RE: opposite reaction

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>Just a thought. Have you considered Si Ni San, perhaps with

 

>modifications? Perhaps she's experiencing so much stagnation that

 

>she's unable to perfuse the extremities?

 

 

 

>Regards, Shanna

 

 

 

Interesting idea, though I worry about doing anything to force the liver Qi

out at this point without softening and nourishing first (see next comment).

 

 

 

>Hi,

 

 

 

>I've seen a situation like this, and circulating the lung qi seemed

 

>to be the key to warming her up. She also had been a smoker, and I

 

>thought that had something to do with it. There seems to be a

 

>combination of insubstantial phlegm with lung dryness and both qi

 

>deficiency and stagnation, so you have to be sure and use herbs that

 

>are not drying. Consider adding Bai Bu or Xing Ren or Zi Wan to the

 

>formula. That's what did the trick for her.

 

 

 

>Laura

 

 

 

That is something I hadn't thought about. I did have her on modified Ding

Xin Wan, to nourish blood and yin, because of the combination of smoking Hx.

and anxiety Hx., nightsweats and some malar flushing, as well as some

thinness at the KD yin position, and I don't know if that was OK or not

because I switched out of it to work on more SP pathology (with terrible

results, apparently), since I was concerned about cloying herbs possibly as

one source of bloating.

 

 

 

But since she has the history of abuse, it makes sense that her LU qi is

stagnant, and is blocked by phlegm, due to deep sadness, and she has

compensated by using tobacco to vaporize the phlegm and circulate the qi.

Perhaps moistening the LU will help that Qi descend down to the LI and

unblock her. I'll try it.

 

 

 

Still can't explain why KD Yang tonics made her freezing cold to the core.

 

 

 

Anyone?

 

 

 

 

 

Benjamin Hawes, MAOM, Lic. Ac.,

 

 

 

 

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