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Tuesday, July 15, 2003
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Holistic Diagnosis
In Ohio, no one is legally allowed to diagnosis a disease or condition other than a Western medical doctor (MD, DO., psychologist, etc.). However, it is worthwhile examining how holistic healers can diagnosis issues with the body, mind or spirit.
Of course, each ancient medical system has a variety of diagnostic techniques. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has many ways to tell what is wrong with a person. Chinese tongue diagnosis is a way to look at a person's tongue and diagnosis issues in the meridians of the body. Chinese pulse diagnosis checks the frequency, regularity and strength of the pulse to understand what is happening with a person.
Indian ayurvedic medicine also has techniques to understand how a person's chakras, or energy sources in the body, are compromised or not as strong as they could be.
Other modalities also have diagnosis tools, usually built into the treatment. In rolfing, the practitioner is able to look at a person's posture and the way they move to understand which parts of the fascia need to be changed using rolfing techniques.
Similarly, with somatic education techniques like the Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method, the practitioner pays very close attention to how a person stands, sits, walks and moves to understand where issues might be. Interestingly, Feldenkrais specifically looks for places of pain in the body so the practitioner can avoid those areas, not work deeper into them.
Intuition is also a part of holistic diagnosis. Medical intution is called an emerging science by its cheerleaders. Indeed, the possibility of understanding issues in a person's body, mind or spirit using intuitive techniques could be a much simpler process than usage of complex and expensive testing like what Western medicine uses today.
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