Traditional Chinese Medicine
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others - Chinese Proverb
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The Enigma of Chinese Medicine
A few years ago, while visiting Beijing, I caught a cold. My wife, who is Chinese, and wanted me to feel better, took me to a local restaurant. After we sat down, she ordered a live turtle. The proprietors sent it over. I startled as the waiters unceremoniously cut the turtle’s throat, then poured its blood into a glass. To this frightening prospect, they added a shot of baijiu, very strong grain alcohol. The proprietor and waiters, now tableside, gestured with obvious pride for me to drink the potent medicine. I winced, found the courage, and drank up.
I felt better later that night and in the days that followed, but I wasn’t sure why. Was it…
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China’s Ill, and Wealthy, Look Abroad for Medical Treatment
Hospitals and a new generation of medical tourism companies are luring well-heeled Chinese patients away from an overburdened health care system.
A Push to Back Traditional Chinese Medicine With More Data
Researchers marry modern analytical techniques to centuries-old theories on what makes people sick.
An Expert on Chinese Medicine, but No New Age Healer
One of the first Western scholars to tackle Chinese medicine in a systematic and serious way, Dr. Unschuld has seen his subject more as a way to interpret Chinese civilization than as a New Age answer to modern medicine.
Fake Fake Drugs From China: What's Stopping a Cure for Malaria in Africa?
Can the Chinese pharmaceutical industry overcome its reputation for producing bogus medicine?
Falling Through the Cracks of China’s Health-Care System
The government has spent about three trillion yuan on health care since 2009. The effort is crucial, many economists say, to turning China’s notoriously frugal savers into consumers by encouraging them to spend instead of socking the money away for medical emergencies. Still, millions are falling through the cracks, especially migrant workers who drift from China’s villages to work in factories in bigger cities.
Healthy Aging: Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective
Although the risk of disease and disability clearly increase with advancing age, poor health is not an inevitable consequence of aging.
Top 5 Asian Medicine Travel Tips
Looking to combat the discomfort of long hours of traveling, countless people turn to acupuncture and Traditional Asian Medicine to help them arrive feeling refreshed and ready for vacation.
The Enigma of Chinese Medicine
It seems entirely reasonable to believe in the effectiveness of T.C.M. and still have grave doubts about qi. In other words, it is possible for people to practice a kind of “accidental medicine” — in the sense that symptoms might be alleviated even when their causes are misdiagnosed (it happens all the time in Western medicine, too).
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