Tonic Herbs — Can You Take Them Anytime?

의료 감수 Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

Tonic herbs aren't something you can take just anytime — they only show their strength when they fit the current state of your body.

Even for the same goal of "boosting energy," a person who is depleted and a person whose circulation is blocked need different prescriptions. If you tonify indiscriminately when the body isn't ready to receive it, it can actually leave you feeling bloated.

Fatigue that doesn't lift even after rest
A condition that collapses with every change of season
Slow recovery after childbirth or surgery

At times like these, I first check what is lacking and what is blocked, and then design a prescription that fits your body right now.

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Dr. Dr. Heo Ji-young, Director of Kyunghee Meerae Korean Medicine Clinic, Gwangjin

Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

A graduate of the College of Korean Medicine at Kyung Hee University, with master's and doctoral degrees in pathology — the mechanisms of disease — from its graduate school. Later served as a research professor in the university's Herbology department, studying medicinal substances. Studying both disease and medicine from both sides is the foundation of this practice: explaining "why a given medicine works for a given illness" in the language of both pathology and pharmacology. Explains autonomic, chronic, and intractable conditions — and structural problems of the body — in the language of modern science, and proposes treatment matched to the cause. Has taught prescribing and clinical practice to Korean medicine doctors for over ten years, and is a co-author of "Korean Medicine, Explained by Korean Medicine Doctors," selected for the 2018 Sejong Books list (general category).

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