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High Blood Pressure: Overview, Treatment & Diagnosis

By Karina • Nov 8th, 2008 • Category: Cardiovascular

What are the treatment goals?

reduce and stabilize BP at normal level
Reduce symptoms, improve quality of life
Prevent tissue damage, and bingfazheng
lengthen life

First Non-medical Intervention

合理膳食diet
适量运动exercise
戒烟限酒air
心理健康psychology

Differential Diagnosis

General idea is to first handle the yangkang symptoms of headache, easily angered. These replete symptoms are usually accompanied by ganshenyinxu symptoms of lumbar and knee weakness, 头肿足轻, eyes red, strong pulse. […]



COPD: Overview, Diagnosis and Treatment

By Karina • Nov 8th, 2008 • Category: Lungs

Overview
COPD (慢性阻塞性肺病aka慢阻肺) is a category of disease where 通气不畅. Main causes of disease include 久病肺虚,外感,痰挟血瘀. Usually emotions are not so important, although there are emotional manifestations, mainly 情绪低落. Those who have this are usually skinny, because it’s a 高消耗病. Clinical manifestations include 咳嗽,咯痰,later as 喘证 and 肺胀 in those who have 肺气肿.
COPD is a common […]



How to understand 射干麻黄汤

By Karina • Nov 8th, 2008 • Category: Lungs

Think of it as 小青龙汤, but

Instead of 桂枝 add 射干
Instead of 干姜 use 生姜
Instead of 甘草 add 大枣
Instead of 芍药 add 款冬花、紫菀

Use it when exterior signs are not so significant, but the phlegm is generating profusely enough to cause 水鸡声. Also likely that the patient body is deficient and tending toward cold.



Diarrhea - Overview, Diagnosis & Treatment

By Karina • Nov 8th, 2008 • Category: Digestion & Elimination

Overview
This is when you have shit that’s both more frequent than usual and more diluted than usual. There are many ways to categorize the causes of diarrhea, but I put it into three main cats:

Microbial
Bad digestive system

Microbial causes are a huge reason why people continue to poop funny.  A large proportion is due to bacteria, […]



馬鈴薯鮮汁療法

By Karina • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: Health Notes

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