Treatment Cave

The thinking about geriatrics in Chinese medicine has been dominated by Kidney deficiency for centuries. As Kidney-Jing declines as we age, the clinical approach to the treatment of the elderly has been based largely on tonifying the Kidneys. However, modern diseases of the elderly that account for 90% of mortality (cancer, heart disease and stroke) are characterized by Fullness. Quite simply, we do not die of Kidney deficiency but of Phlegm, Blood stasis and Internal Wind. The most common pathogenic factors (and those leading to serious diseases) are: Phlegm Blood stasis Internal Wind Apart from the major diseases of the elderly such as cancer, stroke and heart disease, very many symptoms and signs that occur in old age are caused by Phlegm and/or Blood stasis. The following is a partial list. GERIATRIC SYMPTOMS/SIGNS •Otosclerosis: Phlegm/Blood stasis •Cataract: Phlegm •Macular degeneration (vascular, lack of blood nourishment): Blood stasis •Dry eyes: may be due to Blood stasis •Alz...

1. Attend 12 Step Meetings Most 12 step groups hold additional meetings during the holidays and sober parties. Keep your 12 step meeting schedule handy on your phone and make a plan. Remember - nothing ensures continuous sobriety better than one alcoholic talking to another alcoholic. 2. Remove Expectations During this time of year, we can place a lot of expectations on others as well as ourselves. Remember the Alcoholics Anonymous slogan, "easy does it". Relax and take the pressure off yourself and those around you. Enjoy the season! 3. Start A New Holiday Tradition Why not start a new tradition and host your own sober holiday event? Invite your sober friends over and have them bring their favorite dish. Before you eat read a paragraph from the Big Book and let everyone share. Nothing breaks the ice better than a meeting! 4. Don't Go to Slippery Places There is an old saying in Alcoholics Anonymous - Don't go to the barber shop unless you want to get a haircut!...

Step Two of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 Step Program is: "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." Excerpt from the A.A. Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions "When we encountered A.A., the fallacy of our defiance was revealed. At no time had we asked what God's will was for us; instead we had been telling Him what it ought to be. No man, we saw, could believe in God and defy Him, too. Belief meant reliance, not defiance. In A.A. we saw the fruits of this belief: men and women spared from alcohol's final catastrophe. We saw them meet and transcend their other pains and trials. We saw them calmly accept impossible situations, seeking neither to run nor to recriminate. This was not only faith; it was faith that worked under all conditions. We soon concluded that whatever price in humility we must pay, we would pay." PDF Download Step Two in its entirety. Humility - A Cornerstone of Successful Recovery Humility is not th...

Fox News reported that- Steve Sarkisian sued the University of Southern California on Monday, alleging the school breached the football coach's contract and discriminated against him on the basis of a disability -- namely alcoholism -- when it fired him this fall. According to Fox News, Sarkisian claims he should have been allowed to seek treatment for alcoholism while keeping his job. The lawsuit describes Sarkisian's descent into alcohol dependency in steady detail, citing the extraordinary stress of the USC job combined with his wife's decision to file for divorce earlier this year. Sarkisian was an assistant coach at USC under coach Pete Carroll during the 2000s, and he returned to the school as head coach in December 2013 after five years at Washington. Sarkisian's behavior was first scrutinized last August when he slurred his words and used profanity in a speech at a preseason pep rally. He claims he was affected by two light beers and two prescription medicatio...

Social media networks such as Facebook are extremely addictive. Studies show that most people check, update and interact on social sites constantly throughout the day. In addition, they really have no clear idea of how much actual time they spend doing this. If you're a social media addict, and your addiction is getting worse, says Mike Elgan - there's a reason for that: Most of the major social network companies, as well as social content creators, are working hard every day to make their networks so addictive that you can't resist them. Cornell Information Science published research earlier this month that looked at (among other things) the difficulty some people have in quitting Facebook and other social networks. They even have a label for the failure to quit: "social media reversion." The study used data from a site called 99DaysofFreedom.com , which encourages people to stop using Facebook for 99 days. Have you ever wondered what your life would be like ...

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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...