Philosophical basis of CM now pulses and proof

[Guest guest]

" James Ramholz " <jramholz

Alwin:

The first way to determine this is to see the changes in the pulses;

then you're not guessing and you know when they are still on the

table if your treatment is helping.

 

Jim,

 

Perhaps this works for you but frankly in ten years of practice I have never

seen this to be an effective method of seeing if what I am doing is working.

I can change patients pulse by looking at them cross-eyed! Further, no

matter where you needle, the pulse will change. I have needled points that

would be inappropriate and still got a change in the pulse that I read as

being improved. I just haven't seen this as a method that works, at least

for me. Perhaps I am not practiced enough in the art of pulse diagnosis.

 

Respectfully,

thomas

 

 

 

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Lao Tzu

[Guest guest]

, " " wrote:

> Perhaps this works for you but frankly in ten years of practice I

have never seen this to be an effective method of seeing if what I

am doing is working. . . . Perhaps I am not practiced enough in the

art of pulse diagnosis. >>>

 

 

 

Thomas:

 

You can extend this kind of generality argument to anything---herbal

formulas, talk therapy, and many other things. Even laughter has

been credited with curing cancer. But my point is that if you can

diagnose an idenifiable pattern in the pulses for specific diseases

using the Nan Jing, Mai Jing, and other methods---for example, if

you can identify tumors, MS, emotional disorders that are creating

physical problems, etc.---you can measure the successfulness of a

treatment in how those pulses respond.

 

We can become much more specific in our diagnosis than saying that

everything boils down to either spleen xu, liver depression, or

blood stasis. There are large areas of CM, like pulses, that are

ignored or go underutilized only because we want to immitate what

the Chinese are doing today; not what is possible.

 

 

Jim Ramholz