Oriental Medicine

Oriental medicine has been around for thousands of years (the earliest Herbal, the Shennong, was completed around 200 BC), yet we still trust modern medicine and its dangerous side effects more. “Western” medications go through approximately a year of testing and can have unforeseen side effects, but Chinese medicine, even the more recent have been through hundreds of years of prescription. The Chinese Herbals contain medicines that the Western world considers toxic and extremely dangerous. Yet …

…combined taking the benefits of both we would enter a new age of medical advancement. By using the concepts and age-old, tested traditions the world would not have to fear medicine and still have a working solution. Western medicine’s potency is where it shines. It has the ability of the “instant” cure. Take this and Chinese medicine’s long tested concepts and methods of prevention and a new age of medical science may bloom.