Hi, This is my first post. My dad has NF - I have never been diagnosed and I have 2 kids Daniel 9 Emma 7 which we have not mention much to them as yet which is the way I grew up I am now 41. I would like to do a few posts about alternative medicine if there are no objections.
First Up - Yin and Yang and the nervous system.
Where does Yin/Yang come from
In the west our calender in based more on the lunar cycles of the moon but in the east there calender in based more on solar cycles. To get the Yin/Yang symbol they place a stick in the ground and trace the pattern of the shadow over a year. http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/YinYang.htm
The Yin/Yang symbol is not just there religion it also is there science. They used it as a clock,compass,in there food and medicine from observations over hundreds of years. To be in good health they say your yin and yang needs to be in balance.
The equivalent to Yin/Yang from a western point of view is the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.
(See diagram bottom of page) http://parsonsdc.com/faq.aspx
If you know anything about acupuncture laws then it is not hard to work out the sympathetic side of the diagram is Yin and the parasympathetic side is yang.
A list of Yin/Yang Foods(the list might vary a little from place to place)
http://www.feng-shui-institute.org/yinyang.htm
Back to my dad - My dad hates cucumber (yin food) it causes him to have small burps for a few minutes after eating it. If me and my dad where to drink enough beer to vomit I would throw up twice where my dad once he starts to throw up he would throw up for a few minutes (beer is also yin). He also likes spicy foods ( which are generally yang). Another thing I remember from my youth when my dad was working. He would often have kabana and chips for lunch. (Yan) It was a bit of a running joke at his office that others should start eating it for lunch cause he hardly got sick with colds or flues. Oranges (vitamin C) appear on the Yin side which is generally what people take when they start to get a cold.
My suspions are my dad has been/still is yang deficient since his youth with no idea if this is NF related. While diets can be from habits and environment I am wondering if the body is smarter than I give it credit for and seek out yang types foods to boost that side of the nervous system. A long with the side effects that type of diet (cholesterol) the body goes I am dam if I do and I am dam if I don't. He has also had a few operations but I will mention he has had his gallblader out.
I am curious if anybody else has a reaction to a yin type food or had there gallbladder out?
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Alternative Medicine Theory
- By CR
- Posted August 11, 2008 at 9:45 pm · 4 replies
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- By Alpacha-pal
- Posted August 12, 2008 at 10:29 am
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I have my gallbladder removed. That was when I was diagnosed. When they did the surgery to remove the gallbaladder they found several tumors, one on my pancreas as big as the doctors fist.
- By DrNiblik
- Posted August 12, 2008 at 3:57 pm
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I think I am supposed to have my gall-bladder removed. Maybe a kidney too. The doctor found a fairly large mass in my right kidney, but said that the kidney itself seemed to be working fine, so why bother? I've always been facinated by the tin-yang theory of looking at things. You'd never know sunlight if you didn't know darkness. You'd never know happiness, if you didn't know sadness, etcetera
- By CR
- Posted August 13, 2008 at 1:44 am
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Could I ask if you have pain related to your NF. My dad does not have any pain related to his NF which doctors find unusual - NFADULT I am guessing you don't because they picked up on the NF with the gallbladder. DrNiblik as I mention my dad had been in hospital a few times he had a growth removed from around his kidneys but his was attached to his adrenal gland. Along with NF they say he has Phacomatosis. I did find on the net another example of a women who had a growth attached to the adrenal gland and again they used the term Phacomatosis. I am a little unsure if the term relates to where the growth is or is a condition in general,if NF is part of it's family. I found examples for both on the net. I guess it depends on how the Doctor uses the term around you.
Back to alternative stuff.
It's a very simple macro view of yin/yang that I gave you. Each side then divides again. Yang will divide in two and ying will divide into two. This graph will show what I mean.
http://pages.prodigy.net/lofting/btree.png. Along with that ( back in Macro view) you have planes of yin/yang. Vertical, horizontal and diagonal.
Remember when you have the greatest ying - yang is birth. Which is like once you are past the shortest day in winter summer has begun.
Food does the same thing and will break down further from just saying it's a yin/yang type food. From reading some posts about - some people recommend yin foods from the list I gave above but especially the ones that are high in potassium. (My dad hates cucumber :)
From http://healingpeople.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=832&Item id=136
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The Kidneys govern water.....
Similarly, salt is a yin substance while potassium is a yang substance. The balance and interaction of these two through the cell walls is in the form of an electrical charge that helps in carrying food, fluid, and waste into and out of the cells.
potassium is a yang substance?
If you read the article you notice a couple NF symptoms in there but it's not that easy with something like NF. To explain this from a western point of view. 12 is my answer what is the question.
is it 6x2, 3x4, 35-13 or 5x3-3
some things with NF seem to match up better if you take bits out of the different alternative branches I know NF is not the same for everybody . Back to my dad his larges plexi on his torso occurs Gb24 or number 24 on the gallblader meridian. His larges plexi on his face occurs at GB14. GB2 is beside the ear. Pic of the GB meridian http://www.thefountainhead.co.za/images/articles/malewoodpic1.jpg
Why mention Gb2 - this is an acupuncture ear chart but this starts to branch more into the reflexogy field
http://www.yinyanghouse.com/images/fullear.gif
Gb2 ends up close to the adrenal,pineal gland area of the chart. A bit about pineal gland from the wiki
The pineal gland is large in children, but shrinks at puberty. It appears to play a major role in sexual development, hibernation in animals, metabolism, and seasonal breeding. The abundant melatonin levels in children is believed to inhibit sexual development, and pineal tumors have been linked with precocious puberty. When puberty arrives, melatonin production is reduced. Calcification of the pineal gland is typical in adults.
My dad's plexi did not appear till puberty he had the mass near his kidneys attached to adrenal gland and on the charts pineal gland sits beside the endocrine point where he now gets to do a 3 days urine test every 6 months or so where they check for some enzyme related to the endocrine system of the body.
Looking at Lisch nodules. we move across more to idigoly where pattern on the eye indicate an area of stress in the body.
chart http://www.detox.net.au/images/iridology-eyechart.jpg
These charts differ a little but does include a whole section on the nervous system with some suggestion on bosting the nervous system weather they do any good or not is another story
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020164.iridology.sharan.pdf
I need to introduce some things about sound for later discussions.
Scientists say nerves use sound, not electricity
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/03/09/science-nervessound-20070309. html
In this link you just need to understand how a sound wave can cancel or reinforce each other.
http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/~umallik/adventure/sound.htm
- By CR
- Posted August 13, 2008 at 8:00 pm
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Forgive me it I am stepping on anybodies toes I just would like to post the information as best as I understand it. You can then make what you want of it.
There is still conjecture among scientists that nerves use sound. However if you look at the links I posted about sound it is just a frequency of vibration. The principle behind crystal healing is that gems,rocks and everything else vibrate at a certain frequency. They might look solid but they have electrons buzzing around there atoms. if you put a piece of paper up against a speaker the paper will then start to vibrate in line with the music playing because it has the least resistance. Same type of thing with crystal healing.
they place a gem over part of the body and hope that part of the body will eventually start to vibrate in line with the crystal. Others will use music which takes you into music/sound healing and you will find this will also be based a lot in charka healing. Color healing also picks up on this cause the color you see with your eyes is a frequency of the light spectrum
A list of frequency of the body.
http://www.greatdreams.com/hertz.htm
A list of healing gems
http://www.earthartdesigns.com/healing_Properties_of_gems.htm
Charkas and there color and frequency
http://www.healrwings.com/chakras.html
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