Pain

Pain

Diet  ~  Bodywork   ~  Natural Medicines

Differential Diagnosis is essential

Clinical Approaches for Pain

• Suppress
• Treat underlying cause
• Reduce inflammation
• Energetics – in TCM the Energetics are to move stagnation to remove pain

Many Factors of Pain

• Compliance is a big factor

• American patients are so used to the rapid effect of drugs
• Old injuries that never heal
• Chronic inflammation
  • Shuts off the export of waste from the tissue

  • Sedentary lifestyle

Pain Cycle ~ slide 67

1. find the cause
2. treat the symptoms
3. Long term - treat the causes and manage lifestyle

Slide 70 ~ Oligo antigenic (Challenge / elimination) Diet

• Pear
• Turkey
• Carrots
• Lamb
• Cabbage
• Olive Oil

Go on this diet for 3 weeks to reduce inflammation

Re-introduce – 6 oranges for breakfast only to see what happens

slide 72

• Sweet Potatoes
• Carrots
• Chard
• Asparagus
• Green veggies are the most anti-inflammatory foods rich in magnesium
• Celery and Cucumber for lupus
• Bitter melon = bittermelon – juice or food
• Cherries – gout, and inflammatory conditions
• Ghee – main Anti-inflammatory
• Almonds, Black and white Sesame Seeds – best raw – whole raw nut