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The Importance of Aconite (fuzi) and Teachings From the Sichuan Fire Spirit School (an Interview with Heiner Fruehauf)

CCM2022-09-19T20:42:52-07:00Tags: Aconite Papers, aconite toxicity, Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, fuzi (aconite), German, Heiner Fruehauf, Sichuan Fire Spirit School|

WITH HEINER FRUEHAUF
INTERVIEW BY BOB QUINN
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

On February 19, 2009 Heiner Fruehauf, PhD, LAc, sat down with his colleague Bob Quinn, DAOM, LAc, to discuss the importance of aconite (fuzi) in classical Chinese medicine. The discussion also covers aspects of the fuzi story not covered elsewhere in the west, namely its proper processing. Heiner also touches on some of the “nuts and bolts” of the Sichuan Fire Spirit School of herbal prescribing. As Heiner explains, fuzi used to be referred to as the “King of the 100 Herbs.” This information is crucial to understanding the scholarship and clinical power behind formulas that contain aconite.

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Traditional Chinese Approaches to Gu Syndrome: Two 18th Century Examples

CCM2024-04-12T12:45:57-07:00Tags: Classical Pearls, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, German, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

Heiner Fruehauf has researched the ancient symbolism that defines the finer points of Chinese organ network function for 10 years. His prolific research project will eventually culminate in the creation of an illustrated compendium on the macrocosmic and microcosmic ramifications of organ network theory. Since the publication of this effort is still years away, he has decided to make a selection from his cache of existing research papers available now by publishing them on ClassicalChineseMedicine.org. The first installment of these papers consists of a detailed etymological analysis of the character of fei 肺 (lung), and the defining statement on the lung’s function/office in chapter 8 of the Huangdi neijing suwen.

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Thunder Pearls – An Effective Chinese Herbal Treatment for Chronic Parasitism

CCM2022-09-07T11:54:01-07:00Tags: chronic parasitism, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf, Thunder Pearls|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

This from a series of transcripts of video lectures from ClassicalPearls.org, the site for herbal formulas based on over thirty years of clinical and academic research by Prof. Heiner Fruehauf. Thunder Pearls Chinese herbal formula is a unique remedy for the important clinical phenomenon of “Abdominal Gu Syndrome”: difficult and treatment resistant diseases caused by chronic, often undiagnosable parasitic infections of the digestive system. This formulation, as Dr. Fruehauf presents, is sourced from ancient Daoist medicine texts and personally proven many times in modern clinical practice.This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA.

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM CLASSICAL PEARLS HERBAL FORMULAS

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Single Herbs: Sanqi (Panax notoginseng)

CCM2021-03-19T19:21:43-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, didao yocai (terroir), paozhi (traditional processing), sanqi, Single Herb Series|

By Heiner Fruehauf Heiner Fruehauf's prolific research trip to China and Vietnam in the summer of 2014 to source high quality, potent, directly-traded Chinese herbs from small family farms provided a significant amount of material and information about didao yocai and paozhi - terroir [...]

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Single Herbs: Baishao (Paeonia lactiflora)

CCM2021-03-22T13:29:36-07:00Tags: baishao (white peony), Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, didao yocai (terroir), paozhi (traditional processing), Single Herb Series|

By Heiner Fruehauf Heiner Fruehauf's prolific research trip to China and Vietnam in the summer of 2014 to source high quality, potent, directly-traded Chinese herbs from small family farms provided a significant amount of material and information about didao yocai and paozhi - terroir [...]

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Single Herbs: Shanyao (Dioscorea opposita)

CCM2021-03-22T13:30:02-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, didao yocai (terroir), paozhi (traditional processing), shanyao (dioscorea), Single Herb Series|

By Heiner Fruehauf Heiner Fruehauf's prolific research trip to China and Vietnam in the summer of 2014 to source high quality, potent, directly-traded Chinese herbs from small family farms provided a significant amount of material and information about didao yocai and paozhi - terroir [...]

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Single Herbs: Shichangpu (Acorus gramineus)

CCM2021-03-22T13:30:59-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, didao yocai (terroir), paozhi (traditional processing), shichangpu (acorus), Single Herb Series|

By Heiner Fruehauf Heiner Fruehauf's prolific research trip to China and Vietnam in the summer of 2014 to source high quality, potent, directly-traded Chinese herbs from small family farms provided a significant amount of material and information about didao yocai and paozhi - terroir [...]

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Single Herbs: Banxia (Pinellia ternata)

CCM2021-03-22T13:32:00-07:00Tags: banxia (pinellia), Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, didao yocai (terroir), paozhi (traditional processing), Single Herb Series|

By Heiner Fruehauf Heiner Fruehauf's prolific research trip to China and Vietnam in the summer of 2014 to source high quality, potent, directly-traded Chinese herbs from small family farms provided a significant amount of material and information about didao yocai and paozhi - terroir [...]

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The Classical Pearls Series of Remedies: Positions on the Alchemical Holomap of the Chinese Organ Networks

CCM2023-06-03T11:46:37-07:00Tags: Classical Pearls, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, cosmology, organ networks, stellar constellations|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

We are excited to present an informative learning tool and clinical resource — a chart that aligns the remedies in the Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas™ family around the cosmological holomap of the Chinese organ networks that Heiner Fruehauf so often teaches about and has spent over 25 years researching. This chart is primarily to show, at one glance, where the constitutional home of each of each remedy is. The chart includes a short description of how the remedy functions with regard to Chinese medical physiology.

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Single Herbs Series: Guizhi and Rougui (Cinnamomum loureirii bark and twig)

CCM2021-03-22T13:32:41-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, didao yocai (terroir), guizhi (cinnamon), paozhi (traditional processing), rougui (cinnamon), terroir|

By Heiner Fruehauf Heiner Fruehauf’s prolific research trip to China and Vietnam in the summer of 2014 to source high quality, potent, directly-traded Chinese herbs from small family farms provided a significant amount of material and information about didao yocai and paozhi – terroir [...]

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An Ancient Solution for Modern Diseases: “Gu Syndrome” and Chronic Inflammatory Diseases with Autoimmune Complications (An Interview with Heiner Fruehauf)

CCM2022-09-07T11:53:14-07:00Tags: autoimmune disorders, chronic disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic parasitism, fibromyalgia, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf, Lyme Disease|

WITH HEINER FRUEHAUF
INTERVIEW BY GORDANA SMITH

After his prolific trip to China in the summer of 2014 to discover new sources of herbs, Heiner Fruehauf has returned with a refresh body of knowledge, that when synthesized with his over 30 years of clinical experience in Chinese medicine, offers greater insight into his body of work about Gu Syndrome (chronic parasitism) and treating complex autoimmune disorders with Chinese medicine.

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The Treatment of Kidney Failure and Uraemia with Chinese Herbs

CCM2022-09-06T18:01:26-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, kidney failure, uraemia|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Chronic renal failure marks the most severe of the potential end stages of chronic kidney infection and other systemic diseases involving the kidneys, such as diabetes. Patients with renal failure essentially suffer a near complete collapse of kidney function and become internally poisoned by nitrogenous compounds as a result. If kidney function is not restored, which in chronic cases is virtually impossible with modern medical treatments, or if the body's toxic load cannot be expelled by other means, this condition is severe and usually quickly leads to death. Since the advent of the modern medical procedures of kidney dialysis and kidney transplants, chronic renal failure has lost much of the immediacy of its life threatening quality. For most dialysis and transplant patients, however, the quality of life remains low.

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Insomnia and Vivid Dreaming in Chinese Medical Thinking

CCM2022-09-06T18:03:30-07:00Tags: dreaming, insomnia|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Just like other traditional cultures, the Chinese have always attached a great deal of importance to the occurrence as well as the contents of dreams. In general, ancient Taoist thinkers believed that the healthy and balanced person should sleep undisturbed and not have any dreams at all, since they are always an indication of intemperate meandering by the ethereal soul (hun). The Inner Canon (Neijing) had outlined that the body’s qi primarily circulates on the body surface during the day, then circulates within the body’s interior during the night. If this normal rhythm is disturbed, sleep disorders such as insomnia, narcolepsy, or nightmares may occur.

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Blood, Blood Stasis, and Blood Path Disorders

CCM2022-09-06T18:10:58-07:00Tags: blood disorders, chronic disease, Huangdi Neijing, Kanpo|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Japanese Kanpo (“Chinese modalities”) medicine has in many ways distinguished itself as an independent school of Oriental medical practice. Although Kanpo practitioners generally derive their inspiration from the Chinese classics, they have developed their own set of diagnostic procedures, therapeutic methods, and medical theories, certain aspects of which vary quite drastically from standard approaches adopted by their colleagues in modern China. To dismiss the Japanese system as an unorthodox branch of Chinese medicine, however, would belittle the age-old Japanese practice of “creative imitation” as baseless esotericism, and miss important aspects of classical Chinese theory that have been preserved and illuminated by the Japanese approach.

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Commonly Used Chinese Herb Formulas for the Treatment of Mental Disorders

CCM2022-09-06T18:09:05-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, mental health|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

The concept of an inseparable body mind continuum is one of the main characteristics of Eastern thought. In classical Chinese medicine, therefore, bodymind continuum mental activity has always been considered to be inseparable from bodily functions, and mental diseases were generally not treated differently from any other disorder. The Chinese term 'yuzheng' (depression), for instance, refers to stagnation on both a physical and mental plane, and is usually addressed with the same diagnostic and therapeutic means as diseases that would be considered to have entirely physi cal origins in the West.

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Stroke and Post-Stroke Syndrome: Prevention and Treatment by Chinese Herbal Medicine

CCM2022-09-06T18:06:37-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, Huangdi Neijing, stroke|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

In the Chinese medical tradition, deliberations about the origins and treatment of stroke related conditions span over more than two millennia. Since the condition has traditionally been considered to be one of the "four major problems in internal medicine" (neike si dabing), stroke chapters occupy a prominent place in virtually all of the works that make up the defining body of traditional Chinese medicine.Beginning with the Huangdi Neijing (Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor), a variety of stroke symptoms were described in great detail, but there was at that time no single label or category which established a concise Chinese term for the condition.

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Alcohol Use in Traditional Chinese Formulas

CCM2022-09-07T12:07:44-07:00Tags: Chinese medicine profession, Huangdi Neijing, TCM, Zhang Jingyue|

BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Prior to the process of treating disease, the sage (superior doctor) must be able to distinguish the Yin and Yang of Heaven and Earth. S/he must know the rhythmic flow of the four seasons and the intricate relationships between the five organ networks and the six bowel systems. S/he must be able to distinguish the Yin/Yang and exterior/interior quality of the meridians, and know what kind of diseases to treat with acupuncture, what kind with moxibustion, and what kind with herbs. S/he must understand the relationship between health and social interaction, master the standard procedure of diagnosis and treatment, and discern the constitutional differences in rich and poor people.

FROM INNER CANON OF THE YELLOW EMPEROR (NEIJING SUWEN, CHAPTER 77: "ANALYZING THE FIVE MISTAKES IN DIAGNOSIS" (FL. 200 B.C.

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The Black Label of Classical Pearls: Thunder Pearls, Lightning Pearls, and Dragon Pearls

CCM2022-09-07T11:52:53-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, chronic disease, chronic parasitism, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, Gu Syndrome|

PRESENTED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
LECTURE TRANSCRIPT

I am happy to report consistent feedback from practitioners around the world reflecting that the very first remedies of the Classical Pearls series are making a real clinical impact. Thunder Pearls and Lightning Pearls, the Classical Pearls formulas with the enigmatic black label are meeting the goal that was set for them when they were first created: to fill a conceptual and clinical void for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases that induce great physical and emotional suffering, yet which often remain undiagnosed, hidden in the dark and out of therapeutic reach for most Western medicine and TCM practitioners.

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