Hepatitis B is a manageable and treatable condition, especially if caught early. If you have been infected and have tested positive for the hepatitis B virus your number one focus should be preventing the progression of this disease.
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Many hepatitis B patients’ immune systems are able to reverse the infection within six months, but others are not so lucky and will have to manage this disease for a lifetime. The common underlying thread between everyone infected is testing hepatitis B positive. If not treated, this may cause inflammation of the liver and eventually cirrhosis, liver failure or cancer.
In any case, Chinese Medicine can help! There are a variety of clinical presentations of hepatitis B that vary from person to person. How I would treat a patient who has hepatitis B would depend on their individual signs and symptoms. I will give you two common clinical presentations of hepatitis B.
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Patient B has hepatitis B with symptoms of fatigue, nausea, headaches, loss of appetite, diarrhea or loose stool, yellow or dark urine, achy joints, yellow eyes and skin and sharp abdominal pain under the right ribcage.
In patient A’s case, I would treat liver inflammation by clearing Liver heat and nourishing Liver Yin. In patient B’s case, I would treat liver inflammation by clearing Liver damp-heat congestion.
There are very specific herbs and acupuncture treatments used in Chinese Medicine to treat hepatitis B. Which ones we use depend on each individual case. In all patients, my primary goal is subdue the liver inflammation. Once this is accomplished, my focus as a practitioner is to prevent inflammation by strengthening immune function to help your body keep the hepatitis B virus at bay.
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