Swine Flu: Media hype and a boon to the pharmaceutical industry

check out Michel Tierra's perspective @:

http://www.planetherbs.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Swine-Flu-Media-hype-and-a-boon-to-the-pharmaceutical-industry.html&Itemid=141

self-diagnosis

reddish complexion = internal or external heat

tongue - 

white coat looks like cottage cheese = ST heat

toothmarks at side = spleen Qi deficiency

tinnitus = insufficient kidney jing

unclear eyes = liver blood deficiency

acupuncture to help move stagnant Liver Qi

active sex life in winter depletes adrenals resulting in immune deficiencies, & low vitality

hints of lower and mid back pain - kidneys

internal or external heat
effected by coffee, tea a/or smoke intake

polygonatum cirrhifolium (huang jing)

energy: neutral

flavor: sweet

affinity: kidneys, spleen, stomach

TCM: tonifies kidney - and spleen-energy

epimedium sagittatum (yin yang huo)

energy: warm

flavor: pungent

affinity: kidneys, liver

TCM: tonifies kidney-yang; nourishes blood and semen-essence; expels cold-damp and wind-damp symptoms

ginseng(人参エクス）- tonifies Qi

solution:

Yunker D ユンケル

オウセイ横精 polygonatum shizome 1,000mg

イカリソウ epimedi 1,000mg

人参 ginseng    100mg

反鼻ハんビ viper    100mg

ビタミンB2        5mg

ビタミンB6      10mg

ニコチン酸　vitamin B3 5mg

ビタミんE      10mg

無水カフィイン      50mg

hot chest!

been having interesting 'sin'sations in my chest since monday. oh, first i have an arrhythmia. 

was diagnosed in the states before i came to japan, over 15 yrs ago.

actually had heart surgery with a catheter in japan by a western trained japanese doctor about 7 yrs ago at Josei Jidai. it's a women's college hospital specializing in heart problems.

he said he needed to "laser out the bad parts".

well, i let him and i actually had a regular heart beat for a while but then the beat got funky again. consequently i'm easily excited. 

having a 'delayed' childhood due to being the oldest of four i tend to enjoy life to it's extremes.

well my heart increased in size by a third while 'enjoying life' and knocked me out to the point where i couldn't walk to the train station, which is important in tokyo if you wanna get anywhere.

well, i took it as a sign from the universe to 'straighten' up and went to the other extreme and got into Yoga, Chi Gong, vegetarianism and stopped all stimulants, drinking etc.

it was very expanding. at one point my art got a regular beat while in the middle of Meiji Jingu

doing Chi Gong in the early hours after sunrise.

it lasted for about a day and being the Aries/Rabbet i slipped back into 'having fun'.

i did stop taking the western medicine again and became immobile once again always running to western medicine for a quick fix. 

for the last year i've been taking both western and Chinese herbal medicine('kampo' in japanese) and have been 'enjoying life' until monday. having studied up on kampo and comparing all the different products available have decided it's time for a little self-diagnosis.

supposedly, in China, the doctor(漢方医-かんぽうい-kanpoui) is fired IF the patient gets sick. 

in the West it's a bit more passive and we all just do whatever we want until something happens, hoping it's not too late to recover.

now from my research the Western Way started with Aristotelian logic that a circle is a circle and not a square. in the Chinese perspective of Yin and Yang, a circle contains withiin it the potential of a square, and vice versa, and thus dichotomies are avoided.

ok, this posting is already toooooo long. 

will back on what 'self diagnosing' comes up.

kq - aka kampo queen

ekusuri????

what's "ekusuri"?

well, 'kusuri' means medicine and 'e' = 'ii' = 'good'.

it happens to be the pronunciation of my last name and means 'good medicine' in japanese.

thus, in a 'special' way if you are a believer in destiny type, might be the reason i have ended up on this part of the planet.

but this is just the first posting so i don't wanna bore anyone too quickly so,

good nite and let's try to appreciate all this

rain instead of bitch about it, including myself.