Andy Ellis discusses organic herbs and setting up a raw phramacy

Lorne Brown, Director of www.prodseminars.com and www.acubalance.ca interviews Andy Ellis of www.springwinddispensary.com on what practitioners need to consider when setting up a raw herb pharmacy. He also touches on how China is making progress in filling the organic herb demands from practitioners working in the west.

Andrew Ellis first studied Chinese medicine with Dr. James Tin Yau So at the New England School of Acupuncture. He left New England in 1983 to study Chinese language in Taiwan and apprenticed with Chinese herbalist Xu Fu-Su there for several years. Later he studied internal medicine and gynecology at the Xiamen Hospital of Chinese medicine. While there, he also specialized in the study of acupuncture with Dr. Shi Neng-Yun and dermatology with Dr. Zhang Guang-Cai. Andy is the founding owner of Spring Wind Herbs in Berkeley, California and has authored, translated, or co-translated several books on Chinese medicine including Grasping the Wind, The Clinical Experience of Dr. Shi Neng-Yun, Notes from South Mountain, and Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine. Andy also co-authored the second edition of Bensky's Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas & Strategies (2nd Ed.)