Guest guest Posted November 23, 2000 Report Share Posted November 23, 2000 OK Julie......thanks for that ...now what does QT stand for? Heiko Lade Registered Acupuncturist / Chinese Herbalist 2 Jenkins St. Green Island, Dunedin New Zealand Tel: (03) 488 4086, Fax: (03) 488 4012 http://www.lade.com/heiko Email: heiko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2000 Report Share Posted November 23, 2000 Julie Thanks... no that I know what it is in the western bio med terms I can think about some herbs. Without looking back at the case ...I suppose Zhi Gan Cao Tang ...may be considered Heiko Lade Registered Acupuncturist / Chinese Herbalist 2 Jenkins St. Green Island, Dunedin New Zealand Tel: (03) 488 4086, Fax: (03) 488 4012 http://www.lade.com/heiko Email: heiko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2000 Report Share Posted December 2, 2000 LQTS is " Long QT Syndrome " which means a prolonged QT interval, combined with something called " torsade de pointes " which is an atypical rapid ventricular tachycardia...the syndrome, if non-congenital, is usually drug-related. courtesy of Dorland's Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2000 Report Share Posted December 2, 2000 Heiko, PQRST are all names of the various deflection points (indicators of positive and negative potentials) in electrocardiography. So, there are PR segments, ST segments, etc. Long QT interval is a rhythm disorder of the heart. Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2000 Report Share Posted December 2, 2000 In a message dated 12/2/00 5:35:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, heiko writes: << Without looking back at the case ...I suppose Zhi Gan Cao Tang ...may be considered >> Or Sheng Mai San, or even Gui Pi Tang Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2000 Report Share Posted December 2, 2000 >Julie >Thanks... no that I know what it is in the western bio med terms I can think >about some herbs. Without looking back at the case ...I suppose Zhi Gan Cao >Tang ...may be considered > >Heiko Lade ---- I'm not sure this is a conclusion I would draw. If long, (or short), QT segments are the result of medication, adjustment of the dose is probably the first thought. The drug is probably quinidine or a related drug. If so, it's important to check that the patient is taking the proper dose and at the correct intervals to avoid toxicity. The QT segment relates to the depolarization and repolarization of the ventricles, (ie contraction and relaxation), and a long QT reflects the depression of this electrical activity involved. A long QT is not something that you'd feel as an irregular beat on the pulse, so the sense in which this is an arrhythmia is not the same as in Chinese medicine. It may be that the medication is being given for an arrhythmia, but you'll not know the pattern without checking the medical record. Rory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2000 Report Share Posted December 3, 2000 , BoSchmidt-Ulmer@t... wrote: > Ok, something about the history: she was loosening consciousnes since she Is this the patients chief complaint, seizures and losing consciousness? It would be most helpful to know what main sx the patient now presents with in addition to the medical dx and the results of a western test. If I missed that earlier, sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2000 Report Share Posted December 3, 2000 , BoSchmidt-Ulmer@t... wrote: Now, last year she had theses seizures some > more times and she was checked up new and properly: diagnosis: LQTS, > (epilipsie was dropped) - If seizures are the chief complaint, then a formula for internal wind which also addresses the root pattern, seems most indicated. zhi gan cao tang is mainly for palpitations and arrythmia, but it does address the possible root of this disease (see a wind formula called san jia fu mai tang for the remarkable similarity). While this patient is surely vacuous after a lifetime of this disorder, chronic internal wind of this severity is typically caused by yin xu/yang rising, possibly with heat component. However this patient appears to have yang xu signs. Does this indicate what Bensky calls quasi wind disorder (lei zhong feng). I think it may be. See di huang yin zi for more about this. It is for wind and phlegm with sudden collapse but no fire sx. Also see wiseman entries for vacuity stroke, cold stroke, phlegm stroke, qi stroke? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2000 Report Share Posted December 3, 2000 , Rory Kerr <rorykerr@w...> wrote: > > 1. You describe the patient as Kidney yang deficient - did you see > the patient before she started the beta blockers, Rory good point, beta blockers seem to cause yang xu or combined yang and yin xu - impotence is the key sx, followed by such as colitis, cold hands and feet, tiredness, weakness, edema, joint pains, diarrhea. And the syndrome it treats is usually more of fire or hyperactive yang - high blood presure, migraine headache, agression, panic I note now that the patient has red tongue with absent coating at root. Perhaps what underlies is yin essence xu. In which case we might be back to kidney and heart nourishing, liver wind calming formulae like zhen gan xi feng wan or tian ma gou teng yin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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