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Amandha: Principle three is where we’re at. Obviously, it’s pulling together one and two. We’re gonna organize some symptom signs chronology of the history. We’re gonna talk about records keeping records of these things and understanding that you’re gonna maybe use previous interventions as part of your picture that you’re creating out of the information that you’re gathering.

Amandha: So you’re linking these findings to the information you learned about holistic health awareness, so then you can determine what, you know, what you’re working with for that health case, what it looks like is going on, and then that whole relationship with the complete case so you know really what you’re looking at in that situation.

Amandha: And we’ll obviously have chronology with pathology and functional changes and organ systems and really to get you to a working functional protocol and also it will help you identify information because maybe you… It seemed like there was a liver condition. You started do… Say you gave them dandelion or you started taking dandelion, then you know…

Amandha: need to know how to reassess and say, “Okay, maybe there’s more to it. Maybe there’s also a gallbladder picture here,” and how to do follow-ups and adjust your diagnosis of the symptom picture as you go forward. And then the prioritizing triage aspect is to know what to treat first, how to start what organ system needs certain things and when, and that’s your organizational aspect.

Amandha: So when I say triage, it means to prioritize your approaches and where you’re starting, how long you’re running something for, and how you are compiling the data so that it’s helping you know have a progression in your your care. This is just sort of what I already pretty much said, just what we did in principle one.

Amandha: And so now we’re doing the comparison. Now, in the masterclass, I will have a bunch of guide sheets. These are tools that you can fill out so that you can organize your material and you can keep a paper trail for what you’re managing and everything that you’re looking at. So let’s get into connecting organ systems.

Amandha: All right. So, basically what you’re doing here is You’ve listened to somebody, they told you what’s happening with them. You are taking all kinds of information from them. You know, what’s their blood pressure like, and what is their… You will even talk about tongue and pulse. You can take tongue and pulse.

Amandha: What’s happening in their bodies? And you’re gonna obviously include the region it’s happening in the body or what… Where they’re feeling what they’re feeling. And then the depth and intensity of what they’re feeling. I really like to rate things out of 10. Like, you know, if you were to say you’re tired, go, “Okay.

Amandha: Well, out of 10, 10 being as tired as you can be,” you know, “what would you say you are? would you say you’re 5 out of 10 tired? 8 out of 10 tired?” Right? And it’s really good to get in the habit of asking to rate… for them to rate it out on a scale because that’s gonna give you an idea of how the intense they’re feeling that.

Amandha: And also it’s a comparative for later when you’re like, “Oh well, you know, we gave you catnip and valerian root to help you sleep,” you know, and it’s been, you know, three months or two months or something, whatever. We’re having a follow-up, “How’s that going?” You know, “Rate it out of 10 again.” They’re like, “Yeah.

Amandha: You know what? I’d say I’m sleeping better. I’m only about a 3 out of 10 now.” And this gives you a way to track your success and know that you are moving in the right direction. And then of course the overall impact of the symptom on their life. Like, “Yeah, you know, when I have this back pain it’s so debilitating it’s hard to think,” or, “It’s hard to work,” or, “It’s hard to be patient with people.”

Amandha: Right? That’s an impact on their lifestyle, and you’re trying to gauge how a symptom is affecting their life. And it gives you other insight also in how their their own sensitivities. Of course, pain, numbness, swelling, weakness, any kind of restricted movement, you’re gonna start to think, “Okay. Well, then there’s probably nerve involvement,” right?

Amandha: You’re gonna be learning to think, “Ah, there’s probably some blood flow issues. The fascia could be implicated here. It could be knotted. It could be scarified. It could be dehydrated,” right? The joints could be as… which are repertories or repositories rather for toxicity. Those joints could be giving them problems because they’re very toxic, and it’s creating this type of restricted movement, right?

Amandha: Muscles, obviously you’d be thinking when you’re having weakness or any organs in that local area of wherever they’re feeling that. And this is how I’m training you to begin to think, right? When someone says, “Oh, I have pain,” then you’re gonna start associating what they’re talking about with- the anatomy and the structure that’s related to that because that’s going to direct you to treatment protocols based on organ systems.

Amandha: And digestive changes, obviously, if they start talking about they’re having all kinds of digestive issues, right? They’re gonna have, you know, you’re gonna think about the stomach or you can think about their liver. Is their liver functioning properly? Is it detoxing properly? Is the gallbladder congested?

Amandha: How is their pancreas? Are they pre-diabetic? How’s their small intestine? How is their colon? That’s how you’re going to start to think immediately those systems when digestive complaints are part of the symptomatology. Urinary changes, you’re gonna think about the kidneys, the ureters, the bladder, the urethra, and then of course, male and female issues of the prostate could be part of that picture.

Amandha: Perimenopause could be part of that picture. But you’re gonna focus more on the structure first and then move to causation after. So okay, there’s bladder pressure and then we’ll move layers. Oh, there’s probably a hormone issue looks like because of the other symptoms and I’m gonna say that, given your age and given what’s the type of, you know, pressure you’re having, we’re gonna look at the prostate and how you kind of logically get to that.

Amandha: And then of course, referred pain can be tricky and that’s just something that you learn over time, you know, when you have a gallbladder pain or appendix pain where it shoots to or if there’s heart issues going on where it refers to which is different in men and women. So that’s part of the teaching that is actually part of principle two teaching.

Amandha: So in the main course, you’re gonna learn all of these sorts of things. And I have taught you quite a few of these already. And so to, you know, to understand referred pain and that it could even be indigestion referred pain and then for each symptom you’re identifying the function that’s connected to the complaint.

Amandha: For example if the gallbladder… If there’s pain in the gallbladder, you’re gonna think there’s congestion here, right? You’re not automatically gonna go, “Oh, it’s cut,” or, “Oh, it’s…” You know? You’re gonna logically go, “Well, yeah, this sounds like it’s very congested.” The stomach you’re gonna think about the levels of hydrochloric acid or pepsin or intrinsic factor that’s available.

Amandha: You’re gonna think about is it mechanically moving properly, right? Is there peristalsis? Is there proper secretion? Is it emptying properly? Is the pH proper? Liver and gallbladder, of course, you know, you’re gonna think about the bile production after that. You’re gonna think about is it actually releasing the bile properly?

Amandha: Which means you’re not detoxing properly, and then that goes into the hormone function. And you’re… Yeah, then you’re gonna start to see that, oh, they probably have hormone issues, and that… And you’re gonna be able to make those connections. And then the kidney pancreas, same thing. You’re gonna take it to the next level, okay?

Amandha: Well, now we have to see about blood glucose levels perhaps, or is bicarbonate secreting properly, right? What’s your diet like? Are you taking in false sugars? Are you eating a lot of sugar? What’s your stress levels like? You know, it’s gonna lead you down those paths to more investigation.

Amandha: Then so for example, nervous system, you’re gonna look at coordination, cognition. So many have autonomic nerve problems now with the amount of stress that’s happening in our world, with the amount of vaccine damage that’s happened as well. We’re gonna see symptoms there, and then we’re gonna ask more questions related to the symptoms that you’re seeing.

Amandha: And so what you’re starting to do here is link up these, whatever the altered function you’re seeing in the symptom, symptomatology to other information, the information you’re getting from previous labs what other symptoms they’re having with different organ systems. You’re gonna learn to design a map of connecting all of these things together.

Amandha: So then once you’ve done this, you’re gonna compare all the organs together, right? You’re gonna make the relationship between the stomach, which is secreting, which is mixing, which is emptying into the duodenum, into the next part of the small intestine, right? Is that… There’s valves there. Is that operating properly, right?

Amandha: The pancreas is related to the small intestine as well because that also is part of moving things forward. Is it the right pH so that it you know, creates the bolus so that it can move forward? You’re gonna see liver and gallbladder relate to overall digestion and bowel function. Are they chronically constipated?

Amandha: Are they have alternating loose stools, bowel, you know, like an IBS picture, which is often linked to the gallbladder. You know, you’re gonna start to see what these connections are. Same with the kidneys. Well, if the kidneys are filtrating, they’re balancing fluid, they’re balancing electrolytes, and you’re gonna see their blood pressure might be really high, and their urinary output might also be compensating for that.

Amandha: You’re gonna be able to understand that’s a primary issue is the kidneys, but there’s secondary problems. You know, you’re gonna have more pressure in the vessels of the body. You’re going to have other strains and stresses and inflammation going on that has to be addressed. Same thing with the endocrine organ, right?

Amandha: The endocrine organs, there are many of them. who’s responsible? Like, where are the deficiencies? Where, what is being regulated properly or not? And then what’s the response in those tissues? And oftentimes we’ll start with things like the adrenals, and we’ll get more information about really what’s happening.

Amandha: Maybe the thyroid already has been in a deficiency, which means the adrenals have already been drained for a very long time, because it generally starts at the level of the adrenals and then later starts to pull on the energy of the thyroid. So if they already have come with a thyroid concern, you automatically know that those endocrine organs are all stressed, and you’re gonna be concerned about the adrenals, and you’re gonna wanna automatically support them.

Amandha: Same thing with the nervous system. Obviously, you’re gonna, you know, see maybe circulation issues, you’re gonna see digestive issues, you’re gonna… Maybe there’s bladder function problems, right? Maybe they have all kinds of stims going on, or they’re not sleeping properly. You’re gonna be able to make the wider connection into the bigger picture of what you’re seeing for that organ system dysfunction.

Amandha: So you’re gonna start to compare connections. That’s what I teach in this course, is that you’re learning to compare all these things together, okay? So that you understand the primary organ responsible. You can fit it in the story they told you, the chronology, and then you go, “Oh, looks like it started here.

Amandha: You got a vaccine. It destroyed the gut first, stomach first. Then it destroyed your intestines. Then it moved on to your liver.” Okay, so we have to support all these organ systems and do it as a whole, and now maybe we’re even seeing other issues. There’s problems maybe with the skin or problems with the lungs because if it’s gone on for a long time and hasn’t been supported.

Amandha: So you’re gonna see what is the primary organ, when did it… where did it start, where did it begin, and then how did it progress into all these other organ systems? Because it can be very overwhelming when they have a ton of symptoms and a ton of organs that are involved, and they’re like, “Whoa, you know, where do I even start with this?

Amandha: I have all these symptoms.” But with this system that I’m providing for you is it’s simplifying it. You’re going to eventually, with the lists of information you get, and even if you need to go for labs or you need to get other extra information, or you need to use… lean on previous diagnoses, you’re gonna learn to pull that together so you can see, here’s where it started.

Amandha: This is where we’re gonna begin our process, and then we’re gonna support, you know, these side rules basically to make sure that we’re moving in the right direction of healing. So primary and secondary organ involvement, once you take your history, you’re going to figure out where it kind of maybe started.

Amandha: You might not know right at the beginning, but as you continue along, when you take a good history, when you use your intake forms that I’ve given you properly and you ask the questions, you’re going to start to see a lot of things over and over again. And that’s what practice is.

Amandha: Practice is seeing, you know, these things over and over again. You see how many commonalities we have, how many… We only have so many organs, okay? And you can always sort of at least figure out a handful of organs that are involved in the case, right?

Amandha: And what you can see is where did something…

Amandha: where was something a little deficient, and then it progressed into later organs. You know, where did it… where do we think it started? And then what are the other weaknesses? And then we’re lining up the symptom progression. And you don’t even have to get that 100% right, and really none of it you have to get 100% right.

Amandha: That’s what’s great about it. You… Even if you have a general idea or even if you have almost no idea for the most part, you could always start with healing the gut and the liver okay? Because they have so many important actions for the entire system, like while you’re figuring it out and sometimes even when you start applying the logic to those digestive organs, you get a feedback and that feedback of application is also really helpful for you to go, “Oh, I see.

Amandha: Like, I see how your body is responding, which tells me other new information.” You know, if a remedy doesn’t really work very well, then you know you have some sort of congestion or some sort of still nutritional deficiency or something obviously isn’t moving forward, so there, that’s gonna send you on another line of investigation, right?

Amandha: So the nos and the yeses are both really valuable when you’re trying to figure out what’s going on with the body. And so if, for example, if you’ve decided from the symptomatology and chronology that the root cause organ is actually the stomach, then that’s where you’re gonna start to heal, right?

Amandha: But you’re gonna have to support whatever else down the line has become weakened by that process, because maybe it’s something that’s been going on for a decade. So once you’ve got your dominant organ system, you’re going to really assess the greatest functional impairment and start there because you really wanna make sure that your, you know, your person that you’re interviewing becomes comfortable in the sense that they’re not…

Amandha: You’re trying to not make them worse necessarily, obviously, right? The Hippocratic Oath is there to say, you know, first do no harm. Like, we’re trying to actually help people get better. Now in someone who’s very toxic, you have to be very careful because any any alteration can actually stir up toxins and make them feel worse before they feel better.

Amandha: But the symptoms are gonna tell you that with the feedback that’s what’s going on, and then you can make adjustments

Amandha: And then You can… You don’t have to have lab values, you don’t have to have imaging, you don’t have to find previous established pathology in order to figure out anything. But when we’re gathering information, if this is already something you have, or if you get into a situation where the case is really convoluted and difficult, you’re not really figuring it out, or it’s a really strange, odd situation, then you can later get those those things as you need.

Amandha: But it’s not necessary if you know what to look for and how to figure out signs and symptoms. I mean, doctors originally, and I was trained to not need imaging and labs at all. Like, of course we do them, but we shouldn’t rely on them for diagnoses, and it’s kind of the opposite of the Rockefeller system.

Amandha: They don’t seem to know anything about how to read signs and how to take symptom, a symptom picture from their patient. Instead, they just go immediately to labs, immediately to imaging. They maybe listen to their patient for a couple of minutes, and that’s really not proper healthcare. Healthcare should not rely on any of these things whatsoever, and you don’t need them.

Amandha: And that’s one thing naturopathic medicine taught me is that we really lost the art as a culture of taking the case, right? Of all the ways that you can get information from someone, from the way their skin looks, from the way their eyes are giving information, from their tongue and pulse, from the way they walk, from the way they breathe, even from their voice, even from the energy of their voice.

Amandha: If someone’s talking really strongly and powerfully, then you can tell they have really good qi and really good lung volume. But if they talk really softly or kind of whisper or kind of struggle, then you already know just from the way they’re talking that they’ve got an issue going on with either their qi, their lung, their energy levels, right?

Amandha: So that just by paying attention, you can read a lot about an individual and get a lot of signs. Signs are something that you can see with your two eyeballs that doesn’t require that person to speak, and symptoms are the infor- is the information that the patient tells you, right? “I feel this, I feel that.”

Amandha: Those are symptoms. They can validate or verify something that’s going on. We don’t get symptoms from animals or babies, for example. We only get signs, right? We can hear their crying, so you could argue that could be a symptom ’cause there’s… Definitely saying they don’t like something or something’s wrong, or a dog barking, but that’s, like, not really my point.

Amandha: My point is that you’re identifying through your vision what’s happening with them, right? You can tell by their stool, you can tell by their heart rate or their breath rate or the sallowness of their skin or if they’re swea- Or if there’s a fever, right? Those are signs that you gather off of, you know, off of people.

Amandha: So good doctoring is taking signs and symptoms and really gathering that information before you go leaning on labs, before you go ask for imaging or even metal tests and that sort of stuff. Usually the only time I would do that is if we’re already working with another doctor and they’re so adamant about, you know, findings, or if I was doing a case that was based on, like, you know, I was trying to prove something scientifically, so some people wanted before and after lab values just to see that, you know, they were good on paper because so many people are indoctrinated into that holding meaning for them.

Amandha: Or their doctor needed to see it, or insurance needed to see it, whatever, right?

Amandha: So there’s other reasons why we would go for that, but that is not what we need to know what’s going on with the body, and it’s not what we need to rely on when we’re trying to identify what’s happening and then determining obviously how much of that symptom, the symptomatology, and obviously when I say symptomatology, I am including signs in that.

Amandha: So how much can be explained, you know, with the physiological system within that organ system, which does take some experience and some education, some reading, which will be part… which is part of the system, you know in principle two to teach you about the signs and symptoms of each organ system, and we went through that in the master class.

Amandha: And so the, One of the most important questions that is almost invariably not asked or not shared when someone says, “I have a health problem,” is like, “What, what was going on when this started? Where did everything begin, and what was happening around the time in your life when it started?”

Amandha: Because it’s really important to make links of the, you know, initial issue, right? And then of course, which organ system really needs support right away immediately. So obviously if you have determined that the root cause organ is the stomach, but you’ve also identified that the renal function is really compromised, you’re going to, of course, prioritize both, right?

Amandha: You’re gonna treat stomach, but then you also have to support the kidneys through this process, right? So there could be multiple organ systems affected, even though you know it started, you know, at the stomach level. And so really it’s about you triaging this and understanding here’s where we’re gonna start and why, and then it becomes easier and easier for you to put a process together.

Amandha: Like, if a child comes to you and says, you know, “My stomach hurts,” and you’re gonna ask all the all the same questions. Like, “What did you eat? You know, how’s your stress levels?” You know, you’re gonna go through all those questions and figure it out. And maybe they have food poisoning, or maybe they’re just stressed, or maybe they ate a bag of Doritos and it and that’s why, you know?

Amandha: You’re gonna figure out if this is acute or chronic by your questioning.

Amandha: Excuse me

Amandha: Oh I like that. Thanks. Greg just had a… I’m gonna just put this here. It’s a question or sorry, it’s a comment. “There’s a book with quite a bit of information using different body parts like eyes or stools to assist in diagnos- diagnosing issues. It’s called An Introduction to the Practicing Herbalist: Meeting With Clients, Reading the Body shared by Margie Flint.”

Amandha: So thank you for that, Greg. We’re gonna have all kinds of book lists and information as well, so you can go into any direction that really calls for to you for how you wanna master this kind of information. Okay, so obviously you’re… Say you’ve identified the organ system, okay? That’s at the root.

Amandha: You’re gonna try to go back. What weakened this system in the first place? You’re gonna look through the history, you’re gonna look at injuries, you’re gonna look at surgeries and vaccines and medications and dental work and hormone use and nutritional deficiencies and chemical exposures connected around that time.

Amandha: And then you’re gonna compare each event with what changed in their life, if they can remember, and then the symptoms that ensued. And it will start to make sense when you put this together, and you’ll be like… And it… That’s what I’m trying to say. It’s not that difficult. It’s not that difficult, okay?

Amandha: Yes, school med school is difficult and hard, and they’re throwing a lot at you, but these sorts of principles are not that difficult, okay? There are only so many signs and symptoms a physical body can produce and there’s only so many organ systems. And so you will figure out eventually where this all started and what organ system’s involved, and then you can use those extra that extra information that you’re getting from, say, lab data or imaging or previous diagnoses or whatever treatment, treatments they’ve done or whatever to add into or validate what you’re seeing.

Amandha: So working a differential diagnosis, once you’ve done this, then you’re gonna list a suggested… We’re using the word diagnosis, but basically it’s a list of suggested diseases or situations or whatever you think is going on. Potential. This is this is the stage where you get to imagine, “Oh, it could be Crohn’s disease.

Amandha: It could be Parkinson’s. It could be Alzheimer’s. It could be whatever.” Whatever label you want, you can throw that in the list. It doesn’t matter. It’s just this is where you’re, like, imagining all possibilities of what could possibly be going on with this situation. So this is the pathology part of it, right?

Amandha: And then you’re gonna take and match all the symptoms you’re seeing and connect it with this imagery. I’m gonna show you an image soon of what I’m talking about, ’cause I’m very visual. Yes, I will talk about that. Okay. And okay, so that’s part of the, your process. It’s okay to be imaginative and even to go into all kinds of, like, rare disease categories if it doesn’t matter.

Amandha: You can throw anything on your DDX list, but that’s meant to be whittled down, right? All possibilities go on this list, no matter how rare or how even silly that you may think. And then you throw away what doesn’t fit in that in the working diagnosis. And you keep working at one that seems to stay until you’ve maybe find something that doesn’t line up, then you have to go back to the drawing board and think, “Okay, maybe this isn’t what I think it is.”

Amandha: And this is the stage where you have to be very open-minded. You have to be careful not to be biased. You have to be careful not to assume anything. It takes time for a lot of this way of processing for you to get comfortable with. But once you are, you’re… it’s just an exercise in imagination until you can get it down to something you’re comfortable with, and then that’s your functional working diagnosis forward.

Amandha: And then new information could come to light that could change the whole working diagnosis once you start to apply a protocol and you could be off track and go, “Oh, okay, well, then we have to reassess because something’s not lining up here.” Because if you had the correct DDX summary, or at least what you were working with, and you start applying the right principles, health principles, then you should get some correction.

Amandha: If that doesn’t happen, then you have to go back to the drawing board So I’m gonna show you the case relationship map. This was something that I naturally started to learn how to… I taught myself how to do in naturopathic college. I would take a case. I would have all these notes all over, you know.

Amandha: I would have main notes, and then I would make little side notes like, “Okay, follow up on this,” or as this person was talking, and I didn’t… You don’t wanna interrupt someone when they’re talking. You wanna let them talk and just nod and not interrupt them. And so what you have to do is as they’re telling their story and you’re hearing them, you’re writing down all kinds of different things, and you might have another question pop up in your head, but you don’t wanna cut them off.

Amandha: You wanna let them finish. And so I would write in the margins my further questioning. “Okay, ask about this. Okay, ask about that.” And on the other margin would be, like little things I’m noticing. They’re sigh- They sighed when they said that. They’re… They look all around the room when they’re talking, or they cross their legs, and they’re…

Amandha: Or they clench their hands when they’re talking. Like, I would be writing down things I was noticing about them and, of course, also taking notes on what they were saying, summarizing what they were saying, which note-taking is an art in and of itself, and it really is just something that you practice, but that will be taught as well.

Amandha: But essentially once I would take all these notes that I had from the case, then I would sit down and get a blank sheet of paper and begin to connect all of my inputs from what their discussion was and try to connect them into organ systems. So I’ll show you what that looks like in a minute.

Amandha: It doesn’t have to be as pretty or whatever. It can be messy. You can cross things out. Doesn’t matter. But this is helping you to get a visual representation of the person in front of you and what’s really going on with them. So this is the… This is just a sample case relationship map. This is really, like, symmetrical and pretty, but it definitely doesn’t need to be like that.

Amandha: And this is even more involved than you even have to get with it. And as well, you can have multiple maps and connect them afterward as well. So you could even do organ at a time as you’re learning to do this. But for example, they’re coming to you, and they’re saying their chief concern is that they’re bloated.

Amandha: They have right upper abdominal pain. They’re chronically constipated, and they’re really tired. Okay. So what can we see from this, right? We’re… Obviously, you know there’s a lot of organs potentially included here, so we list our possible organs. Stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small intestine, colon.

Amandha: Then we know from their timeline history, well, in 2022 they had a dental procedure. In 2023 they were that was a massive stress point for them, and then they changed their diet in 2024. All those things could be part of what’s going on with their gut. Then we could list down the physiological functions that are that have changed in them or potentially something we have to look at.

Amandha: So we… Maybe they’ve complained of they have to take they have to take enzymes to digest their food, for example. Then you go, “Okay, let’s look at acid and enzyme secretions.” Maybe their bile production and release is compromised here, and that’s why when they eat, they get bloated because their gallbladder is not releasing and things aren’t moving forward.

Amandha: And also bile is naturally lubricating and prevents constipation, so I can see they’re constipated, so this could be a bile issue. And you see the lines that connect back to stomach, liver, gallbladder area, right? Back to the organs here. Maybe they’re not digesting fat and that’s the problem, so that leads right back to liver and gallbladder yet again.

Amandha: Maybe the bowel transit is problematic ’cause maybe there’s… They’re so stressed that the nerves are not firing, so it’s not activating peristalsis. Perhaps there’s a blood glucose regulation issue going on, so maybe we do have to look at the pancreas, right? These… I notice these lines are not connected to the organs I want them to.

Amandha: But you get the idea. Okay, so then we have objective findings say we already got an ultrasound and there’s gallstones. Okay, so we know that definitely a gallbladder going on here. We had a laboratory finding of their ALT is mildly elevated, which means their liver is stressed, so that goes right back to the same idea that something’s going on with their biliary system.

Amandha: And then they have low ferritin, which is telling us they’re having obviously some blood carrying capacity issues which could be leading to their… why they’re so fatigued. And we’d have to do more investigation as to what exactly is the root cause of that. Is that dietary? Is there… is there an ulcer?

Amandha: Are they bleeding? What’s happening? And you would make notes all along here for all those kinds of things, and you’d refine it each time that you go. And when we’re doing this when I’m teaching you this in the coursework, I will… We’re actually going to take a case. In the masterclass, we’re even gonna take a case, and I’m gonna show you how to do this in real time.

Amandha: The TCM liver gallbladder pattern is obviously gotta be considered, right? And we’re gonna talk about that in a minute. And then the working diagnose… Okay, so let me go over here for a second. Intervention response. So for example, they already said they tried bitters, and it did work and improved their digestion a little bit.

Amandha: They noticed that helped. They noticed that magnesium helped their bowel movements quite a bit, and that when they ate anything with high fat, like they ate meals with high fat, everything got worse. Okay? So that’s part of the symptom picture that you’re putting into the list. And then you’re getting into a working diagnosis now from all of this information.

Amandha: You go, “Okay, we have biliary dysfunction going on here. We have hydrochloric hydro, so we have low… We’re… We don’t have enough stomach acid. That could be part of it.” There could be just… Let’s just say there’s constipation with bowel slug- sluggishness. Just… Let’s just put that in our diagnosis. The working diagnosis could have even more than what’s on this example here.

Amandha: You know? It could be gallstones. They could have some sort of liver disease of some sort, right? So you could add all kinds into your working diagnosis, but you can understand what I’m talking about where you’re connecting everything together, so you’re really seeing in an image, “Okay, here’s what we gathered from the case, and this is what is leading us toward.”

Amandha: So automatically, even if I don’t know exactly what’s happening, I’m going to upregulate and support the liver. I already know some of the things that are working, so we’re gonna continue along that line, and we’re gonna probably do a liver gallbladder flush and clean this out. And since we already know there were gallstones on ultrasound, we’re probably going to put them on that protocol, and then we’ll see what clears up after that.

Amandha: And by the way, just because they did, like, a liver gallbladder flush, and they got rid of stones, and they started to feel better, and their hormones started to get more balanced, and everything started happening in a good way for them with their liver when they started maybe digesting fats again, you have to…

Amandha: There may be further questioning about deeper root causes that could be continuing the problem. Like, just because you unblocked it, just because you got the bile flowing again, doesn’t mean that was… Like where did the real problem come from? It usually comes from the liver itself, so there could be still a nutritional deficiency.

Amandha: There still could be a stressor. There still could be something foundationally wrong with the liver that’s leading to this. So that means there’s further investigation that might have to happen, and there’s ongoing vigilance to prevent it from happening again. A lot of people in these situations will, you know, do a couple liver flushes.

Amandha: They’re really happy their stones are gone. The doctors are off their case, right? And then they just stop. Like, their lifestyle goes back to the way it was. They stop continuing to help themselves in that or support that organ system, and then it happens all over again. You know, and they’re back at square one.

Amandha: And so, we’ll talk more about that obviously, but that’s really important to continue the support going forward until you’re really sure that, you know, that was just a one-off situation from stress, or if there’s a deeper concern there Quest- I’ll answer this question ’cause I just saw it.

Amandha: Often cannot get labs or other tests like ultrasound unless they’re going to a doctor’s anyway to get around with this. We’re gonna talk about that in a second, about private private labs, private, like, places you can go privately. A lot of the times you can hire a holistic practitioner, like a naturopathic doctor or a chiropractor that can that can do requisitions for things that you can’t do.

Amandha: But or what I’m referring to sometimes when I’m talking is that you already have previous ultrasounds or previous information from a doctor. Like some people still do have that information or they’re still even straddling between both worlds and they’re, and they have access.

Amandha: Or some people keep their doctors and the rare one that’s kind of good that they can, you know, just go to when they need something, then they can do that. If an a rare ally. But there are private labs as well that you can get this information. Okay, so this is just a part of making sure that once you’ve assessed it…

Amandha: So say let’s go back here for a second. So say you’re like, “Okay, but you know what? I’m still not satisfied about this low ferritin thing. I didn’t really get enough information.” I mean, it could be the fact that they’re just deficient and not getting enough fats or not getting enough omega-3s. That could be why they’re tired, but the low ferritin means something else is going on, so, you know, causing this fatigue and everything.

Amandha: so let’s… We need more investigation, right? So that would be part where you’re like, “I see there’s missing information,” right? “I need more about this. I’m gonna go look up what that means, and then I’m gonna ask them more questions. And then maybe I need to figure out a few more pieces of this information so that I can sort of get an idea of what’s going on.”

Amandha: But ultimately, if they have low ferritin, you already know, well, let’s boost that. Let’s support that. And I really like using a lot of herbal remedies for this. You know, herbal medicine can often solve things, even if you’re not sure what happened in the first place. Like, you’re not sure what happened, but you can support the whole terrain, and it’ll figure itself out, right?

Amandha: So you could do, like, tissue salts, Ferrum Phos, for example, and then you could have, you know, different nutritional remedies like nettles and oat straw and, you know, remedies that will have what you need, like docks. A lot of yellow docks have a lot of iron support, for example, and that could be part of, like, okay, you have low ferritin.

Amandha: We don’t really know root cause yet, but here, take this herbal. At least you’re not gonna be so tired. Take a B vitamin. Make sure you’re getting your B vitamins, and we… ‘Cause you don’t have to always supplement directly with iron. In fact, that’s usually not the best way to go. Oftentimes it’s just copper deficiency, and they’re not they’re storing iron, in the tissues which they shouldn’t be, right?

Amandha: So it’s causing a lot of problems, but it’s just because the delivery system is not working. So you already know, well, could be copper. So let’s just make sure that’s, you know, in the diet and that the trace minerals are in the diet, and that they’re getting the rest of their trace minerals through herbal remedies to help this situation.

Amandha: And oftentimes you can solve it without really even knowing exactly why it happened. And I say this a lot, and I’ve taught this a lot, that the modern medical system is obsessed with diagnosis. Like, they’re obsessed with knowing exactly what it is before they can put forward a treatment because the way that they’ve done it is everything…

Amandha: All treatments are linked directly to diagnosis. They need the diagnosis in order to pull the drug, from their textbook to give it to you, ’cause it’s like an algorithm they’re following. ‘Cause they can’t really think for themselves. They’re trained to think like a computer, which is kind of probably AI’s gonna take over their jobs because of that.

Amandha: But real practitioners go, “Okay. Well, we know the general problem is something’s going on with the blood, so let’s overall support the blood,” right? “Let’s overall make sure that nutrition is being absorbed by the gut, and then it should ultimately solve itself.” And we didn’t really know what happened there.

Amandha: We don’t really 100% know but we know how to solve it, and through our solving it often can get to diagnosis that way, right? After the fact we can… We know what caused it because the application of the remedy gives you the feedback that tells you, “Oh, I see. That’s probably what’s going on.” You know?

Amandha: It gives it also makes you more intuitive and trusting, you know, trusting the energy that you’re getting out of the case a little bit more too. But you can always ask more questions, and it’s what the medical… The common or Rockefeller medical model does not do is ask enough questions

Amandha: And so how… Someone just asked, “How did you know there was low ferritin?” This… In this relationship map, this particular case example, this person already came from a previous doctor’s findings, okay? So they already had blood work done that told them they were low ferritin. They already had lab work done that showed them that their ALT was elevated, which is…

Amandha: And so their liver enzymes were already elevated, right? And it also already showed that they had gallstones. So this is just a case example of somebody and they already brought their lab work with them. They already had that. But even if you didn’t have this, here’s your chief concerns, bloating, right up right upper abdominal pain, which is where your gallbladder sits.

Amandha: They’re constipated and they’re tired. Already you know we’ve got a gallbladder, liver/gallbladder situation here, and just from the location plus the constipation, plus the chronic bloating, plus the other symptoms, when they eat high fat, it’s worse, right? And that bitters, which bitters stimulate the liver, they feel better, right?

Amandha: So just by that, you already know the main organs system or set of organs that’s involved here. The fatigue, if they just said they’re tired, then you would start to ask them a little more questions like, “What are you eating?” You know, maybe they’ll say they’re vegan or something, and now you’re worried at…

Amandha: that their B12 or their iron is low. And so you automatically would start to bolster that. I automatically do this, especially in women who are really fatigued and you know, have shortness of breath a little bit. Their hair’s falling out maybe a little bit. Maybe they’re postpartum or maybe they’re perimenopausal, and it’s usually ’cause they really have low blood energy, like they’re not producing enough blood for what they need.

Amandha: And so I’ll just put them on a blood booster ’cause it’s just so common. It’s just… Right? You see it all the time. They’re stressed, they’re not eating well, digesting well, and their blood is not able to build itself, right? If your nutritional value is low and you’re not absorbing, you’re gonna be tired.

Amandha: Things are gonna be on the low end, and so automatically you’re gonna try to give them things that are gonna help increase their nutrition, and that should solve it and it’s just that if it persists that’s when you’re like, “Okay, maybe we should get some blood work and see, you know, what’s going on there,” ’cause we can’t figure it out or we applied the remedy and it’s not working to our satisfaction or you keep slipping back or whatever.

Amandha: What I mean by blood boosters or blood supporters or blood builders is in when we talk about… I don’t know if you took Principle 2, but I talk about Chinese medicine a lot. And I’ve talked about this a lot in, in previous teachings, but that when there’s a lot of blood deficiency in women, like cold hands and feet for…

Amandha: is one example of like a blood deficiency situation And so we give blood boosters or blood builder herbs. So there’s specific herbs that actually build blood and nourish blood so that there’s actually a better blood volume overall, and that’s just what they’re… it’s called in traditional Chinese medicine Okay, so that’s the missing information and the records.

Amandha: So here are just overall just some laboratory tests, and again, this is just to be thorough. I don’t lean here. This… I’d have to say in all my thousands and thousands of cases, I mean, I have seen a lot of lab work. People usually bring their lab work. People usually bring their imaging.

Amandha: I’ve seen a lot of it. How much I lean on it, how much it was useful to the case itself, how much it changed the trajectory of the case is almost negligible, I would say, for how I treated, how I supported, how I put the protocol together. And I would almost say in a lot of cases, what the lab work did was just validate what I already knew.

Amandha: It would just be like, “Oh yeah, I knew that was gonna happen. I knew your white cells were high for sure. You know, I already know that your, you know, your glucose is high. I already can tell your liver is stressed. I’m gonna guess your liver enzymes are high.” You know? So sometimes it can be very validating for the person. Sometimes it can be just validating for you that you already knew what was happening. But leaning on test results can be a real bugaboo. It can actually make you biased, and you can sort of blow the case. And so I like to do that. I like to not lean on these things and not even really look at them often until I’ve taken a full case, and I have my own ideas, and I’ve looked at signs and symptoms, I’ve figured out which organs are involved, and then this is just…

Amandha: It’s icing on the cake or just extra for, you know, what I already kinda knew was happening. So these are only things if needed but not to be leaned on. Sometimes you need to know exact hormones because you’re not sure if they’re high xenoestrogen or if they’re presenting low estrogen, if they’re presenting high testosterone or low testosterone, high progesterone, low right?

Amandha: Usually, it’s low progesterone, but it could be high or low. It’s usually low testosterone, low progesterone, but with the estrogen, you don’t know. Sometimes it could be high. Sometimes it’d be low, right? So okay, sure. You can figure… You can get that lab. If there’s blood, you know, going on in the urine or the semen or something like that, then okay, you can treat as if, and you can go forward with what, what’s going on there.

Amandha: But maybe you need to validate it, and you wanna get to see if there’s active blood going on or not, right? But as you get more confident and more experienced it’s very rare that I needed to lean on these types of lab tests. So if you want, then there are places you can go privately where you don’t need necessarily to have a doctor, but they usually want to send it to a practitioner who can read.

Amandha: So it depends on the lab. These are just some labs. There’s some of the bigger labs. Oftentimes they’ll be wanting an email to your health practitioner or somebody, so you could say, “My naturopath’s gonna read it,” all right, or, “My chiropractor’s gonna read it,” or whatever. But sometimes they’ll just send it to you anyway, depending.

Amandha: So these are some of them. There’s the Dutch test from Precision Analytical. There’s Mosaic Diagnosis. They do these sort of OAT tests and stool testing and environmental and toxin panels if you’re concerned about exposures to heavy metals and aluminum and that kind of thing. Genova Diagnostics, they sort of lean towards GI stool profiles, SIBO kind of breath testing which SIBO isn’t even a real diagnosis, but, you know, you have to filter, like as I said at the bottom, be aware that all these labs operate under a false germ theory presumption, so you have to filter your results.

Amandha: So yeah, Genova Diagnostics, Doctor’s Data, this is the one I use the most as a naturopath, Doctor’s Data and LifeLabs. You probably see… how we see LifeLabs cars running around with their back and forth to different, probably to nursing homes and back to the labs. Yes, low ferritin, copper and zinc, both iron, copper, zinc, they all work together and need each other, and magnesium’s part of that picture too, and a lot of B vitamins are also…

Amandha: it’s never one thing, right? It’s never one, only one thing. Nothing in the body operates alone. So, absolutely they need to… There’s a constellation there so yeah, life labs is very kind of routine. They do routine blood work, urinalysis, and so forth, and this is here in Canada. This is…

Amandha: They’re everywhere. Okay, so let’s talk just about a little more. Every time I teach a… try to teach you another layer of things, so we’re gonna talk about the organ connections here. And so the Zang Fu organ pairings, though everything has a yin-yang pair in the TCM system, and so that means those systems, one is the more active yang principle, one is the more yin principle, which…

Amandha: So yang is more hot and dry, and yin is more cool and wet, for example, okay? So each organ is paired accordingly in the Zang Fu system. We have the liver, gallbladder are paired, the heart and small intestine are buddies, the spleen, stomach are buddies, the lung and large intestine are friends, the kidney and bladder are pairings, and the pericardium and triple burner are paired, and that’s within the fire element.

Amandha: The pericardium surrounds the heart, and the triple burner is the connection between the upper, middle, and lower sections of the entire abdomen system, which is what creates your internal fire. And then when both organs are in a pair, they’re always gonna be affected as a pair. So you should always assess the two of them together, and you’re gonna see what the pattern is through the five element relationship there.

Amandha: So basically, when you’re taking a case and thinking about TCM, you’re gonna find out what time things are better or worse. You’re always gonna think better or worse, and also when you do a homeopathic case taking. It’s better… What’s makes it better? What makes it worse? When is it aggravated? Is it waking you in the night?

Amandha: What’s the time of day it’s happening? And is it disturbing your sleep, essentially? And then you’re gonna… You can add these relationships to that organ map as well. So for example, we have a generating cycle. There’s a few different cycles in the five element relationships. We have the generating cycle.

Amandha: So wood… And this is logical, too. Obviously you light wood on fire, right? Wood is generating fire. Fire makes ash, goes to earth. Earth can create and pressure, and create pressure, and create metal. Then metal to water. Metal to water, I Don’t ask me. But it does make sense, I just forgot what the connection is.

Amandha: Metal to water for generating cycle. Probably electrical I would say would be the aspect there ’cause metal can create electrical current, which water has memory and creates electrical current within itself. And then water to wood. Water, like growing a plant, right? Like, needing water, obviously you need the, back to wood. So this is the cycle. But this is the generating cycle. So if you have an organ system of one, so say let’s do an example. Say that you have something wrong with the spleen and stomach, okay? So that’s the earth element, spleen, stomach are in the earth element. So what generates forward, what helps build the earth element is the fire element.

Amandha: So knowing that the heart, small intestine, and the pericardium triple burner system, right, which you can just basically say intestines and heart, okay? They are giving the qi or the energy to the spleen/stomach system through the blood, and therefore if you have a spleen deficiency or a stomach problem, you wanna think, is the blood and the heart moving the blood into these areas properly so that the spleen and stomach are being able to be regenerated, right?

Amandha: Oh, Bridget has some logic here. “When metal gets cold and freezes it creates water.” Right. Right. That makes sense. Yes, that’s smart. Like a dew point sort of thing. Yeah. I think there’s a few different explanations. Yeah. This is just another way of thinking about how everything works together, and especially if you’re going to use Chinese herbs or you’re gonna understand when we get later into teachings talking about wet versus dry versus bitter, you know, all the all the different tastes and flavors of the medicine and what it’s doing.

Amandha: When you have something too wet you wanna dry it out, when you have something too dry you wanna add moisture, right? So these are all the logical progressions of the flavor of the situation, whether they’re in excess or they’re in deficiency, right? An excess case would be like a tumor or growth or a cyst.

Amandha: A deficiency situation would be like an ulcer or dry membranes, that kind of thing, or hair falling out, right? Like, excess is too much and deficiency is breaking down, and then that will tell you know, basically how you’re approaching the support of those things. And the same thing here, is it in deficiency?

Amandha: Is it blocked? What’s happening with the organ system? And then how can we support it from the generation cycle? And then so if you’re deficient in one element, then it can leave the elements that it nourishes under supported. So there, we’re– you’re going to compare those organ pairs just so you’re thorough.

Amandha: Then there’s the controlling cycle. Okay? So this is different than the previous cycle, which is the generating cycle. This is the controlling cycle. This is what corrals the next element. So wood controls earth, right? Wood controls earth. So you see like a tree growing in the soil is moving and shaping the earth.

Amandha: Earth controls water, so think about the banks of a river keeping, keeping… Earth keeps the water in a certain path, in a certain way. Water controls fire. That’s pretty self-evident. You can put out fire with water. Water can forge metal, can control metal, right? And then metal can chop wood down. You can take metal ax and you can chop down a tree.

Amandha: So this is the controlling cycle, and so the excess or deficiency there can disturb the element that’s being controlled. So if you have excess excess of metal, then it can disturb more of the wood. It can chop down more wood. So those elements of that, the wood, the liver, gallbladder, right? If you have more lung, large intestine problems, right?

Amandha: And so this is normally, right, is controlling how much wood you have. If you have excess metal, now you’re going to damage the wood element here, you see. Now this is extra, meaning you don’t have to do this to figure out kind of organ systems and move forward with protocol, but this is really helpful for your greater holistic mind, your mental understanding of how this body works as a holism together, as a holism.

Amandha: If you even just look, are we in excess or deficiency? What are the primary elements in action here? What are the primary elements that are deficiency and what’s being controlled? You know, what’s being affected? We might need to assess these organs as well, ’cause this is probably gonna be a weaker area.

Amandha: It can just really help you with overall protocol. Say you’re selecting 10 different herbs to… for a tincture. You’re gonna take this into consideration, right? This is gonna help you get a little more accurate with what you’re gonna present as a remedy. Okay, so we have as well the organ clock. I’ve talked about the organ clock before, but in your questioning, you’re gonna make sure you get this information, right?

Amandha: You’re gonna… If they say, “I wake up every morning, you know, at 2:00 AM, I just can’t… 2:00 AM or 2:30 in the morning, excuse me, boom, I’m up.” Right? Well, then their liver has just turned on. Their liver has become active between 1:00 and 3:00 AM. So that can tell you if they wake every morning at 2:00 AM, you know their liver is probably struggling right away.

Amandha: Just from that information, right away, their liver is struggling. Okay? If they tell you they’re waking at, you know, 3:00 in the morning, it could be their lung. It could be… Sometimes it’s even Between 5:00 and… Well, later on in the 3:00 to 5:00, sometimes I’ve noticed an overlap, but it could be the adrenals.

Amandha: Between the lung and the kidney, I see an adrenal problem, right? So this is just giving you an idea of what… it’s again validating the information that you’ve had to say, “Okay, I…” If they have these patterns or, you know, “I can’t eat past this time,” or, “I get really tired at this time in the afternoon,” right?

Amandha: Like, “3:00 in the afternoon, I’m so tired.” Well, then you have to think about the bladder, right? So in TCM, you have these two-hour time blocks, and that means it’s a peak Qi activity within that meridian. So it’s a circadian rhythm. It’s based on the sun, so wherever you live, it aligns with your time zone because it’s all based on sunlight.

Amandha: This whole system is based on circadian rhythm and this is why it’s really important to go to bed early. It’s really important to catch a lot of these repair times for these primary organ systems, right? If you go to bed really late, you’re gonna miss triple burner and gallbladder and liver healing times, right?

Amandha: If you’re going to bed too late. And also it’s not really… We were meant to go to bed with the sun and wake with the sun ultimately. So that is really another clue that you’re getting from your case taking to add into your symptom sheet to go, “This looks like a deficiency. This looks like this is another valid point that this organ system seems to be the root cause or there’s an accessory organ, now we know where we’re headed with our protocols.”

Amandha: Once you have this, once you’ve identified your root system, you kind of figured out what is going on with the Zang Fu organs, right? And you’re kind of seeing active pathology, you’re seeing loss of function, right? You have to address certain things immediately, obviously.

Amandha: So that’s your triage. You’re you’re establishing your first treatment priority from this information. And you’re going… Oh, I love this book. Irina just mentioned this book. So Ted Kaptchuk’s book, The Web That Has No Weaver, is a great introduction to TCM. This was the first book I think I read on TCM a million years ago, and it is amazing resource.

Amandha: It is one of my favorite books. It is so well-written. It helped solidify the foundations even before I read the major textbooks in traditional Chinese medicine. This was, is a great place to start learning this stuff. Thank you for that recommendation. It’s one of my favorite books. It sets you up in the foundations.

Amandha: It’s easy to read. Everything is there. It’s a wonderful book. Highly recommend that book. And so Right. So you’re gonna obviously you’re gonna treat functional problems. If they can’t poop, you gotta get them pooping, right? Now, you’re gonna try to get them pooping, but you might not solve the root cause of why they’re getting constipated, so you might come up against the problem again and again.

Amandha: So just remember, while you’re trying to make them comfortable with some things obviously you’re gonna you’re gonna make sure they’re hydrated, obviously you’re gonna use things that help with pain like DMSO, right? You’re gonna help them get sleep better, you’re gonna help them move better with stretching, and you’re gonna give them exercises and ideas of what to do.

Amandha: However, you don’t want to just do superficial support. You wanna obviously get to the whole root cause of why it’s all happening in the beginning because, you know, I’ve seen and even in Yummy.Doctor there’s people, you know, who it’s taking a long time for things to regulate out because that’s not the root cause.

Amandha: Like, their diarrhea, constipation issues or whatever they have is taking a long time to resolve because those organ systems that are controlling that are taking a long time to heal, because they’ve probably had this issue for a very long time. It’s not something that’s gonna help overnight. Maybe they’re taking stool softeners of some sort, even magnesium or vitamin C or whatever they’re taking, or psyllium husk if they’re trying to bulk the stool, or, you know, they’re using castor oil, these sorts of things to get the bowels moving, or they’re just using enemas.

Amandha: Whatever they’re doing, you still have to not rely on that. That’s just part of relieving the system and then while you’re figuring out what’s going on with the root cause, which could take some time, right? And of course, you’re supporting the secondary weakened organ systems, and then you’re creating a clear objective.

Amandha: What are we doing here? Why are we doing it? And how long are we doing it for? I see… I’ve seen so many patients will come to me with all these supplements and all this random stuff, and I saw this on a video, or I saw this on a website, and I’m trying this, and I’m trying that. And the modern medical Rockefeller cult has trained people to have, like, a pill for every ill.

Amandha: And like, I just go on with my bad lifestyle while I pop a pill kind of thinking, and that just doesn’t work here. That’s not what we’re doing here. We’re correcting things, and we have an objective, and we have a timeframe, and we’re being very specific with the supplements or the herbs or the TCM approaches or the homeopathy approaches or whatever that we’re doing, right?

Amandha: And then we’re reassessing after a certain timeframe, okay? We’re, or we’re checking in often to see how things go, however you wanna structure it, but ultimately go, “Let’s do a proper intake again in, let’s say, six months. If we don’t have these… hit these milestones by six months, we’re gonna have to reassess where we’re headed.”

Amandha: So the, you know, maybe we missed something. Let’s, like, look at this again, right? Because ultimately, you’re… That’s what practicing is. I mean, you’re putting it into practice, and you’re seeing what’s happening in real time, and that’s giving you the feedback like a detective, and then you’re making the shifts accordingly from that.

Amandha: And it’s dynamic because it’s your body. You’re an individual. No one is exactly like you. The way you respond to things, how you’re… how long it takes for you to heal. I’ve had so many people say how long is it gonna take to heal, doc?” It’s like, “I don’t know,” because it’s up to you. It’s your body.

Amandha: It’s your responsiveness. It’s your level of things. I mean, I can kind of guess, but I don’t really like to do things like that because, you don’t know how long it’s gonna last for. You don’t know how long it’s gonna take. You have a general idea of when you wanna see them again and when you wanna talk about it again.

Amandha: But there’s a general overview that I use for every one year of a condition is about one month of healing on average, right? So that means, like You have to be patient when you’re really, truly healing something, right? When you’re really, truly healing something, the journey is everything.

Amandha: Everybody wants the result. I just want to pop a pill. I want the result. I want a magic go away. But the whole point of why the sickness is even there is for the journey and what you’re supposed to learn from going through the experience and from healing from it and all the gifts and treasures and eye-opening moments that you’re having through that process because you don’t get sick by accident.

Amandha: It’s all part of what has happened in your lifestyle to get you there, right? So that means there’s an awareness factor, and awareness takes time, and I’ve learned this the hard way. If I magically just take away people’s symptoms, they don’t learn, and I found that I wasn’t really serving people to do that, you know?

Amandha: And it was putting me in an odd position where they were putting me on a pedestal and stuff, and I didn’t wanna be in that position, and it’s, it… Why should I take away what they created in their body? They created that in their body so they could see something about themselves, right? And they can’t see it if you just take it away, right?

Amandha: Or if you just suppress it, which is what modern medicine does, just suppresses it and so this is an ever-growing, evolving process of your life and so to look at it like that rather than, “I just have an end goal. I just wanna get it done. I just want this to be over with,” right? And I understand getting out of suffering and all of that, but there’s multiple different forms of suffering, and you don’t just wanna hand off one form of suffering for another.

Amandha: You actually wanna understand why this is happening to your body and then what you’re supposed to learn from it and how you’re supposed to approach it because ultimately it’s your body, it’s your intuition, it’s your life, right?

Amandha: And you wanna be the one who is getting the empowerment from that process.

Amandha: You don’t wanna be beholden to somebody else who just told you what to do, right? And then you did it, and now you have a comparison point to that other person. That’s not really holistic medicine, right? But, obviously you have to set goals and intentions and objectives, right?

Amandha: That’s totally fine. You can still have those things, but they’re not hard and fast rules, and it doesn’t mean you’ve failed because it doesn’t go alongside a specific timeline in a specific way. And sometimes it could surprise you. Sometimes it could be totally fast, and you’re like, “Oh, wow, that’s a really quick response.”

Amandha: You know? But more often than not, it’s because they need that structure in their life.

Amandha: Changing a lifestyle takes time. Rewiring their brain into new habits takes time, right? They have to stop their self-sabotaging patterns. They have to deal with addictions. They have to figure out how to self-regulate their nervous systems, right?

Amandha: ‘Cause all of these diseases are related to all of these things. So we can apply logic and reason and protocol and supplements and all those things, and that’s fine. But the real holistic healing, the real root cause, is their own experience and lifestyle and their own soul purpose ultimately, right?

Amandha: And that’s what you’re helping people get towards. That’s what you’re helping people to remember of themselves and helping yourself to remember, that there’s a reason. It’s not just you’re being punished randomly, right?

Amandha: Yeah, maybe you made a mistake and got a vaccine, and that could be very detrimental and deadly.

Amandha: I get that. So it could be just something so severe like that. Could’ve been a car accident so severe like that. But still there’s something within the soul force that led them to that led them to those consequences, and then they have to learn to live with the consequences or manage the consequences or overcome the consequences, and that’s like them climbing their own personal health mountain, and you’re helping them.

Amandha: You’re like the Sherpa. You’re like the Sherpa helping them climb the Himalayan Mountains of their own, you know, health decisions and lifestyle. So then this is basically setting this directive up, carrying those priorities into principle four, where we’re gonna make the home dispensary, and we’re gonna apply the home dispensary to what we’ve decided from the case-taking organizational system.

Amandha: Obviously if you have pain that interv- interferes with sleep or movement or appetite, you’re gonna treat that pain and you’re gonna… Right? Because the that’s your first priority. That’s your first health directive. You’re obviously, it’s they’re in pain. Okay, we gotta manage the pain. We have to manage pain because how are they going to run a protocol or how are they going to make improvements in their life when they’re in so much pain they can’t think, they can’t do, they can’t move, you know.

Amandha: Obviously that makes sense, right? And then if they’re constipated, their liver is really stressed, which means they’re grumpy, they’re moody, short-tempered, right? They’re not eating properly. You gotta restore bowel movement, okay? You have to get digestion under control, so that’s also gonna be a first health directive.

Amandha: Their sleep, if they’re not sleeping, they’re not recovering, automatically just by getting them sleeping better, you’re gonna see some improvements. They’re gonna be able to think clearer. They’re gonna be able to communicate better, right? They’re gonna be able to feel more optimistic to make the changes, right?

Amandha: So you’re gonna… These are like where you can always start with all, with a lot of cases that have these sorts of complaints, right? So you’re looking at obviously avoiding healing crises, so you gotta always start slow with protocols. You always have to find out a little more about their background.

Amandha: If they already do cleanses, they’ve already tried different things, they already are using DMSO, whatever, then you already know that they can probably handle a lot of more things. But if not, then you gotta start super, super slow especially with with people who have like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue or cancer.

Amandha: You know, you start moving things in them, they really feel worse for quite some time, and you have to really start very gently with them. And as I say, always start with magnesium because at least at that point the liver is upregulating its ability to process wastes, right? always magnesium load your patients before you start any kind of detox protocol so then it prevents, not always, but at least helps prevent a lot of the recirculation of toxins.

Amandha: And then if it does happen, then you want them to do a coffee enema to get things moving, right? You have to intervene that way and to help the glutathione system as well to sequester a lot of that stuff, but then it has to be actually removed. So it could be like a castor oil pack to help with that as well.

Amandha: So always remembering that the liver has to respond to all the things you’re asking the body to do, ’cause eventually it has to be removed. The wastes have to go out somewhere and the liver always has to be considered. Then you have the longer protocol direction. So you’ve already figured out the first health directive.

Amandha: You already prioritized what they’re what you’re seeing more as acute symptoms, right? And then you’re going to have the longer six-month sort of structure, right? If you’re doing restoring gastric acid production for a while so that their stomach can get a rest from making these secretions, you can supplement secretions for a little while for example, with hydrochloric acid.

Amandha: You could give them hydrochloric acid for a while, while you’re kinda making sure the tissue is recovering. That’s just one example. Gallbladder function obviously is a big one. It’s very common. You know, making sure that you’re addressing bile production and taking… giving them, say, a lipase enzyme so that when they do eat fat, they’re just giving that organ a rest.

Amandha: You don’t need to rely on your bile right now. You can rely on this digestive enzyme that will help you absorb the fats that you need, and it could be a catch-22. You’re not absorbing the fats, and so it’s not supporting the bile and the gallbladder itself to repair itself, ’cause tissues need certain fats in order to make new tissues, right?

Amandha: So anyway, and then obviously correcting all nutritional deficiencies are very important. And then the triage we kind of talked about throughout, but this is just more focused. And of course, you’re gonna assess whether they can manage it at home or do they need, you know, medical assessment somewhere else?

Amandha: Like, is it really bad? I mean, do they need emergency care? I have mentioned some of these signs before, but obviously your red flags are severe breathing difficulty. Obviously, if they’ve lost consciousness or they’re fainting they’ve been paralyzed suddenly, seizure activity bleeding that can’t be controlled, severe chest pain, right?

Amandha: It’ll be like the worst pain they’ve ever felt kind of thing. That needs emergency care. If they keep vomiting, the big worry there is dehydration. If they can’t retain fluids, then, you know, and they’re urinating a lot, they’re getting dehydrated, that’s very dangerous, so they’ll need IV fluids somewhere, okay?

Amandha: And so acute cases are kind of are a different approach. You’re really having to constantly monitor acute cases. Say they’re going through a detox flu experience and they have a high fever and they’re, you know, have a rapid breathing like in a child. You’re constantly assessing them and assessing hydration status and urination and mobility levels, level of consciousness, you know, as they go through that and making sure that they’re not going to…

Amandha: Like skin on skin, for example, is really helpful in those cases because your own skin can help regulate them. But it can be scary to watch a child go through that, right? But there is a way to monitor that properly and support them through those childhood exanthems and detox events.

Amandha: Obviously, if there’s a true obstruction bowel obstructions can be emergency, right, emergencies. And recent surgeries, if they’ve already been intervened with the medical system, then sometimes the further handling has to be with them as well. But you record any changes, you take their tongue and pulse and you can check do their breathing rate as well, which I teach in this, you know, how to do those things.

Amandha: And then they obviously, you may need to ask for help with that. These are just more observable signs, but specifically for children, right? If you see that they are, you know, they’ve changed their normal behavior, their feeding and sleep patterns. You know, when my daughter would go through her growth spurt, sort of she’d get occasionally a really hot fever I think it happened two or three times, or vomit maybe once or twice.

Amandha: You know, her behavior would change, be a little more grumpy. She would really be off her food, or she’d nurse more. You know, she’d be tired more. She’d fall asleep, like, in the shower. We had, like, a shower… When I’d bathe her, we didn’t have a bathtub, so I’d put little, sort of a little tub thing in the shower, and sometimes she’d get out of the tub and just lay with the shower, like, falling over her back as she’d, like, sleep.

Amandha: So I’d just let her kind of have that experience as she’s resting. But I knew that she was going through a growth spurt at that point. And those are normal, natural changes for children called exanthems. But obviously pre-verbal, non-verbal children, they can’t describe their pain. They can’t…

Amandha: Maybe they can somewhat, but they can’t give you specific, right? If they’re dizzy or something, it’s hard for them to communicate a lot of this, so that’s why we learn to take their heart rate and breathing rate, check for pallor, check for dehydration, et cetera. How much they’re eating, how much stool and urine output is happening here, their sclera color to make sure they don’t have jaundice or any dryness.

Amandha: And you can also tell by dropping the lower lid of the eye, if they’re iron deficient, if that’s pale there, then that’s a sign of iron deficiency. And of course their responsiveness there. And of course any changes, you know, recent event changes that you’re observing. Of course, if they deteriorate rapidly, if they’re breathing too having breathing difficulty, like me talking if they’re reduced in their responsiveness, if they have a seizure, if they can’t…

Amandha: If you can’t maintain their hydration, which you can test by the tenting. If you take a little pinch at the top of your hand, like this, see, you pinch the top skin of the hand. It should immediately go back.

Amandha: See how it immediately bounced back? That means I’m hydrated. If you pinch that skin and it stays, like you let go and it kind of stays up, tented, that’s a key sign of dehydration, okay? So obviously that requires urgent medical care if it’s to that level. But most of these cases can be dealt with at home once you know what you’re doing.

Amandha: And for pets, obviously they can’t tell you too much, but if you’re observant, you can see when they’re having problems. There’s something called the grimace scale, especially for cats. The way they hold their face, the way they hold their eyes you can tell that they’re in pain by the grimace scale.

Amandha: Their species, their breed, their age, their weight, their reproductive status, you take all that information, right? And then you compare it against… You go and research what normal physiology in a cat should look like, and you compare. And you find out what they’re eating, right? And then you can kind of piece things together, what water they’re drinking.

Amandha: Then you can compare all of those things. You can see, you know, their urine and their stool, whatever you can get about that, and how their coat is, and their physical activity, right? So if they guard, if they vocalize, if they won’t move, if they’re hiding, excuse me, then obviously there’s a problem.

Amandha: They’re either in pain or sound is too intense for them or light is too intense for them, which means their nervous system is zinging off If there’s previous records, you can look at those things, and essentially you’re gonna… You wanna assess in person if you can, but I’ve done Zoom assessments before.

Amandha: Obviously if they’ve collapsed and they can’t breathe and they can’t pee, especially if they can’t pee, if they’re, they have inability to urinate, that is an emergency. As soon as… i’ve lost a cat like that ’cause I didn’t realize, ’cause I had so many cats, and I didn’t realize that he hadn’t been urinating, and by the time I figured it out and I was rushing off to the vet, he basically died at the vet’s because I missed the fact that he was not urinating.

Amandha: It can happen a lot in male cats, especially post like after they’ve been neutered. It’s very common. And so you start to learn with the animals what the major problems are that you see over and over again, right? Obviously if they’re bleeding majorly, they’ve been hit by a car, something like that, you have to go to an ER.

Amandha: But rapid deterioration, you gotta get moving quickly with an animal ’cause they can really go downhill quickly. So that requires urgent veterinary assessment. And then follow-up assessments. We’re almost there. We’re almost getting to our end, but you know, you’re gonna obviously ask them, “So what changed?

Amandha: You know, what’s improved? What’s better or worse?

Amandha: Did some things stay the same?” “Have there been new symptoms?” Right? And you’re gonna say, were you compliant with what we did? Did you do it every day? Did you forget some days? Like, what was your frequency?” Right? “Did you keep with the dose?

Amandha: Did you run out of things?” Like, you have to sort of figure out if they actually ran properly with the protocol, ’cause sometimes half the problem is compliance where they forget or they’re not, you know, they’re not actually applying the things that they need to, and that’s why things are unsuccessful. If you if you are doing lab testing in your analysis stuff, then you may need to repeat it a few times and then reassess your dominant organ system, compare it against your working DDx, differential diagnosis, and see if it’s still lining up.

Amandha: If that’s, yep, that still seems like what’s going on, we don’t have to reassess the whole DDx system. We’re moving forward and then we adjust the protocol accordingly. This is just the follow-up assessment workflow, right? So you completed the case from principle one, you organize the findings, you get symptoms, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, then you connect the organ systems.

Amandha: You identify primary and secondary organ involvement. You determine the dominant organ system. You develop your working DDx. You identify any missing information and then do further investigation. You apply any relevant TCM relationships, then you prioritize findings and apply the triage of how you’re going to start.

Amandha: Then you establish your first health directive, and then you follow the treatment response, and then revise the assessment accordingly. That is the whole process. Congratulations, we have succeeded. So these are the handouts so far. There might be more ’cause I’ve been working on these, but these are the handouts for the master class and the course, and I think the course will have even more.

Amandha: Basically, there’s a symptom to anatomy map, organ function map, organ relationship map, dominant organ system assessment map, or just assessment page, working DDx sheets that can help you work out your differentials, missing information investigation sheet, TCM organ relationship map, symptom priority and triage sheet, first health directive sheet, and follow-up assessment sheet.

Amandha: So this is the handouts that will be like, “Here’s what I’m doing for this case so I can do the workup on it.” So it’s a guide for you. The masterclass is gonna take you through a complex adult case from principle one, a completed principle one material process, and then we’re gonna work through the principle three assessment together.

Amandha: We’re gonna build this case relationship map. We’re gonna identify the organs and the system progression. We’re gonna get to root cause organs, and we’re gonna organize the whole DDX. We’re going to add the TCM assessment. We’re gonna figure up the five element relationships in there, the organ clock timing, and the tongue and pulse findings, and that sort of thing.

Amandha: Yes, in the masterclass you’re gonna get those as handouts Then we’re going to do homeopathic analysis somewhat. Homeopathic analysis is its own case taking, which is different and sort of unique, but we will touch on it. But when we’re talking about asking questions, then I’m gonna include what you should ask for questions with homeopathic case taking, which are generals, particulars, modalities, concomitants, causation, and characteristic symptoms, and that’s in its sort of its own bubble but related.

Amandha: And then we decide, do we need lab testing? Do we have lab testing? Do we need imaging? Do we need follow-up imaging for that case? And then we’re going to I don’t know if we’ll have time to do pediatric and veterinary cases, but it definitely will be done in the main course. I added it here, not sure, depending on I haven’t written the masterclass material fully yet, so I’m still not sure for the timing if there’s gonna be enough time to actually go through everything.

Amandha: But if so, I’ll include it. If not, it’s just going to be for the completed course process. And then we’ll finish up with how we would do a follow-up assessment. We’re gonna… it’s a mock case, so it’s going to be like, imagine this person had this, and then imagine this is what happened, kind of that kind of a case, so I can give you more of a real-world example of what it would look like and how we would do an, a follow-up assessment.

Amandha: So that’s the coming masterclass. It’s in three weeks. So I do these every, rotationally every three weeks on a Saturday at 5:00 PM Eastern Time. And this is just the sort of the overview of that masterclass. And then we move on to principle four. Yay. Our first key, and this is what that’s gonna look like.

Amandha: So it’ll be three weeks after the masterclass, and this is the home dispensary work, the preparedness. Principle four is preparedness. So there’ll be a whole host. We’ll talk about botanicals, homeopathic remedies, tissue salts, topical preparation, et cetera. There’ll probably be bundles with this one.

Amandha: I will probably make a one, two, three sort of stage bundle if you want to just launch in and, like, have a dispensary sort of ready-made for you. That’s my plan anyway. And then we’ll talk about labeling and dosing information and you know, replacing expired stuff and how to sort of keep maintenance of that.

Amandha: Yeah, and sort of my top favorite for having home dispensary, which of course is still kind of endless. But at least it’ll be functional for the most common things, and then you can add or subtract into that home dispensary as works for you, your lifestyle, the country you live in, the area you live in, what your risk factors are.

Amandha: Like, if you live on a farm and work on a farm versus, you know, living in the city, you’re gonna have different risk factors, right? So you’re gonna change your home dispensary based on what your lifestyle’s like, obviously. But so this’ll be more of like a general one that will touch on many different aspects.

ADV concluded the webinar with an audience Q&A. Personal and individualized audience questions have been omitted from this website-ready transcript to protect participant privacy. The Q&A applied the principles of inquiry, case-taking, triage, observation, and follow-up to real-world health discussions.

Amandha: And of course, Yummy.Doctor is there for you for your questions, for support. There’s a lot of free public videos. We’re actually updating Yummy.Doctor next. All our websites have been updated. You’ll notice when you go to DMSO.Store, when you go to when you go to all the websites, you will see that they’re, they’ve all been updated except for Yummy.Doctor ’cause it’s bigger, and that’s happening next.

Amandha: So it’s gonna look all super purty, just like DMSO.Store and YumNaturals.Store is all purty. So yes you know, there’s a lot on offer here for you to really learn this material and understand how to get yourself out of this, you know, medical model thinking. Free yourself from that cage and empower yourself, you know, with your own approaches to holistic health and awareness and where we need to go and need to be to free ourselves from all of this insanity.

Amandha: Insanity. We are sane in an insane world, which is not really the most fun. But you’ve got it. I know you’ve got it.

Amandha: We’re gonna make it. We’re gonna make it. Focus on the positive. Focus on the good things in life, and remember this is just a journey. It never ends. We are eternal beings, and we are all connected.

Amandha: And thank you very much for acknowledging all the goodness that we have done together as, you know, as a people. So, you know, on this earth, for whatever reason we’re here playing this game we’re still doing it, okay? For a reason. So live your purpose and live it well, and we’ll see you on the flip side.

Amandha: Much love. Bye for now.