How do Chinese herbs affect the body?
The principals of therapy that apply to needling also apply to herbalogy . Just as needles are applied to restore deficiencies and remove excesses, herbs are prescribed to have compensatory qualities. The vast amount of Chinese herbal knowledge available today has accumulated in writing for thousands of years. That means that have been getting sick people well for a very long time without side effects. Those well formulated herb formulas work as well in American today as they did in China ages ago. All these herb formulas are still commonly prescribed in all hospitals in China in conjunction with western medicine practice.
