Clinical weight of pneumonectomy?

Jason: October 29, 2022, 3:07pm
I recently did a series of treatments for a patient in atrial fibrillation, with a history of right side pneumonectomy
(2010, d/t cancer). I’ve treated him on and off for a few years whenever his wheezing gets too bad. PC works well
for that, and that’s what I did initially for his afib. It slowed his heart rate and reduced the variability, as well as the
chest discomfort. LV and KD also helped a little. I kept coming back in my mind to lung though, despite his being
a little overweight with dry skin. All I had was the biomedical fact of his right lung being absent, and some
confusing interpersonal behaviors which I finally started to understand as coming from worry about resources.
LU+ stopped the afib.
I’m thinking really gross biomedical facts, such as organ removal, are different than say, blood levels or other
diagnostic concepts. On the other hand, I’ve never given much weight to cholecystectomy, for example. Maybe I
should. What say you?

George_Mandler: October 30, 2022, 6:45pm
Thanks for posting some info on your ‘edge case’ Jason. I have gone against LU/ST morphology a few times with
hesitation when it seemed to make sense as in your case. I’ll am interested if the supplementation of LU+
consistenly gives good reduction with the afib.
I personally have not given much thought to a missing organ, but it if it fits it seems reasonable. Maybe if your
patient had solid financial footing and a community of friend supplementation of LU+ may not have worked.
I have treated a 1 kidney patient with a supplementation of SI+ in the past. I recall a lot of blood stagnation signs in
that case and I am not sure if I supplemented KD+ as well. We all treated so many patients without gallbladder, but
I don’t think much about supplement GB+.
I would say that a missing organ could add more weight to differentiating a channel pair dynamic as in your case.

Daniel: November 15, 2022, 10:42am
Jason – just curious . . . do you recall? What were his thenar eminences like?

Jason: December 27, 2022, 6:46pm
Hey @Daniel, sorry I missed this response. They are a little on the flat side
Interesting follow-up to this treatment. I saw him a month later and he reported progress in his marriage that hadn’t
been possible for more than a decade. He and his wife are business partners.

cassiopeia: January 8, 2023, 7:56pm
I agree with @George_Mandler that an organ removal would give weight to looking more at the channel pair.
This is a for-sure symptom on the LU/ST channel. But whether to supplement the organ/channel itself or the
counterbalancer would come down to specific case/presentation.