Herbal Medicine related content of interest to the general public or those that contain introductory information.
Each and every one of us is sustained from vital energy, from those things that we take in and metabolize that bring us life; water, sunlight, food, breath, love, to name a few. This in turn, can describe the nature of a flower essence. That is the vital life force of the plant captured in the medium of water. When administered, the flower essence is said to 'uplift the life energy of the individual'.
Even though Chinese Medicine is new to many of us, it is far from a new medicine, a new "alternative", or any other relationship to "new" that it may gain in popular media. The theories and methods utilized within Chinese Medicine are drawn from thousands and thousands of years of collective human experience. When people ask "does it really work?", this question always amazes me. This is not because I'm surprised that they are unfamiliar with some of the techniques, but because of how much sense it makes when people stop and think about it.
