Guest guest Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 Hi All, Today I had unexpected news from one of my patients. He's come initially 6 months back because after a year of no results from WM he'd hoped I might alliviate the pain in his Knee. When I suggested I might do away with the problem altogether he was like a man hoping for a sandwitch and gettting a 3 course meal instead. The news though is not his knee which amongs a number of complaints I fixed within 5 sessions, but rather how, in view of recent events in the news in england, of cholesterol reducing tablets to be made available over the counter in pharmacies as well as recent posting on the use of orange peel to help with cholesterol, I thought I would share this recent snipet. At no stage did I have a focus my patient's cholesterol levels but today he said that he'd just been to the hospital and that for the 1st time in years his Cholesterol levels are totally normal the same applies to his blood pressure which previoulsy was quite high. How is this possible? Cholesterol is a natural production of the liver, In this case I have been sedating his LU and tonifying his GB I assume that the Excess LU was affecting the LIV and so in rectifying the LU imbalance so the the LIV funcntion also improved. Which for me, elegantly shows, how if one accurately diagnoses and treats Roots most dysharmonies will slowly (or not so slowly) come back into balance. salvador www.meridian-qi-acupuncture.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 what does it mean to go for a root treatment? 1st of all it requires an acknoledgement that illness is mainly the result of been unable to flow with the feelings that we experience as we move and relate with others in life. To be more explecit it is usually a narrow range of feelings that the individual will be unable to fully express. This should come as no surprise as Daoist teachings continually remind us of the relationship between emotions and the Internal Organs. 2nd the principle of cause and effect. Most of us who tread the path of healing have read literature that exposes us to this principle. Yet how easily we forget. A patient comes in with lets see.. how about macular degeneration? and we leave these 2 principles behind. Instead we look for acupuncture points that we can use on any one with these symptoms hoping to help. Yet we pay lip service to the uniqueness of our system and the individual, we pride ourselves on how different we are from WM. Humm..... I am not so sure. Every person with 'macular degeneration' lovely name so meaningful tells me so much about the patient I feel confident that if I roll the name around my tongue a few times and then stick a few needles around the eyes I will do lots of good.... Patient symptoms are useful guidelines but they are not the cause of the disturbance. and so if we treat according to symptoms we are going to create as many problems as we solve, beause simply put, we are not treating the individual person. Ofcourse, even if you were to agree with my premises, you still need to find out what Root means in terms of applicable theory.. WE are acupuncturists we learn about meridians and how interconnected they are with organs. Perhaps part of the answer lies here? What if premise 1 were to have an impact on a specific meridian? since it flows through the whole body it might affect an internal organ perhaps a range of muscles, facias, tendons?. It might even affect a hormonal gland or two. As we are undoubtedly dedicated to the eastern princliples of 'relationships in all things' it is conceivable that this distorted 'Root' meridian is, via structure, having an effect on another muscular structure -meridian ? Hey I could call this a Branch, damm what if this branch is causing the weakening in the eye muscles....Humm...I wonder, if I get busy with this branch will it fix the eye?.. Damm this relationships what's going to happen if I shake this branch?...... Ok, so I shant give up my day job and get busy writting a book just yet. salvador http://www.meridian-qi-acupuncture.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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