A panic attack is anxiety at its most physical: the heart pounds, the chest tightens, breath comes short, hands tingle, and the mind is certain something terrible is happening. Heart palpitations…

Anxiety and insomnia feed each other: the anxious mind will not switch off at night, and the exhausted body is more anxious the next day. Treating them as two separate problems rarely works.…

A warm cup of tea is the gentlest place to start with Chinese herbal medicine, and for mild, everyday anxiety it is often enough. Chinese herbal tea for anxiety is not one thing – it is a small…

Raw herbs cooked into a decoction – tang in Chinese – are the oldest and, many practitioners believe, the most effective way to take Chinese herbal medicine. The formula can be adjusted gram by…

New Jersey runs on stress: the commute into the city, the cost of living in Bergen County, the pace of work. It is no surprise that anxiety is the single most common reason new clients contact our…

Ask a Chinese herbalist to name the single most important tonic formula and many will say Liu Wei Di Huang Wan – the Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill. It was composed by the pediatrician Qian Yi in…

If Chinese herbal medicine had a best-seller list, Xiao Yao San would be near the top. Its name translates as “Free and Easy Wanderer” – the picture of a person strolling through life without…