Ms. C. is a thirty-seven year old woman, who called me about four months ago seeking relief from persistent pain and dysfunction of her right hand, which made her work difficult. She came for an appointment, and reported having received treatment for neck pain and nerve root impingement causing pain and dysfunction of the arm … Continue reading “When is a “Cold” not Just a Cold?”
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- Re-framing Health Care for Society
- The Art of Acupuncture (and CM)
- The Spirit of the Neijing
- The Theory and Practice of Disease Reversion (Accumulation Theory)
Passive care is ANY form of health care where the patient is a passive consumer of a good or service. That might be a pharmaceutical medicine, surgery, joint or other physical manipulation, dietary supplement, or any other consumption-based attempt to improve your health. Let me be very clear: I do NOT consider this a problem … Continue reading “Passive Health Care Breeds Dependence”
Don’t Shoot the Messenger Symptoms are the embodied spirit’s (jīngshén (精神)) gesture to communicate its distress. They are intended to get the individual to focus his or her conscious awareness toward discerning the nature and causes of that distress. Though symptoms seem to be afflictions (to the personality), they are NOT themselves the problem. They … Continue reading “Indicator Symptoms: A Patient’s Best Friend”