A Young Man Makes an Appointment to See His Family Physician About His Drinking Problems and His Depression
September 11, 2009 by admin
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Larry eventually decided that he needed to go and see his doctor about his careless drinking. At first, Larry thought he would be able to simply go online, look for some fundamental alcohol info, and come to a decision whether or not he was dependent on alcohol. Not surprisingly, he discovered a number of websites that cataloged some of the usual alcoholism symptoms. That’s the encouraging news. The less than encouraging news, regrettably, was that Larry manifested many of these alcoholism symptoms.
Alcoholism Symptoms: Some Examples
As a case in point, Larry was drinking increasingly more than normal and he was beginning to have more heated squabbles with his significant other. What is more, for the first time in his life he was encountering sleeping issues. Besides this, Larry time and again felt depressed and on an increasing basis he had been manifesting poor concentration while at work.
Moreover, he felt highly stressed and more uptight on a regular basis and for the past three or four months he displayed murky thinking while on the job. Since Larry exhibited all of these symptoms, he was understandably worried about his hazardous drinking.
So Larry finally made up his mind to contact his doctor and schedule an appointment. In point of fact, this was challenging for Larry because his healthcare practitioner was also his parents’ family doctor. The basis for his discomfort was this: at the risk of embarrassing his family, he had to go and disclose his reckless and abusive drinking behavior to his family healthcare practitioner.
When Larry arrived at the physician’s office, he explicitly notified the family physician about the anxiety he had about his excessive drinking behavior. When the healthcare practitioner asked what was prompting this apprehension, Larry mentioned that he had gone on the world wide web and read about dependency on alcohol and especially about alcohol dependency symptoms. He then outlined all of the alcoholism symptoms that he evidently thought he manifested.
A Thorough Physical Assessment and Outpatient Alcohol Rehabilitation
The physician notified Larry that it was prudent of him to attend to his drinking problems, he gave Larry an inclusive physical assessment, and suggested that he enroll in an out-patient alcohol rehabilitation facility that was managed by one of his doctor friends.
In the same way, when Larry mentioned that he had been feeling gloom to a greater extent, the healthcare practitioner notified Larry that alcoholism and depression often occur in the same person. Accordingly, the family healthcare practitioner also recommended that Larry get therapy to focus on his melancholy.
The Advantage of Handling Your Drinking Problems
The healthcare practitioner made it a point to inform Larry that he might not necessarily be alcohol dependent, but that he was without a doubt drinking in an excessive manner. The healthcare professional then told Larry that the reason he suggested alcohol treatment in the first place was because he wanted him to face his drinking issues, make sure that he stopped them from intensifying, and start to live in a more healthy manner, even if it meant that he had to thoroughly abstain from drinking.
To put it briefly, by productively treating his drinking difficulties, Larry would be able to get his drinking difficulties under control and abstain from the negative cycle that could in all probability result in alcohol dependency.
Undoubtedly, Larry did not want to face the thought of enrolling in an alcohol rehabilitation center. Nor was he thrilled about going to a counselor about his depression. In spite of these anxieties, alternatively, Larry in point of fact felt some emotional relief for the first time in several months because at last he stopped making excuses for himself and finally made up his mind to do something constructive about his drinking problems.
MENOPAUSE IS NOT A HORMONE IMBALANCE!
August 24, 2009 by admin
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Standard Medicine May Have IT ALL WRONG!
The position that the reason for all the menopause symptoms is due to an imbalance of hormones is a superficial perspective and deserves a deeper look. Menopause symptoms may include:
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Are these symptoms tied to deficiency of hormones? Could it be systemic? The whole body is may be suffering from top to bottom.
ANOTHER PROPOSAL - UNDERLYING CAUSE:
Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective: Menopause is considered a deficiency condition of the liver and qi (life force). When the blood and energy quality is weak and toxic then all of the organs are not able to perform their job. This condition causes the liver to overheat which rises through the body, wreaking havoc in its path. The heart, lungs, digestion, glands, throat, mouth & teeth, nose, eyes, ears, brain, skin and hair become heated and dried resulting in the symptoms, listed above. In addition, the liver does not filter the blood where it becomes sluggish and clotted.
Because the body is deficient of essential body energy and quality filtered blood, then the glands do not perform normally. Their secretions may be sporadic or non-releasing altogether. When the blood is filtered, normally, enriched then all the body’s organs improve. Gradually, the energy comes back and they are able to function normally. The glandular functions, secrete once again, assisting the body in its healthy function.
The body is not absent of hormones. The blood is clogged like sludge. Glands are not receiving/transmitting essential messages, timely and/or minimally!
Then why do we add or give more hormones. Doesn’t that risk an overload of hormones? Remember when you were a kid and your hormones were super revved. We don’t want to risk going through that again. We have enough hormones. If we nourish our blood, exercise, sleep, manage stress, etc. our hormones come back and supports increased balance.
So if Chinese medicine knows the problem, then what is their answer to this to this deficiency? Look below.
What Restores Normal Hormone Function?
Chinese Medicine Has Had An Answer for this for More Than a 1000 Years!
Traditional Chinese Medicine has 20+ formulas for menopause. But which one is the best? This requires a seasoned Master herbalist to respond to this. While most women fall into 6 major constitution types such as:
- cold
- damp
- deficient
- hot
- dry
- excess
Most menopausal women are a deficient constitution with hot characteristics and benefit 95% of the time from Menopause Comfort. I know that is a little confusing but more info follows. The exception is during the summertime.
Some women, who are more hot than the usual population, require a colder formula, Paramalin, to offset the excess internal heat produced in the liver.
“3000 Years of Chinese Herbal Medicine Provides the Best Menopause Formulation”
While not all women have to experience extreme characteristics of menopause, enough are disturbed that real relief is essential. The herbs, below, balance the hormones-progesterone & estrogen, cool nourish and stimulate the liver. This improves the blood which assists all the organs in the body which further lifts the body’s functioning. The herb selection centers and alleviates the conditions listed above.
These herbs work best for Menopause symptoms by reducing the typical heat signs stemming from the liver managing too much toxicity and/or excess food intake, etc.
1. Radix Angelica Sinensis
Benefits: Blood deficiency related to the Heart and Liver. Especially improves palid, ashen complexion, lusterless nails, tinnitus, blurred vision, and palpitations, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrheal, abdominal pain, traumatic injury, and carbuncles due to blood stasis, especially accompanied by cold from deficiency, dry intestines due to blood deficiency. Tonifies the blood and regulates the menses, invigorates and harmonizes the blood and disperses cold, reduces swelling, expels pus, generates flesh, and alleviates pain: used in treating sores and abscesses, treats coughs. Moistens dryness and lubricates the Intestines, Internally, it moistens the organs because of its concentrated fluids and sweetness; externally, it thrusts out to the muscle layer because of its acrid, warm nature.
2. Bupleuri Radix
Bupleurum tonifies the Heart, Spleen, and Lungs, while it facilitates the fluid pathways, Unblocks the orifices and expels heat. Promotes urination, reduces dampness with such symptoms as phlegm and thin mucus, diarrhea, and edema. Supports the body’s energy, makes it an important choice for promoting urination and leaching out dampness. It can be used whenever there is urinary difficulty, edema, phlegm, or thin mucus, regardless of whether the condition is hot or cold, deficient or excessive in nature.
3. Radix Paeoniae Lactiflorae
The Liver directly relates to tendons (sinews), which can cramp and spasm if unsupported by filtered blood from a normal functioning liver. Radix Paeoniae Lactiflorae elevates the Liver Blood quality and thereby relieves pain (cramped tendons, flanks and abdomen). The Liver stores the blood, and reduced blood storage can affect other blood organs, such as the Heart, and the “sea of blood”, which refers to the Womb and its associated vessels. If the Heart lacks the support of Liver blood then palpitations and insomnia follow. If the womb lacks the support of Liver blood then irregular menstruation, infertility or dysmenorrheal presents. Radix Paeoniae Lactiflorae supports the Spleen when the liver is challenged. It cools, nourishes and re-invigorates reduces night sweats.
4. Atractylodes Rhizoma - White
Atractylodes Rhizoma is an essential herb for nourishing the Spleen and Stomach when dampness obstructs its normal functioning. It clears dampness in the muscles and flesh - and thereby restores harmony and halts sweating. Benefits the Spleen when deficient and prevents miscarriage. Benefits: diarrhea, fatigue, lack of appetite and vomiting. Dries dampness removing obstructions. Stops sweating. Calms the fetus.
5. Gardeniae Fructus
Cools fire and heat in the Heart, Lungs, Stomach, Liver, and Triple Burner, eliminating hot irritability in situations such as warm pathogen diseases with agitation and insomnia. Gardeniae Fructus is also good for clearing damp-heat, and is used for jaundice and urinary difficulty, guiding damp-heat out through the urine. Gardeniae Fructus drains Triple Burner fire, cools epigastric heat, treats sensations of heat and pain in the cardiac region, dissipates pent-up heat, and mobilizes blocked energy. It is an essential herb for the treatment of heat in the chest.
6. Moutan Cortex
This herb enables body heat drainage, invigorates the blood, disperses stagnation, and vents lurking heat in the body.
7. Zingiberis Rhizoma recens - (ginger)
Ginger opens phlegm and re-energizes, alleviates nausea and vomiting, and driving out all microbes and negative energy. If only its peel is used, its warm nature is somewhat reduced, but is excellent for unblocking urination. Ginger should be added in small amounts to food, where it strengthens the Stomach.
8. Glycyrrhizae Radix (Licorice)
Balances the qualities of other herbs, antidote. Enters all 12 channels (meridians) via the Heart, Lung, Spleen and Stomach channels.Invigorates the spleen and improves the body’s energy. Beneficial for weakness, short breath, poor appetite, exhaustion, loose stools. Replenishes the blood and balances the pulse. Stops coughing by moistening the lungs. Brings a neutral balance to the lungs. Clears heat fire due to toxicity for mouth and throat sores. Reduces pain and spasms in the legs and abdomen. Due to the harmonizing effects of licorice, cold and hot as well as any toxicity are offset. Kamcho (Korean) opens up all the channels thus serves to transport other herbal effects to all parts of the body. Licorice is also used as an antidote for many toxic substances, inside and outside the body.
10. Menthae Haplocalycis Herba
Benefits: sores and rashes on the skin, headache and red eyes, superficial visual obstructions, sore throat, and mouth ulcers.
Summary
The combination of traditional Chinese herbs synergistically improves all the conditions that are benefitted by the herbs singularly.
Would you like to find these herbs contained in proven safe compound that corrects the menopause condition in 2 hours? The formula has been combined to the right amount of each herb to optimize results for women.
Mark Hammer C.M.H.
Master Herbalist-Asian Medicine
May, 2009
Menopause Causes Bladder Issues?
June 6, 2009 by admin
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There are many changes that the female body goes through during menopause. One of the most embarrassing is loss of bladder control, and leakage.
This condition is common during menopause but should not last long. When you go through menopause and the estrogen level is slowly depleted, the muscles that control urination become weakened allowing you have accidents, and leakage. Because estrogen is so important in keeping your pelvic muscles strong, when it begins to deplete, these muscles can no longer function as they once did. Estrogen is directly responsible in keeping the uterus and urinary tract plump and healthy. Keeping your pelvic floor healthy is important because it acts like a hammock for all your bladder and internal organs.
Coughing, lifting objects, and even laughing can cause leakage. This type of leakage is called Stress incontinence.
Another problem women face with menopause and bladder issues is a syndrome called, Urge Incontinence. This happens when the muscles that control urination begin to squeeze when you are not ready for them to causing leakage.
There are treatments available to treat menopause and bladder issues. Exercise is a great method in treating this symptom. Try regular pelvic exercises everyday to help build up the muscles. These exercises will strengthen the muscle so that you can control urination, and the events of leakage. The kegel exercise is one of the most effective ways of strengthening the muscles used to urinate. Simply sit in a chair and practice stopping the flow of urine. You will feel the kegel muscle flex, allowing you to know that you are doing the exercise correctly. By flexing and releasing this muscle 100 times a day, you can greatly improve the weaknesses caused by menopause and bladder issues. The best part of doing kegel exercises is that they are not dangerous and require no invasive surgery.
Another method of making your pelvic floor stronger is the use of vaginal weights. They too are safe, and can give amazing results.
Another method of exercise is the use of a pelvic floor exerciser. You can purchase these and follow the directions. They are used to strengthen the pelvic floor, but can also show you exactly how and when improvements begin. It is used to measure the pressure of your squeeze and life contractions, and measures your improving muscle tone.
As with any exercise or treatment you decide to use, check with your physician first so that you can be properly instructed on how to get the most benefits of your exercise regime.
Try to not eat or drink anything before going to bed as it will help the body get used to the weakening muscles.
Regulate times to use the bathroom. Set a pattern, such as going before breakfast, lunch, before a meeting or an outing, and before bed.
HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) is yet another method in treating menopause and bladder issues. By adding the synthetic estrogen, your body will begin to strengthen those muscles used to control the urinary tract.
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Even when I’m Ugly…(still better love me)
May 7, 2008 by admin
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Lip singing Shania Twains Any man of mine :o) My kids will love this. LOL (mommy loves u guys!)
The rest of ya’s…Dont hate me cuz Im beautyfull :oD
I really need my life back.
I’m goin bonkers!(snorty laff) :o/ The best way 2 beat depression is 2 show ur self how ugly ya could look, Then b greatfull Ur not that bad. Hugs, Irene
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