Guest guest Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 In a message dated 11/2/04 5:38:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, Chinese Medicine writes: > Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:51:29 -0000 > " andy " < > memory aids > > > > hi all > was wondering if any of you had any tips or memory aids for > studying herbs??? > i've just started a course and am really struggling with the > pinyin...latin...english...and Subtlety of use.. > > i'm familiar with word/picture/location etc association but this > defies all.. > > any commets gratefully recieved > > regards andy Not really if you take it with a sense of humor Here's a few to get you started: Ban Lan Gen Isatis root Woad Root rhymes with Toad which has warts = virus drain toxic heat and fire, cools blood –mumps, painful swollen throat-damp heat – jaundice etc. Pu GongYing Dandelion Taraxacum think of the flower it is low to the ground and yellow clear heat (good for lower jiao infections clears the liver heat then it turns into round puff balls that can be blown away = boobs clear heat promotes lactation due to heat, dissipates nodules and abscess, gallstones, Meridian: LIVER, STOMACH -clear toxic heat and fire – liver heat with red-swollen-painful eyes firm-hard sores clear heat, resolves damp – jaundice, lin syndrome etc. We could tell where others were in the tests because we often had hand positions to kinesthetically anchor it is as well Pu = Poo point to Ren 2 Gong stomach and Ling each boob. Wang bu liu xing Valkaria Seeds Breast health and invigorate blood John Belushi was a breast man also good for prostatitis Liver and stomach channels. We had an older class we remembered Saturday Night Live. If anyone else did this please share. Sunny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 > > > > hi all > > was wondering if any of you had any tips or memory aids for > > studying herbs??? > > i've just started a course and am really struggling with the > > pinyin...latin...english...and Subtlety of use.. > > I'm a little late to respond to this, but I remember one student in my class who would memorize herb formula ingredients by assigning a somewhat similar sounding english name to the chinese herb and combine them all into a story. I don't remember any of them off hand. They got to be pretty outrageous though. There are also herb CD's out there (can you get from golden flower?) but I haven't listened to them and don't know how helpful they are. I hear they are on the cheesy side though. Everyone I know who used the cards were satisfied with them. I did come up with one for tian wang bu xin dan. Diana dances gracefully by you and is foolin the people. She takes my heavenly shoe away from the swan and gives it to the jay. which produces the following herb phonetics.... DIana DANces GUIcefully BAI YU-ANd is FULINg the people(RENSHEN). She takes MAI heavenly(TIAN) XU WUWEI from the SUAN and gives it to the JIE. Sheng Di, dan shen, dang gui, bai zi ren, yuan zhi, fuling, ren shen, mai men dong, tian men dong, xuan shen, wu weizi, suan zao ren, jie geng. Then you just have to remember zhu sha. For smaller formulas, I would take one syllable from each herb and combine them into phrases of some fashion. There's alot of time you can waste studying herbs. In retrospect he most useful things I did were: 1) memorize each herb's category and temperature (the category often includes temperature, so it's actually easier than you might think) 2) memorize each formula's category 3) memorize the ingredients for each formula of 4-6 herbs or less. You'd be surprised how far this set of information can go to analyzing and understanding a formula quickly. It also gives you insight on how larger formulas are built up. I spent probably six months or so to get this information down. Once you have the basics, you can add more to it and fill in the gaps later. On herb nationals (I took it before the new format with the bio modules), this information alone will enable you to narrow about 90% of the questions down to two answers. Then you have to know some of the other details of the major herbs or formulas to break the tie. I ended up creating rhymes using the single herbs to learn the single herb categories. Then I could usually come up with herbs close by in the rhyme from a category to remember where a specific one belongs. This made it practical for me to use. Some categories worked better than others. If I couldn't make a rhyme, I would try and group similar herbs together with similar functions within a category. For instance, one of the best rhymes turned out to be clear heat toxicity category: jin yin hua lian qiao ye ju hua bai hua she she cao she gan bia xian pi ma bo tu niu xi da qing ye hong teng ze bei tian kui bai tou weng etc. I still have this in a file somewhere. I can send to you if you want. It doesn't paste well. Learning herbs is alot of effort and I never found a short cut. I always had a hope that there was a patent you could take and diffuse them all, but like the fountain of youth it evades mankind. About the fourth time through learning the singles and formulas it started to stick. I have good long term memory, but not much for short term. Hope this helps. --brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 I have a CD that has the herbs or formulas set to a song. If you can get permission I can upload it to the file section in a zip folder. I will need to see if I can find the CD, its been a few years now that I have used it Brian briansbeard <brian_s_beard wrote: > > > > hi all > > was wondering if any of you had any tips or memory aids for > > studying herbs??? > > i've just started a course and am really struggling with the > > pinyin...latin...english...and Subtlety of use.. > > I'm a little late to respond to this, but I remember one student in my class who would memorize herb formula ingredients by assigning a somewhat similar sounding english name to the chinese herb and combine them all into a story. I don't remember any of them off hand. They got to be pretty outrageous though. There are also herb CD's out there (can you get from golden flower?) but I haven't listened to them and don't know how helpful they are. I hear they are on the cheesy side though. Everyone I know who used the cards were satisfied with them. I did come up with one for tian wang bu xin dan. Diana dances gracefully by you and is foolin the people. She takes my heavenly shoe away from the swan and gives it to the jay. which produces the following herb phonetics.... DIana DANces GUIcefully BAI YU-ANd is FULINg the people(RENSHEN). She takes MAI heavenly(TIAN) XU WUWEI from the SUAN and gives it to the JIE. Sheng Di, dan shen, dang gui, bai zi ren, yuan zhi, fuling, ren shen, mai men dong, tian men dong, xuan shen, wu weizi, suan zao ren, jie geng. Then you just have to remember zhu sha. For smaller formulas, I would take one syllable from each herb and combine them into phrases of some fashion. There's alot of time you can waste studying herbs. In retrospect he most useful things I did were: 1) memorize each herb's category and temperature (the category often includes temperature, so it's actually easier than you might think) 2) memorize each formula's category 3) memorize the ingredients for each formula of 4-6 herbs or less. You'd be surprised how far this set of information can go to analyzing and understanding a formula quickly. It also gives you insight on how larger formulas are built up. I spent probably six months or so to get this information down. Once you have the basics, you can add more to it and fill in the gaps later. On herb nationals (I took it before the new format with the bio modules), this information alone will enable you to narrow about 90% of the questions down to two answers. Then you have to know some of the other details of the major herbs or formulas to break the tie. I ended up creating rhymes using the single herbs to learn the single herb categories. Then I could usually come up with herbs close by in the rhyme from a category to remember where a specific one belongs. This made it practical for me to use. Some categories worked better than others. If I couldn't make a rhyme, I would try and group similar herbs together with similar functions within a category. For instance, one of the best rhymes turned out to be clear heat toxicity category: jin yin hua lian qiao ye ju hua bai hua she she cao she gan bia xian pi ma bo tu niu xi da qing ye hong teng ze bei tian kui bai tou weng etc. I still have this in a file somewhere. I can send to you if you want. It doesn't paste well. Learning herbs is alot of effort and I never found a short cut. I always had a hope that there was a patent you could take and diffuse them all, but like the fountain of youth it evades mankind. About the fourth time through learning the singles and formulas it started to stick. I have good long term memory, but not much for short term. Hope this helps. --brian http://babel.altavista.com/ and adjust accordingly. If you , it takes a few days for the messages to stop being delivered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 I would greatly appreciate listening to the CD that you are talking about, since I am studying formulas now. Last year, I recorded myself talking about all the herbs, and would listen in the car on my way to school (I have a long drive)! If you have any other suggestions, that would be great too. Joyce - Brian Hardy Chinese Medicine Sunday, November 07, 2004 6:24 AM Re: Re: memory aids word pictures herbs I have a CD that has the herbs or formulas set to a song. If you can get permission I can upload it to the file section in a zip folder. I will need to see if I can find the CD, its been a few years now that I have used it Brian briansbeard <brian_s_beard wrote: > > > > hi all > > was wondering if any of you had any tips or memory aids for > > studying herbs??? > > i've just started a course and am really struggling with the > > pinyin...latin...english...and Subtlety of use.. > > I'm a little late to respond to this, but I remember one student in my class who would memorize herb formula ingredients by assigning a somewhat similar sounding english name to the chinese herb and combine them all into a story. I don't remember any of them off hand. They got to be pretty outrageous though. There are also herb CD's out there (can you get from golden flower?) but I haven't listened to them and don't know how helpful they are. I hear they are on the cheesy side though. Everyone I know who used the cards were satisfied with them. I did come up with one for tian wang bu xin dan. Diana dances gracefully by you and is foolin the people. She takes my heavenly shoe away from the swan and gives it to the jay. which produces the following herb phonetics.... DIana DANces GUIcefully BAI YU-ANd is FULINg the people(RENSHEN). She takes MAI heavenly(TIAN) XU WUWEI from the SUAN and gives it to the JIE. Sheng Di, dan shen, dang gui, bai zi ren, yuan zhi, fuling, ren shen, mai men dong, tian men dong, xuan shen, wu weizi, suan zao ren, jie geng. Then you just have to remember zhu sha. For smaller formulas, I would take one syllable from each herb and combine them into phrases of some fashion. There's alot of time you can waste studying herbs. In retrospect he most useful things I did were: 1) memorize each herb's category and temperature (the category often includes temperature, so it's actually easier than you might think) 2) memorize each formula's category 3) memorize the ingredients for each formula of 4-6 herbs or less. You'd be surprised how far this set of information can go to analyzing and understanding a formula quickly. It also gives you insight on how larger formulas are built up. I spent probably six months or so to get this information down. Once you have the basics, you can add more to it and fill in the gaps later. On herb nationals (I took it before the new format with the bio modules), this information alone will enable you to narrow about 90% of the questions down to two answers. Then you have to know some of the other details of the major herbs or formulas to break the tie. I ended up creating rhymes using the single herbs to learn the single herb categories. Then I could usually come up with herbs close by in the rhyme from a category to remember where a specific one belongs. This made it practical for me to use. Some categories worked better than others. If I couldn't make a rhyme, I would try and group similar herbs together with similar functions within a category. For instance, one of the best rhymes turned out to be clear heat toxicity category: jin yin hua lian qiao ye ju hua bai hua she she cao she gan bia xian pi ma bo tu niu xi da qing ye hong teng ze bei tian kui bai tou weng etc. I still have this in a file somewhere. I can send to you if you want. It doesn't paste well. Learning herbs is alot of effort and I never found a short cut. I always had a hope that there was a patent you could take and diffuse them all, but like the fountain of youth it evades mankind. About the fourth time through learning the singles and formulas it started to stick. I have good long term memory, but not much for short term. Hope this helps. --brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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