The aim of this tour is to deepen your familiarity with Chinese herbal medicine. Most of us learn the name of herb and its clinical usage but have not seen it before. Others might have seen the herb, but are not sure whether it is a root, stem, bark or how it has been processed.Many herbs arrive to our clinic pharmacy already cut or powdered and packed so we wouldn’t recognize the herb in its whole form. We would never distinguish a good quality herb from an inferior one, and certain will not recognize the herb if it is growing in our backyard!
We hope that after this tour, you will have a much better understanding of Chinese herbal medicine.
On Sunday, we will take a 7-hour train ride from Nanjing to Anhui province to explore a very famous herbal area with the biggest herbal market in all China. The aim of this trip is to visit the market and learn more about the herbs ON-SITE.
We will see many classes of herbs first-hand, including:
a host of minerals and stones that most TCM students have not yet seen.
animal pucts like antlers, placentas, geckos, leeches, centipedes and other bugs.
a plethora of unique herbal flowers teas that possess blood or qi moving qualities, many of which you’d probably never heard of.
take a trip to the herbal farms to see the whole plant actually growing in the field.
go rural and visit a local farmer’s home and eat with his family.
visit a Chinese medicine museum as well as Hua Tuo’s old home.
This trip will enrich your understanding of the herbs you use in your practice. After experiencing herbs first-hand in the field and in the market, your understanding and connection to the herbs you use in practice will go much deeper than what you get from the textbook or by looking at them in the pharmacy. It will also make you aware of some pertinent issues in herb usage, e.g. the use of animal products, the processing of herbs, etc.On top of that, this tour is also a great opportunity to get ‘behind the scenes’ to meet locals and visit rural villages. This is something which most foreigners do not get to see when they come for a short trip to China.
Due to additional requests, we are organizing herb tours for three groups this year in 2011. Write to us to inquire more.
The First of May Tour
The Early August Tour
The Early September Tour: this is specially created for participants of our “Applied Gynecology and Acupuncture Series.”
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