Taste, Temperature, Channel, & Direction - Basic Properties of Herbs in TCM | Intro to Herbology

[@kirstygregory1866]

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You are simply the best teacher I've ever found. Thank you for everything.

[@cutcoamanda]

As a student starting herbs in OM, this is super helpful! I love how it is digestible and concise with good examples. Thanks, Nicholas! Love it! :)

[@anokanagan]

Thanks so much for these videos! I can't say how helpful it is to have basic principles explained in a visual way.

[@ladjanesouza3771]

Excellent video, thank you so much, Nicholas! I'm starting a course on Chinese herbal medicine and your videos are helping me a lot! You're a great teacher!

[@tcmstudy]

Hey there, glad the videos are helpful!

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[@echo8931]

I really appreciate this information. Shizandra is a herb having more than one attributes. I am trying to make a formula for my condition this explains patterns directions I need to follow. I am happy I found this channel.

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[@Ilovethebush]

@12:00 sour is the flavour of new growth and the colour of new growth is light green.

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[@tcmstudy]

Glad it’s helpful! Are you doing the Herbs Intro class this semester?

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Excellent presentation! Thanks for teaching us!

[@tcmstudy]

Hi David! Glad it was helpful!

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Master, I'm so happy I found you!! I'm currently a lv 2 BSN student, and what you're doing is helping me a lot in getting ready to study TCM in China someday :) I'm really grateful master!

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The Pumpkin Spice must flow! Excellent video, as per usual - and super helpful for my upcoming herb-specific term work - thumbs up! :)

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Very useful informations, Thank you brother.

[@tcmstudy]

Hey Haris, glad it’s helpful!

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This video was super helpful! Thank you so much, can't wait to watch more :)

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[@tcmstudy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@galitalter1078]

Amazing Videos! Makes it super understandable! Thank you!

[@tcmstudy]

Glad it’s helpful!

[@chulaztkna]

I appreciate my intro to herb teacher, and I know she is extremely knowledgeable, but she has a very thick-thick accent that makes it hard to follow along during her lectures. I appreciate your videos so much! this is exactly what I needed to help breakdown lectures. thank you for existing Nicholas!!!

[@tcmstudy]

Hi Fabiola! I'm glad you like the videos. There are handouts on the website as well which might be helpful: tcmstudy.net/herbsintro.php I'll try to make more!

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[@tcmstudy]

Glad they’re helpful!

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[@tcmstudy]

Glad it’s helpful!

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Thank you so very much for this.

[@amemon827]

Hi Nicholas, it's very informative video, it give me a new direction to explore herbs and its properties. I would like to do further studies about it. Could you recommend books on herbs typology?

[@lwhite0901]

Thank you for your videos! I can already feel my stress levels reducing. Any chance you have created, or can make available the herb flashcards i see in the videos?

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Really fascinating way of explinatiin.... thanks a lot..god bless u.

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[@tcmstudy]

Hi Margery! Glad you like the videos!

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Awesome

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great videos they help so much!

[@tcmstudy]

Hi Mary! Glad they're helpful!

[@Ilovethebush]

@4:10 Memory games...WACTD Warming, Activation, Containment, Transformation, Defense. Pathogens try to enter the body and get WACTD (WACKED) by Qi.

[@JA-qm8lj]

HI Nicholas, Thanks so much for your videos. I have a question around sour herbes and acute pathogenic cases. When many people have a wind cold invasion, they turn to lemon drink...will the sour in the lemon potentially lock the pathogen in the body for longer?

[@allthegoodstuff3394]

It's similar to Indian ayurveda... Wherein the herbs have various properties... And the patient to is of a particular personality... Vaat( air) pitta ( fire) kafa( phlegm)

[@allthegoodstuff3394]

In ayurveda... We have sweet sour salty bitter astringent and pungent ( spicy) Of these the others don't need explanation... But astringent is like the taste of an Indian gooseberry or amla...

[@tishpal7373]

Another great video Nicholas !! Thank you!

[@tcmstudy]

Glad you like it!

[@Goddess.7]

Thanks for explaining. Could you recommend a Chinese herbal medicine application or pdf ?

[@tomseevaj9760]

Please do one on blood regulating herb?

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very well presented

[@letzb1112]

Thank You 🙏

[@lorit.6095]

Thank you for the excellent videos. In one of the comments below there was mention of the store bought tablets of herbs (turmeric, cinnamon), when the herbs are prepared in capsules like that, do they keep the herbs' properties?

[@tcmstudy]

I assume so. However, it could be that in the stores they use cinnamon that's grown somewhere other than China (cassia vs. ceylon). I don't know if that gives it different properties or not.

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[@tcmstudy]

Glad it’s helpful!

[@khairulakmal1986]

Hye nicholas, what is the reference text book of tcm medicine in English...i want to learn them..can u suggest which reference books of tcm fundamental, principal and the way to treat patient by diagnosis..

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[@tcmstudy]

You're welcome!

[@frithjofgioertz]

i dont really.get whats the point in.the end about treating a certain Channel if its.unclear whether the herb even treats that channel. anyway.thank you for all the.good Information!

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[@BaileyZLeone]

I want to be a traveling herbalist but i like western and chinese Herbologists ideologies. I’m confused on what to do.

[@BaileyZLeone]

Have you already made a video that talks more about Yin and yang along witch chi? ToT sorry 😐. Okay, tell me if I got this or not. Yin is strictly temperature of the body? And yin is hot? Yin is temperature of an organ? Yang is the same but its Temperature is cold. Is chi the Youthfulness of the Oregon? As in how well it is functioning like a well oiled machine?

[@dilettanter]

Google yin and yang for more details. But i think you got the temperatures of yin and yang reversed, and they cover other aspects too

[@jrobertgadams7766]

I think you haven't been around Western Herbalists for a while .. because even if yes, the idea can be, take ginger for an upset stomach, it is way more than that and we learn also as in TCM Herbology, how to work with the tastes, temperatures, natures and directions. Yes, even in Western Herbalism.

[@jrobertgadams7766]

and i am a TCM Practitioner.

[@tcmstudy]

Oh, that’s interesting. Do the properties fit in with their methods of diagnosis and treatment as well? In this video, I’m mostly speaking about what my American patients understand about herbs through what they see from popular media. When I mention herbs to them, they think of the supplement section at Whole Foods, or things like, “taking cinnamon capsules helps my blood sugar, turmeric is good for inflammation.”

[@jrobertgadams7766]

Yes, they do. If you look into Matthew Wood, Paul Bergner , Sajha and others, they will all go into conditions (patterns) to see what’s what. No one will give Ginko just because it is ‘good for the Brain’. But sure, patients, clients are looking at herbs the same way they are looking at medications. Sad but true. If the Herbalist falls in that trap, it’s over. Happy to say that many understands the need to go beyond the easy way. To work with WHO is in front and not just to give and pay. Appreciate your videos by the way :)

[@dilettanter]

@@jrobertgadams7766 I love Mathew Wood, and Paul Berger,. Thanks of the list, I’ll look into Sajha too and any others you care to list? :) By the way, what does WHO stand for?

[@jrobertgadams7766]

dilettanter the WHO is the patient - client :)

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This i sheching video

[@BaileyZLeone]

? 9:00 you said yin do did you mean yang? or I may be confused somewere.

[@tcmstudy]

Hi Bailey! With acrid herbs, we would be cautious in cases of Qi deficiency and Yin deficiency. Some acrid herbs promote sweating, so long term use might cause loss of Yin-Fluids. And in general, acrid herbs tend to be warm and drying, so there’s a potential they could exacerbate symptoms if the patient is already dry (as in Yin deficiency).

[@personwho4742]

Which book is he referencing at 1:54 ?

[@tcmstudy]

The Huang Di Nei Jing, the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic

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[@BaileyZLeone]

I like how he uses the Chinese saying of things but when you have no idea what he’s talking about I have to Google everything he says. Which just leaves me more confused than when I started.

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Are you on the cough medicine? Your eyes make you look lit.