A study from a Chinese hospital showed 94% effectiveness of Chinese herbal therapy combined with acupuncuture. The herbs worked on their own but were better with the acupuncture.
The article gives the exact recipe for the herbs. The acupuncture was daily, but unfortunately the article doesn't share which points were used.
Worth a read! Link here.
Showing posts with label Chinese herbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese herbs. Show all posts
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Saturday, September 28, 2013
detailed Chinese medicine typology of fibroids
If you scroll down in this article past all the Western medicine stuff, you will find a really useful typology of fibroids in Chinese medicine, with herb recommendations for each.
Monday, August 19, 2013
my current fibroid-shrinking regimen
Daily:
Fibropause II -- 8 3x day
Source Naturals Serraptase -- 8 3x day
DimPro -- 1 3x day
D-Calcium glucarate -- 2 2x day
Women's Best Friend by Crystal Star
Powdered herb blend from my acupuncturist, 3 scoops 3x day
homeopathics for circulation and menstrual support, iron and mineral absorption, and lymph drainage: Ferrodona 10 drops 2xday, Clauparest 10 drops 2x day, Dalektron 14 drops 2x day, LMPH-DRN 8 drops 2x day, and Upelva 12 drops 2x day
Standard Process Parotid PMG -- 1 3x day
Standard Process AF Betafood -- 1 3x day
Standard Process Cholacol II -- 1 3x day
Plus other additional items (Chinese herbs, supplements, homeopathy, topicals, etc.) switched up daily based on condition.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Thursday, July 18, 2013
another success story
Fibroid symptoms under control and some shrinking with changing, diet, exercise routine, and adding yoga and acupuncture and Chinese herbs. See blog here, start with 2/17/12 entry and read down.
Friday, July 12, 2013
sparganium and zeodaria
This article discusses how this pair combined can help to remove masses like fibroids. This combination is in a couple of the formulas I have been using lately, Sparganium 12 and Jade Control.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
great chart of Chinese herbs that are blood activating and stasis dispersing
For all you Chinese herb geeks, click here.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
some bizarre sounding Chinese medicine recipes to treat fibroids
There is a lot of knowledge about fibroids in Chinese medicine, but alas with posts that are obviously the result of machine translation like this one, and call for bizarre-sounding ingredients that I have no idea how to locate, it's unfortunately really not that helpful... But sharing it anyway in any case. If anyone can shed light on this, please do!
Sunday, July 22, 2012
for those who don't have an acupuncturist/herbalist handy
This online service will give you a Chinese medicine diagnosis and prescribe herbs for you.
Monday, April 2, 2012
intensive detox retreat at Tao of Wellness
Many experts stress the importance of detoxification for shrinking fibroids, and indeed that is the key theme of Fibroid Miracle which I like. But I have some concerns about juice-only or water-only fasts, as am concerned that they will be hard on the system. I had been thinking about going to a juice fasting spa, but it just sounded like too much and I imagined myself miserable and starving. Not to mention that extreme fasting can be bad for your eggs So am very glad that I found this Chinese medicine based detox retreat, that focuses on nourishing while detoxing.
I receive the newsletter from Tao of Wellness, the Chinese medicine clinic in Santa Monica where Dr. Ni author of Tao of Fertility practices. There was an ad for this session and it sounded so good I decided to sign up. Evidently they have them quarterly so you can contact them if you are interested.
Wow, what a fantastic program! Extremely well-conceived and well executed. All the staff was so professional, and the other people attending were really nice too, so it was a great environment.
It was 2.5 days, starting on Friday. Friday am was a healthy breakfast and starting to take special herbs, followed by a lecture on toxins all around us, similar stuff to what is in this blog but it would have been nice to have learned about it in an organized way a long time ago. Then an hour of Chi Gong instruction. Then a yummy lunch. Afternoon was for appointments -- we each got acupuncture, a bodywork session including dry brushing and cupping (including on the abdomen, perfect for fibroids), and 20 minutes in the far infrared sauna. Then food to take home for dinner. Same thing on Saturday except morning lecture was on emotional detox. Then on Sunday it was just treatments, with an extra one -- InfiniChi, a form of energy healing, thrown in.
They gave us enough detox herbs for another week, and instructions on a detox diet. Not too different from what I do except it's lower in fat. They use a lot of beans and grains though, since I went Paleo I had been avoiding those and boy was my tummy unhappy when I had some, so I won't be doing more of that! Mainly I'll be eating fruits, veggies, some rice and some buckwheat cereal and a little lean chicken or fish or turkey. Plus some seaweed. They got me in the habit of sprinkling dulse flakes on things, want to try doing more of that in general as it's a good way to get that seaweed into the diet.
I'm on my way to San Diego to spend a week with my parents, so it's good to have this diet restriction as it will prevent me from overindulging on restaurant food. I plan to get a couple of detox treatments, like more infrared sauna and perhaps a mudwrap or lymphatic drainage massage, while I'm down there. Also I am headed over to Pressed Juicery to pick up a bunch of juices, so I am adding a juice element to this as well.
Interesting thing I learned was the value of walnut oil for detox, evidently it stimulates your liver and helps get the bile to flow. We were encouraged to put it liberally over our food. Certainly made the detox feel less spartan!
Since I live in N. California, I needed a place to stay, and on Airbnb (which I HIGHLY recommend) I found an apartment in Santa Monica to stay in that was just down the street from Tao of Wellness, how cool is that?
I was so impressed with Tao of Wellness, all the staff, and wish that I had gone to such a good clinic earlier in my fibroids and fertility journey. If you are in LA, be sure to check them out, it is totally worth the trouble. They also have a great line of supplements and teas. I ended up buying a whole bunch of them. Long story I will talk about later, I got my own Zyto and I keyed them into my Zyto and they are coming up as being really helpful, this is good quality stuff. More on that later.
I highly recommend this retreat, and am hoping it will kick my detox up a notch and help me get rid of these damn fibroids!
I receive the newsletter from Tao of Wellness, the Chinese medicine clinic in Santa Monica where Dr. Ni author of Tao of Fertility practices. There was an ad for this session and it sounded so good I decided to sign up. Evidently they have them quarterly so you can contact them if you are interested.
Wow, what a fantastic program! Extremely well-conceived and well executed. All the staff was so professional, and the other people attending were really nice too, so it was a great environment.
It was 2.5 days, starting on Friday. Friday am was a healthy breakfast and starting to take special herbs, followed by a lecture on toxins all around us, similar stuff to what is in this blog but it would have been nice to have learned about it in an organized way a long time ago. Then an hour of Chi Gong instruction. Then a yummy lunch. Afternoon was for appointments -- we each got acupuncture, a bodywork session including dry brushing and cupping (including on the abdomen, perfect for fibroids), and 20 minutes in the far infrared sauna. Then food to take home for dinner. Same thing on Saturday except morning lecture was on emotional detox. Then on Sunday it was just treatments, with an extra one -- InfiniChi, a form of energy healing, thrown in.
They gave us enough detox herbs for another week, and instructions on a detox diet. Not too different from what I do except it's lower in fat. They use a lot of beans and grains though, since I went Paleo I had been avoiding those and boy was my tummy unhappy when I had some, so I won't be doing more of that! Mainly I'll be eating fruits, veggies, some rice and some buckwheat cereal and a little lean chicken or fish or turkey. Plus some seaweed. They got me in the habit of sprinkling dulse flakes on things, want to try doing more of that in general as it's a good way to get that seaweed into the diet.
I'm on my way to San Diego to spend a week with my parents, so it's good to have this diet restriction as it will prevent me from overindulging on restaurant food. I plan to get a couple of detox treatments, like more infrared sauna and perhaps a mudwrap or lymphatic drainage massage, while I'm down there. Also I am headed over to Pressed Juicery to pick up a bunch of juices, so I am adding a juice element to this as well.
Interesting thing I learned was the value of walnut oil for detox, evidently it stimulates your liver and helps get the bile to flow. We were encouraged to put it liberally over our food. Certainly made the detox feel less spartan!
Since I live in N. California, I needed a place to stay, and on Airbnb (which I HIGHLY recommend) I found an apartment in Santa Monica to stay in that was just down the street from Tao of Wellness, how cool is that?
I was so impressed with Tao of Wellness, all the staff, and wish that I had gone to such a good clinic earlier in my fibroids and fertility journey. If you are in LA, be sure to check them out, it is totally worth the trouble. They also have a great line of supplements and teas. I ended up buying a whole bunch of them. Long story I will talk about later, I got my own Zyto and I keyed them into my Zyto and they are coming up as being really helpful, this is good quality stuff. More on that later.
I highly recommend this retreat, and am hoping it will kick my detox up a notch and help me get rid of these damn fibroids!
Friday, February 17, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
another Chinese herb that helps with fibroids
Interesting even though the English is a bit rough. Unfortunately can't find any other reference to herb by that name. Article abstract here.
Friday, January 20, 2012
study shows Chinese herbs shrink fibroids (but no better than mifepristone)
Interesting study here. It mentions two herbs. One is Nona Roguy, something from Malaysia that women use post-partum and which can be found here (yes at $60 it's expensive but I looked on the manufacturer's website in Malaysia using Google Translate and apparently it's the same price there) and one is huoxue sanjie tang, which is for blood stasis and dispersing masses but I can't find anywhere to buy it.
Also here's another study showing efficacy of Xiao Zheng Wan.
Also here's another study showing efficacy of Xiao Zheng Wan.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
new technology and change in supplement regimens
Longtime readers of this blog may have noticed that I have been taking an incredible amount of supplements. To be honest, I had been tiring of doing that, and increasingly wondering whether I was taking the right ones in the right combinations. Also frankly although I appreciated the information, was feeling bogged down with the BioSet that my practitioner was using, as it felt like we kept getting stuck on things and not making progress.
However, just when I was feeling particularly annoyed, new technology has appeared to address it. My practitioner has switched to a new system, the Zyto, that is much more sophisticated.
Here's how it works. The machine reads the electrical impulses of your body systems when you place your hand on a special cradle. I had a session with it for this first time this past week, and first we started out by choosing my scans. This is the list of all the things that we will check about my body. We chose the Chinese medicine meridians, the Chinese medicine five elements, the list of all acupuncture points on the body, environmental toxins, hormones, and a bunch of additional things related to reproductive health such as my thyroid, my uterus, and my ovaries. The machine then scans all these items, taking a minute or two while your hand is on the cradle. It then shows a list of which ones are stressed, with a numerical value given to the amount of stress.
The outcome was interesting, the top stressor with a value of -117.33 was Thyroxine, which is the hormone made by the thyroid. I had had thyroid on my long to-do list as something to explore using the BioSet, but using this new machine we can scan everything at once in just a couple of minutes. Stressors #11 and 14 were also thyroid related. So we uncovered something here very important I think, particularly as thyroid issues are said to be closely related to fibroids, and also to egg quality.
Second on the list is an acupuncture point, but unfortunately can't decipher the code. #3 and #8 are candida related (ugh we have been working on that for nearly 2 years now!). Four and five are uterus related. 6 is Dihydrotestosterone, more suggestion that my hormones are a bit out of whack somehow. #7 is another acupuncture point I'm not sure what it is. #9 is an acupuncture point on the urinary bladder meridian and #12 is that whole meridian -- interestingly, it's not one we had been focusing on in any of my treatments. #10 is "yang unresponsive" which I'm not sure what it is, but doesn't sound good.
So, looks like my thyroid is having issues, and my Candida is causing problems. My practitioner says she thinks that those are what is behind the fibroids.
There's lots of interesting information in the list of stressors, and of what's not stressed. I discovered that my liver, gallbladder and spleen meridians were doing just fine, but that my urinary bladder and lung meridians are not so happy. Also issues with lung grief, heart and lung disharmony, kidney fear, heart weakness, and kidney and heart disharmony. I am going to give this information to my Chi Nei Tsang practitioner, who in addition to the Chi Nei Tsang has been using me as a guinea pig for his new work with Yin-style Bagua meridian stroking technique. He had worked on the spleen, liver, and kidney meridians last week, so that may be why the spleen and liver ones ae doing well. I also just emailed the Zyto practitioner asking her if the specific acupuncture points that came up as stressed I should be massaging or moxaing or something on my own.
Once one is now all concerned about the stressors, it's time to figure out what to do about them. My practitioner has input about half of my inventory of different supplement types (it numbered 225!) as well as a bunch of other things that she thought might be helpful for me. She'll keep adding my other supplements bit by bit to keep adding to my library, and on an ongoing basis I will add anything new prescribed by my acupuncturist, or that I run across that sounds promising (e.g. through the research for this blog).
What the machine then does is run through my supplement library, and looks to see which ones balance the stressors, and which ones make them worse. A numerical value is given to those as well. For example, it seems that the DHEA I was taking was aggravating the stressors, so that is cut out of my regimen for now.
Working with the list of supplements that have a positive impact on the stressors, the practitioner then works to create a combination. Let me describe how this works. She started with the top supplement on the list, something I have never taken before, called Norival. She then runs it against the stressors, and a graph shows how it calms them down. Interestingly, the Norival takes the Candida stress down to zero! Then, she looks at which things are still stressed, and adds additional supplements to address those, each time retesting the combination of all of them against the stressors. This is important, as in some cases adding an extra supplement causes some of the stressors to rise -- what one wants is for additional supplements to take the stressors down further, otherwise it's not worth adding them. So the art is choosing a combination of supplements that works well together. This part is manual, and relys on the practitioner's experience and judgement.
This meant that I have ended up with the following set of supplements, which together took all the stressors down below 10.
Norival 1 cap 2x day
Iron Citrate 1 cap a day
Black currant seed oil, 1 cap 2xday
the two herb formulas prescribed this week by my acupuncturist, except in smaller quantity than he had suggested: Jia Wei Xiao Yao San 1 teapill 3x day, and Shen Ling Bai Zhu San 1 tablet 3 x day
Karuna CoQ10 1 x day
Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon 2x day
d-pinitol (which I learned about in the Fibroid Miracle book) 1 capsule 2x day
This is certainly a lot less than I had been doing, which is a relief. I like the scientific way of choosing them, and knowing that we are pinpointing my exact needs. She also uses the system to imprint the supplements onto a small glass bottle, which I wear against my skin (I put it in my sock). (This something that the BioSet used too). With this, the treatment starts immediately. I felt great after the treatment.
I do have a couple of concerns about this process. One is that by focusing just on stressors and what addresses them, that we might get a whack-a-mole effect by which addressing some stressors leads to aggravating others. We'll see how much of a problem this becomes. I am generally going to try to go every 2 weeks, but I have a follow-up appointment next week and at that point should be able to see how much of a problem this is. What I am hoping will happen though is that even if certain new stressors appear, that over time the number and degree of stressors will go down. On this first one, I have 2 and a third pages printout of my stressors. The top one is -117.33 (they are listed by absolute value) and the lowest one on the first page is -52.04, and the second page goes down to 37.71. That's an awful lot of stressors. Want to aim at reducing those! I am a bit worried about the whack-a-mole though, as my body has had some trouble adjusting to the new supplement regimen, kind of energized and tired at the same time, I suspect it's the Norival shaking things up...
The other concern is that now the supplements I am taking are aimed at addressing just the parts of me that are stressed, rather than overall support. So I am worried that by not taking, for example, a multi-vitamin, that I may not be sufficiently supporting other things and that they then will get out of whack. But hopefully through overall good diet I will not have too much of a problem with that, and also with every other week monitoring should be able to catch anything like that early.
This is certainly an interesting new adventure in energy medicine!
However, just when I was feeling particularly annoyed, new technology has appeared to address it. My practitioner has switched to a new system, the Zyto, that is much more sophisticated.
Here's how it works. The machine reads the electrical impulses of your body systems when you place your hand on a special cradle. I had a session with it for this first time this past week, and first we started out by choosing my scans. This is the list of all the things that we will check about my body. We chose the Chinese medicine meridians, the Chinese medicine five elements, the list of all acupuncture points on the body, environmental toxins, hormones, and a bunch of additional things related to reproductive health such as my thyroid, my uterus, and my ovaries. The machine then scans all these items, taking a minute or two while your hand is on the cradle. It then shows a list of which ones are stressed, with a numerical value given to the amount of stress.
The outcome was interesting, the top stressor with a value of -117.33 was Thyroxine, which is the hormone made by the thyroid. I had had thyroid on my long to-do list as something to explore using the BioSet, but using this new machine we can scan everything at once in just a couple of minutes. Stressors #11 and 14 were also thyroid related. So we uncovered something here very important I think, particularly as thyroid issues are said to be closely related to fibroids, and also to egg quality.
Second on the list is an acupuncture point, but unfortunately can't decipher the code. #3 and #8 are candida related (ugh we have been working on that for nearly 2 years now!). Four and five are uterus related. 6 is Dihydrotestosterone, more suggestion that my hormones are a bit out of whack somehow. #7 is another acupuncture point I'm not sure what it is. #9 is an acupuncture point on the urinary bladder meridian and #12 is that whole meridian -- interestingly, it's not one we had been focusing on in any of my treatments. #10 is "yang unresponsive" which I'm not sure what it is, but doesn't sound good.
So, looks like my thyroid is having issues, and my Candida is causing problems. My practitioner says she thinks that those are what is behind the fibroids.
There's lots of interesting information in the list of stressors, and of what's not stressed. I discovered that my liver, gallbladder and spleen meridians were doing just fine, but that my urinary bladder and lung meridians are not so happy. Also issues with lung grief, heart and lung disharmony, kidney fear, heart weakness, and kidney and heart disharmony. I am going to give this information to my Chi Nei Tsang practitioner, who in addition to the Chi Nei Tsang has been using me as a guinea pig for his new work with Yin-style Bagua meridian stroking technique. He had worked on the spleen, liver, and kidney meridians last week, so that may be why the spleen and liver ones ae doing well. I also just emailed the Zyto practitioner asking her if the specific acupuncture points that came up as stressed I should be massaging or moxaing or something on my own.
Once one is now all concerned about the stressors, it's time to figure out what to do about them. My practitioner has input about half of my inventory of different supplement types (it numbered 225!) as well as a bunch of other things that she thought might be helpful for me. She'll keep adding my other supplements bit by bit to keep adding to my library, and on an ongoing basis I will add anything new prescribed by my acupuncturist, or that I run across that sounds promising (e.g. through the research for this blog).
What the machine then does is run through my supplement library, and looks to see which ones balance the stressors, and which ones make them worse. A numerical value is given to those as well. For example, it seems that the DHEA I was taking was aggravating the stressors, so that is cut out of my regimen for now.
Working with the list of supplements that have a positive impact on the stressors, the practitioner then works to create a combination. Let me describe how this works. She started with the top supplement on the list, something I have never taken before, called Norival. She then runs it against the stressors, and a graph shows how it calms them down. Interestingly, the Norival takes the Candida stress down to zero! Then, she looks at which things are still stressed, and adds additional supplements to address those, each time retesting the combination of all of them against the stressors. This is important, as in some cases adding an extra supplement causes some of the stressors to rise -- what one wants is for additional supplements to take the stressors down further, otherwise it's not worth adding them. So the art is choosing a combination of supplements that works well together. This part is manual, and relys on the practitioner's experience and judgement.
This meant that I have ended up with the following set of supplements, which together took all the stressors down below 10.
Norival 1 cap 2x day
Iron Citrate 1 cap a day
Black currant seed oil, 1 cap 2xday
the two herb formulas prescribed this week by my acupuncturist, except in smaller quantity than he had suggested: Jia Wei Xiao Yao San 1 teapill 3x day, and Shen Ling Bai Zhu San 1 tablet 3 x day
Karuna CoQ10 1 x day
Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon 2x day
d-pinitol (which I learned about in the Fibroid Miracle book) 1 capsule 2x day
This is certainly a lot less than I had been doing, which is a relief. I like the scientific way of choosing them, and knowing that we are pinpointing my exact needs. She also uses the system to imprint the supplements onto a small glass bottle, which I wear against my skin (I put it in my sock). (This something that the BioSet used too). With this, the treatment starts immediately. I felt great after the treatment.
I do have a couple of concerns about this process. One is that by focusing just on stressors and what addresses them, that we might get a whack-a-mole effect by which addressing some stressors leads to aggravating others. We'll see how much of a problem this becomes. I am generally going to try to go every 2 weeks, but I have a follow-up appointment next week and at that point should be able to see how much of a problem this is. What I am hoping will happen though is that even if certain new stressors appear, that over time the number and degree of stressors will go down. On this first one, I have 2 and a third pages printout of my stressors. The top one is -117.33 (they are listed by absolute value) and the lowest one on the first page is -52.04, and the second page goes down to 37.71. That's an awful lot of stressors. Want to aim at reducing those! I am a bit worried about the whack-a-mole though, as my body has had some trouble adjusting to the new supplement regimen, kind of energized and tired at the same time, I suspect it's the Norival shaking things up...
The other concern is that now the supplements I am taking are aimed at addressing just the parts of me that are stressed, rather than overall support. So I am worried that by not taking, for example, a multi-vitamin, that I may not be sufficiently supporting other things and that they then will get out of whack. But hopefully through overall good diet I will not have too much of a problem with that, and also with every other week monitoring should be able to catch anything like that early.
This is certainly an interesting new adventure in energy medicine!
Saturday, January 8, 2011
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