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Nov 17 7:00 PM

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Hello,

It is a pleasure to announce the FREE LymeHope Teleseminar with

Connie Strasheim
Tuesday November 17, 2009

5:00 PST
6:00 MST
7:00 CST
8:00 EST

Please go to www.LymeHope.com to register for this FREE event.

Connie is the author of INSIGHTS INTO LYME DISEASE TREATMENT. "In this long-awaited book, health care journalist Connie Strasheim has done all the work for you. She conducted intensive interviews with thirteen of the world's most competent Lyme disease healers, asking them thoughtful, important questions, and then spent months compiling their information into organized, user-friendly chapters that contain the core principles upon which they base their medical treatment of chronic Lyme disease."

I am looking forward to this interview with Connie. As a person who has had Lyme herself, Connie was able to get to the core of the information we need to know. I have found the book to be most enlightening! You won't want to miss this opportunity to chat with Connie.

I look forward to hearing you on the call!

Until then,

Cheryl Young
www.LymeHope.com

Disclaimer: THERE IS NO MEDICAL ADVICE HERE!
This list is the 1st Amendment in action. I am not an expert, I do share my many years of experiences and knowledge I have learned from others, both on group and privately. The things you will find here are for information and research purposes only. I am sharing information I believe in. If you act on ideas found here, you do so at your own risk. Self-help requires intelligence, common sense, and the ability to take responsibility for your own actions. Do not use any ideas found here without consulting a medical professional, unless you are a researcher or health care provider.

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Oct 5 7:00 PM

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I hope you all can join in to the really cool teleseminar tonight! Dr Zhang will be talking about western medicine and chinese medicine.

Here is all the pertinent information you will need:

TIME: 5:00 p.m. PST
6:00 p.m. MST
7:00 p.m. CST
8:00 p.m. EST

CALL IN PHONE NUMBER: (218) 895-0748
PASS CODE: 9110 followed by the #

SPECIAL NOTE: It appears that there is some complication with some cell phones and with all internet based long distance interfacing with the conferencing platform. It is BEST if you call in on a LAND LINE. You can try your cell phone, if it doesn't work, have a land line available.

To Your Health and Healing,

Cheryl Young
www.LymeHope.com

OUTLINE:

TCM uses the inductive and synthetic method; WM uses the reductive and analytical method.

TCM is individualized; WM is standardized.

TCM is experience based; WM is evidence based.

TCM is a healing art; WM is strictly a science.

TCM emphasizes the role of the body in healing; WM mainly relies on medication and procedures.


TCM looks at the behavior of the system as a whole; WM looks at the structure and function of the parts.

TCM works to maintain health; WM manages disease.


Philosophical Differences Between Western and Chinese Medicine

(Part 1-- Western Medicine)

Western medicine is based on modern biomedical science and is an evidence-based medicine. Its methodology is fundamentally analytical and reductive. This method is very powerful in understanding the structure and function of the human body and disease-causing agents such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa, virus, etc. Anatomy, histology, cytology, ultra-structure, molecular biology, and sub-molecular biology have given us a clear and detailed view of the physical and chemical structure of the body. The recently disclosed gene-map has even revealed our fundamental genetic make-up. These advances in health care have improved the quality of human life tremendously and because of this success, modern western medicine has become the predominant medical system in the world. However, no system is flawless and able to solve every problem. In the case of chronic diseases, the methodology of Western medicine is not always accommodating.

First, because no two individuals are the same, ideal medication has to be individualized. Unified therapeutic strategy (one disease one treatment, such as IFN-based treatment for Hepatitis C) used in western medicine cannot meet this requirement.

Because of the great variability that exists among individual patients, properly prescribed treatment is still a mixed bag of science and art. Recently developed pharmacogenetics is trying to deal with this problem, but this branch of modern western medicine is still in its infancy and the present "one size fits all" method will only yield partial efficacy.

Second, although the analytical approach is powerful, being linear is also the weakness of modern western medicine.

Because the human body is an open, large, and complex system, it is impossible to understand it by analyzing its subsystems alone. The sum of the parts will not add up to the whole because of the complex interdependencies that exist. The linear analytical approach of modern western medicine is accustomed to using the reduction method to simplify complicated clinical situations.

Philosophical Differences Between Western and Chinese Medicine

(Part 2-Traditional Chinese Medicine)

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an empirical medicine and was developed in the old days in the absence of systemic scientific knowledge. Thus, it is a product of the accumulated clinical observations gathered over centuries of practice.


Its development was inductive and looks at the human body's behavior as a whole during the course of a disease. TCM defines a normal functioning person as having balance within him or herself and with the natural environment outside the body. In contrast, a diseased condition is a deviation from this balance and the role of medical treatment, according to TCM, is to restore the balanced state. Due to the subjective nature of TCM, it is a system that needs modernization before it can be applied effectively in modern healthcare.

From a systematic point of view, the TCM model is very much like a black box.


The outputs (physical symptoms and signs) and inputs (pathogenic factors, herbs, diet, treatment) are observed without the details of what is happening inside the body system. Although the exact mechanisms are not presented, the black box method can be suitable for open, large, and complex systems like the human body. The inputs can be adjusted while the changes in the output can be observed with reliable results over time. These observations can then develop treatment inputs that bring the body back into balance. However, because TCM lacks detailed and concrete mechanisms, it is difficult to conduct meaningful scientific experimentation in the modern age. During diagnosis and treatment, decisions are completely individualized for each patient and the same protocol might not be repeatable for other patients. Thus, the effectiveness of TCM can heavily depend on the skill and experience of the practitioner and is not well suited for a generalized class of disease.

The Western standard of double blind, placebo controlled and randomized trials are not suited for the study of TCM. In TCM, the diagnosis of the status of health or disease in a patient is described by what is traditionally called Zhen (symptom-patterns.) The nature of Zhen is a summary of the pathogenesis of a particular person at a particular stage of a disease course. Zhen describes whether the symptoms are hot or cold, internal or external, excessive or deficient and summarizes them into patterns of Yin and Yang. Thus, Zhen is a summary of the functional status of the patient and not a description of anatomy and pathology. TCM treatment is based on using particular herbs to restore the lost balance diagnosed by the Zhen, an example being using a "cold" herb to balance a "hot" condition in the body. The vague and mystical nature of TCM makes formal experimentation and study difficult. From the modern microbiological point of view, Zhen does not differentiate between the et
iological factor (the cause of the disease), which can make for inaccurate diagnosis since different diseases may show the similar types of Zhen or symptoms. Without a reliable way to determine the etiological factor, TCM treatment might not work well for the infectious diseases unless it is properly diagnosed.

The herbal formulas used in TCM treatment are also individualized and usually contain eight to twelve combinations of herbs. Each herb within the combinations can also have dozens of different active ingredients that may vary depending on the season, place of production and other factors. This makes it very hard to standardize the results of each batch and is another area that TCM needs modernization.

Despite its seemingly out-dated methods, the vast amount of accumulated information stored in TCM can provide useful applications for treating modern diseases such as Hepatitis C. The integration of TCM with modern methods is a key step towards better healthcare. The next article will discuss Modern Chinese Medicine and it's development. (Part 3)

In the modern era of science and technique, it is not surprising that WM has become the main system of medicine while TCM became so called alternative or complementary medicine.


The open, large, and complex human body system consists of reducible and non-reducible, linear and non-linear, definite and random, sequential and non-sequential parts. Thus, it is nearly impossible to understand the mechanisms of body by using a purely reductive method. The reductionism of WM distorts the true nature of a complex system, the human body and this is where the behavioral and experience-based method of TCM can provide the means to see the body as a whole system. TCM was developed through thousands of years of "trial and error", and is a result-based black box model. TCM analyzes multiple variables of output from the body (the black box) to define the status of the system (diagnosis). Then, using corrective inputs (treatment herbs) as intervention, the system is brought back into balance based on trial and error. The lack of understanding of the detailed internal mechanisms of the human black box is the shortcoming of the TCM. Thus, it is unable to study the deta
iled mechanisms of treatments that are effective.

For the past forty years, researchers and doctors in China have been developing an integrative medical system that uses the diagnostic tools of WM to identify the mechanisms of TCM. The chemical make-up and active ingredients of thousands of TCM herbal medications have been clearly identified and studied. In practice, we can now use the anatomical and microbiological knowledge of WM to explain the concepts of TCM. Combined with the diagnostic powers of WM and the phyto-pharmacology of TCM, treatment for infectious diseases such as Hepatitis C can be more individualized and comprehensive. While treating a WM diagnosed infectious disease, the integrative treatment not only deals with the etiological factor to eradicate the pathogenic microbial (WM approach) but also supports the body's immune function (TCM approach). This integrative approach to medical care will be very beneficial to the patients it serves.

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Sep 13 1:30 PM

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The first discussion on alternative healing went well. We had a guest scientist give her opinion on the topics that I covered and we had a pretty good discussion on everything in general. I'm going to continue this talk next month and I will be focusing on a treatment center based in Georgia. Try to make it to this meeting if you can and again we will be at the far left side of the restaurant (the chairs next to the cashier). Should have a sign that says support group meeting but today I couldn't find the sign.

Hope to see you all there!

OrderUp
San Antonio, TX, 78230

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Aug 9 1:30 PM

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Update! Sorry about not picking the location earlier. I forgot that I didn't finalize the location. It is chosen and it will be at the left side of OrderUp near the cashier. Call me at 256-417-7466 if you don't see us

Haven't decided on the location yet so please vote at the polls to your left. I will be holding a discussion on alternative healing with information about the most common methods of healing as well as hopefully a guest speaker or two. Great opportunity to meet others in the group and to learn about a new form of healing.

OrderUp
San Antonio, TX, 78230

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Jul 12 1:30 PM

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I am scheduling this meeting for OrderUp again simply because I still haven't received a final response from the hospital yet. We will be located to the left of the front door so just turn left once you come in and you will see us in the corner. I should have a sign with me that says support group on it.

It's going to be a normal meeting so bring your friends, family, questions, test results, and most importantly yourselves. I know most of you won't know if you will be able to make it or not so try to RSVP if you can but if you can't then that is fine. I'm sorry I posted this at the last moment. I was hoping to get in contact with the hospital sooner

OrderUp
San Antonio, TX, 78230

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Jun 14 2:00 PM

4 attended (est.) – 5.00 5.001

I apologize for not scheduling the meeting earlier. We have alot of new members in the group so this will be a meet and greet where you can talk about your issues and what medicine and herbs you are taking. I will provide you with info for doctors in the area to those interested and the latest news for all neurological diseases.

We are going to have our meeting at OrderUp and you don't have to order any food. We will have a somewhat bit table there and I have long blond hair so its hard to miss me. I hope to see you all there and please RSVP!

OrderUp
San Antonio, TX, 78230

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May 17 1:00 PM

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I am going to have the talk about the capitol rally as well as what has been going on in the latest lyme and cfs, fibromyalgia research. I hope all of you can attend even if you don't have lyme disease. We try to help all people with related problems also.

Please RSVP and hope to see you there!

OrderUp
San Antonio, TX, 78230

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Apr 19 1:00 PM

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I know that the meeting isn't on the second Sunday of the month and thats because its Easter on April 12 so for just this month, I'm holding it on April 19. I hope all of you can make it but if the RSVP's are too low then I might have to cancel it. Please RSVP! I am going to share with all of you some information from the Austin Lyme Disease Bill that we were trying to pass (HR1179) and how it went.

Hope to see you all there!

OrderUp
San Antonio, TX, 78230

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Mar 17 9:30 AM

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We need everyone to make this event if possible. I understand that Austin is far away and its also a week away so we will make accommodations for everyone. We need to find out how many people are showing up to this event so we can travel together. I really hope that we can go and help support the effort for the upcoming Lyme Disease bill.

More info on the bill can be found at:
http://www.cwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=99&Itemid=109

State Capital Building
Austin, TX, 78701

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Mar 15 1:00 PM

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I haven't chosen a place yet but I'm currently looking at this place called OrderUp. It has been a very hectic month for me so I apologize for the meeting on the third Sunday instead of the second. I will have it on the second Sunday for next month, I promise.

I don't have a topic for this meeting but I'm hoping for new members to show up so this meeting will be a free discussion like the last one

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