The 3 p.m. reach for something sweet. The bag of cookies after a hard day. The crash an hour after lunch that only sugar seems to fix. Sugar cravings and emotional eating sit underneath most…

Most people who search for Chinese herbal medicine for weight loss in New Jersey have already tried the diets. What they want to know is practical: what actually happens at a consultation, how…

If red yeast rice is the powerful, prescription-like end of Chinese cholesterol herbs, hawthorn berry – Shan Zha – is the gentle, everyday end. It is sour, food-grade, safe for most people as a…

“Fatty liver” is now the most common liver finding on an ultrasound in the United States, and it almost always arrives together with high triglycerides, high LDL cholesterol and a growing…

Red yeast rice – Hong Qu in Chinese – is the one herbal product for cholesterol that undeniably works, and that is exactly why it needs care. It lowers LDL because it contains monacolin K,…

Of all the Chinese herbs discussed for blood sugar, mulberry leaf – Sang Ye – is the one with the most straightforward story. It has been used in Chinese medicine for two thousand years, it is…

People managing type 2 diabetes or prediabetes often ask whether there is a tea they can drink daily that helps. There are several in the Chinese tradition – mulberry leaf above all – and some…

“Slimming tea” is one of the most abused phrases in the herb world, so let us be clear from the start: no tea melts fat, and any product that promises it is either exaggerating or hiding a…

About one in ten adults in New Jersey has diabetes, and roughly one in three has prediabetes, most without knowing it. If you are one of them and you are looking for Chinese herbs for diabetes in…

Weight that settles around the middle – and refuses to leave even when the rest of the body slims down – has a specific explanation in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Belly fat is where dampness…