The following pictures are from Chinese herb stores in Manhattan in the Lower East Side Chinatown. Grace Ho from the Kam Tat trading company has been a Chinese herbal doctor for many years and has appeared in a CNN news show which covered Chinese herbal medicine. She was an absolute pleasure to speak to which was a relief becasue many of the clerk or owners I attempted to speak to were not interested in talking to me or only spoke Chinese. She explained to me that she has many non-Chinese customers, who are interested in purchasing remedies to their ailments that are mild in nature and that produce no side effects. She believes western medicine is good, but extremely different in its approach to the body.
Chinese medicine looks at the body as an ecosystem of checks and balances.
Anyone may make an appointment with her to be examined. She explained that the herbs here do not cost much more than they do in China. Kam Man Food Inc. Chinese herb stores are a lot of fun to go looking around in. If there is an ailment you are suffering from, look at my herbs section for a possible remedy. The herbs vary in prices depending on how rare they are.