Professional Corner
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Our professional corner has a variety of articles for practitioners. This material is generally derived from texts, published articles, and lecture notes created by our founder Eric Brand.
Global Trends in Granule Use
How concentrated granules spread from Japanese Kampo to Taiwan and mainland China, how each tradition doses and combines them, and why they are fast becoming the most common way herbal medicine is delivered in the West.
Chinese Medicinal Identification
50+ page introduction from the 2014 book by Prof. Zhao Zhongzhen, introduces the history of Chinese herbal quality discernment, a must read
Changes in Herbal Medicine
How the herbs of the classical texts have changed since the Han Dynasty: shifting botanical identities, substitutes born of scarce resources, and new processing methods, from peony and atractylodes to mu tong and fu zi.
New Articles
- Economic Botany Collections: A source of material evidence for exploring historical changes in Chinese medicinal materials (based on Eric’s PhD research, published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology)
- A Concise Classification of Bencao (published in Chinese Medicine)
- Chinese Medicinal Processing (published in Ethnopharmacology)
- Chinese Medicinal Identification: An Illustrated Approach (50+ page introduction from the 2014 book by Prof. Zhao Zhongzhen, introduces the history of Chinese herbal quality discernment, a must read)
- Establishment of platforms to facilitate the inheritance and innovation of Chinese medicinal authentication (published in the Journal of Japanese Botany, 100th anniversary edition)
- Research assessing variations in ginsenosides based on morphological characteristics (published in the Journal of Ginseng Research)
- Research into the effects of traditional processing methods on heshouwu (published in Frontiers in Pharmacology)
- A field report on Chinese herbal medicines stored in the Natural History Museum of London (article in Chinese)
- Clarifying the Origin of Houzao (a report from our recent research trip to India, published in Chinese Medicine)
More article links
- The formation of daodi medicinal materials
- Notes on formula combining
- Traditional and modern pharmacognosy in TCM and the West
- Preserving the natural and cultural resources of Chinese medicine
- Identification of Chinese Herbs, published in the Journal of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine
- Importance of Pao Zhi, published in the Journal of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine
Articles by others
- A Systematic Study on Confused Species of Chinese Materia Medica in the Hong Kong Market
- Sino-Iranica, a 1919 publication exploring medicinal plant exchange between China and ancient Persia
- Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research in the Post-genomic Era
- World Health Organization’s IST terminology for traditional Asian medicine
- Transmission of foreign medicines via the Silk Road in Medieval China
- Nigel Wiseman’s Complete Chinese-English Term List for Chinese Medicine (official authorized version)