Both men and women begin to lose bone mass as they age, especially women, who lose bone mass more rapidly after menopause. But who is at high risk for osteoporosis? Chinese medicine has a simple preliminary method to determine this: look at the teeth! Whenever periodontal disease or enamel degeneration begins, it can be a precursor to osteoporosis.
People with a mouth full of rotten teeth or wobbly roots should beware! Not only are they likely to become toothless, but in the eyes of a Chinese medicine practitioner, they are also a standard “boneless” person, whose bone marrow is not healthy enough and whose bones have begun to deteriorate severely. How dangerous is osteoporosis? Bone loss and porous bones are no longer able to withstand the loads caused by daily life activities compared to normal bones, and fractures can occur if you are not careful.
In Chinese medicine, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee, a Chinese medicine doctor, said that the first thing to look at is the patient’s teeth, because in Chinese medicine, teeth are the same as the bones, and the teeth are the first to reflect the strength of the bone marrow in the body. Basically, Chinese medicine believes that “the kidney is the master of the bone, the bone produces the marrow and grows the teeth, so the teeth are both the bone and the kidney”. In other words, teeth are bone, and they happen to be the most visible symbol of the human skeleton, so by observing the changes in teeth, we can understand the changes in bone marrow and kidney function in the body.
This point can not be doubted, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee said, Chinese medicine believes that the most important cause of osteoporosis is the bone marrow degeneration, the bone marrow is the storage room of blood cells, the important hematopoietic function of the human body, once the phenomenon of anemia appears, the next step is the degeneration of bone and osteoporosis. This is why menopausal women are always the most affected by osteoporosis, because menopause represents the deterioration of hematopoietic function and the decrease of blood production.
If women feel headaches and dizziness every time they have a period, although the volume of each period may be quite large, they are still anemic, which corresponds to a lack of bone Qi and kidney Qi, and these women not only have an unhealthy endometrium, but also tend to have osteoporosis.
People always think that to prevent osteoporosis, they only need to take more calcium, more sunlight and more vitamin D. However, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee emphasizes that this concept is actually full of blind spots. If the body lacks the power to synthesize, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee said, eating more calcium will only burden the body, which is not beneficial.
Chinese medicine treatment of osteoporosis, not only focus on solving the problem of bone loss, but also pay more attention to the root cause of bone marrow degeneration, which is the strengthening of hematopoietic function, that is, the strengthening of the liver and kidney function. Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee said that the main idea is to strengthen the liver before the kidneys, to strengthen the liver’s ability to break down and absorb good nutrients, and to enhance the kidney Qi, which can naturally help to improve the hematopoietic function, in which velvet antler, Tortoise Shell and Deer Horn Two Immortals Glue are commonly used herbs and prescriptions.
A healthy liver gives you the energy you need to live life to the fullest!
Originally from: Health.chinatimes.com
Health Chinatimes/ Reporter Xue-Hua Wang reports 2010.04.27
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