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The symptoms relating to psychology is very complicate. In the western medicine,
the psychologic symptoms looked to be classified very well but virtually such
classification is little effective for the treatment.
It is not easy to treat them with also east asian medicine. However east asian
medicine has more merits to treat the symptoms than western medicine,
because the eastern pathology is based on five organs and brain( not
limited to physical brain but including spiritual area though is not clear),
but the western pathology is usually interpreted as a problem of limited to brain
nerves. So the treatment of the eastern is more precise than the western.
Of course chemical medicine that is a kind of anesthetic is very effective
to calm down when the patient is running riot for the prevention of
physical damages.
By the way, some of symptoms classified as neuropsychiatric symptoms
by the western, such as epilepsy or tic or sleeping disorders an so on,
are not psychiatric but physical to the eyes of the eastern.
Today, regarding to panic disorder(agoraphobia), I record one of treatment case.
She feared everything without any reasons. Even she didn't know the object
of her fear. According to her statement, she had been treated at over 30 medical
institutes including university hospital and small local clinic of the western and
the eastern, but the symptoms worsened so far. So, she really wanted Hrabi
should be the last clinic of her wandering. she was accompanied by her husband
and son, which was a great adventure for her because she feared anything outside
home.
1. Personal Information(044631)
Kim, K. M, Female, 43 years old.
Household
Address : Kwangjusi, South Korea
2. Chief complaints
She fears everything not to go out home. She stays at home all day long.
She was diagnosed as "Panic disorder" at the hospital" But she had
event to be thought as a motive of the symptoms, so I diagnose as agoraphobia
according to the classification of the western medicine. It is merely a short
of Ki in the heart to the eyes of eastern medicine.
She feels dying for the fever of the head under sunshine, but very cold in winter.
Breathless and heavy in the chest, so she cannot walk nor work even switching
on laundry machine.
Dried mouth
3. Other Symptoms and Signs
She has lots of burn marks of moxa for the treatment of her symptoms. I stopped
moxa immediately for that might be lethal because moxa might worsen the fever
of her head and heart. I reproached the quack instead of her ignorance.
Ringing ear
Headache
Digestive disorders and gastroesophageal reflux disease
Frequent and residual urine
Occasional excessive sweating
White powder appear on the lips
Reddish eyes
Atopy and stretch marks
Easy black blue on the skin without even a feeble impact
Nummular eczema on the back and eczema on the wrists
No sex for 4 years due to the symptoms
Pulse : Stress, fast, tensed and float
Tongue : Yellowish deep coated and light pinky at the apex
Abdomen : Stiffened at the upper over all
4. Diagnosis
Liver weak and congested
Heart small
Lung a little weak
Kidney a little weak
5. Pathology
In brief, above diagnostic characteristics produce fever and humidity. The fever
and humidity on the heart worsens the weak born heart more weaker. So
the heart will avoid new burden to keep its life more safely. To accept new
surroundings and positive adapting needs to spend heart energy but wet
organic machine( humid heart) already lost its sophistication. The fear is a
protective mechanism of the heart as a result.
6. Prescription
To get rid of humidity
To release liver
To lower fever
7. Results
1st Prescription
To get rid of humidity is the first.
1st Result
No headache
Reduced the fever on the head. According to her statement, 20% reduced and
so 80% remains.
Reduced breathless and heavy heart. So she can do now simple home works
such as cooking or laundry, which has been unimaginable.
Still she fears to go a step outside home, but she has once been to a beauty
saloon.
She is still uneasy to get sunshine near the glass in living room. but this is
a great progression than before. She couldn't go near the glass at before.
Eczemas on the back and wrists are disappearing.
2nd Prescription
To increase for lowering fever
2nd Result
She has been to a grand mart ten for ten minutes of driving far from her
home one evening. But in the mart, she felt dizzy and breathless and some
palpitation.
She can feel some pain on the central upper abdomen, which was not
sensitive in spite of gastroesophageal reflux.
Atopy and eczema get better
The fever on the head is still remain.
3rd Prescription
Increased for converging energy
3rd Result
She takes a walk around village for twenty minutes in every afternoon.
She was surprised at her for herself.
She can percieve very feeble sensitive changes on the head and the back.
She can feel some power on her limbs and so she wants to walk from
the afternoon.
4th Prescription
Added for digestion
The most attentive change is her confirmation that she can do at her will.
As of 2009. Dec. 14
She called me later over a month after 4th prescription. Her late call means that
her symptoms are getting better to be taken care of.
4th Result
She now takes a walk alone and goes shopping at near mart. Everyone of
her relatives are surprised at her recovery. Much more the husband's pleasure!
She says in great pleasure " We make love as ordinary couple in forties do!"
Last for four years, they have never had sex due to the symptoms and which
also made the symptoms worsened.
She evaluates the recovery progress so far as 45% of her satisfaction. I think
her scoring the treatment is so tight and undervalued, because she says
"I am sure only one more prescription will treat me perfectly"
Do you think it is possible that the remain 55% of the symptom can be recovered
with one more prescription? I answer
"Four times of prescription make 45% progress, so remain 55% of perfect recovery
will need at least 10 times more further. Because there is the law of marginal utility
in every fields."
She apologizes for her thoughtlessness right then.
She says one missed symptom just like a praise compensating for her imprudence
"I have vomited whenever I eat oyster from childhood on, but now I can eat it
comfortably without vomit. this is one of surprising thing to my relatives. and
oh, one more thing, I stopped taking the depressants because the blood pressure
got lowered. The maximum pressure reaches to only 138."
5th Prescription
Added for sexual energy
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