Alice Low has a degree in traditional Chinese medicine and is a practicing acupuncturist in the community health clinic in Singapore which she shares with Dr. Chia Muk Koon. She has been using a Chinese herb called Cordyceps sinensis, aa well as lingzhi , a type of reishi or Ganoderma mushroom, to treat different health problems.
I have been practicing Chinese medicine for the past 10 years for patients who come to me by referral. I listen carefully to each and every one of them in order to prescribe the appropriate Chinese herbs for their complications . It usually does not cure them immediately, but takes time. During the process, I try to share my knowledge, theories and theraples with them.

“ From the viewpoint of modern medicine, one-fourth of the blood pumped out from the heart flows through the kidney in blood circulation, and the metabolite and residue are washed and filtered, Therefore, through its function of filtering, secretion and reabsorption and steadying various system in the body, such as blood circulation, water metabolism and respiration, etc.

“The kidney is very important in the life activities. Any damage or disease in the kidney is harmful to health, and possibly even life threatening.

“According to modern medicine, in the blood plasma of a sufferer of a chronic renal failure, the leucine, isolencine, tryptophan, tyrosine and lysine in the free amino acids drop drastically, leading to mainutrition, edema and weakness. Condyceps, however, contains the amino acids of these kinds and can supplement the essential amino acids needed by the patients, thus promoting the combination of protein and the equilibrium of the production and utilization of glucose.