What you should not
do after treatment
After treatment for some times, most of our
clients, say, more than 90% of them feel better. However, there
are some (about 5% of them), turns worse again. This is easy to
happen for those who just get recovery after suffering a chronic
disease and their body condition is pretty weak after stop of
the treatments.
There are several possible reasons
contributing to the returning of your symptoms:
(1).
Over eating. After long time illness, some people become
very weak. They are tired and no strong energy to handle daily
life yet, though they no longer have pain. The body needs time
to build up inside environment for continuous healing. At this
phase of healing, over eating put heavy burden to your
Stomach-Spleen system and exhaust your Qi (we call is zhong Qi,
means the body bio-energy in the middle part of body). The new
balance between the defense force (your zhong Qi ) and the
disease-causing energy is broken again, so you may feel more
tired, fever (body temperature does not increase usually),
sweat, insomnia, diarrhea or constipation, or others. This is
true especially if you have had fever-related disease or have
some problem in your stomach area.
We do not recommend you to have a big meat
(such as in a party) during and after the TCM treatment. Ask
your TCM doctor if you can. Do not make your own decision based
on your feeling.
(2).
Over physical activity. Similar to above damage to the zhong
Qi by over-eating, too much physical activity, such as
gymnastics, work in your yard physically, long time traveling
make you tired easily. As you know, our defense system is weak
when we are tired. Too much physical activity make you tired and
damage your defense system before our body condition comes back
to normal level.
(3).
Over mental activity. This means stressful study or work. It
also includes emotional stress too. What we recommended is to
have a peace life for some time, after
recovery
from a heavy illness. Stressful life will of course exhaust your
bio-energy to damage your health again. This is true if the
original illness is emotional related, such as disorders in
menstruation, poor sleep, migraine, or depression.
(4).
Over sex. People in the western world have no concept that
sex should be restricted to some extent during the life. When we
are young, continuous sex every day for some days does not make
us feel any tired or discomfort. However, it does not mean that
nothing happens in our body by that. Once we get little bit old,
say, over 40, or once we have damaged our lower back for some
reasons (such as car accident), the previous damage due to over
sex will contribute additional damage to our weak lower back or
make the current damage severer than other people.
After healing with acupuncture or TCM
herbs, many people feel much better from their previous illness
and they turn to too much sex. This makes the overall health
condition worse, especially if the previous illness is lower
back pain.
In Chinese medicine, the lower back is the
space that associated to the Kidney system. The Kidney system is
associated to our urinary, reproductive ability (libido) and sex
ability too. Therefore, over sex will damage the Kidney system
so to cause more pain in the lower back.
Here I have to remind our readers that our
Kidney system is also associated to the function brain.
According to the TCM, over working of the Kidney system (say,
the too much sex life, too much pregnancy) may exhaust the brain
function, so dementia in old age is strongly suggested
associated to the over sex life in young age. I do not mean it
is the only reason, but it could be one of the strong reasons,
though it is hard to understand from the conventional medicine
point of view.
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