Diagnosis in TCM

[Guest guest]

I want to remind readers that TCM healers tend to be very, very careful about

diagnosis and about identifying and treating the root cause(s). Western medicine

tends to treat symptoms; TCM is concerned with identifying and treating the root

cause.

 

Sometimes the symptoms in one organ system can be caused by an imbalance in

another system. An example of this can be blood in the feces when the root cause

is not in the Large Intestine, the Small Intestine, or the Stomach but in the

Spleen (Spleen Unable to Govern Blood). Sometimes the root may lie in the organ

system where the symptoms are. Like when blood is found in the feces when the

root cause is Damp Heat of the Large Intestine.

 

I also want to remind readers that TCM Sydromes rarely correspond to Western

medical conditions. A very few do - like Wind Cold Attacking Externally being

the common cold. But most do not. For example, diabetes can be a manifestation

of different TCM syndromes. The TCM treatment will depend on which TCM syndrome

is present because you're treating a TCM syndrome, not diabetes. Sometimes the

diabetes will disappear once the underlying imbalance is corrected; sometimes

Western drugs to control diabetes are needed. And sometimes TCM treatment cannot

completely alleviate a Western medical condition but will lessen the amount of

medication needed to control it and result in the person being far healthier

than s/he otherwise would be just with the drugs.

 

Victoria

 

 

 

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