People in rural Ghana rely on traditional plant knowledge for three reasons: Accessibility, cost, and familiarity

‘All food substances have potentially therapeutic properties,’ says Dr. Lawrence Taw of UCLA Health’s East-West Medicine

A SINGLE karate class as a teenager sparked a journey that took a Bournemouth woman all around the world, creating a lifelong passion for martial arts and Chinese medicine.

Tob Savoeun, a 69-year-old patient here in northwest Cambodia, feels deeply relieved on Saturday after receiving Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatment from Chinese experts, which effectively eased her chronic limb weakness and persistent hip pain.

Chinara Kaparova regarded herself as being fairly familiar with traditional Chinese medicine and open-minded about it, but she said she nevertheless nursed a fear about some of its procedures.

Sly Young doesn’t always believe in “woo-woo” medicine. But she comes from a long line of traditional healers predisposed to trust themselves over conventional Western medicine. Which is one reason why, when she felt her treatment for her neurodivergence and chronic post traumatic stress become less effective during the pandemic, she started exploring what she describes as sacred earth medicine.

In recent years, thanks to the policies of the Hainan Free Trade Port, more international visitors have come to Sanya Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and its affiliated Sanya International Friendship Sanatorium of TCM to learn TCM techniques and experience TCM treatments.

to deliver more tailored care

City’s first dedicated traditional Chinese medicine hospital will also launch 10 additional special disease programmes within this year

For centuries, traditional Chinese medicine processors had no thermometers or automated equipment to tell them when a herb was ready to be dispensed.

In the bustling Dashilar area, a renowned tourist destination in downtown Beijing, Melvyn, a young man from Brussels, stepped into the Tong Ren Tang pharmacy, a time-honored brand with over 350 years of history.

In the high-altitude region of Tibet, people continue to turn to a centuries-old medical system to treat some ailments, often alongside conventional medicine.

Research to integrate Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) – particularly for sleep disorders, chronic diseases and women’s health – will be strengthened under a new collaboration between Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and healthcare provider OUE Healthcare (OUEH).