Chronic issues

I’m not surprised that things haven’t improved much for you to be honest. What are your symptoms like currently? I’d like to see a picture of your tongue as well (not the older files you linked on your previous post).

In cases like these, my experience is that the liver/gallbladder is hardly ever the core issue. There are a variety of other things at play with an underlying spleen deficiency as the crux of the issues. This is why so many people have issues for years and years and it often never resolves.

Do you have acid reflux or any stomach ulcers? Your digestive issues are here to stay until you resolve your chronic spleen deficiency. The cracks on the edges of the tongue, the crackly coating, and the pale color of both the tongue body and coating all indicate you’ve had yin deficiency for a very long time. You have a massive spleen-stomach crack in the middle going on up to the lungs and heart. Your diet needs to be completely re-examined to allow for your spleen channel to recover from years of stress. When the spleen is this distressed for this long, the liver will naturally try to pick up the digestive function that the spleen is normally in charge with but inevitably exhausts enzyme production for digestion (i.e. gallbladder issues arise). Your gallbladder issues are secondary to the white elephant in the room. Yin deficiency also arises from spleen deficiency–only wherein it goes on for years (probably decades in your case) unchecked.

You will be going in circles trying to find the “short-term cause” since you have such severe yin deficiency that your body cannot retain the little blood and qi that your spleen channel attempts to transmute. This is why the tongue coating appears to go in cycles for you. Yin deficiency is a sign of serious debility–since it’s the last type of deficiency to take root following blood, Qi, and Yang deficiencies (respectively). If you go years with little sleep, excessive drug/alcohol use, and/or poor lifestyle choices (including diet) this is an overall condition that your body needs to recover from only via a thorough and diligent regimen of permanent dietary changes, lifestyle changes, and significant herbal supplementation.

one more question sir.

Based on the tongue, what makes you certain that it’s yin deficiency ?
The cracks indeed point to it, as well as the dryness in mouth and throat, however as I’ve done some research, lack of yin (ie. too much heat) is associated with a red tongue, with no coating at all.

Thank you.

Ok, I understand. Thank you for the explanation.

I will gladly take the skype session, and answer the above questions.

I feel that you’re very knowledgeable and willing to help - and the first to actually direct me to a specific condition!

We can have a brief call and go from there.
I added you now on skype, hopefully the correct name - as I’ve found two people.

If my assumption that you’re living in a different time zone than me (Germany) is correct, then we should arrange a time - I don’t have a problem adjusting to your schedule if necessary.

ok, great.
It might be the other account (found two with the exact same name), as this one has the location stated as Taiwan. Correct me if I am wrong though… I am on skype as michalramzes1.

Yes, Friday at 8pm should be fine. I can let you know in advance, in case something changes, as I am travelling on that day and have 2 other meetings as well. But I’ll make this my priority.

Dietary recommendations to benefit the spleen (and Yin as well):

• balance the amount of food you eat cooked with that of what you eat raw (for now)
• avoid eating meat with every meal
• eat plenty of vegetables
• it is better to eat more meals with smaller portions than it is for less meals with larger portions
• try to eat at regular intervals each day and on the weekends
• try not to eat less than 3 hours before bed
• do not wait a long time before eating your first meal of the day
• avoid strong or “heavy” flavors and spices (including pungent tea–like peppermint)
• limit oily, greasy, or fatty foods
• do not eat dairy and fruit during the same meal together (dairy is ok for you)

• good food choices: apples, pears, peaches, melon, rice, millet, steamed vegetables, asparagus, bok choy, gai lan, yu choy, watercress, kohlrabi, lotus root, radish, mushrooms, onions, duck, lamb, tuna, freshwater fish, squash, cabbage, organic butter or ghee, almond butter, marzipan, honey, ginger