Chinese Herbal Formulas: A Clinical Handbook (2nd Edition)

Description

There are three main positive benefits to learning formulas according to herb families:

1. Focusing on single herbs and their alchemical potential in combination with other herbs helps students gain deeper, and more accurate understanding of associated formulas.
2. The categorization of formulas by single herbs is a more natural extension of the process of learning single herbs, increasing ease of learning and retention of information.
3. Focusing on single herbs brings the focus back to plants and their effects rather than human-created intellectual categories.

The book features concise yet clinically relevant descriptions of 100 of the most commonly used Chinese formulas, and is designed to reflect the rich intellectual tradition and comprehensive, multi-layered theory that underlies the field of Chinese formula studies. In addition, this work reflects unique information from the diverse lineages that Heiner Fruehauf has been exposed to during 3 decades of herbal studies: i.e. concrete pulse information for classical Shanghan lun formulas in the highly practical pulse system transmitted by Drs. Zeng Rongxiu and Tian Heming; unique formulas from the Fire Spirit School of Sichuan herbalism, as well as remedies from the Raise and Descend School of the 17^th century master Huang Kunzai transmitted by Dr. Wu Sheng’an.