Greetings all,

I am a fourth-year student at Emperor's College and am quite
interested in working with patients from an 8-Extra vessel
perspective. I have taken classes from Dr. Morris as well as several
practitioners who are students of Jeffrey Yuen and am finding myself
somewhat confused in certain respects.

For example, I currently have a patient who is experiencing
palpitations. Her symptoms occur mostly during the day and she has a
consistently yang qiao pulse that is also full and pounding overall.
She also complains of other symptoms that are occurring along the
trajectory of the yang qiao channel. She has been diagnosed with
hypertension and cardiac arrhythmia.

My question is how best to address her symptoms. If I focus on the
yang qiao aspect of the pulse and treat that vessel will I in effect
resolve the stagnation in her upper jiao and thus relieve her
symptoms? Or do I focus directly on the Heart channel with say a
Heart divergent treatment or a straight TCM approach? Are these just
two different paths to the same destination or will one have more
effect on the root of the problem than the other? One approach
appears to focus on the pulse, while the other on the symptoms.

Best,
Douglas Crawford