Treat Tick Bites- Skin Scraping for Deeper Infection

I'm recommending the mthod to treat tick bites


1> Immediately scrape the bite deeply , till it's not itchy.

2> Apply menthol oil products on the skin.

( The product helpful and effective and currently available in Australia)

3> Have food and drink of cool to cold nature, and avoid that of warm to hot nature.



That simple? Yes . Effectiveness? Immediate to feel , - and takes a few hours to see the result on skin. Get well in 1.5 day.

Keys:

• Skin Scraping (gua sha) must be deep , and it's different from surface scratch, and the later causes swell.

• Usually using coins or spoons or stones. It's using the weight of the object to reach deeper easily.

So when we understand the reason, we can use anything for the right effect, anywhere. Even our knuckles.

• Scrap with your feeling. Till you don't feel itchy anymore.

In fact we may find different feeling when we use the method in different parts of body.This means different situation, and different treatment. So with your feeling as the guide , it would not be underdone or overdone.

When you feel itchy, it's infecting, and when you feel pain, it's inflammation. Please be honest and deal with care to yourself. Pain does not exist at the initial stage. DO NOT SCRAPE FURTHER when you feel pain.

• Treat immediately

When bacteria hasn't had enough time to regenerate or spread through blood circulation to other parts of the body. Such method is to push the heat( infection) from deepest it reaches to the surface on spot, to stop any potential effect.

• Apply menthol oil on surface

In situation when menthol oil isn't available , proper scraping is enough to take effect. When finishing, you feel comfortably relieved down under skin from irritation, while the surface burning. Real deep scrape doesn't cause swell.

When using menthol oil after the process, the effect of menthol will be doubled than usual. As it can be absorbed by much deeper layer of the skin than it usually reaches , hence have even cooler effects , and sometimes you feel the cool and pungent feeling reaches down along veins.

Mint itself is pungent to carry away heats from surface, scraping is from deeper under to release full range and potential heats hidden. The process itself helps menthol absorbing, then it further helping the pungent process from deeper level than usual. The result is much stronger than any one of the two can reach.

The method helps to deal with full potential of infection , especially down under skin. And the quicker, the less to deal with. And leaves less skin traces.

Possible questions:

Where the method applies?

• Itchiness caused by insect bites.
• Bacteria infection under skin.

What if you have other cold nature disease at the same time?

Choose food and drinks of neutral nature.



What if I feel pain ?

I don't recommend discomfortable scrape. Most pain due to

• inflammation
• swell.
• excessive food and drink of hot nature without care

( This happens when the immediate treatment is missed so that the sting gets bigger to the next stage.)

Apply Menthol oil only , and for swells, especially on the edge, as it's the part where the pain from exactly)

Effectiveness? Immediate

Pain removal immediately , and the swell can be visibly smaller immediately if you apply right on the edge of the swell.


Will scrape break the skin?

When the method is used from the immediate beginning of the sting, there's less chance for skin break from scraping, as it's the minimum "heat" it has to deal with.

At a later stage with swell, you may find it's very natural to have skin break especially at the center, when the swell contains certain amount of liquid . And the process is healthy overall.

However avoid skin break purely from over scratch with dirty goods. So apply menthol oil help to sanitise skin after scrapes as it contains natural antibiotic.



Should I scrape or not when it swells?

It depends on your own feeling of skin, scrape when itchy , even after it swells and you can scrape the center even. It's effective.

However , don't scrape when you feel pain, and apply menthol oil only on surface.



Where scraping should apply?

Wherever itchiness reaches.

Let your sense as the guide -

So from beginning it could be only the center of the sting, yet, it's recommended to scrape the surrounding, to find out where itchiness exists. In lots chances , it would go along veins from the sting center. and I believe some further outbreaks of dots are infection through the veins.

You find yourself often need to scrape parts without any visible traces of bites or swells, along the veins. You will find potential itchiness, and this means invisible however further infection .

In some case, you may also find swell under calm surface that you don't feel anything. However scraping the edge, your feel itchiness, after that, the swell becomes smaller.

You also find scraping is useful when applying right at the center of the swell even at later stage, if you feel itchy.





Further explanation

This recommended treatment is fully based on my own experience on insect bites, especially the latest bites from ticks.

The recommendation is from study through different methods , and especially the latest using various methods on sting spots at the same time.

Symptoms of tick bites

• Itchiness at the beginning, sometimes without obvious trace at the skin.
• further itchiness and dots may appear on surrounding
• Pain when swell and when have food and drinks of hot nature, or in hot shower.

One spot of the itchiness from one deeper side of my scar. So I believe it's more like bacteria infection. And the surrounding itcheness along with new dots similar to bacteria related skin allergy.

So far I've got 5-6 times insect bites. And have tried different ways.

These including complete scratch, during the process the skin dramatically swells like all the energy of a nuclear bomb exploded under skin, and burning at the surface like burns from hot pots. Yet, despite the swell, what disappeared through a complete "scratch" is irritating itchiness.

When the explosion reaches its extreme, I applied menthol oil repeatedly , that means immediately after pungent feeling disappears.

The method takes 2 days to fully heal. And the disappearance of the swell, as dramatic as it appears.

However trying the menthol only, there is repeated itchiness and still certain degree of swell, due to the part infection that cannot be reached by oil down under skin immediately. Apply Menthol oil, takes usually 3-4 days to fully heal.

My initial method from very first time used simple scratch, to intentionally push the inflammation to its uttermost, then naturally disappears. The process took longer around 1 week, and the swell looked dramatic.

However all the method I tried to cure the insect bites has one principle, that is :

The best way is to release the harmful substance right from the sting spot, so it least affects any deeper down through your blood to your body and to harm further your organs.

Clean the D-+irty Sands

Now public health threats are increasing , however before telling you any of the treatments, I need to clear some dirty sands, or all my efforts are useless.

1> We don't need to follow guide, as it shows we are suspicious, and we will be more vulnarable for attacks.

All the guides are targeting at very common attacks public facing and seeking solution for more. It's never target at any single person.

Attacks always come first, then we seek for solution, the logic is misguided , and now the logic is : as we preparing for it, it's coming.

What I can't do is to repeatly urging any single person to follow existing guidance. And they should be responsible for their inefficiency over informations.

Existence and visibility is two concepts. People either too eager to show off everything or they have nothing at all.


2> We don't need to prepare for anything, it makes us suspicious, and we will have more attacks for that.

This ends up like people are simply doing meaningless show ups for survivals. And anytime could be the "breaking point" they thought they were so that they either "have to" die or sell others. Practically, they can hardly go further.


Second, don't forget, insects and germs don't really know how to go back to their home when their first job finish. And if only they are in public space, anyone may have a potential to be hit accidentally regardless what they are.

Charlotte's Web- pest control cleaning in houses

Blood sucking insects are always headache, not only they produce annoying itchness, but virus and disease. So pest control has never seemed to be so crucial as today.

To be able to control them effectively, we really need to understand what makes them better for breed. Just as any pregnanted mums, they need food, temperature and safe enviroment( undisturbed). Many hosehold bugs actually shares common food with human being , apart from blood sucking . In general sense, most insects becoming reactive from spring, yet, not to be neglected , some of them do breed throughout the year, especially when air-conditioning is around nowdays everywhere. So thourough cleaning is regular way of controlling the bugs . These jobs are however, simple but generally need sense of responsiblity. People generally neglect the contribution of responsible cleaners , and they have never become so precious like today. A reliable cleaner seem to be the first soilder of front line of health, while irresponsibly "pretty' cleaners gain jobs easily however hardly caught for potential disease spreading around corner.

A few details for household and hotels to check up especially, and they are the keys for controlling the pests. They are also guides for travelers.

1> Corners

Down inside are generally undisturbed place for breeding, and food may remains much longer without discovery thus provide perfect enviroment for bugs.

It takes a responsible vacumn cleaner. A complete vacumning can simply suck everything in even they cannot be seen. The method in the corner are just so simple.- Take off the head of the vacumn and suck through the line along the wall.

Food however can be much easily visible than the eggs of bugs. And they generally pose very active sign for cleaning.

In hotels, the hidden parts are generally where the beds are against the wall. And it's most rarely cleaned, and is the margin of quality of cleaning.

To make job much easier, my suggestion is to always leave certain space between furnitures and the wall, so it's very easy to examine and clean.

2> Corners between rooms

We can simply explain how naturally bugs are led from one room to another. They can be intentionally led by food.

Sometimes you can see the tiny food traces along the line of walls between two rooms, if you are careful enough- this is the quiet place that easy to neglect. However may be a great avenue for bugs despite over traffic of human beings on corridor.

What may equally forget, is floor and walls on balconies between rooms.

3> Doona and pillows

More frequently washed are the covers. But if lice or bed bugs are found in the room, people always found it less work while washing the cover. The reason is the doona and pillow still provide more space.

However , it's not sunshine can clean up. It needs wash up, spray or scents to repel them.

Lavender , as its pleasing fragrance and insect repellent function, is the first choice. Other effective herb or scents can be found in one of the blogs.


4> Kitchen

As a common place for food, it's obvious. People simply need to check around, for food traces. What easy to be neglected are the seams under stoves or other equipment and furniture, and fridge. And all cutlery handling areas .

Details are generally negelected by eyes. However is the margin of quality cleaning.

Many insects can hatch from eggs to larva in 1-2 weeks. So take that in mind, thourough health safety cleaning should be happen once every week.

In the other hand, many wealthy household and hotels do hire specailised cleaners. And that's why their quality of service and responsiblity has become very important today.

For management level, there's several suggestions

1> Set standard

Luckily enough, all are not hard in skills , but need responsiblity. And the common sense is, if you don't tell people to do, they may just skip it. So the result could be, outside may look OK, but you don't know where the bugs from really.

2> Examine regularily

Targeting at pest control, these details are exactly what we need, not more, not less. You might see some pick up on unecessary things, but these are tricks- they will not be effective.

Examine is general tool to control quality and know performance of staffs.

It will provide basic guide line on procudures. From judgement to notification and to further handling.

In the other hand, you would find those not interested in quality service may noy just "pretty" girls. Anyway, this is not a good time. That means there's always be large workforce on the market who's expecting to seriously feed their family.

Other method for management including

1> Use detail cleaning on very definit tasks

2> More focused cleaning each day taking a week as period

These methods are taken while details may lengthen the time for regular cleaners. In the other hand, frequent cleaning of the standard may take much less time than less frequent work.

Then either using extra detailed cleaner taking special care of these key spots, or require the regular cleaner to do less quantity but better quality work to cover all details in turn within 7 days for effective health control.


Other management method also including

Arrangement of shifts and rosters

Arrangement of contents and works

These tools generally provide lots flexibility and space for necessary management. However, serves their real intention. As I did witness some bad management take them as flexibility to serve evil interest and shift responsibility. Or , if people are smart they can use otherwise.

Generally speaking, frequently changing rosters and shifts are easy excuses for shifting responsibility. Contrarily, more fixed tasks with less people involved provide more responsibility to individuals.

Increase or decrease contents of workload compare to the time, simply have a thousand versions, and all excuses can happen.

The problems are, we have seen so many use them to serve very bad interest or even weakness, but rarely for healthy purpose. And funny thing is, nowadays, sometimes there's time for people to fear more of risk when they are clean.

When I worked in a cafe, I just didn't understand why the boss busy buying bleach instead of using disinfectants. The difference is bleach make somethings looks cleaner, but disinfectant make something really cleaner. A smart boss should simply tell any staff to use that bottle, telling them that's bleach when it's factually disinfectant really, if necessary. And I believe that's very much the difference of cover and nature.

Worm Woods

Apart from full body balance from Yin and Yang, using herbals of different nature, sometimes we do find a need to strengthen the effect on partial body as symptom appears even though one has been effectively healthier overall, the effect on part isn't yet strong enough.

Here are several herbs worldwide that initially deal with bug related disease, yet on a generally lighter use. When we understand how they functions we can use them to partially control the development and further release body pain from swells. Then there would be also medicines, including herbal and mineral( stone) , that's bit poisonous, however used against deeper venom. Yet they should be handled by people of both knowledge and credit.

Here I recommend several herbs you can find throughout the world and extraction that's widely used on initial bug caused swell and preventions, and also other diseases.


peppermint - menthol

Nature: cool, unlike bitterness of many herbs of cool nature , it's pungent . That means it is volatile. Just because of such nature, it carries away the heat quickly from the part of body. However the effectiveness stops just while the pungent feeling disappears .

When using oil product on skin surface, it very effectively carried away a small amount of heat then the effect stopped quickly. So whenever it stopped I then used more drops again and continued such process repeatedly , and I found it very effective. Initially the effect to stop the pain is immediate, and in such case I would think the medicine match the cause and symptom very well.

Used with also other Chinese herbals, it has function on liver disease, and stop liver pain.

Another usage on mint leave pieces along with realgar powder that pasted on body skin at the part of liver is used to cure liver cancer. Here the paste is used to help the mint effect more deeper down and be consistent, while realgar which is poisonous somehow itself is using the poison against venom inside body. This usage is only to be used from outside skin.

English scientists also found the effect of mint leaves to control growing of veins around cancer , and cut off their blood supply and eventually "starve". And here is the theory from Chinese medicine. These are factually very latest discovery in western medicine, and waiting for the trial.

We also find mint product both with paraffin and in oil.

My understanding is that paraffin can help the effect more lasting as its solid, while oil is easier to be digested by skin yet quickly volatile.

So factually paraffin may provide lasting effect, as it generally include ingredients of other herbal extractions, it may provide also longer fragarance which can effectively expel bugs. So in prevention on disease caused by bug stings, it may be more effective.

While menthol oil may be faster as liquid is easier to be digested and can generally go deeper, yet as in oil state the volatility process is general to quick to reach too deep. So that , in deeper swell such as cancer it needs a lasting paste using raw leaves and its juice. Yet I believe the repeated using of menthol oil which is easily available still have effect from surface of the part to control from edge of the swell.


Lavender - lavender oil

Lavender is a European plant, and had been used as a common herbal in medical since Rome Time.

Lavander is beneficial to stomach. help sweat, and pain relief, can also be used on flu and stomache. Lavender oil as function of disinfectant to kill germs, pain relief and calm nerves.It has been used on:

Skin diseases, and bug stings.
high blood pressure and increase blood circulation
adjust hormone system, and pain relief, digestive symptoms.

And lavander has more lasting fragrance, I believe it a good prevention herbal from bug sting caused disease. However as it has the function to increase blood circulation, according to the theory to cut off veins around cancer swell, it may not be very effective in a cancer case.


In medieval time, there were people accidentally survived the black plague, which is caused by flea carrying virus on rats. French workers used to wear certain leather gloves, which had been soaked into lavender oil during production. It's such smell of lavender that expels flea. so that we may use lavender products such as herbal soap to leave such fragarance on body to protect self and family from bug stings.


Eucalyptus - Eucalyptus oil

Abundant in Australia.

Nature: slightly pungent, bitter and neutral. Kill germs and relieve inflammation stop putrid and itchiness. Used in prevention to Respiratory diseases, kidney diseases. Parasite killing. Outside used on burns , skin infections.

There are prescription using eucalyptus leaves decocted with water to prevent flu. With some other Chinese herbs on digestive disease. Decocted(boiled with water then with low fire for hours to make the juice) with pine tree leaves to wash skin to cure skin infectious disease.

The amount while using for drink is general very little around 9-15 g, fresh leaves 15-30 g.


Eucalyptus oil is one of the best herbal disinfectants and has strong effect to kill germs. The best thing is it's effective to inflammation and fever. And quickly reduce fever when its high.Reduce mucus. so it's also used on respiratory disease, such as pulmonary tuberculosis.

It can relieve muscle pain.

The smell of eucalyptus also used to expel bugs.



The following should be used with discretion.

Camphor tree and Camphor ( from China)

Camphor tree leaves can be even used fresh on skin using its juice in summer to prevent stings.

Camphor wood root

Nature: pungent , warm.

can be used in diarrhea, puke , stomach. Outside on skin diseases and tooth pain.

used inside Camphor wood root 20-30 g, or soaked into wine.

Used on arthritics both inside or wash outside.


Camphor is used to store clothes, books, specimen, files . Can be placed in house.

Also used inside body to dredge joints to avoid unclean substances, pain relief , and kill parasite and cure diarrhea, puke , stomach. Outside on skin diseases and tooth pain.

Usage is 0.3 mm( in length) to 1.5 mm, with discretion , or according to doctors, usually in wines or tablets . And outside.

The danger of camphor is in its steam , it may become poisonous, and cause faint, mind losing, coma, even death.


Rabi agar or Real gar

Powder

Nature: Pungent, warm, poisonous.

Function: Venom relief , parasite killing, dissolve phlegm. Used in swells caused by stings and bites of snakes and bugs. Parasite caused swells and pain.

It's actually being used in several cancer treatment.

Liver cancer:

One old ginger, cut the core and leave only 0.5 mm around, filled in with real gar, and sealed with ginger pieced dug out, dry with coal, for around 7-8 hours, to gold colour yet not burn ,then easily milled into powder, put on normal medicine, and used in place of liver . I think the normal medicine includes paraffin product. Along with other inner taking medicines.

Infectious Disease Pathway

Although infectious disease pathways seem to be a common sense to medical specialist, normal people would still find it of high educational value. And I personally believe that the key to control infectious disease is to control their pathway. This equally makes common sense as without a tool they can not spread- that simple. So increase public awareness and handle on key agents, can effectively disease the spread of disease, in a very cost effective way. Prevention costs always less than handle at last stage. So these channels would of high value of study on public health level.

1> Air

I don't think this needs further understanding, virus in the air is easy way to contamination. The prevention is also very easy and directly air targeting - which I have stated in another post

1) cleaner- disinfectant spray - currently Glen 20 in market, very easily available and affordable and portable. or other available brand everywhere

2) barrier- fabric - any fabric for emergency use or can use at night when sleeping. if stated as fabric, you can think of a lot that can come into rescue at the right time immediately, handkerchief, scarf, collar , sleeves , ha-ha

3) transmitter- fresh air- just let them go... but you may also let some in , so the last.

Easy, apart from that there's low cost cure for flu caused symptoms in another post already


2> Food

General food hygiene has already been widely known. But at special time there should be clear awareness of special agents such like - insects , and special human being.

1) pure insects doesn't need further worry, just to choose reliable container to cover food all the time.

sanitize cutlery before serving food.

2) Human So to increase awareness and observation on people around is very important-

-avoid food offered from strangers
-try best to use fully heated food, and ask for any sauce on side, including butter and spreads put cold on heated food.

I think you have such social smart to avoid unwanted invitations right???

3> Blood

Blood infection is factually more common than people thought. They are from

1)Injections , or other bleeding medical devices - so the basic medical facility and credibility is common sense. However this really rely on the discipline of current health system which many trying to loose on- these basics "accidentally" , for huge price of credibility. Apart from that- please avoid such bleeding situation if you don't depressingly need it right now !!!

2) bugs stings from blood sucking bugs, such as fleas, mosquitoes , bed bugs, may have much larger impact than people thought of. Such handling would take another separate chapter.


4> Skin touch

1) Is basically touching goods such as clothes from a virus carrier, but this can be comparatively easier to avoid if one always wash hands before eating, as it eventually would enter the body from mouth.

2) skin disease- as this can generally be visible, so awareness is comparatively easier.And always wash exposed skin and wipe sweat off in summer especially after touches.

Worth mention is goods carrying virus and germs that's invisible. Using the old goods or clothes from someone else without proper sanitation . Use disinfectants on surfaces of old strange things.

3) Open wound- is what people ignore, however easier to enter body. So be careful to use band-aid at all time.


5> Environmental( water and soil) This currently needs further study, and definitely need handle of council or environmental institutional level. But for individual level, at least one should drink boiled or pure water, and watch any changes of environment.

As you can see, many of them are very easy things that everyone can do, just increase awareness. You may also have several points , but anyway just let our eyes stick to these key things : air , food, blood, skin, environment (water and soil ).

Test the Nature of Drinks and Food on Flu

To make an experiment so as to really understand the function of food in different nature, I have used fully my time of getting flu.

Initially I drank only one kind of Chinese tea- Oolong Tea. It has not be mentioned to have specific function in flu handling. But as it's green tea and cool in nature, although the colour more close to black tea , I have tried using it to balance heat from flu. Although one may obtain cold, as the disease develops , heat from immunisation system fighting against inflammation.

I drank the liquid of Oolong tea initially a lot and found it worked very well.

Then I changed into jasmine tea as I finished the pack, and meant to test the function. Jasmine tea , also it has green colour, is kind of flower tea , the nature is warm have function to get rid of wet. The first two days it works quiet well, however I cannot initially find what effect it is from exactly. Two days later, My cough getting more severe. Frankly admit, that myself had also ate a few heated food, like french fries, ... can't resist the temptation sometimes.

Then I changed into Oolong tea again, and felt better straight away.

Then I used pears on my coughing, this is the fruit effective in stop the cough. I had two large pears a day, and found it worked very well. It's very effective in dissolve phlegm, and it's very helpful to lung.

So I'm recommending people are coughing to have pears. So far I have no yet used any chemical medicine yet for the test.

By the way, I dare not be tempted that much this time, although I can't resist some food of heat, I always take care to eat the opposite to balance it back after controlled addiction. :P

I tired to remember how exactly I got it, when initially I though it was cold, I did felt sudden throat sore when exactly in one Internet cafe. And I felt regularly stimulated when I sat in the couch of state library. Once I found a book with cover in high heeled flower shoes, another time a book topic in Spies on Spies at the couch area. So this time I prepared air disinfectant with me, and I found fabric cover over mouth and nose is very useful, this is to recommend strongly in public places.

Presciption : Pomegrante Usage on Expelling Parasite

Pomegranate has unique function to expel parasite inside human body. The fact is that it does NOT poison the parasites to death, but paralyse them. And their trunks would become stiff and numb so as to be released out of human body through excrement.

The real prescription of Pomegranate usage is as below:

12-15 g, pomegranate peel and root decocted with water, abandon sediment, add brown sugar. Drink before meals, three times a day.

I have checked carefully, as the fruit of pomegranate isn't mentioned to have such function.

The medical function of pomegranate fruit itself is to stop diarrhea and bleeding.

The exact function to expel parasite is exactly in its peel and root.

I'm happy to see some pomegranate juice is currently in market thus compliment my limitation of time and energy. However it's very important to address the exact medical functions. And it's highly suggestive that watch out the percentage of juice from other fruit that blended, and its nature according to herb medicine theory. It works very well. As pomegranate fruit itself is warm in nature. And many tropical fruit is also warm and wet in nature, that people should be careful about, these including pineapple and mango.

Now the exact prescription is provided here and it's free as it was initially provided.

And please also check my previous list for nature of food.

Nature of Food in Chinese Medicine

Have you ever thought of the function of your very common diary food such as milk could be of some medical nature??? yet while sometimes it could mean nutrition other times it may factually make one less health under certain current disease???How about the concept that milk may add up "heat" to some disease "hot" in nature ... like oil on the fire ??? with such question, I tired and found it worked... for thousand years...

This is to introduce Chinese medicine concept on the nature of food and herb medicine, to help people increasing their knowledge of their daily diet.



Core of Chinese medicine theory, is the balance of Yin and Yang. And every food and herb has its nature. Food in Yang nature including fried foods as more fire are added during the process of cooking, along with materially Yang natured foods, all to add up more Yang energy to body. While the Yin food, including water boiled or braised food during the process and cool the body down with Yin energy. So as a common sense of such initial understanding, in Winter , generally people are able to eat more food of Yang energy (called hot food in Chinese medicine concept) and in summer, people feel healthier with Yin diet( cool or cold food with Chinese medicine concept).

As a word , "Yin" and "Yang", are neutral as "hot" "neutral" cool" or cold" . And the health is in the balance , and any extremity means disease. And the Chinese medicine theory is to utilise herbs of the opposite nature to balance disease caused by one nature, in order to achieve health. And it's in everyday diet.



So for the people who has already got certain disease, the immediate thing they can do is to choose the right diet that helps.



Following list classify our daily especially in western menu, food belong to different nature.So people are able to consciously using them to balance and minimise the effect of disease .



Hot food ( Yang energy)
Meat : Lamb , seafood, beef,

Vegi : Chili, Garlic, Onion, chive

Fruits: Lychee, mandarin, date, chestnut, durian, cherry

Drinks: wine , chocolate, black/grey tea , milk

cooking methods : fries

Spice: chili, pepper, curry


Cool and cold food

Meat : plain water river fish and shellfish , duck

Vegi : most of green leaves ,bean products, bamboo shoot, sprout , tomato, cucumber , cold :balsam pear, celery, radish

Fruits : orange , kiwifruit,banana, pear, persimmon, melon, watermelon, fig, apple

Drinks: green tea, plain water

spice: salt, soy sauce , mint

Method of cooking: Boil , braise , steam,

currently this list is still to be increased , but as immediate handling, people should choose correct catalog opposite to the nature of their disease and avoid or even ban the food of the same nature. This help to minimise the effect of disease effectively , and help to increase human ability of immunity. And water is generally helpful to dissolve harmful substance and help to release them out of body quicker. Rest is necessary when tired, as your body telling you it's time for your immunity army fighting . To extreme Yang diseases or venom, you should choose food in cool or cold nature , especially the cold ones to be more effective, special catagory are vegies with bitter taste, they are stronger. However, as previously stated, key is in balance, so in normal situation, over consuming food in cold nature may lead to some sympton or disease such as diarrhea.

Besides, I dont think increase blood circulation should be introduced as a mthod of treatment in situation of venom present, as then the increased circulation would send more venom to the whole body.

But I do suggest choose the right drink as probably very effective way- increase water consumption with medical purpose... including - green tea catogory, and you may found lot in china town market for the special purpose to "cool down" and dissolve poisonous substances inside body, and also soup with carefully chosen functional food in specific medical nature.

Treat Xiaoqi Drum -pomegranate

It is said that the peel and root of pomegranate can cure the liver disease.

This is a herb medicine treatment of Chinese Minority : braise the peel and root of pomegranate to make very thick syrup, and drink it. Function of pomegranate as herb medicine is to kill the parasite in human body. It has a mild nature.

I have thought the treatment must include Chinese herb as the very cause of the disease is bugs or parasite which is venomous made at the time of extreme yang . So the treatment must include-

1. killing parasite -however the parasite itself is venomous. Using pomegranate

2. relieve or neutralise the venom .But I dont think there's any virus targeted antibiotic equivalent in western medicine. The tradition western treatment , as the cause of bugs is unknown , using even the medicine for liver cancer would not touch the very root, as parasite still breeding and producing new venom inside body. And the Chinese medicine neutralise the Yang venom is Yin.

3. The general medicine in western medicine used on further disease like hepatitis or liver cancer. Based on treatment on the very cause.

It has been widely believed in minority that sugar can relieve venom, however , in another hand, sugar may hurt liver. This is probably the reason why it's easy to get worse, as function of sugar contradicts.

Xiaoqi Drum

A disease named“xiaoqi ( bamboo basket rice washer) drum” has taken lives of at least 9 people in the past 20 years in a Chinese village. The latest tragedy happened in 14 , Apr, 2010. when 30 years old Zhang Xiaoming left his wife and aged mum.

From the description of 26 years old wife of Zhang, as early as Jan this year, her husband felt uncomfortable in his abdomen. Through medical examination, his liver was found problem.

In Feb, he moved to a major hospital in the city, the shocking diagnosis is liver cancer, and later stage.

The wife said, during those days he husband had black and purple facial complexion

fever everyday, while he's losing weight, his abdomen become swollen, as if a hideous xiaoqi(bamboo rice washer) under his cloth, just like woman of 6 month pregnancy.

The other young man named Zhang Ming died of the same disease in last Jun, and apart from his father, he's the third one in his family died of it. A third death also happened last year. All share similar symptoms.

Local income of the village from silk product, pig raising, and rice (Oryza) plant, economically above average of the province. Yet villagers are puzzled about the reason of the “xiaoqi drum”.

There's such story among villagers like Huang Shuer : at the time of their ancestor, there came a strange bird, one aged said randomly ' I'm afraid there would be weird things happening”, since then, the ghost of disease has haunted villagers. Many people believe that it's kind of voodoo. And they even invited some wizard to expel the ghost.

One month after the local health department receive report, they have found the real criminal – family liver cancer history and Hepatitis virus.

The environment locally is pleasing, rich soil , fresh air. The living habit of the villagers are healthy , no alcoholics. There's no enterprise of pollution around. Every family uses underground water, and the source of water from a cave. Collecting the sample ,water is found of standard quality,after microbiological examination and cultivation. There's no source of pollution around fountain, neither have the villagers over-stored or molded food.

The investigation team has proven that the dead have family history of Hepatitis, after analysis of family blood samples. Hepatitis causes liver cancer can not be excluded. So to decrease the ratio of Hepatitis is important measure to reduce chance of liver cancer, and vaccination is one important joint.

Experts have reached the initial conclusion : death of villagers are caused by Hepatitis virus. Health department has increased education to the villages, demanding good hygiene habit , hand-wash before and after meals, excremental pollution elimination , and rejection to alcohol .

The causes of Hepatitis varies, the most common is virus, besides, deficiency of personal immunisation system and alcohol consumption may both cause Hepatitis.

My fourth suggestion here is: prevent earlier and discover earlier for treatment as liver disease may not have obvious symptoms from beginning. So please do not take any advices without result from physical examination, you may be misled and delayed important time for treatment !!

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