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Dear Salvador & all,

 

Salvador wrote: " A while back a new practitioner asked for help on this site

She had

been treating this patient for a while without much success. Based on

info she provided I suggested she needed to work on the LU (I think

she had been treating the SP) before she could try out my suggestions

she shared with the group that the patient had been taken into

hospital with serious breathing difficulties. This was not an

overnight result but rather a development from a number of

innapropriate treatments plus a neglect of 'Root'.

 

I am sorry to highlight the above example it is not to make myself

clever or discredit the efforts of the acupuncturist. This is a

serious business we are in. I am all for making mistakes as long as we

learn from them. "

 

Diane: This situation sounds like a case I presented to this group a while

ago. I wouldn't mind bringing this up again because this raises more questions

for me and I would like to throw this out to the group for discussion. This

patient had lost the ability to walk - her legs had become so weak, she was

bed- or wheelchair-bound. That was her chief complaiint. (She was being worked

up for Lou Gehrig's disease) I initially treated her for Wei Syndrome and

Spleen deficiency because of the muscle weakness (sorry, I don't have her chart

here, so no tongue or pulse diagnosis available now). I did not see her for

very many treatments before her son told me she went to the hospital with

respiratory distress.

 

Although she did have shortness of breath when I saw her, how or why would I

have diagnosed her with Lu def. rather then as I did? This leads me to other

questions -- when a person has been chronically ill, it seems to me that all

the organ systems get out of whack. How do you know where to start, especially

when there are conflicting signals with pulse & tongue diagnosis. I can't

always find " the root " because everything is affected.

 

I am open to learning from all this. I am grateful to this group for all the

insight it provides. (Sorry for the long post.)

Diane Bryson