Guest guest Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Hi all I need some advice about a patient. He is a 58 year old with shoulder and knee pain and fatigue and a history of 2 episodes of an autoimmune disease granulomatosis (a viral disease that kills white blood cells).He nearly died with both episodes.He has been in remission for 12 months. I began treating him in April this year. He had a cholesterol test in February of 6 and has just received the results of another test which is 9. He says nothing else in his life has changed except my treatments so he asks: could my intervention have increased his cholesterol so dramatically? My treatments have been a combination of acupuncture & herbs. I have done lots of gua sha on his shoulders and back and it always comes up quite black. His pulse is slow wiry and the kidney pulses are weaker His tongue is dry fissured toward tip, paleish and his sublingual veins are dark and extended. His sleep is interrupted by nocturia 2-3X. He is active - cyclist and gym but he wakes tired and stays tired all day. When tired he has very dark rings below his eyes. I think he has a problem with kidney xu and blood stasis. My herb treatment was a variation on You gui wan - rou gui6 lu jiao shuang 10 shu di 6 shan zhu yu 10 shan yao 10 gou qi zi 15 tu si zi 15 du zhong 10 san qi bu gu zhi10 gan cao 5. What do you think? any chance that something I've done has caused his cholesterol to increase so much? Thanks for your help Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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