Good practice for inflammation

[EagerMind]

I've had inflammation for about three years, I think I might have an auto immune disease. It took me a while to figure out what my problems were but i've switched over to a vegaterian diet and it's helping a little but I still have inflammation and pain in my prostate, kidneys, bladder and now my right leg is slightly swollen. I've been to a couple doctors and while they help a little almost all of the progress I've made has been from my own research!

 

So far to combat the inflammation I've switched to a vegetarian diet, I take probiotics three times a day (which help tremendously), and take two 81mg asprins a day. I'm pretty lazy so exercise is only walking 1 mile a day.

 

So my question is what can I do to help the healing process besides seeing doctors? I was thinking tai chi any suggestions?

 

I'm a 33 year old male.

Edited June 20, 2013 by EagerMind

[xor]

Do you eat alot of grains, especially wheat products? edit: I had alot of what you describe before kicking wheat completely and as far as I know it's pretty common

 

read this:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/grain-pain/

Edited June 20, 2013 by Guest

[子泰]

I would strongly suggest you get off the aspirin, or at least take smaller doses, as long term effects can be far worse than what you're trying to fix. If you are willing to exercise a little more, perhaps try yoga? It gets much easier over time.

Edited June 20, 2013 by dazed

[ChiDragon]

I've had inflammation for about three years, I think I might have an auto immune disease. It took me a while to figure out what my problems were but i've switched over to a vegaterian diet and it's helping a little but I still have inflammation and pain in my prostate, kidneys, bladder and now my right leg is slightly swollen. I've been to a couple doctors and while they help a little almost all of the progress I've made has been from my own research!

 

So far to combat the inflammation I've switched to a vegetarian diet, I take probiotics three times a day (which help tremendously), and take two 81mg asprins a day. I'm pretty lazy so exercise is only walking 1 mile a day.

 

So my question is what can I do to help the healing process besides seeing doctors? I was thinking tai chi any suggestions?

 

I'm a 33 year old male.

 

Tai Ji is for you because it is a form of Chi Kung, Chi Kung will help you to enhance your immune system, Another words, it will increase the production of white blood cells to the maximum number which your body allows. Having a maximum number of white blood cells means your immune system is fine tune to its ultimate efficiency.

 

I have practiced Tai Ji for more than 38 years, I hardly get sick. I only get a cold couple times in the last 20 years when I was lack of sleep. I'm 65 years old now. Time for medicare but I hardly have to take advantage of my medical insurance benefits because I hardly pay any visits to the doctor's office.

Edited June 21, 2013 by ChiDragon

[idquest]

Inflammation in prostate and urinary tract can be triggered by food. The decisive factor is not vegetarian-nonvegetarian, but some specific foods that can trigger auto immune response. For me such triggers are coconut oil which, ironically, is praised for its healing features, and turnips. Both are vegetarian btw.

[doc benway]

I have a taijiquan student with a severe auto-immune inflammatory disorder. He could barely walk when he joined us.

Now he is competing (and winning) in forms, doing some push hands, weapons, teaching, and his life is transformed. Really amazing to see. He still has ups and downs but everything has shifted to a much better and stronger place for him. We emphasize standing meditation practice for people with these sorts of problems, in addition to qigong, taijiquan, and for interested students, Daoist meditation. All of it is of enormous value for health and well being. My personal experience has been that our emotional and psychological lives play a major role in our physical health as well and that they need appropriate attention along with our other practices - and this is well accomplished by practicing awareness and acceptance.

Good luck!

[thelerner]

I was under the weather recently. I turned to The Bone Dreaming Meditation, a taoist healing guided meditation by Giles Marin on his Sleeping Chi Kung album. Its 30 minutes long and concentrates and 'lights up' the bone structure, putting you into a state of deep relaxation as it does. Interestingly it doesn't talk about healing, but the bones and there marrow are the source of white blood cells. I think focusing on them does a world of good. Its a relatively inexpensive CD, google it if you're interested.

 

Dietwise it seems like your doing everything right. There is short simple but profound healing form called Pangu that I like. Michael Winn has a version of it on Youtube. Here it is:

Edited June 22, 2013 by thelerner

[markern]

On 22.6.2013 at 8:45 PM, doc benway said:

I have a taijiquan student with a severe auto-immune inflammatory disorder. He could barely walk when he joined us.

Now he is competing (and winning) in forms, doing some push hands, weapons, teaching, and his life is transformed. Really amazing to see. He still has ups and downs but everything has shifted to a much better and stronger place for him. We emphasize standing meditation practice for people with these sorts of problems, in addition to qigong, taijiquan, and for interested students, Daoist meditation. All of it is of enormous value for health and well being. My personal experience has been that our emotional and psychological lives play a major role in our physical health as well and that they need appropriate attention along with our other practices - and this is well accomplished by practicing awareness and acceptance.

Good luck!

Why do you emphasize standing meditation?

[doc benway]

58 minutes ago, markern said:

Why do you emphasize standing meditation?

 

In severe cases, people can stand for only short periods of time, if at all, and are often very disconnected from their body and mind by pain, dysfunction and emotional and psychological effects of their illness. Posture is dysfunctional, circulation impaired, awareness impeded. They are easily overstimulated and stressed by expecting too much of themselves, and the disconnection and self esteem worsen with negative self talk, the despair born of chronic pain and impairment.

 

Standing has so many potential benefits. It allows them to become aware of the body with gradually diminishing distraction and interruption. The posture can be observed, felt, and adjusted to minimize unnecessary muscle tension and optimize alignment, balance, and a more relaxed, yet dependable structure. This is tough to do in movement for beginners. Strength and endurance increase as posture and awareness improve. Reduction of pain associated with tension and reduction of distraction due to inner awareness, foster deeper communication and alignment of mind and body. As the felt sense of body becomes more present, connection to the Earth and the environment as a whole begin to develop and balance and harmony of inner and outer arise. Reduction in tension and stress, alignment of body, energy, and mind improve vascular, neurological, and energetic circulation. I could go on but enough for now. Important not to stand for too long at first, allowing pain to limit the practice sessions, encouraging self acceptance and patience. Meditative practices can also be used to help reduce pain and impatience.

 

If the physical and psychological conditions allow, movement can begin immediately or very early in the process. If it is pushed too soon, so much opportunity can be lost as frustration grows rapidly due to poor balance, poor focus, poor posture, poor self image. It’s important to allow the body to move and adjust with standing but adding arm and leg movements, stepping, breathing, and everything else involved in the moving forms makes it very difficult to address the challenges in foundational elements. 

[Gerard]

It's called "damp", and if there's "heat" involved "damp-heat" which causes a lot of inflammation. 

 

Ba Gua Zhang fixes that alongside lifestyle and dietary changes. TCM herbs will be part of the treatment to drain the heat. 
 

This is a difficult condition to treat and it takes a long time to remove it, depending on how long it has been sitting in the system, but it will be done.
 

Bear in mind that bad habits are hard to get rid of. 
 

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Gerard