Thinking through what I said recently

I've been thinking about what I wrote about qudriplegia recently and will suggest this:

The impaired lymphatic flow is a de facto bottleneck in the system and I am very familiar with bottlenecks because that's what CF essentially is.

So you would want to take it SLOW and start with improving lymph flow via massage and salt water baths and work on this for a while before trying to kill infection because the bottleneck here is impaired ability to take out the trash and killing infection creates more trash in the system.

So I will suggest:
  • Massage and/or salt water baths.
  • Eat a little watermelon as kidney support to help pee out the fluids being returned from the tissues to the blood/circulatory system.
  • You may also at some point want to add milk thistle as liver support.
See Liver Support for more info.

See also My Kidneys and The Way Back to Life. The way back to life talks about improving the environment as a means to minimize stress on a frail body and that's a big part of treating liver issues or dealing with a bottleneck in the system.

Once things improve in terms of general edema and reduced bed sores, you could add B vitamins. Take it SLOW. You want to push just hard enough for modest improvement while trying to minimize stress on the system.

If all that works, THEN you could add hot peppers which both treat edema and kill a wide variety of infection.

See also Edema.

As a guess, bedsores are from lymph pooling in the tissues and the toxic sludge building up. So monitoring bed sores for improvement would likely be a good metric to use to track your progress.

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