Key to Herbal Remedy’s Success May Be in the Bacteria

Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 21:00 in Health & Medicine

Juzen-taiho-to, also known as shi quan da bu tang, is a most popular herbal formula in China and Japan and is used in the West by practitioners of traditional Asian medicine. New research suggests the remedy’s immune-boosting effects are due, at least in part, to bacteria that grow on the roots of one of the formula’s component herbs.

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