Asian herbs are chosen for their nutritional value as well as for their energetic quialities. Some herbs contain vitamins and minerals, but more often they’re used as catalysts for metabolism, circulation, or energy and blood circulation.

Many plants contain important immunity-building constituents such as flavinoinds, like those found in citrus; saponins, used for cancer prevention; or natural steroids that inhibit inflammation. Antibiotics herbs treating local or systemic problems are often combined with cleansing or strengthening herbs in order to facilitate their action and prevent side effects.

Asian medicine accepts a totality of body / mind / sprit. In that view, natural processes are explained not in terms of biochemistry, but as changes in the quality, quantity, and directional flow of vital energy.

To understand what it meant by energetic medicine, we have to accept a view of humanness that may be closer to advanced physic that to Western medicine. Vital energy, a component of our being subtler than flesh, bones, and mechanics, is needed to explain what motivates human life. Medicinal herbs influence life’s basic elements, that build the “fire” of metabolism, the “water” f blood, saliva, or semen, and “wind”, the circulation of nerve impulses throughout the body. Put another way, herbs work by altering vigor, circulation, metabolism, body fluids, hormones, and emotions. Herbs fuel new growth and repair damaged tissue by enhancing nutrition through anabolism and catabolism. Herbs can also kill germs, reduce fever, or do many of the things that medical drugs do.

Because herbs are a part of an elaborate system of Asian Medical thought and practice, that are chosen to affect specific parts of the body n particular ways. Herbs can maintain the normal flow of physical processes in organ systems and harmonize emotional in order to reestablish balance. For that reason, that have fewer side effects than Western medicines.