Duchenne / Muscular Dystrophy ----Syndromes

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Chinese Traditional Medicine, pai.mu.tan@g... wrote:

> Dear All,

>

> does any of you have information on how Duchenne or Muscular

Dystrophies in

> general are regarded / treated in Chinese medicine?

>

> Any information, publications, practitioners with experience in the

> treatment of MD patients or organzations are welcome.

>

> Thanks in advance.

>

> Best regards

> Rebecca

 

 

Hi Rebecca,

is there no book published on this yet?

This is quite a huge theme in TCM.

If i'd get into details I'd easily fill a small book :-)

 

Some TCM terms:

wei-zheng

wasting/flaccid-syndrome

(atrophy and debility of limbs and the body)

 

mai-wei

vessel-flaccidness/wasting

muscular atrophy and debility of the lower limbs

with impaired ability of the knees and ankle joints, etc.

Cause by pathogenic heat in heart channel, empty blodd vessels and

malnutrition of th emuscles of the lower limbs

 

jin-wei

tendons-wasting

f.e.

bitter taste in mouth, increased muscular tension, persistent penis

erection, spermatorrhea

caused by hepatic heat, impaired yin and malnourishment of the tendons

 

rou-wei

muscular-wasting

f.e. pathogenic heat invasion into spleen channel with impairment of

stomach yin

 

pi-mao-wei

skin-hair-wei

due to jin-fluids impaired from lung-heat

 

gu-wei

bone-wei

severe exhaustion of kidney yin with excess of deficiency fire

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Mostly liver-kidney-yin-deficiency producing internal heat and spleen-

stomach-qi and blood deficiency.

Mostly qi-deficiency or Essence-deficiency.

If it persists long time it might aggravate by added: damp-heat,

dryness, phlegm, fire/heat, bloodclots mostly produced by

underfunction of the organs

 

therapeutic principles for excess-(side)-syndromes

dampheat: lift the clear, dry dampness, be careful with using tonics

as they might aggravate dampness! Be careful using shen-shi (leading

damp out with urine, letting damp flow out) it might damage the yin!

 

dampphlegm: dry the spleen move the phlegm, prevent patient from

eating rich, fat food

 

bloodclots: nourish blood move clots

 

dry heat: cool dryness to help the lung

 

main syndromes:

1)lung heat, yin damaged (with several sub-syndrome differentiations)

2)dampheat stagnation, qi and blood dont move

3)YangMing-channel deficiency (Yangming is the basis of all organs)

4)liver-kidney empty and damaged, Essence is faded tendons are

flaccid (this one has many subcategories)

 

Well, each syndrome has its diagnostics, formulas etc etc

 

this was a brief info only

 

Greetings Tay.