Long Dan Xie Gan Wan
The
descriptions below are from the Traditional Chinese and or "Folk Medicine"
use of herbs provided for
information only and not intended to replace advice from a medical doctor
or to replace any drugs that are FDA approved
A Traditional herbal formula
for ridding the body of damp heat which can be in the form
of Candidiasis, yeast, other fungal infections, gallstones etc.
This can be the root
cause of many viral and bacterial infections, kidney, vaginal, prostate,
Chronic Fatigue and many other disorders!
This should be taken
with Coptis Root if there are cronic lung infections or pronounced lung
weakness associated with your complaints.
Also used as an important part of a protocol in ridding
the body of Gallstones and Kidney Stones - Click here for Info on this.
I have seen many of the
“Great American Herbalists” cleanse the colons of patients and pile them
up with supplements and diet until they were blue in the face with
very little success! These well meaning people just don’t understand
the energy workings and meridian clearing factors of Chinese Herbal
Medicine!
For
candidiasis, diet and colon flushing management alone is not strong enough
to clear the system. With Chinese herbal cleansing therapy, the goal is to
clear the system of Dampness, Phlegm, and Heat. These are the causative
factors of candidiasis. The herbs of Chinese medicine are not intended
to mechanically clear out the large intestine; rather, they promote the
clearing-out of the pathological factors of Phlegm and Heat toxins. This
is usually very hard for a western doctor to understand.
Middle
Burner disorder (Spleen and Stomach) is the key factor in candidiasis.
When Spleen energy is weakened by poor diet, to much sugar,
pharma-medications (A real biggie!) or other factors, its ability
to transform phlegm is diminished. The Spleen then fails to properly
absorb and utilize nutrients from the foods we eat, and is therefore
unable to produce healthy amounts of Chi and Blood components. (Chi, or Qi, by the way, roughly translated is energy - As
in "lack of" or Chronic Fatigue!) So therefore the
earliest stage of candidiasis is almost always a Spleen (Middle Burner)
disorder. If treated appropriately at this stage, with re-balancing of the
Spleen and Stomach, the problem will resolve with no yeast-related
symptoms (Which can be legion!)
But candidiasis is not a well-defined
disease pattern. It is difficult to diagnose at the early stages, and many
people are completely unaware that they are developing a severe problem.
Then the disease gains ground, spreading to the Upper Burner (thrush,
cough, etc.), or to the Lower Burner (kidney, prostate ,vaginal infection,
etc.), or both.
From the foundation of TCM,
it states: "The constitutional
energy is endangered when an internalized evil is there," The Yellow Emperor’s Classic
of Internal Medicine.
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The Damp
Heat Clearing Formula: Long Dan Xie Gan Wan is a powerful herbal
combination to promote the liver and colon cleansing process. Damp Heat
Clearing is used most often when Lower Burner symptoms appear, and also
with some Middle Burner problems; Coptis Root Pills can be
added with Upper and Middle Burner symptoms. (Lung infections
etc.)This wonderful TCM formula
has a long list of applications due to its clearing of meridians
associated with the middle and lower burner!
Formulators Of Natural
Medicine
Another thing one can do in combination with Long Dan Xie
Gan Wan against fungal infections such as Candidiasis is drink a daily cup
of a delicious tasting tea made from the inner bark of the Purple
Flowering La Pacho Tree. (From Brazil) This is the true Pau d arco/ipe
roxo (Tabebulia heptaphylla) which has proven to have a great effect on
ridding and preventing Fungal Infections and is very good for the
immune system .