re: disease causes--seven affects

[Guest guest]

Dear Todd:

 

Thanks for the clarification with respect to your understanding of

etiology vs. diff. dx. I agree that giving generic advice does not

require high levels of sophistication or medical training. I do not,

however, assume that it would follow that this advice cannot

sometimes be absolutely vital to achieving superior treatment

outcomes, making us more sophisticated practitioners for having

suggested it. Many times it is the patient who wants to just

be " fixed " and is not open to any self-regulatory practices or

advice who is our biggest repeat customer. I still maintain that a

person's ability to emotionally self-regulate (a

learnable, " generic " skill not just for " kids in school " ) can affect

the course of degenerative diseases and prevent future disease and

suffering. Most of our patients do want as much generic, common-

sense advice as we can come up with in order to save them the money

and pain of long-term acu/herbal care as well as preventing the need

for horrific allopathic interventions. Yes, most of the time, common

sense, generic approaches do not require diff. dx. skills or

sophistication. But many times they are the key to achieving quick

and long-lasting results. Often it would never occur to a patient

that to learn generic self-regulating meditations might take away

the cause of her tummy ache and prevent the need for as many future

visits. She just comes to me for help with tummy aches.

The CHA conference presenter you mentioned, Heiner, was very well

trained and interesting I am sure. I'm sorry to have missed his

presentation. However, is it always that complicated? Does it

follow that generic approaches are inferior or inappropriate for

the masses who suffer from the typical daily assaults by the seven

affects? These otherwise " well-adjusted " folks who end up with

cancer, diabetes and heart disease due to normal, daily stress?

Not everything I do in my practice requires high levels of

sophistication or medical training; however, I am very grateful to

have pursued TCM training as it makes many otherwise impossible

leaps in helping people attain health possible. I guess what I'm

saying is precisely because it doesn't take a lot of training to

suggest a patient meditate (or to teach a patient simple " generic "

meditations) makes its inclusion in protocol especially elegant and

sophisticated. Let's not replace the whole guts of the machine just

because we are mechanics when all that is needed is to plug it in.

Again, thanks for the stimulating dialogue on an important topic.

Respectfully, Shanna