Chinese herbs
Look at all that natural goodness!
 
The West is a pill-popping, man-made-medicine-obsessed culture. We’ve got pills to treat everything from headaches to upset stomach to erectile dysfunction, and it seems like most of the Western world likes it that way. Often when I hear traditional Chinese medicine mentioned, it gets kind of brushed aside and scoffed at by Westerners. And I can’t with any honesty claim that I’m not susceptible to my native culture; I’m guilty, too, sometimes.
 
But when you think about it, natural cures for common health problems and disease make sense. We’re made up of the elements found on earth, so why wouldn’t natural things help us balance out our bodies and minds? That’s why I find traditional Chinese Medicine so fascinating; it just makes sense.
 
I came across this article on Chinese Medicine News a little while ago, and I thought it was interesting. The short of it is that a traditional Chinese medicine (加味逍遙散 , Jia Wei Xiao Yao San, or “wandering free” ) used as far back as the Song Dynasty to treat muscular pain, dizziness, uneasiness, hot flashes, extreme sweating, insomnia, decreasing appetite and abnormal menstrual symptoms has been found to be effective in treating depression and various types of anxiety as well. There’s a lot more to the article (mostly medical research mumbo-jumbo), so I’ll just let it go and post the link below. The point is that it’s cool to see another example of how natural cures can be just as effective as man-made ones, and probably without all the side effects, too.
 
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