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Herbal medicine is one of the oldest and most important aspects of Chinese Medicine. It provides a natural and holistic approach to treating the imbalances of the mind and body. Unlike western herbalism, Chinese Medicine almost never employs the use of a single herb as a treatment.\u00a0 Instead it uses a combination of herbs known as a formula. For millennia herbal formulas have been masterfully crafted and continuously modified to most effectively treat each individual.<\/p>\n

Chinese medicine employs formulas instead of single herbs for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 Often times individual herbs in a formula will enhance the effectiveness of one another.\u00a0 Additionally, combining herbs can create therapeutic effects that the individual herbs cannot achieve when taken alone.\u00a0 Furthermore, certain herbs have the energetic ability to guide other herb’s therapeutics to specific areas of the body in need.\u00a0 Lastly, formulas can be modified to meet the individual needs of each patient.\u00a0 This way the medicine is treating not just the disease, but the whole person.<\/p>\n

Chinese herbal formulas treat just about every ailment imaginable from common colds to digestive problems, emotional imbalances, sports injuries, fertility, and much much more.\u00a0 Traditionally, the method of consuming a formula was by cooking raw herbs into teas.\u00a0 Today, the use of granules or powders dissolved into teas are becoming the more common.\u00a0 Furthermore, pills and tinctures are also commonplace.<\/p>\n

Herbal Medicine vs Western Pharmaceuticals<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Unlike western pharmaceuticals, Chinese herbal medicine does not attempt to isolate the presumed single therapeutic aspect of any given substance. Herbal medicine however, sees value in the herb’s entirety. Additionally, Chinese herbal medicine does not simply link one medicinal to one disease as is done in western pharmacology.\u00a0 Instead, formulas are prescribed holistically taking the entire state of body and mind of each patient into consideration.\u00a0 This involves modifying formulas to fit each patient’s needs to maximize therapeutic effects while diminishing side effects.<\/p>\n

Another difference between western pharmaceuticals and herbal medicine is the ability for individuals or companies to patent the medicinals.\u00a0The ability to do so becomes problematic when business motives skew those of health care.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this is an issue with the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceuticals derive from isolated molecules that are often synthetically produced.\u00a0 Because of this, it is legal to patent them.\u00a0 In comparison, natural occurring whole herbs cannot be patented.\u00a0 Therefore herbal medicine is spared this additional hurdle facing western medicine.<\/p>\n

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