The Chinese.........

The Chinese have practiced herbal use for 5,000 years. A Chinese medical text written around 2700 BC lists herbal prescriptions! The herb most closely associated with the Chinese is ginseng. Many Chinese believe the regular use of ginseng prolongs life.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

We all know that China has had an organized society of people able to read and write for 5,000 years. What we don't sometimes appreciate is the fact that they had more than their fair share of inquiring scientific minds at work all this time. This has resulted in well recorded archive of Chinese medical knowledge which has grown almost independently from other cultural influences and is based on the theory that in nature, all things are possible.

From this well of knowledge has emerged today a sophisticated traditional medical system which relies on the result of a 5,000 year investigation into unlocking the secrets that nature seems to guard so zealously.

Hence, chinese now have a huge pharmacopoeia of medicinal herbs and minerals, the combination of which have resulted in a very wide variety of patent herbal medicines.

In not too distant history, Chinese doctors were paid weekly by their patients. If the patient fell ill, the payment ceased until the patient was better. This method ensured that practitioners regularly monitored their patient's health in an effort to keep them well.

Because of this emphasis on preventative medicine, the Chinese developed a complex system of diagnosis and treatments tailored to the individual's subtle patterns of disharmony which, if left unchecked, would lead to illness), thus keeping the body in balance at all times and preventing illness occurring. It was also important that the cure itself had no side effects.

In any herbal substance, there could be dozens of active chemicals occurring in a natural form. While the modern scientific approach has been to isolate the directly effective actives and manufacture them synthetically, the Chinese belief has been that the actives evolved in nature side by side for good reason and to separate one from the other would be undoing the work nature has done over millions of years, providing a substance where all actives are naturally compatible.

In the case of pills or tablets, people are often surprised at the number they are required to take. One also has to remember that this is pure herbal matter in a convenient form. The patient is not consuming large quantities of manufactured synthetic chemicals.

Your practitioner is highly skilled in knowing the medicines you need for your condition and the quantities you should take. You can have confidence that you are taking formulas that have been in constant use for a minimum of 200 years and a maximum of 4,000 years. However, if side effects should occur, please consult your practitioner.