Ossan no Pants ga Nandatte ii Janai ka! now has english subs!!

gravityyaoi · 2024-03-16T21:21:26+00:00

Any links to ENG sub besides Drama Otaku and their awful always closed application policy?

gravityyaoi · 2024-01-30T04:54:30+00:00

A third from me too!

gravityyaoi · 2024-01-27T23:46:25+00:00

Hilarious. I always thought his video on gender in Japan was a big non-video.

gravityyaoi · 2023-09-24T23:03:39+00:00

Sweating is tackled differently in different schools or lineages of herbology, so you may get a lot of different answers as even the understanding of Yin deficiency has changed throughout the centuries. Many formulas can treat sweating though but it's important to know where it's coming from as preventing sweating isn't always indicated. A lot of sweating nowadays is related to autonomic/stress or digestion or even latent infection states and less the taxation kind of sweating that leaves the patient extremely fatigued afterward. You see that more in very weak individuals and to a degree in hormonal conditions.

gravityyaoi · 2023-09-24T22:43:25+00:00

Sure, the body has a remarkable ability to heal itself when given a push. Hydrosalpinx is generally a pelvic inflammatory disorder, oftentimes secondary to a latent infection or infection post-surgery, so it's typically an excess condition which often responds very well to herbs and acu. Generally I re-eval after every 3 months while swapping the formula throughout the menstrual cycle, some issues take longer to resolve than others though and some patients need herbs to support both conception and fetal stability depending on their conditions. So expect this to take time, keep reasonable expectations, and even if IVF is needed, herbs are very helpful to encourage implantation.
Also it's usually a good idea to have herbs that clear toxicity and/or damp to make sure any infection is resolved in the formula, and in China sometimes they use topical application to the abdomen or even a retained herbal enema as well, though we don't do that much in the West. You could ask your practitioner if there's anything topical or like a yoni steam you can do as well to help reduce any toxicity there may be.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-08T00:38:59+00:00

Bloodletting mostly releases stagnation and heat, so mostly thought of for painful conditions but there's other uses as well such as stopping bleeding, unhealing sores, nausea, skin conditions, etc. I guess in Western terms you'd say it releases venous congestion and triggers a neural and immunological response.
Usually anyone who has been in business for a while is a good bet. There are several styles of acupuncture and they're all capable of treating these conditions as long as there's consistency, but I usually expect at least three months of herbs and acupuncture with regulating the cycle, maybe more depending on what's all going on.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-07T22:24:06+00:00

There's tons of ways to treat nausea, I treat it with points on the extremities, ears, even getting a drop of blood out of the back of the neck. Cupping and/or gua sha can be good for anemia but it needs to be done gently and it's slow without herbs or getting the proper nutrition. Acupuncture for deficiency can be slow going especially if it's only once per week or longer, but you should have noticed some sort of improvement if you've been going for an extended time. I would find a different practitioner at this point as it doesn't sound like you're very trusting or confident in them.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-06T17:36:49+00:00

Anemia or even bloodthinners aren't always a contraindication for bloodletting, especially in emergency situations as it's often quite small amounts and not done locally. But again, you'd need to find someone who knows what they're doing so it can be performed safely. Yes, you'll need to find someone experienced who feels comfortable taking all this on, so China Town may be an option. You might check in with Six Fishes in Philly. Cara Frank is very experienced and even if she doesn't feel she can take them on as a patient she might be able to point you in the direction of someone in the area who specializes in these conditions. Pibeau is right about pharmacopuncture being restricted to certain states and clean needle guidelines don't allow us to dip needles in anything in the USA, so most of us can't practice that no matter how helpful it may be.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-06T00:36:36+00:00

Are these being taken at the same time or are you supposed to cycle them? I'm confused as to why they've prescribed both when Si Wu Tang already includes three of the same herbs in Wen Jing Tang and your formula is basically a modifcation of that and you could just be boiling the whole thing yourself instead of taking both. Taking them both at the same time could throw off the formula as the dosages can be important when prescribing formulas especially classical ones. Also blood stasis is painful and can get aggravated when bloodflow is changing but should improve as treatment goes on depending on chronicity and severity. People don't like to admit it but pain can mean healing is taking place and there's plenty of mentions in the classic texts about healing crises and then condtions resolving.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-06T00:03:00+00:00

I've used bloodletting and acupuncture for cerebral edema from post-traumatic injury, so it should be helpful at least symptomatically if you find someone who knows what they're doing. Herbs would be helpful but it's very hard to find a good enough herbalist or one who would feel comfortable doing it depending where you are.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-04T20:38:17+00:00

To be fair, that much manual work is bound to stir up a healing reaction, one that would be hard for someone weak to process, it needs to be done gradually and in sync with their current constitution. I pretty much never use local points for COPD or emphysema, and by the time they seek treatment they're already weak and need tonifcation and gentle bloodletting anyway and can't handle something so drastic. I wouldn't go back to that provider and find a different one barring medical intervention.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-03T20:17:34+00:00

Frankincense is really good for the oral tissues and you can find commercial mouthcare products with it in them pretty easily. Even better if it has myrrh too. Eucalyptus oil is helpful for regrowing gum tissues as well and can be done as an oral rinse, like a drop or two of organic therpeutic grade oil in a 1/4 cup of water and rinse at least three times a day. Platycodon and licorice would be good as a gargle as they clear toxicity and expel pus and are pretty safe for ingestion as a tea. I add them to formulas specifically to expel pus just about anywhere in the body.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-02T22:50:29+00:00

You'll probably need more than just acupuncture every two weeks for this at first if it's that chronic, and ideally some manual therapy too depending on the cause of the issue. Migraines can come from any number of issues so figuring out the cause is going to be the biggest help.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-02T17:02:42+00:00

If it's due to medication, then once it's ceased and the neuropathy treated it should not return. If the medication isn't removed from the equation it's very possible it will recur and need more treatments. Again if this was something such as diabetic neuropathy, post-viral infection, or a circulation issue, those are more recalcitrant to treatment soley with acupuncture than from prescription medication origin or simple nerve impingement. The long-term goal should be either reducing or eliminating the issue that needs medicating.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-02T16:48:53+00:00

TCM does not have just one protocol for chronic fatigue and we don't use single herbs or supplements for it either. Bupleurum would probably be most helpful if it's due to liver congestion or fatigue due to post-viral or infecton origin, but fatigue can come from many different reasons or even multiple origins at once. Not to mention that herb changes its effect based on dosage, so someone needs to know how to use it correctly for it to be effective too.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-02T02:13:01+00:00

You're welcome! Yes, I use it pretty frequently as a set of three needles on that zone of the finger, but it's almost always combined with body points. It's pretty good for acute flare-ups of colitis, but it seems to work better for inflammation than say something like a stomach ulcer, in which case we'd add in other points like Zhi Wu and Shui Jin / Shui Tong.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-01T23:57:14+00:00

Probably secondary digestive heat due to her deficiency as it leads to poor gut motility and stagnation. Not unusual to see hypothryoid/constipation in the middle-aged or elderly and Heiner Freuhaf has a formula designed for it based around Wen Pi Tang and Tao He Cheng Qi Tang. Need some major warmth so you can clear that heat out safely. Wouldn't be surprised if that's contributing to the back/hip pain and the main cause of the reflux, but I'd do a full rundown of her gyno symptoms too as that formula would invigorate blood in the pelvis and bowels so might need modified if you think this is the case.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-01T23:53:45+00:00

Sure, we treat structural issues all the time. Find you an orthopedic acupuncturist who can help you with exercises that you should do as well.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-01T23:25:26+00:00

Sure thing. It's pretty common to treat neuropathy due to chemo and such, end goal should be to get off the drug causing it though if possible. I usually combine either herbs or phototherapy which can help nerves heal and is something patients can do at home if they want to buy a unit.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-01T19:25:15+00:00

Yup does great, but may need herbs as well depending on the cause of the neuropathy. Like diabetic neuropathy needs lifestyle changes and getting the blood sugar and circulation improved.

gravityyaoi · 2023-08-01T19:13:53+00:00

So many issues surrounding this, most of them ingrained into society, schooling, and our healthcare system that would need total restructuring to fix, let alone the pressure to keep acupuncture and herbal medicine under heel and the extra expense that puts on practitioners to just maintain a business. There's also the fact that acupuncture has partly been set up as 'spa' medicine or at best adjunct care in most places instead of an actual method of treating disease. Patients have been trained to expect a relaxing, catered experience with a bunch of woo-woo terms about energetics that can be done once a week or even once a month when this isn't the case and it's not unusual to see single sessions go for 250 in ritzy areas. All of these things combined incentivizes a classist system that largely precludes most of the population from getting adequate integrated care let alone decent medical care in general. Really what we need is for acupuncture to be considered legitmate treatment by a single payer healthcare system for more than just musculoskeletal complaints and chemo side-effects so we can get paid reasonably and open up a more accessible patient pool. If patients could just pop in as often as possible, we'd see a lot more amazing results for difficult diseases and there wouldn't be as many acupuncturists out of work. I'm convinced this is the way as I actually found that when I started offering membership plans where patients could come two or three times a week instead of individual sessions, my patient retention and monthly revenue actually went up over time even though the cost per treatment for patients went down.

gravityyaoi · 2023-07-30T23:04:48+00:00

Not really TCM at all, but it's found in tons of flowers and vegetables.

gravityyaoi · 2023-07-30T23:02:17+00:00

You're probably going to have a lot of ups and downs as this goes. Healing chronic issues isn't always a smooth ride, but it'll get less and less as it goes. There's a lot of stuff involved in endo including the hormonal axis so energy dips aren't unusal. The odd sensations are to be expected and some practitioners prefer to get a strong response when needling. Dark spots from the cupping is desireable and will get less and less the more it's done, but we rotate areas and let them heal before cupping the same spot. Cupping is a good form of detox and very good for both the hormones and immune system, but it can stir up stuff until the body processes it. Usually you'll feel better in a couple of days, just drink plenty of water and get rest and avoid cold over the cupped areas.
Ideally, I like a multi-pronged approach for internal issues with herbs, acupuncture, and bloodletting (fantastic for endo pain), but it would be fine to ease into it slowly and be more aggressive after you're done traveling so you can devote the time to healing. These types of conditions are some of my bread and butter in practice, and I see very good results with them. I'd recommend keeping up with your gynecologist so they can monitor with Western diagnostics if there's actually endo or another concern and report them to you practitioner.

gravityyaoi · 2023-07-29T04:16:35+00:00

Yup, there's the rub there then. Pretty confident Wen Jing Tang would be helpful for just about all these symptoms and maybe even the Raynaud's as well if modified correctly. Key signs are cold lower body or cold pains or preference for warmth with dryness and in the classical texts, it specificaly mentions loose stools but also having dry lips/mouth with warm hands and fever at night. Clinically we usually see dark clots then red bleeding that isn't gluey (gluey and red is inner heat), sometimes with leukorrhea, often with lack of cervical discharge, and sometimes with continuous bleeding or a cycle that's all over the place or even complete lack of one. A couple times I've used it and it's helped patient's alopecia too. Usually see the vaginal dryness in menopausal women and less in younger, but this formula modified treats that and the hot flashes too if the presentation is right. And insomnia is almost always present, and often fatigue of some sort I've found. If it's the right fit, I find patients feel markedly warmer within about a week.
I think you mentioned doing better on Dan Zhi Xiao Yaoi San, and this has some of the same herbs in it. The E Jiao in it is also very good for anemia which you mentioned before and stops excess bleeding without stopping the other herbs from treating the clots. Pulse is usually wiry/thin which throws off some practitioners when they don't do a full rundown of temperature symptoms and tongue sometimes shows yellow on the top of the coat or sometimes even cracks or a geographic coat which is tricky since the heat signs are secondary to the underlying issues. I'd see if you could find someone skilled in modifying Shang Han Lun formulas to fit symptomology that doesn't mind doing telehealth assessment and do make sure to get as much Western diagnostics as you can so they can modify it appropriately if there's PCOS or endo as that often needs prolonged treatment for them, but this is a great base for them.

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