Chinese herbal medicine is an integral part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is one of the oldest continuously practiced medical systems in the world with a written history dating over 2,500 years. Chinese herbs consist mostly of natural plants and minerals whose use and safety has been documented for thousands of years.
How Chinese herbal medicine differs from pharmaceutical drugs is that single herbs are synergistically combined into formulas to treat each person’s underlying pattern of disharmony, not just their symptoms. Chinese medicine takes a holistic view of the human body based on the preservation of health and not just the treatment of disease. Many Chinese herbal formulas serve to strengthen the body and its many functional systems to prevent illness.
Since each formula is composed of multiple herbal ingredients, they can be easily modified for each person to resolve specific symptoms and to avoid side-effects as a form of highly personalised medicine.