Merry Christmas From Energy Science Nutrition
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Dr Bill Dean and the Energy Science of Ayurveda
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Varicose veins: 5 Energy Science Treatments
I think we have all seen the distended leg veins called varicose veins and today I'd like to give an energy science view of this condition contrasting it with our familiar matter science medical model
According to the matter science discipline normal veins have valves that keep blood moving forward toward the heart With varicose veins, the valves do not function properly and a standing column of blood stagnates and does not blood to move as it normally should This standing column of blood over time begins distending the vein and over time with the influence of gravity causes the superficial tortuous under the skin as seen in our accompanying photo
Stagnation of Blood at the Skin Level
There are some observations we can make from our photo that can be helpful in understanding varicosity from an energy science view The coloration of the skin is not normal - there is a reddish and bluish cast to the skin This is an important observation because from an energy science view the skin is where the problem lies, not in the veins as the matter science discipline implies
Varicosities in the lower extremities begin as reduced flow of blood in the skin resulting in stagnation of venous blood flow sometimes resulting in spider veins that are often injected by vascular clinics As reduced blood flow in the lower extremity continues it creates an excessive load on the veins carrying blood back to the heart and they begin to distend, become tortuous, and result in swelling and heaviness
Why is this difference in etiology important? If the disease is a result of sludging of blood in the skin it opens up the therapeutic option of using medicinal oils to the skin to reduce the impaired blood flow and thereby reverse the process
Stagnation is a Kapha problem and since Kapha is predominantly represented on the left hand side of the body varicosities are often worse on the left Although not appreciated in our picture skin hair is often lost particularly in fair skinned people since this is a disease again of the skin Lastly due to reduced oxygen tensions in the stagnated blood fungal nails may occur due to the inability to bring healing nutrients to the nail beds and bone of the toes
5 Energy Science Ways of Reversing Lower Extremity Varicosity
1 Use of medicated oils on the lower extremities can be effective in reversing the Kapha inertia of skin flow that is the origin of the problem Mahanaryan(reduces all energy patterns) and Mahaganesha(Kapha pacifying) are suggested In advanced cases Pitta also joins Vata and Kapha so Mahanaryan is beneficial This is not a short term commitment but over years of work using these oils will reverse the problem
2 Compression stockings can be obtained online in various levels of tension provided This very valuable in compressing the skin and moving blood along back to the heart There are a number of online companies that provide an inventory of stockings that can fit your needs
3 Elevation early on in therapy while sleeping can bring a reduction in chronic edema of the lower extremities that brings on the symptom of heaviness Sleeping while elevating the feet with 2 pillows can be an effective long term therapy
4 Yoga asana practice can be valuable since there may very well be a component of inhibited flow in and around the hip joint Flow of energy can become very turbulent around joints (tarsal-metatarsal, ankle, knee and hip) in varicose situations and yoga can help induce better energy flow around these joints
5 Marma therapy can be done to points around the ankle since the foot is the most congested initially It's beyond the scope of this blog to discuss these 4 marma points but using Jasmine to Gulpha(behind the medial and lateral malleoli) is very beneficial
So there you have it Of course it goes without saying that nutrition is important A Pitta Kapha pacifying nutritional format is important since most people with varicosities have PK energy makeups or at least predisposed to Kapha imbalance
Until next time and Happy Holidays To Health as a Skill Love DrBill
Conservative mgmt
do it for a long time VV for 20 years take 3years to reverse Consistency is the key
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Antiinflammatory Ayurvedic Nutrition Reduces Risk of Chronic Dis-ease
Chronic disease is related to inflammation
So it stands to reason that the treatment for such a chronic disease would be antiinflammatory There are a wide host of natural occurring antiinflammatories For example, tumeric is a commonly used antiinflammatory which when used with black pepper is potentiated even further
Now the well respected National Institutes of Health(NIH) published a year ago(October of 2011) a review article on antiinflammatory therapies using the energy science Ayurvedic formulary This article essentially says what I have been advocating for the last 5 years: that we need to marry the matter science discipline of the West(so called matter science healing) with the energy sciences such as Ayurveda and the traditional Oriental Medicine(TOM) An East meets West in healing traditions
Importance of the Study
This may not seem like a big deal to a casual observer but as an interested clinician involved in the treatment of such chronic diseases as IC this type of article is landmark The event metaphorically states that even a conservative government agency such as the NIH is willing to review, endorse, and support the use of natural therapies of the energy science of Ayurveda, recognizing them as not only safe but efficacious
In the health arena it is very normal and expected that the consumer with a painful bladder is timid about trying "new therapies" that can potentially help them because nobody in the medical establishment has condoned their value Further the allopathic(matter science clinicians) tradition are reticent to support the use of such therapies since they are not "tried and true" and supported by evidence based medical(EBM)review
Because of this there is a tendency in the current matter science medical profession to stonewall articles that speak to the use of natural remedies to help with medical conditions because they are not consistent with the status quo and EBM
The AIF Nutritional Format
But what about just regular food? Hippocrates, said to be the father of Western medicine, wrote that "Food is medicine and medicine is food" We have been so ingrained traditionally to believe that food is just something we put in our mouths and it takes care of our appetites that it doesn't really have a medicinal effect to help a painful bladder
But let's rethink this If you take in 3T of salt you know that there will direct and distinct physiologic consequences You'll pee more, require lots of water, maybe get acid indigestion, have tight feeling skin, have excess hot sensation in the body All because you took in some food in this case salt
The energy science perspective is that foods can be inflammatory and that's why they lead to symptoms of pain So a well delineated energy science nutritional format can be AIF with no grey areas It won't lead you astray Coupled with the incompatible food combination list which is basically a group of foods that when joined together produce inflammation you have a way of using nutrition in a AIF way
If you go to foodsheal.com you'll find nutritional formats that you can use based on your energetic makeup Find this out by taking the questionnaire at the same site
There are 3 things you can do to reduce nutritional inflammation right now:
1 Eat according to your mindbody energy makeup
2 Avoid incompatable food combinations(this is at the website above)
3 Liberal use of AIF herbs: cumin, coriander, fennel seeds, mint, cardamom, neem leaves, and rosewater
Until next week To Health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Your Health and the Day’s Rhythms : An Energy Science Application
Your health is directly tied to the rhythms of Momma Nature herself If we disregard this fact our health invariably will suffer The cumulative effect of ignoring our relationship with these rhythms is dis-ease It has been shown that shift workers do not experience good health long term The money may be good but the price paid over a lifetime is not good Now matter science research is showing this to be the case
I was reviewing an article about circadian rhythm published in October 2011 from a research unit at the University of Georgia The article discussed how mice with circadian rhythm dysfunctional cycles had poor organ vessels and hence this jeopardized the success of the organ transplant to healthy mice "Arteries of mice with circadian clock dysfunction became thick and diseased within a few weeks of being transplanted to healthy mice. Arteries transplanted from healthy mice to the mutant mice remained healthy."
"But the fact is the time at which you do the organ transplant may influence overall success," said Dr Rudic, "and if you have a donor who has a sleep disorder or is a night shift worker, it may affect it as well."
Vessels Affected by Lifestyle
What is implied in this seemingly innocuous study on mouse transplants is that the mindbody is tuning in all the time to our lifestyle choices What was apparent to the researchers was that the "Our research shows it's the clock within the blood vessel that is key to conferring the disease response in this case," said Dr. Bo Cheng, GHSU postdoctoral fellow and the study's first author."
This is a rather startling mindbody statement from a matter science researcher and implies the transition that the Western matter science medical model is undergoing Signs of hope are emerging from the matter science realm indicating that the mind is in every cell of the body, that is mind and body are intimately spliced You cannot separate them The body is in the mind and the mind is in the body
Matter Science Suppport For Lifestyle Medicine
Through it's research the matter science or molecular way of thinking about the mindbody is giving way to a more encompassing mindbody connection that has been the energy science model of understanding the true mindbody interaction for thousands of years "The clock is expressed not only in the brain but everywhere in the body and can function autonomously in different areas," Rudic said.
In 1997 an Australian researcher became involved in lifestyle choices for health and wrote a book in 2007 advocating Lifestyle Medicine as a new specialty Leave it to the Aussies! This kind of thinking is truly at the heart of making dynamic changes for the better in our chronic disease challenge
In the midst of such lifestyle choices has to be the identification of health measures around proper timing of the day's activities The energy science view is as follows:
Between 6am and 10am is a Kapha time heavy, cold, slow/dull time; ? heavy breakfast
Between 10am and 2pm is a Pitta time hot,sharp/penetrating time; best for day's big meal
Between 2pm and 6pm is a Vata time cold, light, mobile; good for activity
Between 6pm and 10pm is a Kapha time heavy,cold,slow/dull time; good for winding down
Between 10pm and 2am is a Pitta time hot, sharp/penetrating time; body detox time
Between 2am and 6am is a Vata time cold, light, mobile; emotional detox time
Take Home Message - Make Energy Science Lifestyle Choices for Guidance
Lastly the authors concluded that if you're unhealthy and there is an unhealthy organ then it results in even more profound result "We believe that bad clock function worsens when it intersects with disease, so if you are eating a high-fat diet or if you undergoing a serious surgery like a transplant, and you have a bad clock, disease may occur and may occur quickly," Rudic said.
Who says that the energy science of Ayurveda has the answers to what are good lifestyle choices to make? The matter science medical model research seems to continue to support the energy science recommendationsss
Until next week To Health as a Skill Love DrBill
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10 Ways to Improve IBS
From an energy science point of view IBS(irritable bowel syndrome) pain occurs because of an imbalance in the GIT(gastrointestinal tract) From our previous blogs it's apparent that the imbalance in the mindbody occurs due to imbalance of qualities beginning in the GIT This is particularly important for those who have associated conditions such as GERD, IC, chronic prostatitis and fibromyalgia
So the key is correct the imbalance in order to get your life back before IBS changed it and turned into a shambles
The Precious Gift
One of the keys to help improve health is to develop a healthy GIT which will go a long way toward improving your feeling of well being But what does it mean to have a healthy digestive system?
Again from an energy science view it means that you have a strong digestive fire which is defined molecularly as all the digestive enzyme systems from the mouth to the anus including all the organisms that help with digestion, the so called probiotic population
In fact it is said that all we need for great health is a good digestive fire! It is indeed a fortunate person born with a strong digestive fire and is able to maintain it through her/his lifetime It is a precious gift that Momma Nature gives us With such a strong digestion like we had when we children, teenagers, and young adults we could eat anything and we thought it wouldn't effect us In part that is true but over time it catches up with us and the fire begins to deteriorate
It's unfortunate that the matter science view of the human physiology does not have such a concept but that's the way it goes
10 Things to Improve Digestive Fire
We have written many times about the importance of appropriate nutritional formats for individual mindbody makeups as well as incompatible food combinations Observance of these is foundational to help improve or maintain the power of your digestive fire
But other things that we can do to enhance digestive strength: http://bit.ly/aE1DIQ
1 Tongue scraping in the morning stimulates digestive enzyme system
2 Use of herbs such as fresh ginger, fresh basil, tumeric, cardamom, fennel, cumin, coriander in your cooking
3 5 interrogatives of eating: When to eat the biggest meal of the day
4 Try not eating meals late at night Best is to use fruit for snacks or late night eating
5 Don't eat when emotionally upset
6 Only eat when you're hungry
7 Ice is not nice Don't use ice anytime because it cools off the digestion
9 No snacks If need to snack use fresh seasonal fruit
10 Drink milk separately from meals
So there you have it How to begin improving your digestive fire Overwhelming? Just try one a week and before you know it you'll begin feeling better and bowel activity will begin to normalize(regular bowel movements daily for those who are constipated)
Until next week Your humble servant in healing Love Dr Bill
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