How to Write a TCM Herbal Formula
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 093618549X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Bob Flaws studied Chinese herbal medicine at the Shanghai College of Chinese Medicine and this is his particular modality. . When it comes to Chinese herbal medicine, there are few Westerners who knowledge comes even close to Bob Flaws's. Bob Flaws is one of the most famous practitioners, teachers, and authors of Chinese medicine in the world today. He has written, edited, and/or translated over 100 books and scores of articles on all aspe
Clear and Concise Demystificatin of How to Write Herbal Prescriptions. Eyton J. Shalom, L.Ac. Clear and concise, Bob Flaws, teaches you how to modify by subtraction and addition, a Chinese Medicine Herbal formula. Not only for TCM, but for classical formulas from the Shang Han Lun, etc. A great book i have learned so much from
It describes a simple, straight- forward methodology of moving from disease diagnosis to pattern discrimination to treatment principles and, from there, to choosing a guiding formula and modifying it with additions and subtractions to make it more perfectly fit each individual patient. This book describes the step-by-step process of composing a TCM herbal formula. The second half of the book is devoted to discussing approximately 150 variations of the formula, Si Wu Tang (Four Materials Decoction), in the light of the material presented in the first half.. Therefore, most Chinese books do not feel it necessary to explain all this information. This book fills in much that is left unsaid by other books on Chinese medicine and formulas and clarifies what other authors have left obscure. In China, the information in this book is absorbed by osmosis in supervised clinical practice under mentors with decades of experience
. Having explained over and over again what I thought were self- evident basic concepts to non- Chinese students around the world, I realized that this material is not self-evident and needed to be spelled out in English even if it did not need to be spelled out in the same way in Chinese. Until or unless one becomes clear about this methodology and can use it in real- life clinical practice, Western practitioners are often only practicing Western medicine using Chinese herbs and acupuncture needles. After practicing Chinese medicine for more than 20 years, my experience is that Chinese medicine is essentially a problem-solving methodology, not a bag of exotic clinical tricks. Other Western teachers seemed