Totally worth it

I have lost faith in humanity. Again.
A boy in Anhui has reportedly sold his kidney to buy...

Food? No.
A house for his family? Nope.

One of these;

Story Here and Here

Zheng, a high school freshmen reportedly sold his kidney to a Fujian businessmen for 20,000元 (~US$3000) so he could buy an iPad 2. Yes, an iPad.

What ponders me more is how he did this without his mother knowing until it was too late. Well, at least if he wants a supplemental kidney, there's an app for that ™

Medicine help

Hello,
I’m a 31 year old women and my acupuncturist has me taking Xiao Yao for anxiety and panic attacks and Nuan Gong Yun Zi for fertility. Last night I ended up in the ER because of a severe anxiety attack. Since then I went to my doctor and he wants me to take .5mg of xanax or klonopine when I begin to have a panic attack. Should I be taking the Xiao Yao and the Nuan Gong Yun Zi together? and if so can I take a .5mg of xanax or klonopine with them when I have an attack?

Thanks for your help,
Lisa B


Dear Lisa

Seriously I am NOT a physician, and I am in no way qualified to give out medical advise, nor would I ever give out any serious medical advise either. Really I can't answer your question and it would be foolish for me to even attempt to say anything i.e. to stop taking it or to continue taking it. Remember I'm just a weirdo sat at a keyboard somewhere in the UK you don't know me or my credentials... anybody who says they do have credentials you should look carefully at anyway.

Go see your doctor and ask his or her advice. Your doctor should know about these things why as said before I most definitely do not.


Sorry I can't help.

OD

Hello

Is it easy to over dose on eastern medicine and if u can please name the side effects.


This question I believe is impossible to answer, namely because eastern medicine covers an awful lot of things. And while something in huge quantities may not do you any harm. For example, herbal teas like Chrysanthemum tea or 24 herb tea. Or the numerous Chinese broths that are concocted up. At family dinners, spinach soup you can drink all day and all night nothing will happen to you. Ginger coca cola cold cure you can drink gallons of the stuff and nothing will happen to you. Something dangerous you can take and it will appear to do no harm but will have some long term effects Ipicac for example makes you vomit but damages your heart over time if used a lot.

On the other hand there are things which in small quantities can hurt you really bad. One of my semi relatives is currently a vegetable in an old persons home because she consumed too much of something.... I was in HK when it happened to her she had a really bad stroke and was not discovered for quite sometime and thus effectively lost all of her personality...I'm not exactly sure if it is a casual relationship between the medicine and her stroke though. Namely because her medical notes are sealed and I don't like to pry. It also makes me sad to see her abandoned like that.... I do not have power of attorney over her either. I don't know what it was but it was a medicine of some kind. Before this event she could take on tigers in hand to hand combat and win.

Therefore I can't really answer your question. As I am not a trained medical professional and it would be incredibly dangerous (and foolish) to follow any advice I give you or do not give you. I would say if you are going to a herbal doctor in China/HK, listen to him or her and tell them what you are taking in addition to the Chinese medicine. Exactly as you would tell your western doctor if you were feeling ill and needed some meds.

Medicine update 3

What I said here is used in real life here

In my youth I regularly remember seeing my dad use antler slices in some sort of medicine of some kind when he was feeling really tired and worn out. Afterwards he would be able to fight bears hand to hand.

Of course anedotal evidence does not imply causality!