Saturday, December 18, 2010

Chinese Medicine

Its Konrad here, not Paula ;) I guess I will write a quick post for a change. A simple one. I really thought Paula would update this blog today, but honestly she is feeling a bit different, weaker so to speak, more emotionally taken by all of this. The past 3 days were bad. A emotional rollercoaster. The cough doesn’t stop and she struggling to cope with all of this emotionally.

I dont know what is the right thing to write today here so she is not upset at me tomorrow ;) But anyhow, she has visited this amazing Chinese Medicine Doctor yesterday and he prepared a healing Tea for her to drink for the next 3 days, 3 times daily. She supposes to feel much better!!! just after 3 days (Amazing!)  and then she will get a different tea again.  By Tea I am imagining its some sort of herbal medicine. Sounds super simple and hard to imagine any effects after just by drinking tea but these Chinese doctors are light-years ahead of doctors of today when they don’t have access to their super machines of today (x-rays, cat scans, pet scans, blood tests etc.). Without those they have no idea what a person has. The Asian Doctors look at your eyes, your tongue, your hands, listen to your blood stream flow....really cool things that medicine should be based on. They also check your urine/stool and just by looking at it they know your sickness. So we should never underestimate Chinese Medicine. Well, to come back to what I wanted to say is that after drinking the first tea she literally sat on the toilet for the first few hours, her system was "flushed" or some sort of a cleanse was happening. Hard for her but at least, it had an immediate effect which I like, because we see its working right away. After she flushes she wants to eat and is hungry all day today which is also amazing! The Premisone (no idea if its spelled correctly) she is taking has NO positive effect whatsoever except that she eats a bit more and she is on it for a few weeks now. My guts tell me to stop it or at least decrease the portions she is taking. She wrote what side effects she has, but the mayor one is her hands and skin on it is dry, fingertips cracked and are hurting, and they are very sensitive - warm tea seems hot to her...FYI, the cough is always there, very loud, also she still throws up often, has fevers few times a day...39.5 just yesterday morning, her ears hurt too inside, I guess its from the fever...anyhow, it supposed to be a short message, maybe I will write more tomorrow - if Paula lets me ;))))...stay warm, Konrad

2 comments:

  1. hope it works:) keep us posted, hugs for Paula:)


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