As we mentioned in previous articles, infertility is defined as the inability of a couple to conceive after 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse. It affects over 5 million couples alone in the U. S. and many times more in the world. Because of an unawareness of treatments, only 10% seek help from professional specialists. We have spent most of the time in this series discussing conventional and Chinese medicines in treating fertility. I believe, it is the best time to change the subject by discussing how to treat infertility with Chinese herbs–cistanche.

I. Definition
Cistanche is also known as rou cong rong. It is a holoparasitic desert plant belonging to the family Orobanchaceae. It has been used in tradition Chinese medicine for replenishing blood and Kidney-Jing.

II. How cistanche affects fertility
1. Sexual desire
It is said that cistanche helps to improve kidney function in regulating the production of steroid growth hormones by replenishing the kidney jing as well as retaining enough fluids in the reproductive organs, resulting in an increased production of testosterone and the chance of fertility.

2. Nervous system
It also contains chemicals that help to stimulate bone marrow in production of red blood cells and it improves blood circulation by decreasing the high blood pressure, resulting in lessening nervous symptoms, such as a lack of energy, fatigue, stress, and tiredness.

3. Blow flow to the reproductive organs
Besides reducing the levels of high blood pressure, it also stimulates the blood flow to the reproductive organs that not only helps to increase sperm quality and count in men and restores the normal menstrual cycle in women, but also treat erectile dysfunction.

4. Kidney
Cistanche also contains substances that help to restore kidney function by balancing the yin and yang qi, resulting in helping the kidney in releasing the qi and blood stagnation in the abdominal region and increasing the chance of fertility and egg implantation into the uterine lining.

5. Constipation
Cistanche also helps to improves the function of the bowels, resulting in healthy bowel movements, leading to increased qi in the digestive system and increasing the digestive system in cleansing toxins, and vitamins and mineral absorption.

III. Side effects
It is no known of side effect. It may be toxic if overdosed.

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This article is a brief summary at best which attempts to describe the relationships in a complex system – our body.

Chinese Medicine has a powerful advantage over western based medicine – it is holistic and looks for the cause of a health issue.

The five elements is an esoteric approach which links energy pathways in the body.

After all, if we can command energy then we can control our health – more on Qi later.

There is no absolute law in the system of the Five Elements.

The classical Chinese view of the universe denies the possibility of absolutes.

The laws of the Five Elements are descriptions of the tendencies toward transformation within the framework of Five Elements.

In the human body the relationship between the 5 elements and the organs( zang-fu) can be seen.

Elements – Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water

Zang (Yin) – Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lung, Kidney

Fu(Yang) – Gall Bladder, Small Intestine, Stomach, Large Intestine, Bladder

Sense organs – Eye, Tongue, Mouth, Nose, Ear

Tissues – Tendon, Vessel, Muscle, Skin/Hair, Bone

Emotions – Anger, Joy, Worry, Grief/Melancholy, Fright/Fear

Notes – Jiao, Zheng, Gong, Shang, Yu

As a convention of expression, the energies of the Five Elements may be said to possess the following creative powers.

Wood tends to create Fire

Fire tends to create Earth

Earth tends to create Metal

Metal tends to create Water

Water tends to create Wood

The Controlling Cycle brings harmony and balance via complementary and opposite tendencies. It is a check in what would otherwise be an unending increase.

The Controlling Cycle

Wood tends to control Earth

Earth tends to control Water

Water tends to control Fire

Fire tends to control Metal

Metal tends to control Wood

Broken Balance

The Over Acting and Insulting sequences handle the abnormal relationship among the Five Elements when the balance is broken.

The Over Acting Cycle is the same pattern as the Controlling Cycle except each Element over-acts on another by one Element being in excess energetically.

The Insulting Cycle is the reverse of the Over Acting Cycle. This cycle handles energetics that is opposite to the Over Acting Cycle.

The Five Elements have Ten Stems

Each Element has a Yin and Yang component, each balancing the other as in the nature Yin-Yang.

If Yang rises, Yin depresses

If Yin rises, Yang depresses

If Yang depresses, Yin rises

If Yin depresses, Yang rises

This produces a complementary and opposite balance within each Element.

Ten Celestial Stems Creation Cycle

The arrangement of the Ten Celestial Stems following the tendencies of the Creative Cycle shows how the Yang aspects create each other and the Yin aspects create each other.

Were there no check on the tendencies to create, the result would be a compounding increase of the energies from one Element to the other.

One way this is checked and balanced is by the Yin and Yang aspects of each Element throughout the system balancing each other.

Another way the system remains in balance is by the Yin or Yang aspect of any Element balancing on the Controlling Cycle the Yang or Yin aspect of the Element it controls.

These tendencies are shown here.

Ten Celestial Stems

Controlling Cycle Balances

The balances are bi-directional following a Yin-Yang pattern. If Yin increases Yang decreases and vice versa.

Wood Yin created by Water Yin creates Fire Yin.

Fire Yin creates Earth Yin creating Metal Yin, which creates Water Yin.

The Yang aspects are similar to the above Yin energetics.

The whole system is a delicate balance of all the parts.

In perfect harmony, this system continues to generate and maintain itself, but if any disharmony or imbalance occurs anywhere in the system, any number of transformations of this imbalance can occur.

The influence of transformations may produce symptoms considered as adverse effects. Some transformations have no symptoms.

The Yin-Yang energetics of any Element can affect the other Element in a way depending on the relative strength of either Yin or Yang.

Balance is the key to harmony.

I would like to quote a passage from the Lu Shih Chhun Chhiu. The author of this quote stresses very elegantly the importance of movement and the dangers of stagnation.

“The reason the water in the stream remains vital, yet stationary water does not, and the hinge does not age, yet the rest of the door does, is because they are moving.

The relationship of the form and Chi is the same.

If the form does not move, the Jing does not stream. If the Jing does not stream the Chi becomes stagnant.

If the stagnation is in the head, it becomes like a tumour or like wind. If the stagnation is in the ear, it will cause deafness.”

In the Lun Hung from 82 or 83 AD, Chhung points out, “Disease is like confusion and chaos. The Jing and Shen become confused and mixed up.”

The Huai Nan Tzu emphasizes the complementary view. Order is the “passing through without disturbance” that enables action.

I have found this relationship, using the Ten Stems to be a vital and integral approach and to be a much better guide to energetics, symptoms, disease and diagnosis.

The exciting implication of this is that if we understand this order and facilitate it, we become more capable.

Authors Note

Movement is certainly a key to wellbeing. However, the spiritual, emotional and physical parts of the body are linked.

If one tries to improve the physical only then eventually the system will collapse – yang cannot exist without yin.

The reason for this article was to put my opinion forward about the integrity of yin and yang and the myriad of tendencies(relative energy) associated with each and to make the reader aware that not only yin and yang, negative and positive, hard and soft, strong and weak exists but that there are infinite relative energies between these opposites.

As in the various lines of a magnetic field there are strong and weak areas between the opposite poles and at all distances between the opposites and so the infinite tendencies between yin and yang has its counterpart in fluctuating strengths of energy – always moving.

So the compelling argument for movement is made – all things must move. If joints do not move, they solidify. If blood does not flow in the right way then there is stagnation. If the lungs do not breathe then there is no Qi and death follows. It is also not enough to think and not do – there must be some transformation of thought into the physical by doing.

Balance in all activity is necessary for optimum health.

References:

Foundations of Chinese Medicine, Macioca, G, Churchill Livingstone

Five Elements and Ten Stems, Nan Ching Theory, Diagnostics and Practice, Kiiko Matsumota and Stephen Birch

Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Cheng Xinnong(editor), Foreign Languages Press

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What are some good remedy to prevent male hair loss and promote hair growth WITHOUT using Rogaine???

I know someone in his early twenties and has a noticeable hair thinning at the back of his head. Does saw palmetto really prevent hair loss and promote hair regrowth? What about those thickening shampoos? Are there any other remedies? He really needs help

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Chinese medicine/acupuncture to help infertility?

I've been having acupuncture and been taking these herbal tablets the woman prescribed me, called 'Ba Zhen Yi Mu Wan', to treat Endometriosis and Polycystic Ovaries.

Anyone had this treatment before? Did it work?

(I'm also getting professional medical treatment, but it's not for a couple of months yet and I wanted to try this in the meantime).

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In Depth Analysis Of Anxiety Management, Indication And Treatment

What is anxiety?

• Anxiety can be defined as feeling of worry: nervousness or agitation, often about something that is going to happen.
• Anxiety can also be defined as something that worries somebody: a subject or concern that causes worry.
• Anxiety is the feeling of worry, nervousness or agitation often about something that is going to happen.
• Anxiety can also be defined as extreme apprehension, a state of intense apprehension or fear of real or imagined danger, manifested physiologically as increased heart rate, sweating, trembling, weakness, and stomach or intestinal discomfort.

What is anxiety management?
Is a short term symptomatic relive of excessive anxiety.

How can I manage anxiety?

Anxiety can be managed using :
• Alprazolam (Xanax) management
• Benzodiazepine

Alprazolam is more preferable to other Benzodiazepine for the treatment of anxiety disorders. Alprazolam is also recommended drug for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and is for the management of panic disorders with or without agoraphobia( fear of open space).
How will I know that I am suffering from anxiety :
• Racing thought
• Inability to concentrates and focus
• Living in future and predicting the worse
• Worrying about what people think of you
• Paying so much focus on how people see you
• Paying attention to negative invents
• Accelerated heartbeat
• High blood pressure
• Dizziness
• Tiredness
• Sweating
• Muscle tension

Anxiety treatment :

• Herbal remedies : Always make sure you take a cup of tea out of vervain, rosemary, or ginseng ( a forked aromatic root used in traditional Chinese medicine. Is now widely used as a tonic , and is credited with simulative and restorative powers ) , three times daily for three weeks when you are suffering from panic attack. To ease your tension and to get good sleep try chamomile cava, lime flower, valerian and hops.
• Diet: you should eat plenty of foods rich in :

o Vitamin B: A group of water soluble vitamins found in yeast, seed germs, eggs, live
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r and vegetables. It is also called vitamin B complex.
o Vitamin E: A pale yellow viscous fluid occurring in vegetable oils, butter, eggs, and cereal grains that is important for fertility in humans and as an antioxidant.
o Calcium: A soft silver – white element that is an alkaline earth metal constituting about three percent of the earth’s crust.
o Magnesium: A light silver – white metallic element that occurs naturally in compounds.

You have to reduce your amount of sugar intake and avoid alcohol and caffeine .All this can be substituted with herbal tea or fruit juice.
Every person has a personal threshold for what he or she can handle in a given situation. Some people have a lower threshold due to their genetic makeup or past experiences. If pushed past this threshold by events, these people feel stressed, even overwhelmed, and can easily have anxiety attacks.
In case your condition worsens, you can go for psychotherapy and cranial osteopathy or can consult your physician to get a proper treatment for anxiety.

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Overcome Male Infertility 147–how To Treat Infertility With False Unicorn Root

As we mentioned in previous articles, infertility is defined as inability of a couple to conceive after 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse. It effects over 5 millions couple alone in the U. S. and many times more in the world. Because of unawareness of treatments, only 10% seeks help from professional specialist.We have spent most of the time in this series discussing the conventional and Chinese medicine in treating fertility. I believe, it is the best time to change the subject by discussing how to treat male infertility with false unicorn root.

I. Definition
False unicorn root is an herbaceous perennial plant, native to North America. it has been used in traditional Chinese in treating sexual libido and enhancing the sexual performance in men.

II. How false unicorn root effects male fertility
1. Treating kidney yin deficiency
Since it is considered as a cool to cold medicine, it helps to harmonizing the kidney function in regulating the production of sperm, if kidney yin deficiency is the cause of infertility.

2. Sexual dysfunction
False unicorn has an adaptogenic or balancing effect on sex hormones, therefore it not only helps to reduce nervous system fighting against emotional and physical stress and depression, it also helps to increase production of testosterone naturally, resulting in increasing sexual desire and correcting sexual dysfunction.

3. Immune system
It also helps immune function in regulating cells growth and fighting against infection and inflammation, resulting in increasing the immune system in recognizing it’s own tissue without attacking them.

4. Liver
False unicorn root is a liver tonic herb. Since sluggish liver not only causes abnormal function in production of certain hormone in the body, it also increases the risk of abnormal function of spleen, leading to blood sugar fluctuation, resulting in increasing the blood stagnation in the abdominal region, thus reducing the reproductive organs in sperm production.

5. Digestive System
It is said that false unicorn root also helps to increase the digestive system in absorbing vital vitamins and minerals during digestive
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process, resulting in lessoning the risk of sexual libido and abnormal sperm production caused by nutrients deficiency.

III. Side effects
There are no major side effect, but it may cause some side effect, if it is taken with other medicine. DO NOT use false unicorn root if you’re pregnant or breast-feeding.

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Different Meanings For The Ring Fingers

A study at the University of Liverpool showed that there may be a link between finger length and depression in men. This study found that the longer a man’s fingers are in relation to his height, the more likely he is to suffer from depression. Although this study included women as well as men, the same could not be concluded for the women which led the group of researchers to discover that as testosterone levels dimish during depression, that the culprit could be lower levels of pre-natal testosterone! And all this because of his fingers…but fingers are fascinating and the vast majority of society wear rings on their fingers (no bells on their toes, at least normally) without many appreciating some of the information about fingers. So think again before you buy stylish silver rings because you may just want to buy the next one for a different finger.

The Greeks assigned the ring finger meanings in line with their Gods. So wearing a ring on the thumb finger whose God is Poseidon, represents individualism. If you wear one on the index finger, God Zeus, this meant dominance, energy and power. The Greek God for the middle finger is Dionysus so wearing a ring on that finger represents rebellion, decadence and irreverence. The finger known as the ring finger is Aphrodite, so this is for love, romance and good connections. The Greek God for our little pinky is Ares which symbolises assertiveness, competitiveness and conflict.

What about palmistry? In palmistry the thumbs are related to self control. There are references here to the active hand and the passive hand; this simply means that if you are right handed then this is your active hand making your left passive. So if you or someone you see has a thumb which goes inwards on the active hand this could mean that they are not currently fully applying themselves to their worldly ambitions. The same on the passive hand shows inner conflicts. Choosing rings for personal transformation in this instance you could wear a narrow, silver ring which can help with guidance and strength, which if possible has a milled surface (this is to be industrious), which should be worn on the passive hand. In traditional chinese medicine (TCM) the thumb relates to the lungs, which are for inspiration.

The index finger is called the mirror finger by palmists. It is ruled by Jupiter and is about self-
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reflection. If you or someone you know wears a big ring on the active index finger this could mean that there are self-esteem issues. The person could feel in need of recognition and power, especially if this ring contains a large gemstone. For these situations a tin based ring which is very simple should be worn on the active hand, with no gem, and with flat sides for humility and modesty. In TCM the index finger relates to digestion, therefore it can be digestion of life and ideas.

The middle finger which is known as the wall finger is ruled by Saturn which represents the psychological boundaries, values and lifestyle. The larger the ring and gemstone on this finger , the more seriously the person takes life and wants to feel secure. However multiple rings on the middle finger of the passive hand can be associated with stability in the family and obsession over material things. For those who have concerns like this it is good to wear a ring on the passive hand with a clear, square crystal to bring stability and clarity. In TCM the middle finger relates to the heart, so self-love and love of others.

The third finger, also called the ring finger, is the focus of the love binding ceremonies which can be traced back to pagan times. Wearing a ring here is a self-imposed idea to help the subconscious to restrict itself in pursuing the other sex. In TCM this is the liver which in Chinese medicine is the seat of anger.

The fourth finger, our pinky, is ruled by Mercury, God of Communication, and in palmistry this is called the antenna. It communicates with all levels, and people who wear more than one ring here may have a tendency to embellish the truth a little. A small fine ring on the passive hand will enhance communication in the right way, you will notice an immediate difference. In TCM this is the kidney which is about fear.

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