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Chinese herbal medicine reference: what each herb is used for in TCM, how it is prepared and dosed, and its safety cautions and contraindications.
- Ginkgo Safety Guide: Cautions, Contraindications and Sensible Doses ginkgo, side effects, safety, tcm It collects the safety findings, the traditional contraindications and the boring-but-important stuff about doses.
- Making Echinacea Work: A Practical Preparation Guide echinacea, how to take, tea, preparation p There is a gap between knowing that Echinacea helps and knowing what to do with the dried root that arrives in the post.
- Ginger in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Benefits, Uses and Safety ginger, sheng jiang, zingiber officinale, tcm herbs, ginger tea, digestion, nausea Overview Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is one of the most widely used roots in Traditional Chinese Medicine, where it is known as Sheng Jiang (fresh ginger) and Gan Jiang (dried gin.
- Turmeric in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Benefits, Uses and Safety turmeric, jiang huang, curcumin, tcm herbs, joint health, digestion Overview Turmeric (Curcuma longa), called Jiang Huang in Chinese, is a golden-yellow rhizome in the ginger family.
- Cinnamon Bark in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Benefits, Us cinnamon, rou gui, cassia, tcm herbs, warming herbs, circulation Overview Cinnamon bark, Rou Gui in Chinese, comes from the inner bark of Cinnamomum cassia, a tree native to southern China.
- Chamomile in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Benefits, Uses and Safety chamomile, yang gan ju, calming herbs, sleep, digestion, tcm teas Overview Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla), known in Chinese as Yang Gan Ju, is not native to China but fits comfortably into the Chinese herbal framework.
- Peppermint in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Benefits, Uses and Safety peppermint, bo he, mint, tcm herbs, sore throat, digestion, cooling Overview Peppermint, Bo He in Chinese, is cool, acrid and aromatic. In Traditional Chinese Medicine it disperses wind-heat, clears the head and eyes, and soothes the liver qi.
- Licorice Root in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Benefits, Us licorice, gan cao, glycyrrhiza, tcm herbs, harmonizing herb, cough Overview Licorice root, Gan Cao, meaning sweet grass, is the most used herb in Chinese medicine: it appears in a large share of classical formulas, where it is called the great har.
- Goji Berry in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Benefits, Uses and Safety goji berry, gou qi zi, wolfberry, tcm herbs, eye health, liver, kidney Overview Goji berry, Gou Qi Zi, is the fruit of Lycium barbarum, a shrub grown widely in Ningxia, China. Sweet and neutral, it enters the liver, kidney and lung meridians.
- Astragalus Root in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Benefits, astragalus, huang qi, milkvetch, tcm herbs, immunity, qi tonic, energy Overview Astragalus root, Huang Qi, from Astragalus membranaceus, is the leading qi tonic of Chinese medicine.
- Ginkgo Leaf in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Benefits, Uses ginkgo, yin xing ye, biloba, tcm herbs, memory, circulation, lungs Overview The ginkgo tree, Yin Xing in Chinese, is a living fossil cultivated around Chinese temples for over a thousand years.
- Green Tea in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Benefits, Uses and Safety green tea, lu cha, tcm herbs, cooling, digestion, antioxidants, tea Overview Green tea, Lu Cha, unfermented leaves of Camellia sinensis, has been Chinas daily medicine for well over a thousand years.