As you learned in Part I: Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Cure for What Ails You, Chinese herbs are very rarely taken as single herbs. As Dr. Maryam Mahanian explains in this video, they are taken as combinations of many different herbs. Sometimes you’ll have up to twenty or so herbs in one prescription to treat a single ailment.

To give you an idea, we take a look at the common cold. In Western medicine, there’s actually no treatment for it, even though it’s the most common illness in the world. Western medicine relies on antibiotics, which don’t treat the virus and can actually weaken the immune system even further. It may surprise you to find that there are dozens of Chinese herbs with antiviral properties. This segment introduces some of them.

The second concoction Dr. Mahanian introduces is recommended for people with eczema and psoriasis. Those who suffer from such a condition know very well that finding a cure for this problem is very rare. If this is you, then you may be happy to find out that you don’t have to resort to taking cortisone (a steroid hormone) creams to relieve the symptoms. Click on the image above to learn more and read on for further details!

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