Review of Herbal Formulas
Whether you're studying for a semester final, year-end comprehensive test, a clinic entrance exam, or getting ready for boards, this course will help you with all the formulas you need to know.
This course contains videos, handouts, and practice tests going over all of the formulas on the American nationals list.
🌿 TCM Herbology Review
This course was originally designed to help students with their clinic entrance exams (or 2nd year-end comps). But it turns out that the formula list for comps is the same as the formula list for nationals, this course can be used as board prep as well.
💁♀️ Lifetime Access
This is not a subscription. There is no limited access. When you purchase this course, you pay once and you own it forever. And you can take the tests as many times as you want.
📚 Efficient Studying
As we go through each formula, we also discuss the single herbs, dui yao pairs, and zangfu patterns that go along with each one. So it's like you're reviewing several subjects at once.
Example Curriculum
- Introduction & Handouts
- Formulas that Dispel Summerheat (5:52)
- Formulas that Warm Interior Cold (34:10)
- Formulas that Tonify Qi and Blood (41:47)
- Formulas that Tonify Yin and Yang (39:59)
- Formulas that Stabilize and Bind (41:57)
- Formulas that Calm the Spirit (13:32)
- Formulas that Open the Sensory Orifices (10:17)
- Formulas that Reduce Food Stagnation (10:02)
- Formulas that Expel Parasites (6:26)
- Practice Test (60 Questions)
- CALE Handouts
- Formulas that Release the Exterior - CALE (13:25)
- Formulas that Clear Heat - CALE (22:09)
- Formulas that Drain Downward - CALE (29:40)
- Formulas that Harmonize - CALE (28:34)
- Formulas that Warm Interior Cold - CALE (24:05)
- Formulas that Tonify (Qi + Blood) - CALE (30:26)
- Formulas that Tonify (Yin + Yang) - CALE (23:02)
- Formulas that Stabilize and Bind - CALE (16:03)
- Formulas that Calm the Spirit - CALE (8:29)
- Formulas the Reduce Food Stagnation - CALE (5:46)
- Formulas that Regulate Qi - CALE (12:30)
- Formulas that Regulate the Blood - CALE (21:32)
- Formulas that Expel Wind - CALE (12:15)
- Formulas that Treat Dryness - CALE (6:57)
- Formulas that Expel Dampness - CALE (47:55)
- Formulas that Dispel Phlegm - CALE (15:48)
Video Lectures
Each formula category has a video lecture that goes through pattern, indications, ingredients, and dui yao pairs for each formula.
You can can also download the audio version of the lecture to listen to it on the go.
Handouts
Follow along with the handouts. This is a concise table that lets you quickly review each formula, including ingredients (and chief herbs), actions, indications, and the tongue and pulse.
Practice Tests
This course has over 150 practice questions. After you answer each question, and explanation will pop up giving you more information.
Both the test questions and the answer choices are randomized, so each to you hit 'refresh' it's like you're taking a new test.
Which formulas are included?
This course was designed for students taking their second year-end comprehensive exams at my old school. Coincidentally, this list matches with the 162 formulas on the NCCAOM list.
So this course covers those 162 formulas, plus a few extra. If you're taking the Pan-Canadian exam (287 formulas), then sorry, this doesn't have all the formulas you need.
Frequently Asked Questions
When does this course start?
This is a self-paced course. You can start whenever you want and take as much time as you need with each section. You can repeat sections as many times as you want.
Which formulas are included?
This course goes over the 162 formulas on the NCCAOM list, plus a couple extra that might show up on year-ends. Sorry, this doesn't go over all 287 formulas on the Pan-Canadian list.
How long do I have access to this course?
Once you sign up, you have it forever. You purchase the course once, there's no subscription fee, and you have access to the course forever. You can use it now while you're in school, then come back again when you're studying for boards.
Will this course ever be updated?
Yes, I am planning to keep adding new content, handouts, and practice questions. When the course updates, you will have access to the new material at no extra charge.