saltytaste

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Re Salty Taste

 

Hi Hugo

 

I have a long term patient who gets this problem when he is run down. The two

pieces of advice I can give are - firstly one which is obvious in that she must

have an imbalance in Water with taste being salty. I treat both with TCM and 5

Element acupuncture styles, and from a 5 Element point of view my patient is a

Water constitutional type (CF), blue around the eyes, groan in voice etc. In

fact I find myself frequently treating him for Kidney Yang deficiency in TCM

terms. Your patient's tongue however suggests that damp heat in the kidney

could be given consideration.

 

Secondly something that may be a surprise. - has your Px had her thyroid

function checked? My is patient is always on the edge with thyroid function and

when there is a suspicion that he may be leaning towards abnormal blood test

results he gets a salty taste in his mouth. He has not been prescribed

medication as he is always on the edge and his GP now knows that acupuncture

treatment appears to keeps him check. In the case of my patient when his

thyroid function is verging towards low I always tonify points specifically

for thyroid on St..19 and Kid 3, which so far has always balanced things out

when he returns to his GP for more tests. In your case however I would of

course only recommend this treatment if proper blood tests confirm problems with

thyroid function, or if the tests suggest she is borderline.

 

Helene

 

 

 

 

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Hugo Ramiro

Chinese Medicine

Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:44 PM

salty taste

 

 

Hi everybody:

 

New patient, just met her, quick overview:

 

Complaint:

Has a constant taste of salt/brine in her mouth.

No ability to taste anything except spicy - when she puts salt in her mouth

she can't taste it.

Happened back in July, she was eating some chocolate cake and she realised

it didn't taste right.

 

Background:

Low back pain / 5 years. Soreness, stiffness.

Goes to sleep at midnight. Sleeps with feetout from under covers,

comfortable otherwise, doesn't wake.

If sleeps during day (fairly regular habit of taking a nap) will wake up

feeling cold.

" Terrible morning person " , want to be left alone with her coffee (1/day) and

cigarettes.

Doesn't eat anything for breakfast.

Feels that cold and damp weather is " horrid " .

She says that she worries a lot.

Has had small blue spider veins at both K3 area, left and right, since at

least her teens.

 

Tongue

Light pink, slightly pale tongue body

Slightly yellow coating to rear, med to thin thickness

Dryish at centre, some extra moistness at edges

Slight scalloping.