How to Make Your Own Prognosis
The idea behind the Prognosis-O-Rama has always been to give you a sense of how long this process of herbal medicine treatment is going to take. I hope that you were able to achieve this understanding. If you're still not sure how long its going to take, welcome to the club. Prognosis is not an exact science, and what appears on these pages is not the end authority when it comes to what it takes to feel better, but its a good start.
It would be nice if prognosis were something that could be taught in TCM schools, but ultimately it is the patient who teaches the doctor when it comes to how quickly or slowly a healing response will take.
I've provided you some rules of thumb as to those things that speed up or slow down your response to healing. The next step is to simply observe how your symptoms respond to the therapy.
If, after one course of therapy you are 50% better, you'll probably only need one more course, and you can assume that you are half the way there. If you are only 10% better, then expect another nine courses, you are one tenth of the way there.
What is a course of treatment? In acupuncture terms, that is usually ten sessions. In herbal treatments, it varies, but the premise remains the same. If it takes one week to see 20% improvement, expect that trend to continue at the same speed, give or take.
I guess what I'm saying here is that it is difficult to know how long it will take to fix your problem, until progress can be seen. Once progress is noted we can then understand how quickly things are moving.
I hope that they move quickly for you. : )
Be well.
-al.
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