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Chinese herb prescribers : it’s ok to use Mahuang

on December 6th, 2011 in Chinese herbal medicine by

Many practitioners and proprietors of herbal pharmacies are under the mistaken impression that the purchase, storage and prescription of the Chinese herb 麻黃 Mahuang (Ephedra) is illegal.  This is simply not true. I was reminded of this issue by a recent graduate of NCNM, my friend and colleague, Tim Rudowsky.  This is…

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What constitutes a thriving profession : Chinese medicine’s future

on July 30th, 2009 in Profession news and issues by

I’m positively buried in a ton of unbelievably exciting business work, all of which will be coming out in a series of posts sometime in the not-too-distant future. When I’m not working on that stuff, I’m hiding from the brutal heatwave that is currently crouching over my fair city, Portland….

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