CH6401 Chinese Materia Medica 3
This is the third course in a series that includes a comprehensive study of the Chinese materia medica. Chinese herbal medicine principles and theory are covered as well as indications, contraindications, cautions and complications according to modern research. Relevant botany concepts are discussed as well as herb authentication, adulterants and contaminants. This third course focuses on herbs that tonify qi, tonify the blood, nourish the yin, tonify the yang, calm the spirit, expel wind, stabilize and bind, open the orifices and expel parasites, and on other substances for external application.