Herbal Formulas

Chinese herbs include ones that you might have read about in health news reports, like ginseng, dang gui (dong quai), and astragalus. Others are foods like goji berries, ginger, and turmeric. With several hundred herbs available for use, most of them will be foreign to you, from ai ye to zi hua di ding. After a completed consultation, I can prescribe a customized powdered Chinese herbal formula to be created for you. You simply need to mix it in hot water and drink.

Each herb has its own properties. It has a temperature – hot, cold, cool, warm, or neutral. It has a taste – bitter, sweet, salty, sour, pungent/spicy, or bland. It has a tendency to travel to a certain organ or part of the body. And it has its own indications and functions. These properties can all be altered based on its interactions with other herbs or with the processing methods (e.g. some herbs are processed with honey first).

With more than 6000 herbs to select from, safety, quality, and proper herb selection is key. If you want to know more about this, click here.

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“2000 B.C. – Here, eat this root.
1000 A.D. – That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850 A.D. – That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.
1940 A.D. – That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
1985 A.D. – That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
2000 A.D. – That antibiotic doesn’t work anymore. Here, eat this root”
-–Anonymous

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