Guest guest Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 Don't give up I felt the same way at first intrigued ,but very confused. So I left it alone and thought about it for awhile. Actually it took quite awhile before I was convinced that I could get this,Not that I have it now, but this grouip is fantastic and you will get lots of good advice and encouragment which is what this is meant to be,but you already knew that didn't you. Rabiah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Hi I've gone back to the beginning and started reading messages. I'm not sure if it's Fibro Fog or my brain has shut down. I am having trouble understanding most of the responses. Can anyone recommend a book or resource that would be helpful for someone completely new to TCM? I checked the files and links and must concede defeat. I need this in remedial form at this point. TIA, mjd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Ask questions on anything you don't understand. TCM can be very overwhelming at first because it is so different from Western medicine. If you're interested in herbs, Henry C. Lu's Chinese Herbal Cures is a good beginning book. He doesn't go into TCM in detail, but he gives a few of the underlying concepts. Each herb he lists in the book has a folk tale associated with it. I found this useful for remembering many of the herbs. For example, the folk tale associated with Radix (root of) Dioscoreae, aka Shan Yao, aka Mountain Medicine, aka Chinese yam is that a weakened, almost defeated, and trapped army took refuge on a mountaim surrounded by much stronger enemy forces who decided to starve them out. The trapped army lived on dioscorea which grew abundantly on the mountain. After several months, they came roaring down off that mountain to defeat the encircling enemy army. Shan Yao is a Qi tonic herb. Tonic herbs supplement Qi, Blood, Yin, or Yang in the body. (Qi is pronounced " chee " and roughly though inadequately translated as energy.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Chinese Traditional Medicine , " victoria_dragon " <victoria_dragon> wrote: Ask questions on anything you don't understand. TCM can be very overwhelming at first because it is so different from Western medicine. If you're interested in herbs, Henry C. Lu's Chinese Herbal Cures is a good beginning book. Hi Victoria, If I asked questions on things I don't understand, we'd be in trouble. lol I seriously don't understand any of what I've read so far. I don't know why because I am not stuck on Western Medicine. I ordered the book you listed and I loved the story you shared from it. That is very powerful and I can't wait until it gets here. Thanks and I will try to come up with some half-way intelligent questions once I've formulated my thoughts on all this. Add a chalk line to the " overwhelmed " side. :-) Thanks again, mjd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Chinese Traditional Medicine , Remediesbyrabiah@a... wrote: > Don't give up I felt the same way at first intrigued ,but very confused...this grouip is fantastic and you will get lots of good advice and encouragment which is what this is meant to be,but you already knew that didn't you. Rabiah Hi Rabiah, I am not planning on giving up. Thanks for letting me know you experienced this too. Whew! Yes, I agree this is a fantastic group. Thanks again, mjd P.S. You have a very pretty name, btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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