ER physicians and 8 Principal Patterns

[Guest guest]

Pamela,

 

Be glad to give an example -

The entire set of 8 Principal Patterns is something the ER and intensive care

specialists constantly worry about, though of course they have different names

for these. Body temperature, pulse rate, brain wave activity, blood glucose

levels are basic parameters that correlate with Deficiency/Excess, Hot/Cold. And

ER physicians frequently see False Cold/True Heat and False-Heat/True-Cold

patterns because of the extremes of Yin and Yang that they deal with, which

often do **apparent** reversals just prior to death.

 

No medical textbook summarizes the symptoms and signs as well as the TCM

descriptions, and the advantage is that the latter do not require special

instrumentation to observe. ER physicians often must act quickly, and while the

textbooks recommend doing specific lab tests, often there is no time to do them.

 

This is also why ER physicians can see the logic of applying pattern recognition

schemes not only to acute patients, but to chronic illnesses as well.

Specialists (like dermatologists) tend to be the worst, as they are focused on

narrow phenomena, specific tissues or organs, and tend to miss the big picture.

 

---Roger Wicke, PhD, TCM Clinical Herbalist

contact: www.rmhiherbal.org/contact/

Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute, Hot Springs, Montana USA

Clinical herbology training programs - www.rmhiherbal.org

 

 

>Pamela Zilavy <yinyang

>Dr. C

>

>Hi Roger, can you give one example of what you've said below? I'd get a

>kick out of knowing an example. Things often make more sense to me in the

>abstract, so I always enjoyed teachers who made analogies from nature,

>like when the teapot hisses remove the lid to let off steam (drain the

>rising yang fire) or when an icecube melts the water level rises, to

>nourish yin must borrow yang., etc .

>-pz

>

>

>>>own classes that of all my students, ER

>physicians catch on most quickly to the whole idea of TCM symptom-sign

>pattern recognition - they often shout with excitement that they've

>discovered an ancient tradition that neatly describes phenomena they've

>witnessed thousands of times, yet which are inadequately described in

>medical textbooks.

 

---Roger Wicke, PhD, TCM Clinical Herbalist

contact: www.rmhiherbal.org/contact/

Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute, Hot Springs, Montana USA

Clinical herbology training programs - www.rmhiherbal.org

[Guest guest]

False-Heat/True-Cold patterns because of the extremes of Yin and Yang that they

deal with, which often do **apparent** reversals just prior to death.

 

>>>Pam perhaps you want a more concrete example, lets take shock. If you look at

hypovalimic and septic shock you can see both false-heat and cold as well as

yang and yin collapse each corresponding to one of the above. There is very

little difference between CM and Western med if one is to look at s/s and not

get caught in lingo and dogma

Alon