Chinese Medicine Herbs In Bangkok

[mak1]

Hi,

I am looking for a reputable place to buy my chinese herbs for making tea.

I have the list and amount of the herbs I need from my doctor in Australia, but I will be in Bangkok for a while so need to find a good place to buy them.

My list is also in English, I don't have chinese or thai translations.

I am staying in Pratunam so the closer the better but not sure how common it is in Thailand to find these herbs.

Thanks a lot.

[Kalbo]

My suggestion would be to head down to Yaowarat (China town) and try your luck there. There are countless places that sell various herbs and is reasonably close to Pratunam

[Sheryl]

There are indeed many Chinese pharmacies in Chinatown, your problem is not having the names of what you need in either Thai or Chinese. I don't think you will get very far with English names. If you have any of the herbs with you, maybe bring them along and hope they are recognizable on sight/smell.

If that fails, St Louis Hospital has a Chinese medicine clinic and there would be more chance that the doc there would recognize an English name.

[meadish_sweetball]

Here's a start: Use Google to get the correct scientific (Latin) name for each herb, then check Wikipedia and click on the Chinese or Thai language link for that entry, copy the headline text in Thai and/or Chinese to a separate document and show it to the herbalists.

Also use Pubmed searches, as Chinese scientists are currently working hard to submit traditional medicine plants to various scientific tests, and these studies tend to contain both the scientific name of the plants as well as the Chinese name.