Integrating TCM with other Modalities

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Integrating TCM with other Modalities

• Clive Powell
• N.D., B.Ac., Dip App. Science (Homeopathy)
• Naturopath, Homeopath and Acupuncturist

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TCM and other modalities

• Everyone mixes and matches but nobody talks about
  it.
• Are the main modalities of Alternative Medicine
  stand alone anymore?
• For the benefit of our patients we must be more
  eclectic not attached to old dogma.

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Practice Today

• 3 main strands of Alternative Medicine
• Acupuncture 2-5,000 (?) years old.
• Naturopathy Hippocrates 2,000 years.
• Homeopathy Hahnemann 200 years.
• Do we need updated paradigms in C21?

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New Presentations of Illness

• Among other factors
• Denatured Food.
• Pollution (Air, Oestrogens, Pesticides).
• Emotional Issues Self esteem, sexuality and
  stress(?).

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New Presentations/Old Models

• Many recent conditions (CFS, HIV) dont fit
• TCM Models rooted in the politics of Mao and the
  Cultural Revolution.
• 200 year old Materia Medica provings.
• Naturopathic Industry hooked on selling
  supplements not basic Nature-Cure principles. The
  basis of Nutrition is good food not Vitamin
  Supplements.

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Energy Medicine requirements

• Energy Medicines (TCM, Homeopathy) require a
• STRONG PHYSICAL STRUCTURE
• Otherwise energic interventions either dont hold
  or the patient aggravates.

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Reasons for Energic Medicine Failure

• Poor organs of elimination.
• Deficiencies of Macro Minerals.
• Unresolved emotional issues.

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Intervention Strategies (1)

• Poor organs of elimination
• Jensen model of Tissue Cleansing in many
  cases has validity stimulate all organs of
  elimination (bowel, kidney and skin)
• Detox (vital in skin problems)

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Intervention Strategies (2)

• Deficiencies of Macro Minerals
• Diagnose Constitutional types and institute
  correct nutritional program for that type.
• Iris diagnosis, Blood Type diet, other pathology
  investigations.
• Many nutritional deficiencies and imbalances are
  absorption problems.
• Mineral levels and ratios are vital

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Intervention Strategies (3)

• Unresolved emotional issues
• Use some method of accessing the sub-conscious
  mind to find the deepest blockages to treatment.
• Often identifying the problem is halfway to
  solving it.
• Hypnotherapy, Kinesiology, Inner Child writing
  work.

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Urban Myths

• You cannot use 2 Energic Medicines at the same
  time.
• Everything other than Homeopathy is suppressive.
• Herbs (TCM,Western) or supplements interfere with
  the action of energy medicine.
• Some people are just too sensitive for anything
  other than high energy medicine

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Conclusion

• TCM integrates well with other modalities and is
  actually supported by this integration.
• We are increasingly seeing more difficult and
  complex cases that require a broader approach.

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Further Information

• To download this PowerPoint presentation and
  sundry info please contact
• www.powelltherapies.com
• Email clive_at_powelltherapies.com