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Choosing and using herbal formulas

A working order for people who actually prescribe blends In this medicine you rarely hand someone one leaf and walk away. You match a formula to a person, then you change it. The house blends on this site — the formula index — are starting points, not commandments. 1. Diagnosis before the jar Main complaint, […]

How to combine plants and herbs

Four rules. Not a secret Amazonian TCM. Healers here combine bark, leaf, fruit, and root because one plant rarely covers a chronic mess. Ayurveda and Chinese medicine do the same with different plants and different theory. I will not pretend the Amazon invented “sovereign and minister.” I will tell you what I use. 1. Start […]

Why Use Herbal Formulas?

The forest does not heal as a single tree. Neither do you. Walk into the forest and try to find silence. You won’t. Nothing there lives alone. A formula is that fact, poured into a pot. Chronic trouble — sugar, pressure, an immune system that attacks the owner — is not one receptor. A single […]