An Acupuncture Diagnosis of Marilyn Monroe's Ill-Health During Her Most Productive Years in Hollywood

Abstract

Abstract

Marilyn Monroe. The name alone conjures up images of ethereal beauty and glamour. When her fans saw her, they saw a woman of unsurpassed allure, and an aura of fantasy surrounded her whenever she graced the silver screen. Coming from a broken home, Norma Jean, as was her real name, had a mentally unstable mother named Gladys Baker Pearl, who would suffer multiple nervous breakdowns and “scream and cry” at the same time. She would not allow young Norma Jean to be adopted into a stable home, thwarting numerous attempts by good homes to do so, and therefore, Norma kept bouncing from foster home to foster home, with very little emotional stability or peace in her early life. This article is an attempt to create a clinical profile of Marilyn Monroe's insomnia and her well-publicized mental issues by using the Five-Element Patterns and System and create a protocol that could have helped her. This System is based on the Fiftieth Difficult Issue in the Nan Ching Classic, which identifies two elements in a warring relationship. Using this System, simply from reported symptoms and signs of any case, one can arrive at a dependable diagnosis and treatment protocol.