1 Beijing Key Laboratory of Innovative Drug Discovery of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Natural Medicine) and Translational Medicine, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, 2 Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resource Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, 3 Z...

Qualitative research originates from anthropology and social medicine, it has been introduced into medical field only for ten odd years. As medicine owns social humanity characteristics, its research method should not be limited to the traditional quantitative research for cause-effect relationship, and the advantages of qualitative research is just that it focuses on those unexplained and unan...

1Research Center for Complex System of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China 2 Institute of Basic Research In Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China 3MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, TNLIST/Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084...

Traditional Chinese medicine is gaining increasing attention and popularity in Hong Kong. There is no doubt that traditional Chinese medicine as a system of medicine works; however, this does not imply that every therapy is efficacious. Prevention of the initiation and continuation of ineffective intervention is extremely important for the efficiency of any health care system. The evaluation of...

What is Chinese Medicine? The new journal, Chinese Medicine (CM), is a peerreviewed, open access, international, interdisciplinary and scholarly journal in Chinese medicine. CM aims to provide evidence-led force for the advancement of Chinese medicine research. CM is the official journal of the International Society for Chinese Medicine (ISCM) [1] with academic support from leading research ins...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Allergic rhinitis has long been a worldwide health problem with a global growth trend. The use of traditional Chinese medicines alone or integrated Chinese-Western medicines for its treatment is quite common in Taiwan. Respiratory diseases account for the majority of outpatient traditional Chinese medicine treatment, while allergic rhinitis accounts for the majori...

1 College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China, 2 College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China, 3 Key Laboratory of New Drug Delivery System of Chinese Materia Medica, Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China, 4 Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Me...

Chinese dietary therapy is a standard modality of traditional Chinese medicine. The idea that food medicine is deeply rooted in the Chinese culture. Chinese medicine has a unique way to asses Practitioners not only look at nutritional components, but also consider the food’s color, taste, texture shape. Foods with specific colors and tastes nourish specific parts of the body and correct spec im...

1 Department of Animal Science, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. 2 Taitung Animal Propagation Station, Livestock Research Institute (LRI), Council of Agriculture (COA). No. 30, 27 Line, Binlang Vil., Beinan Township, Taitung County 95445, Taiwan. 3 Department of Animal Science, Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. 4 Animal Products Processing Division, LRI, COA, Tainan...

Acknowledgment: I would especially like to thank Christy Chung Hevener. This symposium would not have been possible without her untiring efforts. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia or the Federal Reserve System.