Re:naturopathic concept

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Hi Z'ev

 

you wrote " . 2) I don't know about

the idea of 'things getting worse before they get better'. I am unaware

of this being a concept in Chinese medicine. My

understanding is that this is a sign of wrong treatment aggravating the

condition. The 'healing crisis' is a naturopathic concept,

and doesn't really apply to Chinese medical treatment. "

 

I was told/taught at some stage in college that in some classic

somewhere it says that during treatment if old symptoms come up it is a

sign that in the past the illness was not treated properly and the

treatment is fixing the past incorrect Tx as well.

 

I have never , however , never come across the quote .

 

Yet, one TCM doctor from Hangzhou that I workrd with , always used to

get a worsening ( ie increase) in pain for a short time for a day or 2

when treating acute and chronic pain problems , eg tennis elbow, back

sprain etc . His rational was that the Tx

was causing the qi to move , with it the pain.

 

One thing I have noticed in my practise is sometimes when I treat asthma

, the asthma improves and then they get their psorasis back again, and

vice a versa. They have had a history of using steroids . Has anyone

else experienced this.

 

Heiko

[Guest guest]

Heiko Lade wrote:

 

> Yet, one TCM doctor from Hangzhou that I workrd with , always used to

> get a worsening ( ie increase) in pain for a short time for a day or 2

> when treating acute and chronic pain problems , eg tennis elbow, back

> sprain etc . His rational was that the Tx

> was causing the qi to move , with it the pain.

 

Yeah, if there is pain and after the treatment it has moved or in any

other way changed, I consider that an indication that I'm barking up the

right channel since when I repeat the treatment, the pain begins to fade

after the second or third treatment.

 

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Al Stone L.Ac.

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http://www.BeyondWellBeing.com

 

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.