The report of the 19th Party Congress and the government work report of the 2018 two sessions emphasized the importance of traditional Chinese medicine and its development should be supported. Zhang thinks that the State should strengthen the cultivation of talents. China has formulated policies for inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine.
TCM is now practiced in 183 countries and regions across the globe, with 86 of them signing agreements with China to promote TCM, according to Wang. A total of 17 TCM centers have been set up worldwide and a series of standards in the sector have been unveiled, which are signs of TCM's growing global appeal.
As a key component of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture has been practiced in China for more than 2,000 years to treat or prevent health problems. But it was not uncommon for acupuncturists to be arrested and prosecuted for engaging in the practice in California before it was regulated in 1975.
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The remedy, an "herbal dietary supplement with honey and loquat", according to' its label, is often referred to as Pei Pa Koa and is sold both in cough-drop form and more commonly in 10-ounce bottles in Chinese markets and Chinese pharmacies.
According to an article published by the Wall Street Journal last week, Alex Schweder, an architect and professor of design at Pratt Institute suffering a cough about ten days, felt better only in 15 minutes after he drank a bottle of Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, which was recommended by his girlfriend who first learned about the herbal supplement nearly 30 years ago when she was living in Hong Kong.
Although he will be 82 years old this year, Li Guoqiao still works late into the nights on his lifelong quest to apply compounds derived from traditional Chinese medicine to treating malaria and cancer. He works so late that he says coffee is his favorite food.
Out of 900,000 malaria cases registered in 2017, 4,079 lives were lost. The Malaria Control Program at South Sudan's Health Ministry reported that this number doubled from 2,000 deaths in 2016. This alarming increase prompted the Chinese government to donate more than 1 million cartons of antimalaria drugs, worth $800,000, to combat the deadly epidemic that had rapidly worsened by the end of the year.
Malaria has been recognized as a disease throughout recorded history, with references dating back to the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece as well as his contemporaries in China. It is likely that its prevalence dates back to the establishment of man's earliest agricultural settlements.
Additionally, the city actively supports the development of traditional Chinese medicine companies, boosting sales by setting up a direct relationship between the companies and local farmers. So far, more than 100 impoverished villages have established partnerships with more than 40 leading companies and agricultural cooperatives.
China will continue to push forward technological innovation in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and plans to build more TCM labs and research centers in the near future, according to a statement from the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Chinese researchers discovered 54 new medicinal plant species for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) last year, according to a report released by the State Administration of TCM. The 2017 annual survey of resources for TCM showed that there were 13,000 types of medicinal herbs in the wild and 736 cultivated herbs nationwide.