dose anyone practice SHL medicine?

[Guest guest]

I personally think it is weird to wear white lab coats in outpatient

practice. I always thought it was a way of keeping your clothes clean

or such things as blood and pathogens. Don't see so much of that in

outpatient acupuncture practice I hope. Anyways who cares. I don't

see it as having much to do professionalism.

 

I would be curious if anyone has experience with working with dosages

for the Shang Han Lun and Jin Gui Yao Lue formulas. Seems Taiwan

often accepts the meausrement of 16.235grams (well aprroximately) as

equal to one Liang of Eastern Han where PRC measures in at about half

that.

 

Any experiences around this??

 

Greg

[Guest guest]

Chinese Medicine , " gregzlac2002 "

<gregzlac2002> wrote:

 

> I would be curious if anyone has experience with working with

dosages

> for the Shang Han Lun and Jin Gui Yao Lue formulas. Seems Taiwan

> often accepts the meausrement of 16.235grams (well aprroximately) as

> equal to one Liang of Eastern Han where PRC measures in at about

half

> that.

 

I've heard that one liang in SHL/JG times is equal to about 4 qian in

modern times (using the international qian as opposed to the PRC

qian). One qian is generally about 3.75 g, except in the PRC, where

one qian is about 3.125 g. I believe that the qian measurement has

been about the same since the Tang Dynasty (3.75 g), but it has been

officially changed in the PRC in modern times so that one jin could be

rounded down to a half-kilo for convenience (the old jin was about 600

g). Chinese people in other countries generally use the old weight as

the standard (3.75 g for one qian).

 

The discrepancy between PRC measurements and international

measurements causes most practitioners to assume standard dose ranges

of 3-9 g for medicinals that are historically recommended at a dose of

closer to 4-11 g (assuming that the med is traditionally dosed at 1-3

qian, of course).

 

For a more accurate table of classical weights and measures, you might

check out the Shang Han Lun by Feng, Wiseman, and Mitchell, or the

Practical Dictionary by Wiseman and Feng.

 

Eric

[Guest guest]

I echo what Eric said, and would like to add that I have seen in multiple

palces here in US where practitioners from PRC are in charge (private clinics

and school clinics) 3.12g = 1 qian, or 3.0g=1 qian. I have also seen people

using 3 pennies (US) as one qian as a " convenience " I guess.

 

Mike L.

 

 

 

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