A small in number years ago, I got...

A small in number years ago, I got a pulmonary embolism and unfathomable vein thrombosis (DVT). Is it possible for me to take too many fill ups that can thin the life-current too much? Sometimes when I gift myself, a bruise forms.

--Dan, via email

Let's journey back to the original incident of DVT We attend to think of the human visible form [i]or[/i] frame as a piece of heavy equipment made to function normally with a fortune of abuse. But I consider the human material part to be more like the sensitive engine of a fine sports car. It does not do well with unexpected changes, but it eventually adapts to them. What's more, the pair fatigue and your diet for the preceding 24 hours could have encouraged concretion formation.

DVT is general for travelers who are forced to sit for fill outed periods. That's why on in extent driving trips you should stop at regular intervals and put in motion your legs. When you're forward an airplane, you should take a walk down the aisle each hour or so.

As for diet, avoid nutriments that encourage clotting such as spinach, broccoli, asparagus, milk, soybeans, sugar, saturated fats and r meat. Instead, eat chicken, fish, pepper onions, ginger, garlic, tomatoes and brightly colored fruits and vegetables. These contain natural coumadins, which discourage clotting.

As for counterparts that may mitigate clotting, it is possible to take like high dosages that you braise easily. however I think it is more likely that your digestive function is weak.

In traditional Chinese medicine, bruising take places from a weak "spleen." The milt in this context, is essentially the pancreas, the top of the small intestine and the pyloric valve. thus my question back to you is, Are you eating too abundant raw food, worrying all the time or eating a doom of sugar? All of these can contest down your digestive Qi (chi) spirit according to the Chinese. essay eating more cooked foods, make dinner your lightest meal of the day and don't eat forward the run. Also, make certain to use the herbs ginger, fennel dill, caraway, astragalus and turmeric (also called curcumin) to increase your digestive Qi.

Of the add tos you take, the ones principally likely to decrease clotting are the fish oils, curcumin and ginger. You cannot take too a great deal of these in my opinion. However, you have to watch curcumin if you are forward chemotherapy because if interferes with the treatment. (Curcumin must be avoided 3 days before and after chemotherapy.) I would also make permanent you are taking 800 international units (IUs) of vitamin E by day.

Supplements are not as dangerous as pharmaceuticals--which should be reserv for conditions that are more pathological--which makes them a better choice when used as preventative medicine.

Frank Ervolino, ND lives in Palm Cite, Florida. He's forward the staff of Jupiter Medical Center Hospital as an acupuncturist. He received his doctorate of naturopathic medicine and a master's of science extent in acupuncture from Bastyr University in Seatlle, Washington. In 2003 he was appointed according to the governor to the Florida State Board of Acupuncture.

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