Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine know Medicinal Herbal Therapy works in conjunction with Acupuncture to create optimum health. After diagnosing a pattern of disharmony and administering acupuncture treatments, a doctor of TCM often writes an herbal formula from over a thousand common herbal formulas or from more effective traditional family formulas. Herbal medicine has a long history in the Orient. The first Chinese written material, the Shen-Nung Herbal Classic, was begun during the Stone Age and completed in the later part of the 5 th century B. C., from which some important formulas originated.

In this herbal classic, herbs are categorized into three groups. The first group is called “ food herbs” which are eaten as part of one’s diet for general fortification, prevention and maintenance. The other two groups are called “ medicine herbs” which are dispensed to each patient as an individual formula based on one’s constitution, environment and medical condition.

Formulas are based upon treatment principle (the TCM diagnosis & course of treatment), and treatment principle is dependent upon the cause of disease. Because of the different causes of disease, the herbal formula varies. In addition, the dosage of each herb in the formula can be changed to follow the changes of the disease. So in fact, every herbal prescription is specific to the individual, which makes TCM so special.

In thousands of years of experience in Chinese medicine, generation-by-generation, there are hundreds of excellent classic formulas to be used to treat different diseases. They have proven to be very effective in treating all kinds of conditions.