2) migraines and M-Liver fire rise
(1) One morning, a middle-aged American lady came to my Office.
she Complaint that she had migraine, she had this medical problems for
15 years. Before,her migraine headache was not so often, now it
became very frequent, every week there were two to five times more,
and each attack, she had the systems of bad headache, dizziness,
nausea; but no tinnitus, no visual abnormality. She was a nurse in the
hospital, she had done all the neurological examination ,included CT,
MRI, everything is okay; she already, used various pain medicine, used
most up to date migraine medications (Imitrex). But these drugs could
only alleviate the symptoms, not cure. She felt very painful. Obviously
she was suffered from migraine
(2) Migraine is a very common disease. From the level of physics
being, that is from the Western medicine, what caused migraine is
unknown, some researchers said that was caused by abnormal adrenal
chemicals inside of the system, which caused abnormal vascular
contraction and relaxation , but specific reasons were unknown. On the
physical level and morphological level ,the examinations did not yield
any abnormalities.
In the physics being aspect, there are no abnormalities. So, there is
no specific treatment; Western medicine did treat that kind of patient,
it was basic on the experience. The treatment included to use analgesics
medication, even used opioid analgesics, and so called NSAID ,and so
on, These were the first line of treatment. In recent years, a number of
new migraine medications for certain migraine patients were available,
but only for symptom treatment, to relieve symptoms; but these
medications had no way to achieve radical goals. Migraine treatment is
still a problem.
(3) There was no good treatment from the point of Western
medicine in this case; Western medicine is the knowledge regarded on
the physics being of the human body. Then we look at the metaphysics
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being of human body system , from the part one of this book, this
metaphysics being actually is the system of yin—yang and five
elements. From the theory of yin—yang and five elements , migraine,
the head pain, mainly is caused by the imbalance of yin—yang. Of
course, this is only a “big summery”. In this major premise; we also had
to develop a specific pathway in order to achieve the purpose of solving
problems. What is the specific pathway like? This is what we need to
discuss the issue.
(4) To discuss this issue, we need to start from the theory of advance
non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Among the theory of advance nonequilibrium
thermodynamics, there are the concept of free energy and
the concept of negative entropy. If under a certain free energy, the
negative entropy should be on a “match”level; if negative entropy is
rightful increased, the “rightful increased negative entropy” could
create some “information”, this “information” is “benign information”;
on the other side, if the negative entropy is decreased, this
decreased negative entropy also could create the “information”, this
information could be called “injury information”. Free energy of the
system is to maintain its “rightful power” to overcome injury
information, enhance the benign information. From this standpoint, we
look at the head, look at the brain, this part of the body system certainly
is a part of advance non-equilibrium thermodynamics system. What
caused migraine? In the head, in the brain, the “injury information” is
too much; the other hand, the free energy is too little. That is the
answer; it was not difficult to have this conclusion from the concept of
advance non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
Here we needed to make that clear, free energy and injury
information, they are “relatively related”, but not necessarily to be
equal. Free energy is up, injury information might not be down; they
have some connection, but they are different.
(5) It is obvious, since the migraine is due to too much injury
information , too less free energy in the part of head and brain, then , the
treatment we should carry are to reduce injury information and to
enhance free energy . How could we reduce the injury information,
improve the free energy? This is the issue of the theory of yin-yang and
five elements, the issue of TCM. The theory of advance nonequilibrium
thermodynamics is very hard to open out, but with the
mathematics conversions and philosophy conversion that basic on the
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idea of “I Ching”, this advance non-equilibrium thermodynamics
system become the system of yin-yang and five elements, become
TCM.
From TCM, from the theory of yin-yang and five elements, the so
called too much injury information in the term of the theory of advance
non-equilibrium thermodynamics, is termed as “the rising of the Mliver
fire”. To treat this, from the view of TCM,we needed to “low
down the liver fire”, “ eliminate the liver congestion”. We had good
herbs formula for such condition.
This is a treatment, but this only is the first level of treatment.
(6) The treatment approach of “low down the M-liver fire” and “
eliminate the M-liver congestion” is the first level of treatment, some
time it is far from enough, because sometimes the lack of free energy
also plays a very important role. How to improve the free energy? Here,
we needed to do more treatment from three areas. The first is from the
M-lungs, these are “enhance the M-lung Qi” and eliminate the “head
wind”. But this role is limited, because such treatment, quite easily lead
to “M-liver Fire” to be increased. So, we needed to step in the issue of
the M-spleen, “enhance the M-spleen”; “enhance M-spleen” could
improve the free energy. But when we are step in to improve the free
energy, it could be relatively easy to cause the “ rising of the M-liver
fire”. “Rising of the M-liver fire” can increase injury information, this
condition we needed to put into the whole account. Here, how could we
move the treatment forward? We needed to do some thing in the
deepest level, from the level of M-kidney. For the most stubborn ,
severe migraine , finally, we needed to process to the so call the Mkidney
treatment.
(7) We can not process simple approach to “enhance the M-kidney”
and it’s free energy, because “enhance the M-kidney” also is easy to
cause “ the M-liver fire rising”. But if we combined to do so called
“Enrich the yin”, “eliminate the heat and dampness the M-kidney” and
etc, on these basic, we tried to “enhance the M-kidney”, the outcomes
are complete different.For these treatments,it needed time, it needed
patience, needed careful monitoring on the patient, we needed to
identify every step is on the right direction. If we do so,finally, we could
reach the goal: enhancing the free energy of the head and the brain,
reducing the injury information in the head and brain, then achieving a
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surprising therapeutic outcome. This is count on the skill of TCM
practitioners. This is the most profound method to treat the migraine.
(8)Here,we can summed up how TCM treat migraine.TCM treat
migraine, mainly in the metaphysics level. The basic ideas are: In
migraine headache patients, in their head and brain, too much injury
information; too less free energy. We treat migraine headache with
TCM, the treatment approaches could be classified into the following
four different levels. The first level, by “ low down the M-liver fire”, to
reduce injury information in head and brain; The second level, by
“increase the Qi in M-lung” to strengthen the free energy of the head
and the brain. The third level, by “ enhancing the M-sleen” to increase
the free energy of the head and the brain.The fourth level, by
“enhancing the M-kidney, enrich the yin, eliminating heat and
dampness”, greatly enhancing the free energy of the head and brain.
(9) According to the discussion above, I processed the TCM
treatment on this migraine patient. First of all, I treated her by the
approach of “low down the M-liver fire”. After the treatment, the
patients had slight improvement, but did not resolve the problems.
Then, I treated her by the approaches as the following: “increase the Qi
in M-lung” to strengthen the free energy of the head and the brain; “
enhancing the M-spleen” to further increase the free energy of the head
and the brain; “enhancing the M-kidney, enrich the yin, eliminating
heat and dampness”, to greatly increase the free energy of the head and
the brain. Through these processes, step-by-step to reduce the injury
information in the head and brain, step-by-step increase the free energy
of the head and the brain; finally we established a stable balance. In this
stable balance, the free energy of the head and the brain is much more
than what it needed to overcome injury information over there. The
patient’s symptoms had complete control, migraine headache was
completely resolved, basically the patient got fully recovery. This
Patient had been satisfied with the results.