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2005 Newsletters |
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| November/December |
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Examples of Different TCM Treatment Methods for Depression.
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| The Western concept of depression is often associated with Yu Zheng, depression pattern, which is defined as any pattern of qi stagnation, including depression of any of the five viscera, emotions, or vital substances. A more specific definition of Yu Zheng describes it as any pattern arising when constrained mental or emotional activity causes depression of the qi dynamic. This impairs the liver’s function of ensuring free flow of qi throughout the body. |
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September/October |
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New Uses of Ancient Formulas: Yu Ping Feng San [Saposhnikovia & Astragalus Formula], Long Dan Xie Gan Tang [Gentiana Combination], Sheng Mai San [Ginseng & Ophiopogon Combination] |
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Yu Ping Feng San [Saposhnikovia & Astragalus Formula] literally means Jade Screen Powder, denoting the formula’s function of securing the body exterior against exterior evils. It consists of Huang Qi [Astragalus], Bai Zhu [Atractylodes] and Fang Feng [Siler]. Common applications include susceptibility to the common cold and frequent infections, allergic rhinitis, profuse sweating, and chronic respiratory allergies. The traditional indication of Yu Ping Feng San is vacuity of lung qi and defence qi (also called wei qi). |
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July/August |
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New Uses of Ancient Formulae: Gui Zhi Tang [Cinnamon Combination] |
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is based on pattern differentiation, not disease differentiation. However, due to “ready made” pattern differentiations in textbooks, we might potentially create our own TCM-version of limitations: When treating a certain disorder, are our minds open for any possible pattern the patient might present, or are we “pre-programmed” towards the patterns commonly associated with that disorder?
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May/June |
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Dr. Zhu Liangchun’s Way of Treating Difficult Disorders
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The main problem with so-called difficult diseases lies in the discrimination of a complicated pattern and the ensuing difficulty in establishing a corresponding treatment method. The following key points prevent giving in to confusion when being faced with a difficult pattern and lay the foundation for a clear strategy to work with; a) Continually expanding the working knowledge of the basic theory, which permits Practitioners to; b) apply these theories with increasing flexibility in clinical practice; c) continuously evaluating the methods and techniques of pattern identification and treatment determination and d) looking for the essence of the pattern rather than getting caught up with minor aspects of the pattern. |
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March/April |
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Li Zhong Tang [Ginseng & Ginger Combination] – History and Application |
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Origin and Development |
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Li Zhong Tang [Ginseng & Ginger Combination], also called Ren Shen Tang, first appears in the Prescriptions from the Golden Chamber. It was called Li Zhong Tang in the Treatise on Febrile Diseases of the Han Dynasty and appears as Zhi Zhong Tang in the medical works of Su Song of the Song Dynasty, and is later called Tiao Zhong Tang in the works of Zhang Jing-Yue of the Ming Dynasty. It also has an alias of Li Zhong Yuan in The Classic of the Golden Chamber. |
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January/February |
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Master Fang Heqian’s Way of Using Xiao Chai Hu Tang (Minor Bupleurum Combination) |
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When hearing the words Xiao Chai Hu Tang one immediately thinks of Shao Yang [lesser Yang], Shao Yang Bing [lesser Yang disease] and the corresponding treatment strategy known as He Jie Fa, commonly translated as the “harmonising method”. |
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The Shang Han Lun defines Xiao Chai Hu Tang Pattern in Line 96 as “When in cold damage that has lasted for five or six days or wind strike, there is alternation of heat effusion and aversion to cold, a sensation of fullness in the chest and rib-side, the patient is distant and uncommunicative and has no desire for food or drink, heart vexation and frequent retching, or vexation in the chest and no retching, or thirst, or pain in the abdomen, or hard glomus under the rib-side, or palpitations below the heart with inhibited urination, or absence of thirst with mild generalised heat, or cough; then Xiao Chai Hu Tang governs.” |
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