cassiopeia: September 3, 2020, 2:16am
Please forgive me if this has been asked elsewhere; I couldn’t find the exact question from searching the forum.
In general we don’t do the same Saam treatment more than twice in a row, or for elderly/deficient patients, only
once between changing. But what is the timeframe for considering something to be a “repeat”?
For example, if I saw a deficient 80-year old a month ago, and doing LI+ helped her main complaint for a week,
but then the symptoms gradually returned and she is back in the office with the same presentation/main complaint,
and Spleen excess is the grossest thing in the room today, must I choose a different channel to treat? Or is there an
expiration date on what’s considered a “repeat” treatment?
Along the same lines, even if same deficient 80yo was treated last week with LI+, and today Spleen excess is still
the grossest thing in the room, must I find the 2nd grossest thing to treat?
Would changing from R to L be considered a slightly different treatment?
thanks for any insights!
KristinWisgirda: September 3, 2020, 9:50am
That weak patients should not have the same treatment twice in a row is a good guideline but not set in stone. So
says my notes.
Your case example brings up another factor which is that the sticky nature of damp tends to make it slower to
respond to treatment. Double dry LI+ can certainly be tempting if it relieved the chief complaint and the Spleen
excess is the grossest thing.
Deficient folks always have multiple areas worth treating and damp can be addressed in a multitude of ways
including Heart+, Lung+, ST+, SI+, K+. With a deficient 80 year old, I would look for another treatment.
cassiopeia:
But what is the timeframe for considering something to be a “repeat”?
My recollection of Toby speaking to this is that even an interval of several months can be considered a repeat.
cassiopeia:
Would changing from R to L be considered a slightly different treatment?
I don’t recall Toby speaking to this but my intuition says that treating the other side would be considered a repeat
even though it is a slightly different treatment.23/01/2024, 11:40Repeat treatments – Sa’am Clinical Questions – Qiological Community
https://forum.qiological.com/t/repeat-treatments/1265/print2/2
I hope that helps.
cassiopeia: September 3, 2020, 6:43pm
thanks Kristin. that helps. I will post this case to get more input for my poor 80yo person suffering from damp.