heart drugs and their actions on the organ systems

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone

 

I have just started treating a patient with arthritic knees. She is

taking beta-blockers and calcium channel blockers.

Can anyone tell me what actions these have on the organ systems as

I'm sure they are masking the underlying patterns.

 

Thanks

Mark Burrows

[Guest guest]

Dear Mark,

 

Beta blockers are very cold and cause Spleen Qi Cold & Xu -> Damp -> Phlegm

and are regularly the actual cause of the arthritis (or asthma ....). You

can treat the arthritis as it presents at this time in TCM diagnosis. The

" underlying patterns " will be rather the problem for which she was

prescribed the blockers; when you start to address that correctly you can

wean her off the drugs.

 

Robert Cran.

mark_burrows_01 [markburrows]

15 October 2003 13:13

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heart drugs and their actions on the organ systems

 

 

Hi everyone

 

I have just started treating a patient with arthritic knees. She is

taking beta-blockers and calcium channel blockers.

Can anyone tell me what actions these have on the organ systems as

I'm sure they are masking the underlying patterns.

 

Thanks

Mark Burrows