So, Today’s topic is herbal medicine. Some of the questions that we’re going to cover are, what our herbs? how do they work? and how do they work to prevent miscarriages? At the end, I’m going to give you a list of actual items. So, what are herbs? In herbal medicine, we use plants based products such as leaves and twigs and roots and barks as well as a variety of materials besides herbs such as minerals, stones and animal products to accomplish what we need to accomplish.
This allows for a very very wide variety of specific compounds to accomplish it in taste. So, how do herbs work? Like medicine, they’re used to treat disease they do this by balancing the body. So in western thinking, we like to think in terms of different functions that plants can accomplish. So, let’s take take a vitex or chase berry for instance which has been used in Chinese medicine for thousands of years. It’s Western pharmacologic functions are it’s an analgesic, it’s an antibacterial, it’s an anti-inflammatory, it’s an anticoagulant and it also lowers blood pressure. So, in Chinese herbal medicine as well as in some other very traditional medicines, we don’t actually emphasize these pharmacologic functions. So, herbs value isn’t actually restoring that lost blood flow and therefore, restoring the delivery of the nutrients and healing cells to the tissues so that we can restore normal function and we accomplish that by balancing the body.
What we call balancing a body, We mean really by getting it into a state of homeostasis and equilibrium where everything happens effortlessly, that’s what we consider health. So in order for me to demonstrate this concept, I’m going to use Heather and Claire. So, imagine Heather she’s the hot type. So, what that means is that she’s going to have a set of symptoms related to each. CLAIRE on the other hand, she’s the opposite of Heather. She has a set of symptoms related to cold. So, Heather she is going to get easily hot and that’s why she’s gonna have a dislike for summer especially, when the temperatures rise Right. She may have loose stools even explosive diarrhea at times depending on what she eats. She may have high blood pressure which is an inflammation, an inflammatory condition in the cardiovascular system.
She may have a loud voice and very projected voice. She may get easily irritable and she may have some redness in her face, her ears and maybe even her eyes. Her fertility diagnosis by the way is going to be the same as Claire’s. It’s gonna be hormonal imbalance and poor egg quality. However, she’s gonna have a short cycle, a menstrual cycle and excess feeding. Claire on the other hand has the opposite symptoms. She easily gets colds especially, when the temperatures drop in the winter. She may have loose stools. She may have low blood pressure even normal blood pressure. She may have a soft voice that’s not very projected at all and she may be unexpressed in her emotions. She may experience some paleness in her skin, in her face, even on her nail beds or her tongue at times. So, her fertility diagnosis also is hormonal imbalance and poor egg quality.
Her period however, may be delayed and may be very very scanty in terms of the amount of blood that she shall see during her menstrual cycle. So you can see both of these ladies are tilted in a specific way on the scale. Heather is going to be tilted this way right, whereas Claire is going to be tilted the opposite way. So, let’s say Heather she goes out with this research and finds a couple of herbs that she concludes are gonna help her with her fertility. So, she’s gonna start taking milk thistle and Doc dandelion.
For example, just pick two random ones. So, Heather is going to take milk thistle and dandelion on a daily basis for three months and Boom! She gets pregnant and is able to have a healthy pregnancy and baby. Awesome! So guess what heather is going to do after having found this miracle cure. Right! She’s going to try to spread it to everybody else. Because she wants to share the good. However, Claire who heard about this miracle cure, she’s going to start taking these herbs and what’s gonna happen is guess what Claire is not gonna get pregnant. She’s going to actually get worse. What I wanted to tell you is that milk thistle and dandelion, they’re actually both cold herbs. So, that’s why they worked beautifully for Heather. Claire who’s already cold and now she’s gonna start taking more cold herbs. Guess what’s gonna happen? All of her symptoms are gonna get worse and her menstrual cycle is going to be even more delayed in her bleeding may even more scanty.
So what’s gonna work for one person is not gonna work for another person. So, there are different directions that the body can get out of balance and heat and cold it’s just one of those concepts, Yeah. So, the herbs that we are taking there should be tilting us in the right direction and balances out, right! and once we are balanced, we want to stop taking the herbs because we don’t want to tilt into the opposite direction. So, too much of a good thing can also take you out of balance. So, How do herbs prevents miscarriages? So herbs work, if you have the right ones at the right medicinal doses to get you back into balance. So, we we prevents miscarriages by getting you back into balance. When you are back in balance, your body will function more effortlessly. Yeah, your circulation will be improved to your entire body especially, to your fertility organs. You should feel overall more energy and vitality, your sleep may be improved and your hot and cold sensation they should even out overall, you should feel great. So, circulation is a very very important concept in Chinese medicine because, circulation is necessary to deliver the essential nutrients and building blocks to improve your fertility organs and improve your air quality.
If you can deliver the nutrients, you cannot build and renovate that house that needs improvement. So, it’s really really hard to say which herbs are going to be good for you. I wish, there was a miracle cure for you know different fertility diagnoses, but because everybody is so unique in their health profile. It’s very hard to tell say that. So, I’m going to instead go over a list of herbs that you should not take. So milk thistle and dandelion, these two herbs are very very good for detox. However, not everybody needs to be detoxed. Detox herbs generally, will affect the liver the most, Right. Because the liver is the detoxing organ in the body and they tend to be colds. So, all of these including vitex, nettle and clover they’re all cold herbs and especially, when we’re talking about fertility, cold herbs can be damaged and unless, you have the right profile. Generally, holders they will constrict blood flow, Right. If you want to restore blood flow you want to ask local heat to an area race that is troubled. It also can cause an imbalance in that whole scale or just in some local area. So to recap, herbs to recap herbs work by balancing the body and prevents miscarriages. I restore the normal function and proper circulation so that we can regenerate and healed heal and just have effortless health. So, my recommendation is for you to consult with a professional before you take any one herb on a regular basis, so that it actually does not tell you in the wrong direction.
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