Powdered Formulations: The Art of Herbal Preparation

Course overview

Lorraine Wilcox is an acupuncturist who reads medical Chinese and likes to mine the old books for techniques and treatments that can be brought into the modern clinic. Whether it is moxibustion or herbal preparations, Lorraine often turns her kitchen into a lab and works out the way these things were prepared and used in the past. In this course, Lorraine focuses on herbal preparations of powdered formulas and shares how it is made, specific characteristics, and uses. Formulas presented are Ping Wei San (Calm the Stomach Powder), Zhi Sou San (Stop Coughing Powder), and Yin Qiao San (Honeysuckle and Forsythia Powder).