Traditional Chinese Medicine Is A Very Powerful Practice of Medicine And In the Hands of an Experienced Herbalist, Chinese Herbs Can Many Times Be The One Of The Best Answers To Some of Your Health’s Ailments

 

The second tier of Asian medicine, after Food Therapy, is traditional chinese herbs – therapy chosen because of its relevant affective strength on the human body. Herbal therapy is applied to open the channels with specific influence on the underlying cause of imbalance and related symptoms. Widespread knowledge of herbal remedy is essential or injury could follow. Herbal medicines have the same strength as food except that it does impacts the body directly. When reduced to an extract level which equals about 4-5 times the strength of the basic herbs, the effect is quicker and stronger. Natural herbs do not heal any better than synthetic medicines but they can help the body to fight disease, strengthen the body’s immune system, and help to harmonize the body’s functions. After a master herbalist learns about individual herbs then a herbalist will proceed to herbal formulas which make a greater impact to energize, reduce or harmonize more body parts in the restorative process. Traditional Chinese herbs deserve respect because harm can occur if not applied correctly. Though not as dangerous as synthetic medicines, imbalances can occur if rendered inappropriately. Positively stated, Chinese herbs can release many physically imprisoned sufferers from pain, rapidly, while anchoring homeostasis.  

The MERIDIAN ATTRIBUTION OF HERBS

The humman body has 12 channels or meridians. These clearly defined channels are influenced by historically beneficial herbs that are known to impact a specific channel. Additionally, The various herbs can affect the functions of the body with multiplicity. For instance, when a person has a hot type imbalance, the herbs recommended must be cool or cold, and if the person suffers from a cold type disease the herbs that should be taken are warm or hot. A hot type disease may be liver-heat or stomach-heat; a cold type disease may be lung-cold or spleen-cold conditions. Here is where a thoughtful practitioner shows their value. Herbs that can purge liver heat may not be able to rid stomach heat; herbs that can warm a cold spleen may not be able to warm cold lungs. As a result, multiple herbs have been evaluated for their various affects on the processes of different organs. The functions of the herbs and the 12 meridians can be interrelated and this is what is meant by the meridian attribution of herbs. Herb have been researched, observed for centuries and well documented for their specific influence on the channels. In particular, well trained master herbalists will know which channel and at what point along the channels, the herbs impact. Below are common Traditional Chinese herbs used by a herb master.

Common Traditional Chinese Herbs include the following:

American Ginseng	Chinese Scullcap	Licorice	Shiitake
Asian Ginseng	Corydalis	Ligustrum	Fo-ti
Astragalus	Dong Quai	Maitake	Chinese Ginger
Bitter Melon	Eleuthero	Reishi	Ginkgo biloba
Bupleurum	Green Teas	Schisandra	Longan fruit

Herb therapy when combined with compatible food therapy can be extremely valuable in aiding an ailing person towards normal balance. When you add exercises (Tai Chi & Qi Qong) that wake up the natural restorative energies of the body then the potential for optimal health is achievable. 

Food Remedy For Prevention and Relief of Constipation

What is constipation?

There are 4 basic types of constipation described are:

• infrequent stools
• hard stools
• difficulty passing stools (straining)
• sense of incomplete emptying after a bowel movement.

The rationale following each one of these “types” of constipation is dissimilar, and the method for each requires customization. Constipation can be followed by diarrhea. This pattern has been associated with the more serious condition of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Also, for the most part, severe cases of constipation happens where total obstruction occurs, where stool solidifies in the rectum and passage of stool is near impossible.

As we get older, our bowel movement lessens. Whereas, the majority of people have a bowel movement, daily, a little less than 50% of the grown-up population, have the benefit of regularity. The other half are irregular and do not have bowel movements every day.

 

Quick Constipation Assessment 

• Healthy bowell movement: regular daily bowel movement.
• Constipation is considered a real problem when there are fewer than three bowel movements per week.
• At what time, constipation is critical; people will experience less than one bowel movement per week.

Medical specialists embrace the point that there is no medical explanation to having a bowel movement daily. Additionally, they have determined not having a bowel movement for 2-3 days does not cause discomfort, only mental concern for some people. Medical researchers and doctors support there is no evidence that “toxins” accumulate when bowel movements are infrequent or that constipation leads to cancer. This statement is contrary to natural and Chinese herbs practitioner(s). However, the discomfort needs be resolved and the most effective source of relief and correction comes Chinese herbs for constipation.

It is important to discern acute (recent onset) constipation from chronic (long duration) constipation. You need to approach your health practitioner with your constipation concerns regarding the following:

• Acute constipation needs immediate assessment because a serious medical illness may be the underlying cause (e.g., tumors of the colon).
• Additionally, constipation needs to be assessed if it occurs with serious symptoms such as rectal bleeding, abdominal pain and cramps, nausea and vomiting, and involuntary weight loss.
• In comparison, the assessment of chronic constipation may not need attention, especially, if simple aid brings relief.

 

OK! THE NATURAL MEDICINE EXPLANATION 

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING CAUSE OF CONSTIPATION & WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO CORRECT THE IMBALANCE?

While the medical model describes and defines the condition of constipation, it is not clear what the underlying causation is. To declare there is inflammation or infection underpinning constipation may not be the whole story. Though there may be inflammation, its important to understand the precondItion and unseen phenomena creating this toxic condition.

The anology of weather and environment will serve us to understand what is happening with constipation. When its hot and dry, we have dessert conditions. What occurs is that all elimination dries up. When the environment is cold and damp then the condtions are boggy-everything is moist. Once these conditions happen in the elimination channels, then our bowel movement is malformed. If our descending colon and rectum are too warm then it dehydrates our elimination. The result is that it becomes dry and hardened. It also makes the colon sluggish due to increased friction and deficient lubrication. Chinese herbs for constipation will counter the above conditions.

FOOD THERAPY FOR CONSTIPATION

To counteract this drying process, ingest cooling food and herbs. Nutritional Food therapy such as: salads, green beans, spinach, etc. and cooling fruit like melons,pineapple, etc. 

Cooling Veggies Asparagus Bamboo shoot Bitter Gourd (Wild cucumber) Bok choy Broccoli Button mushroom Cabbage Califlower Celery Cucumber Eggplant Green bean (string) Lettuce Mung bean Peas Pumpkin Seaweed Spinach Sweet corn Swiss chard Summer squash Tomato Yam Zuchini

Cooling Fruit Apple Banana Grapefruit Kumquat Loquat Mandarin orange Mango Melons Pear Persimmon Plum Pomegranates Red Bayberries Star Fruit Tangerine All citrus

Cooling Protein Abalone Adzuki bean Clam Crab Cuttlefish Duck Duck eggs Egg White Kidney Beans Oyster Sesame seeds Sweet Apricot Seed Tofu Water chestnut White bait Whole Egg

Cooling Addl. Foods Honey Olive Royal Jelly Tea (Green, Oolong, Lapsang souchong, and black) Soy milk Soy sprouts Tofu Tempeh Mung beans & sprouts Alfalfa sprouts Millet Barley Amaranth All seaweeds Wheat & barley grass Yogurt Kudzu

 Chinese herbs for constipation and eating a diet that cools the lower colon will change the sufferer back to a regular status within 24-72 hours. 

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