Eagle Herbs

Herbs can taste nasty. But do capsules really help your health?

At Eagle Herbs, we offer Chinese herbal formulas in both capsules and extract powders. The herbal material inside of the capsules is identical to the extract powder. We actually start out with the powder, then optionally put it into capsules.

I believe that the powders work more quickly. They’re also cheaper because there is no labor cost associated with putting the powder into capsules.

But just to give you an example of the difference between how they work is this: a middle aged man with low-grade pain and stiffness in his low back gets a Chinese herbal formula in capsules. Four days later, he reports that the pain has gone away.

About a year later, his low-grade pain and stiffness in his low back returns. This time, he chooses not to have the extract powder put into capsules. He reports relief from the low back pain in four hours. More… »

Herbs, like drugs, require no "belief".

Sometimes people tell me that they “believe” in herbs, or that their doctor doesn’t “believe” in herbs.

I wonder if people “believe” in drugs? The fact is, an enormous number of new drugs are derived from natural sources. This is nothing new, people just don’t know about it.

• Asprin came from the bark of a white willow tree.
• Taxol (for cancer) came from the bark of the Pacific Yew tree.
• The anti-viral Tamiflu comes from a Chinese herb called “star anise”.
• A popular anti-malarial drug comes from the Chinese herb qing hao (Herba Artemisiae Annuae)
• Ephedrine, commonly used for asthma comes from an herb that has been somewhat abused and demonized in recent years called Ma Huang (Hb. Ephedra).
• Of course opium (morphine, codeine) come from the opium poppy. More… »

Herbs and drugs both have their place.

A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place

At EagleHerbs we really don’t have a problem with drugs. There are times when they’re the right choice, and times when they aren’t.

It’s exactly the same with herbs. I work with about 350 of them and each one has a particular situation in which it most shines.

When we line up the right herbal formula with a given condition, the results can be extraordinary. But it is important to look at the root cause, not just the branch symptoms.

The following list of chest pain scenarios illustrates how each herb has a specific context well beyond the symptom of “chest pain” or “angina”. More… »

Some people find it difficult to get the herbs down in tea form. This is completely understandable. Chinese herbs produce some really funky tastes.

However, with a little bit of cleverness, you CAN make your tea taste better. It’s all about the concentration sweet spot. More… »