Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 In a message dated 1/30/01 9:45:13 PM Alaskan Standard Time, writes: > > I'm new to the group and lately I've been unfortunate > enough to get a horrible rash of what appears to be > either poison oak or poison ivy. i live in berkeley > and am told that it's more likely to be poison oak. > anyway, i'm deathly allergic and have tried > homeopathic remedies, but the rash continues to > spread. i've been resisting going to a doctor, but > i'm losing hope. does anyone know of a good cure for > this? > > thanks, > carla Carla The suggestions others have mentioned are good...along with the paste, you will want to add 5-10 drops of peppermint essential oil for the itching and some lavender oil for healing...I have used some witch hazel with peppermint oil added for any skin itchy ailment with good luck! You may also want to take some Echinacea tincture (health food stores) to boost the immune system, so it passes quickly...I'd take 1-2 dropperfuls at least 4 times a day.... Katy Master Herbalist... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 I've read the interview with Carolyn Myss, Ph.D. and I must say that it made me sad. One of the troubles with " Main stream Medicine " is it's passionate love affair with diagnosis. This has to do with a wider and deeper tendency to link security with knowledge. Well, diagnosis has little to do with healing. Healing can be achieved also without diagnosis. As we are maturing in our scientific outlook, meaning letting the conversation be more open, include wider cultural fields, the insistence to know [in order to be secure], is in my eyes a regression to an earlier dogmatic approach. What is diagnosis? Diagnosys is no more than a tool, which says " we can not treat every individual for their condition is unique, let's drag them into the nearest meaning field and treat what we recognize as " disorder " or illness. This is true for linear thinking, because in this kind of thinking you have to put something in the center of your meaning field. But we have an alternative it is called holistic thinking. Where you look at the person as a whole. Diagnosis has a problem with that. Once you what the problem is [by diagnosing] you treat the definition you found and not the human in front of you. Knowing is a too strong a word for it. [Even doctors use suspect rather then know]. The danger is that you can be wrong. And if you are wrong suspecting nothing happens. But if you're wrong knowing then you are stupid, and your whole self confidence can be damaged. It is often the case that by overstressing something to make a stronger claim [because basically we are insecure] only stresses our insecurity when we realize that we had been mistaken. There is nothing wrong with a mistake. There is something wrong stressing knowledge a basis for security. We can suspect, guess, learn from past mistakes, invent and refute private or general theories as we go along, all these done softly don't harm one flow, and we can invite others to this flow too [including diagnosing MDs], but once you say you know, the flow is endangered, the other's opinion is endangered. Not knowing can be fun. Knowing our not needing to know in order to be secure, is wisdom. Only not knowing allows us to explore and find out in a blissful flow, diagnosing as guessing can be part of it, diagnosing as knowing, can't. Have a nice creative day Anand Avid www.human-upgrade.com Where the human factor is never neglected. __________ Start your browser with donating food for the hungry. Click on: http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/HungerSite It's free, and only a click away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 > Not knowing can be fun. Knowing our not needing to know in order to be > secure, is wisdom. Only not knowing allows us to explore and find out in a > blissful flow, diagnosing as guessing can be part of it, diagnosing as > knowing, can't. > Have a nice creative day > Anand: I hate to seem sarcastic or difficult, but there are many people out there who have had physical, emotional and mental disorders that are not having fun not knowing what is wrong, because they cannot explore the causations of their dis-ease or alternatives for healing. And we all know that healing does not mean the same thing as curing, though palliation of symptoms is usually what most people are looking for. I don't think you are being particularly responsible in saying that diagnosis is always dogmatic, regressive or immature. Healing CAN be achieved without formal medical diagnosis, but I guarantee you it cannot be achieved without acknowledgement of the root causation, be that physical, emotional, mental, spiritual or energetic. If you have no idea where to start, and most people do not, you are shooting in the dark at a moving target. Don't be so quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Medicine has an important place in the care and treatment of people, for many reasons, not the least of which is the aspect of faith. If you take a person's faith away and do not replace it with something else they can trust, you are damning them. Yes, it is important to look at a person as a whole; diagnosing a specific disorder does not mean that you cannot treat a person holistically, or explore various levels of causation. There is no reason to believe that once you know what is going on with your body then you are stuck... if you were not stuck to begin with you would not have anything wrong with your body, would you? Your theory is flawed at its base. -- Blessings, Crow " Look for Rainbows in the Darkness " -- -- Caroline " Crow " Abreu, BS, RN, CHTP/I, CRMT, CH, MTC Certified in Healing Touch, Reiki, Hypnotherapy and Chios AIM: CaroCrow URL: http://www.geocities.com/nrgbalance " We see things not as they are but as we are. " The Talmud " We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. " Albert Einstein " I like big work. Why do small? Why be ordinary when you can be extraordinary? " Caroline Myss " A master is like an ocean. Ocean is there, readily available. It does not reject anybody. " Sri Sri Ravi Shankar When seeking a guide for a path, choose someone who also walks it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 That is why you sent the reiki to the root cause or the initiating trauma along with energy for the present manifestation. @ ______________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2001 Report Share Posted February 1, 2001 I'm one of those people. You're right, it's no fun at all. I've had a series of represeentatives of a variety of modalities try to figure out what's going on with me for the past five years. Diagnosis is nothing more complex than using scientific method to limit the possible number of causes associated with a given ailment. Scientific method has gotten a bad rap in our business, largely because of allopaths who don't understand it. But, make no mistake, everyone in the healing biz diagnoses to at least some extent. We're generally prohibited by law from saying that we are, but if it walks like a duck.... I'm not sure what is meant by " diagnosing as knowing. " If the term is meant to indicate those who decide that they have the one, single cause of the problem and won't budge regardless of any contrary data, then I agree. If the statment means those who prescribe treatment for conditions they can't explain while claiming to be operating scientifically, then I agree again. If it means ignoring important data because it didn't come from the right kind of specialist, I'm still there. On the other hand, the statement taken as a whole seemed to favor intentionally remaining clueless as being advantageous. Perhaps for some people it is. I find that careful observation combined with scientific method is generally the best way to go. The trick is that science is not very helpful when data is inadequate. When your initial premises are inaccurate, logic can lead you astray faster than anything. so, we need to know when and how to mix science and empiricism. More to the point, we need to teach our allopathic colleague how to do so. I believe that our approach is superior to that of allopathy because we have the latitude to ignore science in those situations where it's not appropriate. In that way, we have a tool that they don't. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't use their intellectual tools when it is appropriate. >Caroline Abreu To: > Re: Digest Number 504 Date: >Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:14:38 -0500 > > > Not knowing can be fun. Knowing our not needing to know in order to be > >secure, is wisdom. Only not knowing allows us to explore and find out in a > > blissful flow, diagnosing as guessing can be part of it, diagnosing as > >knowing, can't. > Have a nice creative day > Anand: > >I hate to seem sarcastic or difficult, but there are many people out there >who have had physical, emotional and mental disorders that are not having >fun not knowing what is wrong, because they cannot explore the causations >of their dis-ease or alternatives for healing. And we all know that healing >does not mean the same thing as curing, though palliation of symptoms is >usually what most people are looking for. > >I don't think you are being particularly responsible in saying that >diagnosis is always dogmatic, regressive or immature. Healing CAN be >achieved without formal medical diagnosis, but I guarantee you it cannot be >achieved without acknowledgement of the root causation, be that physical, >emotional, mental, spiritual or energetic. If you have no idea where to >start, and most people do not, you are shooting in the dark at a moving >target. > >Don't be so quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Medicine has an >important place in the care and treatment of people, for many reasons, not >the least of which is the aspect of faith. If you take a person's faith >away and do not replace it with something else they can trust, you are >damning them. > >Yes, it is important to look at a person as a whole; diagnosing a specific >disorder does not mean that you cannot treat a person holistically, or >explore various levels of causation. There is no reason to believe that >once you know what is going on with your body then you are stuck... if you >were not stuck to begin with you would not have anything wrong with your >body, would you? Your theory is flawed at its base. > >-- >Blessings, Crow " Look for Rainbows in the Darkness " -- >-- >Caroline " Crow " Abreu, BS, RN, CHTP/I, CRMT, CH, MTC Certified in Healing >Touch, Reiki, Hypnotherapy and Chios AIM: CaroCrow URL: >http://www.geocities.com/nrgbalance > > " We see things not as they are but as we are. " The Talmud > > " We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we >created them. " Albert Einstein > > " I like big work. Why do small? Why be ordinary when you can be >extraordinary? " Caroline Myss > > " A master is like an ocean. Ocean is there, readily available. It does not >reject anybody. " Sri Sri Ravi Shankar > >When seeking a guide for a path, choose someone who also walks it. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 28, 2001 Report Share Posted February 28, 2001 Jim, I agree with you on the use of eight extra vessels -- the Ben Cao Gang Mu is the primary place Li Zhishen recorded this information and, it is extremely useful for clinical herbal applications. The primary reason is because it gives a difering angle of insight which may be the key for cracking a difficult case. Will If I remember correctly, the 8-Extra meridians are related to herbs in some editions of the Ben Cao Gang Mu. There's no reason why they shouldn't be used in herbalism. When seeing particular 8-Extra movements in the pulse, you can modify or choose herbal formulas based on the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 Hmm... you could look for grants from charitable foundations- I understand there is grant money that goes un-given because not enough people apply. Brian Benjamin Carter Editor, The Pulse of Oriental Medicine Columnist, Acupuncture Today The PULSE of Oriental Medicine: Alternative Medicine You Can Understand http://www.pulsemed.org/ The General Public's Guide to Chinese Medicine since 1999... 8 Experts, 100+ Articles, 115,000+ readers.... Our free e-zine BEING WELL keeps you up to date with the latest greatest PULSE articles. Sign up NOW. Send a blank email to: beingwellnewsletter- Hi...jason and Bobbi...I am a new graduate of TCM. I would relish the opportunity to work in Mexico or other location abroad. I can not do it indefinitely without getting paid. My mother has been a missionary in central Mexico and noted a problem with alcoholism within the local population. I am innovative enough to believe there may be opportunity and need for acupuncture programs in Mexico...the challenge would be getting them (thus ourselves) funded. Any ideas or leads? I am willing to brainstorm and network. Lori Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2003 Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 I need a grant . Can you tell me how? Brian Carter <bbcarter wrote:Hmm... you could look for grants from charitable foundations- I understand there is grant money that goes un-given because not enough people apply. Brian Benjamin Carter Editor, The Pulse of Oriental Medicine Columnist, Acupuncture Today The PULSE of Oriental Medicine: Alternative Medicine You Can Understand http://www.pulsemed.org/ The General Public's Guide to Chinese Medicine since 1999... 8 Experts, 100+ Articles, 115,000+ readers.... Our free e-zine BEING WELL keeps you up to date with the latest greatest PULSE articles. Sign up NOW. Send a blank email to: beingwellnewsletter- Hi...jason and Bobbi...I am a new graduate of TCM. I would relish the opportunity to work in Mexico or other location abroad. I can not do it indefinitely without getting paid. My mother has been a missionary in central Mexico and noted a problem with alcoholism within the local population. I am innovative enough to believe there may be opportunity and need for acupuncture programs in Mexico...the challenge would be getting them (thus ourselves) funded. Any ideas or leads? I am willing to brainstorm and network. Lori Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2003 Report Share Posted March 8, 2003 Chefck the following website for a listing of non-profit orgs that give grants for all diff. types of business/ needs. I think their is a sign in fee but after that you can search by every different fiueld available.......location, type of need, type of assistance. http://fconline.fdncenter.org/ I hope it helps. Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2003 Report Share Posted March 8, 2003 Thanks Pete Zizzi <ziz024 wrote:Chefck the following website for a listing of non-profit orgs that give grants for all diff. types of business/ needs. I think their is a sign in fee but after that you can search by every different fiueld available.......location, type of need, type of assistance. http://fconline.fdncenter.org/ I hope it helps. Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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