Hi Lorraine, thanks for this great video! I am going to make some honey pills soon. Wondering what the indication is for making large pills you chew like you made vs smaller ones you just swallow? Thanks in advance :)
Thanks! I have 3 answers why things are made into a specific form. 1. Make medicines in the form they were originally written. 2. Make them in a form that you or your patient want to take it in. 3. This video will discuss the answer in terms of qi. th-cam.com/video/-XXP8IwI7as/w-d-xo.html
As a Kung Fu practitioner, I've recently gotten into the 跌打 side of the art, including making our family's traditional medicines, and I have to say this video was an excellent and informative resource for someone just learning how to make the honey pills. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Sorry, I made this video quite a while ago. Did I mention a book? What did I say about it? (Please don't make me watch myself talking if I don't need to.)
The formula is froom Jingui Yaolue, but I researched this formula in many old books. I believe I used Xue Ji's version of the recipe. He was a Ming dynasty doctor. Sorry, I just saw your comment.
Can you say what the herbs are in English and where we could get them? My husbands on blood thinners right now and he's having a really hard time staying warm. I've heard several people comment on it this year. I myself have had difficulties staying warm and I'm always in fuzzy pj's ha-ha. Thanks for showing this process. I used to do stuff like this just to make some herbs taste better. Except I used Lactose sugar pills, and they absorbed some of the liquid medicines.
My videos are really for practitioners and students of Chinese medicine. You should consult a practitioner and not get medical advice off the internet. Herbs can have side effects, especially some o f the ones in this formula. Besides that, some of these herbs don't really have English names. They come from China and are not common in the west. Sorry.
@@LorraineWilcox Oh don't worry I thoroughly research the effects of medicine from my old medical books. I have some old medical books from the 1900's and the 1870's. I study herbology. In fact, I was taught traditional medicine from a woman who learned from native Americans in Alaska. She taught me how to use vodka to herbs that have been extracted and you take a drop of that and put it in a vial of vodka and beat it 100 times on your hand to break down the molecular structure of the herbs then you take one drop of that and add it to another vial of vodka and do the same process if its 50c's that means it's been broken down this way 50 times. Needless to say, I research any medicines that I find for a few years before I try them. My husband is allergic to marshmallow root, so we don't use that in any of our medicines even though it's good for the hormones and oral health. Could you write it in its Chinese name so I could look up the herbs? I actually have friends who are nature path doctors, and they do this stuff as well. My mom is also studying acupressure points and such with the meridian lines. The doctor that she's studying under makes medicine like this. So, I have other resources that's studied Chinese medicine in depth that I could ask before making an executive decision. I was just curious about the herbs and such that you used. It's a hobby of mine to study traditional medicine making. I never sell any of my medicines and them strictly for personal use just like you use them. But I'm always looking at ways to help situations be easier if breathing and meditation exercises don't work. Besides I don't even have a license to sell or practice these.
How do you think about the toxicity of prepared Fu Zi in honey-pill format? I'm accustomed to prescribing long cook times for decoction under the assumption that even prepared Fu Zi needs to be cooked for a long time in order to be safe. But in the case of Ba Wei Wan and Fu Zi Li Zhong Wan, the Fu Zi has negligible exposure to heat...
Yeah, its a question. But that is the recipe as it has been used for 1800 years. The fuzi is already processed, which reduces the toxicity. In decoctions, it is cooked in advance of the other herbs. But in honey pills, it is not further cooked. I don't know about the legal liability if treating others, but I do know that the formula did wonders for me with no side effects.
This article (poorly translated) says the antidote for fuzi toxicity is a decoction of gancao100g, tufuling 50g, and mung beans 50g. www.aacmaonline.com/en/%E5%AD%A6%E6%9C%AF%E6%B4%BB%E5%8A%A8/understanding-the-chinese-medical-herb-aconite-fuzi/
@@LorraineWilcox Thanks for your reply! And great links! Do you have any idea where the long boil recommendation comes from? Is it a modern biochemically influenced recommendation, or is it found in classical texts? I know that some formulas (like from SHL) were supposedly written with unprocessed fu zi. I wonder if by boiling it for so long I'm actually reducing its medical efficacy... Of course I can't experiment on myself because I already have plenty of internal heat! I have side effects to fu zi at normal dosage even with the long boil. Thanks again! Do you think you'll start making videos again soon? I miss seeing your new experiments. I'd love to see some about the basic pao zhi techniques. Specifically, I've never been able to figure out to my satisfaction the difference between wine-washed (jiu xi) and wine-fried, or if there is a difference at all.
@@jamesmohebali Thanks for your kind words! I would have to research when recipes started discussing long boils of fuzi... if I remember, I'll take a look tomorrow. As for making more videos... I made temporarily ran out of new projects, but here and there I come across something new for me. I have not done a lot of paozhi videos. Maybe I should do them.
Thank you so much Lorraine , for the longest time i was searching the pill dough recipe for my patients, you are a blessing from
Heaven and Earth
Hhahahahahahaha, looooove the cat !!!! Wondeful video, thank you Lorraine 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing this!
Hi Lorraine, thanks for this great video!
I am going to make some honey pills soon.
Wondering what the indication is for making large pills you chew like you made vs smaller ones you just swallow? Thanks in advance :)
Thanks! I have 3 answers why things are made into a specific form. 1. Make medicines in the form they were originally written. 2. Make them in a form that you or your patient want to take it in. 3. This video will discuss the answer in terms of qi. th-cam.com/video/-XXP8IwI7as/w-d-xo.html
Nice classic pills, good job, stay healthy Dear Lorraine!
As a Kung Fu practitioner, I've recently gotten into the 跌打 side of the art, including making our family's traditional medicines, and I have to say this video was an excellent and informative resource for someone just learning how to make the honey pills.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
What book are you referencing?
Sorry, I made this video quite a while ago. Did I mention a book? What did I say about it? (Please don't make me watch myself talking if I don't need to.)
The formula is froom Jingui Yaolue, but I researched this formula in many old books. I believe I used Xue Ji's version of the recipe. He was a Ming dynasty doctor. Sorry, I just saw your comment.
Can you say what the herbs are in English and where we could get them? My husbands on blood thinners right now and he's having a really hard time staying warm. I've heard several people comment on it this year. I myself have had difficulties staying warm and I'm always in fuzzy pj's ha-ha. Thanks for showing this process. I used to do stuff like this just to make some herbs taste better. Except I used Lactose sugar pills, and they absorbed some of the liquid medicines.
My videos are really for practitioners and students of Chinese medicine. You should consult a practitioner and not get medical advice off the internet. Herbs can have side effects, especially some o f the ones in this formula. Besides that, some of these herbs don't really have English names. They come from China and are not common in the west. Sorry.
@@LorraineWilcox Oh don't worry I thoroughly research the effects of medicine from my old medical books. I have some old medical books from the 1900's and the 1870's. I study herbology. In fact, I was taught traditional medicine from a woman who learned from native Americans in Alaska. She taught me how to use vodka to herbs that have been extracted and you take a drop of that and put it in a vial of vodka and beat it 100 times on your hand to break down the molecular structure of the herbs then you take one drop of that and add it to another vial of vodka and do the same process if its 50c's that means it's been broken down this way 50 times. Needless to say, I research any medicines that I find for a few years before I try them. My husband is allergic to marshmallow root, so we don't use that in any of our medicines even though it's good for the hormones and oral health. Could you write it in its Chinese name so I could look up the herbs? I actually have friends who are nature path doctors, and they do this stuff as well. My mom is also studying acupressure points and such with the meridian lines. The doctor that she's studying under makes medicine like this. So, I have other resources that's studied Chinese medicine in depth that I could ask before making an executive decision. I was just curious about the herbs and such that you used. It's a hobby of mine to study traditional medicine making. I never sell any of my medicines and them strictly for personal use just like you use them. But I'm always looking at ways to help situations be easier if breathing and meditation exercises don't work. Besides I don't even have a license to sell or practice these.
How do you think about the toxicity of prepared Fu Zi in honey-pill format? I'm accustomed to prescribing long cook times for decoction under the assumption that even prepared Fu Zi needs to be cooked for a long time in order to be safe. But in the case of Ba Wei Wan and Fu Zi Li Zhong Wan, the Fu Zi has negligible exposure to heat...
Yeah, its a question. But that is the recipe as it has been used for 1800 years. The fuzi is already processed, which reduces the toxicity. In decoctions, it is cooked in advance of the other herbs. But in honey pills, it is not further cooked. I don't know about the legal liability if treating others, but I do know that the formula did wonders for me with no side effects.
pubmed article on aconite toxicity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19514874/
This article (poorly translated) says the antidote for fuzi toxicity is a decoction of gancao100g, tufuling 50g, and mung beans 50g. www.aacmaonline.com/en/%E5%AD%A6%E6%9C%AF%E6%B4%BB%E5%8A%A8/understanding-the-chinese-medical-herb-aconite-fuzi/
@@LorraineWilcox Thanks for your reply! And great links! Do you have any idea where the long boil recommendation comes from? Is it a modern biochemically influenced recommendation, or is it found in classical texts? I know that some formulas (like from SHL) were supposedly written with unprocessed fu zi. I wonder if by boiling it for so long I'm actually reducing its medical efficacy...
Of course I can't experiment on myself because I already have plenty of internal heat! I have side effects to fu zi at normal dosage even with the long boil. Thanks again! Do you think you'll start making videos again soon? I miss seeing your new experiments. I'd love to see some about the basic pao zhi techniques. Specifically, I've never been able to figure out to my satisfaction the difference between wine-washed (jiu xi) and wine-fried, or if there is a difference at all.
@@jamesmohebali Thanks for your kind words! I would have to research when recipes started discussing long boils of fuzi... if I remember, I'll take a look tomorrow. As for making more videos... I made temporarily ran out of new projects, but here and there I come across something new for me. I have not done a lot of paozhi videos. Maybe I should do them.