Thursday, November 29, 2007

Week 12

Review of Diagnosis
Case Study + Treatment Principles + Treatment Plan

34 Year old Female, Tai Yin with Shao Yang
Insomnia, Onset and Magnitudial
Nightmares, Anxiety, wakes up in a fright
Fatigue
No appetite
Stress induces Diarrhea
Reoccuring Yeast Infection, thick, copious, yellow, odor discharge
Grinds teeth at night
Complexion - Malar flushing, pale lips, acne,
Tongue - Red, distended, LV/GB area, Toothmarks, Red in the anterior
Thick yellow greasy coating
Pulse - Sp- soggy wiry, LV - Forceful wiry, HT - Faint - KD - Hidden

Ht-Sp Dual Vacuity - Magnitudial Insomnia
Liver Fire - Onset Insomnia
Wood - Earth Disharmony - Diarrhea with Stress
Damp Heat - Bowels + Vaginal discharge
Phlegm - Plumpit throat


Gui Pi Tang
Jia Wei Xao Yao San
Er Miao San
Er Chen Tang


Huang Qi + add Qi in the exterior, moves
Ren Shen + add Qi to the Center, static
Dang Gui + moving blood nourisher
Chen Pi + regulates Qi, harmonizes stomach
Chai Hu + Courses the Chai Hu, plunders Qi
Bai Zhu - Constructs Sp
Huang Lian + Clears Lv Fire, Gb fire St Fire (light doses, bitter, cold, and draining)
Ban Sha + Dries transform phlegm, downbears the turbid
Fu Ling - Constructs Sp, Bai Zhu + Fu Ling, Perculates Damp, Calms Shen
Bai Shao + Nourishes the LV Blood, astringes to temper Chai Hu
Sheng Jiang + Warms st, Wei Qi
Da Zao + Supplements Sp, Ying Qi
Zhi Gan Cao + Harmonizer
Long Gu + Drain Liver Fire
Mu Li + Drain Liver Fire
Wu Mei + Attacking, Supplementing, Heat Clearing, and Calming

Suan Zao Ren - Heart Lv Hun
Bai Zi Ren - Heart Liver Lungs Po
Fu Shen - Calm spirit
Zhi Mu - Clears heat moistens, Yin vacuity with vacuity heat
Yuan Zhi - Calms Spirit, Transform phlegm misting the portals, reinstate connection of Heart and Kidney
Huang Lian - drain liver
Long Yan Rou - Supplements Qi and Blood, Sp, Special use for damage by overthinking
Bai He - Nourish Yin, Clear Heat for severe vexation (bored stubbornness)
He Shou Wu - Nourishes KD Yin, Calms the Spirit, Moisten intestines
Long Gu - Drain Liver
Mu Li - Drain Liver


P 8
St 36, ST 40
St 44
Lv-3 to Kd-1
Gb 41?


Children Physiology and pathology is different than adults
Onset of Puberty = Onset of Adult physiology
Organs are weak and tender
5 Zang and 6 Fu = Forming and not complete, and not complete, not vigorous
Ministerial Fire is entrusted to the Gall Bladder Sanjiao and Pericardium
Children have the young yin and young yang.
Under 3, the body is pure yang.
Children go through growth spurts, each spurt = flaring of Ministerial Fire
2 = first Flare.
As they age, the Yin is engendered and flourishes.
Easily damaged by food and drink. the Yang Ming is fragile
Sinews and Tendons are tender so easily invaded by wind and cold.
Liver has Surplus
Liver Qi Stagnation easy.
Easy to transform Wind
Children are extremely reactive, responds quickly.
Food stagnation is pretty common
Causes of Disease is simple
Observe Shen
JingShen is lively, and flexible
Tendacy to sleep prone = food stagnation or parasites
Map tongue is common.
Sp/St vacuity problem
Moldy coat = food stagnation sign
Sloppy stool with white clots = trouble digesting milk
Diarrhea from Wind Cold - frothy bubbles
Febrile diseases have papules and rashes (measles)
If wind-heat invasion, the back of the mouth has white dots, then about to invade blood level
Papules start back of the neck
Bo He will vent rashes, prevent sinking of measle toxins, will express through the legs
Look for masses in neck lymph nodes
Ear Infections
Rooted in Food stagnation
St-Int = Weak
Often includes nausea and vomitting
Bad food = Sugar, Cheese, Nut Butters, Wheat and Corn products, uncooked chilled foods
In general, no high allergic food for children
Soy based formulas are bad, too cold.
Sp vacuity
+ Heat = Phlegm
+ Heat + Phlegm = Yang + San Jiao
Post Antibiotic Spleen Vacuity Syndrome?

Ear aches 2-3
strep throat in 3-5
tonsillitis,
bronchitis
long term asthma


Crystal Geyser Lemon Water will remove the taste of herbs

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