NATURAL MEDICINE FOR LOW BACK & LEG PAIN

Low back pain doesn’t happen overnight and once understood, can resolve quicker than you realize. We have to look at our lifestyle, nutrition, how we think & feel, etc. to undo the ailment. You could take a pain reliever but still the underlying imbalance will be there after the relief is gone. The key word for low back pain is DEFICIENCY.

Contributing Environment: Our work and personal life may be stressing us out to the degree that our circulation is constricted not allowing nutrients to feed our organs and toxins to be eliminated. Our dietary preferences in the U.S. are excessive while empty of nutrients, full of preservatives, pesticides, hormones and processed with additives. Our generation has to manage more stress, life events, media exposure and emotional changes thus disturbing our sleep quality. The result is we lack the necessary energy or life force to be our best. This further makes us irritable in our relationships which worsens all the scenarios described before.

As we break down our energy, immunity and support, our self image and esteem parallels our internal organs ability to weather the challenge. Specifically, our adrenals and kidneys have become depleted of energy or weak, necessitating our attention to re-establishing our essence, life force and our quality of living.

To begin, we need to construct successful strategies in the areas of nutrition, sleep, and lifestyle. This resource is designed to provide some winning solutions so you can quickly re-engage living rather than aging or dying too soon.

The source of deficiency stems from 4 main areas: 

• LEFT KIDNEY DEFICIENCY
• RIGHT KIDNEY DEFICIENCY
• KIDNEY ENERGY DEFICIENCY
• EXTREME CHRONIC FATIGUE

FOOD THERAPY: LOW BACK PAIN 

This issue may involve not only low back pain but also sciatic pain complicated by other syndromes such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, Epstein Barr, etc. Four causes of low back and leg pain.

There are several categories based on Chinese medicine nutrition and Traditional Chinese herbs that support and correct low back pain:

LEFT KIDNEY (yin) DEFICIENCY:
Characteristics: Heat symptoms such as 1) dry throat and mouth, ringing in the ears, slight fever or heat wave, low back pain, dizziness, weakened leg strength, excessive spontaneous pirspiration, involuntary seminal emission, excessive weight loss, tongue (red) and/or shiny

Foods: millet, barley, tofu, string bean, black bean, black soy bean, mung bean, mung bean sprouts, kidney bean, azuki bean, and most other beans, kuzu root, watermelon and most others, blackberry, mulberry, blueberry, huckleberry, water chestnut, wheat germ, potato, seaweeds, spirulina, chlorella, black sesame seed, sardine, crab, clam, eggs, pork, cheese
Herbs: marshmallow root, rehmannia root, Asparagus root, aloe vera gel, colloidal silver (If the constitution is cold and/or most or low back & sciatic is cold and/or moist then choose from the groups below)

RIGHT KIDNEY (yang) DEFICIENCY:
Characteristics: cold symptoms in the body such as cold extremities, weakened knees, weakened lower back, avoidance of cold environments, pale skin, depression, lethargic thinking, deficient libido, intermittant menstruation and clear vaginal fluid

Foods: walnuts, black beans, onion family (onion, garlic, chives, scallions, leeks), quinoa, chicken, lamb, trout, salmon
Spices: cloves, fenugreek, fennel seeds, dried ginger
Avoid cooling foods, fruit, raw foods, excessive salt, use seaweed cautiously.

KIDNEY ENERGY (qi) DEFICIENCY:
Characteristics: low energy, low back pain, weak knees, pale tongue, minor cold signs, frequent urination, incontinence, inability to urinate, dribbling, involuntary seminal emission, other seminal/urinary problems.

Foods: wheat berry, sweet rice, parsley
Herbs: rose hips, oyster shell, clam shell, schizandra berry, raspberry and blackberry leaves, gravel root

EXTREME CHRONIC FATIGUE (Jing Deficiency):
Characteristics: dizziness, ringing in ears, loose teeth, loss of head hair, painful knees and lower back

Food: micro-algae (chlorella, spirulina, wild blue-green), fish, liver, kidney, brain, bone and its marrow, human placenta, cereal grasses, wheat grass,solomon seal, almonds, ghee (clarified butter), goat’s milk, nettle leaves, royal jelly, bee pollen, Doddler seeds, millet, wheat, black sesame seeds, soybeans, chestnuts, mulberries, raspberries, strawberries, seitan, walnuts
Herbs: deer antler, deer horn velvet, Deer Placenta, Lycium fruit, Polygonum multiflorum root, Eucommia bark, Dendrobium stem, Cinnamon bark, white ginseng, semen cuscutae, astragali seed (complanati), cordyceps, astragalus, codonopsis, reishi, morinda, eleuthero root, paeonia , gambir, gecko, cibot rhizome, tianshan snow lotus, tibet carthami

For final decision on which foods to choose for your condition, please consult a trained master herbalist with in-depth knowledge of Traditional Chinese herbs and food therapy, American herbology and other nutritional systems.

Skin Care Tips for Anti-aging

Although everyone eventually gets wrinkles and lines, we do have some control over how long they take to form. Here are some basic tips on anti-aging care for your skin that will help diminish the tell tale signs of aging

Avoid getting too much sun exposure

The sun’s ultraviolet rays are one of the skin’s biggest enemies and a leading cause of aging. Those that practice tanning are often at a greater risk for prematurely aged skin including liver spots and wrinkles. They also stand a greater chance of skin cancer.

Many facial cosmetics already contain a sun block but if you don’t wear makeup then be sure to wear sun block. Using a sun block is great but keeping yourself out of the sun is even better. Avoid tanning and tanning beds. Wear a hat when playing golf or other sports or working in the yard.

Moisturizing your skin

All those harmful elements that the skin faces every day – wind, sun, pollutants – sap moisture from the skin’s surface. Adding moisture every day gives the skin’s outer surface the opportunity to absorb this and also acts to protect against those harmful elements.

Hydration

When skin is properly hydrated it is better equipped to fight off pollutants and irritants throughout the day and the chances of wrinkles are reduced. Once it is dry and dehydrated it becomes more difficult.

If you can’t drink water then try something else that keeps you hydrated, such as fruit juice.

Suitable foods include:
•    Apples
•    Watermelons
• Citrus fruits including oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit
•    Leafy green vegetables
•    Tomatoes

Antioxidants

Antioxidant products usually contain large amounts of vitamins that attack free radicals and assist the body to repair damaged cells.

Anti-aging Products for Skin Care

Many anti-aging skin care products perform well as moisturizers but these products just can’t get through the layers of skin to actually repair or replace the body’s own collagen. Good products are those containing high levels of vitamins E and A, or just vitamin E oil on its own.

If you are over 45 and suffering from low human growth hormone (hgh) secretion levels, then Gen F20 HGH Releaser may help to increase your hgh levels which in turn improves the look and feel of your skin, and decreases fat while increasing lean muscle.

If you smoke, drink alcohol, eat poorly, get insufficient sleep, and don’t exercise then the effects of Gen F20 are reduced.

Exfoliate Regularly

This is a natural process your skin is supposed to go through every month or so, as the lower layers push up and remove the top layers naturally. You can help this process along by exfoliating on a regular basis.

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