January 30, 2007
Taste of the Bitter (Eastern) Medicine
Accupuncture has now morphed into needles + ingestion of bitter medicinal tea + skin cupping in an effort to aid my IBS as well as my migraines. While IBS symptoms and migraines are in two very seperate parts of my body, I do know that migraines aggravate my IBS. It might be that stress is a trigger/ agitator of both or that the migraines adds to my bowel tensing. Either way, its just another pain that I must live with and accupuncture/eastern medicine has attempted to aid in its remedy.
I last wrote about the needles (YIKES!) and how they did make me feel a bit different. Overall, I would say the last few weeks have been very body stress free. Ingesting the tea was almost worse than the needles. Imagine coffee brewing for two days then left out for another 24 hours. It took me an entire episode of Will and Grace on rerun to finish the serving. Within 12 hours my colon reared, not being used to the cleansing nature of the medicine. My insides churned continuously for two days -- nothing us veterns aren't used to, but in the end I felt a whole enema cleaner.
Would I do it again? Jury's still out. I think I have to get to the point where my body accepts it as a part of my normal diet. Getting to that point isn't easy with meetings, conferences and lunches. Maybe I can take a week off.
"Boss, I shall be working from home this week so that I may run continuously to the bathroom and evacute the bitter tea unsticking unmentionables from my colon. Thanks."
Next time: Skin Cupping
Posted by Christine on January 30, 2007 10:29 PM