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| - This is a review so overdue but seeing someone who are not familiar with Chinese herbal medicine at all and gave such a negative feedback made me so mad and had to write something in defense!
I'm Chinese raised in Hong Kong and saw quite a lot of Chinese herbal doctors and a famous one in Hong Kong who has shows on TV but I think this Herbalist Kuang is even better! My health was extremely poor after coming to the US and got tendonitis and severe back pain, chest pain, my heart hurts, etc. and I saw different primary care doctors to get a second opinion, all kinds of specialists, including cardiologist, rheumatologist, sent to the emergency room because of severe chest pain and difficulty breathing, did physical therapy, and no one could find out what's wrong with me and solve my issues (except the physical therapy who gave me some relief)!!
I don't remember who recommended me to try him but I went ahead and try thinking there's nothing to lose since I have literally tried everything. And at that time my major problem was lower back pain so severe that I couldn't sit anymore. I could only lie down to relieve the pain. I took a few days of the herbal medicine and I was so much better within a week!! That's something new!!! I couldn't believe my back could stop hurting and it's such a beautiful thing to be able to sit without a problem!!! If you have back pain you know what I mean!! I used to carry a coccyx pillow with me everywhere I go and I started to be able to wean using the pillow!! The herbalist explained that because my stomach is not good and my blood circulation is not good, so no matter what good food with good nutrients you eat, your body can't absorb them well. Improving good circulation can help bring nutrients to the parts of body where they need to be healed, and the body will repair those parts naturally!!! This makes so much sense!!
After I was all better, no back pain, tendonitis, chest pain, etc, I started to plan having a baby. The herbalist said I still need to have my body conditioned and repair so that my "qi xue" (qi and blood) is to a certain level before it's good for me to try having a baby. It took some time though since my body was so weak, and finally after a few months, the herbalist gave me a green light and we tried, and I got pregnant on the second try!! I am forever grateful for Herbalist Kuang's care and I have a perfectly healthy and smart baby now 4 years old!!
To respond to the comment saying they don't write down how many grams the herbs should be. This reviewer probably doesn't read Chinese. In the "prescription list", there's a number after each herb. And in Chinese, we don't count by gram. Maybe some herbalist got westernized and use a western scale, but all the Chinese herbal doctors I saw use a hand scale. You see that they seem to just grab herbs without weighing them, and I had the same question in my mind at first too but I think they're just too experienced they don't have to weigh most of the time after looking at the prescription list. For some herbs they do take out the hand scale and weigh them, probably those are too light and not accurate enough by the feel. That's just my guess. But since the herbs did help me tremendously, I don't question about it anymore after a few visits.
Hope that helps people who had never tried Chinese herbs before and wanted to try. I say, go give it a try, there's nothing to lose! Copays from doctors, specialists and CT scans, x-rays, physical therapists, prescriptions, etc. cost so much more!
P.S. And for Chinese people, we believe that western medications are toxins, that's why you call them "drugs"!! That's why you get so many side-effects taking them, and you have to take another drug to cover that side-effect, and the vicious cycle continues.
And this place is really crowded with people from all kinds of ethnicities, because the herbalist is great!! There was once a lady sitting by me said that the herbalist saved her life!! You hear all kinds of good stories around sitting there waiting. Yes, the lady at the cashier could sound rude, but they get too swamped with patients that I saw them skipping meals on certain busy days like weekends. Choose a weekday to go to avoid the crowds :)
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