Pulse and Tongue Evaluation
with Master Herbalist Matthew Wood
Pulse and Tongue evaluation dates back several thousand years. Practitioners of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine use it as a tool to help determine the condition of disease or health of an individual. The tongue and pulse show a person's state of health. It paints a picture of the internal situation a person is dealing with at any given moment. Matthew has been practicing herbalism for 30 years - pulse and tongue evaluation for 25 years. As the author of Traditional Western Herbalism and Pulse Evaluation, co-written by Francis Bonaldo and Phyllis Light, he is one of the foremost experts in translating these practices into tools for the Western herbalist!
The pulse evaluation methods taught are based on both Chinese and Greek antecedents. We focus on the basic, simple, important pulses showing basic tissue states:
Matthew Wood's tongue evaluation is based on Chinese antecedents with two important additions from Ayurveda:
Throughout we will refer to specific indications for herbs, mostly Western.
& Pulse Evaluation
Matthew Wood, Francis Bonaldo, & Phyllis Light
10 hours - Mostly Clinical Skills and some Materia Medica
Welcome Message
P&T 2017 - Day 1.1
P&T 2017 - Day 1.2 - Tongue Evaluation (beginning)
P&T 2017 - Day 1.3
P&T 2017 - Day 1.4 - Pulse (beginning)
P&T 2017 - Day 1.5 - Lyme Disease
P&T 2017 - Day 2.1
P&T 2017 - Day 2.2
P&T 2017 - Day 2.3
P&T 2017 - Day 2.4
P&T 2017 - Day 2.5
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