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Herb is food, but not only food!

Updated: Jun 11, 2022

What is Herb?

herb and food
herb just comes from our daily foods

Herbs are the same source of food, include fruits, vegetables, spices, corn, paddy, wheat, barley, oat, poultry, livestock, mineral……many herbs are plants’ leaves, roots, flowers, seeds, root bark, inner bark (and cambium), resin and pericarp . We must know well about Ginger, Cinnamon and Pepper, in fact , they are all be used as herbs to treat illness in Chinese Traditional Medicine. so we can know Herbs are safe under the guidance of professionals.


Why they are called herbs but not food?


When we use fruit, vegetable, spices, corn, paddy, wheat, barley, oat, poultry, livestock, mineral……for medicinal purposes, we call them herbs, not food, it needs professional prescription. Different foods have different characters, some are spicy, some have strong smells, some are bit and we usually do not eat it as daily foods.


How does Herb work?


The ancient Chinese people researched different kinds of plants and minerals, grasped the special characters of each herb. After thousands of years of test on the human body, the ancient Chinese people classify herbs with different traits. They summed up a complete set of herbal theories to treat various diseases.

The artemisinin discovered by modern science and technology is extracted from the Chinese herb Artemisia annua, which is used to treat malaria and has achieved good results.


Some times Herb likes medicine, some times herb likes supplement, it depends on your body's condition. So a trained and experienced doctor can use the hundreds kinds of herbs to treat different illness.


What kinds of illness can use the herbs?


From theory, all kinds of diseases can be treated by different prescriptions of herbs.

In our clinic, Doctor Chocoway uses the herbs to treat insomnia, knee pain, Night sweats, vomiting, menstrual problems in women, prostate problems, allergies, strokes, digestive disorders, anxiety, and visceral dysfunction etc.

We have a patient, after taking our herbs prescription for one month, his liver function had a great improvement in the test by his family doctor. so more and more people begin to accept the herbs now.


For more information, welcome to contact with us!

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