The Lagos State Government is seeking to strengthen regulation of traditional medicine through institutional collaboration with Ogun State, drawing on its registration of 9,645 practitioners and regulatory framework to improve oversight of the sector.

A comprehensive review published in the journal Chinese Medicine synthesizes recent progress in applying Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) to the treatment of diabetic wounds.

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Qigong, an ancient Chinese movement practice, is spreading across TikTok as people swap their morning coffee for a calmer start to the day. Here is what the practice involves, what research suggests it may do and how to begin.

An expert explains why this plant, used in traditional medicine for over 1,000 years, remains one of the world's most popular herbal supplements.

Traditional Chinese Medicine providers and practitioners can apply for accreditation under a new programme which hopes to raise standards and confidence in the sector.

Researchers in China have built a large language model system that deliberately keeps two very different kinds of Traditional Chinese Medicine expertise apart: the codified knowledge found in classical texts and textbooks, and the prescribing habits of a single senior practitioner. The system, called DFGLM-TCM, is described in a study published in the journal Chinese Medicine, and its modular design produced a striking result: adding general TCM knowledge to the expert-trained prescribing model actually made it less consistent with the expert’s own prescriptions.