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By Wang Yongyan, Wang Xuefeng, Ma Rong
Chinese Archives for Traditional Chinese Medicine
(Zhonghua Zhongyiyao Xuekan)
Synthesized and Translated by Heiner Fruehauf
National University of Natural Medicine,
College of Classical Chinese Medicine
MARCH 3, 2020
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TCMFP: a novel herbal formula prediction method based on network target’s score integrated with semi-supervised learning genetic algorithms | Briefings in Bioinformatics | Oxford Academic
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Liver fire invading the lung (also called wood-fire torturing metal) is widely seen in various respiratory diseases. In order to understand this patte…
The Importance of Aconite (fuzi) and Teachings From the Sichuan Fire Spirit School (an Interview with Heiner Fruehauf)
With Heiner Fruehauf
National University of Natural Medicine, College of Classical Chinese Medicine
Interview by Bob Quinn
On February 19, 2009 Heiner Fruehauf, Ph.D., L.Ac. sat down with his colleague Bob Quinn, DAOM, L.Ac., to discuss the importance of aconite (fuzi) in classical Chinese medicine. The discussion also
Insomnia and anxiety are typically defined as being yin-deficient conditions in TCM. Due to the depleting effect of our modern lifestyle however, there is usually an underlying yang deficiency present in these patients. Stress can be defined as a situation when we spend our (yang) life-force rather than safeguarding and storing it. The primary problem we have here is therefore one of yang storage.
heavy doses off an herb cause the qi to go to the lower burner, while light doses cause it to go to the upper burner.
Fire School lineage, they said that uprising symptoms like palpitations and dizziness—which, again, is most often caused by improper herb processing—can come from prescribing too small a dose of fuzi. Since fuzi is traditionally charged with drawing the fire of mingmen into the battery of the lower burner, higher doses are more appropriate for this purpose. In the case of the Fire Spirit School physicians, they start with 60 grams and go up to 120-200 grams of aconite per day.
I personally don’t think that extremely high fuzi doses in the amounts I just mentioned are absolutely necessary. In my own clinical practice, I generally prescribe 18-30 grams of these fuzi granules in formulas designed to last a week
owever, if you want to treat severe anxiety, severe insomnia, severe damage to the Heart-Kidney shaoyin layer, severe damage to the taiyin layer that aconite also enters, you need to use higher doses.
Different from the regular definition of these herbs as aromatic appetite enhancers, they are here recognized as key minister herbs for aconite, helping it with the all-important job of getting the yang-qi back into the box
Correct me if I’m wrong, Heiner, but I don’t think the readers of this interview will find Qianyang Dan in Bensky or other formula manuals.
And to be as clear as possible, by real aconite I mean the type that is grown in Jiangyou in the traditional manner and processed according to classical guidelines. Are there any other suppliers for genuine aconite out there that you know of?