| There aren't many subjects I know as well as | | | | too much (or any in the wrong people) can cause |
| traditional chinese herbs. After all, I studied them for | | | | headaches, hypertension, and insomnia.Ginger is a |
| four years in school, prescribed them to patients, and | | | | great digestion chinese herb. If you've had sushi, you |
| wrote a book that spends a lot of time helping | | | | know ginger is one of the two other things you eat |
| regular folks choose the right traditional chinese herbs | | | | with it- it promotes digestion, prevents nausea, and |
| for themselves.Of course, traditional chinese herbs | | | | warms you up. It's also a nice adjunct for mild winter |
| are best prescribed by a Chinese medicine herbalist. | | | | colds. You can cut up some of the raw form of this |
| The reasons for this are numerous.1. Traditional | | | | traditional chinese herb and boil it into a fresh, |
| chinese herbs are usually taken in multiherb formulas2. | | | | warming tea.Astragalus is a energy and immune |
| These chinese herb formulas are sometimes written | | | | system booster. It's a good herb to take in the |
| from scratch for each individual patient3. Even if a | | | | winter before you get a cold - don't take it after you |
| classical standard herbal formula is chosen, it takes | | | | get sick, but but before. It's also good for those who |
| the expertise of the herbalist to diagnose you | | | | are tired and sweat without exertion.Cinnamon sticks |
| according to Chinese medical theories and choose the | | | | promote circulation, warm you up, and help you fight |
| appropriate traditional chinese herb formula4. If the | | | | winter colds.All of these can be boiled into teas.There |
| wrong traditional chinese herbs are used, the patient | | | | are many other traditional chinese herbs - we studied |
| can get worse, or not heal and just waste their | | | | only about 500 of them in my four year Masters |
| money.Still, there are some traditional chinese herbs | | | | program, but there are perhaps 10,000 out there. |
| that almost anyone can take, that will promote health | | | | Likewise, we learned about 200 major chinese herbal |
| in nearly everyone. Many of them are well known | | | | formulas, but there are hundreds more classical ones, |
| already. The following is a list of traditional chinese | | | | and still more modern ones based on traditional plus |
| herbs that are good for promoting health in most | | | | pharmacological knowledge.Traditional chinese herbs |
| people. Still, you should consult with a local herbalist to | | | | are not only great herbs, but part of a sophisticated |
| be sure that they'll help you, not harm you.Also, you | | | | system that treats everything from colds and |
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