Australia's University of Western Sydney and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine recently conducted a large, retrospective review of thousands of studies and "hundreds of thousands of cancer patients" which proved that Chinese herbal medicine is indeed a viable treatment for almost all cancers.
Today, Eucommia bark is known mainly for two of its many qualities, namely its ability to relieve backache as well as its blood pressure-lowering properties. But there's more to Eucommia than these two benefits. Below are the main qualities of the herb.
The whole language and approach of TCM is different from Western medicine's biological and biochemical systems approach. Basic to TCM is the notion of healing the body, or creating balance and harmony with all organs while retaining them.
Xinjiang is known for safflower, but it is mostly grown on dedicated agricultural land or along hillsides. This is the first attempt in China to cultivate safflower in the desert. The flowers and seeds from safflower plants are used in traditional Chinese medicinal products, in vegetable oil and other applications.
The Zhejiang International Exchange Center for Clinical TCM, affiliated with the hospital, currently caters to over 200 international students annually from countries such as the United States, Israel, Belgium and the Czech Republic.
Pingdu city in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province has introduced Dr Shi Xuemin, a world-famous acupuncture expert, through a national academic recruiting platform on April 22, according to local media.
With the goal of peeling away the mystery of TCM, two exhibitions telling the story of Chinese medicine and practices in America will be on display at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in New York from April 26 through Sept 9.
In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine has been gaining in popularity around the world, and nowhere more than in Southeast Asia, where many Chinese continue to use these ancient remedies.
China plans to combine the master-apprentice system with college education to train more practitioners in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), according to a guideline issued by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
As most traditional Tibetan medicines are hand-picked by Tibetan doctors, the pills are often different in weight and water content. Today, the manufacturing process is being transformed from old manual workshops to new scientific and standardized methods.
Cockroaches are an ingredient in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Extracts of active ingredients from cockroaches have also been used in modern Chinese clinics for more than 30 years, mainly to treat diseases such as gastric and oral ulcers, according to Li.
Until recently, malaria not only destroyed lives in the East African island nation of Comoros, but also devastated the economy. However, a team of Chinese doctors from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, cooperating with the Comoran government, has almost eradicated the disease.