Thien Nhon Duong

Love love love this little gem of a place! Family owned mom and pop herb shop! You really can’t find a better place in town to get all of your chinese herbal supplements. Prices are totally reasonable and I can’t say enough about the family that owns this place. It’s like going to grandmas house every time and getting that anticipated warm welcome.

Last Saturday I spent some time at Thien Nhon Duong, where I consulted with Dr. Chung, a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner. Dr. Chung did not completely understand my ailment so he gave me his daughter’s phone number and she translated. Low Back Pain. For Long Time. He immediately knew what was wrong. Kidney chi is weak.
So the cheerful and diminutive Chinese practitioner went about preparing a remedy. I was not certain at all what his «remedy» entailed but I had come for help and was prepared to go the distance. It was amazing to watch him measure out the roots, bark, twigs, dried berries and organic items onto an ancient scale, then place them in the proper amounts in five paper bags.
I left with the bags, a $ 6.00 cooking pot and a small bag of goji berries for a total of $ 59.00. All natural products without any chemicals. Cheap and healthy.
After 5 days of cooking twigs and bark, drinking the dark bitter tasting tea and snacking on goji berries, I’m a new woman. My back pain is completely gone. Thank you to Hoa N. and her ROTD in March that gave me the idea to try this healing style of medicine.

Authentic Chinese Herb shop without the high price tag of White Crane or Turtle Dragon. Family run since 1989, it offers pulse/​tongue diagnostics, custom loose herbal blends and prepared traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) remedies. Cheap.
I went in today on the verge of a sinus infection and NO voice. The owner-practitioner’s daughter (who has the most amazing cheekbones) listened to my list of ailments. The store smells like TCM, a bit queer – like food, fungus, and earthy tubers. The daughter translated my ailments in Chinese to her father (it was amusing to hear the Chinese mixed in with words like «stress» and «PMS»). Dr. Chung sat me down at a no nonsense desk and placed my wrist on a small pillow. Listened to both sides. I tried to read his face for feedback. Nada. He asked to see my tongue and then nodded.
With his daughter’s help, he started measuring out loose herbs on an ancient scale. Bark. Apricot kernel shavings. A tuber. Talcum powder (!). Dried bamboo leaves. My boys and I watched and we asked them to ID the ingredients for us. I also asked the daughter what he had to say from my pulse/​tongue diagnosis.
«Too fiery».
Yeah, I’m really too fiery, very true.
In addition to the herbal teas (which I know will taste rank and bitter), she gave me some black herbal balls wrapped in wax paper with instructions to let them melt in my mouth twice a day. Icky tasting but better than a Hall’s, and I could feel their earth-​magic goodness working pretty quickly.
Custom 5 day herbal program, earth-​magic throat candies, tincture remedy for my son’s cough, clay pot for cooking herbs and diagnosis: $ 65.
Eastern medicine kicks some western medicine ass.
Location: The shop can be hard to find but it’s actually easy: just south of 183 access on North Lamar. It’s just north of Kim Phung’s in the strip mall next to it. Turn into strip mall parking lot and go around the corner past the Super Cuts and the print shop and it’s there on your right. Don’t follow Google map directions; you’ll get lost.
NOTE: Cash and checks only.
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UPDATE: TCM brew was horrid, as expected. My voice came back after the first day of taking the tea. My cough and sinus infection went away gradually and then cleared.
I love avoiding antibiotics. I’m coming back here whenever I am ill.