Our Shopping Guides are Live!
Posted by 1st Chinese Herbs on Nov 9th 2018
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
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Which Cat's Claw is Which?
Posted by 1st Chinese Herbs on Oct 15th 2018
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
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Why We Don't Prescribe
Posted by 1st Chinese Herbs on Aug 15th 2018
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
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The Real Cost of Herbs
Posted by 1st Chinese Herbs on May 9th 2018
Herbs can be expensive, there's no way to argue around that. When the costs are higher you always want to be sure you're getting precisely
what you pay for. You might find a listing online that purports to be the herb you
want, but without verification and without any testing to prove that it is
really that herb. Anyone can sell their wares online in a variety of ways--how
can you be sure what
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