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 Many different types of PMS  Can use Oenothera biennis (Evening Primrose) o 500mg bid  PMS symptoms can vary a lot  Male chauvinistic o Short tempered, aggressive, short fuse,  This type of irritability characteristic of someone who has excess estrogen in her blood system  Some women feel vulnerable, and that they want to withdraw. Cry, weep, loose selfconfidence o Usually associated with elevates progesterone levels  Some women may have combination of two o Too much estrogen and progesterone o Happens b/c LIV not capable of removing hormones in an appropriate manner o If hormones not broken down in LIV in timely manner, get residual progesterone/estrogen o Can give silybum marianum 10 days before menses, and will completely remove PMS symptoms  Can also help reduce menses that occur 1 week before menses  Take in combo with Dandelion, and some herbs to improve bowel function  Will help woman to detoxify during PMS time  4 subgroups of PMS o PMS type A  Anxiety, irritability, nervous tension, mood swings  Mechanism • Estrogen predominant • Low progesterone o PMS Type D  Depression, Crying, forgetfulness, confusion, insomnia  Mechanism • Low serum estrogen and high progesterone • Sometimes elevated adrenal androgens (testosterone, and other androgen. Often associated with excess hair growth) o PMS Type C  Craving, increased appetite, headache, fatigue, dizziness or fainting, palpitations  Mechanism • Increased CHO tolerance • Thought to have something to do with the effect of prostaglandins on insulin sensitivity • Particularly PGE Type 1

• Gammalinonlenic acid o PMS H  Hyperhydration (water retention), fluid retention with greater than 3lbs, swollen extremities, with breast tenderness, and abdominal bloating.  Aldosterone effect due to malfunctioning of the KI, usually KI deficiency  Case 41 o PMS Type C o Evening Primrose Oil Male Health  Two main concerns o Benign Prostetic hyperplasia o Erectile dysfunction  Have very distorted ideas of what health means in terms of emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical health  Male attitude in dealing with women, and enormous profits made by pharmaceutical companies made directed towards women  Same kind of mythology around male sexuality  Very difficult problems to solve  Can hardly ever deal with a prostate problem or erectile dysfunction without having to deal with deeper issues  They involve so much more  Case 42 o Concerned about sexual performance o BP normal o Enlarged prostate seems to dampen effect of erection o Experiences decrease in sexual performance o Suggested comparison with Case 8 o Age:  Men as they age have less sexual energy  Libido is reduced  Ability to have intercourse, and maintain erection – tire more quickly  Decrease in KI essence  Have to ration their use of that energy, so that when they want to have intercourse, will have saved up enough energy to do so o In case 8 – simply getting old o Image – wants to appear as if he’s still 20 years old o Used a lot of Yang tonics  Heart was racing  In a very dangerous state o Pausinysalia Yohimbe (Yohimbe)

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 Very toxic  Pg. 1  Aphrodisiac  GI disturbances, salivation, hypertension, mydriasis …  Create hyperstimulated situation  Often causes depression  Anxiety and hypertension are common symptoms  Not enjoying himself anymore, but is stimulated Tribulus terrestris (puncture vine) Virilia for men  Tribulus terrestris  Ginkgo biloba  Siberian Ginseng (eleutheroccus senticosus), Candian Ginseng (Panax quinquelofim), garlic (Allium sativum), Cayenne (Capsicum annuum), Scullcap (Scutellaria laterifolia), and Bee Pollen Schisandra chinensis  Balancer of sexuality  Increases circulation to sexual organs Panax notoginseng Tier 2: understanding that as we age we lose ability to perform. Panax quinquefolios is a good yin tonic for this guy, or Chinese herbs

 Case 43 Developing atherosclerosis It’s impeding the flow of blood and the elasticity of the blood vessels It’s difficult for him to gain an erection and then sustain it Approach is to use a herb that is in the Virilia complex Treating the cuases  Pigium Africana • Used principally for prostate problems, but it also lowers cholesterol levels in the prostate • It helps improve circulation  Serenoa repens • His prostate is probably enlarged  Gingko Biliboa  Allium sativum o Had healthy happy sexual life with his wife o o o o o

 Case 44 o Smilax officinalis  Person needed to be kept in a very warm room for several weeks  Needed to have abstained from certain foods and alcohol – very clean diet  Most of these cases had very favourable outcomes

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Far better than dying of syphilis!!!!

 Case 45 o PSA regarded as an important test o Elevated PSA levels  Biopsy the prostate • Use 6 to 8 needles  Vitually every man has potentially cancerous cells in prostate from age of 25  Inflammation as a result of the biopsy can increase the chances of cancer  The PSA levels are highly unreliable o A lot of systems of BPH o Urination problems  Urgency, frequency, difficulty commencing and completing urination  Prostate is pressing on the urethra  Urethra goes through prostate o Herbs  Pygeum africanum  Serenona repens  Cucurbita pepo (pumpkin seed)  Thyme herbs  Additional (Smilax officinalis) • Can be used b/c it’s an alterative and tonic • Not used very much anymore • Mainly used now for treatment of syphilis o Can get prostatitis from riding a bicycle  Driving trucks (springs are hard) – get hemorrhoids o Can use ‘Prostate Health’  Has many nutrients in it as well  Stinging nettle • Has some specific general benefits • Great nutrients – has many minerals • Anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic  A lot of other minerals and vitamins including zinc  Successful in men who have severe problems with their prostate – not cancer but BPH Exam  Overall everyone did about the same as last year  6 questions that most people got wrong. Fell into two categories o Constituents o Herbs that had more than one action

 Tabebuia avellanedae o Essential oils o Polysaccharides and glycosides o Quinone o Alkaloids  Panax Notoginseng o Hemostatic – improves blood circulation  Berberis family o All are oxytocin o Cause uterine contraction o Therefore contraindicated Endocrine  Plants that control blood sugar levels  And normalize thyroid levels  Don’t know any that effect parathyroid  Amazing that we have herbs that specifically target endocrine function  Number of herbs used in the treatment of DM is huge o Constituents come from every conceivable one o Botanical world has so many ways to influence endocrine function in a positive way  Many classes of herbs that can help  Diabetes Mellitus (DM) o Herbs that are treating the symptoms o Modifying either the metabolism of sugar or the functioning of insulin o Sugar diabetes o 2 kinds  Diabetes type 1 • Childhood onset diabetes • Not always childhood, but characterized as autoimmune dysfunction of base cells of pancreas so that insulin is no longer produced • May occur later in life as well • Total cessation in the production of insulin  Diabetes Type 2 • Adult onset • Usual mechanism is exhaustion of pancreatic cells b/c of a overstimulation from the consumption of sugar or CHO that break down to sugar • Happens more in type O blood o If programmed not to digest complex CHO, and eats a lot of CHO, becomes addicted – they gain weight (become obese) and develop insulin resistance

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o Develop insulin resistance to high sugar levels o if not able to utilize them – blood sugar levels high, therefore insulin is high o hyperinsulinemia – eventually lead to insulin resistance  cells no longer respond to the insulin so blood sugar levels go higher even in the presence of normal insulin o Noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NDDM) o Also seen in children o True addiction to CHO, which is easily broken if you can discipline the child  Can loose in 2 mo • Kind of diabetes that were cured by Father Kneipp Some herbs are hypoglycemic – lower blood sugar levels What is it that does damage in DM? Unfortunate sequelae: • Diabetic neuropathy o Due to high blood sugar levels o Need to have a level between 3 to 5 • Get high insulin levels that follow • Within cells of body, have intracellular organs – eicosanoids o Include inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cells o Hyperglycemic Inflammatory components that predominate o Target nervous system o Get degeneration to limbs, eyes, nerves, brain… o Eventually die o Terrible neuropathy associated with it Herbs effect some work by altering the absorption of simple sugars from the digestive tract some modify the way in which LIV metabolizes sugar, so that it gets the sugar out of the blood stream and into glycogen very quickly can alter gluconeogenesis Hyperglycemic • Momordica charantia (Bitter Mellon) • Syzgium cumini (Jambul) • Fenugreek used with it • Vaccinium mytrtilus (bilberry) o Also good in treatment of vascular disorders that develop

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Circulation • Ginger • Capsicum • Allium Sativum Trying to restore blood flow • Bilberry • Gingko biloba (vasodilator) • Hypericum perforatum o Helpful in retina of eye for macular degeneration and other neurological symptoms that occur in DM and for neuritis Pterocarpus • Kino • Herb from leguinocea (Sp?) Fabaciea • Regeneration of damaged beta cells in the pancreas Burma Cutch Jamneena silvestris • Bitter and resonance compounds • May protect beta cells

 Thyroid Control of thyroid function is many tiered Have ant. Pit hormone making hormone Responds to circulating levels of T3 and T4 – especially T3 If T3 falling, pit. Makes more TSH which tells thyroid to make more thyroxin o If have goiter  Thyroid glad begun to swell  Not enough iodine  If suspect peron’s not getting enough iodine, useful source is salt  Can use kelp seaweed  Iodine • May think that person is hyperthyroidism (too much T3 in blood stream) • Dose of iodine is used to treat thyroid storm – acute attack of hyperthyroidism • Dose of iodine given the right way, will start a thyroid storm • A lot we don’t understand about how iodine works • Good products in market that combine kelp o Hyperthyroidism  Too much thyroid hormone with accelerated metabolic rate  Weight loss  Sense of heat, tremors o o o o

Reversible condition Propothyroid Make the conversion of T4 to T3 slower (T3 is active) Interfere with conversion to T4 Three herbs important for this, but not on list • Lemon balm • Mother wart • Bugle weed o All thyroid conditions are immune in nature     