Comments for Topics in Chinese Medicine

Comment on Kampo – Pulsations on the Abdomen by Michael Ellis

Michael Ellis — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:10:04 +0000

Thanks Nigel (& Sharon), you just cleared up the biggest conundrum in hara palpation once and for all! (And it was so obvious all along… )

Comment on Dysmenorrhea: Cold Causes Pain by Bethleigh Flanagan

Bethleigh Flanagan — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:23:00 +0000

Thanks so much again Sharon!

Comment on Painful Menstruation by sheila g

sheila g — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:15:56 +0000

Thank you, Sharon! Really helpful information. Love the attention to and explanation re:the roles of the Heart and Liver. Thank you, Dr. Xia!

Comment on Painful Menstruation by susana

susana — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:55:40 +0000

Thanks Sharon for another great blog. The information is extremely useful and I appreciate your willingness to share.
-Susana

Comment on My Sprained Ankle… Healed with 7-star hammer by Samantha Preis

Samantha Preis — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:53:20 +0000

This is why we TCM practitioners have a silver lining to every injury and illness. We can experience our wonderful medicine ourselves to reaffirm its awesomeness.

Comment on Da Zao in Classic Formulas by Melina

Melina — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:20:35 +0000

Sounds great!! Waiting for more information about the online course.

Comment on My Sprained Ankle… Healed with 7-star hammer by Raven Lang

Raven Lang — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:40:16 +0000

sharon,
this is a wonderful piece. i love that you took the photos and expressed every step you took in your treatment. what you did is exactly how my teacher Miriam Lee worked, and it always seemed like a miracle. i love the strength that you show in this piece: intellectual, physical, and courage, or as we say nowadays, mind, body, and spirit. Miriam Lee would have also done five tigers after the 7 star, bleeding and cupping. do you know these master tung points for sprained ankle? they are so powerful and magical, that they are the reason my son went to TCM school and became an acupuncturist.
raven

Comment on My Sprained Ankle… Healed with 7-star hammer by Mark Brancato

Mark Brancato — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:04:29 +0000

Cool stuff, release that congested evil! Bleeding so often gives dramatic results like this..

Maybe even adding the lu 10 area point on the opposite palm, threaded along the metacarpal? Either way though.. Got to carry these tools with me too!

Comment on My Sprained Ankle… Healed with 7-star hammer by Karen R Adams, Lic Ac

Karen R Adams, Lic Ac — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:02:53 +0000

I’m a big fan of cold, raw cabbage wrapped around the joint, and Sp 2, myself. 24 hours after a nasty sprain there was no inflammation, no swelling, just like new with slightly stretched tendons, which resolved in a couple of days.

I also used it when I scalded my hand. The pain was permanently gone in 15 minutes.

My theory is, for Heat/acute symptoms, the cold cabbage feels good (helps spasms, for instance), but it doesn’t behave like ice, which will contract and constrict, and drive the pathogen inward, rather than resolve it. There’s something about the chemistry of the cabbage that draws the inflammation out.

I tell all my patients about it. They use it on their horses, on their arthritic joints (including rheumatoid arthritis), sprains, strains. One patient used it on her son’s shattered tibia to reduce the swelling enough for surgery. It worked very well. It can also be used on open wounds, tho I’ve never tried that.

Cabbage, the best home remedy ever. Google it and see. There’s loads of information out there. I keep a head of plain, cheap green cabbage in my home first aid kit.

Comment on Kampo – Low Abdominal Pressure? by David Milbradt

David Milbradt — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:56:43 +0000

This series of posts is answering questions I have come up with after doing palpation on clients since the GMP abdominal palpation class. Last week I was wondering what pulsations signify and didn’t find the answers in my notes. I’m adding this info to my growing abdominal palpation notebook. Thanks for filling in the gaps in my understanding.