BACKGROUND This article reports a survey conducted in Hong Kong on the cancer patients' attitudes towards Chinese medicine treatment. METHODS Cancer patients from three Chinese medicine clinics and one oncology clinic were interviewed with a structured questionnaire. RESULTS Of a total of 786 participants included in the study, 42.9% used Western medicine only; 57.1% used at least one form ...

OBJECTIVE To discuss the definition of "traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine integration" and "integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine". METHODS Logic methods. RESULTS It was found that there were a lot of problems on the definition of "traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine integration" and "integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine". CONCLUS...

It might seem strange that an article on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) should be written by a scientist living and working in England. The confidence of western people is low, when it comes to using Chinese plants and formulae. However, there are so many wonderful blends that are beneficial for the skin, both internally and used externally, that it is about time that more effort was spent ...

The dominant paradigm of "one gene, one target, one disease" has influenced many aspects of drug discovery strategy. However, in recent years, it has been appreciated that many effective drugs act on multiple targets rather than a single one. As an integrated multidisciplinary concept, network pharmacology, which is based on system biology and polypharmacology, affords a novel network mode of "...

For several thousand years, Vietnamese Traditional Medicine has evolved under the shadows of Chinese Traditional Medicine, culture, and rule. At this point in time, it is nearly impossible to separate out and delineate Traditional Vietnamese Medicine (TVM) from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) because their developments were so inter-twined. This is a brief history of the development of TVM a...

BACKGROUND Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic, itching skin disease, and conventional therapies offer inadequate symptom management. Patients with AD are increasingly turning to Chinese medicine. OBJECTIVE We systematically evaluated the clinical evidence of the efficacy and safety of oral Chinese herbal medicine for AD. METHODS Searches were conducted on major electronic databases using t...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been widely used as a complementary medicine in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) treatment. In this study, we proposed a new classification of Chinese Medicines (CMs) by integrating the latest discoveries in disease molecular mechanisms and traditional medicine theory. We screened out a set of chemical compounds on basis of AML differential expression genes an...

1 School of Basic Medical Sciences, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China, 2 Department of Postgraduate, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China, 3 Science and Technology College, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China, 4 Editorial Department, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, Chin...