Chinese herbal medicine, the perfect ADHD remedy

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Herbal therapy can be multiple times more effective than Ritalin, as I found in one scientific paper, which made me delve more into the area and make a thorough research of Chinese herbs as ADHD therapy.

For those unaware, ADHD is divided into 4–7 sub-classes (Dr. Daniel Amen)
Classic
Inattentive
Over focused
Temporal Lobe
Limbic
Ring of Fire
Anxious.

and each has it’s different symptoms and syndromes and thus, treatments. Therapy with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) relies on differentiation of those symptoms and applies different therapy based on it.

ADHD has 5 main syndromes:

1. Heat in heart and liver
2. Internal disturbance of pyrophlegm
3. Deficiency of liver-yin and kidney-yin
4. Heart-spleen deficiency
5. Liver depression and spleen deficiency

For example, the inattentive type, which is characteristic by the heart-spleen deficiency, will be relieved by nourishing the heart and soothing the nerves, invigorating spleen and supplementing chi.