Guest guest Posted March 28, 2002 Report Share Posted March 28, 2002 All, Recently I was talking with a Chinese doctor trained in Chengdu. Seemed pretty knowledgable. Definitely was into pattern discrimination and was not into disease-based prescribing. We were talking about qi vacuity hypertension. I have never seen a case of a pure qi vacuity hypertension. However, there can be a liver-spleen disharmony with depressive heat, can be a heart-gallbladder qi timidity with or without depressive heat, can be a qi and yin vacuity, can be a spleen qi vacuity with phlegm turbidity. In any case, she uses Radix Astragali Membranacei (Huang Qi) to treat the qi vacuity part of these mixed vacuity/repletion patterns if the patient is fatigued as one of their symptoms. Ok, that did not surprise me. I have seen other Chinese doctors also use Huang Qi for/with hypertension in qi vacuity patients, and there are a number of hypertension protocols in the Chinese research literature that include Huang Qi. The thing that I would like to ask others on this discussion group is this: According to this young woman (at least she was younger than me), Huang Qi raises the BP if used in amounts of less than 30g p.d. but lowers the BP when used at 30g and more (up to 60g p.d.). Has anyone else ever heard/read this? Does anyone have any experience with this? If this is true, it seems like an important thing to know. In my personal experience, other Chinese docs I have worked with have used 15g p.d. for the qi vacuity component of hypertension. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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