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December 6, 2004
Treating ADHD
I got a kid in clinic yesterday who had been diagnosed with ADHD.
We get a fair number of those in the clinic, because while Eastern Medicine has its share of “voodoo”, so does Western Medicine. ADD/ADHD is one of those problems where Western medicine kind of throws up their hands, writes a prescription, and hopes the kid goes away. Any time a doctor writes you a prescription and then expects you to take it for the rest of your life, I’d be a bit suspicious they’re treating the symptom and not the problem.
From an Eastern perspective every “Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder” kid we get has a different problem. When we fix the problem, usually the kid calms down.
In this case, while he had some minor issues with his liver and spleed, the real case was that the kid just had too much Yang energy. Its actually a good thing to have that much energy, he just has more energy then his system can actually manage. So mainly, he needs to be run ragged once/day in the park for a month. Once that happens, either his system will start to regulate itself, or we’ll be able to teach his system how to do that.
It always seems strange to me, the tendency of doctors to prescribe chemicals instead of physical exercise. In the clinic, we’ve now stopped prescribing herbs until the patients 2nd or 3rd visit…
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