Chinese Herbal Medicine

Chinese herbal medicine is a theory of chinese herbal therapy, which is a large portion of traditional chinese medicine. The chinese have been using herbs to heal sickness and wounds ever since 168 BC. It is believed that the chinese uses these herbal medicine to cure diseases, restoring balance to the body, and to prolong health and longevity. The chinese herbal medicine includes everything that can be found in nature either in the land or the sea. There are different forms of herbal medicine such as herbal powder, extracts, and also herbal pills. The most common plant used in the Ginseng because of the aged root, it is a highly used commodity and can sometimes be expensive.There are also other different herbs as well such as mushrooms, ginger, wolfberry, dang gui, and rhubarb. The list goes on to a long list of herbal suppliments the chinese use. The chinese also uses creatures such as sea horses, rhino horns, and turtle plastron. Chinese herbology has been around for such a long time that there are cases of things that are toxic as well but none of them are life threatening. My parents has used some of these methods and they have been very effective so far, things such as ginger and ginseng are some of the ones that my parents uses.