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)
Friday, December 14, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Interesting Case study
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
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