Alternative Healing Chinese Medicine And Herbal Remedies
Posted in Alternative on May 10th, 2012 by admin – Comments Off
The basis behind alternative herbal remedies is to combine a series of herbs in order to bring about the desired effect. Commonly, there will be a formula of four herbs used in combination and harmony with each other. This is done in order to treat secondary illnesses that may have been affected by the primary illness. This also helps to balance and strengthen the body while it is healing.
As Chinese medicine begins to divide the various natural herbal remedies, they will do so by a hierarchy. On the top of this hierarchy is the emperor herb. This will be used to cure the major illness that is taking place. Beneath this is the ‘ministers’ of the alternative herbal remedy. This is used to treat any secondary illnesses that are taking place. After this, herbal ‘assistants’ will be used to support the other two herbs. The last set of herbs will be the messenger herbs, which will tell the primary and secondary herbs where to go and how much of an effect to take on the body.

