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for tissue repair and healing. Traditional Chinese

medicine has used combinations of herbs for millenia to

positively affect these chemical signals.

Many of the effects of herbs are similar to modern

pharmaceutical drugs. Herbs can be used to decrease

inflammation and pain, kill microorganisms, decrease

allergic symptoms, decrease stress and anxiety, drain

excess water from tissues and help balance hormones

just to name a few.

There are a number of effects that herbs have that you

will not see from pharmaceutical drugs. For your cells

and tissues to recover, your cells have to make enough

energy not only to run the basic daily functions of the

cell but also to make any necessary changes to the

physiology of the cell and repair any damage to its

structure that happened due to injury or illness.

This energy is made by structures inside the cell

called a mitochondria. Certain herbs within Chinese

herbal medicine can increase the level of function of the

mitochondria or help the cell the produce more

mitochondria.

Other herbs can open the microcirculation to increase

blood flow to the cells, regulate the immune system, etc.

Chinese herbal medicine has been practiced for

thousands of years and there are thousands of scientific

studies demonstrating its efficacy.