dry eyes for a few yrs

35 yr old female patient cc. stress and neck pain (due to auto accident a few yrs ago)

thirst for cold drinks warm hands and feet without palpitation dry eyes and skin. dizziness (sit -> stand fast) floaters easily constipated fatigue expecially after lunch time. digestion is fine. under lots of stress. tightness in neck rom is not full. red eyes at times.

tx kd 10 + floaters arealmost gone and driness in eyes are slightly better neck is looser

then lv 2 - driness is gone and neck is much better

herbs: she gan san without long dan cao

Multiple Sclerosis patient

35 yr old male patient cc ms for yrs. (numbness in hands feet and abdomen) bloating feeling in st after defication. poor appetite cold hands and feet. thin body type low voice tone constipation insomnia

hands and feet gets more numb with damp weather.

tx GB 41 + st 43 + then LI 1-

needled left side and then the numbness in right side hand and foot disappeared completely.

herbs ping wei san

相通 means mutual comunication

相通 (pronouced as sahng tong in korean) means mutual communication. in acupuncture, it means the communication between certain Zhang Fu pairs as follows:

KD-SJ
LV-LI
SP-SI
HT-GB
LU-UB
PC-ST

recently there were a couple of patients with anxiety symptoms along with various GYN disorders. their s/s look very complicated because it looked like a confusing mixture of LV SP HT SI s/s. tonify SP took care of it all because of this SP SI sahng tong communication.

sprain ankle for 2 wks

45 yr female patient cc right ankle sprain for 2 wks.

pain is located on the medial and lateral side of right ankle. the worst pain is located in gb 40 area which is very tender to touch.

tx sp 4 -

both the medial and lateral side pain disappeared.

damp in the low back

30 yr old male patient cc low back pain for 4 months

pain is worse with humidity. pain is located at around L5 S1 area along DU and huatou jia ji points.

s/s thin body type low voice tone low energy cough when exposed to cold air.

since pain is worse when it rains,

tx UB 60 +

patient says "much better"

right ub 60 took care of left side pain. then added uib 60 on the left side for right side pain