lurking pathogens/herpes

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I have found WITHOUT EXCEPTION that if someone with herpes takes Long

Dan Xie Gan Tang they will generally have an outbreak, and then if

they take an antiviral medication like Acyclovir they will stop

having outbreaks altogether. I don't know that it is a good thing to

combine the two, but I've seen that it works over and over. I think

that the herbs pull the pathogen out and weaken it, and then the meds

push it back in in a weakened state so that outbreaks stop. But

also, if I later do a Shaoyang treatment on them or give them the

same herbs they will have another outbreak.

 

So, yeah, its still in the body, but its weakened. Presumably that

means its doing less damage.

 

Laura

 

 

 

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> I think that many LP cases do have an important component of

venting to the

> > surface in the formulas, they are not all about draining... Where

does GHL

> > say that it is mostly about draining?

>

> he says that cases lodged in the ying or xue should be drained.

Sometimes he refers to

> moving pathigens to the qi from the ying so they may be expelled,

but he never once

> refers to moving pathogen from the ying or xue out through the wei

>

> But a couple things that I have

> > wondered about for some time are 1) what do we do when there is no

> > flare-up...

>

> see my other thoughts on this

>

> 2) and what about flare-ups that occur and we apply a LP tx and

> > it does not get rid of the pathogen (i.e. herpes)...

>

> do you mean the pathogen recurs in TCM terms or we just can't get

rid of the virus in

> western terms. Because someone could be infected, but never have

outbreaks. Are they

> then cured or suppressed? How can you tell? Chip wrote in an

article that often latent

> heat takes many flareups and treatments to be completely cured and

perhaps never can.

> He also thinks of it more as a syndrome than a " thing " , per se.

>