While taking a few days of rest in South Wales, I chanced upon a lovely gem of a garden up the road from where I'm staying. Cowbridge Physic Garden sits in the centre of Cowbridge, a pretty market town in the Vale of Glamorgan.
I've always been interested in medicinal plants, but now my interest is professional because I recently started a three-year Chinese herbal medicine programme with White Crane Academy. It's a rigorous course and turns out competent, confident Chinese herbal medicine practitioners. It's early days for me as I start learning 300+ individual herbs from the materia medica (body of collected knowledge) of Chinese herbal medicine. But I know enough to recognise the amazing therapeutic value of the dandelion (Latin name: taraxacum mongolicum; Chinese name: Pu Gong Ying). This humble plant helps reduce swellings and abscesses in the interior (e.g. tonsillitis and mastitis) and the exterior (e.g. acne and eczema). Fabulous!
I've always been interested in medicinal plants, but now my interest is professional because I recently started a three-year Chinese herbal medicine programme with White Crane Academy. It's a rigorous course and turns out competent, confident Chinese herbal medicine practitioners. It's early days for me as I start learning 300+ individual herbs from the materia medica (body of collected knowledge) of Chinese herbal medicine. But I know enough to recognise the amazing therapeutic value of the dandelion (Latin name: taraxacum mongolicum; Chinese name: Pu Gong Ying). This humble plant helps reduce swellings and abscesses in the interior (e.g. tonsillitis and mastitis) and the exterior (e.g. acne and eczema). Fabulous!
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