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China’s health minister calls for more respect to traditional Chinese medicine

chinaWith thanks to English People’s Daily Online

China’s Health Minister Chen Zhu has called for respect to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the scientific value of which is doubted by some people.

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Recent attack on herbalism by Edzard Ernst backfires

backfireHerbal medicine ‘risks harmful side-effects’

Ernst strikes again!

Nothing changes, does it?

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While there is no known cure for the parasite Pharmacillus FundsRus, [the condition not even recognised by western medicine, which is itself hopelessly infected] a diagnosis is always evident following a random double-blind money trail. The symptoms, often including acute shareholderitis, swollen ego, distortion of the research nodes and an urge in the sufferer to release presses (not fully understood) are best dealt with by a large dose of salt, well above the RDA. Prevention is the best medicine. Oh, and an apple a day.

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The Text of an Act of Parliament passed in the reign of Henry V111 to protect herbalists from persecution by the Company of Physicians and Chirurgeons.

Henry VIIIThe Text of an Act of Parliament passed in the reign of Henry VIII to protect herbalists from persecution by the Company of Physicians and Chirurgeons.

“WHEREAS in the Parliament held at Westminster in the third year of the King’s most gracious reign, amongst other things for the avoiding of sorceries, witchcraft, and other inconveniences it was enacted that no persons within the city of London, nor within seven miles of the same, should take upon him to exercise and occupy as physician and surgeon, except he be first examined, approved and admitted by the Bishop of London and other, under and upon certain pains and penalties in the same Act mentioned;

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Alternative medicine now mainstream

alternativeAlternative medicine now mainstream Channel 4 news 27.7.07

Herbal and homeopathic remedies are shrugging off their hippy image and hitting the mainstream, sales figures suggest.

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THE WHO STRATEGY FOR TRADITIONAL MEDICINE: REVIEW OF THE GLOBAL SITUATION AND STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION HEALTH AND HUMAN SECURITY

who Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean
Forty-ninth Session Cairo - Egypt - 30 September - 3 October 2002
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Bad Science is Bought Science

liesThis routine American behaviour is now being used in Europe to further the interests of big business. Continue Reading »