Asian Longevity Secrets

I sat by the fireplace in Sara’s home today, taking part in a discussion group that included a few MDs, a couple of acupuncturists, three herbalists, and the manager of a health-care network.

“I am frustrated,” said Mike, one of the MDs. “I see patients taking too many drugs yet can’t help prescribing more for them. It may start with anti-inflammatory drugs for joint and muscle pain, but soon their stomachs hurt due to the side effects. So I have to put them on a stomach pill. Often they become depressed from the pain. So they have to take an antidepressant or mood medicine. Their sleep is disturbed and they use sleeping pills. Some of these patients take medication ten times a day. It’s a vicious cycle. They must take medicine. We prescribe it. Then comes the side effects, and they take more drugs. According to a new statistics cited by USA Today, January 31, 2001 issue, more than 44% of Ameri-cans take prescription drugs daily. Approximately 9% take more than 5 prescription drugs daily.”

Sally, a nutritionist, joined in, “I know what you’re talking about. I give out Vitamins A, B, C, D, E, and lots more. New nutrients and supplements that the body re-quires are discovered every day. I don’t want them to miss any. Patients complain, but what can I do? Every single one of these nutrients and supplements is good for them. So they take 30-50 capsules a day.”

“I am like you,” said Jim, the herbalist. “They come to me for natural healing. Most are tired of conventional medicine and many drugs. They have multiple problems: headaches, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, joint pain, ringing ears. I have hundreds of different formulas suitable for each of these symptoms. I usually choose a good formula which can treat a couple of them, and con-tinue to choose other formulas for other symptoms. In the end, it amounts to a lot. Besides, I have to tell them, ‘Don’t drop the medicines prescribed by your MD. When you feel better, talk to your doctor. He may take you off the medicine.’ I feel sorry for these people. They are taking too many things.”

“I used to do the same,” I said, “carrying hundreds of different formulas in my office. But now I have just eight, and things are much better. These eight funda-mental formulas can deal with almost every disease by rebalancing the major organ energy systems. A patient may have multiple symptoms. But according to tradi-tional Chinese medicine, the symptoms are only signals that tell you one of the major organ systems is under stress or out of balance. If you treat the symptoms, you are only helping part of the body, instead of treating the major root causes. You need to look at a combination of symptoms to find out what is the cause of those symp-toms deep inside the body.”

“Tell us how it works, Ping,” said one of the doctors in the group.

“I treated a patient with low back pain. After a few sessions of taking kidney support herbs, his pain was completely eased. In his last visit, he asked, ‘Ping, what did you do to me? I had ear ringing for years and couldn’t find relief. I never told you about it because other doctors hadn’t helped, and I thought you probably couldn’t treat it either. I came to get my back better, but now my back is fine and my ears stopped ringing too.’

“I had been trying to strengthen his internal kidney meridian. When the kidneys are strong, all kidney-related symptoms go away. Ear ringing and low back pain are both related to kidney energy. So taking the kidney support herbs balanced the energy. This is why both symptoms are gone, even though we did not specifi-cally treat the ear ringing.

“Another example was a lady with arthritis. I gave her bone and joint formula. After a few weeks, she told me, ‘This herb has something to do with my kidney.’ I asked why. She said, ‘I used to go to the bathroom every two hours at night, and had a very thin and slow stream of urine. After taking these herbs, my joints are better and so is the urination. I only get up once a night and have a good strong stream of urine, just like before.’

“Now think about it. If all our organ energy systems are strong and balanced, all symptoms should go away. We are protected from virus and bacteria. Even someone who doesn’t have symptoms can still use the herbs for anti-aging so their systems will stay in balance.”

To my delight, the others in the room agreed with me and wondered how to get the word out that balancing the fundamental organ energy systems can give us an energy system which heals itself of all symptoms and diseases and keeps us young for a long time.

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