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What is This?
ThailandTom
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Any of you medially minded or who know the human body well, what is this? On the right side and jus below the rib cage, not the back but front side. It is not my apendix as I have had this pain before many times going back a number of years. It has come back recently, just wondering if people on here may know what that area may be?..
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are the whites of your eyes yellowed?
any weak or brittle nails?
Unless - and there is no criticism here, veiled or otherwise, just observation - given that you have had a habit of substance abuse for some considerable period of time, and that the Liver is basically the body's dirty laundry site - you've finally overloaded the machine and now you have motor trouble......
if only part of the liver has sustained damage, the remaining portion - if it's perfectly healthy - can not only continue to function as well as a full liver can, but will regenerate.
If however, damage is widespread and generalised, there's no hope of regeneration.
Milk Thistle is an excellent liver cleanser.
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/milk-thistle-000266.htm
but it goes without saying that you should also seek advice, if the condition continues, escalates or becomes more painful.
Oh Tom, what are we going to do with you....? :-/
I don't want this to end up into a reproach-thread, so I'll bow out.
But only you know what you must do with you.
hugs, fellah.....
Read more here: http://www.gallbladderattack.com/questionnaire.shtml
And here: http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/tc/gallstones-topic-overview
And here: http://www.umm.edu/patiented/articles/what_symptoms_of_gallstones_gallbladder_disease_000010_2.htm
If he diagnoses gallstones, let me know.
My mother had gallstones, and the doc recommended surgery.
she followed a special diet for 7 days, and passed them all, naturally, without the need to remove her gallbladder....
By the way, can you let me know what the specific diet was your mother used, and did it hurt to pass gall bladder stones? Also, this is off beat, but I am curious to where you live in the UK?...
and no, there is no pain, though she said that drinking the concoction isn't the world's most pleasing experience...it's uncomfortable, but not in a prolonged nasty way....
But hey, tom...you're a young guy. you've put your poor system through some nerve-wracking stuff - you need to ease up, and start looking after yourself, hun....
i live not as far north as Edinburgh, but not as far south as Brighton....
you'll have to copy and paste....
Cleaning the Gall Bladder of Gallstones
This remedy comes directly from a surgeon specialising in Gall Bladder and Liver conditions. He works in a main hospital in Oxford, England, and he doesn’t care if this brings him less work, the relief of certain conditions is what counts, to him.
Drink one litre of fresh, pure, unfiltered and organic apple juice, per day. (This has the effect of softening the gallstones so efficiently, that their consistency goes from rock-hard, to wet-chalk soft, and you’ll be able to crush them between your fingers very easily). Follow a normal diet, but be sensible!
On the sixth day, don’t eat an evening meal.
At around 9.00pm, take 1 – 2 tablespoons of Bicarbonate of Soda, dissolved in a large glass of tepid water. (I know, it sounds revolting. Unfortunately, it is.)
At 10.00pm, mix 150ml (a half-cup) of extra-virgin, cold-pressed olive oil with half that amount (75ml) of freshly-squeezed lemon juice.
Mix well, and drink.
I kid you not.
Go to bed, immediately.
Lie on your right side, with your legs drawn up as close to your chest as you can get them. If you can touch your chin, with your knees, so much the better.
Hold this position for as long as you can, but at least a half-hour. This enables the olive oil mixture to travel more quickly to the liver. You might need to drink a further smaller measure of bicarb and water, during the night, but this isn’t usual. Prepare it before retiring, to have it ready, just in case.
The following day – or even during the night – you will pass the gall-stones harmlessly through your system, without feeling a thing.
To help your system break down and absorb calcium more efficiently:
Take one glass of low-sodium mineral water:
Add two teaspoonsful of cider vinegar
Two teaspoonsful of good honey.
Drink 3 times per day, with meals.
Cut down, eliminate or reduce the following diet items:
• Bovine milk products. Replace with goat or sheep milk, cheeses and yoghurts. Try drinking soya or even rice milk.
• Coffee. Go for a good coffee substitute, made with barley and or chicory.
The foods in the left-hand column are very difficult for the liver to process. Follow this regime, twice a year, to help cleanse and detox the liver.
LESS than 1/8th of a teaspoonful of salt PER DAY.
*Nut Combo:
Take equal quantities BY VOLUME of almonds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds. Add a level tablespoonful of linseeds. Blend them all in a food processor until they resemble a coarse powder, like ground coffee. Transfer to a ajr, store in the fridge, and put into salads, sprinkle into soya milk, or on fruit allowed.
I like to dip a bit of wholemeal bread into a drop of excellent Extra-virgin, cold-pressed olive oil, and then dip it into the nut mix powder, and eat.
This diet should be followed for one month. Then, begin introducing “forbidden” foods, twice a week, and gradually return to a normal, but balanced and healthy diet. Use the above foods more than the forbidden ones, and gradually your system will become healthier.
there's a list of foods to avoid and eliminate, and advised replacements.
but it's in table format, and won't copy across, so I'll give you that tonight when I get back home from work!
I already eat sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds, but I do not have a fridge so the blending part will have to be missed out and I shall just simply eat them in the way I have been doing so now.
I never drink coffee, one reason is because it messes with my digestive system and the other is because I see too many people relying on it to get their day into order and start work. Plus it has withdrawl symptoms, I do not need anymore of them.
But thank you, that is quite a diet to follow through with as it requires pretty random items and measurments etc, but I will give it my best shot. I heard that it hurts like hell to pass a gallbladder stone though...
kidney stones on the other hand, are any man's worst nightmare, and all told, probably 10,000 times more painful than having a baby. they are real killers, and hurt like nothing ever has or ever will.
Avoid/Eliminate:
Red meats, heavy poultry
Replace with :
Fish, tinned tuna, beans, pulses, lentils, peas.
Avoid/Eliminate :
Eggs.
Replace with:
Tofu.
Avoid/Eliminate :
White bread, highly-processed cereals.
Replace with:
Wholemeal bread, non-sweetened cereals, and whole-grains., rice, barley, maize.
Avoid/Eliminate :
Sugar, highly-sweetened foods,
too much honey, syrups.
Replace with:
Molasses, lo-sugar (but not artificially sweetened) jams, marmite.
Avoid/Eliminate :
All milk products
Cow, goat, sheep, all cheeses.
Replace with:
Soya or rice milks.
Avoid/Eliminate :
Tomatoes, citrus fruits, bananas,
Avocado pears.
Replace with:
Green vegetables, pineapple, grapes, melons, fruits in fruit juice.
Avoid/Eliminate :
All nuts except almonds
Replace with:
Almonds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, linseed.*(see below)
Avoid/Eliminate :
Coffee, chocolate drinks, cocoa,
alcohol, and only 2 cups of tea/day.
Replace with:
Coffee substitutes, herb teas, fruit-juices (see list below) without added sugar.
Avoid/Eliminate :
Coffee, chocolate drinks, cocoa,
alcohol, and only 2 cups of tea/day.
Replace with:
Coffee substitutes, herb teas, fruit-juices (see list below) without added sugar.
Avoid/Eliminate :
Chocolate.
Replace with:
High-Carob chocolate (Health-food stores)
Avoid/Eliminate :
Fried foods.
Replace with:
Sauté food lightly in a non-stick pan, with a mere coating of olive-oil.
I guess I need to get my hands on some apple juice and soda, also olive oil. And most importantly, try my hardest to stay away from alcohol.