B Vitamins and agression

May 3, 2006

One last question on your adventure with B complex: Did you ever try the B's in

sublingual co-enzyme form? B vitamins are notoriously poorly absorbed, just

look at the urine of someone who's just taken them, even more so for someone

with spleen qi xu. (Like they say, Americans have the richest urine in the

world) Sublingual co-enzyme B complex takes the burdon off of the exocrine

function of the pancreas and the small intestine (from a western perspective)

and the spleen from a Chinese perspective.

Yehuda

Deb Marshall <taichideb wrote:

Hi Yehuda and all,

It was more than 18 years ago when I experimented with the B vitamins supplement

and had the aggression response, so I don't know what my tongue and pulses would

have been then. I was working as the editor and as a writer for several

magazines at the time, and was certainly working hard at creating the spleen

deficiency and deficient heat I now have! At the time I was about 30, working 7

days/week, long long hours (18-20 per day was common), mealtimes were

inconsistant, I slept from 4 am 'til 10 am, and there was a lot of frustration,

irritation, unaddressed anger which I emoted regularly but would be followed by

a sense of helplessness and then aching depression - a cycle that took place

just about every week or 10 days. So I'm pretty sure I would have been showing

signs of liver qi stagnation, and I also most certainly had some blood

stagnation (lots of large menstrual clots). I remember cold hands and feet, but

also that I would get very hot - overheated - easily, but

didn't flush easily - my face wouldn't redden, people couldn't make me blush if

I chose not to (it was a choice, I had a lot of control over it and my blood

pressure). One interesting thing from that time period was that my normal-range

blood pressure would dip into the range of low-normal to low blood pressure the

angrier I got (tested it on several occasions thinking that I was so incredibly

angry that I must be about to blow the top of my head off). Apart from work and

vit B experiments, I was exceptionally even-tempered. When I took the vit B it

was as though my mind narrowed into a very sharp, very focussed point and I'd

feel completely calm and cool but totally driven to pick a fight with anyone and

everyone about anything.

There weren't any symptoms of hypoglycemia, Phil, but I can say that at least

half the time I was running on adrenaline rather than good, solid qi. About 5

years later, when I started drinking coffee, I discovered that a cup of coffee

in the am killed my appetite for about 8 hours and then I'd suddenly - no

warning - have a severe blood-sugar dip and be starving but also shaking,

sweating, and internally very wobbly. I did try Vit Bs once during that time and

it wasn't any different from my earlier reaction. Never tried Bs with sugar,

however!

The aggression I felt was so unpleasant for the people around me that I didn't

do it more than 3 times, and then once more several years later to see whether

it still happened (it did). I didn't find it unpleasant, I suppose because my

spirits actually were lifted out of the depression and while I was that snarly

growly aggressive person the vit B made me, I really didn't care that I was

making everyone else miserable.

---Deb Marshall

May 4, 2006