Guest guest Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 Is bradycardia considered a disease entity in TCM? Wouldn't it simply be a sign indicating that some type of cold or vacuity syndrome was the nature of the patient's imbalance? Guy Porter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 Bradycardia is largely a Water condition, and oddly, never a Fire situation. Culprit in 5 E terms is a Water yin upset, marauding on HT. Slack beat is due to Cold which comes with the syndrome. Bradycardia of a long standing is never a HT condition in etiologic terms, because HT cannot harm itself to this degree. It is never a LV condition even when Wind may contribute Movement, because a Mother will always benefit the Son. It is never a SP condition because Son won't attack the Mother, and Damp will cause a missed beat, but never slow cadence. LU will never cause the condition because it is the natural victim of HT. If the 5 E pattern is settled and Water is the culprit, setting it right with 5 Shu Mother will, all things being equitable, bring up the beat to normal inside of a session. Holmes 1.888.TCM.CEUS 826.2387 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 OK. One presumes this is not a complicated arrhythmia, or High or Low BP, or a post cardiac situation. If the diagnosis is confirmed as a K Water yin preponderant, with yang Consumed, and Cold become Pervasive situation, and nothing else has gone wrong in a functional and organic sense, the bi elemental approach would be: Measure beats per breath, taking basal denominator as 5 beats instead of 4 Say you are at 3 beats per breath, a decided Bradycardia Approach One: Tone Mother of Water, Support Fire. Details: Tone Mother of Water: Best time to do this in would be between 05.01 PM to 07.00 PM and the best point would be Metal point K 7. Support Fire: Best time to do this in would be again between 05.01 PM to 07.00 PM and the best point would be Wood point K 1, which being somewhat barbaric to use, one replaces with UB 65. Needle depth: K 7 & UB 65 - 0.2 mm, things are already sorely depleted Needle direction: Does not really matter, one is in the Wei of things Needle manipulation: K 7 - after qi is running, about a 5° turn clockwise, no more, in time you learn to not move the needle at all and have qi run Full UB 65 - after etc, about a 25° turn either way Time taken for needling: 20 mts Result interim: The beats will begin to move up to 4 per breath, even 5, the idea is to have it remain there and not slip back, nothing is more inviting than Cold Approach Two: Apply thread moxa on Cold spots on back Here one is well off finding Cold spots on back of Up Warmer, you'll likely find them around the SI track, on Shu at UB 14, 15 and father afield In practice this does not have to be exact points, just generic ones Next move to Low Warmer and find spots which are Cold, fibrous, sunken, grainy, dark brown, black, tender, dull Sometime, of an evening, you find some which are icy Cold, almost frozen General area is on and around L K Shu Sometimes, if patient is prone on table and back is open to view and you hunker to same level as the back, you can actually see one side slung low, sometimes even a spot which is sunken Use tiny thread of pure wool, with a fine base of protective ointment, the patient's sensibility is compromised Apply in sets of 3's, go on to 9 sets or so till the Cold spots on Up Warmer move and resolve Best denominator is recovered color By now the pulse has likely resolved and remains so Treatment schedule: Treat for 5 days straight even when you have the beat, rest for 2 days, call for assessment In another post, will set in 7 Markers of Righteous Heat on Face. This is to assess K Cold and keep it at bay. Holmes 1.888.TCM.CEUS 826.2387 www.acu-free.com ross rosen wrote: > Would love to know your exact treatments for bringing the heart rate > back to normal. > > > > Message: 11 > Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:31:37 -0700 > holmes > Re: Acu & Bradycardia > > Bradycardia is largely a Water condition, and oddly, never a Fire > situation. > > Culprit in 5 E terms is a Water yin upset, marauding on HT. Slack beat is > due to Cold > which comes with the syndrome. > > Bradycardia of a long standing is never a HT condition in etiologic > terms, because > HT cannot harm itself to this degree. > > It is never a LV condition even when Wind may contribute Movement, > because a Mother > will always benefit the Son. > > It is never a SP condition because Son won't attack the Mother, and Damp > will cause a > missed beat, but never slow cadence. > > LU will never cause the condition because it is the natural victim of HT. > > If the 5 E pattern is settled and Water is the culprit, setting it right > with 5 > Shu Mother will, all things being equitable, > bring up the beat to normal inside of a session. > > Holmes > 1.888.TCM.CEUS 826.2387 > > ______________________ > ______________________ > > > > 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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