The Chinese Herbalist's Handbook: A Practitioner's Reference Guide to Traditional Chinese Herbs and Formulas

Within the context of Oriental medicine Chinese herbal medicine is one of the oldest treatment modalities. china has achieved full integration of traditional practitioners are usually trained on a continuous basis, they view both types of medicines as complementary consulting one form of medicine for certain ailments and the other for different ones or using both styles concurrently. In many hospitals Chinese herbal and allopathic pharmacies are commonly right next to one another.