What is Yao Shan Herb Program about?
This is a foundational herb program for both new herbalists and experienced practitioners. The program is presented in 9 Modules through 120 plus hours of self paced online course, high quality video content combined with online synchronous monthly sessions in a supportive cohort. The format helps render the complexities of herbal medicine accessible and digestible online. Students can view the material in succession and look up individual topics, herb profiles or formula breakdowns that they want to see again. This format facilitates the study of a large volume of material while at the same time providing an easy reference tool for students and practitioners for future practice.
This is the course that you wish you had in TCM school!
Fill in the gaps in your Chinese medical education! Be re-inspired with Chinese herbs!
What is the Approach to Studying Herbs?
A format that works for studying Chinese herbs! Hybrid of online self paced with interactive sessions and discussion.
9 Online Modules | 120 Plus Hours Of Essential Herbal Knowledge
High Quality Video
Supportive Cohort of Practitioners
Monthly Interactive Synchronous Meetings
Evan teaches how people learn best!
Self-Paced between Modules - this course is for you and should fit your busy life. Study at the times which suit you best!
Online Videos - High Quality recordings and productions overlays. Visual cues and signatures to help you remember, and lessons on how to study and (gasp!) memorize herbs
Segmented Lectures - divided to make the material easily accessible and digestible. View the material in succession or look up individual topics. You can study a larger volume of material, without being overwhelmed.
Easily Referenced - The format provides an easy reference tool for students and practitioners for future practice. Watch it again!
Mentoring via Synchronous Monthly Meeting - Monthly meetings for Question and Answers, clarifying explanations with case studies and ongoing mentorship. Busy on Sunday evenings? The sessions are recorded for your review if you cannot attend. You can submit questions ahead of the session as well.
Supportive Cohort - Really! Encouragement is there not just from Evan but you will be in a culture of like-minded practitioners studying along side you
Over 112 PDAs (NCCAOM) - Professional Credits for US Practitioners in 9 months of study.
What Will You Learn?
Yao Shan Herb Program Highlights
Evan Includes Many Topics Not Typically Taught
(That does not mean they are not crucial to know!)
In Fact - Evan includes these because they are lightbulbs to understanding!
These are these are the mortar between the bricks!
He designed this course because there was not a comprehensive course that offered study in-depth and easily applied methodology.
He wanted to make a study that was approachable but not reductionist.
Clarity does not have to diminish the dimensions what herbs offer.
Herbs as Living Beings
A naturalist approach lends insight into aspects too often overlooked as herbs are stuffed into categories and abstractions. We study with a focus on how their qi 氣 is expressed through form. This gives greater intimacy with the herbs and it makes memorization easy!
Herbs are not limited. They address more than the physical. Evan looks at the classical texts to to understand the specific resonance various herbs have with disharmony within the psychological and emotional parts of life.
Formulas as Teachers
Formulas have architecture. Their structures teach us about proper relationship of qi and substances.
Formulas function as teachers of treatment strategies. They are transmitters of specific healing intentions/yi 意 and reveal subtle clinical distinctions. Once this is decoded, it allows us greater clarity in diagnosis and treatment and it then becomes easy for us to become skillful modifiers of the formulas.
Evan takes a deep dive into the physiology and pathodynamics behind each formula. Although the teachings are herbal, they are bound to make you think differently as an acupuncturist as well!
Rooted in Diagnostic Skills
Diagnostics are demonstrated throughout the course. Each month students meet online with Evan as a cohort for Q&A and mentorship.
The discussion includes case studies using tongue and pulse presentations to apply the month's online material. The class pulls apart diagnosis into subtle distinctions in diagnostics.
That precision makes this program different.
From the very beginning you are able to integrate the knowledge into your clinical practice and know how to apply the knowledge
Your Instructor
Dr. Evan M. Rabinowitz is the founder of Yao Shan Center for Chinese Medicine in Washington, DC. where he has had an active clinical practice for the last 23 years. He is a professor at Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts, Asheville, North Carolina. Evan served as Director of Chinese Herbal Medicine at the Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) until 2018. During his 8 year tenure he was instrumental in the creation of the University's Masters and Doctorate programs in Oriental Medicine. Previously, he was an instructor and Chinese herbal supervisor at the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture, Gainesville, Florida. He is currently a lecturer at Georgetown University School of Medicine within its Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) program and has been a guest lecturer on Asian medicine and philosophy at various colleges and universities around the United States. Evan studied extensively Jeffrey Yuen for two decades. He is a graduate of the George Washington University (B.A.), Traditional Acupuncture Institute (M.Ac.) and Maryland University of Integrative Health (D.Ac.). He has an active private teaching schedule, offering continuing education for practitioners across the country and internationally. (View his current in-person teaching schedule here)
Example Curriculum
- M1 1 Medicine as Applied Philosophy (20:48)
- M1 2 Tong Qi Xiang Qiu (10:10)
- M1 3 Li Fa Fang Yao part 1 (19:46)
- M1 4 Li Fa Fang Yao part 2 (6:22)
- M1 5 Medicine/Yi is Intention/Yi (21:00)
- M1 6 Herbs Resembling Body Parts (12:07)
- M1 7 Herbs Resembling PF & Color Assciatations (27:08)
- M1 8 Understanding Herbs via Smell (10:22)
- M1 9 Understanding Herbs via Taste (40:22)
- M1 10 Understanding Taste part 2 (7:48)
- M1 11 Thermal Nature of Herbs (9:47)
- M1 12 Zhang Yuan-Su (8:39)
- M1 13 Parts of Plants part 1 (8:09)
- M1 14 Parts of Plants part 2 (14:12)
- M1 15 Light v Heavy, Hollow v Solid; 4 Directions (13:51)
- M1 16 daodi (20:25)
- M1 17 daodi part 2 (14:18)
- M1 18 Three Legendary Emperors; Classification of herbs (17:15)
- M1 19 Hiearchy of Ingredients (33:32)
- M1 20 Xiang-Mutual Relationships (20:56)
- M1 21 Heirachry of Herbs & Dinner Parties (14:04)
- M1 22 Some Questions (13:08)
- M1 23 Weights & Measures (4:00)
- M1 24 Studying Herbs (9:00)
- M1 25 SW5 Deep Roots of the Five Tastes (7:10)
- M1 26 Shen Nong Ben Cao & Tao Hong-Jing (21:44)
- M1 27 Organization of the Text (22:49)
- M1 28 The Sequence: Lingzhi (37:16)
- M1 29 The Sequences: Tian Men Dong (31:02)
- M1 30 The Sequence: Baizhu; Shen-Roots (18:36)
- M1 31 The Five Shen (22:18)
- M1 32 The Five Shen part 2 (20:34)
- M1 33 The Five Shen part 3: Sha Shen, Dan Shen (29:17)
- M1 34 The Five Shen: Xuans Shen (9:49)
- M1 35 Some Questions (6:10)
- M1 36 Alcohol-Spirits Water-Jing (17:28)
- M1 37 Final Clarifications (23:46)
- M1 38 Pulse: Foundational Principles (16:25)
- M1 39 Pulse: L&R Sides (12:52)
- M1 40 Pulse: Assessing Integrity (29:48)
- M1 41 Vectors of Aging (18:01)
- M2 1 Qi: History & Physiology (46:04)
- M2 2 Ren Shen (36:41)
- M2 3a Dang Shen (9:31)
- M2 3b Tai Zi Shen (6:26)
- M2 3c Xi Yang Shen (5:27)
- M2 4 Bai Zhu (18:07)
- M2 5a Gan Cao (20:36)
- M2 5b Fu Ling, Fu Shen (52:46)
- M2 6 Si Jun Zi Tang -Four Gentleman Decoction (45:44)
- M2 7 Ban Xia-Pinellia Rhizoma (22:00)
- M2 8 Chen Pi-Citrus reticulatae (9:50)
- M2 9 Liu Jun Zi Tang-Six Gentleman Decoction (23:16)
- M2 10 Huang Qi-Astragali Radix (75:34)
- M2 11a Chai Hu-Bupleuri Radix (8:32)
- M2 11b Sheng Ma-Cemcifugi Radix (21:59)
- M2 12 Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang-Tonify the Center & Benefit the Qi Decoction (88:26)
- M2 13 Fang Feng-Siler (12:24)
- M2 14 Yu Ping Feng San-Jade Windscreen Powder (55:42)
- M2 15 Regulating Qi/Tiao Qi (45:18)
- M2 16 Chai Hu-Bupleurii Radix (57:10)
- M2 17 Rou Gui-Cinnamoni cortex; Tongue & Pulse Discussion: SP Qi Examples (79:24)
- M2 18 Zhi Shi & Zhi Ke-Auranthii (16:23)
- M2 19a Bai Shao-Peonaea (2:26)
- M2 19b Si Ni San- Four Friged Powder (33:27)
- M2 20 Thoughts on Cornona Virus (March 8, 2020) (34:44)
- M2 21a Bo He-Mentha (9:31)
- M2 21b Xiao Yao San-Rambling Powder (38:57)
- M2 22 XYS Pulse & Tongue Analysis (9:20)
- M2 23 Dan Zhi XYS; Tongue Analysis (29:25)
- M2 24 Qing Pi-Citri reticulatae virde (9:29)
- M2 25 Xiang Fu-Cyperi Rhizoma (70:14)
- M2 26 Chai Hu Shu Gan San- Bupleurum Powder to Spread the LR (29:57)
- M3 1 Blood Fundamental Concepts (72:34)
- M3 2 Tastes & Methods (20:47)
- M3 3 Wuji Blood Model (32:28)
- M3 4 Blood Model GYN Applications & Causes of xuexu (26:01)
- M3 6 Bai Shao (14:11)
- M3 7 Dang Gui (37:44)
- M3 8 Shu Di Huang (17:57)
- M3 9 Chuan Xiong (12:27)
- M3 10 Si Wu Tang (30:27)
- M3 11 SWT Modifications (21:18)
- M3 12 Dang Gui Bu Xue Tang (13:40)
- M3 13 Gan Cao Shao Yao Tang (18:48)
- M3 15 Blood Stasis Etiology (30:54)
- M3 16 Move, Invigorate & Break Blood (51:20)
- M3 17 Tao Ren (31:08)
- M3 18 Hong Hua (10:54)
- M3 19 Yi Mu Cao (26:26)
- M3 20 Chi Shao (4:33)
- M3 21 Horizontal & Vertical Modifications (23:24)
- M3 23 Niu Xi (12:15)
- M3 24 Yan Hu Suo (5:12)
- M3 25 Yu Jin, Jiang Huang, E Zhu (19:39)
- M3 26 San Leng (1:48)
- M3 27 Ru Xiang, Mo Yao (26:28)
- M3 28 Dynamics of the Upper Burner (34:02)
- M3 29 Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang (17:42)
- M3 30 Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang (27:40)
- M3 31 Shao Fu Zhu Yu Tang (19:37)
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