Herbal therapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a system of healthcare that uses medicinal natural elements such as plants, minerals, and occasionally animal-derived substances to support health and address illness.

TCM herbal therapy emphasizes combining multiple ingredients into carefully formulated prescriptions based on a person’s overall patterns of symptoms and constitution to support the body’s regulatory functions and address underlying patterns associated with illness.

Herbal prescriptions are commonly dispensed as granules to be mixed with warm water, capsules, tablets or liquid tinctures.