Wild/Western Herbs and Classical Chinese Medicine

Wild/Western Herbs and Classical Chinese Medicine:

Classically, Chinese medicine used primarily local ingredients. This  allowed the use of plants that had adapted specifically to the  environmental challenges that were local to the patient. In modern  times, Chinese medicine has become centralized and much of it is farmed  ... being grown in ideal conditions and losing some of the potency and  resilience traditionally found in wild herbs. These herbs are not only  shipped across China but across the world, to areas where the plants are  not indigenous. In this weekend, Jeffrey will be returning to the roots  of classical herbal medicine and review ways in which we can  effectively utilize local herbs within a Classical Chinese medicine  paradigm. More specifically, Jeffrey will explore the expansion of the  Chinese medicine herbal pharmacopia to include Western herbs, that are  local to many of the practitioners in the West. In doing so, Jeffrey  will review tastes, temperatures, channel affinities, properties,  recommended dosages and safety guidelines to allow Chinese medicine  practitioners to seamlessly incorporate Western herbal medicines into  the framework of Classical Chinese medicine.