Aromatherapy might have been around for years, but so too has a degree of uncertainty about whether smells really have curative powers over body and mind. Providing METRO with some of the answers is Professor Zhu Qingwen, from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.
It's time for a break. What do you drink? Coffee, spring water, cola or a cup of tea? Much has been said about the benefits of drinking Chinese tea for such things as losing weight and staying alert, but the following points may be something new to you.
Fifty-four companies were ordered to unload a total of 1,000 tons of pilose asiabell root, an important TCM ingredient, to authorized pharmaceutical companies by the end of the year, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) website said on Monday......
The Chinese traditional medical treatment of acupuncture or piercing the body with a needle is a treatment which focuses on the inside from the outside. It is a therapy that seeks to find acupoints as a means of clinical diagnosis to find the cause of illness and then take the appropriate treatment......
What comes to mind when you think of yellow? Sunflowers, the school bus or the smiley face? As a food-junkie and a health nut, when I hear the word yellow, savory soy beans, munchy bananas and sweet corn are things that pop into my mind. That's how much I love food. Hopeless? Perhaps......
At present, among all academic theses on acupuncture indexed by the Science Citation Index (SCI), a leading world thesis index system, only 5 percent are from the Chinese mainland, according to Wang Linpeng, the director of the acupuncture and moxibustion center of the Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is affiliated with the Capital Medical University......
She is among many Chinese seeking TCM treatments in place of modern Western remedies at a time when her homeland is promoting the internationalization of its traditional medicine - already regularly used in about 140 countries but part of the healthcare systems of only a few......
The Chem-TCM is the most comprehensive database of its kind and translates more than 12,000 chemicals from more than 300 Chinese herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) into Western terminology. "Future researchers will now be able to better understand the chemical basis of remedies that have been in use for thousands of years," says David Barlow of King's College London (KCL)......
The herbal granules, jointly developed by specialists from 16 medical institutions in Beijing, Tianjin, Hangzhou and Guangzhou, effectively relieves anemia and enhances patients' immunity, said Dr Zhou Yuhong, a specialist on blood diseases with Zhejiang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).......
Chinese medicine practitioners are trying to use the country's 2,000-year-old traditional medicine to treat AIDS in the hope of finding a way to help conquer the incurable epidemic that just entered its fourth decade......
he State Council, or the Cabinet, on Wednesday approved a blueprint to establish a credit rating system and intensify monitoring for pharmaceutical groups to boost the country's drug safety over the next five years......
The plan approved by the State Council on Wednesday is meant to plug loopholes in the monitoring and supervision of pharmaceutical companies so that all medicines meet the national standards by 2015. The lack of a desirable credit rating system......