Recently Ermentrude, a 76 yo female, paid me a visit for me to take a look at “her immune system.” She is slender and spry with a twinkle in her eye. She’s proactive and given our times wanted to take the bull by its horns however she could, which accounted for her visit. Ermentrude did…
Ruth is in her mid 60s. She originally came to me for chronic diarrhea, with the secondary complaint being memory loss, a condition from which her mother and father both eventually passed.
Quite recently, I’ve seen cases where patients came to me with shoulder issues, sometimes following surgery related to either the hand or shoulder. I thought now it would be a good opportunity to relate my findings.
Here I’ll discuss what high altitude sickness is, some of the orthodox approaches, and how “acupuncture”, in the form of Chinese herbalism, can potentially treat altitude sickness through muscle testing Chinese herbal formulations. What is Altitude Sickness? High altitude sickness is a condition occurring where there is less oxygen in the air. These symptoms can…
The case of jaw pain can be of at least two causes: infection or musculo-skeletal. Only proper diagnosis through interview and examination can determine which. Even given proper diagnosis, however, the right treatment course still must be selected. This is often no easy matter.
The reason people seek alternative approaches to their health conditions is because they’ve found unsatisfactory results with orthodox (i.e., biomedical) medicine. This may involve positively no results or side-effects. There is no small number of individuals who seek assistance because orthodox medicine has no conceptual or diagnostic means by which to detect problems that individuals…
“It’s Just My Stiff Shoulders” is not an uncommonly shared statement by people seeking ancient Chinese secrets to a magical solution to a condition that has a cause-and-effect which first must be diagnosed. Muscle tension and other physical complaints require evaluatation to weed out serious conditions, as well as to determine the degree to which…
Each stage of diagnosis tells us of how aggressive our approach can be, as well as what the underlying factors that lie at the root of the condition are.
