Daniel: January 23, 2021, 12:46am
New patient today.
39 year old woman.
Main complaint: Neck Pain
very complex medical history including Multiple Sclerosis
with . . .
aversion to humid weather
worsening of symptoms with humid weather
excess sweating
excessive eye tearing
strong sweet tooth
extensive dental cavities
acne
numbness
fatigue
you would have thought a LI+ treatment would have yielded some significant response.
nothing. no response. no settling
she has no excessive fleshiness characteristic of Spleen excess
but so many signs of damp on the inside (not to mention the lesions of multiple sclerosis and an ovarian cyst) and
on the outside, I was so sure LI+ would have been a slam dunk.
no response.
so, to my great disappointment, after five minutes, I took the needles out (even tried to amp up the LI+ by going
bilateral) and went with UB+
she had a very warm and soft substernal area
a very red tongue with red tip
is becoming a counselling psychologist because she loves to help people (feels she can empathise very well due to
her own life of trauma)
mild response on the table
nothing remarkable
clinic is hard.
mgreenberg: January 23, 2021, 3:21am
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I would have done the same treatment. Thanks for sharing.
Clinic is indeed hard.
Last week I treated someone who had intense self-hatred/lack of self love. KI was a bit of a risk but thought I
would try it. She had a massive response – crying, remembering being 4 years old and stuck in a corner, hiding,
terrified. I pulled the needles. But it blew the lid off for her and she started to release some old anger over the
week. Says the self-hatred is 50% gone, so that is indeed something. Today I decided to play it safer and went for
her being so hard on herself and did a LIV+. She melted into the table and left glowing.
Clinic is sometimes a crap shoot.
Daniel: January 23, 2021, 1:52pm
Hi Marleen
wow – very intense case you shared.
remarkable.
you know, I m not so sure about the crap shoot take . . . . it seems that way but for now, I m leaning much more
towards it being more often than not deeper case aspects I am just not yet able to see clearly . . . .
Adina_Kletzel: January 23, 2021, 9:57pm
Clinic is hard and sometimes I wonder why I put so much effort into a system that has so much risk involved.
Things can really go wrong and this can cause a lot of anxiety. I ask myself why I stick with it. I guess we all know
the answer, because when it is right it is really right
Using this system takes a lot of work on self, on being able to let go when it doesn t go right and keep on trying
and probing deeper. It requires a constant check to those voices of doubt that want to pull us down when what
should have worked didn t
I can see why it is a system used by the munks. It requires a quiet mind, keen observation, and a leap of faith.
michaelmax: January 27, 2021, 12:03pm
mgreenberg:
Clinic is sometimes a crap shoot.
I would not say clinic is a crap shoot. I think sometimes patients process the treatment in unexpected ways. And
sometimes we are not wrong with our treatment, but not quite right either. The beauty of Saam is that it gives us
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Adina_Kletzel:
Clinic is hard and sometimes I wonder why I put so much effort into a system that has so much risk involved.
I know I put in the time because I want my treatments to be effective. That being said, there are times when people
seem pretty much in balance, and I will not use Saam because nothing is so out of balance that I want to bring the
firepower of Saam in for that treatment.
But for people that really need the push in a different direction, there is nothing like Saam. And you re right
@Adina_Kletzel it requires a lot of attention on our part and a quiet mind. But the benefits to our patients I think
is worth is. and we do become more skilled in time as we gather experience.
cassiopeia: February 4, 2021, 2:31am
michaelmax:
That being said, there are times when people seem pretty much in balance, and I will not use Saam because
nothing is so out of balance that I want to bring the firepower of Saam in for that treatment.
this is helpful to hear, @michaelmax. I am still learning when to apply the Saam power and when to just do the
normal treatment
Daniel: February 8, 2021, 5:13pm
michaelmax:
there are times when people seem pretty much in balance, and I will not use Saam because nothing is so out of
balance that I want to bring the firepower of Saam in for that treatment.
Oh that s an interesting perspective . . . I d never thought of that . . . . that one might make that distinction – cases
only in need of harmonisation and not the directional push of Sa Am, . . .
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mariayung: February 11, 2021, 11:58pm
What you wrote so resonated with me! Now every time when a patient report back some negative complaint on
their next treatment, I wonder if I did something wrong to provoke that. In fact, that happened to me today and I
wanted to ask the forum about it. I have a 38 y.o patient undergoing chemo for TN breast cancer. Chemo has been
extremely hard for her and the sa am system helped so much in reducing the side effects. This last time, she
cancelled a couple of appointments and I learned that after the last treatment, she ended up in ER. When I last saw
and treated her, she just had reconstructive breast surgery and restarted her chemo. During chemo she gets bad
migraines, fatigue and trouble sleeping. I treated P+. Symptoms supporting that decision are that she gets very
angry easily after starting chemo and her posture is a bit hunched over. Few days after her last visit with me, she
ended up in ER because the whole R side of her body and face went numb, to the point that she had trouble
speaking. All the workup was negative. The doctors couldn t figure out the cause. The numbness went away slowly
and she is almost back to normal. But right after the ER episode, she was back in the hospital for 2 weeks because
she got an infection at the surgery site. Her wound is not healing and doctors don t know why. So, as usual now
that I am doing Sa am, I wonder if it is my treatment that caused the problem.
I feel you on this: Clinic is hard and sometimes I wonder why I put so much effort into a system that has so much
risk involved.
KristinWisgirda: February 12, 2021, 12:43am
mariayung:
I treated P+. Symptoms supporting that decision are that she gets very angry easily after starting chemo and her
posture is a bit hunched over.
A hunched concave posture would support P excess, not GB excess.
Without more information it is hard to know exactly what happened with your patient @mariayung. I would want
to rule out mistreatment. Reviewing your notes about P excess, does she fit the picture? There are a number of
threads on this forum about anger and the P/GB pair with a number of angry patients being benefited by GB+ or
treatments besides P+. Anger has to fit the impulsive, easily outwardly expressed qualities of GB excess for P+ to
be indicated. Anger without that outward movement could be the result of other channel excesses.
mariayung: February 12, 2021, 7:30pm
Thanks Kristin. But would a miss treatment of GB/P pair cause numbness? I don t see the connection but maybe I
am missing it. When I mistreated before, the symptoms that arose made sense and it was easy to see what went
wrong.
I confirm if the treatment is right by noting increase tension in the channels. So when I do a GB/P pair, I first check
then tension on GB21, then I recheck it after needling. If tension reduces, then I think I am on the right track. Does09/01/2024, 11:47Clinic is Hard # 122 – Qiological Community
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that seem right to you?
KristinWisgirda: February 13, 2021, 1:06pm
What happens to the surface when the system has been pushed too far down and in? Numbness and poor wound
healing could certainly occur when circulation of resources to the surface has been compromised.
I m not saying for sure that you mistreated. I am just suggesting that you be very curious about what happened.
mariayung:
I confirm if the treatment is right by noting increase tension in the channels. So when I do a GB/P pair, I first
check then tension on GB21, then I recheck it after needling. If tension reduces, then I think I am on the right
track. Does that seem right to you?
Before Saam my practice used improvement of palpatory referents as a guide. Naturally, I wanted to use that
method with Saam. A correlation between improvement of sore/tense points and real after treatment symptom
improvement happened only half the time, at best. I abandoned this technique and am working on recognizing the
methods of evaluation on the table suggested by the tradition- settling and complexion change. If a patient has the
symptom or can reproduce the symptom on the table, then that is included as a guide as well, but not palpatory
changes.
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mariayung: February 13, 2021, 5:32pm
Thank you so much for your reply. I find looking for complexion change very challenging. Sometimes it is totally
apparent, and they get glow. It is beautiful and I know I got it right. But there are times, when there is a change, I
can t tell if it is a good or bad change. For example, I notice that the patient may get more redness. But I have
thought that it was a good change as they are getting more color, rosier. But now, I wonder if that is a bad sign.
When it is subtle, then I start questioning the treatment or myself. Sometimes, I wonder if I am fooling myself into
seeing a change. Other times, I can t tell at all.
With whether the patient settled or not, it is also sometimes very challenging to tell. There are patients that as long
as they are lying down, they start to settle. For the cancer patient I mentioned, she settled and color looked good I
thought. But she could be one of those that is so tired, that no matter what, they will relax. When I check in on
them, they tell me they are settled and relax. It can be also hard to tell. But now in considering that patient, I think
the treatment may have contributed to the problem as in another instance, I noticed that doing P+ when they
needed GB+ will cause poor healing wounds.
There are those time when I can t detect both whether they changed in complexion or settling. I pull needles, then I
do another set. Still the same thing. Can t tell. What should I do then?
Unfortunately, I learn so much when I get it wrong, but I rather not. It is just plain awful! I love Sa am but it makes
me very nervous. It is so powerful and so tempting to use but scary