Chinese Herbal Medicine
What is Chinese Herbal Medicine?
Chinese herbal medicine uses natural dried herbs to improve health.
The biggest distinction between Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, is the latter focuses more on the entire human body, rather than the individual symptom or disease.
There are over 400 Chinese ‘herbs’ used in TCM. Dr Liu only uses TCM herbs that originate from plants and other natural substances, no animal products are used. We offer two types of herbal therapy in the clinic:
- Traditional Herbal Tea formula
- Herbal Granule
How can Chinese Herbal Medicine help?
Each herb is used for a defined purpose and function and is combined with other TCM herbs to form personalised prescriptions. These characteristics of herbs are used by practitioners to activate the body’s natural ability to heal itself and restore balance.
How does Chinese Herbal Medicine work?
Each prescription is unique, and two patients with identical symptoms do not necessarily receive the same prescription.
This is because TCM considers each patient to be psychologically and physiologically different, and every complaint is the result of an imbalance in either one or both of these areas.
Each TCM herb has several factors that are balanced for the individual, for example:
- a specific taste: sweet, spicy, bitter, sour, salty;
- a specific energy: cold, hot, warm, cool;
- ascending, descending, floating, and sinking properties,
- and their corresponding targeted meridians.