Western herbs are those herbs that are found growing in North America, and Europe. Many of them are quite similar to Chinese herbs, and may even be the same genus, but a different species. These Western herbs that are the same genus but different species have similar, but also slightly different, medical activities than their Chinese “cousins.” The system…
Many products that come from Chinese manufacturers have been found to contain toxins. This was made very obvious in 2007 at the height of the Melamine Pet Food Recall when food that was contaminated with melamine killed a lot of unsuspecting pets.
Chinese herbal formulas have evolved over thousands of years to effectively address almost every known medical condition. These formulas are often quite complex, containing multiple individual Chinese herbs. The herbalists who developed them years ago empirically tested them over and over again to make them work better, and this process of modification over a long period of time is…
