitivity to Bai Zhu or some > persevative in it. One of my > patients goes ballistic on herbs from Qualiherb- It is so consistently > tied to her taking > them, no matter what the formula and immediate acting I know it must be > a sensitivity/ > allergy. She has the exact same reaction from processed foods containing > processed soy. > > doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 26, 2004 Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 Doug, I find that food sensitivities can be a moving target. One day it's o.k. and a week later it's not, or vice versa. Also, I happen to like beer but some beers give me insomnia and others don't. Wine is the same way (Only red Cabernet will do). I've made a personal study of this for several years and the effect a particular beer has will change periodically. One of the ways I can predict the change is that my taste perception changes (doesn't taste as good). Just more fodder for confusion. Stephen [] Interesting... she also has a food sensititity to alcohol, wine etc... makes you want to believe in homeopathy... ;-) doug , " Stephen " <stephen@b...> wrote: > I checked a few years back and at that time Sheng Chang/Qualiherb used > barley malt as the carrier for most of their herbs. They may have > switched but that would be worth asking about. > Stephen > > I'm pretty sure that I have a food sensitivity to Bai Zhu or some > persevative in it. One of my > patients goes ballistic on herbs from Qualiherb- It is so consistently > tied to her taking > them, no matter what the formula and immediate acting I know it must be > a sensitivity/ > allergy. She has the exact same reaction from processed foods containing > processed soy. > > doug Chinese Herbal Medicine offers various professional services, including board approved continuing education classes, an annual conference and a free discussion forum in Chinese Herbal Medicine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 26, 2004 Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 I checked a few years back and at that time Sheng Chang/Qualiherb used barley malt as the carrier for most of their herbs. They may have switched but that would be worth asking about. >>>>>When i was there last year they said they used only pharmaceutical corn or potato starch (said to be hypoallergenic because it has no proteins). By the way the comment by Simon that they use only the total some of heavy metals is not what I have seen in from of certificates provided to me by Samuel of qualiherbs. The did have the individual metals listed Alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 26, 2004 Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 Sheng Chang told us that it would be pretty much impossible for them to provide us such reports for all herbs. Of course, only impossible because they don't want to. They certainly have the labs, manpower, knowledge, etc. >>>They seem to think we in the west do not count ( i guess we do not buy enough herbs). What we need is to change the requirements in Japan as they set all the standards. alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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