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…

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…

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…

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…