Q I'm not sure exactly what herbal tonics are. Does just taking them make me healthy?
A A herbal tonic replenishes the Qi, Blood, Yin, and Yang that your body lacks, boosting your own capacity to recover. What you're deficient in differs from person to person, so you need a pulse diagnosis and a customized prescription to get real results.
Detailed Answer
In Korean Medicine, a herbal tonic (補藥) is a prescription that replenishes deficient Qi, Blood, Yin, and Yang to strengthen the body's natural recovery power. A lack of Qi causes low energy, a lack of Blood causes dizziness, a lack of Yin causes dryness and rising heat, and a lack of Yang causes coldness and poor digestion. What each person lacks is different, and even the same fatigue can have different underlying causes.
Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective
At Dongjedang Korean Medicine Clinic, a herbal tonic is a customized prescription created after a pulse diagnosis identifies exactly what is deficient and what is excessive in your body right now. A tonic that doesn't match your constitution can actually burden the body, so we don't recommend taking one without a pulse diagnosis first.
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