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!
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!
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