#western medicine

[thegoodmorningman]

Take two fistfuls of Magic and Wonder and call me in The Morning

#good #morning #good morning #good morning message #good morning image #good morning images #good morning man #the good morning man #the entire morning #charmander #squirtle #pokemon #dr. charmander #doctor #medicine #modern medicine #western medicine #sun #the sun #sunshine #joy and luck #magic and wonder

[brandyschillace]

INFINITE WOMEN

Serious reflection on the deep roots of Western society's pathologising of women: me with Allison Tyra

#pathological #women #medicine #patriarchy #western medicine

[katherinebotten]

#katherine botten #cache #western medicine #the poison is the cure #rx #Youtube

[orphancookie69]

Health Around The World: Western vs Chinese

So, I don’t have the greatest relationship with doctors even in the western world as an American having grown up in USA. But my partner is from the Eastern side of the world. Normally I go to doctors, and find disappointment in the lack of natural solutions, and often answers. Which I still find shocking given how much science and technology we have these days. But, I recently went to a Chinese Doctor and man...that was an interesting comparative experience. 

Western Medicine: 

So anyone following my blog knows that I have some chronic conditions, which I have seen some doctors about and have adjusted my lifestyle for-compensating with drugs. But while dealing with infertility, I experienced abdominal/pelvic pain. I checked the pelvis out with an ultrasound, nothing there. Then I went to a Family Doctor and ordered a CT Scan. Did the CT Scan, and their guess is possible IBS, so they want me to adjust diet and see if I feel better. 

Don’t get me wrong, I love my doctors these days. But the confines of western medicine limit them greatly. I am down to try a new diet, it is not the first time a doctor has told me what to eat. But it would be nice to not play a guessing game-when by all accounts I am “doing it right” by going to the trusted professional. Look out for a future blog post regarding that. 

Eastern Medicine: 

So, running errands with my partners family-we end up in a chinese herb shop with an “in house” chinese doctor. He did a reading on my partner, updated his prescription of herbal tea and then did me. He spoke Cantonese, so my Mandarin speaking family translated to English to me. 

I had a visit with a chinese doctor, Dr Tan at Wing Hip Fung in Monterey Park. Diagnosis: The doctor looked at my pulse on both hands and visually at my tongue. He said to eat less sweets, work out more, eat better, drink less cold drinks. I ran cold. My kidney is weak and leads to migraine and fertility issues. He picked up on the too much fluid in me. Also the dizziness from my chronic migraines. Also my blocked tubes, if I want to carry a kid I need to do a couple of months of meds. I was told to relax and be happy. I was given stuff to make a soup to eat after the start of my next cycle. I have been dealing with the pelvic/stomach issue with my family doctor and that has yet to discover a cause or cure. My pulse and tongue were read, and I was given a prescription for a soup base. I was seen by the doctor, my prescription was filled at the counter with traditional weight and my price determined with an abacus.

First of all, this guy did not know me from adam. And yet, nothing was wrong. I did not know about the kidneys, but in my head-I thought...shouldn’t the CT Scan or any other test caught that? While I am waiting on the timing to do the soup, I started drinking a Kidney Tea. While I do plan on trying the new diet per the western doctor, they both had something to say about diet. I don’t eat that bad, I do have a sweet tooth. But maybe keto isn’t best for my system, and how can my system be good to me if I am not giving it the right stuff? 

Time will tell what works, and what doesn’t. Does the new diet make me feel better? Do I try and carry a kid again and it works? Do I have less symptoms from my chronic migraines on the day to day? Also, I share this to open up anyone elses mind to a secondary opinion from other parts of the world-and yet I wonder if there are bilingual chinese herbal doctors out there...Would you go see one if there was? 

#rant #medicine #western medicine #eastern medicine #pixabay #abacus #doctor #obgyn #family doctor #ct scan #herb #herbology #natural #healing #chinese medicine

[returning-to-her]

ADHD is way overdiagnosed. If almost everyone seems to have it, maybe it's the shit world we live in, not the person. And ADHD is not a disorder but a reaction to either trauma or trying to mold oneself in a system not able to create diverse experiences. ADHD isn't neurodiversity. There isn't such a thing because there aren't neurotypicals either. It's normal to have numerous ways of functioning. The world, however, only accepts one. We need to start framing this truthfully. Stop pathologizing people and start holding our institutions accountable.

- Laura Rose

Returning to Her

www.healingfromharm.com

#allopathic medicine #medical abuse #medical rape #western medicine #adhd #actually adhd #trauma and women #trauma #mental health #mental healthcare #mental illness #big pharma #prescribed harm #patriarchy

[tinyshe]

this is a sharing post about herbal use

-- not going into politics /ideology/ pharma

-- not for diagnoses, use this information with aid of your health care provider or your own risk

from folk medicine now making its way into alternative health: phytolacca oil (topical; not to be used internally)

my personal current use is for breaking up cancer cells in breast tissue, under guidance of my licensed TCM health care provider i have been using this medicinal phytolacca oil topically for approximately 4 weeks.

my personal experience: it has reduced swelling/ growth of a cancer tumour  that had broken through; this has given skin the ability with another mixed herb salve (predominately comfrey) to heal as the tumour continues to decrease; medicinal oil use has been twice to thrice daily, massaging oil into breast tissue (but not in open wound) of both breast and upper body lymph (pits and neck). excess oil was rubbed into hands and on suspected skin cancer areas. besides reduction of pronounced breast tumour, the upper chest area has soften ‘anvil plate’; two of four skin cancer patches have died and fallen off like old scabs after being there for min of four years and expanding growth; there is a noticeable reduction/ change in skin tabs in areas where oil is applied ; another possible positive note is sharp pain in hands due to what some doctors have thought was arthritis/ carpel tunnel/ lyme or it’s co-infection (i have the 3 “B”s) nerve issues have/are also diminishing with use or massaging this oil into hands and wrist.

i am very much encouraged and want to share this personal information with you bc you aren’t going to get it from your western trained doctors and i was disappointed that i did not get it from my naturopath either! i am not diagnosing nor prompting people run right out and get poke oil to use but i am encouraging you to investigate and speak with your care provider if you are interested in this for personal use. if they will not discuss it then i would encourage you to find an herbalist or other train professional that can help you become more knowledgeable about herbal poke use

#health #herbs #herbal medicine #poke #poke weed #natural medicine #plant medicine #tcm #naturopath #western medicine #cancer #tumours #skin growth #cell growth #sharing information #phytolacca oil

[psalm40speakstome]

#mood #valid #scary halloween #costumes #scary costumes #the real horror #Lyme #lyme disease #neurological lyme disease #Lyme awareness #Lyme spirochete #western medicine #Lyme disease awareness #neurological lyme #bartonella #babesia #Rocky Mountain spotted fever #etc… #tick borne illness #tick borne disease #co-infections #chronic Lyme #lyme warrior #mutiple systemic infectious disease syndrome

[thepotentialof2007]

As the historian Emily K. Abel notes in Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue, many studies of everyday fatigue at the turn of the 20th century focused on the weariness of manual laborers, and were done to find ways to make those workers more productive. During this period, fatigue was recast from a physiological limit that employers must work around into a psychological failure that individuals must work against. “Present-day society stigmatizes those who don’t Push through; keep at it; show grit,” Dujardin said, and for the sin of subverting those norms, long-haulers “are not just disbelieved but treated openly with contempt.” Fatigue is “profoundly anti-capitalistic,” Jaime Seltzer, the director of scientific and medical outreach at the advocacy group MEAction, told me.

Energy-limiting illnesses also disproportionately affect women, who have long been portrayed as prone to idleness. Dujardin notes that in Western epics, women such as Circe and Dido were perceived harshly for averting questing heroes such as Odysseus and Aeneas with the temptation of rest. Later, the onset of industrialization turned women instead into emblems of homebound idleness while men labored in public. As shirking work became a moral failure, it also remained a feminine one.

Medicine, too, absorbs society’s stigmas around fatigue, even in selecting those who get to join its ranks. Its famously grueling training programs exclude (among others) most people with energy-limiting illnesses, while valorizing the ability to function when severely depleted. This, together with the tendency to psychologize women’s pain, helps to explain why so many long-haulers—even those with medical qualifications, like Misko and Oller—are treated so badly by the professionals they see for care.

There is so much cultural pressure to never stop that many people can’t accept that their patients or peers might be biologically forced to do so.

_

Ed Yong, “Fatigue Can Shatter A Person”

#chronic fatigue #long covid #ed yong #living with disability #manual labor #western medicine #gendering disability #illness as a moral failing #fatigue is profoundly anti capitalistic #links removed from original #the atlantic #2023

[monk-of-mystery]

I don't know what it is. But this is an altered state of consciousness.

I don't know how to describe how it's different sufficiently. The change in qualia. But it's real. A form of dissociation? Maybe. It feels like I'm sleepwalking. Nothing is real. Everything is behind a veil.

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It can't just be coincidence that I'm in this state and now is when I feel weak, when I can feel my muscles moving on their own. It can't just be coincidence.

The present me thinks, my gods, I must tell this to a doctor. They'll be able to help.

Then past me reminds present me, you've thought this before. You think this and make a note to see a doctor. You make an appointment. You go and see them. You tell them what you wrote, what you felt, but you didn't feel it as you told them. Not fully.

They smile. They nod. They toss you a bone, run some blood work, write up a referral to someone else who will do the same spiel. Then they ask if you need anything else.

Then you go home and nothing's changed.

Nothing ever changes.

Not for the better.

Things only ever get worse.

I have to care about getting help because the doctors don't care about giving it.

But what reason do I have to fight? What does it matter if I care?

Loneliness?

Desperation?

Feeling suffocated by my own mind?

I don't think I have the ability to care as much as I need myself to to get better. There's not enough to work towards. The shouts and pains of obstacles are far louder than what I can speculate to be possible in the future, the good.

I guess I'll just rot away on the couch. Am I making this choice or has it already been made for me, and I'm just finally accepting it?

I'm free to hate myself either way. Myself? Life? Existing? All of it?

Does it even matter? Does it even matter what I hate? What causes me to dislike living, to dislike myself? Are those details even relevant anymore?

I think this is my depression. Everything I wrote above.

Just a torrent of neverending feelings with no words, of words circling feelings, of sensations that cannot be communicated, of raw qualitative experience that feels just so damn much like I'm allergic to existence.

I bet I sound crazy. Whatever that means. That when I read this back later, or if others were to read it, I would sound meandering, unfocused, overdramatic, illogical. Of course I'm all those things right now, I don't deny it. I can't even understand myself. I don't know why I'm saying what I say. I can't even start to examine why I'm saying them without the question being raised to myself, why examine what I'm saying?

Is this why I feel so misunderstood?

Have I ever actually tried to communicate this kind of thing to another person?

Probably, but it was a long time ago.

I live with this brain permanently. My mind lives in a dimension that most people don't want to be reminded exist, much less try to approach.

Who would want to? I wouldn't. I'm a quarantine zone. Healthy individuals, stay away.

And why? WHY? Why am I so compromised? How can I explain it?

I can't. Not even to myself.

It makes sense, then, for me to have thought I was not meant to be part of this world, or that my nature was flawed, or that I've been irrevocably broken. I don't even understand my own existence.

I don't even understand my own existence. How can I expect anyone else to?

#my diary #altered mental state #dissociation #doctors #western medicine #hopelessness #despair #loneliness #depression #emptiness #self loathing #inside my mind

[teacher-hugs]

Natural Science for the classroom

How did traditional healers discover their medicines?

"They often use a combination of knowledge passed down through generations, personal intuition, and spiritual beliefs to discover new treatments - Traditional healers observe the natural world around them to find plants and other natural substances that can be used to treat a variety of illnesses."" They often experiment by trying different combinations of these materials until they find one that works and through their deep understanding of plants, they create herbal remedies and pass them down through the generations (for this reason remedies are usually specific to certain cultures and areas).

How did Western medical doctors discover their medicines?

""Western medical doctors use a more scientific approach to discovering new medicines. They rely on research, clinical trials, and other scientific methods to test the safety and efficacy of new treatments."

Researching leads to the development of new drugs and therapies - through the reading of scientific papers(journals), collaboration with other researchers, and attending conferences - they then conduct clinical trials to test the reliability and effects of the drugs they are developing to be used as medicines.

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#natural science #studyblr #study motivation #student life #traditional medicine #Western medicine #Youtube

[dopefancycle]

#asexual #barbie #decriminalization #western medicine #circus baby #spider stories #SoundCloud

[thejohnfleming]

The Chinese miracle of Wan Hua Oil...

I know nothing about medicine. I know nothing about medical matters, but… Back in the mists of 1991, I got hit by a large – a very large – articulated truck. I was standing on the pavement at a corner; the truck turned the corner. I was hit by the edge of the corner of the trailer suddenly protruding beyond the width of the driver’s cab. My collar bone was broken – I was told the medical word…

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#Chinese medicine #herbal #hospital #NHS #Wan Hua oil #Western medicine

[wack-ashimself]

Not all vaccines are safe for everyone.

There's 3 things about vaccines most don't admit and why big pharma gets away with the harm they can do.

1-THEY ARE MEDICINE. Not SPECIAL medicine. Not PERFECTED medicine. Not SAFE FOR EVERYONE medicine. Because there is no such thing, ever, as a cure all that is safe for everyone. PERIOD. This is UNDEBATEABLE!

2-You can't sue over them, no matter the adverse effects. If you got sick and died from drink, food, or medicine, YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT to sue for damages. BUT they made a special law where with vaccines in specific you, on average, can never sue over harm? YOU DON'T FIND THAT WEIRD?!

3-From my parent's generation to the current one, the amount of vaccines have QUADRUPLED! And guess what? For the first time in over 100 years, the current generations are going to live LESS than the previous ones. HOW DID WE FUCK UP HEALTH WITH ALL THIS TECHNOLOGY!? And for the newest vaccines-there's absolutely NO long term testing. Aka, NO PROOF it is safe. They just....did it.

Just fucking put 2 and 2 together. I will NEVER blame vaccines solely for health issues. BUT toxic air, toxic food, toxic water, toxic soil, toxic medicine and overworking ALL together would LOGICALLY slowly (or speedily) kill us.

THINK. Don't be told what to think; critically think for yourself. Before they kill you for profit like they did MILLIONS before you.

#medicine #western medicine #eastern medicine #vaccines #vaccine #anti vax #pro vax #pro choice #body autonomy

[nightinghoul]

Medication/Health Journey

I am on day one of ritalin for hypersomnia and ADHD. I'm in my 40's, and I just got diagnosed with ADHD. The doctor said she can give me ritalin for ADHD, officially, but that she would like to prescribe it to see if it helps with the hypersomnia, since it takes forever to get tested for sleep disorders around here. I don't know of that will affect the outcome of my sleep studies, but anyway they'll know what meds I'm on.

Day one of ritalin, I feel normal, but I decided to see how reading a book would go. I read several chapters, and I know what's going on in the book. That's really good for me. I'm reading 'Those of the Forest' by Wallace Byron Grange. It's like a poetic wildlife documentary. What a splendid love letter to nature!

#idiopathic hypersomnia #my medical experiences #medication #western medicine #health issues #adhd #literature for rabbit lovers

[ramsesja]

Iya Affo joins us this weekend on Civic Cipher to discuss generational trauma, how to identify it, and how to heal from it.

Be sure to follow us on all platforms!

Add Civic Cipher to your podcast favorites!

#civiccipher #civic cipher #generational trauma #blackexcellence #blacktwitter #black twitter #black people twitter #republicans #trump #healing #wellness #mental health #spirituality #ancestry #Africa #eastern medicine #western medicine #shared trauma #trauma bonding #trauma #iya Affo

[drmonkeysetroscans]

The bastards!

#western medicine