Chinese Materia Medica

Chinese herbal medicine has been used as one of main instrument for Chinese people to combat and prevent diseases for thousands of years. The accumulation of valuable herbal knowledge has been increased, and formed a set of theoretical system of Chinese medicine. Chinese Materia Medica is one of TCM fundamental course that devotes to the collecting, processing, performance and function, efficacy and application methods of all kinds of Chinese medicine. You will learn four natures, five flavors, ascending, descending, floating and sinking of Chinese herbs. You will have the knowledge of the herbal meridian tropism, toxicity, combination, incompatibility, dosage and administration of herbs and so on through this course too. It is live scenes from International Institute Curriculum of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese medicine. It is taught by very experienced Chinese Herbology instructor - Dr. Hu. There are original 72 study hours in Chinese Materia Medica course. After our editing and operating, there are total about 46 hours (2760 minutes) in the course, and it has been divided into 35 course wares. Original there are 23 Chapters in the course study. Due to time constraints, Chapter 17 Anthelmintic Herbs does not involve. 107 Chinese herbs have been included in the course.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 The Concept of Chinese Medicine

Chapter 2 The Sources

Chapter 3 Processing of Chinese medicinal herbs
---Section 1 Purpose of Drug Processing
---Section 2 Methods of Drug Processing

Chapter 4 Properties and Actions of Chinese Medicinal Herbs
---Section 1 Four Natures
---Section 2 Five Flavors
---Section 3 Ascending, descending, floating and sinking
---Section 4 Meridian Tropism
---Section 5 Toxicity

Chapter 5 Drug Combination

Chapter 6 Incompatibility of Drugs

Chapter 7 Dosage and Administration

Chapter 8 Exterior-releasing Drug

Chapter 9 Heat-clearing Drug
---Section 1 Heat-clearing and Fire-purging Drug
---Section 2 Heat-clearing and Dampness-drying Drug
---Section 3 Heat-clearing and Toxin-relieving Drug
---Section 4 Heat-clearing and Blood-cooling Drug
---Section 5 Clearing Deficient Heat

Chapter 10 Downward Draining Herbs

Chapter 11 Wind-dampness Dispelling Herbs

Chapter 12 Damp-resolving Drug

Chapter 13 Damp-draining Diuretic
---Section 1 Edema-alleviating Diuretic
---Section 2 Stranguria-relieving Drug
---Section 3 Damp-excreting anti-icteric Drug

Chapter 14 Interior-Warming Drugs
Chapter 15 Qi-regulating Drugs

Chapter 16 Herbs that reduces food stagnation

Chapter 18 Hemostatic Drug    
---Section 1 Blood – cooling hemostatic
---Section 2 Stasis-resolving hemostatic   
Chapter 19  HERBS THAT INVIGORATE THE BLOOD

Chapter 20  Herbs that Transform Phlegm and Stop Coughing

Chapter 21 Substances that Calm the Spirit

Chapter 22 Liver-calming and interior wind –subsiding drugs

Chapter 23 Tonic Herbs

Notebook: In order to achieve better learning results, we recommend you to complete the studying of TCM diagnosis before start with our Chinese Materia Medica course.

Users can purchase the course in two ways:
1) 15% off for a whole set of purchase, now only US$535. Original price is US$630.  

2) Original sale price for per courseware purchase: