[`JiWON]

Have you guys ever been to a chinese doctor and got prescribed chinese herbal medicine?
And what did you go for?
Did it work?

[viffaye]

yeah ive went when i had a flu or something
i dunno. my mum took me
the medicine tastes .. bad T_T "
but i was cured (:

[sweetl0ve]

yup, my parents made me when I was younger. I don't remember but I was really sick. T_______T

it's really nasty, but it helps a lot at leaset for me !

[reallyAmused]

Hmm...I remember some really bad tasting ones, they worked like American medicine but it didn't make me sleepy or dizzy And then there was this really nice minty one i had once that made my sore throat feel lots better fast!

[Azngel]

yeah they do work. the best part is unlike american medicine the herbal medicine doesnt give you strong side effects. i prefer it over american medicine.

[hope_]

Look the thing is, chinese medicine tastes gross. Right? Know fact, yes? But I find that it is twenty times better than Western Medicine, mainly. . .hmm - let me see. Because it's more natural I guess and it works better for my body. I can detox with Chinese medicine, I can get well from a cold, I can retrieve my voice once I've lost it with just a bowl of it or so - right ingredients of course.

And then there are the people who go to have herbs to loose weight.

I seem to be going to more Chinese doctors, than Western lately. It's just better than antibiotics. But that's my 2 cents.

[witchyangelkk]

My mum makes me take chinese herbal medicines all the time... =.="

Even when im not sick.. she'll make me drink certain teas coz im "yeet hay" (uhh.. my system is hot?).

I remember one time i had really bad headaches.. and the chinese doctor told me to wash my hair with ginger water... and it WORKED O__O" (apparantly i had wind (foong) in my head... i think in western terms its called a head cold)

S2 HaiKi

[<vanity>]

I've only had chinese medicine twice. Once during the SARS/birdflu epidemic and my mum made me drink some to boost my immune system despite the fact i live in australia. The other was when i was a kid and broke my leg. There's not much to compare really with my situations. It tasted bitter but that I can handle

[remmy]

My mum makes me take chinese herbal medicines all the time... =.="

Even when im not sick.. she'll make me drink certain teas coz im "yeet hay" (uhh.. my system is hot?).

I remember one time i had really bad headaches.. and the chinese doctor told me to wash my hair with ginger water... and it WORKED O__O" (apparantly i had wind (foong) in my head... i think in western terms its called a head cold)

S2 HaiKi

haha my mom tells me i'm 'yeet hay' all the time. she then goes and makes me all sort of teas to apprarantly 'fix it'
it taste gross.. but it works better than plain advil or whatever so i end up using herbal medicine more often.

[missoriental]

Ye huh. Works =] my parent's are chinese doctors n they have their lil shop with the herbs, tastes EUGH... but its better then the acupuncture needles

[`JiWON]

Well the reason I ask is cos I went to see if my eczema could be treated and he said it could but I read an eczema book that said chinese medicine showed good effects but I dnt know if it can permanently cure it or if it is just temporary
I also seem to be getting more eczema frm the medicine bt maybe its just trying to get it out of my system? Im nt too sure

[BAN`CHAN]

i went a few times to get my acne treated. but those medicines only work temporary for me..
like after i finish drinking it, it just comes back T_T

[Kuyo]

I'm from Australia and am studying Chinese Medicine. ;P

If you don't like taking raw herbs or powdered herbs, you can have pills instead although the raw herbs are most effective.
To the person above who asked about eczema, according to my bf who's in my course as well... he says that chinese medicine is effective with herbs.

The idea of CM is to bring the body back to a balance, well as close as you can. So if the balance is out of whack, things go wrong. Your CM practitioner will treat you for your chief complaint (i.e. eczema) but hopefully they will treat you for the underlying cause as well. My own CM practitioner gave me heaps of herbs and acupuncture last year which helped me because I was suffering from extreme tiredness, eczema, and back pain. It cleared up everything, although I haven't gone back to get acupuncture for my back pain in a while but it was really effective. I used to go weekly.

Anyway, I would totally tell you everything I know but most of you would probably stare at me blankly cause it wouldn't make sense... It didn't make sense to me when I first started this course either... but now, I think in CM terms anyway.

HTH

[hope_]

Well the reason I ask is cos I went to see if my eczema could be treated and he said it could but I read an eczema book that said chinese medicine showed good effects but I dnt know if it can permanently cure it or if it is just temporary
I also seem to be getting more eczema frm the medicine bt maybe its just trying to get it out of my system? Im nt too sure

I went to the Chinese Doctors for my skin problems too and while they cured it for awhile, when the weather went cold again - I was messed up.

Back to the Docs again. But if you don't like the liquid taste, you can make tablets out of them. I've had them too and it's just like Western medicine.

[dreamsicle]

Chinese medicine is good. I don't even take Western medicine. Well... I get a cold like once a year so...

[`JiWON]

Oh ok cos the doctor said my heart and lungs arent working normally so he made me take the medicine and apparently thats why iv got the eczema and he also said i will grow too
going bak soon tho
Can you actually study chinese herbal medicine in western countries?

[juicebox]

chinese medicines work real good. its jus the taste tht puts me off... but think about it. its like natural stuff unlike western medicine.
anyways... i dont believe in tht whole wind thing "fung or foong" in ur head or stomach or wherever. its jus... not possible to hav tht in u XD wind in ur head tht causes headaches? =S