5 zang and 5 fu

[Guest guest]

Group

 

One of my collegues (I can never spell that word!) has a patient who has

had most of his small intestine removed. The patient has been

progressively losing weight . Only acupuncture has been done to date ,

mainly addressing st/sp , and Chinese dietry advise with good results I

may add.(I can forward a full case history which has been submitted to a

journal for those interested).

 

I read in Claveys book, I think in reference to Li Shi Zhen , how he

made up some herbal pills and coated them in wax so that they would be

used up in the da chang .

 

Any comments from the group if we tried to supplement herbal Spleen

tonics in this way , if it would be appropriate.

 

Heiko

[Guest guest]

Was the wax coating was used to by-pass the small intestine in order

to work on only the large intestine? If so, it seems

counterproductive in this case. It sounds like absorbtion in the

small intestine is central if the problem is weight loss.

 

Please forward the case history.

 

Jim Ramholz

 

 

 

, Heiko Lade <heiko@l...> wrote:

>

> One of my collegues has a patient who has had most of his small

intestine removed. The patient has been progressively losing weight.

Only acupuncture has been done to date, mainly addressing st/sp, and

Chinese dietry advise with good results I may add.(I can forward a

full case history which has been submitted to a journal for those

interested).

>

> I read in Claveys book, I think in reference to Li Shi Zhen, how he

> made up some herbal pills and coated them in wax so that they would

be used up in the da chang.

>

> Any comments from the group if we tried to supplement herbal Spleen

> tonics in this way, if it would be appropriate.

>

> Heiko