Case study with Thomas Avery Garran ((Jan 15)

Responses

1. 

   Thomas January 13, 2025

   Students please be prepared with the following:
   1. What other questions might you ask?
   2. A diagnosis using Chinese medicine or Western herbal medicine.
   3. A treatment strategy based on the diagnosis.
   4. An appropriate formula.

   Case Study Class 15 January 2025
   Gender: male
   Age: 33
   Height: 168 cm
   Weight: 65 kg
   Ethnicity: French Canadian
   Occupation: small business owner
   Chief complaint: cold/flu symptoms with lower abdominal fullness and vomiting
   Symptoms: heat effusion; aversion to wind and cold, spontaneous sweating, thirst but vomits after drinking, inhibited urination (comes but not smoothly, seems less than amount of water consumed)
   Brief history: patient exercises occasionally and is in reasonably good health.
   Diet and Lifestyle: Diet is eating out for most every meal often low-quality/fast food. Smokes and consumes alcohol and occasionally to excess.
   Sleep: fair, dreams a lot, recently of drowning
   Energy: good to low, often tired, very busy with work
   Appetite: OK, occasionally very strong appetite
   Stool: 1-2 X/day
   Thirst: very thirsty (see above)
   Urine: 3-5 X day, stream not strong, light to darker yellow
   Basic observations: Patient is in fair physical health. Patient is concerned, rightly, by the vomiting and retching, distention and fullness in his lower abdomen, and his lack of a strong urinary function, which have just started after feeling like he was catching a cold.
   Pulse: floating and rapid

   See you Wednesday evening.