AIDS

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Mark:

 

Perhaps I was unclear. The shaoyang character of the virus is not

part of the SHL pattern, but the shaoyang of six excesses (liu yin)

which are the cause of disease. This type of fire element is

localized and intense. The 5-Phases process describes the development

of AIDS as this type of fire attacking the blood level (in this case,

the 5-Phases of Earth) at the initial stage even before symptoms

develop and 8-Principles is possible. It's like a mathematical

equation describing how the variables relate to each other.

 

If you want to describe any individual patient, at any stage, simply

plug in their balance or symptoms into 5-Phases and use the

Guest/Host rules to see the controlling parameters of how the

disorders change. Symptom patterns arise from this dynamics. By using

a systems approach and relating 5-Phases of the Earth to the 5-Phases

of the body as a whole (like a wheel within a wheel) we can " plug in "

some of the Western observations along with our own.

 

The advantage of using 5-Phases (this is NOT the Worsley system), is

that it describles developments in the pulses even before symptoms

arise. If you use only 8-Principles or Zang-fu descriptions you miss

much of what is happening in the disorder. SHL describes symptoms as

a function of the body's response. AIDS does not follow the SHL

pattern of attacking Taiyang and then the other levels in sequence;

it is a hidden pathogen. But even during it's latency period, it is

attacking the blood according to the 5-Phase pattern.

 

Jim Ramholz

 

 

 

 

, " Mark Reese " <tcm2@e...> wrote:

> Jim,

>

> I appreciate your thoughts, however having read many thoughts on

HIV = this

> or that in TCM and having treated many people over the years, I

find that no

> one theory covers everyone I see. Certainly I have seen a lot of

shao yang

> patterns. However, as Todd says, the heat which causes the

insomnia does

> seem to come from a variety of sources depending very much on the

individual

> and there situation. I do not use 5 phase very much in diagnosis,

but I

> suspect that the same would hold true for that system.

>

> Mark Reese