Herbs

HERBS

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine stems from the experience of hundreds and thousands of years of clinical practice. Depending on the conditions being treated, Chinese herbs may be prescribed to aid and augment in the healing process. Used together with acupuncture and therapeutic massage, Chinese herbs are effective in reducing pain, rebalancing the body's yin and yan, and restoring the body to a healthy state. At Mei's, we specialize in using herbs to treat the following conditions:

• Infertility

• PSM

• Endometriosis

• Ovarian and uterine cysts

• Cough

• Asthma

• Insomnia

Herbs are taken orally either as a tea or in the form of tablets. The process usually goes like this:

• We evaluate a patient's integral, local, and microcosmic syndromes, then plan out customized herb formulas. An herb formula usually consists of several different types of herbs, where each type of herb is meant to treat a different syndrome.

• We cook the batch of herbs with water to make the herbal tea and provide it to the patient. Alternatively, we can also provide the patient with instructions on how to cook the herbs into a tea.

• The patient drinks the tea, usually two or three times a day, over a span of a few days.

• We continue to evaluate the patient's progress and reaction to the herbal tea, changing the herb formula and making a different batch of herbs if necessary.

• Certain conditions do not require cooked herbal tea, but can be treated with herb tablets instead. Oftentimes, a combination of herbal tea and herbal tablets are both used.