How does Chinese herbal medicine work?
Herbal medicine is the oldest medicine in China. And it is still widely used in the world today. Chinese herbal medicine is made exclusively from plants. So it is healthy and harmless to our body comparing to modern chemical medicines. Herbal medicine offers treatments by affecting our body system.
Herbal medicines contain a large number of naturally occurring chemicals. These chemicals will have some type of biological activity in our body. The main effect is balancing internal disharmonies as well as encouraging the body to heal itself. As a result, Chinese herbal medicine asks our body to treat itself naturally.
As herbs are used in their natural form, they are gentle and without the harsh side effects. Additionally, herbs often accompany with many manufactured drugs.
All of the herbal medicine are classified according to their energetic qualities, functions, different organs, and channels.
Diagnosis and treatment are always based on the individual because two patients may have the same complaint. Therefore, the treatment will be different depending on the patients’ presentations.
What do we provide?
Traditional Chinese Herbal medicine is one of the oldest medicine used in China. The oldest book records function of herbs and formula is called ‘Shennong BaiCao Jing’ which is written 2000 years ago. Until today more than 9000 different types of herb and more than 1400 herbal formula has been documented in Chinese Pharmacopoeia. Today Chinese Herbal medicine is widely used in China and all over the world.
Herbal medicines contains substances which may have different types of beneficial biological activity in our body.
Our experienced herbalist will choose personalized herbal formula according to your symptoms, the aim is to balancing internal disharmonies and help your body naturally heal itself.
Comparing with modern medicine, Herbal Medicine is made using all nature materials, it is generally considered to be safe but rarely may associate with possible mild adverse reactions in individual cases.
What do we provide?
Our clinic provides traditional Chinese medicine such as Chinese herbal pills; Granules herbs; Herbal Liniment for external use.
Patent Pills: These herbal pills are pre-made pills following some classic Chinese Herbal Formula. These classic formulas already used by Chinese herbalist for many generations and proven to be effective for certain health conditions, then this formula is documented and manufactured into pills in modern ways. They may come as pills or capsules. Patent Pills are the most convenient way to take herbal medicine.
Formulated Granules: herbal granules are concentrated herbs extracted from raw herb they simply dissolve with a small amount of boiling water and then can be swallowed.
Usually, our experienced herbalist will made a formula choose 5~10 different herbs with different functions, they choose the adequate mass of each herb according to your symptoms, and then carefully dispense the herbs following the formula..
Due to the labor involved in their production, formulated herb granules tend to be more expensive than patent pills, but usually they are more specific to your health conditions.
Notice:
We strongly recommend you consult a licensed Chinese herbalist before taking any herbal medicines. In Chinese Medicine theory same symptoms may have different internal cause, hence the herbs/ herb formula you should use can be quite different. Our experienced practitioner can diagnosis your symptoms by appropriate consultation and tailor the treatment plan with herbs specified to your health issue, they can also tell you when it is appropriate to change or stop your herbal medication in follow up consultations.
Our management team assure all herbs or patent pills sold in YongHe Chinese Medicine Clinic is TGA approved medicine from reliable supplier.
References:
1. Xuefeng Su, Zhouting Yao, et al. (2016) Synergism of Chinese Herbal Medicine: Illustrated by Danshen Compound, Retrieve from https://www.hindawi.com/
2. Wenjuan Zhang, Ying Huai, et al. (2019) Systems Pharmacology for Investigation of the Mechanisms of Action of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Drug Discovery,
Retrieve from https://www.frontiersin.org/
