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I made an emergency liver flush last March 25. I immediately felt skin thickening at my face, eczematic bubbles on my arm and my two formerly injured spots on my legs by the alkali burn.

Upon taking pancreatin supplements, I felt relief from a terrible itch at at my extremeties. This showed a lack of liver function, blocked liver function.

The emergency hulda clark type liver flush resulted in a few stones, but immediate relief from the itches.

Grrr… Now I’m mad. I know these damn anti-biotics were harmful, I just did not know they were THAT harmful. The real reason for my liver malfunction which is manifested in my rashes is because this is a side effect of the anti-biotics coamoxyclav I took to battle the infection caused by my chemical burns.

The analysis in the paper hits it right on the money:

http://pearl.sums.ac.ir/semj/vol2/jul2001/liver&coamoxy.htm

Combination of Amoxicillin and Clavulanic acid (also named Coamoxyclav) is a known drug of having adverse hepatic effects, mainly by three mechanisms: Cholestasis, Hepatocellular injury and Mixed mechanism. The most important predisposing factor is age more than 65, however, history of serious medical illness, liver associated comorbidity, use of other medications, drug dose, route and duration of therapy, smoking or previous use of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, were not associated with liver disease induced by Co-amoxiclave. Co-amoxiclav can produce a wide range of liver injury including intrahepatic cholestasis without hepatitis, acute hepatocellular injury, and cholestatic hepatitis with hepatocellular necrosis. It can produce cholecystitis-like symptoms. Rarely acute pancreatitis, acute interstitial nephritis and acute lacrimal gland inflammation and sialadenitis with prolonged xerostomia rarely occur simultaneously with cholestatic hepatitis.

Normalization of liver enzymes usually occurs some time between 11.5-18 weeks after discontinuation of drug. Treatment is just supportive. The prognosis is favorable in general. Rarely the liver enzymes remain elevated with resulting chronic liver disease and progression to cirrhosis.

3 to 6 month to normalize? Yeah right. On a healthy liver that is. But not my liver which is still slowly recovering and rebuilding.

What to do? Take liver tonics. Take liver rebuilders like milk thisle and the like. Take apple juice regularly. Take digestive enzymes with pancreatin to assist my liver. Eat beets. Drink wheatgrass juice. Take Vitamin E. Good grief. More expenses.

Drug-induced cholestatic liver disease: http://www.eurekah.com/chapter/325

Mechanism of Bile Formation: http://www.eurekah.com/chapter/307

Dandelion improves bile formation: http://www.herbs4health.net/diuretic/diuretic.html

Explore lecithin. Buy taurine supplements to increase bile formation.

After some 3 days of hard thinking, scratching and keen observation I came last night to the eureka conclusion that my rashes is really a sign of poor bile and pancreatic enzyme release or production.

It seems the past 2 liver flushes, the chemical burn episode and the supplement and antibiotic treatments have dampened my liver and pancreas functions.

I conclusively found this out last night when for relief I popped in 2 tablets of Solgar pancreatin with digestive enzymes. Immediate itch relief in 30 minutes. Then I took 2 more to get to sleep. Then I took one just after breakfast.

Now that I have a band aid, a temporary crutch with the pancreatin supplement, what is the cure plan?

Looks like we have to go through an apple juice and olive oil liver flush. Maybe the apple juice is what I’ve been missing from the 2 hulda clark flushes. I will also take daily wheatgrass juice as my brother had good results with this. Plus I will take the anthroposophic medicine hepatodoron. The description of which says:

Hepatodoron Tablets

Liver tonic

Use as a liver tonic, to stimulate liver activity by improving protein and carbohydrate metabolism.

Hepatodoron is used to treat all chronic inflammatory and degenerative liver conditions, including chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, constipation and eczema.

It is often the second liver treatment, after a cleanser such as Chelidonium Comp. or Digestodoron has been used.

The liver is the largest organ inside the body, with several major functions. This tonic strengthens the liver and enables it to function efficiently, eg to stabilise the body’s blood-sugar level, detoxify poisons, process fats and proteins and remove waste products.

Symptoms of liver malfunction include sudden exhaustion, bad taste in the mouth, loss of appetite, distaste for certain foods, irritability or a general feeling of unwellness.

Rationale

Fragaria is the wood-strawberry, and Vitis vinefera is the grapevine. They stimulate liver activity and build up liver capacity, so its function is more regulated and strengthened.

1 tablet (200mg) contains: Fragaria vesca, dry leaf 40mg; Vitis vinifera, dry leaf 40mg; in lactose base.

TAKE 1 TABLET (CHILD UP TO 7 YEARS) OR 2 TABLETS (ADULT) TWICE DAILY AFTER 3pm, or as directed by your practitioner.

For a course of treatment it is recommended that Hepatodoron be taken for about 6 weeks and then repeated after an interval of 2 weeks. If symptoms persist, consult your practitioner.

As the principle organ of metabolism and digestion, a healthy liver depends on the quality of our food. Increase wholemeal bread and grains, and lower sugar and fat intake, avoiding all fried and deep fried food (which are very difficult to digest). The liver has to dispose of all the poisons we absorb from ‘unhealthy’ food.

Pronounced: He – pat – o – door – on.

Hepatodoron is a product of Weleda. http://www.weleda.co.nz/products/3313.cfm
Wish me luck.

I went on a supplement binge and that is probably why I developed light rashes on my arms, my legs and now my face.

Could have been the combination of ginseng and royal jelly, spirulina, niacin, a new kind of probiotics, fish oil, vitamin c and vigor vitamins.

So I just dropped all of them at once so my body can clean them out.  So much for wild experiments.  I still have to learn the art of combining which ones properly.

To clean out I’m squeezing lemons and spiking them with cayenne (sili).

I’ve long been diagnosed with a scalloped tongue. In the Chinese analysis it is lack of circulation or Qi. The anthroposophic doctor says it is a weak pancreas. I’ve made my internet rounds this evening and finally set off on a path.

The main culprit could be a vitamin deficiency, specifically vitamin B3. The supplement of choice is niacin. But the vegetable of choice is carrots. I bought an ebook a few years ago and he told me about his carrot juice cure. Carrots are indeed very nutritious and provide a lot more nutrients.

See this guy debunking spirulina and comparing it with the common carrot. http://spl.haxial.net/spirulina/ Carrots are easier to come by, fresh and cheap too. So now I have a simple plan.

Fresh carrot juice every day for 3 weeks. That should do the trick. I will also experiment with niacin supplements if I can find one.

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Update: I found a 100 tablet bottle of niacin 100 mg at healthy options. I also bought Red Ginseng Royal Jelly. My plan is to eat carrots, take 1 tablet of niacin daily, and 1 ampule red ginseng royal jelly everyday. I’ll do this for 20 days and see what happens.

I took my first niacin 100 mg this afternoon and I did feel the heat inside me. It was a good heat. A good fire as the chinese doctors describe. Energy production. I also took my first dose of Red Ginseng Royal Jelly. I also went to a chinese restaurant this lunch time and ordered hot soup with noodles. I also ate white rice in the evening. I had raw carrots this morning. Cooked carrots in the evening.

I will continue with my probiotics of 3 capsules daily, 2 capsules daily of fish oil, 2 grams of vitamin C and now a warm cooked diet avoiding raw foods to strengthen my Qi.

I distinctly remember in my previous travels that I felt really good whenever I travelled to Singapore and Hongkong gorging on Chinese food.  Maybe it is the chinese blood in me seeking chinese food and chinese treatments.  My maternal grandfather is 50% chinese.

People, including my relatives are usually closed minded and therefore are stunted in their intellectual growth.  I merely state that I have banned milk for my children.  Next they make inane conclusions that I also do not allow meat for my children and a host of other bans.

I explained.  Not so.  I ban cow’s milk because we are not cows.  Meat are good for my children but I specify organic meats, for fish I specify ocean fish.  Of course junk food is banned.  And we also buy organic vegetables.  I don’t really ban a whole lot of things, just the common junk food and poisons going around.

Then there is the issue of television.  We do not own a television.  My children are not allowed to watch television.  My grandmother’s sister thinks that is too weird and dismisses us outright.  That’s fine with me.  We can agree to disagree.

My children do not miss television.  I do not miss television.  We have real family interaction with what little time we have for each other.

Where is doctor Divina Hey when you need her?  She’s always out of the country.  I sent an sms to her secretary Nancy asking for an appointment.  Nancy has a new number +639066721319.

Nancy referred me to a substitute anthroposophic doctor named doctor Chen.  Her office phone is +63-2-8449185.  Address is Unit 7, Lower Penthouse, Makati Medical Center, Amorsolo St. Corner de la Rosa St., Makati City.

We have a 2:30 appointment for my boy with the leg puncture that does not seem to want to heal.