Our Custom Herbal Formulas have similar pharmacological properties as Western medicine. All of our 150 powdered herbs are 100% U.S. Organic, come from a state of the art facility in Taiwan that meets and exceed the current Good Manufacturing Practice standards. Every herb goes through several tests to ensure purity from over 200 potentially harmful substances including pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides.

Once we identify your specific diagnosis, our acupuncturists will blend the Custom Herbal Formula prescription. Most come in powdered form and are made into tea by mixing in hot water. We also carry herbal pills for those patients who prefer alternatives to the herbal tea.

Charleston Community Acupuncture offers Pediatric Tinctures to further care for the youngest members of your family. Chinese Herbal medicine can safely treat all kinds of pediatric illnesses ranging from recurrent sore throats, coughs colds, sinus infections, fevers, earaches, indigestion and allergies. They are formulated in a glycerin base so they are delicious and alcohol free. We find that children may take these herbs without complaint. The good news is that children often get better faster than adults.

Charleston Community Acupuncture offers traditional Chinese Medicine including various medicinal mushrooms that have been hot water/ethanol extracted to provide the most bioavailable therapeutic effects. These effects include:

Please ask our Acupuncturists which medicinal mushrooms can work best for you.

These medicinal herbs have more than 30 different herb extracts, are pharmaceutical grade, third-party tested, and come straight to us from the pristine, Tibetan Plateau.

The feet are very important and are usually the first to age. Not only do the liver, gall bladder, kidney, urinary bladder, spleen and stomach meridians all reach the feet, but also each foot has more than 60 acupuncture points for 19 muscles, 26 bones, 107 ligaments and 7,000 nerve endings.

Because we recommend you soak for 20-30 minutes in water that is between 105-115 degrees, you will sweat. The steam therapy along with the alkaloids and phytohormones found in the herbs have three benefits: 1) they clean and beautify the skin; 2) they expel toxins which can treat cold, flu and menstruation discomfort; and 3) they decrease inflammation and regenerate new tissue growth by dilating the blood vessels in your feet and increase full body circulation and micro-circulation, the circulation of the blood in the smallest blood vessels.