Lu Qun, deputy director of an anti-corruption office in central China's Hunan province, accused the former head of the China's Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) of unethically renaming a herb used in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2005 to benefit northern companies, causing millions in economic losses for farmers in the south.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. White Dew, the 15th solar term of the year, begins this year on Sept 8 and ends on Sept 23. White Dew indicates the real beginning of cool autumn. The temperature declines gradually and the vapors in the air often condense into white dew on the grass and trees at night.
TCM has been around for over 2,000 years, but it is facing a modern challenge on social media from a doctor trained in Western medicine. Ning Fanggang, a doctor with Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, expressed skepticism about TCM on his Weibo microblog last month and proposed a contest to TCM physicians.
The mortality rate for the disease in Henan dropped to 2.9 percent, lower than the 2013 national average of 6.6 percent, due to effective medical treatment. The mortality rate dropped to 6.6 percent last year from 17.9 percent in 2005 according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS) has established an official relationship with the World Health Organization which will help traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) play a bigger role in providing health care to people overseas, officials from both sides said on Wednesday.
Ministries, departments and provincial-level authorities must protect and develop the resources that are vital to traditional Chinese medicine, the State Council said in a circular issued on April 27. To ensure this goal, a system will be established by 2020 to protect and monitor TCM resources......
After the return of Macao in 1999, research institutes for traditional Chinese medicine were set up in both Macao University and Macao University of Science and Technology. The long-term goal of the park is to build a hub for health products, medical services, technology application, and logistics of traditional Chinese medicine.
Some people have suggested developing a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) port project in Hong Kong. But for the last 17 years, nothing has come of these proposals. TCM is a promising idea - particularly in light of the growing aging population.
An application to sell a well-known Chinese cold and flu remedy in Britain has sent a positive signal for manufacturers of traditional Chinese medicine looking to enter European markets, but challenges remain, industry experts say.
Foreign practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine met up with their counterparts in the country and local government officials on Friday at a seminar organized by the Beijing Tourism Development Commission and the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies.
Ban Lan Gen, which is derived from the root of a flowering plant called woad, or Isatis tinctoria, has been a popular flu remedy in China for many years. In 2003, it made headlines when people began using it en masse during the SARS epidemic, and again several years later during outbreaks of swine flu and avian flu.
Supersmile, a leading teeth-whitening and oral-care product from the United States, has officially entered into the Chinese market. It's the company's second foray into Asia, having entered the Japanese market in 2005.