My, Dr. William Lee Cowden, first experience was in the late 1980s, about two weeks after I first learned how to perform the TKM technique to stop severe angina, I received a call from an emergency room doctor at Medical City hospital in Dallas, Texas where I was on staff. The ER doctor requested that I come to the ER to tend to one of my patients who entered the ER with continuous angina. The patient, a woman age 45, had experienced severe chest pains for about an hour. When I arrived, the ER personnel had already given her oxygen by mask, nitroglycerine under the tongue, and morphine intravenously but the chest pain and sweating persisted. A 12-lead electrocardiogram showed ST segment elevation and T-wave inversion in several leads, suggestive of myocardial ischemia and the heart monitor showed these EKG changes continuing.
As I was talking to the patient, I remembered the TKM technique for angina/heart attack. So, as it was demonstrated to me before, I applied the one step procedure (Right fingers-pads touching 5th TV (thoracic vertebra spinous process) while the left hand holds the entire left little finger). In less than four minutes, the chest pain stopped.
I observed the patient appeared physically better. Her breathing had relaxed, perspiring stopped, and color improved. When asked about pain, she replied she had no pain at all. The electrocardiographic monitor indicated a normalizing of the ST-segments and T-waves. A repeat 12-lead electrocardiogram indicated everything was almost normal. I thought the medical treatments given prior to TKM had finally worked.
I then went back to the ER nursing station to write admission orders and notes. Twenty minutes later, a nurse notified me that the patient’s chest pains had recurred. I looked at the electrocardiographic monitor and it showed ST-segment elevation and T-wave inversion again, consistent with a heart ischemia redeveloping. The first thing I did was to apply the TKM protocol and nothing else. Again, after less than four minutes, the pain completely stopped. Now, I thought there must be something to this TKM.
I met the patient’s son in the waiting room, where I instructed him on how to apply the one step TKM procedure that had been effective twice. I wrote the orders for the night, which included that in the event chest pains returned, the nurses were to apply nitroglycerin sublingually. If nothing had changed in five minutes, they were to call the patient’s son from the ICU waiting room to the patient’s bedside, and I instructed her son how to apply the TKM procedure. If after five minutes nothing changed, the ICU nurses were to call me. The patient had four additional chest pain episodes during the night. In each case, the nurse gave the patient sublingual nitroglycerin and each time, after five minutes, nothing had changed. Then, each time the nurse would call the patient’s son from the ICU waiting room, and he would apply the TKM procedure as instructed. Each time he did, within less than five minutes, the chest pains subsided. The TKM consistently worked each time.
The next morning, the patient had a cardiac catheterization showing 95 percent blockage of the proximal left circumflex coronary artery. I concluded the patient would likely have had a very large heart attack if the TKM had not been applied to the patient the previous night. Angioplasty was performed to improve blood flow and the patient was kept in the hospital for the next 24 hours before being released. The cardiac enzymes did not rise, no coronary stints were inserted, and the patient did well after discharge from the hospital. I was unaware at that time there were other TKM procedures for clearing/cleaning the vessels, which I found was a more prolonged TKM therapy showing just as extraordinary results as the single step in TKM for the emergency episode.
William Lee Cowden, MD, a cardiologist and serves as the chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Academy of Comprehensive Integrative Medicine. In addition to medical school education at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston and internal medicine residency and cardiology and critical care fellowships at St. Louis University Hospital Group, he has been board certified in internal medicine and cardiology. He founded several organizations, sat on various boards, and has contributed to numerous publications.