"Medicine and food come from the same source. Nature provides us with food as well as medicine to protect us from diseases and strengthen our body," Yan Xijun, founder of the Tasly Holding Group and deputy director of China's Association of Chinese Medicine, said at the "2015 International Forum on Great Health Industry Development".
China will continue to enhance medical services co-operation with African countries, send medical teams to countries in need, strengthen prevention and control of major infectious diseases including malaria, and train local talent, said Mao Qun'an, spokesman of the Ministry of Health.
The accumulated number of HIV/AIDS patients who get anti-virus medical treatment will reach 30,000 in China by the end of this year, a senior official said. Since early 2003, the central government has offered free anti-virus drugs to all HIV carriers diagnosed with AIDS.
If you are feeling the affects of flu or a common cold, you could think about turning to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), in addition to drinking hot water and getting some rest. Lin Yang, a TCM doctor based in Beijing, divides the common cold into two different types according to the causes.
A treatment for polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a leading cause of fatal kidney failure worldwide, has been identified by a research team led by Yale biochemist Craig Crews, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Maria Rosaria Saieva has spent two decades treating patients suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses. Several years ago, however, the medical doctor felt it was time do something more for her patients, so she learned acupuncture and recently, she visited a Beijing school to sharpen her needling skills.
Many of the young expectant mothers who practice taijiao believe the rigorous programs of stimulation currently in fashion are a 20th century Western invention. However, according to the how-to books on taijiao crowding the shelves of Beijing bookstores, the concept itself dates from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220)......
With the wish to be a doctor who not only cures body symptoms, but also cares about the souls and spirits of her patients, Danijela Meister-Babic, a doctor trained in Western medicine, has stayed in China for five years studying Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
The Webster's dictionary defines phobia as an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something. Up until a month ago, I was terrified of learning Chinese. Today I love learning hanyu and have no doubt I will be speaking Chinese sooner rather than later. My cure? A bizarre mix of hypnosis and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
Dozens of needles pierced Zhang Xing's belly. In just a few months, the young man's waistline has shrunk about 50 centimeters thanks to traditional acupuncture treatment. Like Zhang, many people nowadays are looking to Chinese medicine practitioners for natural solutions to their beauty issues, such as weight and skin problems.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) leapt into the international limelight on Monday after research on its effectiveness in treating leukemia was published in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials.
"China has been, so far, the only country worldwide to introduce traditional medicine, particularly the TCM, which had been practiced for thousands of years in the nation in the treatment of diseases," said Ren Minghui, director of the international cooperation department of the Ministry of Health (MOH).