Western Herbs According to Traditional Chinese Medicine

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A Practitioner's Guide

By Thomas Avery Garran

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This comprehensive guide bridges Western herbalism with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), offering 59 detailed monographs of Western herbs used within the TCM framework. It categorises herbs by TCM principles such as resolving the exterior or regulating blood, providing information on energetics, function, channels entered, dosages, preparations, and contraindications. The author, Thomas Avery Garran, shares clinical insights on modifying traditional Chinese herbal formulae using Western plants, supplemented by colour photographs and a Western Analogs appendix linking 40 Chinese medicinals to Western species.
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This book is ideal for practitioners and students of Chinese medicine seeking to expand their herbal repertoire with Western herbs, herbalists curious about integrating different traditions, and knowledgeable self-help readers interested in Chinese and Western botanical medicine.

This is the first book to guide practitioners of Chinese medicine in the use of Western herbs. Including 58 monographs of common Western healing herbs, and detailing how each plant is used clinically, it explains how to combine and modify the standard TCM formulas to non-Chinese herbs.

Description

The ever-growing number of Chinese medicine practitioners in the West has brought about an amalgamation of many styles of Chinese medicine and various other forms of medicine from around the world. Western Herbs According to Traditional Chinese Medicine addresses the increasing demand for knowledge of how to integrate plants from outside the standard Chinese materia medica into the fold of Chinese medical practices in the West.

It is the first in-depth guide to using Western herbs exclusively according to the theories, diagnoses, and treatments of traditional Chinese medicine that harmonises the unique terminology and theories of TCM with other botanical medicines. The book contains 59 monographs, illustrated with full-colour photographs, of herbs commonly used by Western herbalists. Each herb is grouped by the basic categorisation for medicinals in Chinese medicine, such as Herbs that Resolve the Exterior and Herbs that Regulate Blood.

The monographs detail the energetics, function and indication, channels entered, dosage and preparation, and contraindications of each plant. The author also explains how to use the herbs to modify standard formulae used in everyday Chinese herbal medicine, based on his own clinical experience.

An appendix of Western Analogs for Chinese Herbs further highlights 40 Chinese medicinals that have related species growing in the West.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

David Winston, RH(AHG), praises the book as the first authoritative work to integrate Western herbs into Traditional Chinese Medicine safely and effectively, enhancing practitioners’ capabilities. Making Scents recommends it for practitioners, students, and self-help users alike, while The Midwest Book Review highlights it as essential for any herbal medicine collection, noting its valuable indexing of Chinese formulas adapted to Western herbs.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781594771910

Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 February 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Healing Arts Press

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 272

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development Thomas Avery Garran

About the Author

Thomas Avery Garran, MTOM, L.Ac., is a licensed acupuncturist with a master’s degree in Oriental medicine. He has practiced and taught herbal medicine since 1992. He has been chair of the Department of Herbal Medicine at the Institute of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, and has served on the faculty of the John A. Burns School of Medicine in the Department of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He is currently on leave of absence from teaching while pursuing a degree in Chinese language and ethnobotany at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in Honolulu, where he maintains a private practice in Oriental medicine.