My acupuncturist recommended this herbal supplement to boost energy levels and my usual go-to for medicine/herb advice, MedLinePlus, doesn't have any info on it.  Does anyone here have experience with this?

It's sometimes called Gui Pi Pian, Gui Pie Piam, & Gui Pi Wan.

A few weeks ago Ninasafiri polled the community to see what our diets are like. As it turns out, a good whack of ONTD'ers are either Clean Eaters, Vegetarians or Vegans. Whatever kind of '-arian' you are, it's pretty clear that most of us are conscientious about what goes into our bodies. We probably wouldn't be here if we weren't ( Read more... )

You may have heard that the weight loss drug Meridia was recently pulled from the market due to the prevalanece of stroke and heart attack in patients on the medication.  Meridia (available by prescription in the US) originally came out in 1997 and was found to increase weight loss by 5%.  Earlier this year, the FDA asked the makers of Meridia to ( Read more... )

Even for those of us with health insurance, the cost of prescription medications is becoming overwhelming. Many Americans who can't afford prescription medications (or even over-the-counter meds) end up using unreliable websites to buy unsafe and/or ineffective knockoffs ( Read more... )