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pill popping chinese medicine.

For the past year ive been suffering with excema and it keeps flaring up and then ill be ok for a few weeks and have clear skin.(mostly bad on my arms)

The other day i decided to go the chinese medicine shop and they gave me a small pot of cream, a tub of pills where i have take 20 twice a day and another tub where i have to take 8 pills three times a day. This in total is 64 pills a day :eek: anyway tried this before and how long before u saw results? I think its kinda helped at the mo on my arms really hope it works!!:biggrin:

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Reply 1
64 pills a day?! Surely that can't be good for you? There must be an easier solution...
Reply 2
64 pills per day sounds a bit odd to me.
Reply 3
lol and its 66 really with my evening primrose and pill. i know but im desprate.
Reply 4
that seems abit excessive. whats in them?
Reply 5
Double check with a GP?
Personally, I wouldn't want to take that many tablets unless I had something severely wrong with me.
Have you been to see your GP about it, surely they should be able to give you something?
Reply 6
Dear gosh, that's more than I take. What's in them?

Don't forget the alternative plausible explanation: if it's been flaring up then dying down for ages, then inevitably if you take anything during a flare-up it will appear to work - as it was going to die down again anyway, even without it.
Reply 7
He did say let me get the slip. I know its drastic but im really at the end of my tether with it all and read/spoke about such good results about people who have had it and its worked. Ive been to my gp but the creams and that dont seem to be working after a while.
Reply 8
I also smell of herbs eugh.
Well I'm assuming since its chinese medicine it doesnt have any drugs in them, just natural stuff, in which case I'd guess it's "normal"ish to be taking that many. Though I haven't heard of 20 twice a day before....

But chinese medicine is good! My mum is an acupuncturist :smile:
Reply 10
southernlight
Well I'm assuming since its chinese medicine it doesnt have any drugs in them, just natural stuff, in which case I'd guess it's "normal"ish to be taking that many. Though I haven't heard of 20 twice a day before....

But chinese medicine is good! My mum is an acupuncturist :smile:


So does that mean i have a high chance that this stuff is going to work?
I think it depends on the person... I used to have ezcema when I was younger but I only had to use evening primrose oil to get rid of it... and the only tablets I take are every now and again for colds/flu and depression and those are 6 a day each. :smile:
Reply 12
I also take evening primrose for my skin just started doing so.
southernlight
Well I'm assuming since its chinese medicine it doesnt have any drugs in them, just natural stuff,


Like hemlock?

It would be sensible to talk to your doctor about the contents of the pills - if they work, they have some sort of pharmacological effect and a lot of people aren't aware of side-effects\interactions with other medications, and so on. Requiring that sort of quantity of one substance sounds a bit fishy to be honest - either it's a huge megadose of something or there's not much there...
Reply 14
blondie_
I also take evening primrose for my skin just started doing so.


Can i just say that i have heard that evening primrose oil tablets MAY* affect the pill. Evening primrose oil is usually suggested for PMT because it balances the hormones fluctuating at that point in your cycle- i was told not to take them on the pill because it may mess with hormone levels. Obviously it is not as much of a problem as St John's Wort but it's along the same lines.

*I don't have a study to prove this, i was told it by my GP.


Also, if you take 66 pills a day your liver will pack up fairly soon under the strain. I would question what pills you are taking and why you need to take so many- please don't risk your health!
Reply 15
southernlight
Well I'm assuming since its chinese medicine it doesnt have any drugs in them, just natural stuff, in which case I'd guess it's "normal"ish to be taking that many. Though I haven't heard of 20 twice a day before....


Heroin, yesterday.
Reply 16



What I was going to say.
A lot of drugs are natural
Reply 17
I've had chinese pills before, they were just herbal and were absolutely tiny!! They didn't look like traditional tablets, more like little brown and red balls. I had to take 2 teaspoon fulls a day which probably worked out about 30-40 in each dose! Are yours something like that?
all those tablets sounds too excessive. ive had ezcema since childhood and the best way to treat it is to try work out why you get it in the first place.

Try cutting back on the harsh chemicals that are in shower gels and laundry powders. E45 and Simple do a wikkid cool range which uses non-threatening stuff. But tons of other things can cause ezcema so its a matter of changing things in your diet/ not gettin too stressed / changing the fabric you wear..... its sooooooo LOOONG

i HATE the terrible scarring im left with though especially on my arms :s-smilie: but its kinda healing. Apparently, you always have to make sure you keep itchy areas hydrated with creams and stuff.

ezcema sucks coz its uncurable... thats what my doctor said :frown:
Reply 19
Surely its bad to take so many pills?

I read something somewhere about this, turns out it (the medication) was a rip off.

However this was in London.

See your gp?