Chinese Herbal Medicine goes back over 3000 years and offers a rich history of healing and healthcare. Chinese herbs address health imbalances at the root level as opposed to just a symptomatic approach to healing. Compared with Western medications, it offers fewer or no side effects and address the actual cause of illness, instead of just providing symptomatic cover. The goal is to address the REASON WHY your symptoms are happening and shift your health in a deeper and more lasting way.
Here at Open Circle Acupuncture & Healing, we mainly use Evergreen Herbs who are based in California. We chose Evergreen because of their ‘seed to shelf’ philosophy. From "seed to shelf," Evergreen ensures purity, safety and potency in their herbal extracts by following standards of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) established by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and World Health Organization (WHO). They prioritize choosing eco-sensitive farmers who value sustainability. They also have very strict quality controls and test all of their formulas for pesticides, heavy metals, fungus, mold and bacteria. These reasons are on top of the fact that the clinical results of these formulas are well documented and widely used by the most reputable Chinese medicine practitioners around the world.
At our clinic we use patent herbal medicines in capsule form because they provide very effective herbal treatment and are extremely easy and convenient to take regularly.
After about 10 acupuncture treatments we may be recommending a Chinese herbal formula if it seems relevant to your condition and may enhance your clinical results. We generally wait on prescribing herbs right away, because it is very helpful to see how each person is responding to the acupuncture treatments before adding anything else. Sometimes acupuncture alone is enough to treat the condition that the patient is coming in for. For more complex or stubborn cases, Chinese Herbs combined with regular acupuncture can greatly enhance your clinical results.
Here at Open Circle Acupuncture & Healing, we mainly use Evergreen Herbs who are based in California. We chose Evergreen because of their ‘seed to shelf’ philosophy. From "seed to shelf," Evergreen ensures purity, safety and potency in their herbal extracts by following standards of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) established by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and World Health Organization (WHO). They prioritize choosing eco-sensitive farmers who value sustainability. They also have very strict quality controls and test all of their formulas for pesticides, heavy metals, fungus, mold and bacteria. These reasons are on top of the fact that the clinical results of these formulas are well documented and widely used by the most reputable Chinese medicine practitioners around the world.
At our clinic we use patent herbal medicines in capsule form because they provide very effective herbal treatment and are extremely easy and convenient to take regularly.
After about 10 acupuncture treatments we may be recommending a Chinese herbal formula if it seems relevant to your condition and may enhance your clinical results. We generally wait on prescribing herbs right away, because it is very helpful to see how each person is responding to the acupuncture treatments before adding anything else. Sometimes acupuncture alone is enough to treat the condition that the patient is coming in for. For more complex or stubborn cases, Chinese Herbs combined with regular acupuncture can greatly enhance your clinical results.
