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How will a knowledge of the Chinese herbal sciences benefit your clinical practice?

Our website contains over 20 full-length articles on Chinese herbology. The article below will help you explore the differences between clinical Chinese herbology and western, or European, styles of herbalism.

• Introduction to Chinese herbology: "Correct and incorrect ways of choosing herbs". Benefits and pitfalls in choosing and using herbal products. Reveals how and how not to use ginseng and rhubarb root, and contrasts a more symptomatic approach in choosing herbs with a method for matching herbs to whole-body patterns of symptoms and signs.

Have you ever used ginger, cayenne, rhubarb root, ginseng, gingko, ephedra, or daikon radish? Find out how to distinguish correct from incorrect uses of these Chinese herbs:

• "Test your knowledge of common herbs, clinical herbalism" - a short multiple choice quiz that illustrates how to use knowledge of simple symptom-sign patterns to understand indications and contraindications in Chinese herbology.

The quality of both conventional and alternative modes of health care (including TCM herbology) is under assault by corporate obsession with profit-maximization, resulting in deceptive marketing and corruption of regulatory and educational institutions. In the face of such tactics, the following article reveals how to practice TCM herbology ethically and protect your patients/clients from disinformation:

• Orwellian schemes for maximizing health-care industry profits- How these endanger the practice of herbal medicine

These manipulative schemes affect everything from the marketing strategies of herb manufacturers to decisions about educational curriculum at schools of herbal medicine.

Educational programs and continuing education for health professionals

A good way to explore Chinese herbology in depth is to start with the Traditional Chinese Herbal Sciences CD-ROM (self-study reference and self-testing software):

• Sign up for free online access to the beginning chapters of this course and a free, limited version of the herbal database.
• Read reviews and comments by users of the Traditional Chinese Herbal Sciences CD-ROM.
• Read what graduates and other professional herbalists have said about RMHI's educational program and course materials.

RMHI's catalog of courses and publications contains detailed descriptions of courses (international e-learning and residential seminars), schedules and fees, admissions requirements. We've answered many commonly asked questions about professional study on our "How to get started" page. We've also compiled a list of questions to ask to help you evaluate curricula at TCM and herbal schools.

Subscribe to our free email newsletter, RMHI Herbalist Review

RMHI Herbalist Review, sent several times annually, examines current herbal developments and their long-term impact on health and society. Topics include:

• Examples of proper and improper herbal usage;
• Cross-cultural differences in the philosophy of health care;
• TCM perspectives on herbal health care, diet, environmental pollution;
• Politics, philosophy, and history of herbal regulation and its impact on curricula at herbal and TCM schools and professional practice;
• Educational curriculum philosophy;
• Announcements of RMHI course options and publications, special offers.

This newsletter is intended for health professionals and others who may be interested in pursuing clinical herbology as a profession. Others are welcome to subscribe; we trust you will have the intelligence to make up your own mind regarding the ideas and sometimes controversial issues presented.

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