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There are “Eight Treatment
Methods” called “Bian Zheng”, which correlate to the diagnosis of “pattern
discrimination”. The methods are: diaphoresis (sweating), emesis (vomiting),
purgation, balancing, warming, clearing, elimination, and tonification
(strengthening).
Specifically applied to
HIV/AIDS, the TCM practitioner must address the two primary healthcare
approaches dealing with strengthening the body’s resistance by building
the body’s ‘root’ qi and vital substances as well as improving the immune
system. The TCM practitioner strives to eliminate the virus and disease
side effects such as clearing heat, resolving toxins, invigorating the
blood, resolving stagnation, and softening and scattering hard accumulations.
The TCM practitioner views
the person as a whole and searches for the underlying causes of the disease
imbalances based upon the manifestations. The practitioner addresses the
key primary organo-systems that produce, move and metabolize all fluids
namely Lung, Spleen and Kidney and seeks to build and balance Qi, Blood,
Yin and Yang.
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In
the next TCM article we will discuss Chinese herbal formulas in application
for various pattern or disease diagnoses. In allopathic medicine the overall
condition is referred to as HIV/AIDS whereas in TCM the patterns of symptoms
carry specific designations that clearly points to the organo-systems or
functions that are dis-at-ease and the optimal resolution. Example: If
the TCM symptom pattern shows a ‘wasting’ syndrome or ‘ease to diarrhea’,
the organo system called Spleen would be deficient in certain energy and
holding function and the aim would be to tonify that system with specific
herbal formulations.
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