Chinese herbal medicine treats patients' main complaints or the patterns of their symptoms rather than the underlying causes. Practitioners attempt to prevent and treat imbalances, with complex combinations of herbs, minerals, and plant extracts. Chinese herbal medicine uses a variety of herbs in different combinations to restore balance to the body. Herbal preparations are said to prevent and treat hormone disturbances, infections, breathing disorders, and a vast number of other ailments and diseases. In China, more than 3,200 herbs and 300 mineral and animal extracts are used in more than 400 different formulas. Herbal formulations may consist of 4 to 12 different ingredients, to be taken in the form of teas, powders, pills, tinctures, or syrups. Chinese herbal formulas are usually made up of a number of herbs and mineral and animal extracts. Typically, 1 or 2 herbs are included that are said to have the greatest effect on the problem being treated. Other ingredients in the formula treat minor aspects of the problem, direct the formula to specific parts of the body, and help the other herbs work more efficiently.

Healing Traditions Oriental Medical Clinic has both an extensive Bulk Herb & Pao Zhi (specially prepared bulk herb medicinals) herbal pharmacy, and an extensive granule concentrate herbal pharmacy, as well as, a number of pre-made herbal formulas on hand coming in the forms of capsules, tablets and tea pills.