This will help protect you from potential side effects or interactions with other medications you take.
The goal of Chinese medicine is to achieve a balance between these two forces.
TCM treatment principles are tailored to an individual’s symptoms.
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Put another way, one’s diagnosis alone does not dictate the use of specific herbs or therapies.
Herbs may be used alone or combined into what are calledformulas.
There are thousands of Chinese herbs as well as many formulas.
However, PCOM recognizes certain ones as often being used for hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
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