Who or What is the Barefoot Doctor Barefoot Doctor manual for techniques on healingThe story of the Barefoot Doctor begins with Traditional Chinese Medicine, but native healers around the world like village medicine women or tribal shamans serve a similar function. The Barefoot Doctor is traditionally a folk healer who helps the country’s people regain […]

The traditional way of taking herbs is by hot water (aqueous) extraction. We generally call this a “tea,” but tonics are cooked much longer than a beverage tea, sometimes as long as an hour. Also, beverage tea is made from the leaves of mostly one plant, Camilla sinensis, while herbal tonics are often roots, barks,

A unique feature of Traditional Chinese Medicine is that each herbal formula can be adjusted to create different effects This is accomplished by taking a classic formula and adding or subtracting herbs to match an individual’s needs. Our dispensary is set up to create and modify classic formulas and send them to you as teas,

With the increasing usage of Chinese herbs in North America, scrutiny by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal and State agricultural departments, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have become intense. Because of this scrutiny, legitimate suppliers of Chinese herbs to herbalists and acupuncturists realized they had to meet Western quality standards

Chinese medicine is often referred to as a “5000-year-old” system of healing. Most of what we call Traditional Chinese Medicine (TMC) today is not that ancient, but Chinese culture and philosophy from which the medicine grew is that old or older. As an example, the concepts of Yin and Yang are very ancient and rooted