Asean Harmonization on Traditional Medicines

Traditional herbal medicines for malaria.

Traditional Medicines and Traditional Healers in South Africa

Executive Summary Traditional healers have a crucial role to play in building the health system in South Africa and strengthening and supporting the national response to HIV/AIDS. This paper sketches a background to traditional healing in South Africa and discusses international policies, guidelines and the South African legal framework on traditional health practitioners. It argues for the reg...

Antimicrobial Activity of Traditional Chinese Medicines on Common Oral Bacteria

Objective: To evaluate twenty Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) against four oral bacteria. Methods: Twenty TCM were tested for sensitivity against Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus sanguis, Streptococcus mutans and Porphyromonas gingivalis. Aliquots of suspension of each bacterial species were inoculated on a horse blood agar (HBA) plate, 6 mm diameter paper disks was soaked in different dr...

Effects of traditional Chinese medicines on intestinal bacteria: A review

Tingtao Chen, Shunqiang Xiong, Shuying jiang, Mengjuan Wang, Qinlong Wu & Hua Wei State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Jiangxi, 330047, China, Penn Ovarian Cancer Research Center, Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health (CRRWH), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA E-mail:weihua66@126...

Harmonization of Traditional and Modern Medicine: An Australian Perspective