text recommendations, H1N1

[Guest guest]

Doug,

Concerning my recent flu experience:

My overt symptoms started several hours after my 8 yr. old began complaining of

her's. My wife's sx began 24 hrs. later, but 9 yr. old son has had no sx after a

week at home with the rest of us.

 

First symptoms are a moderate sore throat, mild fever, chills and aversion to

cold, frontal HA, achiness behind eyes and in various unilateral joints, an

achiness when urinating, moderate fatigue and light headedness.

 

The fever varied from 99 - 101 and would alternate with chills. There was

intermittant nasal cogestion and seldom, clear discharge. The throat stayed sore

and developed a dry, scratchy cough- no sputum. Mild restlessness with inability

to read more than 30 minutes. 'Had light, intermittent sweats and areas of

erythema on torso. No thirst.

 

Appetite was fair, preference for warm, bland food/soups. No BM during first 2

days but likely more of a factor of stopping coffee. After that, became regular

but sl. loose quality.

 

Chills, achiness and HA were gone by day 3. No fever during day 4. After day 4

only sx was infrequent, crackly cough with small amt (pea sized) whitish,

expectorant.

 

Pulse was superficial, and initially more bounding in Rt first position but

shifted to more prominant in Rt second pos. - otherwise not remarkable. Tongue

went from usual deficient coat and sl. swollen, to thickening white coat that

covered to tip - only redness to develop are residual, minute, anterior prickles

with receding coat.

 

My herbs on hand were limited- most all were prepared/patents. As I recently

graduated, I haven't yet rushed to open accounts with herb suppliers.

 

Initially, I combined Jing fang bai du san with Yin qiao san. Later, I added

Chuan xin lian pian and dropped JFBDS by day 3. Each am and pm I drank a packet

of Ban lan gen chong ji in a decoction of fresh ginger and cinnamon bark. For

the ongoing nasal and throat symptoms I gargled and neti'ed with a salt water

solution and watermelon frost compound( fu fang xi guan shuan).

 

The virus would cycle through a large-scale release accompanied by chills and

congestion, and then the immune system would fight back with accompanying fever

and fatigue. I also used limited doses of ibuprofen and EmergenC packets to

boost and control the upper respiratory inflammatory responses. You can see the

kitchen sink approach at work here.

 

The condition never really manifested as a Yangming or Yintang stage condition.

There was never an obvious issue of Lung heat or internal heat either.

 

For the most part, my 8 yr. old got the same herbal regimen. She got the

positive H1N1 diagnosis from the pediatrician that indicated we all had the same

infection. My daughter and I also had 2 simple acupuncture txs. My skeptical

wife resorted to Tamiflu and has progressed generally along the same arch of

recovery but with more residual fatigue and muddle headedness.

 

By day 6 I was back to work, and did 2 full massages with good stamina. My

daughter practiced yesterday(day7) and played in a soccer game today with no

problems. I hope all this information helps your next treatments. Thanks for

asking.

 

 

 

 

 

, " " wrote:

>

> Actually, I wouldn't mind hearing about your experience. How you identified

it, etc... I haven't seen it yet and am curious what to look for and about the

course and treatment of it.

> Doug

>

>

>

> , " Mark " <mafitzp@> wrote:

> >

> > While at home treating my own H1N1 infection, I went looking for additional

information on Chuan xin lian kang yan pian. There were no references in

Chen/Chen Formula's or Scheid/Bensky's 2nd. There were listings in Fratkin's

Patent Reference. Those are the primary texts on my bookshelf.

> > An instructor of herbal internal medicine at AOMA(Austin), Yuxin He,

occasionally included formulas from a Chinese language text, Internal Medicine

of TCM by Yongyan Wang and others (Shanghai Science and Technology Press, 2002).

It seemed the authors used variations of historically prescribed formulas

utilizing modifications and combinations based on the biomedical properties of

the added herbs.

> >

> > Is anyone in the group familiar with the text and find it well-grounded in

it's approach? Could the group please recommend their preferred English language

text(s) that might take a similar, biomed approach to classical herbal medicine

treatment? I am a recent graduate and am interested to add to my reference

library.

> >

> > Mark Fitzpatrick, Dallas

> >

>