The Chinese Acupuncture Department at the Katutura State Hospital in Namibian capital Windhoek is bringing relief and better health to many locals. Festus Tuhadeleni is one of the patients whose health has improved after undergoing an acupuncture treatment at the Chinese Acupuncture Department.
Nora had injured her ankle in a fall a couple of days before. When she heard on the local news that a Chinese hospital ship had anchored in Brunei and was providing free medical treatment, including traditional Chinese therapies, she came along immediately.
The academy, affiliated with Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, is seeking applicants to head its 11 research institutes with a three year contract, including the Institute of TCM Diabetes Prevention, Institute of TCM Encephalopathy Prevention and Institute of TCM Health Care.
Liu, 41, is no reincarnation of the 18th-century Marquis de Sade. The martial artist from Cangzhou, Hebei province is a master of regional styles such as kaimen baji quan, which means "open-gate eight-extremities fist".
Traditional Chinese Medicine is shedding its old, sometimes dingy approach and pulling in new fans with a very different profile. Belle Taylor pays a visit to some new-age practitioners of ancient cures.
Rich in traditional herbs, the fertile land of Hanzhong in the southwest of Shaanxi province, is the birthplace of a Chinese pharmacy Guangtaihe in the 1930s.
As the summer heat fades and autumn's gentle breeze provides welcome relief from the suffocating humidity, be aware of the health risks of the season, says Jia Haizhong, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) specialist at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing.
Traditional Chinese medicine may be the latest sector to benefit from cosmic farming as 150 grams of space-exposed ginseng seeds were delivered to a State lab on Friday.
TCM has been proved effective in treating patients of SARS, bird flu and other infectious diseases hitting China over the past 10 years, said Chen Weiwen, a legislative deputy from Guangdong province, at the on-going bimonthly session of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee.
Based on trials at more than 170 TCM institutions, guidelines, rules and standards will be formulated for the service, said Wang Lian, spokesman of the State Administration of TCM at a press conference on Tuesday.
In a research report released earlier this year, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization said eating insects could help end food shortages across the world. In fact, it urged people to eat them as a nutritious supplement.
Two courses with leading professors as lecturers are available at the worldwide online free courses platform Coursera, Shanghai Jiao Tong University announced on Monday.