running nose Cold

From The History That Cannot Mislead You

The questions that are never asked cold

What waits for trust, and the warning signs asked of everybody

Cold means asked before trust exists, without a reason given, and out of order. These are not forbidden; they are simply not first. Two more belong on the list. "What did that doctor say?", asked with an edge, invites the patient to defend or insult a previous practitioner — ask instead "what has been tried, and what helped even a little?" And "have you been told this cannot be cured?" puts the word incurable into the room in your voice; let them bring that one, as they almost always do, at the door.

Table 3 — Never cold, and what to do instead

From When the Hand Must Stop

Cold, running nose

Blocked: Mu · (6) Adr · Spl ▲ Take care

Notice the precision of the second row, because a careless reader will miss it. The entry distinguishes a blocked nose from a running one, and blocks accordingly. Mu is given for a blocked nose and withheld in a running one. (6) Adr opens a blocked nose — which is why it is on the list here, where the nose is already running. The complaint is not "cold". The complaint is which direction the nose is going.

And the third row carries its own hedge — in some people. It is an individual observation, not a universal law, and the instruction attached to it is: do not give them Spl — them, the ones in whom you have seen it.

Also explained in

• ROCKET POINT — driving the muscles back up Uncommon Problems

  Send, do not treat, where there is visible deformity, a hand that is cold, pale or pulseless, numbness or pins-and-needles in the hand, or an arm that cannot be moved at all.

• Where the bath meets the meal Between Two Sessions

  orty-five minutes between a cold bath and breakfast, and why One rule stands on the boundary between this article and the next, and it is a rule about the bath, so it is given here in the form the patient needs.

• Rising Between Two Sessions

  Inside the bed your feet were warm, whereas the ground is cold, so placing the feet on bare ground immediately on rising may give you a cold.

• How water is drunk, and the waters that are refused Food as Medicine

  Warming cold water inside the body wastes the body's energy.

• The sick-room table that belongs to the articles ahead Food as Medicine

  Table 3 — Your plate and your glass, in the order of a day When What to do Why On waking No cold water first thing.

• Two cases from the reference Each Point in Use

  She was cold-handed and said she felt cold when nobody else did.

• The oil at five places, and the absence of soap Between Two Sessions

  TAKE CARE Cold water is not for every patient in front of you As far as possible, in every season — the qualification is in the rule, and it is there to be used.

• Two bodies, read as this article teaches The Body's Own Pharmacy

  My mother had the same thing, so I know it is in the family and nothing can be done." Cold hands, hair thinning at the front, and — asked directly — motions once in two or three days, hard, "but that is normal for me." W

• Questions students ask Between Two Sessions

  The side-turn matters more in a thin, old spine than a young one; the thirty seconds on the edge of the bed matters more when the reflexes that hold your blood pressure up are slower; the slippers matter more when a cold

• Questions patients ask you Between Two Sessions

  Do you want me to catch pneumonia?" No, and the rule is not about cold — it is about air.

• Two bodies, read as this article teaches The Two Kingdoms

  And I go to the toilet only every third day, with great difficulty, and sometimes there is blood." Her daughter added what patients never volunteer: that her mother had become slow, felt cold in a warm room, and had gain

• The rules of living, given at the end of the first visit The History That Cannot Mislead You

  Do not drink cold water immediately after rising — drink lukewarm water, or cold water later, when the body has become warm.

• The milk for heavy bleeding Treating Women

  The general drinking rule asks for water from an earthen pot and not from the fridge, because warming cold water inside the body wastes the body's energy — but that rule is about water being drunk cold.

• What is given to a small child at the mat The Child, the Elder and the Frail

  The daily rules of Between Two Sessions bite harder here and are worth going over again with the son or daughter rather than with the patient: the side-turn on getting up matters more in a thin, old spine; the thirty seconds sitti