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Lin Sister Herb Shop Inc

Located in NYC's Chinatown, Lin Sister Herb Shop is a Chinese medicine clinic and herbal pharmacy. linsisterherb.noterro.com (BOOKING APPOINTMENTS)

We offer over-the-counter herbal formulas, custom formulas, and acupuncture. Herbal Consultations with Frank Lin are available in-store or over the phone from 10:30am to 4:00 pm 6 days/week (closed Wednesdays and major holidays). Consultations are $30. Each day of a patient's custom herbal formula is, on average, $8/day. The length of treatment depends on the patient. Walk-ins only. No appointments. Acupuncture is available with Zhuang Cai two days a week: Tuesdays and Fridays 10am - 3:00pm. Each session is $55.

02/12/2026

🌱 Your Herbal Consultation at LinSisterHerb: A Path to Balance 🌱

Whether you’re a longtime friend or new to our family shop, a herbal consultation at LinSisterHerb is a gentle, personalized journey to wellness rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine wisdom. Start by visiting our cozy store in New York; we welcome walk-ins when available, or book an appointment through Noterro for a dedicated time with Herbalist Frank.

Our herbalist’s approach draws from TCM’s timeless methods, beginning with a warm conversation about your health history, symptoms, and lifestyle. He’ll observe your tongue and complexion, listen to your voice and breath, and feel your pulse at multiple positions to diagnose your unique pattern (like Qi deficiency or heat excess). In some cases, he may also check blood pressure to get a fuller picture. This holistic assessment guides a custom formula tailored just for you.

Here are three steps in the process:
�🚪 Arrive and share your story in a calm, welcoming space
�🔍 Receive a thorough TCM evaluation to uncover root imbalances
�📜 Walk away with your specialized herbal recipe, ready to brew at home

What to expect simply: Most consultations last about 15 minutes, with herbs costing around $8.50 per day on average; affordable support brewed into easy teas or soups. We prepare your blend downstairs for pickup, so you leave empowered.

Curious about your first visit? Which part excites you most: the chat 🚪, the pulse check 🔍, or taking home herbs 📜? Drop it below and tag a friend ready for balance!

The LinSisterHerb Family
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02/11/2026

🌱 Top 5 TCM Herbs for Supporting Healthy Blood Pressure 🌱

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, healthy blood pressure is nurtured by calming liver yang, smoothing qi & blood flow, and clearing heat. These gentle, classic herbs have been cherished for centuries to promote cardiovascular harmony and vitality:

❤️ Dan Shen (Red Sage) – Invigorates blood, clears stasis, relaxes vessels for smoother circulation
 🌿 Tian Ma (Gastrodia) – Extinguishes wind, subdues rising liver yang, eases stress & headache spikes
 🪝 Gou Teng (Uncaria) – Clears heat, calms the liver, supports natural vessel relaxation
 🍎 Shan Zha (Hawthorn Berry) – Dilates vessels, strengthens heart, helps maintain healthy cholesterol
 🌼 Ju Hua (Chrysanthemum Flower) – Cools liver heat, soothes eyes, headaches & pressure-related tension

Try them thoughtfully: Brew Ju Hua or Shan Zha as calming teas, simmer Shan Zha in soups, or use in guided TCM formulas. Start small and listen to your body’s response!

Which herb speaks to you most: Dan Shen ❤️, Tian Ma 🌿, Gou Teng 🪝, Shan Zha 🍎, or Ju Hua 🌼? Share below & tag a friend who needs some heart support!
Always consult a qualified herbalist or TCM practitioner to personalize the best blend for your unique constitution. Please don’t just mix these five together on your own!

The LinSisterHerb Family
 

02/10/2026

🌱 Xing Ren: TCM’s Gentle Cough Soother 🌱

From the ancient orchards of China, Xing Ren (apricot kernel) has been a trusted ally in Traditional Chinese Medicine for moistening the lungs and transforming phlegm. With its slightly bitter, warm nature, this seed kernel gently descends lung Qi, relieves dryness, and promotes smooth breathing where cough or tightness may linger.

Xing Ren’s lubricating flow has long supported TCM formulas, easing respiratory discomfort and aiding digestion across seasons.

Here are three ways it may brighten your days:
 🫁 Moisten the lungs and ease dry cough
 🌬️ Transform phlegm for clearer breathing
 🍲 Gently moisten intestines to support occasional constipation

Try it simply: Add bitter kernels to lung-nourishing teas (use under guidance), simmer in congee with pears, or blend into formulas for respiratory support. Start small and listen to your body!

Which benefit calls to you most: lungs 🫁, breath 🌬️, or ease 🍲? Drop it below and tag a friend who needs it!
The LinSisterHerb Family
 

02/09/2026

🌱 Huang Qin: TCM’s Cooling Heat Clearer 🌱

Rising from the cool highlands of northern China, Huang Qin (Scutellaria baicalensis root) has been a precise and powerful ally in Traditional Chinese Medicine for clearing heat and drying dampness. With its bitter, cold nature, this golden root swiftly drains fire from the upper body, calms inflammation, and restores clarity where excess heat or damp-heat may flare.

Huang Qin’s sharp cooling has long anchored TCM formulas, especially for soothing heat-related discomforts in the lungs, intestines, and skin.

Here are three ways it may brighten your days:
 🔥 Clear heat to ease occasional irritability or red eyes
 🦠 Dry damp-heat for better digestion and less bloating
 🫁 Support the lungs and soothe mild cough with heat
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Try it simply: Steep small amounts in a light clearing tea (often with other cooling herbs), simmer into detox soups, or blend into balanced formulas for seasonal support. Start small and listen to your body!
Which benefit calls to you most: clear 🔥, resolve 🦠, or soothe 🫁? Drop it below and tag a friend who needs it!

The LinSisterHerb Family
 

02/05/2026

🌱 Pao Zhi: The Art of Preparing TCM Herbs 🌱

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, raw herbs are rarely used straight from the field. The ancient practice of Pao Zhi (processing) transforms them — enhancing effects, reducing toxicity, changing direction of action, or making them gentler on the body. This is why the same herb can have very different uses depending on how it’s prepared.
Here are 5 of the most common and important Pao Zhi techniques:

1. Honey-Fried (Mi Zhi) — Herb is stir-fried with honey. This makes tonics sweeter, milder, and more nourishing to the spleen and stomach.

2. Wine-Processed (Jiu Zhi) — Herb is steamed or stir-fried with rice wine. Wine directs the herb upward and outward, enhances blood-moving power, and reduces harshness.

3. Salt-Processed (Yan Zhi) — Herb is stir-fried with salt water. Salt guides the herb downward to the kidneys and bladder, often used for tonifying yin or clearing lower-body heat.

4. Vinegar-Processed (Cu Zhi) — Herb is stir-fried with rice vinegar. Vinegar directs the herb to the liver and enhances its blood-invigorating and pain-relieving effects.
5. Charcoal-Processed (Chao Tan) — Herb is stir-fried until charred. This astringes, stops bleeding, and reduces the herb’s strong moving nature (used for diarrhea or bleeding patterns).

These methods aren’t random, they’re centuries-old refinements that make herbs safer, stronger, and more targeted.

Here at LinSisterHerb, we make it easy: we offer many of these processed herbs in granular form (concentrated powder). Just scoop, stir into hot water, and you have instant herbal tea!

The granular form is just as effective as traditional decoctions because the herbs are first processed using the same authentic Pao Zhi methods before being concentrated and spray-dried into granules. The processing step happens first, so you still get the enhanced, directed, or gentler action of the prepared herb just in a convenient, ready-to-use format.

Which Pao Zhi method intrigues you most: honey 🍯, wine 🍷, salt 🧂, vinegar 🍶, or charcoal 🔥? Drop it below and tag a friend exploring TCM!

The LinSisterHerb Family

02/03/2026

🌱 Shan Zhu Yu: TCM’s Essence Guardian 🌱

From the misty mountains of central China, Shan Zhu Yu (cornus fruit) has long been treasured in Traditional Chinese Medicine as a deep, astringent tonic for securing essence and stabilizing the kidneys. With its sour, slightly warm nature, this crimson berry gently tonifies liver and kidney yin, preserves vital fluids, and supports strength where depletion or leakage may quietly occur.

Shan Zhu Yu’s anchoring warmth has long fortified TCM formulas, helping preserve vitality and inner resilience through life’s changing seasons.

Here are three ways it may brighten your days:
 💪 Tonify kidney and liver yin to ease occasional fatigue or lower back weakness
 🩸 Astringe essence and support urinary comfort
 ❤️ Calm the spirit and promote emotional stability

Try it simply: Simmer berries into a nourishing tea with goji and red dates, add to congee for gentle daily support, or blend into kidney-tonifying formulas. Start small and listen to your body!

Which benefit calls to you most: strength 💪, comfort 🩸, or calm ❤️? Drop it below and tag a friend who needs it!

The LinSisterHerb Family
  WellnessRoots

02/02/2026

🌱 Yu Zhu: TCM’s Gentle Yin Moisturizer 🌱

From the shady hills of southern China, Yu Zhu (polygonatum odoratum)has quietly flourished as a sweet, nourishing herb in Traditional Chinese Medicine for replenishing yin and moistening dryness. With its cool, slightly sweet nature, this slender rhizome gently nourishes the lungs and stomach, calms where heat or dryness may quietly parch the body.

Yu Zhu’s soft hydration has long soothed TCM formulas, offering comfort and balance during dry seasons or when inner moisture runs low.

Here are three ways it may brighten your days:
 💧 Moisten lungs and ease occasional dry cough or throat irritation
 🍵 Nourish stomach yin to relieve thirst or dry mouth
 🧘 Gently calm and support restful energy

Try it simply: Simmer slices into a light, hydrating tea with goji berries, add to nourishing soups, or blend into daily yin-supporting formulas. Start small and listen to your body!

Which benefit calls to you most: moisture 💧, soothing 🍵, or calm 🧘? Drop it below and tag a friend who needs it!

The LinSisterHerb Family
 

01/30/2026

❤️ The Legacy of Susan Sha ❤️

Many of our long term patients remember our dear herbalist, Susan Sha. With the recent success and all these new people coming in, I feel like it’s my duty to share her story. I know she would be so happy seeing her legacy remembered and carried on through the store.
A devoted mother, cherished aunt, brilliant herbalist, savvy businesswoman, and total badass. There are so many words to describe her, but sometimes there just aren’t enough to truly capture the woman she was.

Susan was one of the founders of Linsisterherb and our very first herbalist. She led the way and built the foundation we all stand on today. My aunt was a truly remarkable human being, someone who cared for her patients like they were her own family.

I want to share one memory of her that describes her perfectly. I was about to leave for my first year of college, pretty far from home. As we were packing the car, my aunt came to say goodbye… but the first thing she asked was if I had eaten yet. I told her I had, but she urged me to wait just a little because she wanted to give me something. 15 minutes later she came out with a warm bowl of noodles ready for me to take. She said, “Please take it, I don’t know when the next time I’ll be able to cook for you will be.” Unfortunately, that was the last time I ever had her cooking… she passed away later that year.

In her final years, Susan faced serious health challenges with so much courage, blending Eastern and Western approaches, always with that resilient smile and unbreakable spirit.

Susan’s strength helped build her family, her friends, and this business. Her memory lives on in everyone she impacted, and without her there would be no Linsisterherb. Our goal is still to help people live the healthiest lives they can, so they can make their own impact on the world, however big or small.

I hope you’re proud, Susan. The business is still here, thriving, and we’re helping all the patients you couldn’t reach anymore. Your love guides us every day. 🌿

If anyone has a memory of Susan, a kind moment, a remedy she gave you, or just how she made you feel… please share in the comments ❤️

01/29/2026

🌱 Shan Yao: TCM’s Sweet Spleen & Kidney Nourisher 🌱

From the fertile fields of China comes Shan Yao (Chinese yam root) a gentle, everyday tonic long cherished in Traditional Chinese Medicine for strengthening the spleen and nourishing kidney yin. With its mild, sweet, and neutral nature, this humble tuber quietly tonifies Qi, moistens dryness, and supports digestion where weakness or depletion may quietly settle.

Shan Yao’s nourishing warmth has long grounded TCM formulas and daily food therapy, helping build steady energy and inner moisture through every season.

Here are three ways it may brighten your days:
 🍲 Strengthen the spleen for better digestion and stable appetite
 ⚡ Gently tonify Qi to ease occasional fatigue or low energy
 💧 Nourish kidney yin to support moisture and overall vitality

Try it simply: Simmer slices into a comforting congee with red dates and goji, steam or roast as a nourishing side, or add to soups for daily spleen and kidney support. Start small and listen to your body!

Which benefit calls to you most: digestion 🍲, energy ⚡, or moisture 💧? Drop it below and tag a friend who needs it!

The LinSisterHerb Family
 

01/28/2026

🌿 The Symbiotic Power of Eastern & Western Medicine 🌿

We believe in the beautiful harmony between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western medicine.

Ancient wisdom + modern science = deeper, more balanced healing grounded in real evidence.

TCM has 2,000+ years of history and quietly shapes global health today.

Many Western drugs started as TCM herbs:
 ✨ Artemisinin (Nobel-winning malaria treatment) from sweet wormwood ✨ Ephedrine for asthma from Ma Huang ✨ Ginkgo for circulation from TCM traditions

Research shows combining them works wonders: less chemo side effects, stronger immunity, better recovery for chronic issues. Even the WHO includes TCM in global strategies.

TCM is already in your daily life:
 🌿 Ginger tea for nausea 🌿 Turmeric for inflammation 🌿 Acupuncture for stress

Gentle, personalized support that flows perfectly with Western care.
Why not embrace both for vibrant health? It’s the best of both worlds.

What draws you to TCM? History, science, or everyday magic? Share below & tag a friend! 💚

The LinSisterHerb Family
  WellnessRoots

01/27/2026

🌱 Huang Lian: TCM’s Potent Heat Clearer 🌱

From the cool, damp mountains of China, Huang Lian (coptis root) has been a fierce yet precise ally in Traditional Chinese Medicine for clearing intense heat and drying dampness. With its very bitter, cold nature, this golden root powerfully purges fire, detoxifies, and calms where inflammation or infection may flare.
Huang Lian’s sharp clarity has long anchored TCM formulas, especially for clearing toxic heat and supporting digestive and heart balance.

Here are three ways it may brighten your days:
 🔥 Clear heat and soothe occasional inflammation or mouth sores
 🦠 Resolve damp-heat for better digestion and less bloating
 🧘 Calm the heart and ease irritability from excess heat

Try it simply: Add small amounts to clearing teas (often with other cooling herbs), simmer in detox soups, or take in balanced formulas under guidance. Start small and listen to your body!

Which benefit calls to you most: clear 🔥, resolve 🦠, or calm 🧘? Drop it below and tag a friend who needs it!
The LinSisterHerb Family
  WellnessRoots

01/26/2026

🌱 Hei Zhi Ma: TCM’s Nourishing Black Sesame Seed 🌱

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hei Zhi Ma (black sesame seeds) have long been valued as a simple, powerful food-herb for nourishing blood and yin. With their rich, sweet, neutral essence, these tiny black gems gently replenish liver and kidney essence, moisten dryness, and support the body where hair, skin, or vitality may need a quiet boost.

Hei Zhi Ma’s deep nourishment has been a staple in TCM kitchens for generations, traditionally eaten to promote strength and shine from within.

Here are three ways it may brighten your days:
 🖤 Nourish blood and essence to support hair strength and natural color
 💧 Moisten dryness to ease rough skin or dry hair
 ⚡ Gently tonify kidney yin for overall energy and warmth

Try it simply: Sprinkle roasted seeds over congee or oatmeal, blend into a warm black sesame paste drink, or add to daily nourishing soups. Start small and listen to your body!

Which benefit calls to you most: hair 🖤, moisture 💧, or energy ⚡? Drop it below and tag a friend who needs it!
The LinSisterHerb Family
  WellnessRoots

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