Complex Formulas

If your stockbroker asked you to put all your money in one risky stock market investment, would you do it? Chances are, you'd start looking for a new broker! In matters of finance, common sense tells you not to "put all your eggs in one basket." Everyone knows that stock markets are risky and that any individual stock can rise or fall quickly. Experienced financial managers overcome this risk by creating diversified stock portfolios-- by spreading the risk over a variety of different stocks, the performance of the portfolio becomes both less risky and more predictable.

Strangely, people do "put all their eggs in one basket" where their health is concerned, and rarely even give it a second thought, let alone get a second opinion. They do it every time they visit their doctor. Conventional doctors diagnose an illness, then usually select and prescribe a single treatment (drug) for that illness. Isn't that just as risky to your physical health, as a "single stock" strategy would be to your financial health?

Different individuals respond differently to different medicines. A dose that is barely adequate for one person may be very dangerous to someone more sensitive. Doctors rarely have any way to know whether you are particularly sensitive to a drug that you have not taken before. In addition, every medicine, whether natural or synthetic, carries risks of negative reactions, side effects, and/or interactions with other medicines. Wouldn't it be better to combine several medicines and diversify these risks?

For centuries, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has used a similar technique with herbs. In fact, TCM practitioners have a saying: "Never send a single soldier (or medicine) to do the work of a troop." By combining multiple medicines into combination formulas, the dosages of each medicine can be reduced. This reduces the risk and severity of negative reactions, side effects and drug interactions for each individual ingredient. Unfortunately, the amounts of the various ingredients, and the manner in which they were selected and combined, has been largely a matter of trial and error over hundreds of years.

Combination remedies are also becoming more common in other natural healing sciences. In the last century, for example, many classical western herbalists have started creating combination remedies. And although classical homeopathy favored one remedy at a time, more progressive practitioners are now combining remedies, especially for the over-the-counter market. However, conventional medicine completely rejects this approach-- with results that you see in headlines every day (negative effects, side effects, and interactions).

RidgeCrest Herbals is on the cutting edge of combining different kinds of medicines for maximum effect and safety. For example, we have been combining homeopathic and herbal medicines since 1998. Homeopathic and herbal medicines have synergies that make them better in combination than either discipline used alone. We recently applied for a patent on a new technique for more effectively incorporating homeopathic remedies into herbal capsules and tablets, which we call "homeoactive(tm)" formulation.

More importantly, RidgeCrest Herbals has recently applied for a patent on a new process and theoretical framework for combining multiple medicines (natural or otherwise) into a single coordinated formula. While we use this technology in designing and maintaining our all-natural formulas, we beleive that it has important applications in many other fields of medicine and health care (even for conventional drugs). This portfolio(tm) formulation technology builds on TCM principles of combination formulas, while avoiding having to spend hundreds of years of trial and error in developing new combination remedies. It offers combined medicines with improved efficacy and safety profiles, with fewer negative effects, side effects and interactions than simpler remedies.