Guest guest Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 Pat, As far as I know, primary role in senses of taste and smell belongs to svadhisthana and muladhara chacrams. Smell is also tightly related to ajna chacram. It seems that because of sinus infection nerve ending in the nose of your patient were blocked and this was the reason of no-smelling. To restore the normal activity of nerve endings, it is necessary to " clean " them. For that I would suggest to activate (actually restore) the natural flow of energy in the channels which connect svadhisthana, muladhara and ajna. They are Urinary Bladder, Large Intestine, and Governing Vessel. These channels are working in cooperation with Spleen and Kidney channels. By the way, does your patient have problems in urogenital sphere? I would say that Urinary Bladder, and Governing Vessel are pushing energy to nose. Through other channels energy is pooled to nose and tongue while breathing-in and then brings information about smell and taste to correspondent centers when breathing-out. So, I think that when you restore the natural flow of energy in the mentioned above channels, at least some part of smell and taste senses should come back. Please take into account that I did not talk about stimulating or inhibiting of channels. Best regards, Mikhail. patty <violetoblue wrote: Any ideas on this case: A client came in for shoulder/neck pain due to stress and 2 whiplash tramas (5 and 20yrs ago). However his greater concern was loss of smell. 3 years ago he had a horrible sinus infection in which he loss much of his sense of smell and consequently his sense of taste. This has caused such a great loss of joy in his life - food is tasteless, he used to be the cook in his family, he can't smell the flowers in his garden. He can smell bitter, acrid sents and they may linger in his nostrils for days. After one acupuncture sessions he was suprised to be able to smell popcorn. Obviously his olfactory nerve has been damaged but that he has some smell gives him hope. An Idea: The 'nose " in a perfume business is educated and trained to recognize sents and their qualities. Perhap - could his nose be retrained? Any ideas or experience treating olafactory loss would be appreciated. Thanks so much - Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 30, 2005 Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 Hi Pat, Whenever a patient comes in complaining of lingering effects from a past illness I generally treat for a Shao Yang disharmony the first week or so before moving to the specific problem. Lingering symptoms means that the pathogen si stuck half interoir and half exterior, even if there are no classic symptoms of Shao yang. Xiao Chai Hu Tang has worked wonders for me. Good Luck, Jasmine On 5/28/05, patty <violetoblue wrote: > > Any ideas on this case: > > A client came in for shoulder/neck pain due to stress and 2 whiplash > tramas (5 and 20yrs ago). However his greater concern was loss of > smell. 3 years ago he had a horrible sinus infection in which he loss > much of his sense of smell and consequently his sense of taste. This > has caused such a great loss of joy in his life - food is tasteless, > he used to be the cook in his family, he can't smell the flowers in > his garden. > > He can smell bitter, acrid sents and they may linger in his nostrils > for days. After one acupuncture sessions he was suprised to be able to > smell popcorn. Obviously his olfactory nerve has been damaged but > that he has some smell gives him hope. > > An Idea: The 'nose " in a perfume business is educated and trained to > recognize sents and their qualities. Perhap - could his nose be > retrained? Any ideas or experience treating olafactory loss would be > appreciated. > > Thanks so much - Pat > > > > ------------------------------ > * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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