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Our store is fully stocked with a huge number of herbs, but we've managed to wrangle a group of them into a few shopping guides. These guides are great for folks just shopping for herbs for the first time, but also long time herb enthusiasts looking for easy groupings of some of the most popular herb categories. We hope you find them useful! We have really helpful guides like The Money Saver …

The holidays are here and we know exactly what that means. Great food. And probably too much of it. There's nothing like the holidays to incite a little inspired overeating. For every family meal, potluck, and new recipe we test out we're giving our digestive system a definite workout. While at first it feels great to eat a lot of something really tasty, we've all wound up with the consequenc …

A mix up we often see in people first shopping for herbs is some confusion between Cat's Claw and ANOTHER Cat's Claw. Confusingly, some plants are named and nicknamed very similarly, even the same, and that is especially so in this case. Both Uncaria Tomentosa and Uncaria Rhynchophylla are herbs used popularly in herbal medicine, but with very different histories and uses.Uncaria Rhynchophyll …

Have you noticed that we don't use the words like "cure" or "treatment" or "treatments that cure your condition" on our website? We're very precise with our language for a good reason. 1st Chinese Herbs is a retail store and not your doctor or acupuncturist's office. Since we aren't doctors, it would be extremely unethical for us to say "yes, this cures x, y, or z." You will find that on all …