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i am a long-standing euroamerican patient of traditional oriental medicine and was treated traditionally for neurological problems long before they were even able to be discovered by western means. i am also in my early 70s. i'm also trained in...

you don't say anything about your ancenstral ethnic mix, but from the hints you've included, i'd guess that you have a lot of essentially viking or nordic lines. i would also gues that the information behind standardized american weight, cholesterol...

i go through periods of great difficulty sleeping, and you have my sympathy. the extra hormones and blood supply, as well as the discomforts, of pregnancy can make it very difficult. last time i was pregnant, i bought something that...

this is a complex problem with a lot of chicken and egg type components. i write here as someone who has had to deal with them from the perspective of a patient and found that merely trying to work through...

as a long-term patient who started with extreme liver stress, i first had to learn to tell the difference between what i now call mental or emotional anger -- anger arising from my ideas and sense of how reality should...

i had this kind of problem years ago. it looked like morning sickness and went away when my son was born. it wasn't morning sickness. it was chronic hidden liver stress that was exacerbated by pregnancy. there were unrecognized low-level...

i didn't start out against vegetarianism, but i am now. my body literally cannot function on a vegetarian diet, and i've seen the layers of damage that vegetarianism did to many i knew in india. as a result of these...

as a long term user of oriental medicine and patient for several rather serious conditions that western approaches ended up making worse, i've had to deal with severe anxiety at several stages in my progress. training and a predilection for...

your questions make you sound like you want some kind of magic to make all these bad things go away, rather than the deep kind of healing that would keep your body from throwing these symptoms at you. is that...

slightlycosmo, you have my heartfelt sympathy, because you really do have a problem. i do not agree with chad dupuis. patients have histories, no matter what the medical system, and your history should be able to follow you to your...