‘ai trouvé se email (voir en bas) sur le yahoo groups de MTC. c’est un très bon group « chat ». si il y a en parmi vous autres qui sont interessés a regarder ça, voici comment y-rendre.

allez à: http://groups.yahoo.com/

faire un recherche pour  » Traditional_Chinese_Medicine  »
(ça serait le deuxième résultat)
pour avoir access, cliquer sur le lien « sign up » (en haut de la page)

it will take a day or two for them to accept you,
mais après ça tu pourra regarder les conversations ou même chercher le database pour des topiques qui t’interesse..

si t’en as des questions (peut être j’ai mal-expliqué le processus)
n’hésite-pas de me contacter.
bruce

Na / K / Ca / Mg effets OCC + MTC

I would like to share with you an observation concerning the relationships of Potassium and Sodium as well as Magnesium and Calcium.

Consider the following. Though vilified by western cardiology, Sodium has yin properties: it’s cooling and grounding, and furthermore it promotes digestion in addition to contributing to the secretion of Hydrochloric acid in the stomach. In moderation, it stimulates and benefits the Kidneys, promotes fluid metabolism and has a moistening effect beneficial to dryness in the body. It also detoxifies poisons and softens hardness in the body. Yet because it has an affinity to water, it settles in the vascular fluids in the body elevating blood pressure.

Potassium, on the other hand is the Yang, flip side of Sodium. Cellularly Potassium can be found intracellularly whereas Sodium is found extracellularly. Unlike Sodium, Potassium promotes an upward and outward direction. Therefore, Potassium excess is manifested as a floating unrooted ungroundedness, prone to rebellious qi. In contradistinction from sodium, potassium contributes to fluid elimination from the body.

We can also see the same parallel with Calcium and Magnesium. Yin Calcium is necessary to prevent osteoporosis and osteomalacia. Heavy and calming, Mu Li is mostly calcium.

Yet, without Yang Magnesium to serve as a delivery system to the bones, Calcium can wreak havoc: causing painful calcium deposits in muscles, inflammation of nerves, symptoms of fibromyalgia, and the paradoxical result: osteoporosis. Magnesium is a most efficient calcium channel blocker (without side effect) to prevent coronary artery calcification. It relaxes muscle spasms (spleen tonic?) and promotes sound sleep (calms Shen). It also strengthens the liver and has a built-in regulatory mechanism which indicates if a patient is taking too much (diarrhea results, and by slightly adjusting the dose it is resolved). Incidentally, studies have shown that approximately 70% of the US population suffers magnesium deficiency! I have experimentally used Magnesium Citrate as a substitute for Da Huang and find it more gently reducing.

But the key in both cases of Sodium/Potassium and Calcium/Magnesium is balance. None of the four are good or bad, and trouble only results from excess and/or deficiency. (have we heard that before?)

So now getting back to your original question, asking for an herb to lower Potassium, may I suggest that by regulating the balance of Sodium/Potassium you would do much better than aggresively lowering Potassium. Isn’t it interesting that this patient who excess Potassium comes from a background of diabetes, wasting and thirsting disease, a patient who probably craves fluid and is yin xu? It would seem to me that gently adding some of the seaweeds which are high in sodium perhaps in a formula such as Yu Ye Tang (assuming that the differential diagnosis fits, of course) might be an approach to consider.

Sincerely,

Yehuda Frischman, L.Ac, CST, SER,
www.traditionaljewi shmedicine. com