A gift from our ancestor that started in 1066 DC that we called today, “Chinese herbal medicine”.

Like many inventions, Chinese herbs begin with many trials and errors. Within these many experiments, we gain the knowledge from our ancestors of what works and doesn’t work. Today we understand that Chinese medicine is categorized into different groupings. These groupings can be based on colors, smells and taste, geographic locations, plant life cycles, specific parts of the herb being used, their functions, human interactions, country or origins. We further clarify these herbs by the therapeutic action and side effects. We continued with clarification by the source of the herbs, and also vase on the internal organ that they affect. Furthermore, we also break down these herbs by their therapeutic functions.

As we dive deeper into the knowledge of our herbal medicine, we must understand that the geographic climate that these herbs derived from, also affects their strength and characters. Also, the time of harvest is very important to ensure that these herbs are at their full potential. For example, different plants should be harvest in different seasons in stages to ensure maximum potency for their desire actions. Harvesting the leaves of a plant before it bears fruit, means that they are more nutrients contained in the leaves, making the herbs more powerful. We can also enhance or alter the therapeutic actions of the herbs by preparing them in different ways. We do so by processing these herbs with honey, vinegar or grain-based alcohol. We can also steam, bake, roast, and even charred to ashes. In doing so we can minimize the loss of their active components, maximize extraction of active constituents, and reduce their side effect and or toxicity.

We continue breaking down our herbs by their taste. Acrid, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, bland, and astringent, are a few of the categories that describes our herbs. Each of these groupings will have different functions and will serve different purpose. They will therefore, enter different channels and organs within our body. Understanding the actions of these herbs, allow us to combine different herbs to treat multi symptoms. Thus, opening us to herbal formulation. Herbal formulation is the act of combining many different herbs to benefit from their properties to safely treat a particular symptom or many symptoms within the human body. As we move forward into the future, it is important for us to understand each and every function of our formulation so that it can interact safely with other forms of medicines such as pharmaceuticals. To do this, we must carefully look at how each formula is absorbed into the body, where it is being distributed, how our body metabolize these herbs, and what percentage are being eliminated from our body. In doing so, we can safely understand how it may interact with other medicines with similar or contradicting chemicals, such as pharmaceuticals.

Herbal formulas and nutritional plans are very important and are specially designed for each patient’s individual needs in order to overcome diseases and alleviate discomfort.

Personalized herbal medicine can act both as a complement to acupuncture treatments and as a primary form of the therapy. Herbal medicine can help change unhealthy balances and patterns, resulting in decreased symptoms, increased energy, improve digestion, reduce pain, eliminate toxins, improved sleep, regulated menstrual cycle, etc. The Chinese pharmacopoeia lists over 6,000 difference medicinal substances, 600 of which are in common use today. As the oldest practiced system of herbal medicine the world, the healing properties of these medicinal substances have been identified and utilized extensively.

Many of our formulas consist from 2-40 medicine substances combined and the strength can be 5 to 1, 10 to 1 or 20 to 1 in order to facilitate the unique therapeutic goals of each patient.

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