For most patients, Dr. Lian will prescribe pre-cooked, concentrated herbs. Patients need only to add warm water to the powder and mix it like instant coffee, before ingesting. While we continue to work with raw herbs in the traditional way, we feel that modern technology presents us with the opportunity to work with concentrated extracts of higher quality and greater reliability than ever before. Each herb is packaged individually, so that we may continue the tradition of blending herbs according to each person’s prescription. Below is a tonic formula using concentrated herbs, only one example of many herbal combinations one might take.