(CHA) summer seminar in New Mexico

[Guest guest]

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> " CLOUD HIDDEN/WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN "

> HARVESTING WILD MEDICINALS/STUDYING CLASSICAL CHINESE MEDICAL TEXTS

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> A five day excursion and study program with ,

> professor at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, San Diego. Hosted

> by Redwing Books and Paradigm Press, Taos, N.M.

>

> This exciting program will take place in Taos, New Mexico, the home of

> Paradigm Publications, one of the premier publishers of books on

> Chinese medicine. Z'ev lived for seven years in Santa Fe, N.M. and

> ten years in Denver/Boulder, Colo. before moving to San Diego, Ca. to

> chair the Department of Herbal Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental

> Medicine fourteen years ago. During his years in Colorado and New

> Mexico, as well as studying and practicing Chinese medicine, he

> learned to identify, wild-craft and use local medicinals growing in

> the Rocky Mountains. He returns in the summers to these mountains to

> continue his herbal 'vision quest'.

>

> The focus will be on identifying and harvesting local medicinals and

> finding their equivalents in the Zhong yao da ci dian/Great Dictionary

> of Chinese Medicinals and other texts in order to determine potential

> uses in consonance with mainstream Chinese internal medicine. In

> addition, we will study the Nan Jing/Classic of Difficulties and other

> classical sources with a focus on the central focus on time in the

> practice of Chinese medicine. Mornings we will head up the canyons

> into the mountains to harvest herbs, then in the afternoons after

> lunch, classroom study at Paradigm's passive solar location centrally

> located in Taos.

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> Since the traditional herbal system in China developed out of

> local/native plants used over millennia, it is important that we learn

> the medicinals of the mountains, fields, and streams in our own

> environment. An herbalist is like a 'hunter' for medicine, who

> closely examines habitat, climate, season, and qualities of plants,

> animals and minerals when choosing medicines. Being an herbalist

> requires a similar sensitivity to the diagnostic skills of Chinese

> medicine.

>

> New Mexico's northern high desert and mountain ranges are an unspoiled

> treasure house of potent herbs nurtured by the high altitude, strong

> sunlight and sharp temperature changes of the region. The contrasts

> of altitude, rainfall and sunlight have created several life zones

> with a variety of medicinal plants found in few other locales. The

> staggering beauty of the area calms the mind and increases sensitivity

> to studying the traditions of Chinese medicine.

>

> Location: Redwing/Paradigm Warehouse, 202 Bendix Drive, Taos, New

> Mexico, 87571

>

> Dates: Sunday, August 15th, thru Thursday, August 19th.

> Morning herbal excursions into mountains and deserts, 9 AM to noon.

> Afternoon lectures 2-5 PM.

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> Cost: $650.00 plus travel and lodging

>

> A brochure will soon be available. For more information, contact Z'ev

> Rosenberg at zrosenbe , or Bob Felt or Raphael Rosenberg

> at Redwing Book Company, 1-800-873-3946, bob