About Kan Herb
Distributor of Chinese Medicine Works herbal formulas
Kan Herb offers information about the 60 herbal modules and remedies formulated by Harriet Beinfield and Efrem Korngold. Further, it provides a means for practitioners to prescribe formulas for their patients and for consumers to fulfill prescriptions from their health care providers. If you are unable to visit the clinic pharmacy and consult with Harriet or Efrem, you will need to purchase the formulas through a licensed practitioner.
Consumers
The Kan Herb site is divided into two sections, one for Consumers, the other for Practitioners. If your health care provider creates an online prescription for you, the Kan Herb site makes it easy to fulfill that prescription and keep track of refills. Their PharmaCenter page explains the process. Please note that consumers must be initially registered by their health care provider; a consumer is unable to register without that initiation by a practitioner. The Kan Herb Find a Practitioner page may help you locate a participating practitioner in your area.
A good deal of information is available on the Kan Herb site. In addition to pages about Harriet and Efrem, How Herbs Work, and Five Body Constituents, Kan Herb offers a listing of ingredients for each module or formula in Harriet and Efrem's three families of herbal products:
Kan Herb not only distributes these and other herbal products, they also manufacture them. “Meticulous about the potency, quality and safety of every proprietary product, Kan Herb Company manufactures all formulas at our facility in California, surpassing rigorous current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP).” —Kan Herb's Scientific Assurance
Practitioners
As a licensed health care practitioner, you may buy herbal formulas directly through Kan Herb, or use the online prescription service as explained on the Registration page.
Chinese Medicine Works Clinical Handbook (for practitioners)
The CMW Clinical Handbook can be purchased only by licensed practitioners. Once registered at the Kan Herb web site, practitioners can order the CMW Clinical Handbook.
This Handbook has monographs of the Chinese Modular Solutions, Sage Solutions, and the pediatric Gentle Warriors formulas. The Handbook is a comprehensive educational resource and a practical guide. Because the 60 formulas described in the Handbook are available solely through health care providers, the Handbook itself is for practitioners only. It is organized to help providers with their diagnostic evaluation as well as their therapeutic interventions.
Pocket Formula Guides
Practitioners may order Pocket Formula Guides for one or all of the three families of herbal remedies formulated by Harriet and Efrem. Once registered at the Kan Herb web site, practitioners can order the Pocket Guides.
Gentle Warriors Pocket Guide
In conventional pediatrics, antibiotics are life-saving when necessary, but are commonly over-prescribed for non-serious and self-limiting illnesses like otitis media, bronchitis, sinusitis, pharyngitis, gastroenteritis, urethritis, and dermatitis. Earaches are the most frequent trigger for pediatric visits, and the standard treatment is amoxicillin, even though studies show that antibiotics do not effectively reduce the incidence of ear infections. Of the 235 million doses of antibiotics given each year, the Center for Disease Control estimates between 20 and 50 percent are unnecessary.
Gentle Warriors can be combined with Chinese Modular Solutions and Sage Solutions formulas. When doing so, place herbal extract in boiling hot water for two minutes to diminish alcohol content through evaporation and improve palatability. Formulas can then be mixed with two teaspoons of thick fruit shake or juice to mask herb taste. (40 pages)
Sage Solutions Pocket Guide
We are in the same position as our forebears. We are challenged daily to provide effectual remedies for people’s problems. Time is of the essence when a man is on edge with hay fever and sinusitis; a woman is at the end of her tether with unrelenting hot flashes; a child is in crisis with eczema and asthma; or when a woman has persistent post-surgical constipation. Sage Solutions can elegantly and efficiently assist. (44 pages)
Sage Solutions and Chinese Modular Solutions are easy to dispense and convenient to use. Practitioners individualize prescriptions by blending herbal extracts from two, four, or eight ounce source jars into one or two ounce dropper bottles. One ounce of extract provides a 6–10 day therapeutic course.
Chinese Modular Solutions Pocket Guide
Bypassing the need for familiarity with single herbs or classical formulas, Chinese Modular Solutions requires only the ability to interpret symptoms and identify patterns. Mass-produced patent medicines are popular because they are more convenient and palatable; but it is difficult to be responsive to unique patient needs with standardized remedies. Chinese Modular Solutions combines the best of both worlds. Unlike patent medicines, these formulas can be customized without asking patients to drink time-consuming bitter brews. (50 pages)
To order Pocket Guides, practitioners must first register at the Kan Herb web site, and then place an online order for the Pocket Formula Guides.
