User talk:Dreamingclouds

Shou Wu Chih
Hi, you might want to add Shou Wu Chih in your list of patent medicines. You clearly seem to know something about this subject. Badagnani 00:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Devanagari transliteration
Hello,

The letters क़ ख़ ग़ ज़ फ़ ड़ ढ़ are not actually part of the Sanskrit alphabet, and are not part of IAST either. They do occur in other Indian languages which use Devanagari, though, and therefore ISO 15919 has symbols for them. In particular, 'ṛ' is uniquely used for ऋ in IAST, because ड़ does not exist. In ISO 15919, however, 'ṛ' is used for ड़, and 'r̥' for ऋ as you observed. I am a bit busy right now so I have simply reverted your edit; could you re-insert the correct version? It's a good observation. Thanks! Shreevatsa (talk) 04:09, 10 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Oops. You're right.  I got IAST and ISO 15919 confused.  Thanks for your help.  I started the Devanagari transliteration page back in November 2006.  It's nice to see other people taking care of it.


 * Now I'm thinking I might just delete this since it's already on the ISO 15919 page:
 * Note: ऋ uses the diacritic "ṛ" in IAST. In ISO 15919, ऋ was changed from "ṛ" to "r̥". Also ॠ was changed from "ṝ" to "r̥̄". This is because ड़ uses "ṛ" in ISO 15919.


 * Dreamingclouds (talk) 23:09, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Jianpi Wan
Hi Dreamingclouds, As you have contributed to a number of articles on Chinese herbal formulas, i would appreciate your views on the proposed deletion of Jianpi Wan at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jianpi_Wan. Jianpi Wan is an ancient Chinese herbal formula to strengthen the spleen. It has long existed as an entry under Chinese classic herbal formula. 弟 (talk) 00:34, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Title of patent medicines photo
Hi Dreamingclouds,

I wanted to check in with you about the title of the patent medicines photo you have on several Chinese herb pages, "Characteristic little black pills of Chinese patent medicine". Great photo of teapills, which I agree are the most typical patent medicines we see in western countries. Most of the descriptions however were about raw herb powders being pressed into pills (honey or water pills), so I added info about teapills and explained honey and water pills a bit, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_herbology and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_patent_medicine pages.

I think this is important because teapills are extracted and condensed from decoctions, the traditional method of administration for most Chinese herbal medicines, so for most classic formulas that were designed to be administered as decoctions it is a closer method than a raw herb powder.

I wanted to see if you would mind changing the title to "Characteristic little black teapills of Chinese patent medicine? I can send you links about the manufacture of the Plum Flower teapills in the picture if you would like sources.

Laurastropes (talk) 23:17, 7 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Sure, you can change the title if you'd like. Personally I think it's a nice title.  I think if someone asks "what is Chinese patent medicine?", then the answer would be "little black pills".  But, feel free to change it if you'd like.


 * Dreamingclouds (talk) 09:18, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

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