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Mt Eliza Herbal

Locality: Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia

Address: 306 Canadian Bay Road, Mount Eliza 3930 Mount Eliza, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 So maybe the spleen organ and Chinese "Spleen" are not so far apart.

25.01.2022 "You should understand that there is no one herb for curing cancer. Not here in Chinese medicine, not in the Ayurvedic tradition, not in Western herbalism NOT ANYWHERE. (If you are trying to find one, stop wasting your time and money. You will not. The same goes for researchers.)"

24.01.2022 From the May issue of Inside Football magazine...

24.01.2022 So Australians are serial over-users of antibiotics - a) because patients expect/ demand them and b) because GPs often "play safe" in prescribing. As a result, the health system is creating a looming crisis. This "war" against bacteria is one we won't be winning - at least not until the emphasis in research changes from attack to defence, ie not trying to find ever more powerful antibiotics (and hence creating super superbugs) but rather understanding how our immune systems a...ctually work when confronted by an invader and supporting the body's methods for eliminating it. This is precisely what Chinese medicine does. There are so many misconceptions around the most common illness - colds and their complications - and the treatments for them. Western medicine has antibiotics for bacterial infections (which the vast majority of respiratory system infections are not) and tells patients there's no treatment for viral infections. Chinese medicine has a system refined over 20 centuries for tracking the progress of a pathogen through the layers of the body's defence systems and recognising the subtleties of every person's individual response at every level of the pathogen's penetration - and then providing a precise treatment for it. These are herbal protocols tested over 20 centuries of continuous, empirical, recorded scholarly experience. Using these methods Chinese medicine regularly knocks out colds-flus-coughs overnight, or before they get a hold - or reduces two-week illnesses to two days, resolves intractable coughs (often made worse by self-administered over-the-counter cold "remedies") and so on. Not only should Chinese herbal medicine be everyone's first thought upon coming down with a cold, it should be Western bioscience's go-to field when looking for solutions to the looming superbug crisis. (Incidentally, did you see Monash Uni advertising for patients for a research trial to test antibiotics as a cure for lower back pain? I know - Unbelievable.) See more

24.01.2022 Wish the market was big enough here to do this!

23.01.2022 Interesting finding, corresponding with Chinese medical ideas about the meridians on the legs (especially Spleen-Stomach) and their role in digestion and assimilation, of both food and ideas. Also the notion that the qi of the Spleen has other related responsibilities to do with co-ordination and organisation at a cellular level. (Nice spot, Bruce Bentley.)

22.01.2022 Just about every illness has links to the gut, according to Chinese medicine, but especially brain health.

22.01.2022 ICYMI (in case you missed it):

21.01.2022 At last some less reductionist thinking from biomedical researchers.

21.01.2022 I've also found the base formula described here extraordinarily effective for dizziness.

20.01.2022 Spleen, Heart, Xiao xin ... Chinese medicine was all over this a couple of millennia back...

18.01.2022 As Chinese medicine has been saying for 20 centuries, based on empirical observation and experience and the profound understanding the Chinese reached of how the body works the only long-term healthy diet is a broad diet.

18.01.2022 Apologies for sharing one of the zillion aphorisms that clog everyone's Facebook feeds, but this one was pretty funny...

18.01.2022 This very interesting - on stents but also see further down on knee surgery.

17.01.2022 Looks like that leisurely long stroll isn't quite enough....

14.01.2022 And whaddaya know, antibiotics (esp in infancy) are implicated again.

14.01.2022 Well worth five minutes of your time

11.01.2022 I suspect that gluten sensitivity won't turn out to be "wrong" per se, but only partly right as the explanation for why wheat products are a problem for people with compromised digestive systems. In Chinese dietetics which thinks of the flavour and temperature of food as accounting for its effects inside the body wheat is sweet and cool. This means that when completely digested and metabolised it tends to be converted into energy and fluids. It also means, unfortunately, ...that it will be a problem for a person who has an accumulation of what CM calls "dampness" in their gut - meaning that the mucous membranes have become sticky and prone to irregular peristalsis, and fungal overgrowth. This stickiness of the gut fluids makes "pure"/complete digestion of wheat less likely as the wheat directly adds to the dampness problem. People then feel that wheat doesn't "agree" with them - they feel better when avoiding it all together and when eating foods instead that are more energetically warming, and that have flavours more from the bitter or pungent categories, which tend to dry dampness in the gut rather than produce it. So the problem is not a particular molecule or compound in wheat, but the overall nature of wheat the combined effect of all its constituent parts. See more

11.01.2022 A topic close to our hearts and in Chinese medicine I mean that quite literally (even Western medicine is beginning to see the link between heart health and the mind)...

10.01.2022 Energy? I think he means Qi....

09.01.2022 This is interesting and corresponds exactly with Chinese medicine's understanding of prenatal influences on health.

08.01.2022 The mystery of the Western obesity epidemic is pretty much solved - although as many people know, sugar behaves in our bodies like a drug - activates reward centres - so consuming it is tied up with our moods and general life satisfaction and quitting sugar as challenging as quitting any addictive substance/activity. This article explains why so many infants are overweight as if they've inherited a faulty gene (they haven't, evolution doesn't work this quickly) and face a lifetime of weight problems.

06.01.2022 It's not what you eat...

04.01.2022 Well, whaddaya know?! Chinese medicine was ridiculed for years for claiming exactly this. In CM it's called the "San Jiao". Involved in fluid regulation, communication and defence (and other functions).

03.01.2022 Good summary of what's become apparent on this subject in recent years.

01.01.2022 The bitter truth (continued)... Try reading this and not needing a kilo of chocolate ;-)