impotence

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Marnae Ergil will be speaking about impotence at the CHA conference in

june. I have been seeing quite a few impotent men lately, so the topic is

timely. One of the things that is common in middle aged men is as my

patient last night put it, " the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak " . In

other words, all these men have interest and desire, but not function.

They all appear depressed, usually overweight with evidence of some form

of stagnation (blood, qi,phlegm). In some cases they are obviously yang

xu, but that has not been the rule. Marnae will be lecturing on " beyond

kidney yang " . However, upon investigating formulas for impotence, it

seems that yang tonics are almost always used to some degree regardless of

pattern (see sionneau for example).

 

I have seen this same approach with infertility, where yang tonics are

always used at certain stages regardless of whether overt yang xu is

present. Now in simple yang xu impotence, the treatment is

straightforward, but I often find more complex cases. I wonder what

people's results have been with impotent patients where stagnation

predominates and do you typically use yang tonics in such cases regardless.

This may be a clear example where bian bing as is important as bian

zheng. It is unclear to me whether merely dispersing the stagnation would

be effective. I have not seen any dramatic short term results just

treating the stagnation in the past. Conversely, I have seen patients

injured by indiscriminate use of yang tonics. I look forward to Marnae's

presentation as she has thoroughly researched this matter in chinese

sources.

 

 

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" Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre

minds " -- Albert Einstein