For centuries, practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have relied on herbs and plants, in conjunction with mind-body practices, for health and well-being. In TCM, medicinal plants and ...

Traditional Chinese medicine has been refining its treatment of the common cold for more than 2,000 years. In Chinese medicine, symptoms of a cold -- headache, chills, fever, cough, runny nose -- are ...

For many years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported problems with high pesticide levels and industrial contaminants in some herbs. Over the past couple of years, both the American ...

Traditional Chinese medicine is gaining acceptance in the U.S., though still largely as a complementary treatment. Mainstream doctors are mixed on its effectiveness. Still, as alternative treatments ...

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A number of traditional Chinese herbs may help control blood sugar levels in people at high risk of diabetes, a new research review suggests. The review, which examined 16 clinical trials of 15 ...

Growing up, there was always an abundance of traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) in my kitchen cabinets. From herbs to dried mushrooms to white flower oil, my popo (grandmother in Chinese) would ...

As far as alternative methods for alleviating painful periods go, traditional Chinese medicine is a popular one. You might have already found yourself on an acupuncture table in an attempt to kick ...

For generations, traditional Chinese medicine arrived with ceremony as dried roots and peels carefully measured from wooden ...

The chunks of brown bark, yellowish slivers of roots and dried light-green flower buds look more like garden mulch than medicine. But millions of Chinese believe this traditional herbal remedy _ "Ba ...