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Treating
Stress and Emotional Disorders
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A NEW SYSTEM TO TREAT STRESS DISORDERS
The system of Combining Western Herbs and Chinese
Medicine can help to reduce the effects of stress
on the body-mind, and can be effective in treating
stress-related disorders.
SPECIAL HERB COMBINATIONS FOR STRESS
Jeremy has
designed special herb combinations to treat specific
emotional
- Insomnia and restlessness
- Frightening dreams
- Depression
- Bipolar disorders or emotional lability
- Premenstrual
disorders
- Dysmenorrhea
- Menopausal disorders
- Headache and migraine
- Violent anger
- Tremors and spasms
- Asthma and panic attacks
- Acute fear and shock
- ADHD and hyperactivity
Dose, dispensing, and safety Jeremy will discuss
one herb combination for each of these disorders,
with full details of dose, dispensing and safety
precautions.
Immediate prescribing Practitioners can use these
herb combinations as soon as they return to their
clinics.
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4 QI IMBALANCES AND HERB COMBINING
The
4 Qi Imbalances and their corresponding principles
of treatment are:
- Deficiency tonify
- Excess drain
- Stagnation move
- Disturbance calm
Tonify, move, calm, or drain?
The system can be
used to decide the relative numbers of herbs to
tonify, move, calm, or drain, that should be included
in a combination.
EMOTIONAL DISORDERS AND 5 ELEMENTS
Jeremy will
discuss stress and emotional disorders in terms
of both Five Elements and the Chinese
organ syndromes. For example:
- Fire Heart sadness, loneliness, anxiety,
overexcitement
- Earth Spleen worry,
insecurity, neediness
- Metal Lungs grief, bereavement, isolation
- Water Kidney fear, shock, desperation, unrealistic
ambition
- Wood Liver anger, frustration,
depression, indecision, lack of self-confidence
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