August 23rd, 2010

Chinese Herbal Medicine for Insomnia and Anxiety

chinese herbs for insomnia or anxiety. Doesn’t cause drowsiness. Extremely safe. In use for centuries. Works within a couple of days.

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August 9th, 2010

Dimmak Herbs

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Sports Medicine, Training, First Aid chinese herb Formulas

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July 26th, 2010

Digestive Disorder — A Chinese Herbal Prescription (15)

DIGESTIVE DISORDER – - A chinese herbal prescription.
I use the term digestive disorder to include various common symptoms as follows: indigestion, gases, stomach pains, minor ulcer, acid reflux, lack of appetite, sensitivity to certain kinds of food, diarrhea, constipation, etc.

Nature of common digestive disorder:
• Multiple symptoms usually occur with different intensity.
• Some symptoms occur more often than others.
• Symptoms usually disrupt the person’s eating habit.
• The disruption of eating habit in turn may aggravate the symptoms, causing a downward spiral.

Causes of common digestive disorder:
• Irregular eating habit.
• Over-consumption of food especially spicy, greasy or sour type.
• Too restrictive a diet making the stomach extra fragile and sensitive.
• Stresses at work or at home. Food is by no means the only cause.
• Digestive disorder tends to be a delayed or uncertain reaction, so it’s hard to know which is the real cause.

The digestive system is one of the most sensitive organs deserving special attention for good maintenance. Being neglected, it can give you a lot of troubles. If you eat the wrong kind of food, your digestive system can vomit on you right away or give you diarrhea later. It may make you feel terrible the rest of the day. If your digestive system is weak, an unpleasant event or circumstance can trigger some kind of disorder or aggravate existing ones.

Most people who suffer from digestive disorder have an irregular eating habit, usually eating meals at irregular times, or eating while working. Another common habit is eating too much at one time and not at all some other times. These create undue pressure on the digestive system and disrupt its natural functional rhythm. The symptoms you get are just the reactions of your digestive system telling you that it is not happy with your way of eating. Therefore the first step is to cultivate a normal regular eating habit. To put it simply, devote some time to sitting down and enjoying regular meals with a moderate quantity of food.

On the other hand, too much attention given to the digestive system tends to create the same kind of disorder. Many people are sensitive to various kinds of food, resulting in a long list of “foods to avoid”. One thing they may not notice is that this long list will perpetuate the existing sensitivity of the digestive system, making it even more fragile, not stronger. One way to break this downward spiral is to gradually build up more strength into the digestive system. How? This can be done by slowly increasing the variety of food intake. Eat just a little bit of those foods you avoid for some reason. This won’t kill you. You will be surprised that your stomach can be trained to accept new foods little by little. The goal is to cut down the sensitivity and bring back the robustness of your digestive system so that you can enjoy as many kinds of food as possible, and consequently, enhancing your nutrition and your health.

The Chinese approach emphasizes the strengthening of the digestive system rather than trying to tackle the individual disorder symptoms. There is a special term called “Yang Wei” 養胃, which means to nourish the stomach. When the digestive system becomes more robust and able to handle an increasing variety of food, the disorder symptoms will occur less and less frequent. The following herbal package is recommended:

1) Strengthen stomach and intestines
Dang Shen 黨參
Bai Zhu 白朮
Fu Ling 伏苓
Gan Cao 甘草
Sha Ren 沙仁
Mu Xiang 木香
Bai Kou Ren 白寇仁
2) Strengthen liver
Long Dan Cao 龍膽草
Gou Qi Zi 枸杞子
3) Help digestion
Zhi Shi 枳實
Fu Pi 褔皮
4) Reduce gas
Qing Pi 青皮
Ban Xia 半夏
A total of 13 herbs are used.

Drink one cup (8 oz) of herb tea a day, preferably in the morning to allow time for the herbs to work its way through.

This is just one formula with countless variations depending on:
* How accurate the herbalist understands the root cause.
* How sensitive is your stomach to the herbs.

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July 20th, 2010

Male Sexual Potency — A Chinese Herbal Prescription (7)

MALE SEXUAL POTENCY – - A Chinese herbal prescription.
Declining potency for males are usually due to aging, sudden or continuous weakening of health, or too much sex when young. There are many Chinese herbs that can arrest the decline. If taken over a period of time, they will gradually bring back your virility. Of course, they cannot bring you back to when you were 18.

chinese herbs cannot deliver the mechanical performance of Viagra and the likes. Furthermore, they don’t give you the expected effect when you take them a few hours beforehand. Being a product of nature, they help you build up the potency at the rate your body can handle (not what your mind wants). Think of it as muscle building where a sustained effort gives you a long-term effect. After a period of time as short as a few weeks, you’ll find that the herbs are steadily working for you.

The prescription should basically be a strengthening combination aiming at the kidneys, the blood, the Qi, and the Yang.
1) Kidneys
Xu Duan 續 斷
Du Zhong 杜 仲
Qian Shi 芡 實
Rou Cong Rong 肉 蓯 容
2) Blood
Chuan Xiong 川 芎
Dang Gui 當 歸
Shu Di Huang 熟 地 黃
3) The Qi
Huang Qi 黃耆
Du Huo 獨 活
Gou Ji 狗 瘠
4) The Yang
Suo Yang 鎖 陽
Xian Ling Pi 仙 靈 皮
Ba Ji Tian 巴 戟 天
A combination of 13 herbs are recommended.

One must be careful not to prescribe an overdose for fast results. The consequence may be negative. When strengthening herbs are used, they generate a lot of heat inside the body. Excess heat may bring on sleep difficulty, mouth sores, headache, nose bleeding, or constipation. Worse, it may cause your blood pressure to rise.

Drink one cup (8 oz) of herb tea a day, preferably in the morning to allow time for the excess heat to dissipate from your body before bedtime.
Drink more water if you feel more thirsty than usual.

This is just one formula with countless variations depending on:
* Your age
* How weak is your body.
* How sensitive is your body to the strengthening herbs.

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July 14th, 2010

Anxiety and Stress — A Chinese Herbal Prescription (8)

ANXIETY and STRESS – - A chinese herbal prescription
As you know, anxiety is a complicated condition brought on by various problems of life. It would be nice if I could write a prescription to make all your problems go away. However, you know that I don’t have that kind of power, especially in financial matters, personal relationships, job security, or business dealings.

Nevertheless, I can help you reduce the physical stress that anxiety brings. Anxiety throws your body out of balance. As a result, various physical problems tend to surface and resurface, such as indigestion, overeating, sleep difficulty, migraines, skin rash, burst of temper, energy drain, etc.

The prescription should help your body achieve the balance that has been lost. How? Balance is a delicate thing. You can only restore it by gently nourishing the major organs back to their normal conditions. When they become stronger, they will be able to find their own way to balance without you having to tell them how. As a result, you will feel much better overall. The Chinese approach to anxiety is to nourish, moisten, and soothe. The word is 潤 , pronounced as “ren”, for which I cannot find an English word similar in meaning.

The prescription should basically be a combination of gentle nourishing for all major organs and the Yin.
1) Liver
Bai Shao 白 芍
Gou Qi Zi 枸 杞 子
2) Lungs
Bai He 百 合
Jie Gen 桔 梗
3) Heart
Zao Ren 棗 仁
Wu Wei Zi 五 味 子
4) Stomach
Bai Zhu 白 朮
Dang Shen 党 參
5) Kidneys
Qian Shi 芡 實
Jin Qian Cao 金 錢 草
6) The Yin
Mai Men Dong 麥 門 冬
Fu Ling 伏 苓
Sheng Di Huang 生 地 黃
A combination of 13 herbs are recommended.

One must be careful not to prescribe strong herbs for fast results. The consequence may be negative. When stronger herbs are used, they generate heat inside the body. Excess heat may make the anxiety worse.

Drink one cup (8 oz) of herb tea a day, preferably in the morning to allow time for dissipation of excess heat and the balancing to work.

This is just one formula with countless variations depending on:
* Your changing condition.
* How weak is your body and where is the weakness.
* How sensitive is your body to the strengthening herbs.

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June 30th, 2010

Female Fertility — A Chinese Herbal Prescription (2)

FEMALE FERTILITY – - A chinese herbal prescription.
This formula has to work in four areas:
1) Maintain regular menstruation, because irregularity can lessen the chances of pregnancy.
Chuan Xiong 川 芎
Dang Gui 當 歸
Di Huang 地 黃
Chi Shao 赤 芍
2) Strengthen uterus and kidneys.
Rou Cong Rong 肉 蓯 容
Fu Pen Zi 覆 盆 子
Nu Zhen Zi 女 貞 子
Du Zhong 杜 仲
3) Strengthen the blood and the Qi.
Xiang Fu 香 付
Bai Zhu 白 朮
4) Strengthen the Yin.
Sha Shen 沙 參
Dan Shen 丹 參
A combination of 12 herbs mentioned above are used.

The fertility prescription does not give you a baby (Wouldn’t it be nice?)
The prescription will increase your chance of getting pregnant by enhancing your physical conditions.
If you feel a little warmer or more energy, the herbs are working its way.
This is a strengthening and enhancement process that may take months depending on your age and physical conditions.

Getting pregnant is becoming a problem in modern-day life due to all kinds of stress. So don’t bother yourself with extra stress related to pregnancy such as setting a deadline, counting the days of ovulation, measuring your temperature, etc. If you have tried all of those, you probably know that they don’t work. All you need is to relax, enjoy the private moments together. Getting pregnant is equivalent to enjoying sex or food. It’s not a mechanical performance. If you forget the natural way, you’ll lose most of the fun and the chance. My mom used to say, “When we were young, our problem was too many babies. I can’t understand what’s happened to the young people these days.”

This is one basic formula with countless variations depending on:
* How regular is your menstruation.
* Your age and physical conditions.
* Your previous habit of using birth-control pills.
* Any previous miscarriages.
* Last but not least, how mechanical is your approach to sex and pregnancy, and how much you appreciate the instinctive nature of reproduction.

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June 19th, 2010

Sleep — A Chinese Herbal Prescription (14)

SLEEP – - A chinese herbal prescription.
You don’t know how much you’re missing if you cannot sleep well, because sleep is the simplest pleasure of life. The lack of sleep also affects other simple pleasures like eating and energetic activities. Consequently, treating your sleep problem should be a high priority.

The causes of sleep problems are very complex:
• External factors such as finance, personal relationships, work, family, security feeling, and other stresses of life.
• You make your life too complicated by inventing or following certain rules or customs that don’t make much sense.
• Your lifestyle may be so irregular that it cuts into your sleep.
• You may have some physical ailments that affect your sleep.
• Your body may be in some state of imbalance that disturbs your sleep.

Nature of sleep:
• The quality of sleep should not be judged by arbitrary rules such as how much, when and where, etc., because each person is different.
• Sleep serves the purpose of replenishment and rejuvenation, and its quality should be judged by the results delivered.
• If you wake up refreshed, you must have had a good sleep.
• If you wake up feeling a drag the rest of the day, your sleep must have failed to deliver. If this continues for many days, you’ll know that something must have gotten into your sleep, or it may not be a sleep problem after all.

There is no such thing as sleeping herbs that put you to sleep within a short time. The Chinese approach aims to address the conditions that disturb your sleep. An herbal prescription should emphasize correcting the imbalance that exists in your body, whereby restoring it to the normal state where sleep will become once more a normal function and pleasure.

A discussion with the patient is necessary if the herbalist cares to understand the root cause of sleep problems. Because the root cause varies greatly, only a basic prescription is given here consisting of mild nourishing and calming herbs. The underlying assumption is that without positively identifying where the imbalance is, the best alternative is to nourish and soothe the major organs and let them do the natural balancing themselves.

1) Calming effect
Zao Ren 棗 仁
Bai Zi Ren 柏 子 仁
Mai Men Dong 麥 門 冬
2) Liver
Bai Shao 白 芍
Jin Yin Hua 金 銀 花
3) Stomach
Shan Yao 山 藥
Dang Shen 党 參
4) Lungs
Bai He 百 合
Bai Qian 白 前
5) Kidneys
Qian Shi 芡 實
Du Zhong 杜 仲
6) Heart
Wu Wei Zi 五 味 子
A combination of 12 herbs is recommended.

One must be careful not to prescribe strong herbs for fast results. The consequence may be negative. When stronger herbs are used, they generate heat inside the body. Excess heat will worsen the sleep problems.

Drink one cup (8 oz) of herb tea a day, preferably in the late afternoon to allow time for the herbs to work its way through.

This is just one formula with countless variations depending on:
* How accurate the herbalist understands the root cause.
* How weak is your body and where is the weakness.
* How sensitive is your body to the herbs.

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June 13th, 2010

Chinese Herbal Knowledge — Its Origins (17)

THE ORIGINS of chinese herbal Knowledge
→ Where does the ancient herbal knowledge come from in China?
It does not come from laboratory testing because none existed then.
It does not come from transcendental meditation as suggested by storytellers.
It does not come from the scholars whose expertise was literature, not herbs.

→ How ancient and who were the discoverers?
The Chinese herbal knowledge comprises bits and pieces of information accumulated over 4000 years. This knowledge relates to the discoveries of medicinal herbs by ordinary people, mostly illiterate peasants, who were experimenting with the plants in surrounding areas for healing effects.

→ Who did the documentation?
Since the majority of the peasantry was illiterate, the elite scholars took on the task of documenting this herbal knowledge. Some of them were commissioned by the Emperors to do the job. Besides interviewing, investigating, and confirming the peasants’ discoveries, the scholars also tried to explain the empirical evidence using their philosophies about nature, life, health, and disease. Consequently, they have added a body of classical theories on top of a simple folk medicine based only on experimentation with plants. Compared with the folk medicines of other cultures, Chinese medicine is most heavily documented. It is also characterized by highly literary and metaphysical contents. Some examples of classical texts are:
“Historical Record”, Si Ma Qian. “史記”司馬遷
“Book of Interior” or “Nei Jing”, author unknown. “內經”
“Book on Medical Perplexities”, Bian Que. “難經”扁鵲
“Shang Han Lun”, Zhang Zhong Jing.”傷寒論”張仲景
“Book on Pulse”, Wang Shu He. “脈經”王叔和

→ What is the best reference for using Chinese herbs?
The best source of reference for Chinese herbs should be the herbal dictionary, not hearsay nor rumors, as most people like to depend on for generations. When you browse an herbal dictionary, you will find that there are around 1000 herbs being documented. It’s a surprisingly small number given the long history of Chinese herbs. Furthermore, only half of the documented herbs are considered commonly used, that is, easily available in a Chinese herb store. Nevertheless, 500 herbs are more than enough for everyday use.

Naturally, there exist many more herbs outside the dictionary. If you use an undocumented herb, you must understand that you do so at your own risk, because you know that you’ll be one of the few to experiment with some unconfirmed product of nature. If you die from this kind of experimentation, the herb you’ve tried will definitely be banned from the dictionary. Only the newspapers will document your brave sacrifice. There have been reports of fatality in the past about people experimenting with wild mushrooms in my locality. So be careful and stick with the documented herbs in the dictionary.

Suppose you chance upon a miracle herb, the herb you’ve discovered won’t go into the dictionary right away, pending verification and confirmation by the herbal profession. When the herb finally appears in the dictionary several years or decades from now, your name as a discoverer will not appear there because it’s not the custom to give credit to the discoverer.

→ What are the strong points about Chinese herbal knowledge?
• Over 4000 years of history
• Herbs are based on empirical evidence, that is, actual experimentation with plants by millions of ordinary people through generations.
• Natural healing method, gentle effects.
• Inexpensive and practical for everyday use.
• Emphasis on prevention as much as cure.
• Well documented by ancient scholars.
• Supplemented by classical theories and explanations.

→ What are the weak points about Chinese herbal knowledge?
• Most weak points involve inaccurate rumors being circulated.
• People like rumors for fun. Few bother to check for accuracy or reliable sources.
• The classical theories are hard to understand, resulting in different interpretations and a cloud of myth.
• People like myths, and business thrives on them.
• It’s hard to separate the herbal knowledge from the classical theories. The former is straightforward and empirical as described in the dictionaries. The latter is abstract thinking subject to different interpretations as described in textbooks.
• Most herbs are not tested in the laboratory, giving an “unscientific” impression. Lab testing is something nice to have in this modern age, but not necessary if the herbs have already worked so well through so many generations. After all, Chinese medicine is a folk medicine naturally developed in an ancient culture through thousands of years of experimentation.

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June 13th, 2010

Acai Berry Juice Vitamin Supplement Super Antioxidant

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June 5th, 2010

Nasal Allergy — A Chinese Herbal Prescription (3)

NASAL ALLERGY – - A chinese herbal prescription
To make the prescription effective, you have to use the right approach.
Conventional wisdom involves identifying a list of irritants such as pollens, dust, even your pets that you are allergic to. This is an endless game.

The right approach should be to make your respiratory system robust enough so that you won’t be irritated by all the environmental disturbances such as pollens, dust, seasonal changes, pets’ hair, etc. If you don’t believe in this approach, just look at other family members or your neighbors. They all live in the same environment as you. Not all of them have your allergies. Why? The reason is your own internal weakness, especially your respiratory system.

An effective herbal prescription should strengthen your respiratory system, and reduce your allergy symptoms at the same time.
1) To strengthen your respiratory system, use:
Bai Bu 百 步
Zi Wan 紫 菀
Bai Qian 白 前
Bai Ji 白 及
Bai He 百 合
Jie Geng 桔 梗
2) To reduce your allergy symptoms such as cough, dry throat, mucus, sneezing, nasal congestion, headache, even some swelling, use:
Zhe Bei Mu 浙 貝 母
Zi Su Ye 紫 蘇 葉
Fang Feng 防 風
Jing Jie 京 芥
Xiang Ru 香 筎
Gao Ben 篙 本
A combination of 12 herbs mentioned above will do.

Drink one to two cups (8 oz each) of herb tea a day.
Your allergy won’t go away in a few days, but you’ll see progress.
Nasal allergy is a seasonal thing. It usually flares up in early spring or fall.
After taking the herbs, your allergy may still flare up sometimes, but the frequency and the intensity will be reduced until becoming insignificant.
Since the allergy prescription strengthens your respiratory system, the best time to take it is before the allergy season to allow time for the strengthening effect to work.

This is just one formula with countless variations depending on:
* Severity and nature of the allergy based on observation and discussion of the problem with the herbalist.
* How weak are your lungs and respiratory system based on pulse reading and judgment of the herbalist.

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