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CURRENT OF AÝR SYNDROME
(DOKME’S SYNDROME=DS)
(JOURNAL OF ACUPUNCTURE) . VOLUME 13 . NUMBER 51 . YEAR 2003, ÝSTANBUL
Baki DÖKME(*)
(*) Anaesthetist, acupuncturist, MD. Secretary of Ýstanbul Acupuncture Association. Rumeli Cad. Efe Sk. 18/2 Osmanbey-Ýstanbul.
SUMMARY
The effects of the climate has been known for thousands of years everywhere in the world as humidity, wind, dry, cold or hot weather. Although these effects have been examined by many scientists, the effects of draught haven’t been examined thoroughly yet. However, the draught effects people’s health seriously. Therefore in this article, I have decided to study about the effects of the draught and if acupuncture can treat them.
THE EFFECTS OF THE DRAUGHT ON PEOPLE
The fact that it’s cold, hot, dry, humid, windy, cloudy, foggy or misty affects people in a positive or negative way. For example, everybody knows that staying outside when it’s too hot and humid causes sunstroke on the other hand a warm and sunny spring morning causes relief. Some people are very sensitive to the changes of the climate. Then numbers given about sensitivity to the climate changes may change according to the country but it’s possible to say that every one third person is sensitive. Women are more sensitive than men, old people are more sensitive than the young.
We may see the following symptoms on people who are sensitive to the climate:
Whichever of these effects will appear may differ according to the sensitivity of the person and the air condition. The following is the type of climate change that we are interested in:
WHAT IS DRAFT?
Let’s try to define draft with two examples:
The wind we feel when we open the door and window together is called draft. We also feel it in a narrow street if both sides of the street is open. In other words we may describe it as the changing situation of the air from one way to another in a location which is open in both sides.
The draft is the most effective air changing. The symptoms it has caused on people is so evident that we want to call it as Draft Syndrome (HAS = HAVA AKIMI SENDROMU=Draft Syndrome=Dokme’s Syndrome).
WHAT IS DOKME’s SYNDROME?
DS is the name of all the negative effects of the draft on people. Whether it occurs in cold or hot weather, it creates similar effects on sensitive people. However if it’s not so warm when the draft occurs, it is possible to say that people can catch HAS more easily. Even if the draft is not so strong, it creates a strong effect on a person sleeping without a blanket or quilt on him.
The symptoms of DS may be seen as follows:
Extreme irritability, rage and aggression are sometimes so evident that couples may divorce, people can kill each other, children may resist their parents. When somebody has the symptoms of HAS, he almost loses his head. The symptoms of DS appears suddenly and doesn’t recover easily if it isn’t treated.
TREATMENT
What is important to treat DS is to eliminate the symptoms. The first step to treat is that the patient must be taken away from the place in draft, and then the treatment must be applied. It might be necessary to tranquilize the patient with tranquilizer injection when he is so aggressive or extremely irritable. If it’s not the suitable time for this, he might be given the warming treatment. We might also try to calm him down by speaking to persuade. For the warming treatment, it might be useful to cover the patient with a warming cloth or blanket. If not possible to apply these methods, the patient must be persuaded to lie down and covered with a blanket or something else; or he should be persuaded to take a mild bath.
It’s also possible to treat the patient through acupuncture or acuenergy. First we should make him connected with the soil. With doing so, we will have eliminated the oscillation of the patient. We should examine the situation of upside down, right and left balance and the others. We should also examine the following points and treat if needed:
· Tranquilizer points ( diazem point = left Kidney-6, main omega point)
· Liver nervous point point
· Limbic system point
· N. vagus point
· Both points of N. Vestibulocochlearis
· And some other points like the above
Diazem point of a right handed person is on the left ear and it matches with the left Ki-6 point in the body. Liver nerval point matches with the Liv-3 as the silver point on the left ear. Aggression point is the silver point in the left ear and matches with Liver-14 in the body. Motoric side of the umbilical point (Plexsus solaris) is the golden point in the right ear and matches with the SI-3. Epiphysis point matches with the left (GB-62 in the body as the golden point in the left ear. H-7 point should be examined and if illness is found it should be included to the treatment. Omega main point and CV-17 which is the complementary of its equivalent SP-21or SP-22 point should be treated. In addition, CV -20 and GV-24 which are the equivalent of right and left balance in the ear should be examined and treated if illness is found. If dizziness is found, N. Vestibulokoklaris should absolutely be treated. This nerve, which is the 8th head couple, has two places, one on top of the tragus, the other on the tail of the anthelix which is in the passing of pons to medulla oblongata. This place is also considered as the place where nerve core exists.
In this case we may apply only ear acupuncture or body acupuncture or we can apply both ear and body acupuncture. However we should treat only the points matching with each other. When we apply the body acupuncture, we should examine GB-20 with B-10 and we should also consider examining CV-14, 31-15 and B- 11-12-13 with GB 21. For dizziness it might be necessary to consider the points near the eyes because the signals coming out because of the tensions near the eyes may cause dizziness. B-1-2, GB-14 and Extra-1 (Yin Tang=Inn Trang=PdM), 2,3,4 points should be examined. As a result, warming the patient has a great role to treat DS. It’s also necessary not to forget that to get a warm bath has a great role to treat it.
If a person gets these kinds of precautions, he will have been protected against DS. Besides these, an acupuncturist can also help the patient who is sensitive to DS. He can treat the points mentioned above a few times and provide protection.
We can also recommend massage to the patient. The massage should be applied to all the body not only one point. With palms and the upper sides of hands, he should stroke everywhere he can reach on his body. Especially the area where the neck vertebras are (primarily the places of B-10 and GB-20) can be warmed with palms. B -11-12; SI-15; GB -21; TH-15 should be stroked when CV –12 and 13 is covered with palms and fingers. Waist and back parts should also be tried to stroked. People should try to stroke the other person when they meet each other. If a person strokes these areas while shaking, the person who probably has the DS will have the chance to recover.
DISCUSSION
What is the reason of HAS? What are the patologic changings?
An organism replies to the air changing like an antenna. However how this air changing stimulant effects the organism is not known yet. There are some studies about this topic. Today, it’s known that changing with the air pressure, heat, wind, humidity, clouds, and rain is effective on people because of the electric ions in the air, sudden changing in the atmosphere pressure and electro magnetic rays.
Draught causes static electric on people. I wonder how it is formed. I think receptors in the human body has a role in this. According to this theory, negative electric charge happening during the draught is perceived by receptors, and this causes the potential of receptors to become. When this potential is over the point which will form the action potential on the nerve fibre where it is connected, the upper centers will be informed. That must be the reason why a DS patient feels the electricity on him. This can be felt not only by the patient and also the doctor. We can do the following experiment to see this electricity:
When we massage on the neck and C-7 area of the DS patient, with the help of the palm and fingers, the patient feels the electricity. This symptom is can be called piloerection. Piloerection is the mechanism to warm up the body which has got cold because of DS, and it forms because the sympathetic centers on hypothalamus are stimulated. This is because all body skin vasoconstriction which is another warming mechanism. vasoconstriction forms when the sympathetic centers on the posterior hypothalamus are stimulated. This sympathetic stimulation causes the piloerection. The erecting hairs help prevent the heat loss by forming an isolated layer.
We have mentioned that the symptom of piloerection is the symptom of DS. We should be careful to speak with a person if he has the symptom of piloerection because he will start to blurt something out and make a fuss.
The reason of aggression and extreme irritability might be the stimulation of the sympathetic centers in the posterior hypothalamus. The reason of the cyanosis on the skin might be this vasoconstriction formed by the stimulation of these centers. When negative electric is transformed to these upper centers by the receptors in the skin, a physical tension occurs. Here we must remember the positive kicking back in cybernetics.
While the organism organizes itself with the negative kicking back, when the positive kicking back occurs, the ruining signal always effects the organism in the same way, it can’t keep the balance and in result a vicious circle reveals. With DS, it is impossible to for the organism to re arrange this vicious circle forming as a result of the draught because the negative kicking back connection is out of order. Because of this, it’s necessary to treat from outside to break this vicious circle appearing as DS.
Meanwhile we should mention that the draught vibration becomes the reason of oscillation. This oscillation must be one of the reasons why a person who is exposed to draught is so extremely irritable and so aggressive. In an organism getting weak through the draught, electro magnetic waves are transformed to the upper centers by receptors and these waves that always affects the organism in the same direction form the vicious circles. This may have a role to form the DS.
Why a person who has caught the DS becomes relaxed by having a shower is that the extra negative electric load in the body becomes neutral. It’s aimed to rearrange the electric balance in the organism during the stimulating the acupuncture points with massage, needles, acuenergy laser or other devices like these. Here, the points are the ones that will provide the patient to calm down. Liver nerval point is especially for the anger and aggression point is for preventing the aggression. IK-11 is the relaxing point for all the body. B-62 (Epiphysis point) is a point which can be used for extreme anger. H-7 point is the point called shen men. This point is shown on the ear in different places in eastern and western literature. According to our tests, the point shown by the western literature is more convenient. For DS, it’s better to treat both the points in the ear and the body. This point is usually the point for situations like restlessness, anger, and bad temper. SI-3 should be considered as one of the points as a psychic and morale recovering point. Ki-6 which matches with the diazem point is important with its relaxing, relieving and tranquillizing effect. Omega main point (in the body SP-21 or GV-17 its complementary) might have a role to calm the patient down by affecting like a bromazepam from the benzodiazepin group. CV-20 and GV-24, the equivalent of the right left balance ear point in the body must be examined. If an illness is found it should be treated with needles as the golden YD-20 or silver AD-24 point or acu energy.
RESULT
A person who is exposed for some time to the draught may catch after a while a syndrome which consists of some symptoms that we call it Dokme’s Syndrome=DS (or Draught Syndrome). In order to treat a patient with DS, it’s possible to benefit from acupuncture or acuenergy and also the precutions to protect from the syndrome. As a result, The effects of the draught on the people’s health should be studied deeply.
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