Testimonial about Mouth Sores
This testimonial is a perfect example of why it is best to treat the underlying cause of the symptom. One thing is important to keep in mind: the root cause of the symptom is rarely where the symptom is. There is a tendency to want to address the site of the symptom which will only give temporary (or no) relief.
So, for example, in this case, doctors kept giving anti-viral medicines, anti-thrush medicines to treat the sores. What we did was to fix the underlying cause of the mouth sores, which was residing in the liver. The digestive organs have to burn up the food, and thus create some heat in the body as they transform the food — much like a burner on a cook-top. We want to burn up the food correctly, but the flame needs to be just right — neither too low or too high.
The stomach has one digestive fire, but the liver has 5 flames (in order to
extract the space, air, fire, water and earth elements out of the food). So the liver has a great tendency to overheat, especially if it is holding onto a lot of hot reactive toxins (ama visha and gar visha). Once the liver overheats, it can trigger all kinds of reactions such as sores in the mouth.
extract the space, air, fire, water and earth elements out of the food). So the liver has a great tendency to overheat, especially if it is holding onto a lot of hot reactive toxins (ama visha and gar visha). Once the liver overheats, it can trigger all kinds of reactions such as sores in the mouth.
So I put her on two wonderful herbs for cooling the liver. These herbs aren’t for cleaning the liver, but rather for cooling it. Later on, when her liver cools sufficiently, we will start the gentle cleansing of not only the liver, but the bowel, kidneys, 7 tissues, including cellular detox as well.
One other thing I can mention in this case: this woman was lucky that she did not initiate any cleansing on her own, such as fasting, maple syrup-cayenne pepper cleanse, milk thistle, dandelion or colonics and other popular cleanses that are in vogue today. These cleanses would have heated the liver more, which would have made her problem much worse. We see the victims of these cleanses all the time in our practice. Luckily, Vaidya Mishra has trained his doctors how to carefully and effectively treat problems such as these, where cleansing is indicated, but without the detox crises that can so often occur.
Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum
Cinnaminson, New Jersey
such a simple yet powerfully important point you make Dr. Teitelbaum and Vaidya!