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Clear evidence of the damaging effect of hormonal contraceptive treatments on Kidney function

During a recent treatment, I noticed that the patient had an unusual Kid Yin pulse, which I had not noticed in her before (I had been treating her for four months). It was quite changeable, changing quality by the second. My overall impression of it was that it was certainly not a ‘normal’ pulse, but was one that I often notice in patients who are on strong chemical remedies (which is what I prefer to call biomedicine drug ‘treatments’, so as to attempt to avoid any wrong notions that these remedies are in any way healing or curative).

I also noticed that the patient was displaying allergic tendencies since I had seen her last, two weeks previously. After she had sat before me in the treatment room for a minute or so, I felt the desire to sneeze (as my body had connected with her energy). I asked her if she had been sneezing recently and she said she had become allergic to perfumes and some other things, which sometimes happened to her.

The patient was taking a contraceptive pill that is taken for 21 days, and then not taken for 7 days, before resuming the next 21 day dose. During this ‘withdrawal’ period of 7 days, the patient experiences a ‘simulated period’. I recalled her previously mentioning that she sometimes stays on the pill over this withdrawal period if a simulated period would be inconvenient to her at that point. During the current treatment, I asked her about this and she said that she had currently been taking the pill for 5 weeks, since she had missed her previous withdrawal week. When she said this, her unusual Kid Yin pulse then made sense to me. It confirmed the following things:

That hormonal contraceptive treatments have a big effect on the Kidneys, and that her Kidneys were currently suffering from the effects of this chemical remedy.

This patient had a history of hay fever, which I had treated her for, and which she was now clear of. Her hay fever had been due to a weakness in her Kidney energy. Because her Kidneys were currently being stressed by an ‘overdose’ of this chemical remedy, her Kidney function had weakened and her allergies had returned. Normally, in the 7 day withdrawal period, perhaps the Kidneys have time to rid themselves of the damaging effects of this remedy—to some extent. But because this patient had missed the withdrawal, the detrimental effects of the remedy had built up and were clearly detectable on her Kidney Yin pulse and in her reduced Kidney function, which had resulted in her developing an allergy again.

With all patients who take such remedies, I do make a point of informing them about the damaging effects that hormonal remedies will have on their long term health, but it seems that only a minority of people consider this to be important—or consider it to be a valid point, for whatever reason.

 

5 November 2008