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I recently received an email from a colleague asking for a help with a patient suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome.  The colleague was asking about the treatment principle to apply.  The patient obviously suffered from a deficiency of Zheng Qi, as all patients with chronic fatigue syndrome do.  But she also had frequent acute invasions of Wind. The colleague was rightly following the principle that, in the presence of an acute invasion of Wind, one must expel pathogenic factors, in this case expelling Wind, and not tonify Zheng Qi.  In between invasions of Wind, the correct treatment principle is to tonify Zheng Qi, and this what the colleague was doing. However, the problem was that the patient suffered from very frequent invasions of Wind, so that there was hardly any time to tonify Zheng Qi for a prolonged time.  She was using Yin Qiao San during the acute invasions of Wind and a Qi tonic   to tonify Zheng Qi in between the acute attacks. She wrote t...

CONCORD, N.H. —U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte is introducing legislation to improve addiction treatment programs for pregnant women and mothers who have a substance use disorder, including a pilot program that allows funds to help women in non-residential settings. The bill would reauthorize residential treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women supported by the federal Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. It also would authorize a pilot program for state substance abuse agencies that allows funds to be used for family-based services for pregnant and postpartum women in non-residential settings. Ayotte, a Republican, was introducing the Senate version of the Improving Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women Act on Tuesday. A similar bill was recently introduced in the House by U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, a Democrat from New Mexico. "The heroin and prescription opioid addiction crisis does not discriminate, and pregnant women and new mothers who are struggling with addictio...