Tibetan medicine pulse reading and urinalysis

Aku Nyima, one of the best senior Tibetan medicine physicians, who earned the rank of great physician of TCM, has passed to nirvana. He was my teacher, by whose kindness and under whose care I earned so much clinical experience. May he return swiftly to the world and save countless sentient being from illness.

Wishing all sentient beings a peaceful mind and healthy life. May the war immediately cease and the universe become a realm of happiness in the brand new Year of the Tiger.

My patient’s alopecia has improved so much after a few months of treatment. Whenever I see good results from my treatments, the encouragement it gives me lends me confidence.

Middle of the treatment.

My friend John is an acupuncture student and a massage therapist , as well as a student of Tibetan medicine under Dr. Pasang, for whom I have great admiration. Today John came from North Carolina to observe my practice. Together we read patient pulses and talked over their cases. I wish him the very best in his studies.

Dreams are a secret language which can convey a tremendous amount of information on a vast array of subjects. A dream can even perform diagnostic functions in regard to personal health if the interpreter knows how to connect its meaning to an individual’s constitution.

The best time to have the urine sample checked:
Since urinalysis is performed through a visual examination of *stream, sediment, and color, it is ideally performed in conditions where natural sunlight can pass through the container, as described in the four medical tantras. In the absence of available sunlight however, urine can be checked under any lighting of appropriate strength, preferably neutral in color.
The best containers for urine collection:
Since the apparent color of urine can change relative to the color of its containers, it is important to collect the urine in either e.g. a white ceramic bowl, or preferably, a container of clean, clear glass. While the authors of the classical Tibetan texts were restricted to copper, brass, or clay bowls on account of availability, today there is an abundance of clean, clear containers that allow us to examine a urine sample with ease and certainty through the container itself. Under traditional circumstances, in which facilities were scarce and conditions may have been urgent, doctors checked often collected urine on site in a colored container, and avoided misapprehending its color through the additional use of white animal bone or white wooden sticks.

Both patients and friends complain that certain commercially available herbal remedies—typically storebought pills—have not been effective for their conditions, despite having taken them regularly, sometimes even for years. From a Tibetan medicine point of view, a given remedy's apparent ineffectiveness may have less to do with its intrinsic efficaciousness, and more to do with a person having taken recourse to it over and over again. We are familiar with "diminishing returns" when it comes to antibiotics—should the same not be true of herbal remedies?
Real and effective treatment first requires correct awareness of the condition underlying one's symptoms; and then a successive course of treatment that adapts to symptoms as they change.

We've seen incredible results at the practice, offering a diverse array of different treatment methods tailored to each patient's specific case, diagnosed on the basis of Tibetan pulse and urine analysis.