RSD

[Guest guest]

A friend's niece was recently in a car accident and sustained nerve and

arterial damage in a shattered shoulder and down to her finger tips. She

has since been diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy.

 

I've never worked with RSD and apparently there are mixed results with

acupuncture. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

Catherine

[Guest guest]

Hello Catherine,

 

Sex, age, pulse rate, pressure, ontiology, etiology, etc.,? Which

finger tips?

 

Please be professional and specific.

 

Which meridian?

 

What is the specific problem? Ulnar or Radial Neuropathy (i.e., SI

meridian or LI meridian, or San Jiao, etc.)?

 

Why is it that there is so much mystery here?

 

I wonder why the vocabulary of N. American trained practitioners of

TCM or TEAM visits no response to traditional allopathic jargon?

 

Back to your patient, I recommend MSM, methyl-sulfonyl-methane, 1 to

1.5 mg daily (with additional vitamin C, in a 2:1 dosage), MSM 1500

mg, to VIT. C, 750 mg.,) daily. Increase to 6 mg of MSM with 3 mg of

vitamin C daily)...

 

OK,

 

best wishes,

 

 

if you wish to search further...

 

luke

 

Luke Klincewicz, OMD

773-278-0524

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, C Hemenway <chemenway@b...>

wrote:

> A friend's niece was recently in a car accident and sustained nerve

and

> arterial damage in a shattered shoulder and down to her finger

tips. She

> has since been diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy.

>

> I've never worked with RSD and apparently there are mixed results

with

> acupuncture. Any help would be appreciated.

>

> Thanks.

>

> Catherine

[Guest guest]

Luke, et al:

 

This was perhaps not an appropriate question for this list -- the RSD

patient is the niece of a friend, not my patient. My friend was interested

in general types of treatment for RSD, in order to advise her niece, not

specific herbal formulas.

So the mystery is that I have no more information than I gave, as I've never

seen the person.

Thanks for your suggestions.

 

Catherine

[Guest guest]

Catherine,

Call it like you see it from a TCM perspective and then use the

indicated formula and herbs. I've seen RSD present like wei syndrome

before and seen some response from formulas that treat wei syndrome.

 

Mark

[Guest guest]

Catherine-

I've been using various homeopathic remedies for more than 10 years for a

friend of mine with quite severe RSD, and the results have been substantial.

The remedy varies by the s/s - sometimes hypericum, other times coffea,

tellurium, arsenicum, cuprum, etc. She's had RSD since 1984, and only in the

past 2 years have her nerves been able to handle acupuncture. (Needling 2

gates and opening the Du does wonders). She's also on a continually modified

formula of blood, chi, yin and kid.yang tonics that help tremendously with

overall stamina and resistance.

 

She has done alot of research on RSD since mainstream medicine seemed to be

at a loss in how to ease her suffering, and has set up various support and

networking groups to share the information she has found. Should your friend

wish to contact her, please email me privately.

 

Regina Gabrielle, LAc, MSOM, DHom