Guest guest Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 Hi all, If there's one thing I need to most work on deepening my understanding of its treating EPI's with herbs. I have a patient who got a Wind cold dry EPI in the middle of her period. She got this sore in her nose, and said it was the same EPI she had years ago in her nose (said she got it from her boyfriend). It was a bacterial infection, and they were both given anti-biotics, but she only took part of hers, so its back. Along with the dry, itchy, painful internal nostril she also had some wheezing, slight cough, with the wheezing be difficult to cough out, and was cold. Anyway, I gave her some herbs to release the WC and moisten dryness, and she did get better. But now she still has a little bit of hte nasal sore still there, although it is still there. She seems to be a bit deficient, perhaps because she just had her period. I'd like to tonify her blood since she jsut had a period and tends to be blood xu, but fear that I will stop her body from continueing to pass the pathogen if I do. Any experiences with this sort of thing? Does the nasal sore need to be fully resolved first before I tonify her blood/yin of Kidney and Liver? I know that if this was a dry heat I could use a little Sheng di Huang, but since it is a dry cold I am not sure what I can use without making the cold worse----Dang Gui? Wu Wei Zi? Suan Zao Ren? I don't know. Is this a good time to think abotu Gui Zhi Tang to balance the ying and the wei? Or, since its been a few days, is it time to move to a shaoyang formula? Thanks in advance for any ideas! Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 Hi Laura! Acronyms are ambiguous. What do you mean by EPI? <http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact & Acronym=epi> At 11:58 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote: >Hi all, > >If there's one thing I need to most work on deepening my >understanding of its treating EPI's with herbs. I have a patient who >got a Wind cold dry EPI Regards, Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 EPI: External Pernicious Influence On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:30, Pete Theisen wrote: > Hi Laura! > > Acronyms are ambiguous. What do you mean by EPI? > > <http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact & Acronym=epi> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 Hi Pete, Sorry, where I'm from the term EPI is thrown around TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) circles almost as much as the term Qi! EPI: External Pathogenic Invasion AKA (otherwise known as): A cold or a flu By the way, why do you suppose AKA isn't OKA? When I read my post later I realized I had been way too tired to be attempting coherant communication. Sorry if I confused anyone. Laura Chinese Medicine , Pete Theisen <petet@a...> wrote: > Hi Laura! > > Acronyms are ambiguous. What do you mean by EPI? > > <http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact & Acronym=epi> > > At 11:58 AM 6/15/2004, you wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >If there's one thing I need to most work on deepening my > >understanding of its treating EPI's with herbs. I have a patient who > >got a Wind cold dry EPI > > Regards, > > Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2004 Report Share Posted June 16, 2004 Where did this term come from? Who uses it? Does it mean exterior contraction/wai gan? On Jun 15, 2004, at 10:00 PM, Mark Milotay wrote: > EPI: External Pernicious Influence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 I can't remember the book, but I've seen EPI substituted for the external evils, or possible disease influences, maybe 14 yrs ago. I never liked it as it doesn't seem wind or cold or such things are pernicious by nature. But I'm a stick in the mud sometimes. <zrosenbe wrote:Where did this term come from? Who uses it? Does it mean exterior contraction/wai gan? On Jun 15, 2004, at 10:00 PM, Mark Milotay wrote: > EPI: External Pernicious Influence Membership requires that you do not post any commerical, swear, religious, spam messages,flame another member or swear. http://babel.altavista.com/ and adjust accordingly. If you , it takes a few days for the messages to stop being delivered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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