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Lyme Disease: An In-Depth Interview with Heiner Fruehauf

CCM2022-09-07T11:29:43-07:00Tags: chronic disease, chronic parasitism, fuzi (aconite), German, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf, Lyme Disease|

WITH HEINER FRUEHAUF
INTERVIEW BY BOB QUINN,
WITH ERIN MORELAND

In the spring of 2011 Heiner Fruehauf, PhD, LAc sat down with his student and colleague, Bob Quinn, DAOM, LAc to discuss the finer points of “Brain Gu” syndrome, specifically as it pertains to the treatment of Lyme Disease. This discussion is best understood as a follow-up to and elaboration of the ideas presented in Heiner and Quinn’s earlier interview about Gu syndrome published in the fall of 2008 and available in the public part of this website.

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The Flagship Remedy of Chinese Medicine: Reflections on the Toxicity and Safety of Aconite

CCM2024-09-12T15:01:50-07:00Tags: Aconite Papers, Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, classical texts, fuzi (aconite), German, Heiner Fruehauf, Zhang Jingyue|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

In this paper, a seasoned practitioner of classical Chinese herbalism explains how one of the most important herbs in the Chinese materia medica can be used, once properly grown and processed, without the side effects associated with the toxic alkaloid aconitine. Heiner Fruehauf summarizes some of the dramatic lore surrounding the use of the herb aconite (Fuzi) in East and West, while exploring how Chinese medicine practitioners can utilize the herb safely in modern times to treat a wide range of medical conditions.

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A Description of the Therapeutic Uses of Aconite by the Ming Dynasty Scholar-Physician Zhang Jingyue (1583-1640)

CCM2022-09-07T11:25:45-07:00Tags: Aconite Papers, Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, classical texts, fuzi (aconite), German, Heiner Fruehauf, translations, Zhang Jingyue|

BY ZHANG JINGYUE (1583-1640)
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

The flavor of Fuzi is pungent and sweet, and becomes extremely salty if immersed in brine. Its qi is very hot. This herb, therefore, carries within the energy of yang within yang. It is described as toxic. Its (toxic) effect is controlled by Renshen (ginseng), Huangqi (astragalus), Gancao (licorice), Heidou (black beans), Lüxijiao (green rhinozerus horn), Tongbian (human urine), Wujiu (Herba Stenolomae), and Fangfeng (siler).

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Zhang Zhicong (fl. 1619-1674): On Fuzi

CCM2022-09-07T12:04:34-07:00Tags: Aconite Papers, Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, classical texts, fuzi (aconite), German, Heiner Fruehauf, translations, Zhang Zhicong|

BY ZHANG ZHICONG (1610-1674)
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

The flavor of Fuzi is pungent, its qi is warm, and it is extremely toxic. It treats wind cold pathogens that induce coughing and other counterflow issues, wind damp arthritis causing wandering pain and constriction, and knee pain with inability to walk. It breaks up tumors and masses, and heals blood accumulations as well as wounds caused by metal objects. The best Fuzi is produced in Mianzhou in the region of Shu.

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Yang Tianhui: Notes from My Visit to the Fuzi Growing Area of Zhangming County

CCM2022-09-07T12:13:03-07:00Tags: Aconite Papers, aconite toxicity, Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, classical texts, fuzi (aconite), German, Heiner Fruehauf, Sichuan Fire Spirit School, translations|

BY YANG TIANHUI (Song Dynasty, 1039 CE)
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

The following text represents the most detailed pre-modern description of the traditional cultivation of medicinal aconite in China. It was written more than 900 years ago by a Sichuanese official in charge of Zhangming County. Zhangming is situated in the location of today’s Jiangyou County, epicenter of the recent Sichuan earthquake, which has been identified by all ancient materia medica experts as the only place where genuine Chinese aconite should be sourced from.

GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

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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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Fuzi – Aconite (Translations)

CCM2022-09-07T12:39:58-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, classical texts, fuzi (aconite), translations, Zhang Xichun|

BY HUANG GONGXIU, ZHANG XICHUN
(18th and 19th Centuries)
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Aconite primarily enters the vital gate of life (mingmen). Its nutritive essence is pungent and extremely hot. Aconite is purely yang in nature and thus toxic. Its function is to move being confined to one place, so it is known to move through all twelve channels, and there is no place in the body it can not reach.

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Excerpts from Zhang Xichun’s Materia Medica, in Chinese at Heart But Western Where Appropriate: Essays Investigating an Integrated Form of Medicine (Yixue Zhong Zhong Can Xi Lu, 1933)

CCM2021-03-26T12:24:02-07:00Tags: baizhu (atractylodes), banxia (pinellia), chaihu (bupleurum), Chinese herbs, classical texts, dahuang (rhubarb), danggui (angelica), dihuang (rehmannia), fuling/fushen (poria), fuzi (aconite), gancao (licorice), guizhi (cinnamon), huanglian (coptis), mahuang (ephedra), shaoyao (peony), Zhang Xichun|

BY ZHANG XICHUN
(1960-1933)

INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED
BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

This original translation explores the clinical efficacy of twelve important Chinese herbs, and gives an example of the highly personal and narrative way in which scholar clinicians used to relate to medicinal plants in the past. Selected from the herbal compendium of one of the last master physicians of the classical era of Chinese medicine.

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Supporting the Yang: Southwest China’s Aconite Masters

CCM2023-02-15T14:44:09-08:00Tags: fuzi (aconite), Lu Chonghan, Shanghan lun, Sichuan Fire Spirit School, supporting yang|

LU CHONGHAN
Professor, Chengdu University of TCM

Total running time: 85 mins.
Mandarin Chinese, translated into English by Heiner Fruehauf

In this presentation, the main successor of the Sichuan “fire spirit” school of aconite, ginger, and cinnamon usage tells the highly personal story of one of Southwest China’s great Shanghan lineages.

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King of 100 Herbs: The Central Role of Aconite in the Fire Spirit Lineage (3 Parts)

CCM2023-11-06T19:07:21-08:00Tags: Chinese herbs, fuzi (aconite), Liu Lihong, Sichuan Fire Spirit School|

LIU LIHONG

Aconite plays a central role in the classical materia medica, yet is rarely used anymore by Chinese herbalists in modern clinical practice. Dr. Liu Lihong, China's most prominent proponent of yang tonic therapy and a formal disciple of the Fire Spirit Lineage of Southwest China illuminates the rich story of aconite in this lecture. He explains the reasons why it has become a forgotten herb, and what needs to be done to reclaim it as one of the most powerful healing substances in the treatment of difficult and recalcitrant diseases.

Total running time: 180 mins.
Mandarin Chinese, translated into English by Heiner Fruehauf

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