BOLOGNA, Italy - A dialogue full of promise between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western Medicine (WM) has started in Italy, former President of the European Commission and former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi told Xinhua in a recent interview......
Yin and Yang, which come from ancient Chinese philosophy, are a general term for two opposites of interrelated things or phenomena in the natural world. At first, their connotations were quite simple, referring to the two opposite sides of an object......
Qigong will train one to work on physical to control and exercise this energy for own good or if becomes an expert, one can even use 'Qi' for treatment. Qigong, massage and acupuncture are part of TCM based on Taoism. After 5,000 years development......
By the opposition between Yin and Yang is meant that all things or phenomena in nature have two opposite aspects-Yin and Yang, such as heaven and earth, motion and quiescence, ascending and descending, exiting and entering, day and night, heat and coldness and so on......
The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has ordered a special crackdown on counterfeit materials used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as well as illegal actions such as artificial dyeing and weight-increasing......
The Health Department of Gansu Province organized a nine-day qigong course for health officials and medical workers this month. "After the qigong training, 41 of the 47 practitioners have successfully opened up Conception Vessel (ren mai) and Governor Vessel (du mai),"......
The economic burden of disease currently consumes about 13 percent of China's gross domestic product (GDP), Vice Minister of Health Wang Guoqiang said Friday. China is currently facing "dual disease burdens," or health problems usually found in a developed country as well as those typical in a developing economy......
China plans to open more Confucius Institutes to teach traditional Chinese medicine overseas and promote the Eastern medical science, Deputy Minister of Health Wang Guoqiang said on Monday. We are working closely with the Ministry of Education and the Confucius Institute headquarters to open more TCM Confucius Institutes......
Chinese authorities have issued a joint proposal created by 14 government authorities to boost the development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), an assistant minister from the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced at a Thursday press conference......
The 12th Five-Year Plan for Traditional Chinese Medicine said that the government will also provide about 50,000 country doctors with higher education on TCM majors to cultivate 30,000 TCM general practitioners for grassroots medical facilities......
Known as red dates, or hongzao in Chinese, the native Southeast Asian fruit has long been heralded as a "super food", making appearances on traditional Chinese medicine prescription pads and in local kitchens, where they are still used to decorate buns, porridge, soup or desert as a kind of spice......
The recent controversy over Gansu province reminded me of a film, "The Gua Sha Treatment". In the film, an old man was accused of being abusive to children after he employed traditional Chinese practices to cure his grandson's disease in the US......