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While Western Medicine has its advantages in terms of surgery and accident management, the approach taken by Oriental Medicine – that of fully investigating the many and varied causes of poor health conditions – gets my vote.
For example if you have an excess of toxins in the liver, those toxins will seek to ‘escape’ along the path of least resistance. This could manifest as bad breath, body odour diarrhoea or a skin condition. In Traditional Chinese Medicine the liver and skin are closely associated organs.
If for example you visit a Western doctor with symptoms of diarrhoea, the doctor will give you something that ‘bungs you up’. And it will work to stop the diarrhoea, but the problem is that this approach doesn’t deal with the underlying issue – eliminating toxins from the liver. What happens is that the symptoms of diarrhoea will instead be replaced by a skin condition. So you visit the doctor again to be given a topical skin cream that masks those symptoms. Same story here – your symptoms are eliminated but the underlying toxic condition remains and you become somewhat frustrated with the mis-diagnosis of symptoms.
One of the most common causes of poor health is known as Leaky Gut Syndrome. Caused largely by the activity of parasites, candida albicans within the digestive tract and what is known as spleen deficiency, the results can manifest as many different conditions, few of which Western doctors are trained to recognise.
The word ‘deficiency’ doesn’t mean that the spleen isn’t working; just that its delicate interaction with the body’s bloodstream, nervous, endocrine and respiratory systems as well as the emotions, lifestyle and genetic predisposition is impaired. Using terms from Chinese Medicine the spleen can become either ‘damp’ or ‘cold’, usually from stress and/or the overuse of antibiotics or a diet high in processed/refined foods.
Acupuncture can help repair the spleen function as can herbs. This is essential as the spleen – known in Chinese Medicine as the Emperor of Organs – is considered the principal organ of digestion. As important as digesting food is the ability to assimilate nutrition from that food. That’s why keeping the spleen as healthy as possible is vital to your continued wellbeing.
My recommendation for the past 15 years has been ancient herbal remedies originating from Ancient Phoenicia that focus on flushing out the digestive organs – the spleen, the kidney and liver. The herbs are gentle yet wonderfully purgative.
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Source by Graeme Dinnen