By Bob Flaws;Honora Lee Wolfe
This booklet is a distillation of over twenty years of data from renowned American practitioners' of chinese language medication. it isn't a materia medica or a formulation publication. really it's a dialog within which the authors proportion either scientific and enterprise wisdom and assistance that could basically be realized via years of working a convention. what's lined during this booklet? ~ the essence of having to the fitting trend discrimination at any time when ~how to write down the absolute best prescription for every sufferer ~things to think about whilst determining dosages ~how to prevent the phenomenon of habituation along with your natural sufferers ~the major toxicity matters to think about while utilizing chinese language natural drugs ~when it really is applicable to exploit tablets and powder extracts ~how to achieve greater compliance whilst utilizing decocted formulation ~why we must always steer clear of utilizing the time period "patent" medication ~thoughts on working a profitable sanatorium dispensary ~a pattern herb-instruction shape for sufferers ~why the harmonizing formulation are the main priceless type of formulation for our sufferer inhabitants ~how to paintings appropriately with sufferers who're taking Western medications ~a checklist of an important remedy rules in chinese language drugs
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And they try to achieve relatively speedy relief of all the patient’s branch symptoms at the same time as addressing their disease mechanism’s root cause. Thus, modern Chinese medical practition42 Writing a Formula That Works for Each Patient Chapter 2 ers tend to prescribe highly modified and fairly complex formulas at much higher doses per individual ingredient. The discrepancy between the smaller ancient Chinese doses and larger, modern Chinese doses for the same formulas are more difficult to explain.
However, this should be recognized for what it is, a somewhat arbitrary convention based on theory and numerology, not on chemistry. In a modern Chinese medicinal formula, when more than 910 grams of an ingredient are prescribed, there are usually either of two factors at work. First, if a branch symptom is severe, a larger than normal amount of an ingredient may be used. Thus, if qi vacuity is severe, one may use 12, 30, or even 60 grams of Huang Qi (Radix Astragali Membranacei). In this case, Huang Qi may or may not be the ruling ingredient.
It is also important to explain to patients that if they are being treated for a chronic complaint and they experience an acute flare-up of some other problem, such as the flu or gastroenteritis, they 53 Chapter 2 The Successful Chinese Herbalist should discontinue their medicine during that acute episode. At that time, the formula for their chronic complaint is not correct for their entire pattern, and, as stated above, if one’s internal Chinese herbal medicine is not right based on their pattern discrimination, it is likely to cause side effects and iatrogenesis.
