A reliable source of botanical remedies

Just like taking care of your money by investing carefully can help improve the quality of your life, so can investing in your health. A person who drinks two cups of Chinese green tea per day, never touches cigarettes, and uses natural herbal products to improve its immune system, to diminish the effects of stress and to reduce pain and damaged tissues, can expect to sleep more soundly every day and look forward to a much healthier retirement age.

Medelys' Chinese herbal extracts can be an effective tool in helping you to achieve your goals for a long and healthy life.

Chinese medicinal wisdom - the concept behind Medelys botanical products

The use of herbal medicines has been handed down from generation to generation and has evolved from its use primarily in remote areas to its use in mainstream modern medicine because of its sound historical practice. Traditional Chinese medicine has developed curative and preventative practices which date back over five millennia. According to these Chinese principles, each and every individual has a unique system that he must learn to understand and balance. In order to achieve this balance, the body must obtain the necessary support to cure itself. Modern scientific studies have proven the usefulness and effectiveness of Chinese herbal medicine. Moreover, we can see that in China, a third world country with a very low average income, the life expectancy is above seventy years of age - which almost corresponds to the average life expectancy of most advanced countries. The nation-wide herb-based health care system certainly has something to do with it.

With its team of qualified Chinese physicians and the expertise of Canadian scientific researchers, Medelys wants people here to derive the full benefit of Chinese herbs with complete confidence in the quality of the products they are using. Medelys' first line of products is a combination of herbal extracts known in the Western world, and herbal extracts commonly used in China. Traditionally used in China, these products are proven to be safe and effective and are frequently found in the typical Chinese home's medicine cabinet. Health-care professionals that practise both traditional and modern medicine regularly use these products in conjunction with Western medicine. To meet the best standards, Medelys has formed an alliance with a Chinese partner who is highly involved in the quality control of the products, from harvesting through to standardization of the herbs. The raw materials are then imported into Canada where they are formulated, here in Montreal, in compliance with very strict standards. The quality of the products is controlled at every stage of the production.

Our goal is to make the best Chinese remedies possible available for Canadian home medicine cabinets. As well as plasters, peroxide, isopropanol alcohol, tincture of iodine, aspirins, cough syrup, burn ointment, and vitamins...the new home medicine cabinet will also include Medelys products.


  The modern use of Phytotherapeutics

Today's requirements for the approval of new remedies are extremely stringent, and this is not without reason. It has to be proven that the remedy is effective and safe to use, which means that a strictly controlled clinical study must show that the product is non-toxic, and effective when tested against a placebo.
Traditional herbal medicines have rarely been subjected to such stringent testing, having been in use long before the creation of modern scientific principles. However, the benefits of herbal remedies in illnesses or other conditions have been substantially observed and described in many medicinal treatises, particularly in China. The beneficial actions of medicinal herbs and of their compounds have been recorded over time providing us with a solid basis on which to perform more sophisticated studies.
Many modern drugs are themselves initially derived from active plant components, which have been isolated and then synthesized.
The perpetuation of the tradition of herbal remedies has been exceptional in China. This has been possible because of China's early written tradition as well as its historical, philosophical, social and imperial environment. China also possesses one of the most prolific gardens on earth with an enormous diversity of plants and legumes. It's no wonder that in China the use of herbal remedies has prevailed for such a long time.
The use of herbal medicinal extracts is based on the holistic principle that the combination of many active components that act or interact together will promote the balance between the different elements of the body which are put out of balance by illness. Western medicine's approach to drug therapy, allopathy, is more reductionist and confronts only one or a limited number of problems at once. The problems relating to the illness are not considered as a global imbalance of the body's systems, with the internal and external factors that come into play.
Both types of medicinal approaches and remedies have their merits, but for different reasons. One can say that they are complementary and should be used in an integrated medicine. China has pioneered this type of practice which, more and more, is meeting with acceptance here in North America.
The Western world is now entering into an era where the Chinese principles and approach towards illness therapies will prevail more and more. The interest in the efficacy of herbal remedies in the scientific and medical community is now growing more than ever, and is exemplified by the increase in research and clinical studies being conducted in laboratories and hospitals around the world.