By Cathy Margolin
on July 12, 2010
I realized it's been a year since I posted an article about transparency of herbal products on the market today. Much has changed with new GMP (Good Manufacturing Process) laws and much has stayed the same. I decided to re-post this while talking with a client about what to look for in the best Chinese herb products on the market. It will always be a buyers-beware market. You must do your homework when shopping for supplements. The first order of business is to check out the manufacturer. If you would like our Free Special Report on: "What you need to know about Chinese Herbs before you buy" just sign up for our news letter and you will receive it FREE. Or click here. Enjoy this article about transparency and what we've done to help provide you with the most information…
By Cathy Margolin
on July 8, 2010
Having a good night of sleep can make all the difference in having a good day ahead. The video below gives some good ideas about Western herbs for sleep and some foods that may help calm you down in the evening. But unfortunately, the dietitian in this segment of Fox News has obviously not heard of Chinese herbs that are commonly used as sleep aids. Drinking Ziziphi or Suan Zao Ren tea, otherwise known as spiny jujube seed, can give you as much if not more relaxation as chamomile tea or valerian tea. Americans are not as familiar with Chinese herbs because they are not yet as pervasive on the store shelves, but they are coming. (Ours are already here) As the world gets smaller, Americans are learnimg more about convention herbal medicines from far away places such as…
By Cathy Margolin
on April 21, 2010
A study involving nearly 3,500 women in several countries suggests natural herbs may be more effective in relieving menstrual cramps than drugs, acupuncture or heat compression.
Australia-based researchers said herbs not only relieved pain, but reduced the recurrence of the condition over three months, according to the Cochrane Library journal.
Who writes The Cochrane Library Journal? An international not-for-profit and independent organization, dedicated to up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of health-care readily available worldwide.
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The Cochrane Collaboration produce and disseminates systematic reviews of health-care interventions and promote the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions. The Cochrane Collaboration was founded in 1993. They publish the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews quarterly as part of the Cochrane Library.
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By Cathy Margolin
on November 24, 2009
Mood swings. Depression. Irritability. Crying. Anger. Bloating. Breast tenderness. Fatigue. Insomnia. Painful menstrual cramps. Most likely you are one of the 90% of women that experiences Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS). And of that, 30-40% of you will have to rearrange your daily lives in order to maintain the proper self-care needed to manage these symptoms. Approximately every 28 days the body repeats this beautiful, life-affirming, and natural cycle.
However, if you are one of the millions of women who experience PMS, you may find yourself wondering what is ‘natural’ about your experience. For most, these symptoms color every moment of those 5 – 7 days, including the week prior to the beginning of menstruation. This means that for 14 days out of every given month, you are feeling less than yourself. For thousands of years, practitioners of…
By Cathy Margolin
on November 21, 2009
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is used by more than 3 billion people in the world.As temperatures begin to drop and winter approaches the seasonal flu and H1N1 cases begin to spread. There may be another alternative to Tamiflu & flu vaccines to battle the virus. Hong Kong based Rorric Bio-Technology Ltd. believes it may be able to offer a less invasive cure to H1N1 using Chinese Medicine. The Chairman of R&B Dr. Chow Ching-Fung says, “This formula is effective in two ways. First it combats and eliminates the virus. Second, it boost the immune system, helping the patient to become stronger. Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of being proven to have fewer side effects, as it uses herbal ingredients. But western medicine contains a mixture of chemicals from the manufacturing process. So the risks are higher.”
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By Cathy Margolin
on August 1, 2009
Plant medicine is still the primary medicine for more than half the worlds population. The other half of the globe is realizing it’s time to return to our roots and re-visit herbal medicine. Plant medicine’s safety record is untouched by modern pharmaceuticals.
Traditional Chinese herbal medicine has a rich history of cooking raw herbs and drinking the decoction as a tea. Today with our modern processing plants we have more options to take herbs in pills form, tablets and now packets. Watch this short video if your new to Chinese herbs . It’s a good introduction to the basics of Chinese herbal formulas.
By Cathy Margolin
on July 21, 2009
I like the CNN news piece called around the world in 60 seconds. It gives you a quick blurb of whats happening around the world. Here’s my take on that theme. The spread of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM ) around the world in 60 seconds. Hope you like numbers, in regards to TCM here’s some interesting ones. In the past 10 years, TCM has spread to over 160 countries and regions around the world with total exports of TCM products exceeding $1 billion.
The treatment, education and scientific and technological communities of TCM have continuously expanded. 70 countries have signed 94 governmental agreements on TCM content. There are currently 47 TCM institutions of higher learning in China and over 600,000 qualified TCM medical practitioners over 370,000 of which are certified TCM physicians. In America alone, 30 million people have tried…
By Cathy Margolin
on July 12, 2009
I’m never quite sure what will inspire me to write a blog but seeing this video today did the trick. This blog is about the human placenta and why women are now calling “a placenta cooking lady” to prepare their placenta’s into pills to ingest after childbirth. The placenta is attached to the fetus via the umbilical cord. Once the baby is born the placenta and cord are considered medical waste (so we’re told) at the hospital. We’ve known for some time the umbilical cord is a source of stem cell research and many wealthy parents now have the cord frozen and stored, just in case it’s needed in the future. Now, it’s becoming more widely known that that placenta has tremendous value as well. Chinese Medicine has understood the value of the human placenta for generations. Ingesting dried…
