More and more Women are using acupuncture to lose weight. In traditional Chinese medicine, doctors believe that the overweight patients can be divided into deficiency and excess. This excess cholesterol is due to overeating fatty foods or excessive consumption of alcohol.
While there are some preliminary evidences that the combined use of conventional medicine and TCM may extend the life of cancer patients, TCM does not treat cancer effectively and should not be used as a primary treatment modality.
The Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor, also known as The Inner Canon of Huangdi or Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, is an ancient Chinese medical text that has been treated as the fundamental doctrinal source for Chinese medicine for more than two millennia and until today.
In addition to chi (qi), traditional Chinese medicine recognizes a subtle energy system by which chi (qi) is circulated through the body. This transportation system is referred to as the channels or meridians. There are twelve main meridians in the body, six yin and six yang, and each relates to one of the Zangfu, or organs.
Acupuncture, a unique medical treatment inherited from traditional Chinese medicine, has enjoyed a long history. Actually, acupuncture includes two kinds of treatment: stylostixis and moxibustion. Stylostixis refers to inserting the tips of needles at specific areas to stimulate acupuncture points...
A group of Ukrainian doctors completed their month-long study of traditional Chinese medicine on Friday in northwest China's Gansu Province. Iurkivska Maria, one of the 14 doctors who took the course, said before coming to China, she knew little about Chinese medicine and thought "it was mysterious".
When acupuncturist Xu Jinshui arrived in Tunisia, the thought of becoming famous had never crossed his mind. On a government mission in 1997, Xu, 51, rose to fame when he cured the president of Tunisia's arthritis with his particular traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) skills.
Traditional Tibetan medical services have reached all counties in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, local authorities said on Monday. According to the regional health department, of Tibet's 74 counties, 22 have established Tibetan hospitals, while the remaining have set up Tibetan medical treatment departments in county-level hospitals.
With investment of 20 million yuan (about 3.2 million U.S. dollars), is believed to be the world's largest ginseng B2C online platform, according to Teng Hongyan, chairman with the Jilin Provincial National E-commerce Industrial Park, operator of the platform based in Changchun, capital of Jilin Province.
A total of 18 medical protocols for acupuncture and moxibustion were issued Friday to make the centuries-old traditional therapies align with modern medicine. The National Technical Committee on Acupuncture and Moxibustion Standardization Administration of China and China Association of Acupuncture-Moxibustion issued the protocols.
An extractant of traditional Chinese medicine plants could help fight the symptoms of obesity and type 2 diabetes, a New Zealand-led international study has found. The scientists found that an antioxidant might reverse inflammation in the brain caused by a high-fat diet.
We are very excited about the progress made in this study and the momentum it provides as scientists across the world vigorously search for effective vaccines and treatments against Ebola virus," lead author Robert Davey of Texas Biomedical Research Institute said in a statement.