Superior Herbs

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Chinese Traditional Medicine , " sethwai " <sethwai wrote:

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> What are 'Superior' herbs?

 

 

Anyone intertested in TCM should understand that TCM is a broad system

of knowledge and practice. The Master's of old have developed several

approachs to achieving Health and Enlightment. The modern medical

practice of TCM that we all think of as TCM the TCM of Master

clinicians like Bob Flaws are 'Medical' systems. There are other

schools of health and healing. One of the oldest and most enduring

schools is the school that does not approve of the use of medical

herbs and therapies - the school of the 'naturalists'. Who believe

that one should not take substances that have the potential for side-

effects. They have many reasons for believing this - but one basic

understanding is that if a medicine has the ability to radically

affect physiological function then that medicine might also be causing

harm (side-effects). Many of these medicines are seen as crutches for

dealing with symptoms but may ultimtetly be suppressing disease

processes. Throughout history experience has taught that there are a

catagory of herbs that do not suppress disease or create side-effects

(if taken properly). These substances were called Superior herbs

because their functions are considered supportive of the three

treasures and do not suppress anything they are a type of 'super

food' - many of the most famous herbs of TCM fall into this catagory.

Indeed the whole herbal science of formula development is mainly based

on these herbs. This approach to healing has as it's objective the

support and building of the Three Treasures - Jing-Qi-Shen - in

otherwords the foundation energies of the human body - it pays less

attention to the disease syndromes and works instead to develop the

basic strengths of the body in the belief that it is these functions

of the Three Treasures which heal all problems that have developed.

This is the system advocated by many of the greatest minds in history.

This is the system that makes the most sense to me - especially for

anyone working on their own problems without the benefit of a thorough

education in TCM Diagnostics and Theraputics.

 

Here are several links to Dragon Herbs -

 

http://www.dragonherbs.com/philo/superior_herbs.asp

 

http://www.dragonherbs.com/glossary/glossary.asp?id=67

 

http://www.dragonherbs.com/glossary/glossary.asp?id=72

 

http://www.dragonherbs.com/philo/index.asp

 

Ron Teeguarden the owner of Dragon Herbs is a great advocate of this

system of knowledge. His site is very interesting and full of useful

information for anyone trying to understand where to start when

working on their own. One of the things I like a great deal about

Ron's site is his description of the herbs - which gives all of the

basic facts of herbs and their usefulness in buiding the Treasures.

Another point I like is Ron's up to date knowledge of the Chinese and

Japanese research and clinical experience in the use of herbs. He

knows a lot about the popular cultural use of herbs. Herbs are

becoming a kind of fad in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, and Japan. Most

of the products being developed to help people deal with the stress of

modern life use many of the 'Superior' herbs as well as many 'new'

herbs introduced to the Orient in modern times. Many of the Dragon

Herb formulas are classic formulas or they are modern modifications of

classic formulas - plus some new concepts that are being developed by

modern researchers. The herbs used are the best available quality -

which to me is very important because since in China there is not good

enough quality control in the herbal medicine industry. There are only

a handful of companies who are universally respected. Plum flower and

a few others produce herbs to the highest modern standard of herb

production - they lead in state of the art herbal extracts etc.. these

companies also quarantee that most of their products do not contain

heavy metals and insecticides, etc. These products are a little more

expensive but one has the assurance that they are taking the best

forms of the herbs described on the labels. My family is insistant on

only taking these high quality herbs.

 

If one is interested in working on their own health issues then I can

not reccomend a more useful knowledge than the study of the building

of the Three Treasures. Tonic herbs combined with mild exercise and

diet is the surest and quickest way to start the healing process. I

have seen hundreds regain their health using this type of

understanding. Some years ago I founded a small group of professionals

working on health recovery and antiaging issues - our members have

used many techniques but the one that works best is the one described

above.