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Is it all right to take herbal medicine and prescription drugs together
The answer 'just leave a gap of time' is not enough. The real problem is not time, but that the two medicines meet at the same crossroads inside the body.
Is a Tonic a Medicine That Pours in Good Things?
If you think of a tonic as "a medicine that puts good things into the body," you are likely to be disappointed. More important than what you put in is whether what you put in gets used.
Is It True You Must Avoid Radish and Mung Beans While Taking Herbal Medicine?
The old records say ginseng dislikes radish seed. Recent experiments find that in that pairing, less ginseng saponin comes out of the pot. But that seed is not the radish in your soup. A look at how far the confirmed story actually reaches.
What Is the Difference Between Decocted Medicine and Pills?
Even the same herbal material does different work in the body when decocted versus taken as a pill. The dosage form is not a matter of convenience but a part of the treatment.
When a Full Belly Makes Your Chest Tight and Your Heart Race
The heart exam always comes back normal. Yet every time your belly is full, your chest tightens and your breath grows shallow. The belly and the chest sit stuck together with only a thin membrane between them.
If You Find It Especially Hard to Get Up in the Morning
You sleep, and it doesn't feel like sleep, and the morning sits heaviest of all. A look at the hormone curve that gives the day its rhythm — and at why that curve flattens.
Same Illness — So Why Treat Each Person Differently?
Even when the name of the illness is the same, the place that gave way first is different. I look not at the name, but at which axis gave way first.
What Time Does in a Long-Standing Illness
The same stimulus produces different results depending on how fast and how long it was applied. Time is not the backdrop of illness; it is one of the axes that create it.
The Illness That Returns When You Stop the Medicine
If you are fine only while taking the medicine and it returns when you stop, it was not that the medicine was insufficient. It was that the environment stayed the same.
When Seemingly Unrelated Symptoms Come Together
Leg swelling, headache, indigestion, insomnia, shoulder stiffness. Each gets a different medicine from a different department. I look for the one place that threads these symptoms together on a single line.
Breathing does not only take in air — a rhythm that continues even while you sleep
We breathe about twenty thousand times a day. I do not see breathing only as taking in oxygen. I see it as a place that lays a rhythm on the body without stopping — even in sleep.
Immunity Is Decided in the Gut
We often say that immunity has dropped. I look at where the baseline of that immunity is set. The place where the body's immune cells gather in the greatest numbers is the gut.