Traditional Chinese medicine encompasses more than 5000 known herbs and Chinese medicines. Only around 500 of these are used in Europe. At this point we would like to introduce various herbs of chinese medicine:

• Fructus lycii (wolfberry fruit)
• Fructus cornii (Japanese Cornelian cherries)
• Semen trichosantis (Trichosanthes seeds) and Fructus trichosantis (Trichosanthes fruit)
• Fructus jujubae (Chinese dates)
• Fructus gardiniae (Chinese Cape Jasmine fruit)
• Flos magnoliae (biond magnolia flower)
• Flos carthami (safflower)
• Rhizoma phragmatis (reed rhizome)
• Pericarpium aurantii (bitter orange peel)
• Massa medicata
• Radix gentianae (gentian)
• Pinellia (pinellia)
• Bupleurum (Chinese umbellifers)
• Rhizoma zingiberis (fresh ginger)
• Radix puerariae (Kudzuvine root)
• Semen coicis (Coix seed)
• Poria
• Concha ostrae (oyster shell)

There are many Western medicines of this kind, although naturally they cannot all be mentioned on this webpage. The aim is merely to give an impression of how Western herbs can also positively influence and heal sickness processes, for example:

• Herba hypericum (St. John’s wort)
• Mistletoe (Visci albi herba)
• Valerian (Valerianae radix)
• Flori tilliae lindere (lime blossom)
• Coltsfoot (Folium farfarae)
• Bearberry leaves (Uvae ursi folium)

 At present a great deal of scientific research is being conducted on how Western herbs can be administered in conjunction with traditional Chinese medicines. This will be a major field of scientific activity over the next century.