Re: hepatitis c treatment focus - cirhosis or virus?
I am lucky enough to have a skilled bodyworker. He is trained in myotherapy but he does all my deep tissue massage work. The liver is mainly hidden on the right side under the ribcage but some of it peeks ou from underneath the diaphragm under the strenum down to the right of the ribcage. So part of the liver is accesible to direct pressue and the rib cage can be pummped to compress the liver underneath. All movements are toward the bile duct, and we can feel and hear the bile gurgling out as he does it. You can also do it yourself with a car buffer or massage thumper. But you have to be extremely clean to do it. You should only do it after a deep long fast or cleansing diet because you do not want to create damage, especially if you have liver disease. The question I had to ask was, if I am on a super clean diet could it hurt me? And the other question is, can you break up fibrosis with physical massage? No medical doctor has been crazy enough to try it, but I would do it on other scar tissue, so I figured why not? My massage guy says that my liver feels really plump and turgid with better tissue tone than any of his other clients who have undiseased livers, and I believe him.
This is the same reason I focus on core exercises. My whole purpose is to strengthen my liver tissue and also the surrounding fascia and whole environment. How can it be clean if if is sitting in a bunch on congestion? Your liver should be able to transmit physical force, to expand, contract and twist and all of that increases blood flow to the tissues, which increases healing. It's all about chi.
Good luck!