This 8 day program (from weekend to weekend) is designed to consolidate the knowledge gained during Stage A, converting theoretical and factual knowledge into practical applications in day to day patient care. Various practical facets of herbal treatments will be covered:

1. Herbs Recognition Laboratory: Participants will be trained to recognize common herbs in the Chinese medicine formulary by examining actual samples generally found on the shelves of traditional herbal stores.

2. Herbal Tour: Visit to one or more herbal stores in San Francisco to gain firsthand experience of how herbal prescriptions are filled in the traditional manner. There will be the opportunity to view certain unique medical agents derived from mineral and animal sources, as well as the wide varieties of formula Chinese medicine.

3. Traditional Herbs Preparation and Tasting: The proper way of decocting herbs will be demonstrated and participants will be able to sample various potions (formulae) to acquire firsthand knowledge of what it is like to take herbal medicine the traditional way.

4. Contemporary Herbs Preparation (hands-on workshop): Herbal extracts and concentrates derived from raw herbs with modern technology without significant loss of potency can take the forms of tablets, capsules, powder mixtures and elixirs. The techniques of mixing herbal extracts will be demonstrated. Participants will have the opportunity to formulate and create their individually designed herbal prescriptions.

5. Setting Up an Office-Based Modern Herbal Pharmacy: Ordering, stocking, coding, organizing herbal supplies and inventory management in a physicianOs office will be discussed.

6. Custom Preparation of Herbal Formula: Special know-hows of preparing herbal mixtures specifically designed for a patient will be demonstrated.

7. Hands-on Diagnostics Workshop: Diagnostic methods of TCM such as inspection, questioning and palpation will be taught, emphasizing on tongue and pulse diagnoses and how to correlate findings with patientOs symptoms to help formulate the therapeutic strategy.

8. Clinical Run: Some participants will have the opportunity to be examined by the faculty members to assess their health status and to initiate a health maintenance plan using the herbal approach. ParticipantsO relatives or patients may also participate in such a diagnostic and therapeutic exercise, subject to the availability of time and space. Details of this program will be sent following registration for the course.

9. Herbal Economics: The proper and equitable way of generating revenue by maintaining in-house herbal supplies for the benefit and convenience of patients.