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The Wolf
Hi. I know some people are wolf type lycan here, and I would think even within wolf, there are more than a few kinds. I've been around perplexing medical conditions a bit, where some of the best medical personnel any one could hope to find, couldn't diagnose some people. I know some expatients who the best the doctors could do was call their condition lupus or fibromyalgia, get completely better with never again a relapse once they embrace changing their diet to raw meat. I mean people who do not have the anti-Sm/RNP and anti-Ro/La antibodies. Could the reason the disease lupus is called the wolf partially be due to lycanism? These people while sick have problems with hormones being normally higher during fullmoon (now). I clipped some info, clauses, paragraghs from the net just to show a little intro. Even lupus, no matter how much modern doctors know, they admit there is so much more to it they don't understand, that it is too complicated for (the doctors' or medical profession's) comprehension.
During acute flare up of systemic lupus erythematous, patient often develops transient maculopapular butterfly 
rash affecting both cheeks.(commonly known as the malar rash or mask)
Embracing the Wolf: A Lupus Victim and Her Family Learn to Live With Chronic Disease
How the name of Lupus (wolf) came to be associated with this disease is obscure. Lupus was an ancient Roman family name, and there was St. Lupus who lived in Central France at about 600AD.
The name by which this disease is known alludes to the wolf -lupus in Latin- because of the destructive injuries that can bring to mind the bites of this animal. It is possible that in the beginning the name did not refer to a particular disease, but rather to any ulcerated injury with the destruction of tissue3. Although this name has been attributed to Paracelsus (1493-1541), Giovanni Manardi (1462-1536) had previously referred to some ulcers on the leg, which destroyed the surrounding area, using the comparison with a bite of hungry wolf.
Paracelsus, somewhat younger than Manardi, may have taken this graphic denomination from him, since he (Paracelsus) frequently speaks about lupus, fluently and as if dealing with something already known which did not need further explanation. As far as he was concerned, lupus was a cutaneous injury that "devoured" the excess blood, for which reason he suggested treating it with bleeding.
Rudolf Virchow's keen historical curiosity led him to make a great effort towards establishing the origin of the term and to investigate ancient sources4. According to his conclusions it might have been a popular term used in the Middle Ages, and, having caught on, later became more generalized and entered the language of Medicine, thereby preceding Manardi and Paracelsus and their usage. One of the texts that he found, attributed to the German Johann Tollat von Vorchenberg, written at the beginning of the 15th century, said textually:
...for the wolf and for cancer, caprifolin...
Another text referred to by Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) is older still. It dates back to the end of the 13th century and is a treatise on surgery by Roger de Palma, of the school of Salerno:
Sometimes lupus arises in the thighs and the lower legs (and is) distinguished from cancer from the symptoms mentioned above.5
Nevertheless, no passage has been found that reveals the distinction between lupus and cancer. What is clear, however, is that from Roger to Manardi, lupus is spoken of as a typical complaint affecting the lower extremities. So, in those times, the term lupus would not refer, as it would later, to a disease of the nose and face. As Virchow already stated, this denomination was applied in a very diverse and vague way in the Middle Ages. It was Virchow himself who showed that Hans von Gersdorf was one of the first medical writers that referred to a facial disorder using the word lupus:
Leprosy is more clearly recognized in the nose, where it shows well-defined symptoms. Sometimes it is also called wolf because it can contaminate all of a man's limbs as does cancerous lupus6
... claims that the term "lupus" did not come from Latin directly, but from the term for a French style of mask that women reportedly wore to conceal the rash on their faces. The mask is called a "loup," French for "wolf."
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Hmm.. this gives me something to consider. While I have major cravings that I cannot get rid of for the life of me ( only calms down slightly with certain dietary intake) and I'm nervous about trying raw meat or a donor(I'm definitely not ready for a donor yet!! lol) I have fibromyalgia and severe flare ups at times such as now. I never would have thought embracing the change in diet would possibly cure it with no further flareups. It doesn't sound so unreasonable though for the fact that many foods can cause the flareups and I've tried changing some of those.. perhaps this is something I am going to have to look into further. First I need to overcome my adversity to the change in diet though. While I can accept some things and am growing to accept others.. that is perhaps one of the hardest for me to accept. Definitely worth considering though! Thank you for posting this here! Dark Blessings and Happy Monday~
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