TCM Case Study

Acupuncture under Live Thermography
Physiological reaction when patient recieve Acupuncture on Liver Area for
Liver Heat Deficiency

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Multiple Myeloma Maintained with Chinese Herbal Medicine Treatment Alone

Multiple Myeloma (MM, Kahler's Disease, or Plasma Cell Myeloma) is a cancer of the white blood cells. With this condition a persons body produces too many abnormal cells in the bone marrow which effectively causes the blood to thicken and tumors may form in the bone.

the case study I am discussing today is of a woman diagnosed at age 49 with multiple myeloma who after undergoing western treatments for about one year discontinued them in favor of a full TCM approach. Her decision was largely due to multiple side effects that were untenable for her.

In TCM terms multiple myeloma may fall under the Xue Bi diagnostic pattern which effectively means "blood painful obstruction". This is a pattern that effectively starts with a weakness in what we would call the "blood" (or "xue") which has more meaning than just our blood in western terms, which then allows "cold" or stagnating forces to enter deeply into the body which can create a range of issues from neuropathy, pain, paralysis, and more depending on other factors. The treatment in Chinese Medicine terms is to warm interior cold and warm and disperse cold in the channels.

One of the important formulas for "blood painful obstruction" is called Huang Qi Gui Zhi Wu Wu Wan or the "Astragalus and Cinnamon Five Herb Decoction". As the name would indicate two of the most important herbs in the formula are huang qi (or "astragalus") and gui zhi (or "cinnamon"). In Chinese Herbal Medicine terms huang qi will tonify the qi, more specifically the defensive layer of the body or "wei qi" which is in some ways the initial functions of the immune system which keep us from getting sick to begin with. Gui Zhi will release exterior cold in TCM terms which functionally pushes out the influences that are causing disease.

Knee Pain Case Study
This is a case study of a 53 year old man who presented with pain in the anterior medial aspect of his right knee,
The pain was present most of the time but developed increasingly worse with high activity, climatic change or at the end of a days work. This made it very difficult for him to worked long hours in construction industry and walked up stairs all day.

Biomedical diagnosis: diagnosed him with OA of the knee after The MRI showed joint space narrowing due to loss of articular cartilage and slight osteophyte formation.

TCM diagnosis was anterior medial knee pain due to fixed Bi syndrome Cold and damp predominant with stagnation of Qi and Blood with kidney yang deficiency.

TCM treatment was to eliminate the dampness, scatter the cold, improve the flow of Qi and Blood, tonify liver and kidney and alleviate pain.

The acupoints selected are listed below:
SP10 , GB34, ST36, SP9,ST34, LV8
KD10, Knee earpoint & ear prostaglandin

Initial herbal preparation:
Du Huo Ji Sheng Wan with 20 pills 3 times daily. In addition, glucosamine 50mg, twice daily. topical herbal prescribed was Zheng Gu Shui to be liberally applied three times a day.
Conclusion: Following an 8 week period, Jim had reduced his level of pain
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