Lok Ting Sue was a successful chinese herbalist and founder of the the first, and longest surviving herb company in Hanford's once thriving Chinatown. He was popular with Caucasian as well as Chinese patients and it is thought that approximately 80% of his patients were Caucasian. Chinese medicine enjoyed popularity with many Caucasians in the 19th century because it did not employ such extreme measures, such as bloodletting, that western medicine did. Even if the herbal medicines were not always effective, at least they "did no harm."