Herbal Medicine

Herbal medicine, also known as the medicinal plants, it is refers to plants with medicinal value. Herbal medicine is generally considered as the herbs or annuals. In fact, medicinal plants can not be distributed in any department of plant kingdom, but follow the classification of humanities.


Description


The herbal medicine belongs to the traditional Chinese medicine, it is focus on restoring the balance of energy, body and spirit, so the purpose is to keep the body healthy and make you in a good condition. In the early stage of Chinese history, people had already chosen to use herbs to keep health or treat illnesses. So Chinese herbal medicine developed as part of Chinese culture have been spread for years.


It is difficult to comment on a single medicine because the individual effectiveness has not cleared. Chinese herbal medicine is not based on the mainstream Western concepts because the western concept only focuses on the medical diagnosis and treatment. It makes a treatment only according to patients' explanations or symptoms, not the underlying causes.


Most Chinese herbalists do not claim to cure cancer. Unlike the oncologists, they confirm that herbal medicine can help to ease the side effects, control pain, improve quality of life, strengthen the immune system, and in some cases, it can even stop the growth and spread of tumor.


In China, there are more than 3,200 herbs exist, so more than 400 different formulas are used by the populations. Chinese herbal medicine are usually made up of various herbs and mineral and animal extracts. Typically, 1 or 2 herbs are included that are said to have the greatest effect on the problem being treated.


Before choose the herbal medicine for a patient, the Chinese doctor typically tend to ask about the symptoms and take the treatment of four ways of diagnosis -- look, listen, question and feel the pulse -- four ways of diagnosis. In this way, people can find out the imbalances in the body.


The course of the treatment


Chinese herb medicine is not as strictly as the western on the service course. In general, the length of treatment should be based on the factors of stability and progress and patient's response to western treatment and so on. Some people can only need to take a few days, such as nausea during chemotherapy. But some one may serve a few years, such as the rehabilitation of patients to prevent recurrence.


Whether the herbal medicine and western medicine can be taken together


The best answer is you should avoid this. As the complex relationship between the two kinds of treatment, we need to prevent the adverse reactions. In order to enable the drug to be fully absorbed, we'd better to separate the two kinds of medicine.


Can we use the beverage to take medicine rather than water?


Generally, we stress to take medicine with warm water. Beverage and tea can reduce or destroy the efficacy. For example, tannic acid in tea can have chemical reaction with alkaline medicine, which can finally reduce the effective of the ingredients.