Why is the Taoist Tonic Herbal system so superior to other Herbal systems?
There are probably many accurate answers to this but I’ll provide with the two explanations I find most compelling and interesting: The first is the way that herbalist get paid. In Traditional Taoist Medicine you would pay a Herbalist as long as you were healthy, to keep you that way and you would keep paying them unless or until you became ill, at which point you would stop paying them until you were well again. A totally different paradigm from what we in the West are used to, and as you can imagine this would give the Taoist Herbalist powerful and compelling motivation to keep you well, in fact to keep you functioning optimally, at your best, as if you weren’t they would risk losing their reputation as well as their income. In Western Medicine and Herbalism however the opposite paradigm is in play: you only go to see a Doctor or Herbalist (or whatever other healthcare practitioner) once you are already unwell, who would give you drugs, or Medicinal Herbs (or supplements etc) with th
