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[vertigin0us.livejournal.com]

hi.

my friend went to see a naturopath recently for advice about her heavy periods.

apparently, the naturopath took a snippet of her hair and placed it on a thing that looked a bit like a big wooden suitcase. on one half there were six rows of about ten dials and on the other half there was a circle of what looked like wood. she put a little bit of liquid on the wooden circle before proceeding to rub her hand back and forth over the circle. as she was doing this, she turned the dials to different settings.

after about half an hour of this she stopped and told my friend what was wrong with her. from her piece of hair, she told my friend that her pituitary gland is very low, which means that that it can't do its job properly. this is problematic because its job is to control all of the other hormones and, because it's not doing this, her hormones are doing whatever they want, causing her periods to be really bad.

my friend had to write down all of the symptoms that accompany her periods and the naturopathe said that they were "very unusual". i'm not sure what her symptoms are but i do understand that she throws up and gets bad stomach cramps, both of which i thought were fairly normal.

the naturopath also told her that her thyroid is a little low but nothing to worry about. she also said that there is something wrong with the nerves going through her neck and down into her lungs (i don't know how she could tell this from her hair), which causes her to have coughing fits during which her lungs "spasm".

to cut a long story short, she's been put on medication...

• Chasteberry plus - 1 tablet,3 times a day


• Adreset - 1 tablet, 3 times a day


• Thyro-complex - 1 tablet, every other day


• B complex - 1 tablet, once a day


• B6 - Once a day for one week before hrt period


• Chromium 200 - Once a day for one week before my period


• Yarrow - 10 drops in water,twice a day


• E200 - 1 tablet, 3 times a day


• Some un-named liquid - 1 drop, six times a day


• Another un-named liquid - 1 drop, six times a day


• Another un-named liquid - 1 drop, 3 times a day for two weeks before her period


• Rye extract - 2 drops, every three hours

my friend is a big fan of herbal medicine but i have my doubts about its validity. she's from the kind of family which does not really believe in traditional methods (she's had no vaccinations against diseases such as MMR and TB). she thinks that most of the stuff "proper" doctors prescribe is "shit", partly because all they have suggested about helping her periods is putting her on birth control (which her mother opposes because she thinks there is a reason why her periods are so bad and that they shouldn't be messing with her menstrual cycle at the age of fifteen).

i know absolutely nothing about herbal medicine but this seems a bit excessive to me. does anyone have any experience with naturopaths? what is your opinion on the methods this woman used and what she prescribed?

i just want a bit of information in regards to this because i'd like my reservations and qualms about what her "doctor" prescribed to either be resolved or validated.

thanks in advance.

Comments

[darlahood.livejournal.com]

I'm all for natural medecine, too, but damn, that does sound like a lot of stuff all at once. And even though it's coming from a plant or whatever, it's still just chemicals.

I'd get a second opinion before I started taking all that shit.

Recommend "The Cure for All Diseases" by Hulda Clark to your friend and see if she can take some advice from this awesome book.

[maai.livejournal.com]

I've never actually seen the mechanism it is done with, but hair analysis is definitely a valid diagnostic tool. I know it worked for me.

I was on a similar regime of mega-doses of vitamins for my very serious almost-killed-me-as-a-child-allergies for a couple years, and I never so much as sneezed while I was on them.

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[maai.livejournal.com]

I would still get a 2nd opinion.

[jennifer0246.livejournal.com]

naturalliving or naturalmed could be helpful for you.

i'm inclined to say good for her for not buying into society's medicinal b.s., but i don't think that's what you want to hear.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I think that getting a 2nd opinion can't hurt.

[skeptictank.livejournal.com]

I don't know what to tell your friend, but I agree that while doctors DO know their stuff and CAN perscribe lots of valid man-made medications, there is also an element of politics in the medical system. Your friends mom is probably right to be leary of any doctor (which would be almost all of them) who would want to give her daughter birth control and blame the issues on her body just doing its thing.

Remember those Robitussin commercials that said something like, "why would you want to give your child a cough syrup that was made to fix all of these problems: yada yada yada; when all he has is a cough?" I think about that a lot when girls post things in here about having all of these weird symptoms of PMS and the docs give them the same thing that they give girls that don't even get cramps. You don't want to over-medicate to cure things that aren't happening to you, just like she probably doesn't want to be given medicine that's made for A, B & C, when she's eperiencing X, Y & Z.