九重葛的花語是「熱情」與「堅韌不拔」，但它卻選擇了象徵憂鬱、寒冷、令人聯想到天空或水的藍色。
跟我的人生一樣諷刺。
月兒不哭茶
那是正值同時在辭職、賣掉房子、買能夠開診所的房子、搬家，生活大風吹、最混亂的一年半。媽媽卻因為眼睛看不見，我帶她到隔壁縣市的醫學中心看診，結果是雙眼都必須手術。
前後歷經四個月，雙眼經過手術都重建光明，也不再需要眼鏡了，但卻天天流淚流不停。我不想再看到她每天醒著時就是拿著一張衛生紙一直擦的樣子。我想說自己是中醫，連為母親做一款照顧眼睛的藥茶都做不到嗎？
加上陸續來看診的人（中年～老年）跟我抱怨眼睛不舒服、乾澀、飛蚊症，所以我想說，做一款藥茶是這些人可以喝了比較舒服的。可以天天喝，比一個禮拜來看一次診、吃科學中藥粉還能達到日常照顧的作用。
Luna’s Rest
It happened during a rather chaotic eighteen-month stretch where my life was thoroughly upended. I was simultaneously resigning from my job, selling my house, buying another property to set up my practice, and moving. Amidst this domestic hurricane, my mother’s eyesight began to fail. I duly escorted her to the grand medical centre in the neighboring county, only to be told that both of her eyes required surgery.
Four months later, the operations proved to be a roaring success. Her vision was fully restored, and she could finally bin her spectacles. The catch? Her eyes wouldn’t stop watering. Every single day. I grew utterly weary of seeing her spend every waking hour dabbing at her face with a never-ending stream of tissues. I thought to myself: “You call yourself a Chinese medicine practitioner, yet you can’t even brew a proper cup of medicinal tea to soothe your own mother’s eyes?”
Around the same time, a steady parade of patients (of a certain vintage, ranging from the middle-aged to the silver-haired) began arriving at my clinic, grumbling about dry eyes, general discomfort, and phantom floaters drifting across their vision. It occurred to me then that a dedicated herbal tea was precisely what the doctor ordered—something comforting they could sip daily. After all, a pleasant daily brew is arguably much better for the soul than trekking to my clinic once a week just to choke down a prescription of bitter herbal powders.
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蔘耆御守茶
那是中秋節之前，夏秋轉換之際，突然有一波感冒的病人。其中有人問我有沒有那種類似「清冠一號」那樣的藥水，感冒可以喝的。我想想也是需要，所以研發了一款主要是「提升身體免疫調節力」的藥茶，讓常常無法避免在密閉空間、與人群接觸的人，可以比較不容易染上感冒。
後續的客人回饋是額外有提升體力、減輕關節痠痛的效果。
The Polite Shield
It was just before the Mid-Autumn Festival, that awkward seasonal limbo where summer grudgingly gives way to autumn, when a sudden wave of sniffly, coughing patients besieged my clinic. One of them rather hopefully inquired if I possessed some sort of magical potion—akin to the famous "NRICM101" (清冠一號)—that one could simply chug down to ward off a cold. Upon reflection, I conceded they had a point.
And so, I set to work formulating a medicinal tea designed primarily to give the body's immune system a polite but firm nudge. The idea was to throw a protective cloak over those poor souls who, by choice or cruel circumstance, find themselves trapped in stuffy, enclosed spaces, forced to mingle with the germ-ridden public.
The subsequent feedback from my regulars, however, has been a rather delightful bonus: apart from keeping the seasonal bugs at bay, they report an unexpected spring in their step and a welcome relief from those nagging joint aches.
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Logo上的那抹藍色是「藍色九重葛」。至於為什麼是藍色、九重葛，那是我某天去上班路上，腦中出現的影象，我把它盡量忠實地還原出來的樣子。然後它出現的當下就是給我「藍色九重葛」的認知。所以就這樣了。
p.s.它還可以變成其他顏色歐。
The splash of blue you see on our logo is none other than the “Blue Bougainvillea.” As for why it’s blue, and why a bougainvillea of all things—well, the image simply manifested in my mind one morning during my commute to work. I merely did my best to faithfully recreate it. The very moment it popped into my head, my intuition flatly informed me: “This is a Blue Bougainvillea.” And so, it was. No further questions asked.
P.S. It can also morph into other colours, just so you know.
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