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CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME,
BLOCKAGES and MORE
This affliction has rapidly
become too familiar a diagnosis for many. I have
been explaining ‘blockages’ to people for about 15
years – verbally. To put it down on paper is a far
more difficult task than you would imagine and I’m
hoping that at the end of this article, the
definition is completely clear to you.
The sufferers of Carpal Tunnel
Syndrome (CTS), are usually people who do
‘repetitive wrist motion’ on a regular basis,
such as; athletes, hairstylists, musicians,
restaurant servers and in high numbers – people who
work on computer keyboards. Symptoms can range from
mild numbness to excruciating pain –described as
nerve spasms, burning, tingling or weakness. CTS
can affect one or both arms and is usually worse in
the morning or at night, when the circulation is
slowest.
Too often, these victims are
sent for surgery whereby the relief is most
certainly short lived and the CTS almost always
will return.
The Median Nerve is one that
controls the thumb muscles and is responsible for
sensations in the thumb muscles, the palm and the
first three fingers of the hand. This nerve can be
vulnerable to compression due to; swelling or edema
(water retention), bone spurs/fractures, arthritis,
etc. There is a very small tunnel that this nerve
passes through, about ¼ of an inch below the surface
of the wrist. When CTS is in the beginning stage,
the pain is usually localized to the wrist and
fingers. As it progresses, the forearm can be
involved and in severe cases, the shoulder.
Now, I am going to do my best,
to give you a perfectly logical explanation as to
‘where’ the CTS originates. Then I’m going to tell
you how you can treat the origin, so that you are
eventually healed. Yes. It ‘is possible’ without
the permanent side effects left by surgery.
Your blood, life energy/chi –
these circulate through your body on a never ending
basis to sustain you. Warmth in a body part shows
that chi is present. Coldness shows that chi is not
present. Chi moves the blood. Chi and blood
nourish the body. When either are stuck or weak, we
become ill. As long as they are flowing unimpeded,
you are in optimum health. I have always used ‘a
river’ as symbolic of life flowing through your
body. As the water in a river flows freely,
everything downstream that depends on that flow,
flourishes. If the water is dammed partially, the
life it sustains downstream will suffer. Bit by bit,
the plant life, etc. that depends on the river
water, will start to dry up. As long as there is a
trickle, some of the plant life will still live –
although in a state of distress. This is exactly
what happens if your circulation is obstructed
‘upstream’ (sometimes called a blockage). Imagine
that you were to take a wide elastic band and wrap
it tightly around your shoulder and under the arm
pit. In a minute or so, your fingers would begin to
tingle. Then shortly thereafter, the tingle would
change to pain and would intensify the longer the
‘flow’ was cut off. The cause is a ‘blockage’ of
energy at the shoulder but the pain manifests itself
in the fingers, eventually encompassing the whole
arm. This ‘blockage’ can be from an old or new
injury OR from doing something repetitious. If your
job consists of using a jackhammer, typing at a
computer, playing a musical instrument, etc., there
is a tension that develops in the shoulders. This
tension can hamper the circulation and then there
can be some inflammation involved. So what I’m
telling you is that if you have CTS, your pain may
be in your wrists and hands but the key to treating
it is not in those areas. An acupuncturist/acupressurist/deep
tissue masseur will find the blocked area ‘in your
shoulder(s)’ and work on it. They will attempt to
open the blockage and allow the circulation of
blood/chi to flow freely. This may take several
treatments, depending on how long the blockage has
been manifesting itself.
When you go for a treatment,
you’ll be at point ‘A’. Your ‘acupuncturist’ will
work on a specific spot or spots that are blocked,
to open the flow of energy and relieve your pain.
Hypothetically, he/she will bring you to point ‘B’.
You’ll leave their office, having made another
appointment. Right after your treatment, most
often, the blockage(s) will begin to ‘fill in’
again. It’s like finding a little pond of water on
the beach. If you were to take a stick and drag it
through the sand, from the pond of water, the water
flow will follow the little rut that you’ve made but
if you look back, you’ll see the sand is filling in
the rut. This can happen with your blockage.
So by the time you make it back
for your next appointment, you may be halfway back
to point ‘A’. The shorter the duration between
treatments, the less chance of this happening.
There is also an added option.
Ancient Alternatives has a few formulas that
increase circulation and move through your body like
‘PacMan’. I’m hoping that most of you remember that
old video game where this little ‘head’ would travel
through tunnels, chomping and eating. Master
Herbalist Victor Shim has blended herbal formulas
that can move through your circulatory passages
(like PacMan) and ‘eat through’ blockages. If you
were to take one or two of these formulas while
undergoing treatment, such as acupuncture etc., when
you leave the office at ‘point B’, the herbs can
keep you there or even help you towards ‘point C’.
Eventually, between the ‘treatments’ and the herbs
your circulation will flow freely. The feeling will
return to your hand, wrist and whole arm. I’ve seen
amazing ‘healings’ taken place after the circulation
returns to a specific part of the body. For
instance; headaches disappearing after opening the
circulation to the head by unblocking the energy in
the shoulders and neck/ Feeling returning to the
feet (actual warm feet!) once the energy was
unblocked in the sciatic and down the legs/ Nausea
gone when the stomach points (acupuncture charts
show these) on the top of the shoulders are
opened.... Your energy/chi must flow freely, so that
it can feed the energies of the whole body. Think
about a beaver dam on a river. You take a few
sticks out and let some water flow through and the
small trickle of water will eat its way through and
continually make the opening larger. Some of our
herbal blends will help with this process in your
body.
There will be no ‘side effects’
as there are with surgery BUT there will be ‘healing
indications’. Some may be very mild and barely
noticeable and some indications will be fairly
strong. One day you may be quite tired or have
aches where you’ve never had aches before but these
will move around and may only last for a couple of
hours or up to 3 or 4 days depending on the blockage
and how long you’ve had it.
You may have had an accident in
your childhood (fell out of a tree house, body
checked in hockey, vehicle accident, etc.) and it’s
been manifesting itself for years. If it’s a
relatively new blockage/injury, you’re healing time
will be shorter. In some cases, if bone is involved
(such as the spinal column), you may need a
chiropractor to do some adjusting. We actually have
several chiropractors using our formulas with great
success. When the bone(s) is moved into place, the
herbs can help keep it there.
The Ancient Alternatives
formulas that can increase circulation and treat
blockages are;
#4 – Easepayn
Made
to increase circulation and help with muscle strain,
arthritis, etc. Cannot be taken by women during
their cycle
#6A – Cir-Q-Lation V.S.
This
recipe is over 2 thousand years old and was
originally made for the martial arts and impact
injuries/blocked chi This blend can actually help
to prevent blockages that can happen after accidents
and sports injuries.
#6B – Cir-Q-Lation L.K.T
The
same properties as the 6A but concentrates on the
lower circulation.
Both 6A and 6B are very potent
and should be started at one capsule a day for
several days. Add one more capsule at a time
every 5 – 7 days until you are taking 2 capsules
twice daily (adults).
#18 – NT-Pain-Plus
This
blend can take the place of pharmaceutical pain
killers without the side effects while increasing
circulation
#33 – Omni-X
This
also increases circulation but has many other
healing properties and is less severe in the healing
indications.
When taking any of the above
formulas, if the healing indications are too strong,
cut back to an amount that you are comfortable with
and then slowly increase again. Our suggestion is
to take the formula(s) until you have relief and all
the migrating pains are gone. Take 1 or 2 more
bottles at full dosage and then 1 or 2 more bottles
at ‘one capsule a day’. Taking one of these formulas
(while playing hockey, doing heavy yard work,
working out, after an accident, etc) can help to
prevent blockages.
For more detailed information
on which one would be best for you, check out our
website
www.ancientalternatives.com and go to “Herbal
Stores” and see if there is a consultant in your
area. Give one of them a call or email. They are
trained in the use of our formulas and will do their
best to answer all your questions. If there is no
consultant in your area, contact any one of them
from the website and maybe, just maybe – You should
consider becoming one yourself.
DISCLAIMER
This information is not intended to replace or
contradict the services of a
qualified health practitioner. Any application
of the above information
is at your own discretion.,
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