Fwd: traditional chinese herbs posts

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I also tend to use the Dong-yuan/Zhu Dan-xi/Zhang Ji approach of using a

relatively limited number of prescriptions and variations to treat patients

within a particular school of thought in Chinese herbal medicine. I do use

some Western herbals as adjuncts, but not as parts of prescriptions.

 

 

 

 

 

Beautifully said,.

 

My position, always having been excited by wildcrafting herbal medicinals,

and using local plants, is that we are, again, just at the beginning of

understanding the qualities of local medicinals from a TCM point of view.

As you pointed out, the complex reality of formulating prescriptions makes

this endeavor even more complicated from the outset.

 

I know as a former student of mine at Pacific College. His

background (I hope you don't mind me saying so, Thomas) in native

medicinals is excellant, his enthusiasm genuine, his research focused. I

have enjoyed what I have seen of his work, and have personally benefitted

from his amazing wildcrafting of herbs.

 

What I have shared with anyone undertaking this immense project is that we

are only at the beginning of utilizing native medicinals from a TCM

perspective, but it must be done. The naturopathic literature, especially

the Eclectics, have a well developed energetic perspective that we can

research, and that Thomas has done in his writing.

 

I propose that any study in this area be done as a presentation to the

profession of individual research, to be then used in clinical trials,

research and intellectual/peer review scrutiny from within the profession.

This has been what is missing in the previous work, such as with Peter

Holmes, who, while an exciting writer, has based his conclusions of Chinese

medicine qualities of medicinals on personal speculation. To then apply

speculative work to clinical treatment of patients is not only a fantasy,

but professional incompetance.