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Hello everyone,
Last Wednesday I had a covid patient. It was the first one since the beginning of the epidemic. She is a women, 31, vegetarian for 2 years.
When I saw her it was the first time in two weeks that she went out. She did a test two weeks ago, positive. When I saw her she was very tired, and she was fever free for 2-3 days. She had been taking antibiotic since Monday. She had diarrhoea, quite severe, was cold. And most importantly she didn’t eat much for the past 15 days. No appetite. She had tinnitus developing since the day before. Even shower was too much for her.
It all started with a sore throat, and fever. But it rapidly gone away resulting in lethargy. She had also muscles aches but it is gone now.I was quite worried for her. When I took her pulse nothing on the superficial level, and it was very weak. Especially at the right Chi. The Spleen was very weak. The LU was diffusing but not so well, as it has not the ressource to fully express itself.
I decided to moxa KI-3, needle and moxa KI-2 and SP-8. My intention was to fire up the SP/ST to restore the appetite and the production of ressources. I also moxa/needle CV-12.
I also advise her to eat warm soup, broth to support this process.
In the evening she felt hungry, and ate 2 bowl of broth with noodles. The tinnitus went away in the hour following the treatment.I next saw her two days after (Friday). She was feeling better, she was able to sleep quite well. The diarrhoea went better the next day but returned quite rapidly. She told she ate banana, orange juice..
The night before the second session she developed a burning sensation with cough in the upper chest. Dry cough.
The appetite was OK.
When I took the pulse, it was back at the superficial level, especially at the right guan and cun. The right Chi was still very weak, the SP too, but there was a feeling of pushing upwards.
I needled LU-1 and LU-7 to open the exterior, and also BL-67 and GB-44.
I was still worried because the next day she has to go back to work, she’s a private nurse. And she was scheduled for the whole weekend. I told her if she felt too tired or unwell to find someone to remplace her.I got news Saturday evening, she was feeling tired but otherwise well. She mentioned that her belly is making noise like she’s always hungry.
I’ll say her tomorrow and see where she’s at. The course of antibiotics will be over.I wonder if during the first treatment I could have gone to the Divergent channels ? As it was lingering and started the symptoms started to change, it seems to fit in this category.
I should mention also that during the past year, she had loose stools on the daily basis since she went vegetarian.
Anyways, I’m curious to read another way of approach a case like this!Thank you,
AntoineHi Antoine,
It all sounds like you’ve helped her a lot! The signs you describe are typical of someone taking antibiotics which are Cold in nature (tiredness, diarrhoea, loss of apetite) so this would exacerbate any Yang deficiency precondition that she may have had prior to being infected (which she might have if she’d become vegetarian especially increasing consumption of raw fruit and vegetables). With the signs and symptoms you describe I would have probably gone for the 6th confluence, particularly Large Intestine, since Yang is the resource that seems more compromised in her case at this particular stage.
Covid semms to target the confluence that corresponds to the resource more compromised in the patient prior to being infected, yet it can rapidly shift (confluence-wise within a Divergent perspective) and can wreak havoc in a matter of days and even hours. Knowing the patient’s preconditions will surely help a lot to understand the symptoms manifesting in her case. This will give you precious information to fine-tune your treatment to address the condition in a situation that can dranmatically change in no time.
It would be very interesting to know how your patient evolves.
Monica
Hello Monica,
Thank you for you answer. I’m currently watching the Divergent seminar from Jeffrey on ACCM, and it appears to me that as you said the 6th confluence may be the most appropriate in her case. I wonder though, would you use it DSD or SDS ? Because we don’t really want to bring pathogens into latency but if the patient doesn’t have the ressources to mount a defense we can exhaust her ?
I’ll see her before the end of the month, I’ll keep the case updated 🙂
Hope you’re well,
AntoineI would do DSD because that is precisely what we want to do, to bring pathogens into latency while the body gathers enough mediumship to mount a future attempt to expel the pathogen. Trusting the body’s ability to decide when it is ready to do so is safer than performing an SDS treatment without reassurance that the resources are available.
Best, 🙂
MonicaThanks for the precision, I would have gone DSD but I was curious to know if we could do otherwise. I got one minor healing crisis after a DSD treatment, a good remember that the body is always the last to choose!:)
Cheers,
Antoine
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