Guest guest Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 There was a question at the pulse diagnosis webinar last Tuesday. The question was, if a Chinese medicine practitioner says that they have a [fill in organ name] problem, which tests should the patient request of their physician? Answer is, none. Let your physician discuss with you your concerns, but don't try to connect anything a Chinese medicine person says to the medicine that your physician would assess. In the Chinese medicine biz, we speak an entirely different language. For instance, our " Liver " is female hormones (Liver blood), it is the peripheral nervous system (Liver qi) it is associated with tears, the jelly in the eye, and the retina as well. The Liver stores the blood and is implicated in hypertension. Chronic skin sores that are red may be Liver heat (or blood level heat), while chronic skin sores that are brown speak of Liver blood stagnation. My point being that if you ask your doctor to check your liver, it may look absolutely perfect, even though an acupuncturist may be treating the Liver for some perceived problem according to Chinese medical theory. Many practitioners try to explain things in English using scientific concepts. These may or may not be accurate, though they may do a good job of explaining to the patient what's going on but can imply that there's something there that your physician may be able to find. Sometimes, when I'm working with a patient and I see something of possible importance to a physician, I'll encourage the patient to look into something with their doctor. I'll treat it too, but the responsible thing to do is give a patient options. What I don't do or suggest anybody does, is make a medical diagnosis without the standard of care tests to prove it, whatever they may be. We can diagnose many musculo-skeletal issues which can be determined without much technology. However when I say someone has (Chinese) blood deficiency, I might say that's " like anemia " but it isn't necessarily " anemia " which would be determined only be blood tests. So there's oodles of places for misunderstanding since we're using many similar terms such as organ names and " blood " but what your Chinese medicine practitioner is treating may be very different from the biomedical concept, and often is. Be well, be *VERY* well... -- , DAOM Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. http://twitter.com/algancao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 -Al-- Be well, be *VERY* well... --- I don't know Al, that sounds like a threat. I'm sorry to have missed your seminar. Any current plans for more? Hugo ________________________________ Hugo Ramiro http://middlemedicine.wordpress.com http://www.middlemedicine.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 The seminar lives on in as a recorded video, but it costs $9.99 to view it<http://www.healthstream.tv/product/pulse-diagnosis-made-ridiculously-simple> .. The only other seminar that I have on my schedule is at the upcoming AAAOM conference in Albuquerque next month. That one is on Good Compounding Practices for herbalists. " GCP " is what most are calling " GMP " , same thing, different name to differentiate from those engaged in one-to-one compounding and those who sell in a retail context where no pattern differentiation or diagnosis takes place. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Hugo Ramiro <subincor wrote: > > > -Al-- > > Be well, be *VERY* well... > --- > > I don't know Al, that sounds like a threat. > > I'm sorry to have missed your seminar. Any current plans for more? > > Hugo > > ________________________________ > Hugo Ramiro > http://middlemedicine.wordpress.com > http://www.middlemedicine.org > -- , DAOM Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. http://twitter.com/algancao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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