Herbal medicines are those with active ingredients made from plant parts, such as leaves, roots or flowers. It aims at treating the fundamental cause of diseases.
The traditional herbal medicine can be formed in entire plant; leaf; flower; fruit or seed; root or rhizome/tuber and tree bark or root bark. It would take 40-60mins to boil the herbal soup. Chinese herbal medicine is rare to see in day to day life, it is planted for medicine on purpose as an industry. The customised herbal prescription can be the mixture of a few formulas and your practitioner would add or remove some of the ingredients base on their perspective to your condition.
In modern days, we provide Chinese herbal extracts are herbal decoctions that have been condensed into a granular or powdered form. Herbal extracts, similar to patent medicines, are easier and more convenient for patients to take. But what you need to know that: The herbal extract is the purification by distillation, it is not the blended raw herbs. The powder of raw herbs can not replace the herbal extract, as the raw herbs supposed to be cooked/boiled, it cannot be consumed rawly. The herbal extract is dissolved easily, however, the blended raw herbs are not dissolvable.
