Chinese Herbal Medicine
Chinese herbal medicine has been used in China for over 5000 years. It is an essential part of Traditional Chinese Medicine and widely used for almost all kinds of health conditions nowadays.
Chinese herbal medicine come in many forms: raw that consisting of roots, leaves, bark, fruits, seeds, shells, resins, minerals, and animal products are boiled and drank as a tea, extract powder that are mixed with warm water and drank as a tea and prepared tinctures and pills and tablets. For some conditions, including pain and traumatic injury and dermatological conditions, herbs may also be prescribed for external use as soaks, washes, ointments, liniments, poultices or salves.
Our practice chooses to use the pills and the powder form because of their ease of use and efficacy. There are typically no known side effects associated with taking Chinese herbal medicine when the correct formula is prescribed by a qualified practitioner. The formula is modified according to an individual diagnosis, changes in signs and symptoms as the treatment progresses.
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In our office, we carry relatively wide array of traditional patterned formulas (pills or tablets) and some picked pharmaceutical-grade single herbs (granules). We also provide formulas in type of mixed granules upon patients' specific customized request.
