Guest guest Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 I am a student, and have been treating a patient who has a physical anomoly about which Id welcome your experienced insight. His little toe , L side, is bent over onto the next toe. This 'just happened' when the patient was about 6. At this time (a little earlier) his mother had another child and entered a postpartum depression from which she never really emerged; the patient spent the rest of his childhood being threatned with whipping (sometimes he was whiiped) if he 'bothered his mother " . His tongue has a Heart crack and while less red than when he first came in, is fairly red. His pulses tend to be wiry, weakest in lowerjiao. He has frequent urination, some pain with intercourse. His main complaints were lumbar pain (since remedied) and neck pain along BL/Gb channels, worse with stress. Some soft stool early in day, some poor memory and insomnia.He has been suffering with longterm marital stress, related to his reluctance to speak up ... K-H disharmony? K deficiency , GB deficiency ,with then LV yang rising? (He has westrern dx high blood pressure, but because of meds, symptoms have not shown up). I have been treating him for those things and he both expresses feeling well, and some symptoms are alleviating. But I am very curiosu about that toe. I keep wondering if I really got it right, if it might not either slowly ease back into place or just pop back! Im not attached to this at all, but I feel sure ther are links brtween it and everything else I see, since a premise of CM (at least in my beginners understanding) is that everything IS connected.I wonder , if I found a treatment that would affect his toe, if that same treatment would be a clue as to what would be useful to him in other ways? BL 67, as a tonification point for his deficient water? Yang Qiao Mai/Yin Quao Mai, for relative tightness/looseness of the lateral and medial leg? I apologize if this question is not apprpriate for the forum. And I appreciate it if it is, and you might be able to suggest ways of thinking about this that are beyond me so far. Thank you. Lou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2008 Report Share Posted June 29, 2008 Lou: Wow this is an involved question. First, my opinion is that all disease is mental. So this crazy mother is pretty pivotal to what is going on in his life now. I am studying Colorpuncture and under that system 6 years old is one of the ages of a red flag for trauma. There are treatments to deal directly with it. However, unless you are near a Colorpuncturist or are one yourself, that may not be practical. What you are doing is helping him to feel better with the TCM treaments that you are doing. This may be the inroad to shift his consciousness into a healthier life style. It seems he may have married his mother. When he feels stronger internally, hopefully he will be able to do something about that. Colorpuncture also has treatments for releasing the the mother or father energy that needs to go. Third chakra work might also be good. Give him a voice to speak up. Again, as you treat his patterns, he will feel healthier and hopefully gain the strength he needs to make changes in his life. Let him know that even after symptoms are relieved you can help him to get to the underlying cause of the problem. Anne -- Anne C. Crowley, L.Ac., M.Ac., Dipl.Ac. www.SouthernMDacupuncture.com -------------- Original message ---------------------- " lou hart " <loulumina > I am a student, and have been treating a patient who has a physical anomoly > about which Id welcome your experienced insight. > His little toe , L side, is bent over onto the next toe. This 'just > happened' when the patient was about 6. At this time (a little earlier) his > mother had another child and entered a postpartum depression from which she > never really emerged; the patient spent the rest of his childhood being > threatned with whipping (sometimes he was whiiped) if he 'bothered his > mother " . > His tongue has a Heart crack and while less red than when he first came in, > is fairly red. His pulses tend to be wiry, weakest in lowerjiao. He has > frequent urination, some pain with intercourse. His main complaints were > lumbar pain (since remedied) and neck pain along BL/Gb channels, worse with > stress. Some soft stool early in day, some poor memory and insomnia.He has > been suffering with longterm marital stress, related to his reluctance to > speak up ... > K-H disharmony? K deficiency , GB deficiency ,with then LV yang rising? (He > has westrern dx high blood pressure, but because of meds, symptoms have not > shown up). I have been treating him for those things and he both expresses > feeling well, and some symptoms are alleviating. But I am very curiosu about > that toe. I keep wondering if I really got it right, if it might not either > slowly ease back into place or just pop back! Im not attached to this at > all, but I feel sure ther are links brtween it and everything else I see, > since a premise of CM (at least in my beginners understanding) is that > everything IS connected.I wonder , if I found a treatment that would affect > his toe, if that same treatment would be a clue as to what would be useful > to him in other ways? > BL 67, as a tonification point for his deficient water? Yang Qiao Mai/Yin > Quao Mai, for relative tightness/looseness of the lateral and medial leg? > I apologize if this question is not apprpriate for the forum. And I > appreciate it if it is, and you might be able to suggest ways of thinking > about this that are beyond me so far. Thank you. Lou > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2008 Report Share Posted June 29, 2008 I can never understand how it can be claimed that all disease is mental. What if you get hit by a car or slip on some ice? It seems counterproductive to look at all disease this way. - Bill Schoenbart Chinese Medicine , anne.crowley wrote: > > > First, my opinion is that all disease is mental. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 30, 2008 Report Share Posted June 30, 2008 Maybe its just semantics, but those things are physical traumas that cause physical injury. In this case, we see emotional traumas that result in the loss of harmony in the patient. Loss of harmony caused loss of function at the organ level (one organ=malfunction, multiorgan=dysfunction). Dysfunction results in the loss of ease, the rise of dis-ease. respectfully submitted, Mark Zaranski --- In Chinese Medicine , " bill_schoenbart " <plantmed2 wrote: > > I can never understand how it can be claimed that all disease is > mental. What if you get hit by a car or slip on some ice? It seems > counterproductive to look at all disease this way. > > - Bill Schoenbart > > > > > Chinese Medicine , anne.crowley@ > wrote: > > > > > > > First, my opinion is that all disease is mental. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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