Herbology is an important medical modality utilized in traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Each herbal medicine prescription is a cocktail of many herbs tailored to the individual patient. The principles of Chinese medicine were formed by observation and understanding the natural world. It is said that health, balance, and disease are subject to these principles of the natural order. The practitioner designs a formula using one or two main ingredients that target the illness. Then the practitioner adds many other ingredients to adjust the formula to the patient’s conditions, balancing yin, yang, qi, and blood. Unlike western pharmaceuticals, the balance and interaction of all the ingredients are considered more important than the effect of individual ingredients.

Herbal prescriptions come in the following different forms:

• • Teas or decoctions (tāng)
• • Powders (sān)
• • Pills (wān)
• • Syrups (gāo)
• • Plasters (gāo)

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