Home Page
Shop our On Line Store
Did you know?
TCM main page
A Therapy Above
Centers for Natural Medicine
727 - 518 - 2268
Greater Tampa/St Petersburg area,  Florida
Plum Flower® Brand Unsulfured Herbs

Clean Inside and Out
You will find that our Plum Flower® Brand herbs are exceptionally clean.  Herbs that
are first washed in industrial stainless steel rotating drum cleaners equipped with
water jets. The water used is from our own underground well, which is naturally of
drinking water quality. This initial wash helps remove dirt and dust, thereby lowering
bacteria and heavy metal levels right from the beginning.

Our herbs are also subject to a very careful grading and sorting system. We
hand-sort most of our herbs to make sure there is no extraneous matter, soil,
powder, pebbles or dust in the herbs you buy. We ship most of our herbs in vacuum
packed double bags, further protecting them from damage, insects, dust, and dirt
during the shipping process.

We carefully monitor our Plum Flower® Brand herbs for impurities at our Mayway
Anguo in-house lab where we test for microbial levels and sulfur residues. Outside
labs test for DDT and Hexachlorabenzene, two non-permitted pesticides, as well as
lead, arsenic, mercury, and cadmium heavy metal levels.




Plum Flower® Brand
Unsulfured Herbs


Why: Unsulfured Herbs
As seasoned distributors of Chinese
herbs we have seen the use of herbs
grow worldwide. As demand has
increased over time, the use of
preservatives has increased to meet
the storage and shipping needs of the
expanding commercial market. Sulfur
dioxide, and more recently chlorine
and aluminum phosphate, have been
used to inhibit the growth of
microorganisms during processing, to
brighten the color of herbs, to keep
herbs from spoiling, and to increase
storage and shelf life. Although these
ends are good in themselves, we
became weary of herbs tasting sour
from the sulfur processing and
concerned over the growing use of
preservatives and their potentially
harmful side effects. In response to
these concerns and those of our
health conscious customers, we have
developed methods to provide herbs
that are more natural and with longer
storage and shelf life that are
completely free of these harmful
preservatives.
Herbs