Herb workshop/Taos, N.M.

[Guest guest]

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HARVESTING WILD MEDICINALS/STUDYING CLASSICAL CHINESE MEDICAL TEXTS

 

A five day excursion and study program with Z~{!/~}ev Rosenberg,

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 summer 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 ~{VPR)4s4J5d~}Zhong yao da ci dian/Great

Dictionary of Chinese Medicinals and the Sheng nong ben cao/Divine

Farmer~{!/~}s Materia Medica 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.

 

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 ~{!.~}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 time 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 exercursions into mountains and deserts, 9 AM to noon.

Afternoon lectures 2-5 PM.

 

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