5th treatment

Treatment #5 - Deecember 27, 2007. The patient arrived and we took her picture immediately because last week I forgot until after the treatment and she was very red after the lightening peel with lactic acid and kojac acid.

As you can see from the picture the redness has subsided considerably and the itching and redness around the ears, jaw and face have gone down. The Chinese herbs have helped with the redness and inflammation along with her cutting out all refined carbohydrates, smoking, and sodas from her diet. She also has been eating the detox soup once a day that has the bitter melon and mung beans to help remove heat from the body.

The break-out on the right side of the nose was crusty and dark for about 3 months. It finally came to a head and lots of pus was drained out of it. The breakouts are different from before. Instead of them itching turning red then purple and then dark, they like a normal pimple. The have a little bit of pus. They drain and then they clear up and do not leave a mark.

Stress is minimal.

Sleep is ok

Exercise still losing her breath after exersion.

Menses- She had just started her period and she did not have any cramping or pain. She usually is in bed the first few days and then she will feel like getting up. This time the period was fine and she did not have to take anything for the pain and she wasn't in bed. She was really shocked and happy about that because she has always had bad periods.

Headaches- none

Mood- good

Weight loss- 5 more pounds

tongue- red little yellow coating in the back, scallopped

pulse- thready, wiry

Assessment- Liver, lung, and kidney yin deficiency with heat. Spleen qi deficiency causing damp heat.

Points- Liver 3, 5, 8, Spleen 4,6, 8,9,10, Pericardium 6, Stomach 36, 44, Kidney 3, 6, 7, Lung 9,7,5, Du 20, Yintang, Gallbladder 2, 14, 34, 41, Small intestine 19, Triple heater 5, 17, 21

Nourish yin of liver, lung and kidney, tonify spleen, drain dampness and heat.

This week I gave her 3 bottle of homeopathic drops of Guna cell, matrix, and kidney. I also gave her a homeopathic injection of cutis compostitum which is for acne and chronic skin issue.

She stayed on the same herbal formula for this week.

4th treatment

December 20th- Patient came in today and was very happy with her treatment last week. We did microdermabrasion all over her skin. She says that her skin is looking lighter and not so red but I think it is more to due with the Chinese herbal formula I gave her than the microdermabrasion. The itching has stopped and the redness behind the ears has also subsided. she did have a few break-out this week, but I think it was due to the microdermabrasion.
She lost 5 Ibs and has cut all carbohydrates from her diet. She is still eating fish, fruits, greens and the detox soup with the herbal formula 3 times a day.
The difficulty breathing is still there but it has not gotten any worse. I think it is more of a lung yin deficiency from all her years of smoking.
digestion good
mood good
stress minimal
sleep good,
energy good
exercising (dancing every day)
no headaches
Period will be here next week.
Tongue is not so red, scallopped, little yellow coating in the back
pulse thready
Assessment- Lung yin deficiency, Liver yin deficiency causing heat in the body and heat int he gallbladder channel. spleen qi deficiency with dampness.
Plan- Nourish yin, tonify spleen, drain damp, clear heat.
Points- Kidney 6, Lung 7 with pumping cords bilateral, Gallbladder 41, Triple heater 5, Liver 3, Large intestine 4, spleen 6,8,9,10 Stomach 36, Gallbladder 34, Liver 5, Large intestine 11, Gallbladder 1,2,3,15,14, small intestine 19, Triple heater 21, 23, Yintang, Du 20, Shen men, I also bled the apex of the ear.
The skincare treatment was a Lactic Acid with Kojak acid peel. I want to see which one works better the micro or the peel. I finished with a lightening rubber mask. The formula stayed the same. Next week I will take a picture to show the improvements.

3rd Treatment

December 12, 2007 My patient arrived and was still feeling good about her skin. The redness has subsided about 20% from the first visit and the hyperpigmentation is breaking up, but it is still there. She says she has not had any new breakout and that she is feeling better. Her energy is good. The itching and reness behind the ears has subsided but she did experience a high pitch tinnitus for about 5 minutes and then it disappeared. She also had a headache only on the top of her head. She did take aspirin to help it to subside.

She did have lots of energy and felt great after her first acupuncture treatment. Stress has improved significantly. She put on a scale of 3 from 10 last week. The other symptom that is bothering her is shortness of breath after exertion and worse at night. This has been happening since the has had the skin problem.
Mood stable
Energy- fatigue
Digestion good and is taking a probiotic daily

Tongue- scalloped red with yellow coating.
Pulse- thready and wiry

Assessment- Heat in the liver and gallbladder channel causing a liver and kidney yin deficiency. She also has a lung yin deficiency.
Plan- clear heat, nourish yin and nourish the lungs.
Points- lung 1,2, 7 Spleen 6, 9,10, Gallbladder 2,3, 14, 15, 34, 41, Liver 3, Large intestine 4, 11, San Jiao 5, 17, 21, 23, Small intestine, 18, 19, Yintang, Stomach 7, 8, 36, Kidney 3, 6 Shen men, lung, kidney, and I bled the apex.
Chinese herbal formula was changed to Han Lian Cao 20 gr with Nu Zhen Zi 20gr. She is also doing another week of the detox soup (info on detox soup visit www.healingherbalsoups.com)

Interesting Case study

This lady is a case study that I am working on in my clinic. I am treating her free of charge to see if I can help. She has given me permission to show her picture and If anybody has any imput on how I can modify or help with my treatments it would be greatly appreciated.

The 1st treatment was on November 15 2007. She is a 25 year old female that had a few breakout during her teens but nothing to be concerned with. In the last 2 years she has been under a lot of stress and started gaining weight. She was eating junk food and smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day. She then noticed that she was getting these sores on her cheeks that would itch really bad and once they healed they would develop into a brown spot. The redness in her face got worse, her hair started to fall out around the ear area and she became very depressed. The redness gets worse she is under stress.
Her tongue is Pale, scallopped, white coating and the pulse is thready wiry.
The dermatologist thought it was lupus but her blood work came back clear. He put her on prednisone and it did clear it up for awhile but the minute she goes off the prednisone it comes right back. They gave her 3 different antibiotics that did not help at all.

The time I met her I told her she was going to have to make some lifestyle changes and she was willing to do anything. She was scared about acupuncture so I told her that we would have to clean out her body with a detox kit for all the organs and eat the detox soup that I make for my acne patients. She also not allowed to eat any carbohydrates for the next week and that I wanted to see her in two weeks once the kit was over with.

The 2nd treatment was on December 6th 2007- She had followed the diet to the letter and had given up smoking that day. She had tremendous stress in her life the week before she came in but she was excited that the redness has gone down considerably, and she has lost 11 Ibs. At this treatment I did do acupuncture in Lv3, LI4, Lung 7, Sp10,9,8,6, GB34, 41, SJ 5,17, 21 ST36,
GB2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, SI 19, 18 K6, I then gave her an herbal formula of Long Dan Xie Gan Tang 25gr., Jia Wei Xiao Yao Wan 10 gr, He shou Wu 10 gr, and Bai Shao Yao 5 gr.
I also did a facial using tea tree oil, glycolic, and salicylic acid. The skin care that I sent her home was Chi herbal infusion for sensitive skin. The skin care line uses Chinese herbs and it does not contain any parabens that could irritate the skin. She is to follow the detox soup for another week and to eat only organic foods. I will see her in a week