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If I found cases, I would be excited to do that. Unfortunately, I haven't found them. especially not in any ancient medical books. Matthew Sommer (an academic) is writing a book about it. His books are amazing. And of course, there are a few historical stories, like the cut sleeve. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Jiulang en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Xian en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_China

Sorry, this was from three years ago and I don't remember. Really high quality will be expensive and I am on a budget. Anyway, this store within amazon is pretty legit. Maybe I bought it from them. www.amazon.com/stores/IncenseHouse/page/09ECD82D-2AAB-4C6A-9D3F-CC2C34504AC5?ref_=ast_bln&store_ref=bl_ast_dp_brandLogo_sto

This is the same people on ebay: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trkparms=folent%3Aincensehouse2011%7Cfolenttp%3A1&_trksid=p3542580.m47492.l71970&_ssn=incensehouse2011

Same people in Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/IncenseHouse

And here is their store in Taiwan: www.incensehouse.com.tw/about/1

​@@LorraineWilcox Thanks for all the links! Yeah, I'm also on a budget. ;)

Glad you enjoy it, Isaac

Yeah, I use the instant pot to cook herbs sometimes. Not as good for highly aromatic herbs or delicate herbs because the the heat and pressure, but very useful for most decoctions. Do you have a specific question?

Yes! I can usually get two uses of herbs when cooked on stove top. For pressure cooker, I am assuming only one use is best? For herbs like Bo he, Jing jie, Jin yin hua - I do include these in formulas with pressure cooker. I don’t want to over complicate the process (for compliance) do you have any sense of how much of a detriment this is to volatile compounds / suggestions on how to handle. Also, do you think pressure cooker is more potent than stove top? This is why I started using it in the first place. Thank you!!

In the pressure cooker, the liquid doesn't get cooked down, so after soaking the herbs, add in the amount of liquid you want to end up with. If you would cook it twice on the stovetop, add enough liquid for two cookings, It is easier to explain with an example. Let's say you want to cook herbs on the stovetop and so you add two cups of water and cook it down to 1.5 cups. Then you cook it a second time to get another 1.5 cups. In this case, after soaking the herbs (because they absorb water), have three cups of water in the pressure cooker, but only cook it once. I hope that is clear.

I don't know what to say about the delicate herbs. You can either over-cook them in the pressure cooker, or add them in to steep after the pressure is down enough to open it. Neither solution is probably ideal.

One thought... you could add the delicate herbs in after cooking in granule form. Not saying I love this idea, but it might be worth an experiment.

Thats Zetian. She does what she wants.

She really jumped back when she sniffed the ginger. I didn't notice that when I was recording it.

I get way too many notifications from them. Maybe I am not getting the ones I care about.

There is a link in the video description to another video for making Sangma Wan. But Many traditional Chinese formulas were meant to be made as honey pills. Shenqi Wan, Liuwei Dihuang Wan, etc. You can google the name of a formula to get a recipe.

​@@LorraineWilcox ok i saw the link. May i make some pill mass with arabic gum, honey, water, sugar? Lemme know

I don't know, never tried. Why don't you want to follow the recipe? If you are using honey anyway, why do you want to add sugar? Why add water and arabic gum? Anyway, I try to follow the old ways. If you want to experiment this way, you will find out if it works.

@@LorraineWilcox ok. Yes you're righ! I told you some ingredients in case you know some recipe. In old recipe of Pharmacopoeia some pills are made with arabic gum. I wanna do old recipe like you👍

I have never seen arabic gum listed in a recipe for a pill in the old Chinese medicine texts.

Haha, cannot explain anything like that in a comment here. It is too broad a question. But basically, the two sequences are used for different things. Post-heaven is used for doing stuff in the real world, for example setting up a grave or house (fengshui). Pre-heaven is often used for talismans or things that are timeless. Of course, there are exceptions. The trigrams are like a deck of cards. Just like different card games have different rules, so do different uses of the trigrams. Sometimes pre-and post-heaven are superimposed on each other, but mostly each has ways it is used. and not both at the same time. In medicine, we would tend to favor post-heaven as disease happens within time and space.

Thank you that was a wonderful explanation. Its almost like the pre-heaven describes another dimension with slightly differ laws. Sometimes I wonder if referring to the pre-heaven sequence might be useful related to the Qi Jing Ba mai.

There are two methods that use time to select the opening points of the 8EV. These 8 points are associated with the 8 trigrams, but those two ancient methods use the post heaven order. I think seeing the 8EV as pre-heaven is more influenced by some modern teachers in the west, like Jeffrey Yuan. While of course chong and ren have some pre-heaven aspects, not all 8 do, if you read between the lines in the old books. For example, what do the qiao and wei vessels have to do with pre-heaven? Nothing in the old books.

Glad you liked it!

I do it at 18:05 in this video. Is that not what you are looking for?

I don't remember where I got this moxa. I often buy it from KMsupplies.com

Ghost bed....yeah interesting...?

That is an Instant Pot. You can search online form it.

To be honest, I don't really know. But coconut butter has a lot of coconut solids in it, where as cocoa butter doesn't. Coconut oil would be impossible because it is not hard at room temperature. Anyway, you could experiment...

Thank you so much!

Thanks Keith!

I love this!!!

It should have no flavoring, so something like vodka is good. Gin has flavoring so it is not good for this.

@@LorraineWilcox tysm :)

@@LorraineWilcox also what if i want to use a fabric made essence for candles?

@@almal3073 All you can do is experiment with a small amount and see if it works.

I don't know the rules of halal, sorry. The alcohol is gone because it is cooked and then dried. All the alcohol evaporates, but it transforms the herb.

Please try to find a practitioner who specializes in these things. I hope you recover quickly.

​@@LorraineWilcox thanks for this videos , its frightening a little because it explained to me the cause of the symptoms that i had already doubted. some of explanations by ancient doctors are almost identical to what i felt was the cause. but its important because there's no other sources that mention this illness. Which is a both a spiritual and energetic illness. Did u happen to read in the ancient books what makes people exposed to gu or gu toxins in first place ? , is it mental/physical impurity ? or bad qi illness , or bad magic spells ?

@@matamatosa8898 What I found is in the videos. I am glad it makes sense to you, but I don't have more to add.