gallbladder

We all know that blood flows through all regions of our body. It brings nutrients and waste from cell to cell. The Liver acts as the main filter for this blood and it is the main eliminator of waste in our body. Its job is to remove all forms of waste, including dead blood cells and toxins. The waste product that is created as a result of the Liver cleansing out toxins – is bile, which is being manufactured at all times. Not being wasteful, the design of the human body actually has a use for this bile other than simple elimination. Bile is the main substance responsible for the breaking down of fat in the digestive system. The gallbladder is the organ that receives the bile from the liver and stores it until it is needed in the digestive system to break down fats and cholesterols. There are exceptions to the gall bladder surgery requirement. In China, patients are first tested by western medical physicians using state of the art laboratory tests and imaging. If the gall stone is less than 1cm, than it is safe to consider treatments rather than gall bladder  surgery removal. In this case, generally herbs are administered to soften and reduce any gallstones if that is a factor. The physicians will both give acupuncture and herbal medicine to stimulate the Gall Bladder to release bile. If the white blood cell count is high, indicating infection, they will give acupuncture over a four-hour period, and then re-test the white blood cell count. If it drops, then they will continue the treatment. China has the lowest number of appendix removals and gall bladder removals in the world.
Gall bladder symptoms
This information is provided so that interested patients can recognize that Chinese Medicine has ways of treating many disorders that normally require surgery in the eyes of Allopathic Medicine. Likewise, a competent Oriental Medical Physician (LAc) will usually find signs and symptoms of Liver and Gallbladder disharmony long before severe symptoms present themselves and will work on the energetic imbalances so that illness of the physical organ can be avoided or moderated.