If you are using supplements to help aide your training regime, you need to make sure that what you are using is safe and not causing you more harm than good. Rizzo's Authentic White Tiger Kung Fu offers Martial Edge readers this special insight into a secretive Shaolin medicine called 'Dit Dar Jow'.
On April 3rd, 2007, a 17-year-old track star died and the death was blamed on the use of too much anti-inflammatory muscle cream. The kind used to soothe aching legs after exercise, such as Bengay and Icy Hot.
For most athletes, especially those in their teens through thirties, challenging workouts are not uncommon and muscle soreness often times is not far behind. Soreness usually will subside naturally just a few days after the workout and the athlete will be back to normal. But often times, there is another similar workout or competition right around the corner, maybe even the next day. If you have experienced this, no matter what your age, you are faced with a dilemma. Even if you do not have to perform within the next day or two, what are you to do when your muscles are really sore? Most everyone has tried anti-inflammatory creams that can be bought over the counter at one time or another. Why? Well to a certain degree, the pain is masked and relief is achieved, but at what cost? For Arielle Newman, the cost was her life! Granted, she used more of this topical cream than most ever would, but where is the threshold? Can you trust yourself to be your own doctor and prescribe yourself the proper amount of any over the counter drug? If you are expected to compete or perform at high levels while harboring a wide variety of soreness, you might be at risk of overuse? Whether you are experiencing sore muscles, an achy back, shin splints, or a kink in your neck, most athletes have gotten used to trusting the local pharmacy to provide quick remedies in the form of anti-inflammatory muscle cream and patches. In fact, I would venture to say that most medicine cabinets have one of these creams lying around.
When I was in high school running track, I faced the same dilemma. I often times used a fair amount of Icy Hot and never thought anything of it. Looking back, I never did like using those items and would not unless I felt I had to and feel lucky to have never had serious side effects, at least that I know of. Arielle Newman was not so lucky. As I’ve gotten older, like most active individuals, I still like to work out just as hard, if not harder than when I was in High School. I hear people often say that when you reach your thirties, you have to watch out as you will not recover nearly as fast from injuries and fatigue. I say that is not true. I have searched high and low for ways to stay in top shape and to not only recover speedily from training soreness, but to altogether prevent it. That is the way of the Kung Fu practitioner. In true, Authentic Kung Fu, a practitioner studies herbal remedies that help in a variety of ways to stay in top form. By applying this knowledge in the form of herbal remedies, a Kung Fu practitioner can work out longer, harder, and recover faster than others that do not share in this knowledge. Herbal remedies, in this case liniments called “Dit Dar Jow” are used to condition and tone the body for heavy impact and cardiovascular activities. The key to the success in these formulas lies within those who founded them. This is why it is important to have authentic Kung Fu with a strong lineage to the monks who founded these different training formulas. They have withstood the tests of time and can be used as little or as much as needed, without the worry of any negative side effects.
Kung Fu monks are arguably the most scientific pharmacists ever to exist on the planet. Because the herbs and the formulas are pure and precisely measured for the desired outcome, there is no need to worry about overuse and/or death from using too much. Just follow the directions and experience the benefits. How do I know this? Because the proof is in the results! I have used and been witness to the use of these liniments to well over several hundred athletes using these remedies, not only for Kung Fu training, but for other sports as well. With over ten years of bearing witness to the use of “Dit Dar Jow” as the ultimate sports liniment, I am 100% convinced and I know many other that are too.The question and the problem for most is, where does one buy this liniment? If you are intrigued by the known power of Kung Fu as I was and are willing to seek the truth of the promised results, then you are on the right track. There are very few outlets that even know what “Dit Dar Jow” is and even fewer that have the traditional, authentic formulas passed down from the Shil Lum (Shaolin) or Taoist monks. It is not worth it, to risk your health or even your life on over the counter drugs which can only produce a fraction of the results ancient medicinal herbal formulas can provide. Imagine 25 thousand years of herbalsim compared to a few hundred? So if you are wondering how you might get your hands on such a liniment? I say straight from the source is the best and most reliable way. Don’t take my word for it. Find out for yourself what Bak Fu Dit Dar Jow can do for you and your training. Once you try it, you will find yourself telling all of your family, friends, training partners, teammates, etc. to go to http://www.whitetigerworld.com/ to get a bottle of their own.So train hard, train smart, and be healthy! Don’t risk your life using over the counter drugs that once again have been proven not to be trusted.
Article reproduced with kind permission by Rizzo's Authentic White Tiger Kung Fu.
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By: David (Registered IP 90.204.32.135) on 13-04-2008 12:47
As for the content itself, it's laughable. It starts with a basic scare tactic about someone who overdosed on over the counter meds, but fails to give ANY details at all.
For the record, here is an extract from a news article where a doctor talks about the high levels of methyl salicylate needed to overdose:
"in order to get this type of result, you have to take a tremendous amount of this stuff and be rubbing it on day after day, morning, noon and night, go through cases of it to get a level that would be detrimental."
source: http://i.abcnews.com/GMA/ story?id=3263343
The article briefly mentions DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) but doesn't even refer to it as that, nor does it give any insight into what causes it or how it functions. Another clue that this is nothing but a advert, not a helpful article to any aspiring martial artist.
Worst of all are the conclusions the author draws at the end. Anyone with a basic understanding of critical thinking and logic will be able to see how laughable they are. I draw your attention to:
"Kung Fu monks are arguably the most scientific pharmacists ever to exist on the planet."
This is just clearly nonsense. Are any of these monks ACTUALLY qualified in pharmacology? Do they all have degree's and doctorates in the subject? I am willing to put money on the fact the answer is "no" to both questions. Just because something is measured out preciesly (as the author states) does not make it scientific in any way shape or form.
Next we have the wonderful claim:
"How do I know this? Because the proof is in the results! I have used and been witness to the use of these liniments to well over several hundred athletes"
Anyone with even a basic grounding in scientific theory would know that this counts for nothing. Anecdotal evidence does not equal proof that a treatment works. Nor does the fact that herbal treatments are older than convential medicine despite his rhetorical appeal to this fact: "Imagine 25 thousand years of herbalsim compared to a few hundred?
If his treatments really work then he should be able to back that idea up with some peer-reviewed randomised double-blind placebo trials with hard data end points. THAT would be science.
I find it ironic that his final sentence speaks of trust: "Don’t risk your life using over the counter drugs that once again have been proven not to be trusted" when we have no way AT ALL to know to trust his medicines other than his word, and considering the sophistry at play in this article I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
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