AN A-Z OF DORSAL AND THORACIC PAIN: GALL BLADDER PAIN

Mar
20
2009

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Fair, fat, forty, fertile and flatulent? These are the ingredients they say are responsible for gall stones! I don’t agree about the fair and fat, as we meet all hair colours as well as sizes with this condition.

The gall bladder stores the bile made by the liver. The bile leaves the liver by a duct. If the salts in the bile combine with cholesterol to form gravel or stones, there is pain.

When I was pregnant I passed a small stone one night. It wasn’t amusing as I had to sing the next day and couldn’t take a deep breath because of the pain. It took a few hours to pass and if it wasn’t for acupuncture I wouldn’t have won that coloratura soprano championship.

The experience has taught me to be wary, and I give myself a special fast for two or three days to clean out the gall bladder. All naturopaths know what you have to take to make it safe. Large stones have to be treated medically.

Dandelion leaves stimulate the liver and when eaten often in a salad will help to reduce cholesterol levels. Dandelion coffee is delicious (some brands better than others). Stay off fats and away from French restaurants. When in Europe, take along a grapefruit to help digest the oils, and include the humble artichoke in your diet when possible.

Nausea from bile congestion is very successfully treated by homoeopathic chelidonium majus and berberis vulgaris. Just a few drops in water and that sick feeling after eating goes!

Vitamins E and C, with an increase in the polyunsaturated fatty acid intake in safflower oil, will help to reduce the cholesterol content of the bile. We also give a good liver ‘pump’ a type of massage technique that drains the gall bladder too.

False gall bladder pain-That may sound very funny, but not to those people who are still suffering from pain after all the tests are done and the ultrasonic readings prove false. Nearly always, it turns out to be a spasmed psoas muscle which requires a special technique for its release.

Sometimes it is complicated by a twisted pelvis as well. Definitely a chiropractic/osteopathic speciality. Treatment is simple but very effective after the patient has suffered weeks of unnecessary pain.

A lady treated with this problem was a fifty-five-year-old golfer who was picking up her grandchild incorrectly. She swore it wasn’t caused by her golf swing!