SLE / Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

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Permalink Reply by Makaranda...=) on October 6, 2008 at 7:29pm

Hi I hope the best for you. Here is some info I found on the internet. A fast on green juices would be good, adding flax oil, wheatgerm oil, tumeric, and seaweed to daily salads would be good. A massaged kale salad with pumpkin seeds, arame, goji berries and oil is good.

Current Herbal Formulations
Tincture# l
Glycyrrhiza glabra l part
Dioscorea villosa 2 parts
Bupleurum falcatum l part 5ml tincture, 3 times day

Tincture# 2
Verbascum thapsus l part
Scutellaria laterifolia l part
Ginkgo biloba 2 part 2ml, 3-6 x day

Infusions, Decoction:
Urtica dioica infusion, 2 cups per day (optional)
Bupleurum falcatum decoction, l cup per day

These formulas provide the following action:

Anti-inflammatory - Dioscorea villosa, Glycyrrhiza glabra
Anti-rheumatic - Dioscorea villosa, Bupleurum falcatum
Pulmonary - Verbascum thapsus, Glycyrrhiza glabra
Adrenal tonic - Glycyrrhiza glabra,Very important Bupleurum falcatum, Borago officinalis
Expectorant - Glycyrrhiza glabra, Verbascum thapsus
Demulcent - Glycyrrhiza glabra, Verbascum thapsus
Diuretic - Urtica dioica
Circulatory stimulant - Ginkgo biloba
Nervine - Scutellaria laterifolia

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Permalink Reply by Clement on October 6, 2008 at 7:39pm

Thanks for compiling that. It must have taken you a while.

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Permalink Reply by VOID on October 7, 2008 at 6:25am

Hey Clement,

Yes, it can be, and I believe many people have had success with this. Fasting is very good for it, you could Contact Doug Graham, Gina shaw or Dr Goldhamer in the US if you were interested in this.

If eating any cooked food, I recommend stopping. I think cutting out grains, pulses and animal products would be a good idea. Lots of fruit, lots of greens and small amounts of hemp or avocado.

Regarding the causes, I'm not sure, auto-immune diseases are not very well understood in the current western medicine paradigm. The cause of most autoimmune diseases though, seems to be eating foods to which we're not designed. Certain individuals are more sensitive than others, and respond to these things in a variety of different ways. Auto-immune diseases are supposed to be the body attacking itself, but I dont believe thats entirely true. I believe the body is more likely attempting to attack or eliminate something else, and is accidentally damaging the body in its efforts to do that.

Kev posted an interesting article on here recently about Autoimmune diseases. Hunt him out on my friends page and look at his posts.

Take care

Adam x

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Permalink Reply by Makaranda...=) on October 8, 2008 at 2:33am

Another thing would be to go with just greens and green juices. By putting your body in a mini fast it can reset it and heal yourself. Or just staying away from fruit could work as a cleanse.

I'd keep trying different things if I were you to see what might work!

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Permalink Reply by Makaranda...=) on October 8, 2008 at 12:34pm

Hi I was talking to Clement- but if you want to try it too - that would be ok rawzi!

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Permalink Reply by Erin on October 8, 2008 at 1:12pm

I definitely agree! I read somewhere that people who have autoimmune disease are often "divided" about something in their life, and their body becomes divided, too. It's like it starts its own civil war, with the immune system on one side and the rest on the other.
Women have much higher incidences of autoimmune diseases than men and I think we also tend to internalize things more deeply, leading to some of this stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Clement on October 8, 2008 at 1:38pm

You need to meet my Dad. I'm so surprised he hasn't already gotten an autoimmune disease if this is the case :S

p.s. I agree with you both on the fact that there's a lot more going on in most disease than just the food.

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Permalink Reply by Clement on October 8, 2008 at 12:55pm

That's pretty damn cool. I'm going to tell my friend that.

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Permalink Reply by Olive on November 11, 2008 at 2:22am

I believe the person just needs to develop a healthy lifestyle, give the body a chance to heal itself.

* Eat fresh fruits and vegetables, occasionally a very small amount of nuts or seeds
* Get enough sunshine, minimum 30 minutes a day
* Sleep minimum 10 hours a night
* Get enough exercise
* Be positive and loving

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Permalink Reply by Olive on November 11, 2008 at 3:06am

Ooops, has my answer to every disease stepped on an authority figure on lupus here?

If I have, sorry about that.

I still believe in the body's capacity to heal.

And no, I never have lupus.

With sunshine, now I do recall a friend who has SLE and she told me that she had to avoid the sun. A pity. Sunshine is so good for life. Wonder where she'll get her vitamin D from?

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