Re: Raynaud's syndrome question

I tend not to agree with your doctor about the autoimmune disease diagnosis. If he cannot determine what it is anyway, it is a long stretch to call it autoimmune disase, which would be a very serious sitaution.

You have come a long way already, which shows that you and your body are not in a self-destructive mode (autoimmune means the body is attacking itself). Raynaud's is not a disease, it is a syndrome that describes specific safeguarding measurements the body takes to safe energy and nutrients in response to physical and emotional stress. I assume you are Vata type and any congestion and blockage in the colon, blood vessel walls and lymph ducts can make you prone to poor circulation in the more distant parts of the body (in relation to the heart) such as fingers, toes, nose and ears. The connective tissues of your body may have been acidified over the years prior to developing this symptom. This can greatly contribute to the poor circulation that your are experiencing and to a low-grade inflammation in this tissue due to the presence of irritating toxins and waste products. To deal with such an inflammation, the body raises the temperature. You mentioned that this fever occurs mostly in the afternoon, which is the Vata time. This indicates that the body is dealing with these areas of congestion and blockage at this time (when Vata or movement is most pronounced in the body).

What comes to mind is that the choice of certain foods and emotional states are very much connected and that the narrowing of the blood vessels is a response to both. Both can instruct the body's blood vessels to keep as much blood as possible where it is most essential, and to narrow them whereever proper blood circulation is not as essential.

Most processed foods are acid-forming, and if you have eaten many of those before you developed Raynaud's, you unlikely able to process them out of the body without affecting the connective tissues, blood vessels and lymphatic ducts. Your diet, mealtimes and bedtimes exert the strongest influence on your health besides emotional states. Protein foods, including meat, fish, eggs, cheese and milk, as well as soy are certainly foods I would avoid to permit existing protein deposits in the basal membranses of the capillary and artery walls to be removed.

Also make sure to keep warm. Living in a warm climate would be ideal. Exercise is also very important for this condition.

Andreas