What is Prescription Herbal Medicine?

Traditonal Chinese Medicine is part of an integrated system of primary health care known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), that has an uninterrupted history of development dating back 2,000 years in China and other parts of East Asia.

TCM herbs tonic is based on an indivdualized pattern diagnosis as well as a disease diagnosis. Your pattern is made up of your signs and symptoms, and the constitution of your body. Herbal treatment is tailored to treat your specific pattern as well as symptom and disease.

Chinese herbal medicine takes an hollistic approach to understanding normal function and disease processes and focuses as much as on the prevention of illness, undergoing chronic disease treatments also.

How is Chinese Herbal Medicine Prescribed?

Dr. Katherine Cheon is qualified practitioner to prescribed herbal formula that specifically matches and treats your individual health problem. As your condition changes and improves with treatment, the Chinese herbal treatment is also adjusted and modified until the desired health outcome is achieved. Chinese herbal medicine are prescribed either single or made into formula which take into account the individual therapeutic action of each herb and well as the effects when combined together. A well constructed formula maximizes the effectiveness for treating a particular condition, while counteracting and minimizing the unwanted effects of an individual herb.

What Substances are used in Chinese Herbal Medicine?

Today, there are more than 450 substances commonly used in Chinese herbal medicine, most are of plant origin though some animal and mineral substances may be also used. All substances are accurately inspected FDA and Acupuncture board certified.

You may find some in your kitchen such as ginger and cinnamon. Chrysanthemum and Peony and more likely to be found in your garden! Many of the substances used will be unfamiliar to you and have names like chai hu (buplerum), di huang (rehmannia), and huang qi (astragalus).

What Condition Does Chinese Herbal Medicine Treat?

In addition to providing effective treatment for a wide range of health disorders, general health maintenance and disease prevention. By strengthening and enhancing normal body functions, the immune system is boosted and a general sense of well being promoted.

Typically treated Chinese herbal Medicine includes:

• Insomnia & fatigue

• loss of appetite

• Common digestive disorders

• Constipation and diarrhea

• Irritable bowel syndrome

• Common cold and influenza

• Chronic headaches

• Skin disorders

• Fluid retention

• Anxiety

• Depression/Stress

• Allergies

• Rheumatoid/Osteoarthritis

• Premenstrual syndrome/Painful menstration

• Infertility

• Impotences/Prostate disorder

• Disorders associated with menopause

What Is Herbal Medicine and Nutritional Supplement?

Herbals and botanicals have been used medicinally for thousands of years. Once thought of as ‘traditionals medicine’ used by native or ancient cultures, herbal medicine has emerged as a popular complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), or supplement to modern medicine.

Dietary supplements include vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, enzymes, and other substances that may be ‘supplemented’, or added to the diet, in order to complete dietary needs or to make up for a nutrition deficiency. These substances are not intended to replace a healthy diet. Dietary supplements may be found in many forms including pills, capsules, powders, drinks, or energy bars. For more information on other forms of dietary supplements.

Many consider herbs and botanicals to be natural and therefore healthier and more gentle than conventional drugs, even though 30% of all prescription drugs are of herbal origin. Many use herbs and botanicals for a variety of medical conditions, as well as for overall health and well-being. For othera, herbal use is grounded in traditions passed down from generation to generation or recommended by folk healers.

It’s a sad fact that today’s food has less nutrition than the same food of an earlier time and also imbalanced nutrition and diet because of Toxified environment, over stress, chronic illness, contagious disease like an exposed COVID-19, injuries.

Many of the negative impacts the ‘Standard American Diet’ had on overall health, believed that processed foods depleted our food sources of the rich nutrition once found in them. Good health comes from good nutrition, and the best nutrition comes from whole foods.

It’s important to ask your doctor about taking a supplement if you are pregnant or nursing, about to have surgery, or you have a health condition.

 Supplements are available for sale over the counter at your local pharmacy or online without a prescription. Still, you should always checks with your professional Nutritionist or certified herbalist before taking any product, because some supplements can cause side effects, or interact with other prescribed or over the counter medicines or supplements. If you have a high blood pressure, heart disease, or diabetes. Also, don’t give a supplement to a child without checking with their health care provider.

Healing Tree Wellness Center, Dr. Katherine Cheon is certified herbalist, specialized T.C.M and Nutrition.

We only use Standard Process qualified Herbs and Supplements…

HEALTHY SOIL. HEALTHY PLANTS. HEALTHY LIVES.

Standard Process, WHOLE FOOD NUTRIENT SOLUTIONS

By emphasizing the importance of concentrated whole food-based ingredient sources and herbs in the product line by ensuring the highest quality in every stage of development, from environmentally safe farming through manufacturing products.

What Are The Benefits Of Nutritional Therapy?

• Reduce the risk of some diseases, including heart diseases, diabetes, stroke, some cancers, and osteoporosis

• Reduce high blood pressure

• Lower high cholesterol

• Improve your well-being

• Improve your ability to fight off illness

• Improve your ability to recover from illness or injury

• Increase your energy level

• Weight Control

• Purification

• Detoxification