Chinese Health Disciplines and Homeopathic Remedies?

The Chinese have been leading the way in homeopathic remedies for more than 5,000 years, blending state-of-the-art science with manufacturing processes and nature. Using the collective wisdom of Chinese health disciplines, and Oriental medicine in particular, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has refined the use of herbs and plants for preventing and treating disease. During this process many theories, methodologies and systems have been documented under the category of homeopathic remedies.

In essence, Chinese medicine was the first form of homeopathy, a complete medical system capable of treating disease in all its forms with a traditional view placing great importance on preventing disease before it occurs. Through thousands of years of using herbs, oriental medicine has accumulated a wealthy experience about different herbs. Experience tells us some herbs have proven to be beneficial to different parts of the body including micro systems. This knowledge also includes the side effects that might be associated with using each herb.

Homeopathic remedies are preparations which cause certain symptoms in healthy individuals that are given as the treatment for patients exhibiting similar symptoms. Homeopathic remedies are prepared by serial dilution with shaking by forceful striking, which homeopaths term succussion, a process for "potentization." Dilution often continues until none of the original substance is remaining.

Starting with the purest natural ingredients, technology extracts and combines the most healthful herbal components. For example, the use of nano-microencapsulation technology, when applied to plant extraction, can greatly increase the bioavailability of active ingredients and reduce the amount of ingredients used (i.e. less unwanted side effects from using less dosage). Each individual ingredient is specifically prepared using different approaches. Some techniques applied to the herbs are proprietary ways to extract small molecular compounds and the specific macromolecules in the herbs.

Traditionally, the best method of plant extraction is by using water, ethanol, other organic solvents, or supercritical CO2 extraction methods. The drawback for using this method is that in most cases, only the small molecular compounds are being extracted. Through years of study and research, Canfo has found that some plant’s macromolecule is actually the effective component. Through traditional extraction methods, these macromolecules are being discarded as byproducts or wastes. But there are some companies who have developed a proprietary way of extraction that extracts both the small molecular compounds and specific macromolecules in the herbs.