Chinese Herb Shop
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Chinatown has many Chinese herb shops. In America they are called pharmacies. Although the Chinese practice modern medicine, they also depend on traditional Chinese methods of healing techniques based on thousands of years of practical experience.
Treatment with medicinal herbs of wood, bark, ginseng root, other roots, and ground-up, dried animal parts are brewed into an herbal tea and ingested. Many are bitter in flavor, but herbalists give packets of raisins to eat after drinking the tea to take the bitterness away.
A Chinese doctor writes a prescription for a remedy which balances your body's flow of vital energy. As you notice in this picture, there is a wall of drawers, each labeled and placed in a systematic order. An herbalist reads and fills the prescription and puts it into packets to be brewed at home. Everything is measured and weighed.
Most of the herbalists still use an abacus to calculate the price and add up the items purchased. The prescription being filled in the photo was for a cough.
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