Online data sources for herbal medicine

[Guest guest]

Hi Kath & All,

 

Kath wrote:

 

> i'm curious what website/source this [summary from Phil's notes] came

> from?

 

I have been collating data from online sources for >13 years. I cannot cite

" one source " because my notes are from multiple sources (in English,

German, French, Spanish and Chinese) that I can find on WWW.

 

> i didn't know that gegen is applicable to clear sinusitis: i'll start

> using it for this. regards, k

 

Gegen is Envoy to upper Body & its action to Clear Heat can be useful in

sinusitis w Heat S & Ss.

 

See also:

http://tcm.health-info.org/Herbology.Materia.Medica/gegen-properties.htm

 

Best regards,

 

[Guest guest]

In terms of Herbology and Materia medica, Any helpful advice for learning

all the herbs J

 

I just took the introductory course (I did well). I now have 3 Materia

Medica courses, and then 3 courses on formulas. My understanding is that

there is a 40% drop out rate from te herbal part of the TCM program because

of the difficulty. I am already a physician, used to hard work, and I did

pick up a small book with a cd 'Chinese for Medical practioners' hoping that

learning some words would help to associate the herbs with something. It's

not the indications or the disease patterns that are hard, or even

remembering what everything does as I went through with that in

pharmacology. It's remembering the names.

 

I am told though that in the future courses we cover less herb in more

depth. In the first course we went through all the categories! The course

was wonderful but the beginning was spent learning tastes and properties and

cooking methods and that did not leave much time for the classes of herbs,

disease patterns and the 100's of names to assimilate. I think we went

through 10 categories in 3 weeks.

 

 

 

Anyway, I am just wondering how people do it. I remember when I learned all

the classes of cephalosporin antibiotics that I made up crazy pneumatics but

they were English words.

 

 

 

Does the national boards put the pharmacological/Latin name of the herb

down as well?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

Chinese Medicine

Chinese Medicine On Behalf Of Phil

Rogers

Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:45 PM

Chinese Medicine

Online data sources for herbal medicine

 

 

 

Hi Kath & All,

 

Kath wrote:

 

> i'm curious what website/source this [summary from Phil's notes] came

> from?

 

I have been collating data from online sources for >13 years. I cannot cite

" one source " because my notes are from multiple sources (in English,

German, French, Spanish and Chinese) that I can find on WWW.

 

> i didn't know that gegen is applicable to clear sinusitis: i'll start

> using it for this. regards, k

 

Gegen is Envoy to upper Body & its action to Clear Heat can be useful in

sinusitis w Heat S & Ss.

 

See also:

http://tcm.health-info.org/Herbology.Materia.Medica/gegen-properties.htm

 

Best regards,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Nancy~

 

I, too, am currently a student of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal

Medicine. I've found a few tools that have been useful for

memorization and studying of the herbs, and have helped to make the

task slightly less overwhelming.

 

I've been using the Herbal Zoo Cards, which are flash cards designed

by previous student that have somewhat ridiculous drawings and stories

to help remember the herb, channels, properties, functions,

indications, etc. They may not be for everyone, but as a visual

learner, they have been helpful for me. You can buy them online

(http://www.herbzoo.com).

 

There is another set of flashcards that I've heard that can also be

helpful if the Zoo cards aren't your style. You can check them out/buy

them online: http://www.chineseherbcards.com

 

There is also an online resource for flashcards of all sorts that can

be useful. It has cards on point location, actions and effects, herbs,

formulas, etc. Here is a link to the herb topic page:

http://www.flashcardexchange.com/tag/herb. You might also search under

chineseherbology, herbology, acupuncture, etc.

 

It has also been helpful for me to understand how the herb name is

properly pronounced in pinyin (more or less). You can get a grasp on

how words are pronounced by listening to a pinyin pronounciation chart

http://www.quickmandarin.com/chinesepinyintable/

http://www.chineselearner.com/pinyin/pinyinchart.htm

 

Let me know if you have ideas of any other online study aids/sample

quizzes, etc. I can always use the help! The more resources and

different approaches, the better~

 

Best of luck~

Hadley

 

 

 

> I just took the introductory course (I did well). I now have 3 Materia

> Medica courses, and then 3 courses on formulas. My understanding is that

> there is a 40% drop out rate from te herbal part of the TCM program

because

> of the difficulty. I am already a physician, used to hard work, and

I did

> pick up a small book with a cd 'Chinese for Medical practioners'

hoping that

> learning some words would help to associate the herbs with

something. It's

> not the indications or the disease patterns that are hard, or even

> remembering what everything does as I went through with that in

> pharmacology. It's remembering the names.

>

> I am told though that in the future courses we cover less herb in more

> depth. In the first course we went through all the categories! The

course

> was wonderful but the beginning was spent learning tastes and

properties and

> cooking methods and that did not leave much time for the classes of

herbs,

> disease patterns and the 100's of names to assimilate. I think we went

> through 10 categories in 3 weeks.

>

>

>

> Anyway, I am just wondering how people do it. I remember when I

learned all

> the classes of cephalosporin antibiotics that I made up crazy

pneumatics but

> they were English words.

>

>

>

> Does the national boards put the pharmacological/Latin name of the herb

> down as well?

>

> Thanks.