herbal medicine

For centuries, nature has provided us with medicines. Herbal medicine uses natural substances that have medicinal qualities to counter illness and to optimise your health and longevity. These substances can be used either individually or in combination with other herbal medicines in traditional and well-known formulas. These formulas are selected to match the pattern of dysfunction in your body; although you and a friend may suffer from the same complaint, you both may be prescribed very different formulas since the overall conditions of your bodies may be very different. As your condition changes and improves with treatment, your herbal formula is also adjusted and modified until the desired health outcome is achieved.

When you use herbal medicine, you benefit not only from the active constituents (which are often processed into pharmaceuticals), but also from the other natural constituents present. These constituents reduce or eliminate the occurence of side-effects.

Chinese herbal medicine can be presribed alone or in conjunction with acupuncture treatments by Christine Guirguis or Melinda McDonald. Western herbal medicine can similarly be sought alone or with a nutritional medicine consult by Cassie Mendoza-Jones.