Diagnosis and Pattern Differentiation

Together we will explore your multifaceted being including vitality, structure, organ dynamics, mind and emotions to facilitate your healing and return to wellness. The diagnostic process will focus on Ki (or life force) within the meridians, the 5 phases, yin-yang theory, and the four inspections. The four inspections include looking, listening, questioning and palpation. Equally important to the examination is the diagnosis of spirit or the harmonious state of vitality and its expression in life. This harmony of life is expressed through the firmness of the body, the state of mind and the quality of the pulse. If this examination is not sufficient, these methods will be supplemented with Western diagnostic tests obtained in cooperation with you medical doctor. The consultation includes treatment, diet and lifestyle education. Understanding your health patterns and the methods for correction allows you take responsibility for your own health and well being.

Differences from Western Medicine

Even though medical and therapeutic practitioners in both the East and West claim to seek to relieve the suffering of illness to some degree, the focus of attention in treatment differs greatly between the two. Western biomedicine directs its attention on the disease itself. It searches after the causes of disease with a narrow lens and pursues advances in techniques, matching certain medicines to specific pathogens and pain and uses surgeries for body part failure and redesign. That is why Western biomedical specialties were established as independent fields based on areas of the body where certain pathologies tend manifest. Thus Western biomedicine has difficulty grasping the whole or a person’s life by looking at its individual parts.

The unique treatment and medical system of HARI (Japanese word for acupuncture) was developed and organized over a long history of 3000-5000 years. Rather than being shackled to individual symptoms, this system of medicine works to strengthen the overall life force and vitality of the person and channel it so that the person can return to health by their own natural power. Since treatment is directed toward strengthening life force, the intended target of treatment is general, without distinction to body parts or medical specialties. Moreover, it can address all symptoms regardless of the specific disease label. HARI strengthens vitality, the power to live through things, by adjusting and harmonizing the KI that flows in and around the meridians inside the body through application of needles and moxibustion on the surface of the body. The pattern of imbalance and the treatment method for the use of needles and moxibustion is rapidly understood through examination of the pulses and abdomen. Therefore, there is never a lack of treatment technique even though a disease has not been identified or a diagnosis made. HARI not only influences the body but goes so far as to heal the heart and soul such that one’s innate wisdom can flow forth into one’s life. Lastly HARI is a pragmatic treatment modality whereby one pursues a sense of unification between oneself and others and to the universe at large, by utilizing the Meridian Therapy system to diagnosis patterns of imbalance and by practicing KI therapy. As a result one can observe the amelioration of symptoms and the improvement of the pulse which are two expressions of life. At the same time this translates into health and well being achieved through the growth of both the client’s and practitioner’s spirits.
pragmatic treatment modality whereby one pursues a sense of unification between oneself and others and to the universe at large, by utilizing the Meridian Therapy system to diagnosis patterns of imbalance and by practicing KI therapy. As a result one can observe the amelioration of symptoms and the improvement of the pulse which are two expressions of life. At the same time this translates into health and well being achieved through the growth of both the client’s and practitioner’s spirits.

Mary Spindler, PhD, LMT, DOM, RPP