Guest guest Posted August 26, 2000 Report Share Posted August 26, 2000 like I said before the derivative arsenicum is a viable treatment. _Adriel > From: " Gillian Rowe " <roweg@...> > Reply- egroups > Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 23:56:29 +0100 > " " < egroups> > Subject: [ ] Bloodletting > > Hi > Hold it right there. > Bloodletting, maggots and worms are all making a comeback! Maggots are the > new treatment for stubborn leg ulcers that refuse to heal. Worms for Colitis > and bloodletting in that condition where your mean cell volume is too large. > Yes I admit they do not use leeches, just draw off a few pints of blood and > then give them to you for your Rose Garden! > Perhaps now is the TIME to look at old cures for Arthritis, as long as it is > not Arsenic! > > Love and God Bless > Gillian > To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is > miserable. > > > > > > Please visit our new web page at: > http://www.wpunj.edu/icip/pa > > We are currently discussing new chat times. moderates a chat on > arthritis at > www.about.com on Thursday evenings, so check that > out in the meantime! E mail at RA@... for details. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2001 Report Share Posted August 16, 2001 Hi, Patty, >Can anybody explain why I might be feeling so much better after >losing about 2 pints of blood? There have been a lot of posts on hemochromatosis, but I want to bring out another possibility. CFS often disturbs the autonomic nervous system, which controls blood volume and pressure among other things. It is possible that what you have is not a blood excess per se but a blood plasma excess (in other words, the right number of red & white cells, but too much fluid.) Given the range of " normal " values in lab values, this kind of imbalance would be very hard to spot. If that is the case, instead of drawing whole blood, you would be better off having 'plasmapheresis' - whole blood removed, cells spun out and returned. (I imagine that they could even do a cut to return a population enriched for white cells.) Either way, you might want to talk to your doc about getting on a diuretic, to reduce fluid vollume without the need for continued blood draws. Jerry _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 >>Perhaps this was the wisdom behind regular bloodletting which would reduce excess iron levels...or we could donate blood, avoid cast iron pans and lots of red meat. I've read that medically effective bloodletting occurred at the very beginning of a fever, reducing iron levels as food for the pathogen. Because it's a dramatic and highly symbolic act, it was also over- and improperly used to the detriment of patients. I don't remember who or exactly when, but there was at least one doctor of high repute writing against indiscriminate bloodletting and specifying the onset-of-illness method. Lending credibility to this possibility are that Arabic physicians, who were altogether more sophisticated than most in the ancient and medieval worlds, used bloodletting primarily for fevers; and that the few revivals of the practice were also for fever - for instance, as low-tech treatment for tropical diseases in situ. Although there is so much else going on hormonally that it's impossible to say, I am also very much less likely to get sick immediately after menstruating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 > > >>Perhaps this was the wisdom behind regular bloodletting which would > reduce excess iron levels...or we could donate blood, avoid cast iron > pans and lots of red meat. > > I've read that medically effective bloodletting occurred at the very beginning of a fever, reducing iron levels as food for the pathogen. Because it's a dramatic and highly symbolic act, it was also over- and improperly used to the detriment of patients. I don't remember who or exactly when, but there was at least one doctor of high repute writing against indiscriminate bloodletting and specifying the onset-of-illness method. > > Lending credibility to this possibility are that Arabic physicians, who were altogether more sophisticated than most in the ancient and medieval worlds, used bloodletting primarily for fevers; and that the few revivals of the practice were also for fever - for instance, as low-tech treatment for tropical diseases in situ. > > Although there is so much else going on hormonally that it's impossible to say, I am also very much less likely to get sick immediately after menstruating. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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