101 Ways to Work out on the Ball or Western Herbs According to Traditional Chinese Medicine

101 Ways to Work out on the Ball: Sculpt Your Ideal Body with Pilates, Yoga and More

Author: Elizabeth Gillies

A full-color photographic book with 101 different moves you can do with an exercise ball. Exercise balls are cropping up in gyms all over the world, are sold in places like Kmart and Target, and are becoming the latest fitness craze. The thing is, what the heck do you do with the ball once you've bought it?

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Western Herbs According to Traditional Chinese Medicine

Author: Thomas Avery Garran

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE / HERBS

“Each continent has unique herbs that have no equivalent elsewhere. I know of no Western herb equal to the Chinese herb tian ma (Gastrodia) for treating dizziness and epileptic seizures. Likewise, I find few herbs in the Chinese materia medica to rival saw palmetto, milk thistle, or fresh oat. Adding to one’s “toolbox” of active medicines enhances any practitioner’s abilities to more effectively treat patients. Thomas Avery Garran has written the first truly authoritative work on understanding and using Western herbs based on the TCM model. This book is a major achievement, allowing anyone trained in Chinese medicine to effectively and safely add Western herbs to their daily practice.”
--David Winston, RH(AHG), author of Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief and Winston and Kuhn’s Herbal Therapy and Supplements

“Thomas Avery Garran has definitively integrated a cornucopia of herbs from North America and other Western countries into the system of traditional Chinese medicine.”
--Michael Tierra, author of Planetary Herbology and founder of the American Herbalists Guild

The ever-growing number of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in the West has brought about an amalgamation of many styles of Chinese medicine and various other medical practices from around the world. This book addresses the increasing demand for knowledge of how to integrate plants from outside the standard Chinese materia medica into the fold of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It is the first in-depth guide to Western herbs that isbased exclusively on the theories, diagnoses, and treatments of traditional Chinese medicine and that successfully harmonizes the unique terminology and theories of TCM with other botanical medicines.

The book contains 58 monographs, illustrated with full-color photographs, of herbs commonly used by Western herbalists. Each herb is grouped by the basic categorization for medicinals in Chinese medicine, such as Herbs that Resolve the Exterior and Herbs that Regulate Blood. The monographs detail the energetics, functions and indications, channels entered, dosage and preparation, and contraindications of each plant. Using his own clinical experience, the author also explains how to combine herbs to increase their effectiveness and how to use Western herbs to modify standard formulas used in everyday Chinese herbal medicine. An appendix of Western analogues for Chinese herbs further highlights 40 Chinese medicinals that have related species growing in the West.

THOMAS AVERY GARRAN, MTOM, L.Ac., is a licensed acupuncturist with a master’s degree in Oriental medicine. He has practiced and taught herbal medicine since 1992. He has been chair of the Department of Herbal Medicine at the Institute of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, and has served on the faculty of the John A. Burns School of Medicine in the Department of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He is currently on leave of absence from teaching while pursuing a degree in Chinese language and ethnobotany at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in Honolulu, where he maintains a private practice in Oriental medicine.

Table of Contents:

FOREWORD BY MICHAEL TIERRA, L.AC., OMD

FOREWORD BY Z’EV ROSENBERG, L.AC.

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE
METHODS AND MEASURES

UNDERSTANDING WESTERN HERBS FROM THE CHINESE MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE

The Construction and Use of a Materia Medica
Eastern vs. Western Ways of Working with Herbs
Western Herbal Preparations
Herb Quality
Cultivated vs. Wildcrafted Herbs

HERBAL MEDICINE MAKING

Infusions and Decoctions
Tinctures, Fluidextracts, and Liquid Extracts
Poultices
Suppositories
Infused Oils
Salves
Powdered Extracts
Mix-Frying with Solid and Liquid Adjuvants

PART TWO
THE MATERIA MEDICA

HERBS THAT RESOLVE THE EXTERIOR
HERBS THAT CLEAR HEAT
HERBS THAT PRECIPITATE
HERBS THAT DRAIN DAMPNESS
HERBS THAT DISPEL WIND AND DAMPNESS
HERBS THAT TRANSFORM PHLEGM AND STOP COUGHING
HERBS THAT AROMATICALLY TRANSFORM DAMPNESS
HERBS THAT RECTIFY QÌ
HERBS THAT REGULATE BLOOD
HERBS THAT WARM THE INTERIOR AND EXPEL COLD
HERBS THAT SUPPLEMENT
HERBS THAT STABILIZE AND BIND
HERBS THAT CALM THE SPIRIT
HERBS THAT EXTINGUISH WIND

APPENDICES

I. WESTERN ANALOGUES OF CHINESE HERBS

II. INDEX OF HERBS BY COMMON (ENGLISH) NAME

III. INDEX OF HERBS BY LATIN NAME

IV. GLOSSARY OF CHINESE MEDICAL TERMS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Thomas Avery Garran, MTOM, L.Ac., is a licensedacupuncturist with a master’s degree in Oriental medicine. He has practiced and taught herbal medicine since 1992. He has been chair of the Department of Herbal Medicine at the Institute of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, and has served on the faculty of the John A. Burns School of Medicine in the Department of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He is currently on leave of absence from teaching while pursuing a degree in Chinese language and ethnobotany at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in Honolulu, where he maintains a private practice in Oriental medicine.