Something I noticed yesterday while I was looking through the Analytics software was that some people were finding my website through searching the term “Jin Fang Grow Taller”. I got curious and wanted to see who was this Jin Fang person. It turned out people were finding my website because of my “Scam List” section where I had listed that the website YingYangEdu.com as a scam and I remembered that I had found the website a long time ago when I was first putting together the website and I had associated the website and the seller as a fraud without really doing the proper due diligence to make sure this person is really a fake.

From the link to the website, I decided to spend at least 10 minutes to really give an accurate look at the possibility that the height increasing pills can work. What I noticed first is that the website is designed with a minimalist style which is a clear difference from the usual type of webpages I find who sell height increase pills. This type of supplement or vitamin Jin Fang is selling is called “Grow Taller Herb Supplement“. When I tried to go to the product page I was lead to a dead link and there was nothing that was being sold.

As for the person, it seems that this Jin Fang is also working with another Chinese traditional medicine doctor named Xue-cheng (John) Shang. They do have a short biography on their background, education, and credentials. Xue-cheng claims he studied medicine in a university in Shanghai and had practiced being a orthopaedic surgeon for over a decade before coming to the US. Jin Fang has been studying acupunture and traditional chinese herbal medicine since she was very young.

It seems that this herbal supplement was created in 1998. She has been practicing traditional chinese herbal medicine since 1983. These two people who are probably husband and wife are based in Fairport, NY.

The issue with this product is that they claim this product is supposed to be used for kids who are young, around the 8-16 age range. Apparently this is when it is the golden age of growth. I can only say “DUH!”. Most kids at that age time are sprouting up like bamboo. This causes a big problem for me as a reviewer. I cant claim it doesn’t work because the kid who ingests this pill probably will grow. However there is no way we can really test for the efficacy of the pills due to the nature of human growth. The only way we probably could test something like this is if we had identical twins and one of them took the pills while the other did not during the 8-16 age range. If there is a sizeable height difference after say 6 months then we might be able to say that this stuff really does have the ability to help increase the height increase growth rate. However as a scientist we can’t create the situation to get this height increase supplement really tested.

As for the idea of traditional Chinese Medicine and herbs have the remote chance of really helping kids grow, I would say there is a chance those claims can be real. Many traditional plants like Ginseng, Ginko Biloba, Garlic, and such which the ancient Chinese Alchemists and Doctors thought to have medicinal property was somehow proven in Western Science Labs in the last 50 years to have some chemicals inside which can do the stuff that was believed in them. As the saying goes, most legends and myths do have a kernel of truth in them, just like in stereotypes. As for other ideas like Acupunture, that alternative medicine practice is now a widely practiced medicine art in many suburban US communities. From the town I was living in just 6 months ago, there was an acupuncturist office in most office spaces. Some medical professionals have tested to see if there is any real effectiveness in acupuncture and the testing shows that it is more than just the placebo effect.

The ancient theories on Ki, chi, and prana have no scientific equivalent. We could say stuff like the “chi” the chinese talked about was really electrical signal pathways, nerve signal pathways, or lymph lode channels to create some form of analogous anatomical sense but we would be guessing.

As for the medicine really working, it might really work. From the website and judging only on a first appearance, it would seem that these people are Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners and the Jin Fang did formulate something which she believes help in the growth rate of children. It may work. However there is not way to say this claim with complete confidence. In my searching and research there has been a least a couple of legends or stories of how adult dwarfs who was suffering from achondroplasia maanged to grow 1-2 inches in height after practicing and using chinese medicine ideas.

As of the right now the website YingYangEdu.com is still up the webpage that sells the pills is not up so I don’t think there is much more that needs to be discussed.