Rhinitis, empyema and tympanitis are caused by common pathology. So the
prescription for treatment should be almost same. In the eyes of western Medicine,
these are different diseases because the places of these disorders are different
and so the names of disorders are. However in the eyes of East Asian Medicine,
the cause of them is common because EAM classifies the diseases as the balance
of five organs.
Middle ear infection among them, in case that is caused outside impact, the pathology
can be interpretated diversely. However if you understand following pathology, you can
choose the best treatment way though the case is in the outside impaction.
I. Physiology of eye, nose, mouth and ear
Eye, nose, mouth and ear are critical organs for existence. So it is the most economic
for them to locate the nearest places from brain in respect to the time and the synergy
effection of the brain.
Meanwhile, these sensory organs are exposed to the air, so lots of vicious Ki can
hurt them easily. but the distance from them to brain is the shortest. This weak point
makes the sensory organs more sensible and does them recovered as soon as
possible when they are in disorders.
In short, this means the inflammatory reaction of them is very frequent.
II. Anatomical Structure
As other organs do, eye, nose, mouth and ear are communicating each other
continously and the humidity( waste products of fluid and solid) are moving
from inside to outside though tubes or other holes.
For example, the waste products are produced in the brain, the brain will seek
for the exit to excrete them in the most economic way. In this case, these organs
are the best exits to save the brain disorders. Can you understand me?
So rhinitis, empyema and middle ear infection are same disorder. Only the places
showing problems are different.
Virtually, even in the Western Medicine, the treatment is simple and common.
That is antiphlogistic agent and antibiotic.
However, in the East Asian Medicine, the treatment is more complicate then that
of Western Medicine because the prescription should be individualized according
to the characteristics of the patient though the pathology of them is common.
III. The pathology of them
The common pathology is the weakness of lung. All troubles begin when the lung
feels malfunction. To protect the malfunction, the brain orders its subjects
to fight against outside or inside attacks to the lung. And then the sensory organs
are bleeding as a inflammation. The inflammation is an obstruct not to pass the
invasion into the lung directly.
This inflammation sometimes disperses into the inside area of the eye. In this case,
they call it as conjunctivitis. Lot of moms take their child to several doctors when
their child catch a cold. At first, they go to the internist and next day to eye doctor or
ear doctor or nose doctor and so on. This is really silly.
IV. Treatment
The basic treatment is to improve the function of lung. To do so, we have to consider
the balance of other organs. The detail practice has to resort to the ability of individual
East Asian medicine doctor.
The following is the standard case.
1. Personal Information (04079)
Cho 0 0, Male, 14 years old
Student
Address : Kyunggido, South Korea
2. Chief Complaints
Whenever he catch even a slight cold, he has to get middle year infection.
Chronic rhinitis
Chronic empyema(sinusitis)
3. Other Symptoms and Signs
Lots of sweat on the face.
Cool on the hands and feet
Often digestive troubles
A little high blood pressure
Often tonsil's swelling
Feeling hot in the night but coughing in the morning
Pulse : Float, a little strong, tensed and big
Tongue : Deep white coated
Abdomen : No signs
4. Diagnosis
Liver weak and congestive
Heart weak
Spleen big
Lung weak
Kidney a little weak
5. Pathology
Please refer to the above.
6. Prescription
To get rid of humidity
To enrich liver
To improve lung
7. Results
His mom has taken him to the clinic of Western medicine due to rhinitis sinusitis
tonsillitis with antibiotic and other chemical drugs. However his troubles have not
improved at all and furthermore gotten worse and worse. She acknowledged
that she had to find basic treatment when he entered primary school.
This record is based on the latest treatment.
1st Prescription
His blood pressure was usually 100/60. But one day he came home hurriedly
after school and showed examination record saying hypertension.
Also he appealed middle ear infection and tonsillitis.
So to get rid of humidity is the first and to release liver second.
1st Result
All of troubles including hypertension disappeared.
But his mom wanted to more prescription for his tight study schedule.
2nd Prescription
To increase for humidity and to reduce for lowering fever
2nd Result
Nothing to mention
3rd Prescription
Two months later from finishing 2nd prescription, his mom brought him to me
for white deep coated tongue. This means humidity which brings more coughing
and phlegm.
So increased for humidity and warming internal organs.
3rd Result
No more rhinitis or sinusitis or middle ear infection. Sometime when he caught a cold,
only tonsil swelled.
This is confirmed when her and her son came lately after one years from then on.
[Source] Harabi Clinic of East Asian Medicine (www.harabiclinic.com)