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Cerebral infraction, or stroke, resulting from a blockage or narrowing in the arteries in the brain could seen as not related to the stomach at all. However, how can a hypotensive patient with weak stomach getting a stroke from sudden increase in the blood pressure be explained? How about the same thing happening to an obese person who had a strong stomach that survives overeating and binge eating?
It must be proven with further experiments and research, but it is assumed that the phlegm toxins accumulated in the blood vessel are hardening the vessel. As stated earlier, accumulated phlegm toxins stiffen everything – muscles and lymph – without exceptions. The same goes for the case in the blood vessel in the brain and body. The phlegm toxins invade the blood vessel in the brain to solidify the vessel and decrease its resilience. This could be said to be the true meaning of arteriosclerosis. Furthermore, if the resilience of blood vessel declines yet there is a sudden increase in the blood pressure, the blood vessel fails to manage the situation, and this leads to vascular injury. Therefore, stroke is not irrelevant to phlegm toxins in the stomach.
For example, in the summer of 2004, a 69-year-old female patient had visited us with just barely holding on to her life after not seeing any improvement from a surgery and hospitalization treatment for cerebral hemorrhage.
At that time, the patient was unconscious and could not move her arms and legs that she was almost like a statue. We applied the oriental rehabilitation therapy for stroke, but her arms and legs did not move a bit. After spending a month without a progress, we found that she had serious phlegm stagnation and applied the phlegm stagnation treatment for the first time to a stroke patient. The patient who had suffered a long time from severe constipation defecated a lot immediately after the treatment. Not so long after, she started moving her fingers and toes and even began to speak.
The result of 2 to 3 months of rehabilitation therapy and phlegm stagnation treatment was quite surprising.
She started recognizing people and became able to raise her arm to where her armpit was. We found that she had been living with phlegm toxins from severe constipation accumulated in her gastrointestinal muscularis layer. She actually had a serious abdominal obesity and weighted almost 70kg. This was a case where the phlegm toxins accumulated in the gastrointestinal muscularis layer had been spread to the blood vessel in the brain, brain cells, muscles and blood vessels in arms and legs to cause cerebral hemorrhage, which was recovered with phlegm stagnation treatment.