RE: TCM descriptions of Western drugs

July 15, 2009

Bob, Are the TCM descriptions of Western drugs in your book your own

educated conjecture or are they translations? I understand that this work has

been done in China for some time and am wondering if I need go no further than

the book you wrote w/ Greg to see that work. Ben

bob

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:57:15 +0000

Re: Altitude Sickness-herbs and legal defense -for Bob

Thomas,

Sorry, I'm not aware of your work in this area. Since you have sought broad

professional consensus on your hypotheses, your work is obviously NOT included

in the works I was talking about. So no need to take exception. You're the model

of what we should be doing. However, even so, it takes a generation or more to

finally come to a standard consensus on new medicinals in CM. See Eric Brand's

recent blog at www.bluepoppy.com on the CM descriptions of the natures

(temperatures) of mango and even Zhi Shi (Fructus Immaturus Aurantii). Actually,

I think the title of the blog was something about eating fruits in the summer.

There are a number of other " recent " herb imports to China whose natures vary

from one book to another because they are so " new. "

As for sending you my own putative descriptions of vitamins, amino acids,

minerals, Western drugs, etc., the former are in The Dao of Healthy Eating and

the latter are in Integrative Pharmacology (co-authored by Greg Sperber). I

suggest you write Lori (lori), one of our CS reps, and tell her

that I said to send you " warehouse nine " copies of these two books. My

descriptions of Western herbs are in books that are no longer in print and don't

exist as digital files. (If they do, I don't know where they are.) Sorry. I'd

love some high-level Chinese feedback on these descriptions.

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July 18, 2009

Ben,

Except for antibiotics and steroids, the CM descriptions are my own hypotheses.

I don't know of Chinese descriptions other than for antibiotics and steroids. If

anyone else knows of Chinese descriptions of other classes of or individual

biomedical drugs, let me know. I'd be very interested in reading these.

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