What is matter is energy and what is energy is matter A molecule is both a particle(matter) and a wave(energy) And so biologically we simultaneously coexist as both a matter/molecular field and an energy field We know this from E=mc2 and the energy science of Ayurveda gives us a vocabulary by which we can talk about our mindbody as an energy field
Quite simply whenever we become sick there is an improper flow of energy to parts of the body caused by qualities that interfere with the flow of energy through those tissues This is what happens in the IC bladder pain syndrome(interstitial cystitis, vulvodynia, chronic prostatitis, irritable bowel syndrome, GERD, and fibromyalgia) where the free flow of energy becomes disrupted in the pelvic nerves
When we hear the words prana, chi, qi, ru,and ruha they are expressing the biologic energy field Numerous healing traditions over the past 1000’s of years have understood this of the human biology
You may have heard of people having spontaneous remissions from cancer There is actually an international registry of such cases where there is good documentation of a diagnosed cancer going away spontaneously without any therapy There is no molecular explanation but from an energy science view the reason is clear
For some reason and there are many the flow of biologic prana becomes established again And because the matter/molecular model cannot explain the phenomenon, the word miracle is used But energetically the flow of prana is reestablished
All of the energy science tools that I have mentioned through the years are to help reestablish the flow of biologic physiologic energy At times the biologic energy is particularly stuck or stubborn in the process of movement but by and by it moves and the reestablishment of pranic flow occurs Whether it’s CCF tea, yoga asana, breath exercises called pranayama, herbs, basti, or meditation the tools help reestablish pranic flow
Here are some basic things to begin fixing pranic flow
1 Eat according to your nutritional energy pattern
2 Avoid incompatible food combinations
4 Utilize pranayama breath exercises
5 Fit your daily schedule into the rhythms of Nature
IC (interstitial cystitis) bladder pain is a result of inflammation and the energy science describes this in terms of the hot quality As I have talked about in the past there are many different things that people can do to reduce this quality in the gut: aloe vera gel, CCF tea, spices such as turmeric fresh basil and ginger, and herbs Click here to take survey But not only do you want the antiinflammatory effect but it would be great if you could also enhance digestive strength at the same time Aloe does this but colostrum does this as...
read moreIn all of Nature you only learn by contrast You can’t know hot if you haven’t experienced cold You can’t know the bladder pain of IC unless you’ve experienced the pleasure of being pain free And then there is the contrast of male and female, quantitative and qualitative models of healing Why is this important? Because different models of healing lead to different results due to the way they view the disease process Results Oriented Healing for IC When you know the strengths and weaknesses of the models of...
read moreI think it’s pretty much consensus that pharmaceuticals are not the panacea for IC and bladder pain. At least that was my experience with the IC patients who I worked with. Herbs offer an alternative to pharmaceuticals and we have discussed a number of them for use such as CCF tea, the use of turmeric in cooking, as well as aloe vera gel. Herbs fall into 3 categories when looking at their functional effects. Unlike pharmaceucals one herb category enhances digestive strength in all its various aspects of function, for example...
read moreThere is nothing more discouraging to IC patients than to get their hopes up that a new therapy is going to work only to find unfortunately after feeling well for a while the symptoms come back and it appears that things are back to the same bladder flares You begin feeling a real sense of hopelessness Why did it work for others and not work for me? And these therapies run the gamut from those suggested by your doctor, urologist, acupuncturist, physical therapist, or friends Because these treatments cover a wide spectrum,...
read moreThe painful bladder flares of IC that disrupt relationships, affect social planning, and by and large make life very hard are poorly understood from a molecular point of view The matter science medical perspective of disease is that the molecules cause disease In contrast the energy science medicine sees all disease beginning in the GI tract as an imbalance as an imbalance of qualities This contrast is important because it means the difference between tolerating the misery of flares versus clearing the disease that causes the...
read more“Self empowerment is the key to a healthy life. Simply put, it means you can take charge of the things you do in your life in order to create and maintain the health you want. If you suffer a life threatening illness, you are fully capable of making the choices and changes necessary to help your body heal. It’s up to you and you alone; no one else can do it for you. Healing and maintaining your health is your responsibility, not the doctor’s. The doctors job is to help you buy time to heal.” Use this time well and begin...
read moreIn the energy science world of healing it’s not just one thing but a mulitiplicity of treatments that you do that brings about healing of your IC This is in contrast from the matter science model of healing that says if you do just this one thing (take a pill) you will get major benefit such that you won’t have to do anything else For example if your blood pressure is high then take this pill and you’ll be better Or better yet, take two or three different types of pills and you’ll be better So pill popping...
read moreIn many different encounters with IC patients over the years I’ve found that there is often a feeling of ungroundedness from lack of direction, a feeling of being without a rudder, and the uncertainty as to whether this problem will ever go away This feeling gives a sense of insecurity about the future (will I have this the rest of my life?), a feeling of hopelessness, and overall anxiety born out of the fear that IC will never go away There is a feeling of loss of control over the body (not making to the bathroom) due to not knowing...
read moreThe accompanying graph depicts what happens in the formation of any disease process of imbalance There is a gradual buildup of excess qualities such as the hot quality in IC This can occur over years of unconscious choice making that leads to at first GI tract symptoms that then eventuate in dissemination of the quality(ies) to various parts of the body In the case of IC the dissemination of the qualities of hot, light, mobile, dry, rough, and subtle to the urinary tract leads to the early symptoms of...
read moreIt is estimated that many people with fibromyalgia(FM) have an IC like symptom complex in mild form as well only to exacerbate as the years progress As a matter of fact that’s why IC is now looked upon as a syndrome of diseases rather than an isolated disease of the urinary bladder The energy science due to its way of looking at disease doesn’t create disease labels but sees all problems in the body as imbalances of qualities and hence with such a system of healing leaves clustering of disease labels as the way to understand...
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People with the IC bladder pain syndrome(interstitial cystitis, chronic prostatitis, vulvodynia, irritable bowel syndrome, GERD, and fibromyalgia) are used to being probed and prodded “down there” since that’s where the pain and symptoms are Cystoscopies are done, cultures are done to rule out infection, medication installations are given with the use of a catheter, intermittent catheterization is used when patients cannot urinate, and at times under anesthesia when burning of bladder lesions is needed to be done
All of this poking and prodding is something patients with IC bladder pain syndrome currently dislike (the pain with urethral manipulation of any kind can be excruciating) as part of the diagnosis and treatment of the illness The energy science of Ayurveda also has for 1000’s of years used a form of intervention as well for the management and healing of pelvic syndrome disorders but much gentler and not as painful
The good thing from an energy science view is that the little prodding that is done has great rewards
In the energy science all disease begins in the GI tract due to imbalances of qualities mainly created by the foods consumed So you can see that the first management tool is to continue to feed the imbalance of qualities causing the problem As I have talked about in the past this comes by following a nutritional format appropriate for your mindbody energy makeup
The second management tool is to improve the strength of the digestive enzyme and bacterial system and I’ve covered some of the ways we do that in previous blogs and will continue in future posts to show you ways to enhance digestive strength As I mentioned in the past kitchari is a great way to give bowel rest so that the peripheral pelvic nerve tissue that is holding the imbalance of qualities will release and allow the qualities to come back to the GI tract for elimination
Now the stage is set for the elimination of the bothersome qualities lodged in the pelvic nerves that leads to the IC bladder pain syndrome symptoms This is done by creating a negative pressure in the colon so that the offending vibrational frequencies of hot, mobile, rough, slimy, sticky, sharp, hard, dense, soft, cloudy, gross, and static can move back to the colon for elimination
The way the energy science creates this negative pressure is by the technique of basti Basti is a general term for localized treatment anywhere on the external body or internally It is in this situation that localized treatment occurs by the use of medicated herbal enemas that over time eliminate these specific vibrational frequencies in the lower rectum so that “trapped” vibrational frequencies in the pelvic nerve complex that cause the IC bladder pain syndrome to be eliminated
At times the painful flares of IC can be uncontrollable In these circumstances urologists have used a “rescue remedy” that includes among other ingredients lidocaine which is a numbing agent to nerves It can also include steroids, aloe, among other materials The problem is that the catheterization can be painful in such situations
As I have discussed in a previous blog the cause of the IC bladder pain syndrome is pelvic nerve involvement by the qualities This is why DMSO sometimes works and “rescue remedy”works They both affect pelvic nerve function temporarily blocking the nerve impulses that are involved and inflammed
So an obvious alternative is application of the numbing agent lidocaine into the lower rectum so it can diffuse across the mucous membrane of the rectum numb the affected inflammed nerves of the pelvis This will provide at least some temporary relief from symptoms that become unbearable
This is a fundamental principle in all energy disease in the mindbody and is particularly true with the IC bladder pain syndrome As I’ve talked about in previous blogs you can palliate the syndrome with nutrition and various treatments such as CCF tea, avoiding incompatible food combinations,or marma therapy but if you want to deal with the imbalance and truly be free of IC then it will take basti to do it
Of course it also requires other supportive therapies as discussed previously as well And it will require time and effort on your part Over time things begin to reverse themselves, symptoms at times lessen and go away for periods of time, but by and by the condition lessens its hold on the energy physiology and one becomes free at last
IC (interstitial cystitis) bladder pain is a result of inflammation and the energy science describes this in terms of the hot quality As I have talked about in the past there are many different things that people can do to reduce this quality in the gut: aloe vera gel, CCF tea, spices such as turmeric fresh basil and ginger, and herbs Click here to take survey But not only do you want the antiinflammatory effect but it would be great if you could also enhance digestive strength at the same time Aloe does this but colostrum does this as...
read moreIn all of Nature you only learn by contrast You can’t know hot if you haven’t experienced cold You can’t know the bladder pain of IC unless you’ve experienced the pleasure of being pain free And then there is the contrast of male and female, quantitative and qualitative models of healing Why is this important? Because different models of healing lead to different results due to the way they view the disease process Results Oriented Healing for IC When you know the strengths and weaknesses of the models of...
read moreI think it’s pretty much consensus that pharmaceuticals are not the panacea for IC and bladder pain. At least that was my experience with the IC patients who I worked with. Herbs offer an alternative to pharmaceuticals and we have discussed a number of them for use such as CCF tea, the use of turmeric in cooking, as well as aloe vera gel. Herbs fall into 3 categories when looking at their functional effects. Unlike pharmaceucals one herb category enhances digestive strength in all its various aspects of function, for example...
read moreThere is nothing more discouraging to IC patients than to get their hopes up that a new therapy is going to work only to find unfortunately after feeling well for a while the symptoms come back and it appears that things are back to the same bladder flares You begin feeling a real sense of hopelessness Why did it work for others and not work for me? And these therapies run the gamut from those suggested by your doctor, urologist, acupuncturist, physical therapist, or friends Because these treatments cover a wide spectrum,...
read moreThe painful bladder flares of IC that disrupt relationships, affect social planning, and by and large make life very hard are poorly understood from a molecular point of view The matter science medical perspective of disease is that the molecules cause disease In contrast the energy science medicine sees all disease beginning in the GI tract as an imbalance as an imbalance of qualities This contrast is important because it means the difference between tolerating the misery of flares versus clearing the disease that causes the...
read more“Self empowerment is the key to a healthy life. Simply put, it means you can take charge of the things you do in your life in order to create and maintain the health you want. If you suffer a life threatening illness, you are fully capable of making the choices and changes necessary to help your body heal. It’s up to you and you alone; no one else can do it for you. Healing and maintaining your health is your responsibility, not the doctor’s. The doctors job is to help you buy time to heal.” Use this time well and begin...
read moreIn the energy science world of healing it’s not just one thing but a mulitiplicity of treatments that you do that brings about healing of your IC This is in contrast from the matter science model of healing that says if you do just this one thing (take a pill) you will get major benefit such that you won’t have to do anything else For example if your blood pressure is high then take this pill and you’ll be better Or better yet, take two or three different types of pills and you’ll be better So pill popping...
read moreIn many different encounters with IC patients over the years I’ve found that there is often a feeling of ungroundedness from lack of direction, a feeling of being without a rudder, and the uncertainty as to whether this problem will ever go away This feeling gives a sense of insecurity about the future (will I have this the rest of my life?), a feeling of hopelessness, and overall anxiety born out of the fear that IC will never go away There is a feeling of loss of control over the body (not making to the bathroom) due to not knowing...
read moreThe accompanying graph depicts what happens in the formation of any disease process of imbalance There is a gradual buildup of excess qualities such as the hot quality in IC This can occur over years of unconscious choice making that leads to at first GI tract symptoms that then eventuate in dissemination of the quality(ies) to various parts of the body In the case of IC the dissemination of the qualities of hot, light, mobile, dry, rough, and subtle to the urinary tract leads to the early symptoms of...
read moreIt is estimated that many people with fibromyalgia(FM) have an IC like symptom complex in mild form as well only to exacerbate as the years progress As a matter of fact that’s why IC is now looked upon as a syndrome of diseases rather than an isolated disease of the urinary bladder The energy science due to its way of looking at disease doesn’t create disease labels but sees all problems in the body as imbalances of qualities and hence with such a system of healing leaves clustering of disease labels as the way to understand...
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It’s no secret that inflammation plays a major role in all disease and specifically the IC bladder pain syndrome(interstitial cystitis, vulvodynia, chronic prostatitis, irritable bowel syndrome, and fibromyalgia) is a great example where inflammation is a central theme to the disease process This manifests itself as burning on urination or in the tissues since from an energy science point of view the hot quality causes the inflammatory processAs you might find in looking at the above list it seems to leave little left to eat in the average American diet and has the potential of painting you in the proverbial “nutritional corner” which can become very restrictive for food choices
The energy science approach looks at nutrition from the view of who’s eating the food Energetically a PV would choose differently than a PK or a VK For more information please see foodsheal.com This can give you more understanding of what foods are best for you and also give you a broader range of choices
Most live foods are alkaline forming foods Alkaline foods are foods such as fresh fruits, vegetables, honey, and raisins Soaking and sprouting can reduce the acidity of grains, nuts, and beans
IC (interstitial cystitis) bladder pain is a result of inflammation and the energy science describes this in terms of the hot quality As I have talked about in the past there are many different things that people can do to reduce this quality in the gut: aloe vera gel, CCF tea, spices such as turmeric fresh basil and ginger, and herbs Click here to take survey But not only do you want the antiinflammatory effect but it would be great if you could also enhance digestive strength at the same time Aloe does this but colostrum does this as...
read moreIn all of Nature you only learn by contrast You can’t know hot if you haven’t experienced cold You can’t know the bladder pain of IC unless you’ve experienced the pleasure of being pain free And then there is the contrast of male and female, quantitative and qualitative models of healing Why is this important? Because different models of healing lead to different results due to the way they view the disease process Results Oriented Healing for IC When you know the strengths and weaknesses of the models of...
read moreI think it’s pretty much consensus that pharmaceuticals are not the panacea for IC and bladder pain. At least that was my experience with the IC patients who I worked with. Herbs offer an alternative to pharmaceuticals and we have discussed a number of them for use such as CCF tea, the use of turmeric in cooking, as well as aloe vera gel. Herbs fall into 3 categories when looking at their functional effects. Unlike pharmaceucals one herb category enhances digestive strength in all its various aspects of function, for example...
read moreThere is nothing more discouraging to IC patients than to get their hopes up that a new therapy is going to work only to find unfortunately after feeling well for a while the symptoms come back and it appears that things are back to the same bladder flares You begin feeling a real sense of hopelessness Why did it work for others and not work for me? And these therapies run the gamut from those suggested by your doctor, urologist, acupuncturist, physical therapist, or friends Because these treatments cover a wide spectrum,...
read moreThe painful bladder flares of IC that disrupt relationships, affect social planning, and by and large make life very hard are poorly understood from a molecular point of view The matter science medical perspective of disease is that the molecules cause disease In contrast the energy science medicine sees all disease beginning in the GI tract as an imbalance as an imbalance of qualities This contrast is important because it means the difference between tolerating the misery of flares versus clearing the disease that causes the...
read more“Self empowerment is the key to a healthy life. Simply put, it means you can take charge of the things you do in your life in order to create and maintain the health you want. If you suffer a life threatening illness, you are fully capable of making the choices and changes necessary to help your body heal. It’s up to you and you alone; no one else can do it for you. Healing and maintaining your health is your responsibility, not the doctor’s. The doctors job is to help you buy time to heal.” Use this time well and begin...
read moreIn the energy science world of healing it’s not just one thing but a mulitiplicity of treatments that you do that brings about healing of your IC This is in contrast from the matter science model of healing that says if you do just this one thing (take a pill) you will get major benefit such that you won’t have to do anything else For example if your blood pressure is high then take this pill and you’ll be better Or better yet, take two or three different types of pills and you’ll be better So pill popping...
read moreIn many different encounters with IC patients over the years I’ve found that there is often a feeling of ungroundedness from lack of direction, a feeling of being without a rudder, and the uncertainty as to whether this problem will ever go away This feeling gives a sense of insecurity about the future (will I have this the rest of my life?), a feeling of hopelessness, and overall anxiety born out of the fear that IC will never go away There is a feeling of loss of control over the body (not making to the bathroom) due to not knowing...
read moreThe accompanying graph depicts what happens in the formation of any disease process of imbalance There is a gradual buildup of excess qualities such as the hot quality in IC This can occur over years of unconscious choice making that leads to at first GI tract symptoms that then eventuate in dissemination of the quality(ies) to various parts of the body In the case of IC the dissemination of the qualities of hot, light, mobile, dry, rough, and subtle to the urinary tract leads to the early symptoms of...
read moreIt is estimated that many people with fibromyalgia(FM) have an IC like symptom complex in mild form as well only to exacerbate as the years progress As a matter of fact that’s why IC is now looked upon as a syndrome of diseases rather than an isolated disease of the urinary bladder The energy science due to its way of looking at disease doesn’t create disease labels but sees all problems in the body as imbalances of qualities and hence with such a system of healing leaves clustering of disease labels as the way to understand...
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Anything that we want to achieve in life….getting in better physical condition, losing weight, improving people’s lives by working in a business or profession, changing a lifestyle pattern of behavior like smoking etc….requires that some form of structure be put into place so that a pattern of behavior is done over a period of time Hopefully the change is the pattern of behavior causes the desired change
So for example in the case of chronic disease, specifically the IC bladder pain syndrome(interstitial cystitis, vulvodynia, chronic prostatitis, irritable bowel syndrome or IBS, gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD/hearburn, and fibromyalgia) in order to cause a physiologic shift toward balance and improvement in your symptoms, you undertake certain things that you think will make a change in your flares
This may be CCF tea or using a Pitta pacifying nutritional format or taking colostrum Whatever the choice(s) are you’re hoping by doing them consistently that they will bring about a change
But let’s face it even with good intentions life goes on and requires our participation and so distractions arise The deadline at work, finishing work projects, the upcoming holidays, getting the right Halloween costume…these sometimes get in the way of our healing intentions
In other words life’s distractions affect how we heal They directly impact our ability to follow through with our intentions to heal
I believe that getting time is a major problem in healing chronic disease Healing parts of the IC bladder pain syndrome is doable but it requires time to do the things necessary and enjoy the process as you go along Healing need not be arduous and painful On the contrary it’s exciting and exhilarating to see your health unfold before your very eyes
In the energy science discipline it’s not just one thing that promotes healing but rather a multiplicity of things that bring about physiologic change This multimodality energy science approach begins with lifestyle measures focused on nutritional formats as discussed in the past but there are other things that can be done to support this approach and laugh as you’re doing it
1 Overcoming inertia is the biggest challenge and keeping up with it is the next biggest hurdle
2 Use a calendar (here’s a downloadable calender you can use on your computer) and mark down what’s needed to create the change that you want to see happen….then check it every day
2 Expect it to be awkward at first…kind of like finding your groove You may forget and that’s what the calendar is for Be easy with yourself and have a good laugh when you see issues that confront you
3 Daily do that activity at specific times of the day marking your items on the calendar
4 The more things you do to effect the change the better the chances of getting the desired result of healing
5 Make it a set of activities A morning routine has a set of things to do and these all work together to set the tone for the day as well as each activity supporting each other
It takes about 6-8 weeks for the change to be made Then you can move on to add more new activities to advance your healing journey
And sometimes it means deleting behaviors that don’t serve us well…..for example going to bed earlier sets up the morning times to do some activities
Having a coach to support and help produce structure is valuable in these efforts You can make an appointment for a free consultation to get started
IC (interstitial cystitis) bladder pain is a result of inflammation and the energy science describes this in terms of the hot quality As I have talked about in the past there are many different things that people can do to reduce this quality in the gut: aloe vera gel, CCF tea, spices such as turmeric fresh basil and ginger, and herbs Click here to take survey But not only do you want the antiinflammatory effect but it would be great if you could also enhance digestive strength at the same time Aloe does this but colostrum does this as...
read moreIn all of Nature you only learn by contrast You can’t know hot if you haven’t experienced cold You can’t know the bladder pain of IC unless you’ve experienced the pleasure of being pain free And then there is the contrast of male and female, quantitative and qualitative models of healing Why is this important? Because different models of healing lead to different results due to the way they view the disease process Results Oriented Healing for IC When you know the strengths and weaknesses of the models of...
read moreI think it’s pretty much consensus that pharmaceuticals are not the panacea for IC and bladder pain. At least that was my experience with the IC patients who I worked with. Herbs offer an alternative to pharmaceuticals and we have discussed a number of them for use such as CCF tea, the use of turmeric in cooking, as well as aloe vera gel. Herbs fall into 3 categories when looking at their functional effects. Unlike pharmaceucals one herb category enhances digestive strength in all its various aspects of function, for example...
read moreThere is nothing more discouraging to IC patients than to get their hopes up that a new therapy is going to work only to find unfortunately after feeling well for a while the symptoms come back and it appears that things are back to the same bladder flares You begin feeling a real sense of hopelessness Why did it work for others and not work for me? And these therapies run the gamut from those suggested by your doctor, urologist, acupuncturist, physical therapist, or friends Because these treatments cover a wide spectrum,...
read moreThe painful bladder flares of IC that disrupt relationships, affect social planning, and by and large make life very hard are poorly understood from a molecular point of view The matter science medical perspective of disease is that the molecules cause disease In contrast the energy science medicine sees all disease beginning in the GI tract as an imbalance as an imbalance of qualities This contrast is important because it means the difference between tolerating the misery of flares versus clearing the disease that causes the...
read more“Self empowerment is the key to a healthy life. Simply put, it means you can take charge of the things you do in your life in order to create and maintain the health you want. If you suffer a life threatening illness, you are fully capable of making the choices and changes necessary to help your body heal. It’s up to you and you alone; no one else can do it for you. Healing and maintaining your health is your responsibility, not the doctor’s. The doctors job is to help you buy time to heal.” Use this time well and begin...
read moreIn the energy science world of healing it’s not just one thing but a mulitiplicity of treatments that you do that brings about healing of your IC This is in contrast from the matter science model of healing that says if you do just this one thing (take a pill) you will get major benefit such that you won’t have to do anything else For example if your blood pressure is high then take this pill and you’ll be better Or better yet, take two or three different types of pills and you’ll be better So pill popping...
read moreIn many different encounters with IC patients over the years I’ve found that there is often a feeling of ungroundedness from lack of direction, a feeling of being without a rudder, and the uncertainty as to whether this problem will ever go away This feeling gives a sense of insecurity about the future (will I have this the rest of my life?), a feeling of hopelessness, and overall anxiety born out of the fear that IC will never go away There is a feeling of loss of control over the body (not making to the bathroom) due to not knowing...
read moreThe accompanying graph depicts what happens in the formation of any disease process of imbalance There is a gradual buildup of excess qualities such as the hot quality in IC This can occur over years of unconscious choice making that leads to at first GI tract symptoms that then eventuate in dissemination of the quality(ies) to various parts of the body In the case of IC the dissemination of the qualities of hot, light, mobile, dry, rough, and subtle to the urinary tract leads to the early symptoms of...
read moreIt is estimated that many people with fibromyalgia(FM) have an IC like symptom complex in mild form as well only to exacerbate as the years progress As a matter of fact that’s why IC is now looked upon as a syndrome of diseases rather than an isolated disease of the urinary bladder The energy science due to its way of looking at disease doesn’t create disease labels but sees all problems in the body as imbalances of qualities and hence with such a system of healing leaves clustering of disease labels as the way to understand...
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From an energy point of view all disease begins in the GI tract The energetics of the foods taken in can produce flares and the continuing chronic condition of the IC bladder pain syndrome(interstitial cystitis, vulvodynia, fibromyalgia, chronic prostatitis, IBS, and GERD) This is why nutrition is so important in the management of any chronic disease and as you know particularly with IC As we have talked about in recent blogs the importance of bowel health and specifically digestive power is a major step in improving not only your general overall health but also to help control the flare symptoms of IC syndrome
Wouldn’t you think it unusual for someone not to ever take some time off? To maintain mental strength and creativity we all need breaks from work and a little R and R
So if it’s true for our lifestyle choices shouldn’t it be true for parts of us as well? However the idea of giving the bowel some time off doesn’t seem to be part of the equation Trigger words such as water or juice fasting come up for many and cause people to cringe at the thought of going without food
But a bowel vacation means that the heavy foods normally consumed(pizza, rich cream sauces, lots of meat, heavy dairy. ice cream as examples) are removed from the nutritional meals for 3 or 4 days and a more simple diet is taken
You see the enzyme systems(the chemical fire if you will) need to be replenished and if you’re continually asking our agni or digestive power to be used over and over again it becomes overtaxed These above wet logs as I call then place a heavy strain on your campfire(agni) and at times it is not up to par leading to toxic accumulation In essence increase of toxic load is what is behind the whole idea of detoxification
1 Make something simple to digest Kitchari is a time honored energy science nutritional tool to give your bowel enzyme systems a break from their work You can find it here at this link Do this for 5 days and notice how your bowel symptoms begin melting away!
2 If hungry snack on a piece of fruit but not in the meal
3 Consider an occasional juice day
4 Use cooling spices(cumin coriander fennel vanila turmeric cardamom) and avoid hot ones (eg garlic oregano sage rosemary thyme etc)
5 Use 2 handfuls as a guideline as to how much to eat at any one time
These simple things done based on your energy constitutional makeup will go a long ways toward improving your digestive power and enhancing your health
IC (interstitial cystitis) bladder pain is a result of inflammation and the energy science describes this in terms of the hot quality As I have talked about in the past there are many different things that people can do to reduce this quality in the gut: aloe vera gel, CCF tea, spices such as turmeric fresh basil and ginger, and herbs Click here to take survey But not only do you want the antiinflammatory effect but it would be great if you could also enhance digestive strength at the same time Aloe does this but colostrum does this as...
read moreIn all of Nature you only learn by contrast You can’t know hot if you haven’t experienced cold You can’t know the bladder pain of IC unless you’ve experienced the pleasure of being pain free And then there is the contrast of male and female, quantitative and qualitative models of healing Why is this important? Because different models of healing lead to different results due to the way they view the disease process Results Oriented Healing for IC When you know the strengths and weaknesses of the models of...
read moreI think it’s pretty much consensus that pharmaceuticals are not the panacea for IC and bladder pain. At least that was my experience with the IC patients who I worked with. Herbs offer an alternative to pharmaceuticals and we have discussed a number of them for use such as CCF tea, the use of turmeric in cooking, as well as aloe vera gel. Herbs fall into 3 categories when looking at their functional effects. Unlike pharmaceucals one herb category enhances digestive strength in all its various aspects of function, for example...
read moreThere is nothing more discouraging to IC patients than to get their hopes up that a new therapy is going to work only to find unfortunately after feeling well for a while the symptoms come back and it appears that things are back to the same bladder flares You begin feeling a real sense of hopelessness Why did it work for others and not work for me? And these therapies run the gamut from those suggested by your doctor, urologist, acupuncturist, physical therapist, or friends Because these treatments cover a wide spectrum,...
read moreThe painful bladder flares of IC that disrupt relationships, affect social planning, and by and large make life very hard are poorly understood from a molecular point of view The matter science medical perspective of disease is that the molecules cause disease In contrast the energy science medicine sees all disease beginning in the GI tract as an imbalance as an imbalance of qualities This contrast is important because it means the difference between tolerating the misery of flares versus clearing the disease that causes the...
read more“Self empowerment is the key to a healthy life. Simply put, it means you can take charge of the things you do in your life in order to create and maintain the health you want. If you suffer a life threatening illness, you are fully capable of making the choices and changes necessary to help your body heal. It’s up to you and you alone; no one else can do it for you. Healing and maintaining your health is your responsibility, not the doctor’s. The doctors job is to help you buy time to heal.” Use this time well and begin...
read moreIn the energy science world of healing it’s not just one thing but a mulitiplicity of treatments that you do that brings about healing of your IC This is in contrast from the matter science model of healing that says if you do just this one thing (take a pill) you will get major benefit such that you won’t have to do anything else For example if your blood pressure is high then take this pill and you’ll be better Or better yet, take two or three different types of pills and you’ll be better So pill popping...
read moreIn many different encounters with IC patients over the years I’ve found that there is often a feeling of ungroundedness from lack of direction, a feeling of being without a rudder, and the uncertainty as to whether this problem will ever go away This feeling gives a sense of insecurity about the future (will I have this the rest of my life?), a feeling of hopelessness, and overall anxiety born out of the fear that IC will never go away There is a feeling of loss of control over the body (not making to the bathroom) due to not knowing...
read moreThe accompanying graph depicts what happens in the formation of any disease process of imbalance There is a gradual buildup of excess qualities such as the hot quality in IC This can occur over years of unconscious choice making that leads to at first GI tract symptoms that then eventuate in dissemination of the quality(ies) to various parts of the body In the case of IC the dissemination of the qualities of hot, light, mobile, dry, rough, and subtle to the urinary tract leads to the early symptoms of...
read moreIt is estimated that many people with fibromyalgia(FM) have an IC like symptom complex in mild form as well only to exacerbate as the years progress As a matter of fact that’s why IC is now looked upon as a syndrome of diseases rather than an isolated disease of the urinary bladder The energy science due to its way of looking at disease doesn’t create disease labels but sees all problems in the body as imbalances of qualities and hence with such a system of healing leaves clustering of disease labels as the way to understand...
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As discussed in recent previous blogs the energy science states that agni is fundamental to good health and that when disease such as the IC bladdder pain syndrome(interstitial cystitis, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic prostatitis, GERD and vulvodynia) part of the solution and management must include helping the debilitated agni
But improving agni does NOT cause inflammation Increasing Pitta increases inflammation but improving agni balances and improves Pitta inflammation Seems counterintuitive but this is the value of the energy science model
The concept of agni while central to health in the energy science model is completely missing in the matter or molecular science approach for managing disease
This major departure from the way the matter or molecular science approaches disease has a rippling effect in terms of understanding the disease process, the timeliness of recommendations about bowel symptoms, the approach to bowel symptoms(often Pharma related), and ignoring the importance of lifestyle behavior patterns around nutrition
This lack of understanding of agni also percolates into the molecular approach to nutrition There is much misinformation from the ADA(American Dietetic Association) because of this simple lack of understanding the concept of agni
The energy science of Ayurveda offers many suggestions to enhance agni But what’s the value of improving agni?
If you have the IC bladder pain syndrome by taking care of your agni you essentially do 5 things 1 you improve your bowel symptoms that are invariably not healthy 2 you prevent your IC bladder pain symptoms from getting worse 3 by improving agni you have the possibility of reducing the severity of your IC and the flares of IC 4 you improve your overall health 5 you improve mental clarity
When agni is improved it’s like turning up the digestive heat Now of course we don’t want to turn up the heat of Pitta which is responsible for the hot qualities of the IC bladder pain syndrome But these are methods to improve the agni yet not increase Pitta
1 Kitchari monodiet….for easy digestion along with simple veggies
2 Homemade yogurt to make lassi….for probiotic
3 Herbs to increase agni without heating the system….chitrak, CCF tea, fresh ginger(not dry)
4 Lifestyle behavior patterns ….biggest meal at noon,no ice, exercise, sleep patterns
5 Pranayama……..to balance agni…..by correcting disturbed agni one can make significant strides toward correcting the imbalances causing disease
These 5 simple methods can enhance agni and reduce the IC bladder pain syndrome symptoms but can go a long way toward improving health longterm In the coming weeks I’ll take each one of these and discuss them in greater detail
IC (interstitial cystitis) bladder pain is a result of inflammation and the energy science describes this in terms of the hot quality As I have talked about in the past there are many different things that people can do to reduce this quality in the gut: aloe vera gel, CCF tea, spices such as turmeric fresh basil and ginger, and herbs Click here to take survey But not only do you want the antiinflammatory effect but it would be great if you could also enhance digestive strength at the same time Aloe does this but colostrum does this as...
read moreIn all of Nature you only learn by contrast You can’t know hot if you haven’t experienced cold You can’t know the bladder pain of IC unless you’ve experienced the pleasure of being pain free And then there is the contrast of male and female, quantitative and qualitative models of healing Why is this important? Because different models of healing lead to different results due to the way they view the disease process Results Oriented Healing for IC When you know the strengths and weaknesses of the models of...
read moreI think it’s pretty much consensus that pharmaceuticals are not the panacea for IC and bladder pain. At least that was my experience with the IC patients who I worked with. Herbs offer an alternative to pharmaceuticals and we have discussed a number of them for use such as CCF tea, the use of turmeric in cooking, as well as aloe vera gel. Herbs fall into 3 categories when looking at their functional effects. Unlike pharmaceucals one herb category enhances digestive strength in all its various aspects of function, for example...
read moreThere is nothing more discouraging to IC patients than to get their hopes up that a new therapy is going to work only to find unfortunately after feeling well for a while the symptoms come back and it appears that things are back to the same bladder flares You begin feeling a real sense of hopelessness Why did it work for others and not work for me? And these therapies run the gamut from those suggested by your doctor, urologist, acupuncturist, physical therapist, or friends Because these treatments cover a wide spectrum,...
read moreThe painful bladder flares of IC that disrupt relationships, affect social planning, and by and large make life very hard are poorly understood from a molecular point of view The matter science medical perspective of disease is that the molecules cause disease In contrast the energy science medicine sees all disease beginning in the GI tract as an imbalance as an imbalance of qualities This contrast is important because it means the difference between tolerating the misery of flares versus clearing the disease that causes the...
read more“Self empowerment is the key to a healthy life. Simply put, it means you can take charge of the things you do in your life in order to create and maintain the health you want. If you suffer a life threatening illness, you are fully capable of making the choices and changes necessary to help your body heal. It’s up to you and you alone; no one else can do it for you. Healing and maintaining your health is your responsibility, not the doctor’s. The doctors job is to help you buy time to heal.” Use this time well and begin...
read moreIn the energy science world of healing it’s not just one thing but a mulitiplicity of treatments that you do that brings about healing of your IC This is in contrast from the matter science model of healing that says if you do just this one thing (take a pill) you will get major benefit such that you won’t have to do anything else For example if your blood pressure is high then take this pill and you’ll be better Or better yet, take two or three different types of pills and you’ll be better So pill popping...
read moreIn many different encounters with IC patients over the years I’ve found that there is often a feeling of ungroundedness from lack of direction, a feeling of being without a rudder, and the uncertainty as to whether this problem will ever go away This feeling gives a sense of insecurity about the future (will I have this the rest of my life?), a feeling of hopelessness, and overall anxiety born out of the fear that IC will never go away There is a feeling of loss of control over the body (not making to the bathroom) due to not knowing...
read moreThe accompanying graph depicts what happens in the formation of any disease process of imbalance There is a gradual buildup of excess qualities such as the hot quality in IC This can occur over years of unconscious choice making that leads to at first GI tract symptoms that then eventuate in dissemination of the quality(ies) to various parts of the body In the case of IC the dissemination of the qualities of hot, light, mobile, dry, rough, and subtle to the urinary tract leads to the early symptoms of...
read moreIt is estimated that many people with fibromyalgia(FM) have an IC like symptom complex in mild form as well only to exacerbate as the years progress As a matter of fact that’s why IC is now looked upon as a syndrome of diseases rather than an isolated disease of the urinary bladder The energy science due to its way of looking at disease doesn’t create disease labels but sees all problems in the body as imbalances of qualities and hence with such a system of healing leaves clustering of disease labels as the way to understand...
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