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May is MCS month so I thought I would start a list for the best books to learn about and protect yourself from this modern illness which is caused by toxic chemical overload. It is also called Environmental Illness and the doctors who treat it are called EI doctors. There are over 50 in the US now and a big clinic near Dallas, Texas.
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The E.I. Syndrome: An Rx for Environmental Illness
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Sherry A. Rogers (Goodreads Author)
4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Chemical Sensitivity
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Sherry A. Rogers (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Home Safe Home: Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Everyday Toxics and Harmful Household Products
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Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain: A Survival Manual (2nd Edition)
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4.24 avg rating — 439 ratings
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Healing Remedies: Over 1,000 Natural Remedies for the Prevention, Treatment, and Cure of Common Ailments and Conditions
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Chemical Sensitivity, Volume I
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Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
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Rick Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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The Toxic Labyrinth: A Family's Successful Battle Against Environmental Illness
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Never Be Sick Again: Health Is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It
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Explaining "Unexplained Illnesses": Disease Paradigm for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Fibromyalgia, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Gulf War Syndrome and Others
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4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Suicide by Sugar: A Startling Look at Our #1 National Addiction
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Your Naturally Healthy Home: Stylish, Safe, Simple
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Whole Way To Allergy Relief & Prevention
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The Lupus Book: A Guide for Patients and Their Families
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Chemical Sensitivity. CRC Press. 1995.
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The Coenzyme Q10 Phenomenon
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Stephen T. Sinatra (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Betrayal by the Brain
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Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products Endanger Your Health... and What You Can Do about It
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Tired or Toxic? A Blueprint for Health
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Sherry A. Rogers (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Healthy Household: A Complete Guide for Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment
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What is M.E.?
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Jodi Bassett (Goodreads Author)
4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Reversibility of Chronic Degenerative Disease and Hypersensitivity, Vol. 1: Regulating Mechanisms of Chemical Sensitivity
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
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Healthy House Building for the New Millennium: A Design & Construction Guide
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Brain Allergies: The Psychonutrient and Magnetic Connections
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Chemical Sensitivity, Vol. 2: Sources of Total Body Load
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Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient
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The Healing Brain
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Robert Ornstein (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
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4.03 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Patient Heal Thyself
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Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia & Environmental Illness: An Alternative Medicine Guide
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An Alternative Approach to Allergies: The New Field of Clinical Ecology Unravels the Environmental Causes of
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4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Allergic to the Twentieth Century: The Explosion in Environmental Allergies--From Sick Buildings to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
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Natural Detoxification
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Stopping Inflammation: Relieving the Cause of Degenerative Diseases
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
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4.16 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Lupus Handbook for Women: Up-to-Date Information on Understanding and Managing the Disease Which Affects
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3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Black Oil, Red Blood
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Diane Castle (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Homoeopathy
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Allergies and Candida with the Physicist's Rapid Solution
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The Salicylate Handbook: Your Guide to Understanding Salicylate Sensitivity
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3.98 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Pulse Test: The Secret of Building Your Basic Health
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Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
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4.14 avg rating — 381 ratings
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The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health
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Chronic Illness and the Twelve Steps: A Practical Approach to Spiritual Resilience
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4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: A Survival Guide
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3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Never Bet Against Occam: Mast Cell Activation Disease and the Modern Epidemics of Chronic Illness and Medical Complexity
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4.37 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Quit and Stay Quit A Personal Program to Stop Smoking: Quit & Stay Quit Nicotine Cessation Program
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand
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3.96 avg rating — 514 ratings
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Joyful Recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME: Accelerated Healing with Emotional Freedom Techniques
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The Maker's Diet
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3.82 avg rating — 1,682 ratings
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40 Days to Personal Revolution: 40 Days to Personal Revolution
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The Forsaken Garden: Four Conversations on the Deep Meaning of Environmental Illness
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Insurance Technology Handbook: The New Partnership
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Lifting the Bull: Overcoming Chronic Back Pain Fibromyalgia and Environmental Illness
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fighting Fatigue
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Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease
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Joel Fuhrman (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 755 ratings
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Natural Health & Body Care
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Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
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Neal's Yard Natural Remedies
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Close Your Mouth: Buteyko Breathing Clinic Self Help Manual
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Peace, Love and Healing: Bodymind Communication & the Path to Self-Healing: An Exploration
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4.21 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Allergy Free: An Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide
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Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
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The Scientific Basis for Selected Environmental Medicine Techniques
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Sherry A. Rogers (Goodreads Author)
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A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients
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Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes
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Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life
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Headaches Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide
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Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide
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Burton Goldberg (Introduction)
4.31 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Food Allergies and Food Intolerance: The Complete Guide to Their Identification and Treatment
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The Doctors Book of Home Remedies
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Nutrition and Your Mind: The Psychochemical Response.
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Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness
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The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children
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Canary in the Courtroom: How Pesticide Poisoning Changed a Woman's Life and Forced Her into Civil Action
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Toxic Bedrooms: Your Guide to a Safe Night's Sleep
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The New Natural House Book: Creating a Healthy, Harmonious, and Ecologically Sound Home
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School of Natural Healing
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The Immune System Cure: Optimize Your Immune System in 30 Days-The Natural Way!
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Living Well with Autoimmune Disease: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...That You Need to Know
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Essential Oils for Healing: Over 400 All-Natural Recipes for Everyday Ailments
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Vannoy Gentles Fite (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Lupus: Alternative Therapies That Work
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Prescription for Natural Cures: A Self-Care Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet, Nutrition, Supplements, and Other Holistic Methods
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Why Suffer?: How I Overcame Illness & Pain Naturally
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Finding the Right Treatment: Modern and Alternative Medicine : A Comprehensive Guide to Getting the Best of Both Worlds
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The Maker's Diet: Updated and Expanded: The 40-Day Health Experience That Will Change Your Life Forever
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Allergy Relief and Prevention: A Doctor's Complete Guide to Treatment and Self-Care
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Patient Heal Thyself - A Remarkable Health Program Combining Ancient Wisdom With Groundbreaking Clinical Research
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Grains Friend Or Foe?
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Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Herbs & Spices: From a Medical Anthropologist's Files, Here Are Nature's Own Healing Herbs and Spices for Hundreds of Today's Most Common Health Problems
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Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life
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Sandra Beasley (Goodreads Author)
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Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease
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The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Astonishing Dialogue Taking Place in Our Bodies Impacts Health, Weight, and Mood
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Asperger Syndrome: Natural Steps Toward a Better Life for You or Your Child
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Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain: A Survival Manual
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Good grief, is lupus related to MCS? That's what both Flannery O'Connor and her father died of!!
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Thom wrote: "Thanks for the list--wish I had something to contribute."
Thom, I often wish that. I was just looking at the Zen list and hadn't read one thing altho I have planned to do so. Learning about this can help sleep apnea and also diabetes! Be sure your sheets are 100% cotton washed in baking soda! Also wear all cotton clothing or other natural fibers! These things make a difference for our lungs, sinuses and liver.
Of course you know to eat organic even tho most of us can barely afford it.
Thom, I often wish that. I was just looking at the Zen list and hadn't read one thing altho I have planned to do so. Learning about this can help sleep apnea and also diabetes! Be sure your sheets are 100% cotton washed in baking soda! Also wear all cotton clothing or other natural fibers! These things make a difference for our lungs, sinuses and liver.
Of course you know to eat organic even tho most of us can barely afford it.
Lady Alice wrote: "I read that one autoimmune disorder leads to another. What I really have is MCS but that is NOT commonly recognized. There is no pill for it for so no doctor really wants to mess with it. Dr. K treated me with a German method which was miraculous for me. (VOLL) I did not understand it but it sure helped. ...Be sure your sheets are 100% cotton washed in baking soda! Also wear all cotton clothing or other natural fibers! These things make a difference for our lungs, sinuses and liver.
Of course you know to eat organic even tho most of us can barely afford it."
Oh Alice, that sounds awful. -- I know a tiny bit about what you must be going through as, on the one hand, I have cousins who suffer from similar sypmtoms (asthma, hayfever and pretty much every allergy under the sun, rashes if they wear anything other than pure cotton or sleep in bed sheets not made from pure cotton, just as bad rashes after eating certain types of food, etc.), and on the other hand, my best friend is trained and licensed as a natural/alternative health practitioner, so of course I've developed a bit of an interest in this area as well.
I had no idea that lupus was connected with MCS, though. Bad as things still are now, just imagine what would have been possible if a treatment had been available to Flannery O'Connor which would, if not cured her, at least helped her stay alive beyond her 39th birthday!
Can you describe the treatment prescribed by your doctor? Maybe my friend can make sense of it ... (Not that this is any of my business in the first place, of course; I freely confess to blatant curiosity here -- and also to being a bit intrigued because, as you may recall from your stay in Germany, "VOLL" as a word actually just means "full" or "complete," which doesn't seem to make much sense to me, so I'm assuming it's an acronym for something else!)
a far better explanation can be googled:
["Allergy testing" with "Dr. Voll electroacupuncture"].
by H Bresser - 1993 - Cited by 3 - Related articles
Electroacupuncture according to Dr. Voll (EAV) is one of the numerous unconventional methods propagated for allergy testing in Germany. ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8335468
Allergy Study | BioMeridian
["Allergy testing" with "Dr. Voll electroacupuncture"].
by H Bresser - 1993 - Cited by 3 - Related articles
Electroacupuncture according to Dr. Voll (EAV) is one of the numerous unconventional methods propagated for allergy testing in Germany. ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8335468
Allergy Study | BioMeridian
Abstract
Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV) was used to monitor the effects of qigong practice on therapeutic balancing of subjects. In EAV the electrical conductance of the skin above individual acupuncture points is measured using low voltage and current. Diagnosis depends on measuring the relative electrical conductance and its time dependence. An important diagnostic criterion of degeneration of an organ is an indicator drop which occurs during the measurement when the conductance decreases from an apparent maximum value and then levels off. Two series of EAV measurements were made before and after healthy subjects practiced qigong. Measurements were made at 24 acupuncture points at the ends of the meridians of the fingers and toes of a subject and were made by the same operator and equipment. The subjects were asked to perform a qigong exercise of their choosing. In the first series, four subjects were examined by EAV before and after qigong exercise. Qigong exercise decreased the average EAV measured values of the four subjects in the range of -19 to -31%. Qigong eliminated indicator drops for three subjects and reduced the indicator drop by 80% for the fourth subject. In the second series, each of seven subjects was examined by EAV three times in a blind protocol so that the operator did not know whether a subject had practiced qigong before the second or third examination. Qigong exercise changed the average EAV measured values in the range of -17 to -35% for four subjects and 4 to 15% for three subjects.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
PMID: 7863836 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV) was used to monitor the effects of qigong practice on therapeutic balancing of subjects. In EAV the electrical conductance of the skin above individual acupuncture points is measured using low voltage and current. Diagnosis depends on measuring the relative electrical conductance and its time dependence. An important diagnostic criterion of degeneration of an organ is an indicator drop which occurs during the measurement when the conductance decreases from an apparent maximum value and then levels off. Two series of EAV measurements were made before and after healthy subjects practiced qigong. Measurements were made at 24 acupuncture points at the ends of the meridians of the fingers and toes of a subject and were made by the same operator and equipment. The subjects were asked to perform a qigong exercise of their choosing. In the first series, four subjects were examined by EAV before and after qigong exercise. Qigong exercise decreased the average EAV measured values of the four subjects in the range of -19 to -31%. Qigong eliminated indicator drops for three subjects and reduced the indicator drop by 80% for the fourth subject. In the second series, each of seven subjects was examined by EAV three times in a blind protocol so that the operator did not know whether a subject had practiced qigong before the second or third examination. Qigong exercise changed the average EAV measured values in the range of -17 to -35% for four subjects and 4 to 15% for three subjects.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
PMID: 7863836 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Wow. Those are VERY detailed explanations! I've emailed my friend the link to this page -- when I spoke to her (before having read your last posts) she immediately said that though she'd have to look it up herself as well, she did think it had something to do with electroacupuncture.
It worked very well for me. One of the things I recovered from was a sensitivity to egg white which made me very happy. I have to carefully rotate now. I hope it works for her if she is able to find anyone who knows how to do it. I was probably treated for close to 100 things and it was the only success I have ever had with being desensitized.
Dr. Krohn required all her patients to read EI books. The first one I was required to read was Dr. Sherry Rogers Tired or Toxic? It was very hard for me but she insisted I read it. Much of it is chemistry. I read it as I wanted treatment.
I just noticed a book on aromatherapy on the list and there are NO SAFE fragrances. Incredibly enough all of them can be toxic to a sensitive person. I was even warned that lilacs are very dangerous. I had no idea. I am allergic to the terpene of many plants and cannot eat many veggies as I react to the terpene. A woman I knew in Finland told me that Finns cannot eat veggies and she sent me a link which showed genetically why they could not. It was so interesting.
Maybe I have some of those genes.
Maybe I have some of those genes.
Lady Alice wrote: "I just noticed a book on aromatherapy on the list and there are NO SAFE fragrances. Incredibly enough all of them can be toxic to a sensitive person. I was even warned that lilacs are very danger..."Oops -- I removed it. Just goes to show ...
Here is the link to the photo essay on canaries, "Everything Makes Them Ill" in the NY Times - Photographs by Thilde Jensen:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/20...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/20...
Dr. Andrew Weil said there is no such thing as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and he is supposed to be "radical". I think he is stuck in the mire. Even the CDC recognized CFIDS and they are very backward and for years thought it was a big joke. I have to remember this. I wonder if he has recanted?
May is Awareness Month so please add a book if you can. thanks
I'm afraid I haven't read any of these. I am one of those rare people who've been incredibly healthy my entire life other than the usual: chicken pox, colds, flus . . . although I am allergic to my cat. Can't do much about that except not "replace" him when he dies.
Victoria wrote: "I'm afraid I haven't read any of these. I am one of those rare people who've been incredibly healthy my entire life other than the usual: chicken pox, colds, flus . . . although I am allergic to my..."
Glad for you. I can't imagine what it must be like since I have to avoid so much. I am also allergic to cats. they are the most allergenic animal there is! My husband is addicted to cats meaning he has to have them! Oh, wash your cat and then rinse him in tea. This will remove 90% of his cat dander. There is a spray you can buy which denatures cat dander and it is basically tannic acid.
Glad for you. I can't imagine what it must be like since I have to avoid so much. I am also allergic to cats. they are the most allergenic animal there is! My husband is addicted to cats meaning he has to have them! Oh, wash your cat and then rinse him in tea. This will remove 90% of his cat dander. There is a spray you can buy which denatures cat dander and it is basically tannic acid.
Didn't know that. Definitely going to try it. THANKS Alice:-)
Victoria wrote: "Didn't know that. Definitely going to try it. THANKS Alice:-)"
you can probably find more info about it online. I think it was the Allergy Foundation where I purchased the $30.00 bottle of spray to rid the home of cat dander. I often get info from them and free goodies too. The actual name might be Allergy and Asthma Research..something like that. they sent me a free CD holder.
you can probably find more info about it online. I think it was the Allergy Foundation where I purchased the $30.00 bottle of spray to rid the home of cat dander. I often get info from them and free goodies too. The actual name might be Allergy and Asthma Research..something like that. they sent me a free CD holder.
The two Katrina Berne books are in no way a good choice for EI patients, nor anyone else told they have CFS as they are full of harmful myths. Not trying to be mean just kind to ppl who don't neeed to waste valuable time or money on such myth promoting books. The Sherry Rogers books though are worth 10000000 of them and just wonderful. My 2c. Best health wishes to all:)
Jodi wrote: "The two Katrina Berne books are in no way a good choice for EI patients, nor anyone else told they have CFS as they are full of harmful myths. Not trying to be mean just kind to ppl who don't neeed..."
Hi Jodi, I just found this note - sorry I didn't see it sooner. Now that I have librarian status I deleted a couple of books that have nothing to do with this. I will delete the Katrina Berne books too as I do agree with you as I don't recall her addressing chemical sensitivity. Back when I read her books I had only been told that I had CFS. A lawyer had to tell me that I was chemically injured as none of my doctors around that time were capable of it. I hope you are feeling better.
Hi Jodi, I just found this note - sorry I didn't see it sooner. Now that I have librarian status I deleted a couple of books that have nothing to do with this. I will delete the Katrina Berne books too as I do agree with you as I don't recall her addressing chemical sensitivity. Back when I read her books I had only been told that I had CFS. A lawyer had to tell me that I was chemically injured as none of my doctors around that time were capable of it. I hope you are feeling better.
Why is Barbarians at the Gate on this list?
Chris wrote: "Why is Barbarians at the Gate on this list?"I don't know and thought you added it. Maybe he started putting toxic preservatives in cereals? I will read some reviews to see if I can figure it out. 95% of cereal is UNHEALTHY. I used to eat Erewhon which I ordered from Amazon.
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