Anemia

Natural alternative treatment, healing and cure for anemia

The information in this page about anemia, natural medicine and treatment is NOT a sales pitch for any drug, supplement, herbal formula or even an alleged magic potion from an exotic faraway land.

Food is always best natural treatment and cure

No chemical drugs or herbal concoctions. Just the right diet for treating and curing anemia. Learn how.

Red blood cells are the carriers of oxygen from the lungs to the body remote cells and tissues. Anemia is a low count of red blood cells leading to cells and body tissue receiving an inadequate amount of oxygen. Several hundred forms of anemia have been classified. The most common forms of anemia are: iron-deficiency  anemia, hemolytic inherited anemia, low folic acid anemia (megaloblastic anemia), pernicious anemia associated with vitamin B12 anemia and sickle-cell anemia. Anemia symptoms usually include: dizziness, shortness of breath, pale face and fatigue. There many causes of anemia: a diet poor in nutrients, heredity, prolonged exhaustion, alcohol, pregnancy and environmental causes.

Available anemia traditional treatment can be classified as treatment of the first and second degree among the seven levels of medicine such as iron shots and synthesized vitamin and mineral pills, and sometimes blood transfusions. The current medications used for anemia do not usually offer a cure and often have harmful side effects.

Anemia is obviously a YIN illness (low red cell count). Modern diet and modern farming methods such as chemical fertilizing(chemical fertilizer is extreme YIN, expansive to promote growth), contribute greatly to the number of anemia cases in the world. You can read more about the relation between anemia and YIN and YANG in the seven laws of the universe.

Because anemia is directly related to the spleen then the heart and liver are also involved. Please read about the Chinese five elements theory and the mother-father relation of the spleen to the heart and liver.

Anemia, including hereditary anemia is curable with the right diet. The cases of hereditary anemia must stay on the diet even after their condition has improved otherwise their blood count will degrade. Some cases will recover faster than others. If the cause of anemia is a chronic bleeding ulcer, then the diet has to be two stages. First, to cure the ulcer first, then deal with the anemia. The anemia diet differs from one person to the other depending on the root cause of anemia.

Most people have come to believe that macrobiotics means eating exotic Japanese foods. This is a misconception. To cure Anemia you do not have to eat Japanese foods. You have to first understand the principles of natural balance explained in macrobiotics in order to understand what has led you to develop Anemia. Then, macrobiotic principles will help you determine what foods you will have to eat in order to cure your Anemia condition.

Read If macrobiotics means eating locally grown foods, why are we eating Japanese foods?

If you are an anemic patient and tried macrobiotics (particularly the #7 diet) but found it did not work for you, then the foods you have selected are not appropriate for your condition. Please read: The standard macrobiotic diet does not work for some people. Why?

It is true that food is best medicine for anemia. But some foods help anemia and some make it worse. The food pyramid is only a general guideline and does not provide any specific information in the natural treatment of anemia.

Food is best medicine. With a carefully designed diet plan for Anemia, there is really no need for vitamin and mineral supplements. Some vitamin and mineral supplements can have adverse side effects on an anemic patient when taken randomly or in large doses. However, if they are desired, only natural food-based supplements should be selected and taken in moderate amounts.

And beware of alleged miracle cures in faraway lands.

Are you skeptical of this anemia treatment and cure? This is natural, but please read: back to the roots.

This is not a sales pitch for an expensive herbal concoction or an exotic supplement. Principles explained above are the laws of nature, and illness is simply the cumulative result of violating these laws. Even Hippocrates said: Thy food shall be thy remedy. It is also mentioned in the Chinese book of internal medicine: What cannot be cured with medicine, can only be cured with food. Food really is your best medicine, if the illness is Anemia or almost anything else.

If you decide to treat Anemia with the right diet you can order a consultation with us from the top of this page. We can help by providing the appropriate diet plan, and you would not be alone traveling this road! Read about what many famous western doctors said about Food is Best Medicine. And keep in mind that we offer seminars worldwide about nutrition, the art of health and macrobiotics. You can also find more answers and read more about Anemia and other illnesses and food as medicine in Frequently Asked Questions.

In addition to changing your eating habits, take some time to relax, meditate or re-charge the batteries, and read what others have discovered about this wondrous world around us.

It is beneficial when you are following a diet to read about the healing crisis which is usually minimal in anemia patients.

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