The Nightingale Clinic

Complementary Health and Beauty Clinic in Earls Barton, Northampton, Northamptonshire

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine has developed a huge variety of over 8000 herbs and several thousand classical prescriptions of herbs to treat practically any health problems.

Herbal remedies usually work in a different way from that of conventional drugs. They are intended to address the underlying causes of the problems and restore the body’s harmony.

Impressive results have been achieved by Chinese herbal medicine both to heal those disorders that often fail to respond to the best of Western medicine, and to treat major diseases with methods that are more sympathetic to the human system and have few or no harmful side effects.

What can traditional Chinese medicine help?

The most commonly treated problems by Chinese herbal remedy include:

• Skin Conditions
  • Eczema
  • Acne
  • Psoriasis
• Breathing problems
  • Asthma
  • Bronchitis
• Allergic reactions
  • Hay fever
  • Sinusitis
• Stress / anxiety / depression
• Irritable Bowel Syndroms (IBS)
• Digestive problems e.g.
  • Stomach-ache
  • Heartburn
  • Constipation
  • Diarrhoea
• M.E./fatigue/insomnia
• Gynaecological Problems
  • Menstrual disorders
  • Menopause symptoms

Most commonly, herbs are decocted into a drink, but pills, tablets, capsules, granules, and liquid herbal extracts are also widely used.

For more details or to book a session, please contact me (Lang Cai) either by email on or by telephone on 01604 413120 or 07962 896 010.

For more details on Traditional Chinese Medicine, check out the Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine at www.atcmuk.org.

You can also read these guides:

• BBC article on Traditional Chinese Medicine
• BBC article on Herbal Medicine
• MedicDirect guide
• "Understanding herbal medicine" from iVillage
• Chinese herbal medicine guide from Channel 4