Unlocking the Secrets of Chinese Herbs

Female Speaker: Well, here we are in Chinatown and one of my favorite herbal company, the Nam Bac Hang Herb Company. Dr. Zhu has written my prescription so we are going to go in and fill it. [Foreign Language]. This is Zhu and you've been here for how many years, Zhu.

Zhu: I've been here for 14, 15 years.

Female Speaker: 14, 15 years. And we have a prescription only other chance. So this is really where you see the lines for and between actually food and herbs. Because if you able to walk in to a very good herbal store such as this. You'll not only see look at all those rows of Chinese herbs and they are maturing out of prescription, two prescriptions, but you also see foods as well. Look at these almond seeds and we have lotus seeds and jujubes which actually we are going to use after that's what dried oyster actually but jujubes or red dates and some wolfberries or goji. So what they do Matthew is very often for instance not only does the wolfberry has it has medicinal qualities but its rather sweet and so it actually offsets the bitterness of the Angelica, Angelica happens little bitter but it's a really good herb for energy as well as for woman particularly for women its not unusual for women to eat chicken soup with Angelica at least once in a month regulates menses. So you see once again this division between not division but the blur between food and medicine and how food and herbs are used in everyday life to maintain good health.


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