Guest guest Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Hi Raman & All, Dr RAMAN KAPOOR wrote: > Dear Drs., Please guide me in treating the following patient with AP. > 48yo man. Hypertension for the last 3 years and Hypercholesterolremia > for the last 5 years; occasional lowback pain, pain in the neck; dry > scalp for the last 15 years (dandruff), two episodes of epilepsy 12 > years ago treated by albendezole (for neurocysticercosis). Workaholic > and prone to anger; digestion gets disturbed easily by overeating or > eating too much of cold/raw food. Pulse 70 bpm, deficient and weak, > rolling. Tongue light red with edges and tip redder, edges and tip > rolled up, thin white moist coating on all the jiaos. Looking forward > to your early reply. Yours SIncerely, DR.RAMAN KAPUR Would other experts care to Dx the ROOT and BRANCHES here? Are, what Dx would you make there? ROOT: KI Deficiency ? BRANCH: LV Stasis with Wind-Heat Rising + LV Attacking Earth ? Tx: KI07 + LV03 + GB34 + HT07 ? Symptomatic: ST36 + BL18 or BL19 ? Herbalists, what Formula would you prescribe? Best regards, Email: < WORK : Teagasc, c/o 1 Esker Lawns, Lucan, Dublin, Ireland Mobile: 353-; [in the Republic: 0] HOME : 1 Esker Lawns, Lucan, Dublin, Ireland Tel : 353-; [in the Republic: 0] WWW : http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/searchap.htm Chinese Proverb: " Man who says it can't be done, should not interrupt man doing it " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 As almost every symptom and sign tracks to the head, the reason must fester in the foot. And as almost all symptoms and signs are yang in nature, the reason must reside with the yin. Foot has SP LV and K. The cause could lie with one or more of these. OK. All these home in on the head: Hypertension - Hypercholesterolremia - dry scalp - epilepsy - anger Differentially: SP? not really, SP causes none of the above, and BP would tend to fall with the loosening of the SP Column Centralis, so to say. K? Yes to HBP, dry scalp, even anger, no to the wayward cholesterol LV? Sure looks like it. Wing HBP, out to have erratic swings in BP. Cholesterol could come about by sluggish ST, cold food does not help. Oddly, dry scalp and epilepsy could be because of Errant Wing tracking to vertex by the internal branch of LV which ends there. Anger. Pulse 70 bpm, deficient and weak, rolling H'm. Darn. Deficient and weak is not LV. Rolling? The two iconograms would probably not run tandem. Deficient and weak are likely to be wrecked as clever findings if pulse is consistently deficient and weak. There goes LV. Edges and tip rolled up, that's major weird. That looks like Upper Jiao Constrained, which can happen only is Lower Jiao is on the blink. Phil's K Deficiency then? Hypertension - Hypercholesterolremia - dry scalp - epilepsy - anger, Jees! The cholesterol could then have to be episodic with middling levels at 250 or so with swings towards normal levels. Not LV, maybe K Root. So how about a Lower Warmer Deficiency instead, which reflects more on K, but could also involve BL, colon, and principally the Adrenals. Is this also an Adrenal gland deficiency? Need more back up and some tender trigger points. For K: raised cold rough UB 23 or round about area tender point in infrascapularis, the Small Hearts hollow ankles on medial side tender K point on ear hollow Ren 14 at xyphisternum cold draft on lower back felt clearly on hand For UB: tight calf tight tender knee crease, more towards K 10 a tender point on medial eyebrow released by cals point massage an uneven shoulder - the muscle track leads from ankle to thre an inturned littlest toe upturned clawlike toes at metatarsophalangeal joints For lower jiao: Ren line hollow sunken below umbilicus concretion above pubis stagnated mid warmer with indurated Ren line above navel I'll bet there's a 'pencil' in this line shu point at L 1 tender on R With this input picture will clear. My bet is on the Lower Warmer with K as the star. A small bet is also on Adrenal deficincy. Adrenal reflexes need to be checked out. And it is 3 AM and Sirius in the western sky is on the wane, smirking at the doings of humans. And Polaris is brighter than ever, proud, perpetual, pristine. The yang has entered the yin in the First Quater of the Horary, and all is well. Holmes wrote: > Hi Raman & All, > > Dr RAMAN KAPOOR wrote: > > Dear Drs., Please guide me in treating the following patient with AP. > > 48yo man. Hypertension for the last 3 years and Hypercholesterolremia > > for the last 5 years; occasional lowback pain, pain in the neck; dry > > scalp for the last 15 years (dandruff), two episodes of epilepsy 12 > > years ago treated by albendezole (for neurocysticercosis). Workaholic > > and prone to anger; digestion gets disturbed easily by overeating or > > eating too much of cold/raw food. Pulse 70 bpm, deficient and weak, > > rolling. Tongue light red with edges and tip redder, edges and tip > > rolled up, thin white moist coating on all the jiaos. Looking forward > > to your early reply. Yours SIncerely, DR.RAMAN KAPUR > > Would other experts care to Dx the ROOT and BRANCHES here? > Are, what Dx would you make there? > > ROOT: KI Deficiency ? > BRANCH: LV Stasis with Wind-Heat Rising + LV Attacking Earth ? > > Tx: KI07 + LV03 + GB34 + HT07 ? > > Symptomatic: ST36 + BL18 or BL19 ? > > Herbalists, what Formula would you prescribe? > > Best regards, > > Email: < > > WORK : Teagasc, c/o 1 Esker Lawns, Lucan, Dublin, Ireland > Mobile: 353-; [in the Republic: 0] > > HOME : 1 Esker Lawns, Lucan, Dublin, Ireland > Tel : 353-; [in the Republic: 0] > WWW : http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/searchap.htm > <http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Eprogers/searchap.htm> > > Chinese Proverb: " Man who says it can't be done, should not interrupt > man doing it " > > > > > http://babel.altavista.com/ > > > and > adjust accordingly. > > Messages are the property of the author. Any duplication outside the > group requires prior permission from the author. > > If you are a TCM academic and wish to discuss TCM with other > academics, > > > > * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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