Herbal Treatment

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has an extensive history on the use of herbs for medicinal purposes. Herbal remedies are the important and commonest treatment used in TCM. The herbs are prepared as decoction, powder, pill, bolus, capsule, plaster, tea, tincture, syrup, infusion, and injection for clinical applications.

Chinese Herbs for Bleeding Symptoms

No matter what medical conditions that caused abnormal bleeding, TCM treatments often aim at clearing fire/heat evils, improving qi (vital energy) and blood conditions, and a harmonized blood is the ultimate goal of all. Physicians have to follow some general principles when designing the herbal prescriptions.

More

What therapeutic principles are used?

The main therapeutic principles in TCM can be summarized as treating the human body as an organic whole, searching for the primary cause of disease in treatment, and implementing an appropriate treatment with a dynamic viewpoint (meaning that a TCM practitioner must be willing to change treatment as the patient…

More

Chinese Herbs with Hormonal Effects

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the kidney system has a wider function than that of the Western anatomical kidney, regarding it as the root of life and the origin of our individuality as human beings. TCM considers the kidney to be the most important organ of the body since it…

More