Are your supplements full of fillers, also known as excipients? Most vitamins, herbs, dietary supplements, including “natural health supplements”, are made with fillers, such as starch, magnesium stearate, sugar or titanium dioxide. Fillers have no health benefits and, in fact, they may be harmful. Magnesium stearate, also known as magnesium salt, is commonly used as a lubricant so ingredients in supplements and vitamins don’t stick to the machinery during compression and mixing. When machines are working optimally, without clogging, production schedules and profitability can be controlled. Thus, fillers ultimately benefit the manufacturer and their bottom line, not your health. Excipients are also used to extend the shelf life of Chinese herb products, as well as help achieve a uniform 5 to 1 herb ratio. Excipients usage in Chinese herbal products ranges anywhere from 35 percent to 50 percent of a 100-gram bottle of extract, the same percentages apply to capsule herb products.

Excipients toxicity and safety has been a controversial subject for more than a decade. Although a lot more research needs to be done, some studies suggests excipients destroy immunity by bursting T-Cells and block nutrient uptake. There is just simply too much we don’t know about how excipients interact in our bodies. What’s also worrisome is that FDA labeling requirements for dietary supplements do not require the manufacturer to list the amount of excipients used. This leaves room for lots of speculation and ambiguity regarding the strength of these products, because there’s no way to know how much product in the bottle is filler and how much is vitamins and/or herbal extract. With Pacific Herbs, however, there is absolutely no ambiguity! We take great pride in offering Chinese Herbal Supplements without any fillers or binders, so you know exactly what you’re putting in your body.

Wellness for Centuries

Pacific Herbs was founded in 2010 by a Licensed Acupuncturist and Board-Certified Herbalist, Cathy Margolin. While raising children and coping with the health challenges of her family and friends, Cathy became discouraged with Western medicine’s lack of holistic and preventative care. Out of frustration she turned to Alternative and Complementary Medicine, such as herbs, acupuncture and healthy foods. After witnessing the healing powers in these modalities, Cathy became an acupuncturist and herbalist herself.

In 2010, Cathy went to China and Taiwan to extensively research the manufacturing and raw material sourcing of herbal products, as well as evaluate herbal pharmaceutical manufacturers, with the aim of bringing health and wellness through Complementary Herbal Medicine to the general public. Pacific Herbs was, thus, born to provide the most potent Chinese herbal supplements, sourced from the highest quality raw materials and processed in a state-of-the-art pharmaceutical facility with the most advanced equipment to cook and process raw herbs. Currently, over half the planet uses herbal medicine, and for centuries, millions of people have used the very same Traditional Chinese herbal formulas that Pacific Herbs uses in its herbal supplements. Manufacturing for our products is under strict (USA CGMP) Current Good Manufacturing Process standards, the gold standard for pharmaceutical-grade herbal supplements. The scientists and researchers who extract the Pacific Herbs concentrated granules have developed numerous patented technologies and acquired the most sophisticated equipment to test raw herbs for pesticides and other contaminants. In addition, expiration dates and lot numbers to trace all the herbs in each batch are stamped on every product.

About Our Manufacturer

Tianjiang has been a world leader in developing Chinese Herbal Extracts and a pioneer in related fields of scientific research since the 1990s. It owns 30 patents for herbal extraction invention and all independent intellectual property rights of key technologies for concentrated granule herb production. Furthermore, Tianjiang is a CFDA-certified GMP manufacturing pharmaceutical company, and a USA CGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) complied dietary supplement health product supplier. To ensure the highest standard of quality for its products, Tianjiang’s herbs are rigorously tested in precision laboratories using precisely controlled inspections. Unwanted contaminants, such as heavy metals, sulfur residue, microorganisms and residual pesticides, are not acceptable in any of Tianjiang’s Chinese herb extracts. Tianjiang prides itself on the most modern manufacturing to deliver safety, quality and potency in all the products they deliver.

About Our Founder

Cathy Margolin holds a National Certification of Acupuncture and is a California Board Licensed Acupuncturist and herbalist. She has a master’s degree in Eastern Oriental Medicine from Emperors College in Santa Monica, CA, where she graduated Cum Laude and has been given the honor of “Distinguished Alumni”. She further enhanced her clinical training by completing an internship at Tong Ren Hospital and Acupuncture and Moxibustion Outpatient Department, an affiliate of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing, China. Cathy has a BBA and BA from Southern Methodist Univ. (SMU) in Dallas,Texas. Pacific Herbs is located in Bend, Oregon where Cathy, her husband and fur babies love to play in the surrounding wilderness.