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When is your doctor appointment? If you are turning blue you should probably be seen right away. This is a symptom of your blood not getting enough oxygen. Lack of oxygen can cause a lot of other problems including death.
Why do you hate western medicine? Medicine is just medicine anyway, if it has been tested and works then it becomes medicine- no matter what culture invented or discovered it.
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Modern medicine is a mixture of what works best over the globe
Its just a personal opinion. I dont like taking pills. Im use to herbs, teas that sort of thing but if a pill is the only way to fix it then ill take it, i just like natural stuff more.
Most pills are herbs and teas- just with the active ingredient taken out so that you only get the good part. For example aspirin comes form willow bark. Pills, injections and other pharmaceutical preparations are a convenient way to deliver the active compound in a controlled dose.
Natural does not always mean good, healthy or safe. Even too much water can kill you- the poison is always in the dose.
Most 'natural' remedies peddled today are just a means of separating people form their money.
Some 'natural' remedies in western medicine today
poppies (opiates), leeches, maggots, foxglove (Digitalis), silver and gold.
First of all, you must find out why your limbs and lips are turning blue.
If it is due to a cardiac cause, that would need to be treated on an urgent basis.
Western medicine is lifesaving in many instances and hence should be taken if necessary.
It can, however, be supplemented with herbal medicines from the Eastern countries.
If you write again about what your doctor says is the cause, maybe I could help you choose a good, supplemental herbal remedy, to work with the Western medicine you would be taking.
Maybe, over time, your condition may improve enough for your doctor to reduce / discontinue his medicine, and you could continue to take the alternative medicine and be happy, too!
I hear what you're saying, about Western medicine. Sometimes I feel that way too, especially when a doctor is rude and rushes me out of his office when I'm still asking him questions.
But, I want to share a true story. When I worked in a nursing home there was a girl, a patient. She had x-rays and MRIs showing a tumor at cervical vertebra 5 or something. The tumor paralyzed her from the neck down. She hated Western medicine and refused any and all treatment for her condition. Surgery was recommended.
So, she just laid there. Nurses fed her and bathed her. She refused to let anyone brush her teeth though...That smelled bad.
Please don't reject all modern medicine. If your lips and toes are blue, I'd guess your heart is involved. Get it checked out and give their remedies a try. Heck, in 100 years they'll be talking about the primitive medicine of the early 21st century.
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