By Eric Brand

We often comment on the fact that Blue Poppy’s website is one of the finest resources in the industry for free professional information. However, our website is huge, with thousands of pages of content. Where should one look to find all these treasures?

The TCM Infoline section is without a doubt the crown jewel when it comes to our free educational resources. Over the years, Bob Flaws has translated summaries of over a thousand Chinese journal articles, and he has also written many articles based on his own perspectives and clinical experience. Originally, these articles were sold as PDFs, and there are many rabid knowledge enthusiasts out there who spent hundreds of dollars to buy these articles one-by-one (I bought quite a few myself back in the day). A few years back, Blue Poppy made the decision to put all these articles online for FREE on our website. Every student and practitioner in the field of Chinese medicine should be aware of this awesome resource, so please help us to spread the word.

The scope of articles available on the TCM Infoline section of our site is astounding. From this link you can either search for articles or browse by subject. For example, there are 19 hits for Xiao Chai Hu Tang alone (out of over 1400 records). From podcasts to translated summaries of journal articles, there is something for everyone. Most of the information on there comes from Chinese journals or classical texts, and the Blue Poppy website is the only source of much of this material in English.

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Have a tough case? The other day we had a practitioner call in to Blue Poppy with a question about a difficult case of Peyronie’s Disease. They were looking to learn more about TCM theories, research, pattern differentiation, and formulas, and they didn’t have time to wait for Bob Damone’s excellent book on Andrology to arrive. No problem, just do a quick search for Peyronie’s Disease on the TCM InfoOnline section of our website and you’ll get a research article on it (Blue Poppy Research Report #280). Voila! At the time that that article was written, it was one of the only English language resources on Peyronie’s (in fact, Blue Poppy’s book on Andrology by Bob Damone is one of the only other sources on it to this day).

Regardless of whether you are seeking integrative information (for example, this great research article on integrative Chinese-Western medicine for prostate cancer) or traditional information (such as one of Bob’s many articles on Yin Fire and Li Dong-Yuan), you can find it at the TCM Infoline section. Simply browse by category or type a keyword into the box for a high-powered digital search.

Want to browse some of the great articles here on the Blue Poppy blog? Try these tips:

Click the button on the right side of the screen called “archives.” This will take you to a full list of our blogs. From here, it is easy to browse for any topic that you like. You can also click the category of Bob’s blog, Honora’s blog, Shawn’s blog, Eric’s blog, etc. if you want to read more entries by a given writer. Alternatively, you can just type in a keyword into the search bar on the right, and it will pull up every blog entry that contains your search term. With several hundred blogs in the system and more added each day, the blog itself is an incredible resource.

Bookmark our site and visit us often to take advantage of these great free resources. Tell your teachers, students, friends, or colleagues. Become a fan of Blue Poppy Enterprises Inc. on Facebook to see our blogs without leaving your Facebook page (Bob Flaws also updates his facebook status daily with pre-modern quotes, so add him as a friend if you would like to see these little translated gems from the classics).

Finally, did you know that Blue Poppy has a channel on YouTube? Click this link to go to our YouTube homepage, we've got several videos up there already and we'll be adding more and more all the time. Plus, we are going to do lots of webinars this year, so be sure to stay tuned. We work hard to make Blue Poppy your #1 source of free, high-quality information on the web, so spread the word!

Regular visitors to the site know that we often run specials on the web with weekend sales (big discounts!), and we regularly feature special days where a portion of the day’s sales go to support worthy causes. If you have any requests, questions, or advice on navigating our website to better plumb its depths, by all means contact us or write in comments to this blog. Thanks for visiting!