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I have had a small number of GERD patients. They

reversed symptoms within a few months. The added

treatments I worked with were diet & meditation.

 

The similarity in their diet was that they ate a lot

of processed foods and repeated the same ingredients

from meal to meal and day to day. I had them move to

whole foods. Increase the variety of colors and types

of vegetables, fruits, grains, beans, meat/fish/poulty

across the week. Some had to start with say veggies

and vary that. Then they moved on to fruits etc.

Many had to drop dairy and wheat from their diet.

 

The second step was adding meditation into their

routine. I use insight meditation or had them use

CD's from Healing Journey's. Some started with five

minutes per day and added 3 minutes a day each week to

build up. Others jumped in with more time

immediately. Mom's would do their meditation by being

" present " while they did dishes or laundry.

www.insightmeditationcenter.org has recorded classesby

Gil on how to meditate that I have put on my website

for them to download free (this site allows for free

downloads).

 

Within two to three months they have mostly been free

of symptoms if they do their homework. They come back

periodically for treatments when their is a high

stress situation in their life.

 

Only one has gone in and had someone look at their

esophogus. He said they gave him a clean bill of

health.

 

Hope this is helpful.

 

Karen Brown L.Ac.

 

 

 

 

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Scalloped Tongue on Left side

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joseph

josephcurcio Fri

Mar 9, 2007 2:31 pm (PST) A

couple of years ago a 40 y.o. female patient came to

me complaining

of GERD symptoms. Upon performing an evaluation I

found her signs and

symptoms to fit the clinical picture of plum pit

syndrome (depression,

anxiety, feeling of a piece of meet stuck in throat).

P: wiry, T:

scant slightly greasy coating, slightly red body, and

scalloped on the

left side. I diagnosed her condition as liver qi

stagnation with an

underlying kidney yin deficiency. A few months later

another 40 y.o.

female patient presented with the exact clinical

picture described

above (anxiety, GERD, same pulse and tongue). I am

writing to see if

anyone else has seen this unilateral tongue scalloping

with gerd

symptoms and, if so, what treatment strategies have

worked. I have

been managing these two cases for 2 years now, with

about a 75%

improvement within the first three months in both

cases, but the

condition persists at a low level. I have prescribed

herbal formulas

based on Ban Xia Hou po Tang, modified with Bai Shao

and Dang Gui to

address the yin deficiency, along with standard TCM

acupuncture

protocols on a weekly to every two week basis. Any

advice would be

appreciated. Thanks.

 

 

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Re: Scalloped Tongue on Left

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al

alllstone Fri Mar 9,

2007 3:06 pm (PST) Hey Joe,

whad'ya know?

 

I recently had occasion to ask Tiande Yang about a

tongue with a unilateral

feature. He gave me a lesser known Statement of Fact

which I presume comes

from the Nei Jing. It went like this:

 

Turn right, go down. Turn left, go up.

 

Okay?

 

Best of luck with your patient...

 

Oh, you want explanation too?

 

The premise is that when you have an excess that needs

to be purged

downward, it can manifest solely on the (patient's)

right side of the

tongue. Should there be a deficiency that needs to be

lifted, that will show

up more on the left side of the tongue. I'd look at

strengthening this

patient's middle to transform the phlegm which it

appears you're doing,

perhaps a larger dosage is warranted if the teethmarks

and coating remains

unchanged.

 

Purge the right, lift the left.

Isn't that correct Dr. Malony? (I KID!)

 

-al.

 

On 3/9/07, josephcurcio <joseph wrote:

>

> A couple of years ago a 40 y.o. female patient

came to me complaining

> of GERD symptoms. Upon performing an evaluation I

found her signs and

> symptoms to fit the clinical picture of plum pit

syndrome (depression,

> anxiety, feeling of a piece of meet stuck in

throat). P: wiry, T:

> scant slightly greasy coating, slightly red body,

and scalloped on the

> left side. I diagnosed her condition as liver qi

stagnation with an

> underlying kidney yin deficiency. A few months later

another 40 y.o.

> female patient presented with the exact clinical

picture described

> above (anxiety, GERD, same pulse and tongue). I am

writing to see if

> anyone else has seen this unilateral tongue

scalloping with gerd

> symptoms and, if so, what treatment strategies have

worked. I have

> been managing these two cases for 2 years now, with

about a 75%

> improvement within the first three months in both

cases, but the

> condition persists at a low level. I have prescribed

herbal formulas

> based on Ban Xia Hou po Tang, modified with Bai Shao

and Dang Gui to

> address the yin deficiency, along with standard TCM

acupuncture

> protocols on a weekly to every two week basis. Any

advice would be

> appreciated. Thanks.

>

>

>

 

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