Does anyone on this list know what leukemia is considered in TCM?

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Does anyone on this list know what leukemia is considered in TCM?

 

I am looking for an actual TCM definition that encompasses this

disease that i do not understand from a TCM POV.

 

Doc

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I'm not sure if this is a TCM POV or not, but I'll take a stab at it.

I went to a jeffrey yuen workshop on auto immune disorders where he

discussed how the divergent meridians come into play for situations

like this. So this presents one possible explanation of how leukemia

develops, but there might be others.

 

The basic theory is that the divergent meridians use wei qi and yuan

qi to hold pathogens at bay in the body and prevent them from

entering the zang fu. The wei qi is not strong enough in this

scenario to release the pathogen outright, so it attempts to put it

in a state of latency by siphoning some energy from the yuan qi to

help out. There may be no symptoms at first, but as time goes on and

yuan qi gets used up symptoms begin to appear.

 

There are two main ways auto immune disorders can arise.

- Wei qi plus the opi goes into the yuan level and also consumes yuan

qi.

- Person is born with yuan qi constitutional toxins (infectious

disease or birth defects or structural) and so wei qi goes to yuan to

try to pull them out and get rid of them - usually the problem occurs

after puberty. For girls the problem gets worse after onset of

menses. Wei qi struggles with pathogenic factor, then goes to yuan qi

(marrow) to try to get rid of it. Heat then begins to consume marrow

which leads to steaming bone disorder - leukemia, lymphoma, yin xu,

fatigue, night sweats, low grade fever.

 

My limited understanding of leukemia is the dna change in a stem cell

or other cell in the marrow leads to the over production of white

blood cells. The dna change would seem to be in agreement with the

yuan qi being affected.

 

--brian

 

Chinese Medicine , Doc <Doc@s...>

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> Does anyone on this list know what leukemia is considered in TCM?

>

> I am looking for an actual TCM definition that encompasses this

> disease that i do not understand from a TCM POV.

>

> Doc

[Guest guest]

Here's a few extra notes I overlooked.....

 

leukemia - taxation/consumption heat - 'Re Lao' - fatigue, bodily

sweat, low grade fever . In adults due to overwork. In children -

'gan' - childhood malnutrition, yin xu, poor constitutional makeup.

 

Can be due to xue xu - immature cells crowd out other RBC's and

WBC's. It tends to look like sp xu - management of xue is lacking.

Fatigue, anemia, easy bruising, easy hemorrhage (platelet

deficiency), easy to get infections.

 

For treatment, appropriate divergent meridians are treated based on

the overall organ involvement and symptom presentation.