Severe circulatory damage, lower extremities

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Hi all, please refer to the photographs located in the files section of our

group at

 

http://tinyurl.com/2fl8wa

 

(Photos/Photo Albums/Chemo After Effects)

 

The right foot has a relatively mild version of this problem, so I've only

uploaded the left foot photos.

I don't have his chart with me at the moment so I can only be sparse with the

details.

He had a bout with cancer about 15 years ago at which time he began to develop

this problem as a result of his chemotherapeutic agents. Year by year the

problem has slowly worsened.

He presents as overly talkative and a little vague and meandering in his

thoughts, however, he is upbeat and friendly. His face is pale with a little

ruddiness at the cheeks and forehead. His lips tend to be slightly dark and red.

His tongue is pink with a thick greasy white coating at the rear, and a thin

coating at the other two warmers. It is a little on the dry side. There is some

vaguely defined scalloping, and the tongue body is slightly large, and a little

paler at the edges.

His pulses are weak, weakest being the chi positions which are also quite deep.

I believe the left chi position is the weaker of the two, with the right chi

position having qualities of the hollow (kou mai), and thready (xi mai) pulses.

The feet have no pain. The affected areas are easy to harm, and extremely slow

to heal. The affected areas rarely bleed upon injury, but do exude fluids and

would become infected without proper care and cleaning.

The last point which I remember at this point is that he does have pitting

edema below the knees, I am not sure to what extent, although it is kept under

good control through the use of constrictive socks.

 

Thanks for any input and ideas. I will update the list on his progress.

 

Hugo

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi, thanks for the pics,

looks like blood and fluid stasis,

from heat toxin damaging yin fluids and kidney energies.

 

Blood and fluid stagnation aggravate each other.

 

Use these herbals:

 

dan shen

dang gui

mu dan pi

hong hua

to resolve stasis

 

niu xi

to guide all drugs to the legs

 

fuling

zexie

cangzhu

to remove fluid accumulation (fluids hinder blood flow)

 

jin yin hua

to clear heat, infections and remove stasis

 

maybe chai hu and/or xiang fu to aid blood movers

 

gan cao

 

After the skin color has changed (2-4 weeks from my experience) and

blood stasis is gone, you can

drop whatever herbal isnt needed anymore and

start using light tonics like shan yao, gou qi zi, nu zhen zi, yi yi

ren

 

Greetings, Tay.

 

Chinese Medicine , Hugo Ramiro

<subincor wrote:

>

> Hi all, please refer to the photographs located in the files

section of our group at

>

> http://tinyurl.com/2fl8wa

>

> (Photos/Photo Albums/Chemo After Effects)

>

> The right foot has a relatively mild version of this problem, so

I've only uploaded the left foot photos.

> I don't have his chart with me at the moment so I can only be

sparse with the details.

> He had a bout with cancer about 15 years ago at which time he

began to develop this problem as a result of his chemotherapeutic

agents. Year by year the problem has slowly worsened.

> He presents as overly talkative and a little vague and meandering

in his thoughts, however, he is upbeat and friendly. His face is pale

with a little ruddiness at the cheeks and forehead. His lips tend to

be slightly dark and red. His tongue is pink with a thick greasy

white coating at the rear, and a thin coating at the other two

warmers. It is a little on the dry side. There is some vaguely

defined scalloping, and the tongue body is slightly large, and a

little paler at the edges.

> His pulses are weak, weakest being the chi positions which are

also quite deep. I believe the left chi position is the weaker of the

two, with the right chi position having qualities of the hollow (kou

mai), and thready (xi mai) pulses.

> The feet have no pain. The affected areas are easy to harm, and

extremely slow to heal. The affected areas rarely bleed upon injury,

but do exude fluids and would become infected without proper care and

cleaning.

> The last point which I remember at this point is that he does have

pitting edema below the knees, I am not sure to what extent, although

it is kept under good control through the use of constrictive socks.

>

> Thanks for any input and ideas. I will update the list on his

progress.

>

> Hugo

>

>

>

>

> Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new

Mail.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Tay, those suggestions fit nicely. Thanks for your help.

Hugo

 

 

 

 

 

 

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