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Chinese Herbs
Chinese herbal medicine is another essential part of Traditional Chinese Medicine.It shares the philosophical background with the other disciplines of Oriental medicine. Once a diagnosis has been made, an herbal formula is prepared to correct the specific disharmony of the individual.It consists of many hundreds of commonly utreat a wide variety of acute/chronic symptoms and illnesses, ased ingredients. These may be roots, stems, flowers, leaves and bark, together with some non-plant ingredients and can nd it promotes the body's healing ability and restores energy balance.
One of the most appealing qualities of Chinese herbs therapy is the low risk of adverse reaction or side effects, especially when compared to pharmaceutical drugs.
Well-trained Chinese medicine practitioners have the knowledge of selecting specific herbs to make their own formulas to treat a patient's individual conditions. Chinese herb are also available in ready-made pill form. These are made based on thousands of years of practice by Chinese physicians and usually used for common health problems. We at Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Clinic provide both traditional herbal pills and granules formulas which are custom written based on each patient's condition.
Our Herbal Pharmacy
When a patient visits one of our Acupuncturists, they are diagnosed using traditional Chinese medicine. This diagnosis is determined by various factors; for example the Acupuncturist will ask the patient a series of health related questions, the tongue may be examined and the pulse is felt on both sides of the wrist.
In certain cases, a patient’s ailments will best be treated by both acupuncture and an herbal supplement or formula. When this occurs, the Acupuncturist will recommend an herbal supplement to the patient. An Acupuncturist freshly creates the formulas here at the clinic.
Our herbal pharmacy contains over 200 single herbs in powder form and an herbal formula usually contains between 8-12 of these herbs.
Since the herbal formulas are created here at our clinic after the patient is seen, this allows the practitioner to customize the formula for that specific patient and their individual needs. This is a highly advantageous situation and quite often results in higher success when treating both acute and chronic conditions. This approach allows the practitioner to treat a variety of symptoms with one herbal formula. It also allows the practitioner to treat not only the symptoms (to provide immediate relief), but also the root cause of the disease as well (if the supplements are taken long-term).