an update on my wife--the session with Jeffrey Yuen based upon Liu Wan Su

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Dear Friends,

 

It was quite a two hours with Jeffrey Yuen. First let me preface that the

treatment was from the perspective of Liu Wan Su's school of Cooling and Cold.

Many of you may not be familiar with his approach, and unfortunately, his works

have not been translated into English, although he was one of the four great

masters of the Jin-Yuan dynasties (including Zhu Dan Xi, Zhang Zi He and Li Dong

Yuan). Liu Wan Su's basic theory was that Heat (or what we would call today,

inflammation) is the source of all disease. The essence of his approach was

quite different from both Shang Han Lun and on the other end of the scale, TCM,

in that rather than determining whether a condition was exterior or interior,

hot or cold, upper or lower, excess or deficiency--either/or absolutes, Liu Wan

Su felt that all had to be dealt with simultaneously, and balanced-- and that

everything is related.

 

He put forth the following principles to his school of thought:

1. Life warrants reflection, people tend to overstimulate themselves, and

need to slow down their lifestyles. He used alot of minerals (eg. Shi Gao and

Hua Shi) which are heavy to sedate fire.

2. All excesses transform into heat.

3. Water flows downhill. Therefore dampness should be cleared by diuresis.

4. Conditions of exterior and interior need to reflect each other and be

treated simultaneously. It needs to be determined where is the heat and where

does it come from. Was it transformed from the exterior? Then vent it out with

acrid sweet and cold herbs, through the sinuses, specifically. A major point

that he used in acupuncture to release the exterior is LI 20. Is it from

stagnation? Then drain it downward with diuretics.

5. If the condition is complicated by dampness, check the lungs, which he

called " Xuan Fu " , the mysterious portal. That when water is stuck, heat can't be

cleared, and since heat is the root of all problems, this leads to chronic

disorders. To solve this he said that you have to open the chest, where this

feng shui is stuck, and he would basically use a formula like Wu ling san, but

modify it by replacing Gui Zhi with Rou Gui to move the water to the kidneys and

out through the bladder.

6. Formulas should be taken long term in powder form.

 

There's much more, but that's a thumbnail sketch. Now let's get to Chana.

First of all, he found that from the herbs I have been giving her, there wasn't

much yin vacuity. The first thing he found was a floating pulse in the qi and

cun positions. This reflected exterior heat in the bladder, LI, and San Jiao.

The herb used to release the exterior which has an affinity to both the Tai Yang

and the jaw (part of Chana's disorder is that she has a constant tremor in her

jaw) is Fang Feng. Another herb used to open up the sinuses is Yuan Zhi. There

were also tight and wiry pulses reflecting liver stagnation and fluid

accumulation as well as heat in the lungs. This needs to be drained down. The

king herb, however, is Lian Qiao, which clears heat both in the exterior as well

as the interior. Minerals and herbs are used to settle and drain down the heat.

He found that she had heart and Sp xu. His approach is to tonify and move blood

in order to tonify qi, and used

Dang Gui Wei and He Shou Wu for that purpose. For the spleen qi xu he added

Shen Qu and Fu Ling. To clear the ministerial fire without damaging the Yin he

used Zhi Zi. There was heat in the GB which is linked to the brain, so he used

Yu Jin to clear that heat. Every detail he explained, and if anyone has any

other questions I will be glad to explain further, but here is the formula that

he wrote:

 

Lian Qiao 90g Fang Feng 30 Xiang Fu 30 Mu Xiang

30

Yuan Zhi 30 Hua Shi 15 Han Shui Shi 15 Shen Qu

30

Yu Jin 15 Da Huang 15 Dang Gui Wei 45 Wu Wei Zi

15

Fu Ling 60 Zhi Zi 15 He Shou Wu 30

 

In the school of cooling and cold, acupuncture is to be used only where there

is excess, and Jeffrey felt that it was inappropriate for Chana.

 

 

As far as how to take the herbs, she will take 9 grams immediately after

meals, TID, in a cup of 2 slices of warm steeped ginger. In addition, he felt

it was beneficial to simultaneously take the two decoctions that she was taking,

AM- primarily supplementing Qi and PM-primarily nourishing yin and calming the

shen.

 

That's it! My impression was that he was quite confident that this protocol

should be quite beneficial. I will keep you all informed.

 

Sincerely,

 

Yehuda

wrote:

Dear friends, colleagues and teachers,

 

It has been some time since I wrote to you of my wife's progress. To recap: 17

years ago, she started having seizures which have occurred cyclically, every 3-4

weeks. Four years later, she started presenting with symptoms in some ways

resembling Parkinson's disease. Yet, 5 MRIs, and other scans have all been

benign. She is also unable to take Western pharmaceutical medicine, as she has

had severe allergic reactions on multiple occasions. What has helped has been

seven years of drinking Chinese herbal decoctions. Particularly encouraging has

been that in the past year or so, sleep has been much more sound and

undisturbed, urination is no longer frequent, and constipation is no longer an

issue. But, unfortunately, she continues to have the seizures. Also, her pulses

and tongue have also changed in the past year, and she no longer has a dry baked

brown coating as before. One other significant consideration that I have

mentioned to you before, is the presence of

thick, clear phlegm particularly, during the time that seizures are either

expected or have occurred.

 

At this time I want to relate to you three significant bits of input that have

either contributed within the past 9 months, or I expect will shortly: 1) Last

fall when we were in London, we met with a Vietnamese herbal master, Thong Tinh

Nguyen. Thong felt that part of the problem was that my wife Chana was not

absorbing the nutrients in her formulas. He therefore suggested dividing the

formula in half, and since then, Chana has been taking primarily herbs to

supplement Qi and transform phlegm AM and herbs to nourish Yin and calm Shen PM.

2) about 4 months ago, we had the pleasure of spending a few hours with my dear

friend and our colleague , in San Diego. Z'ev remarked that it

seemed to him that Chana's liver was doing the work of the Kidneys as well as

its own. He suggested that I integrate into her formulas, " Da Ding Feng Zhu " to

get to the root of the liver wind: complete exhaustion of the True Kidney Yin.

3) As most of you are reading this, I

am probably in the middle of a second day of seminars with Jeffrey Yuen. (BTW,

Chana was chosen as a demonstration patient, and I will report back, G-d

willing, on how he viewed her and how it went). On the first day I attended,

Friday, he presented a plethora of information, much of which I had never heard

nor seen before. (I also had the pleasure of meeting our esteemed colleague,

). Among the details was one that hit me like a lead balloon: Jeffrey

mentioned that in the presence of heat or severe Yin deficiency, the body

produces as a reaction, pathogenic fluid. This can be seen in fluid resulting

from inflammation. But it also makes perfect sense, that the tremendous amount

of clear sticky phlegm that accompanies Chana's seizures is probably this very

pathogenic fluid resulting from severe Yin depletion. Though it would be

completely inappropriate, it would seem to me, to use herbs transforming phlegm

as we have in the past, and instead, the focus

should be on engendering Yin while at the same time moving the Qi, to prevent

stagnation and accummulation.

 

Your thoughts?

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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