Alternative Medicine | By May 20, 2006 | By Tony BrowncloseTony Brown Name: Tony Brown
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A Westerner’s Pilgrimage - Chrysanthemum Tea

When last we met I was standing in a Chinese herbal store with plastic bag full of dried chrysanthemum flowers in my hand. The pharmacist instructed me to combine the flowers with something called Wolfberry fruit an herb that resembled a little like a red crystal rock. In typical Western style, I asked the clerk for the exact number grams of each ingredient to be added to the tea. Her polite but revealing smile told me that my cover had been blown, she knew me for the rookie I was. “I have given you enough for five servings” she answered confidently. She added that it should cure my symptoms which obviously fit the pattern “Arrogant Liver Yang Ascending.” She explained that the pattern combines aspects of both Excess Fire (elevated yang), and Empty Fire (deficient yin). Read more →