Herbal medicine is the main treatment method within Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). TCM is the world's oldest, continually practiced professional medicine. Its written history stretches back over 2,500 years and its practice is probably much older than that.

Western folk herbalism usually focuses on one symptom or disease at a time and uses a single herb or groups of herbs for treatment.

TCM formulas are crafted to treat your entire pattern as well as the symptoms or disease that prompted you to seek treatment. TCM formulas may include six to eighteen herbs to treat the symptoms or disease as well as your entire pattern.

Individualize Herbal Decoction
In this clinic, utmost care goes into selecting the best quality raw herbs to ensure optimum results from herbal therapy. Each patient receives a custom written herbal prescription designed to treat their individual pattern as well as the symptom or disease.

Herbs are selected for each patientŐs constitution, root causes of dysfunction and related symptoms.

Herbal decoction is prepared and packaged in the facility using special herbal extractor and packaging equipment, in turn this results in more complete extraction and correct preparation of herbs while saving hours of time for the patients.

Prepared granules
The complete line of Granule herbs by Honso is available.

Although the potency is less than those of individualized decoction and cannot be individualized, it has benefit of better tasting, less costly and easy to carry convenience.

How are Chinese herbal medicines taken?
The most common method of taking Chinese herbal medicine is drinking a liquid, prepared by boiling the selected herbs. There are also herbal pills, tinctures and powdered extracts for those who do not have the time or taste for drinking the more traditional liquid form.

What are the benefits of drinking Chinese herb medicines in liquid form?
This method allows the practitioner maximum flexibility in writing a prescription. they can put in just what is necessary in just the right amounts. The formula can be changed frequently, if necessary and the liquid forms tend to be more potent than other means of administration.

Do Chinese herbal medicines have side effects?
Most of the components of Chinese herbal medicine have a very low toxicity compared to even common, over-the-counter Western drugs. When they are prescribed according to a correct TCM pattern diagnosis, they should have few, if any, side effects, only beneficial healing results.

If you experience any discomfort while taking Chinese herbal medicine, tell your practitioner who will modify the formula until there are no side effects.