Patent Herbals for Diabetes

[Guest guest]

Hi All

 

Has anyone had any success in using any particular brand of patent herbal

formulas for treating diabetics? Patient is averse to cooking and drinking crude

herbs, and has tried Millenia brand Jiang Tang Wan formula which does not seem

to able to control her blood sugar as well as she would like.

 

Any recommendations without going into too much history?

 

Much Obliged

Twyla

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Dear Twyla,

 

You sell our medicine short when you treat a disease instead of a

differentiated pattern. As I'm sure you know there are a number of patterns

which can manifest as Diabetes. Determine the pattern and then see if the

ingredients in the patttern really do address the patients constitutional

inbalance.

 

Respectfully,

 

Yehuda Frischman, L.Ac.

 

Twyla Hoodah <twylahoodah wrote:

Hi All

 

Has anyone had any success in using any particular brand of patent herbal

formulas for treating diabetics? Patient is averse to cooking and drinking crude

herbs, and has tried Millenia brand Jiang Tang Wan formula which does not seem

to able to control her blood sugar as well as she would like.

 

Any recommendations without going into too much history?

 

Much Obliged

Twyla

 

 

 

Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.

 

 

[Guest guest]

At 08:25 AM 5/21/2006, Twyla Hoodah <twylahoodah wrote:

 

> Has anyone had any success in using any particular brand of

> patent herbal formulas for treating diabetics? Patient is averse to

> cooking and drinking crude herbs, and has tried Millenia brand

> Jiang Tang Wan formula which does not seem to able to control her

> blood sugar as well as she would like.

>

> Any recommendations without going into too much history?

 

Health Concerns' " Astra Essence " (Jing, Yin/Yang, Qi/Blood tonic)

lists Therapeutic Actions:

" 6. Used to balance blood glucose in diabetes "

and Clinical Notes:

" 2. Clinical reports of effectiveness in reducing blood

sugar levels in diabetics "

 

This has helped one of my patients control glucose. (I use it more

generally for all around supplementation in patients with

constitutional involvement).

 

http://www.healthconcerns.com/

 

 

[Guest guest]

thanks, Chris. much obliged. i was just at the health concerns website looking

at that very formula!

 

< wrote: At 08:25 AM 5/21/2006, Twyla Hoodah

<twylahoodah wrote:

 

> Has anyone had any success in using any particular brand of

> patent herbal formulas for treating diabetics? Patient is averse to

> cooking and drinking crude herbs, and has tried Millenia brand

> Jiang Tang Wan formula which does not seem to able to control her

> blood sugar as well as she would like.

>

> Any recommendations without going into too much history?

 

Health Concerns' " Astra Essence " (Jing, Yin/Yang, Qi/Blood tonic)

lists Therapeutic Actions:

" 6. Used to balance blood glucose in diabetes "

and Clinical Notes:

" 2. Clinical reports of effectiveness in reducing blood

sugar levels in diabetics "

 

This has helped one of my patients control glucose. (I use it more

generally for all around supplementation in patients with

constitutional involvement).

 

http://www.healthconcerns.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I find it intresting that first we heard about all the negative studies

coming from Germany and now we say several that are positive

 

 

 

 

 

 

" Acupuncture for chronic headaches--an epidemiological study, " Melchart D,

Weidenhammer W, et al, Headache, 2006; 46(4): 632-41. (Address: Department of

Internal Medicine II, Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, Technische

Universitat Munchen, Kaiserstr. 9, 80801 Munich, Germany).

Summary: In an observational study involving 2,022 patients with chronic

headaches of varying types, treatment with acupuncture was found to

significantly decrease the frequency of headaches and improve symptoms such as

disability and quality-of-life. The study was carried out in Germany, and

subjects received acupuncture treatments under conditions of routine care within

the framework of statutory health insurance in Germany. Subjects were divided

into 4 groups based on the diagnoses of their headaches: 1) 732 subjects with

migraine headaches; 2) 351 with episodic headaches; 3) 440 with chronic

tension-type headaches; and 4) 499 with other forms of chronic headaches

(cluster, vascular, drug-induced, etc.). Considerable differences in

sociodemographics and baseline characteristics were found between the 4 groups.

Before receiving acupuncture, after the treatment period, and six months after

inclusion in the study, subjects completed various questionnaires, assessing the

number of days with headaches, disability (Pain Disability Index), and

quality-of-life (SF-36). Subjects were treated with acupuncture for a mean of

8.6 sessions, by 1,418 different physicians. Results found that subjects in all

four groups reported statistically significant improvements in all clinical

outcome measures. Over half of the subjects reported a reduction in headache

frequency by at least 50% after receiving acupuncture treatments, as compared to

baseline. The results of this epidemiological study suggest that acupuncture may

be a safe and effective option for persons experiencing chronic headaches,

regardless of headache type.

 

 

 

 

 

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