OAT CELL LUNG CANCER History: Patient is a 60 year old female with a chief complaint of oat cell Lung cancer. The cancer was diagnosed approximately 1 year prior to […]
Tag: chinese medicine
Indigestion
Patient Last Name: S Patient First Name: JTreatment Date and Time: . May 12, 2001Sex and Age: Male 48 Profession: Artist 1. Chief Complaint: Indigestion and Stomach Pain for 15 […]
Back Pain
Patient Last Name: WA99 Patient First Name: JTreatment Date and Time: September 23, 1999Sex and Age: Female, 21 1. Chief Complaint: Back Pain from MVA since May 1999 2. Medical […]
Impotence
Patient Last Name: Dv00 Patient First Name: ATreatment Date and Time: 5/13/00Sex and Age: Male, 29 1. Chief Complaint: impotence2. Medical History:Present Illness: the onset of patient’s illness was approximately […]
Amenorrhea
History:S is a 32 year old actress and writer with a 16 year history of secondary amenorrhea. She stopped menstruating at 16, when she was also suffering from anorexia nervosa. […]
Case studies
As many people reading these blog posts are not practitioners of Chinese medicine and aren’t familiar with the concepts thereof, I thought I’d post a series of case studies to […]
Spring is here (almost)
Tonight spring has arrived, and as such we are transitioning from the dormancy of winter (water – Kidneys) into a time marking the renewal of life (wood – Liver). Technically, […]
Nurture v. Nature (cont’d)
Recently I was watching a great documentary on multiples in the womb. It highlighted the numerous stages of gestation and the interactions between the brother and sister fetuses while in […]
Nurture v. Nature
This debate has been going on forever. I don’t have an answer! But I was recently thinking it very convenient to blame so much of our health problems on genetics. […]
Dang Gui, Estrogen, Cancer Protection
For years the debate has raged as to whether herbs with estrogenic properties contribute to the formation of cancer and thus should be avoided by those with cancer, those with […]