George in the Clinic

This is George.

He's studying the TCM course in the year below me. He's always great value and has an idea about everything. Being from China he's got some experience of how TCM works out there too. Once he showed me a scar on on his back at Bladder 13. This is where (in China) they made a cut and placed a small piece of chicken's gut in the incision when he was a child. It's a treatment for Asthma. True story.

Herbal clinic-eczema

Before treatment pictures in March 2010


After treatment pictures April 2010

A 20 year old female patient came to the herbal clinic with chronic eczema on her hand. It had flared up and had become worse recently in March 2010. I saw her in cllinc on 30th April 2010.

When she first came in there was a lot of redness and some cracking of the skin and even some previous bleeding. She was given herbs to drink on her first consultation but she couldn’t drink them as they made her physically sick. She discarded the weeks worth. On her second appointment we prescribed an external herbal wash. She boiled the herbs and soaked her hands in the water for a period of time.

We did a tcm diagnosis of Blood deficiency with dry wind heat

These pictures are the week after the first external herbal wash. Here you can see it is reduced in redness and it is less dry. The patient was very happy with the results and so were we!

On reflection the condition was localised so we should have gone for an external wash originally.

It is very interesting to see the patients that come in when the season changes. As we come to Autumn here in Australia the influx has been coughs and in this past two weeks skin conditions have been coming in as the cold dry weather effects and dries peoples skin.

Here’s the external wash formula used:

Ku Shen 20g Damp/Heat clearing

She Chuang Zi 30g External application

Huang Bai 20g Damp/Heat clearing

Bai Xian Pi 20g Heat and Toxicity clearing herbs

Bing Pian 2g Aromatic herb

Tu Jin Pi 20g Known to stop itching

Boil for 40 mins, cool, add a pinch of Bing Pain and soak hands 10-15mins. Then moisturise

Advisory Day at UTS

Advisory day was the open day at UTS and other unis to help make your mind up for the last day of choosing preferences for uni enrolment for university this year in Australia.
I set up a stall and a ten minute massage area to promote the UTS TCM clinic which opens in February.
It was a great success with dozens of mini massages, heaps of enquiries and some patients booked in for clinic too.
Thanks everyone for volunteering, visiting and supporting :)

Paediatric TCM Books

Reading up on Paediatric massage techniques as a friend of mine went to a weekend course recently and shared her notes with me. Also at one of the clinics I am attending ,as an observer, there is a five year old who is brought in by his parents for a weekly massage to help with his mental and physical development. I was reading, waiting for the next patient , when the Chinese practitioner showed me she had the same book of mine, but in Chinese. It was a cute moment...

Next video blog on the origins of TCM coming in days!! I have worked out some technicial stuff for a clearer picture too! Wow!!