Guest guest Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 I was just using Roger's herbal tutor to test the software against my own prior analysis of a case I use in one of my classes. After making sure the search parameters were properly weighted, the software fared quite well. The second best set of choices according to numerical ranking was a cluster I had chosen for the case myself. But I was frustrated that the top ranked syndromes were all either shang han or wen bing. I tried to alter the search parameters for a while to bring my zang fu dx to the top. Finally, I gave up and had an epiphany. Dan Bensky lectured last year at CHA on why to study the SHL. Craig Mitchell followed this year with many practical examples of this. Dan's point, well taken, was that if you do not study the classics, how will you know if they are applicable or not. Dan wasn't suggesting that we see a lot of acute infectious diseases that we overlook. But rather that the pathomechanisms addressed by many classical formulas from these traditions can be applied in a wide range of illnesses. Those whose primary emphasis is zang fu may not often resort to six stage assessment in chronic cases and thus they might miss things. By entering the total s/s complex into the database, there was slightly higher confirmation with several conditions of external origin that had now gone subacute or chronic. while that fact alone should make a user abandon a zang fu analysis of the case, it certainly should set one thinking and maybe even looking through the source texts. The case I was treating was dx as epigastric pain and sinus congestion due to liver invading stomach with dampheat in the middle jiao. However the database suggested the patterns as either an unresolved dampheat invasion of the triple burner or a pathogen lodged in the shaoyang (similar disorders of the pathomechanisms of the s/s, IMO). So I had to consider if that was even reasonable. Could such an unresolved pathogen have lead to the chief complaints? I would say the answer is yes. So the question would then be how to determine which is the more likely scenario. I don't have the answer to that just yet, but I do know that using the databases knocked me out of a rut. Craig reported remarkable success in several peculiar cases. Success that came from familiarity with the SHL. Craig should be familiar as he painstakingly translated it several years back. But why tie your own hands just because you do not remember every single wen bing and SHL s/s complex. Chinese Herbs FAX: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Roger's herbal tutor >>>Roger can you describe the software a little more Thanks Alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Alon has put a review of this software on the CHA homepage. It gives a good overview http://www..org/articles/tchs_review.shtml Best wishes Alwin --- " Alon Marcus " <alonmarcus@w...> wrote: > Roger's herbal tutor > >>>Roger can you describe the software a little more > Thanks Alon > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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