Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site textware.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!bbnccv!ewj01!textware!bob From: bob@textware.UUCP (Bob Felt) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: hyperthyriodism Message-ID: <111@textware.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 10:30:10 EST Article-I.D.: textware.111 Posted: Sat Nov 9 10:30:10 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 05:40:21 EST References: <450@drutx.UUCP> Organization: Textware International, Cambridge, Mass. Lines: 44 > (By the way, just out of curiosity. What would you holistic types out > there have done? Didn't get any mail from you. This is your chance--convert > me.) Conversions are not my specialty, however, had this wholistic type been given surgery as an alternative, I would seek acupuncture treatment. The Shanghai medical school reports treating the condition successfully with both acupuncture and Chinese crude drugs (herbs, if we must). There are about a dozen Oriental medical syndromes which incorporate your condition, treatment references go back to the Da Cheng in the eighteenth centry. Since you do not report tumors, lesions or some traumatic damage, the prognosis (via acupuncture) is fairly good. Yves Requena, M.D. reports two of these syndromes are particularly related to women, one post-partum, the other is not related to reproductive events (Requena, ``Terrains et Pathologie en Acupuncture'', Maloine, Paris, 1981). Japanese treatment combines acupuncture and treatment with drugs prepared from traditional Chinese formulae, (Otsuka, M.D., ``Kanpo Journal''). I don't have a batch of references at hand; however, a descent basic text or point reference will discuss your condition. There is not a lot of work going on about this in Oriental medicine, because it is usually not considered very difficult to treat and because, the attention is on the problems that allopathy finds difficult. The Oriental texts use ``Graves Disease'' (an older name) in many cases. I watched one of my treachers, Dr. Tin Yau So, treat two cases, both stabalized immediately, one required some routine visits for a year or so. Although, this isn't my field a French physician, Menetrier, declares that the action of manganese, in cases of hyperthyroidism, is often ``clear and long lasting.'' Menetrier did a great deal of research on trace elements and is the ``father'' of ``diathetic medicine'' in Europe. At least, considering the costs and risks, I'd put some effort into finding a descent acupuncturist. A course of treatment of about 10 days should be sufficient to let you decide if you are converted, or would like to postpone surgery, while retaining your membership in the other camp. Many M.D.'s will be curious enough to encourage you to give it a try. If you can, use the acupuncture and Chinese prescription in combination. Bob Felt