| Barbara thought about ending it all because her | | | | recommend getting organically grown or minimally |
| intense pain kept getting worse | | | | processed versions of these food: |
| When medications didn't stop her daily chronic | | | | Barley, rye, amaranth, alfalfa sprouts, corn |
| pains, she thought about ending her suffering for | | | | Celery, lettuce, turnips, kohlrabi |
| good. She was deeply disappointed after zillions of | | | | Seaweeds like nori, wakame |
| tests, years of different pain medications, and | | | | Raw goats milk |
| exhausting herself in exercise programs. She | | | | Raw honey |
| couldn't bear an unending future of wet weather | | | | White pepper, pau d'arco, chamomile |
| aches, cold winters wracking her body with pain, | | | | Mushrooms |
| and nights of restless sleep. Fortunately, her | | | | 1. B. Reduce your intake of food that creates |
| daughter kept looking for a solution. | | | | more dampness |
| How she found a solution that her doctors didn't | | | | Below are food to not eat that can increase |
| know about | | | | painful dampness in muscles and joints: |
| Her daughter worked for one of the biggest | | | | Soy products |
| health care organizations in the US. However, she | | | | Dairy products |
| found a solution outside of her big corporation. On | | | | Products made from wheat, breads, pasta, |
| an internet search, her daughter found a local | | | | desserts |
| healing center that had experience in treating | | | | Fried food, fatty meats |
| fibromyalgia. | | | | Desserts, soda, candy, sweetened drinks, |
| A new way to heal the daily chronic pain of | | | | sweetened food |
| Fibromyalgia | | | | Alcoholic beverages |
| Instead of receiving more medications, Barbara | | | | Highly processed food like hot dogs with nitrates, |
| found someone who could help reinvigorate her | | | | food with lots of preservatives or additives, |
| own natural healing abilities. She got something | | | | artificially sweetened food. |
| that she didn't expect on the first treatment. | | | | Changing your diet often requires an adjustment |
| Her pain was nearly gone from her body | | | | period for you to let go of familiar comfort or |
| After years of disappointments; she could barely | | | | quick energy foods. As you feel better, eating |
| believe that at the end of her first session her | | | | these foods gets much easier. Draining excess |
| body had 60% less aches and pains. In some | | | | dampness out of your body helps too. |
| areas, the pain had disappeared completely. A | | | | 2. Strengthen your ability to eliminate dampness |
| knee with a replacement joint still ached. As she | | | | You can enhance your ability to drain painful |
| continued treatment, she found healing for her | | | | dampness from muscles and joints through |
| aches and pains that had accumulated over the | | | | acupuncture treatment and Chinese herbs. With |
| years. | | | | less dampness in your body, you feel less pain |
| Why fibromyalgia causes pain | | | | and fatigue. You feel even better when the toxic |
| If you ask ten different doctors, you will get ten | | | | waste products of harmful organisms are |
| different answers as to what causes fibromyalgia | | | | removed from your system. |
| pain. Why? Experts in physiology, infectious | | | | 3. Detoxify toxins and metals out of your system |
| disease, and pain management talk about theories | | | | The waste products from infectious organisms |
| like: stress, neurotransmitters, disturbed sleep, | | | | accumulate as toxins in your blood, muscles, and |
| hormonal imbalances, trauma, illnesses like Lyme | | | | joints. Your immune system can't effectively fight |
| disease, or a combination disorder. It affects | | | | against infectious organisms with toxins and |
| multiple systems and cannot be traced to a | | | | harmful metals are in your body. You also feel |
| problem in a single system. | | | | better and have more energy when these toxins |
| After years of struggling with pain, clients get | | | | and metals are out of your system. Reducing or |
| frustrated or lose hope. However, clients like | | | | stopping the use of tobacco or recreational |
| Barbara are seeing great results using Chinese | | | | chemical substances helps to detoxify your |
| Medicine. | | | | system. |
| How Chinese medicine treats fibromyalgia pain | | | | These strategies work together to eliminate |
| Chinese Medicine looks at fibromyalgia as a | | | | excess dampness out of your body which |
| problem with the functioning of the whole body as | | | | relieves your pain and your fatigue. |
| well as in specific systems. For thousands of | | | | Draining excess dampness leads to pain relief |
| years, Chinese medical texts have described | | | | You feel much lighter and energized, as you clear |
| successful treatments for illnesses similar to | | | | out unhealthy dampness through acupuncture |
| fibromyalgia. | | | | treatment, herbs, detoxification, and dietary |
| One cause of fibromyalgia pain is described as, | | | | changes. As your muscles and joints get cleaned |
| "Excess dampness." Dampness is defined as a | | | | of unhealthy gunk, your pain decreases too. You |
| substance that moistens different systems in the | | | | sleep better and feel hope for the first time in |
| body. Excess internal dampness causes pain and | | | | years. The real test is seeing how you react to |
| fatigue. Rainy weather can increase internal | | | | the next rainstorm. |
| dampness which flares up your fibromyalgia | | | | Is your treatment helping you to pass the rainy |
| symptoms. Excess dampness can also show up | | | | day test? |
| as a yeast, bacterial, or viral infection. As | | | | After a few weeks of treatment, some clients |
| microorganisms and their waste products | | | | have much less pain and fatigue during wet |
| accumulate in your muscles and joints, you feel | | | | weather. Some report that they can run errands |
| more pain and fatigue. | | | | without debilitating discomfort. As you eliminate |
| How can you get excess dampness out? | | | | excess dampness, you have much less pain and |
| How can you keep it from coming back? | | | | discomfort and can start resuming normal |
| Strategies for resolving painful dampness | | | | activities. This change helped Barbara to have new |
| There are three strategies for eliminating excess | | | | hope for her future. |
| fibromyalgia dampness. 1. Modify your diet in two | | | | From wanting to end it all to getting your life back |
| ways: A. Add food that drains excess dampness | | | | When Barbara saw a future of unending daily |
| and B. Remove food that produces more | | | | chronic pain and fatigue, she thought about ending |
| dampness. 2. Strengthen your internal ability to | | | | it all. When she had days of little pain or fatigue, |
| drain dampness. 3. Detoxify waste products and | | | | she had a new hope for a future free from daily |
| metals out of your body. These changes can lead | | | | chronic fibromyalgia pain. She has returned to |
| to rapid improvements in your energy level, | | | | social activites, started home renovation projects, |
| quality of sleep, mental clarity, and chronic pain | | | | and went through a winter with her electric |
| reduction. Food can have a big impact on your | | | | blanket on a setting of ''5.'' |
| pain and fatigue. | | | | You can get your hope back by implementing the |
| 1. A. Increase your intake of food that reduces | | | | right combination of dietary changes, |
| dampness | | | | detoxification, and treatment with a Chinese |
| Below are food to eat that dry out excess | | | | medicine practitioner. |
| dampness and reduce aches and fatigue. I highly | | | | |