Pain Report
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brightlotusmoonI can has minor ouchies today.
Adam and I carpooled home yesterday, since he had to drop of some equipment in DC. While waiting for me to leave work, he went across the street to the only true Chinese pharmacy left in DC's Chinatown, and bought a pain-relieving tea. We each drank a cup. It tastes kind of like maple syrup. It did dull my aches and pains, but I'll need a few more days to really judge.
Eventually I will go to the shop one day after work and speak to the pharmacist. I've been studying Ayurveda over Traditional Chinese Medicine, but it's time I learned more about TCM.
Morning energy cocktail report: Rhodiola Rosea still awesome. Yerba Mate still awesome. Cat's Claw still awesome.
Solaray Histamine Blend Sp-33: Unbelievably fantastically awesome times eleven. Sinus, migraine, and digestive issues well under control now.
I feel almost sort of normal.
Adam and I carpooled home yesterday, since he had to drop of some equipment in DC. While waiting for me to leave work, he went across the street to the only true Chinese pharmacy left in DC's Chinatown, and bought a pain-relieving tea. We each drank a cup. It tastes kind of like maple syrup. It did dull my aches and pains, but I'll need a few more days to really judge.
Eventually I will go to the shop one day after work and speak to the pharmacist. I've been studying Ayurveda over Traditional Chinese Medicine, but it's time I learned more about TCM.
Morning energy cocktail report: Rhodiola Rosea still awesome. Yerba Mate still awesome. Cat's Claw still awesome.
Solaray Histamine Blend Sp-33: Unbelievably fantastically awesome times eleven. Sinus, migraine, and digestive issues well under control now.
I feel almost sort of normal.
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Date: 2008-07-16 06:14 pm (UTC)Since noticing you in naturalliving a while ago, I peak at your LJ every now and then -- I like to read your reports on natural supplements and cosmetic products, and you are generally inspirational too!
Anyway... years ago I initially "tackled" my own fibro symptoms through TCM. I mostly received acupuncture treatments, but was given some herbs too in the beginning. This page really has a good, precise summary of how TCM views fibro : http://acupuncture.com/conditions/fibromyalc.htm
I thought it might be useful to you, if/when you discuss fibro with the TCM pharmacist. I don't know a lot about ayurveda, but it seems to have a lot in common with TCM as far as energy and our "general mechanisms" go... It probably uses a different vocabulary though, so one thing to remember about TCM vocabulary is that the terms "Heart", "Spleen", "Liver", "Kidney", etc. have a somewhat different meaning, not limited to the organ itself. Each is actually the name of a "network"; for instance "Kidneys" includes the adrenals and whole urinary tract.