Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (Out of Print)

General introduction Traditional Chinese medicine for treatment of liver diseases

Traditional Chinese medicine

1938 www.thelancet.com Vol 372 December 6, 2008 transplantations. At present, 87 institutions have full approval from the Ministry of Health; 77 others have provisional approval and 18 months to comply with all the regulations. This number is a reduction from the more than 600 institutions that did transplants 1 year ago. Regulations have been set up to ban transplant tourism. The penalty for p...

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine

Lida Teng, BSc, is a PhD student at the Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, School of Pharmacy, University of London; Debbie Shaw, BSc, is a research scientist at the Medical Toxicology Unit, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London; and Joanne Barnes, PhD, MRPharmS, is associate professor in herbal medicines at the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical and Health Scie...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

The Chinese medical view is that each living creature is a small part of the infinite universe, and is subject to the same laws that govern the rest of the cosmos. Therefore, an understanding of health requires an understanding of the laws of nature. The practitioner views health as a state of harmony existing between the internal environment of the body and the external environment it lives in...

The potential contributions of traditional Chinese medicine to emergency medicine

BACKGROUND Despite the fact that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been developed and used to treat acute and urgent illness for many thousands of years. TCM has been widely perceived in western societies that TCM may only be effective to treat chronic diseases. The aim of this article is to provide some scientific evidence regarding the application of TCM in emergency medicine and its fut...