Blue Dolfin, thanks for your help. I'm sorry everyone if I seem to have hijacked this thread a bit! In fact I'd like to send you a message, but for some reason the system won't log me in. I sent a message to the administrator to fix this. I'm curious who you'd recommend, but, truthfully, I can barely take herbs without getting strange "Reactions" that aren't typical or seemingly of the digestive system. The herbalist I see has her own herb company with many well made liquid extracts, and some of these, when formulated very carefully, have helped me, but not to a great extent. At this point there is NO raw herbal formula that I can tolerate. It's been quite a challenge for her (and me); hence the desire to try the food-based macrobiotics. In fact in just a few weeks macro, with some sweet veggie drink AND aduki tea which I think is KEY for me, I've seen great improvements, so i'm hopeful. I'll try to send a pm when they'll allow me to.
--Meeso