Can a femoral hernia be treated with Chi Nei Tsang?
- Gilles Marin
- Jun 16, 2022
- 1 min read
Q: Can a femoral hernia be treated with Chi Nei Tsang? I do not want to go under the knife and am exploring options.
Gilles: I would need much more information before I could give you an answer.
How old is the hernia?
What caused it?
Is it your first hernia?
Where is it located?
The problem with trying to manually reabsorb a hernia is that the conditions are set to happen again, more easily every time.
Surgery for inguinal or femoral hernia is quite easy and safe. Depending on the position and location of the hernia, especially if it is painful, gives you symptoms like nausea, and is positioned near your femoral vein, I would consider surgery. Necessary surgery is one of the few things I recommend Western medicine for.
However, before surgery you might want to consider receiving a preparatory Chi Nei Tsang treatment to reduce or get rid of the internal pressure that caused the hernia. As well as follow-up Chi Nei Tsang sessions.
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I also like that you call out location (especially near the femoral vein) and symptoms like nausea as red flags—people underestimate how fast “wait and see” can turn into an ER situation. Randomly, reading the Q&A format made me think of how I save reference links like https://stylelooklab.com for totally unrelated topics, but with hernias I’d personally treat pain changes as a hard stop and get evaluated.
The part about “easy and safe” surgery is reassuring, but I like that you still frame Chi Nei Tsang as potentially useful prep/follow-up rather than a replacement—hernia complications are not something to gamble with. Side note: the way you stress assessing symptoms reminded me of how I use this site when I’m iterating visuals—quick tests are fine, but you still need a real decision when stakes are high.
I appreciate the nuance here—manual work might help with pressure patterns, but it doesn’t magically “fix” the structural weak spot, so the recurrence point makes sense. I had to do a quick ASCII check on some notes the other day and it reminded me of an online binary converter I’d used, but in this case I’d still be nervous about delaying surgery if nausea or increasing pain shows up.
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