Managing the patient with HIV...

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

Im wondering if anyone has any ideas or knows of sources of information

on managing patients with HIV.

I havent really given it much thought before, but have been wondering

about the treatment protocol lately and would like to learn more.

It would seem to me that this disease is often approached as a classical

deficiency syndrome due to its manifestations, but after reflecting on the

history of TB differentiation in TCM, I am wondering if this is necessarily

correct.

I remember being told by one of my teachers that TB was one notable

exception to the chinese medicine differentiation of disease (the other

being hayfever), as it was historically treated as a deficiency syndrome,

when really, with the advent of modern disease theory, it became known

that TB is caused by an exogenous pathogen, which is an excess

syndrome, and the herbs that have more antimicrobial action action

against the TB bacillus would not generally fall into the category of tonics.

I was just reading a book on imperial formulae prescribed to the dowager

empress Ci Xi, compiled by Chen, Keji and it was interesting looking at the

prescriptions from a modern standpoint, as it is thought now that the

emperor had TB. Yet the formulae prescribed focused on tonification of a

constitutional deficiency pattern.

I would be really interested to hear everyones thoughts on this one, both

from a classical TCM standpoint and from an integrative western / TCM

point of view.

If this has been covered before in a thread, Id be happy to be referred to it.

(Ive not been posting or reading for awhile, so may have missed it.)

Thanks everyone...

[Guest guest]

Hi Lea:

I have a book on HIV called The HIV Wellness Sourcebook: An East/West Guide to

Living

with HIV/AIDS and Related Conditions that can be found on Amazon.

However, it is currently out of print, so I have more copies at my clinic.

You can e-mail me offline if you would like more info.

Yours,

Misha

 

http://www.amazon.com/HIV-Wellness-Sourcebook-Related-Conditions/dp/0805051171

, " Lea Starck " <leabun1 wrote:

>

> Hi everyone,

> Im wondering if anyone has any ideas or knows of sources of information

> on managing patients with HIV.

> I havent really given it much thought before, but have been wondering

> about the treatment protocol lately and would like to learn more.

> It would seem to me that this disease is often approached as a classical

> deficiency syndrome due to its manifestations, but after reflecting on the

> history of TB differentiation in TCM, I am wondering if this is necessarily

> correct.

> I remember being told by one of my teachers that TB was one notable

> exception to the chinese medicine differentiation of disease (the other

> being hayfever), as it was historically treated as a deficiency syndrome,

> when really, with the advent of modern disease theory, it became known

> that TB is caused by an exogenous pathogen, which is an excess

> syndrome, and the herbs that have more antimicrobial action action

> against the TB bacillus would not generally fall into the category of tonics.

> I was just reading a book on imperial formulae prescribed to the dowager

> empress Ci Xi, compiled by Chen, Keji and it was interesting looking at the

> prescriptions from a modern standpoint, as it is thought now that the

> emperor had TB. Yet the formulae prescribed focused on tonification of a

> constitutional deficiency pattern.

> I would be really interested to hear everyones thoughts on this one, both

> from a classical TCM standpoint and from an integrative western / TCM

> point of view.

> If this has been covered before in a thread, Id be happy to be referred to it.

> (Ive not been posting or reading for awhile, so may have missed it.)

> Thanks everyone...

>