" However, he added the inclusion of traditional medicine was "not an endorsement of the scientific validity of any Traditional Medicine practice or the efficacy of any Traditional Medicine intervention.
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But substitutes reduce the effectiveness of traditional medicine, he said.
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Real traditional healers don't mix human body parts with traditional medicine.
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The government says that traditional medicine should complement the normal kind.
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In traditional medicine, patients come in because they're already experiencing symptoms.
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Despite agony every day, she says she won't take traditional medicine.
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Traditional medicine may conjure images of folk healers and spiritual gurus.
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But centipedes are an established remedy in traditional medicine in China.
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Just as traditional medicine has its biases, so too does biohacking.
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The latest edition also has a new chapter on traditional medicine.
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In turning to traditional medicine, China is relying on past experience.
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Global health Dried or powdered centipedes are used in Chinese traditional medicine.
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Chuño is also used in traditional medicine to treat gastritis and ulcers.
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Many of China's 48 Confucius Institutes in Africa teach courses in traditional medicine.
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Its peachy paleness disclosed "an excess of water," according to Chinese traditional medicine.
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In some parts of Africa, vultures are hunted for use in traditional medicine.
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Jain believes food could become the "next drug," eliminating the need for traditional medicine.
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Often they're sold to clients in China and Vietnam as traditional medicine or aphrodisiacs.
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To recover, the players took traditional medicine made from the glands of musk deer.
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Even in India, the plant's use in traditional medicine is banned because of toxicity.
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Despite the rave reviews, some in traditional medicine are skeptical about what hypnosis achieves.
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When a traditional medicine is proved to work, there is always an underlying medical mechanism.
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Traditional medicine stalls sell ambergris balms, frankincense, myrrh, and even mystical oils for expelling jinn.
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According to Mr Zhu, they "blurred the line" between regulated traditional medicine and outright quackery.
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That's why I can't credit [traditional] medicine, because I didn't take it when it shrunk.
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Tiger parts are in high demand in Asia, particularly China, for use in traditional medicine.
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Certain kinds of biohacking go far beyond traditional medicine, while other kinds bleed into it.
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It is a prized ingredient in Chinese traditional medicine and is considered a status symbol.
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In the case of pangolins, the scales are used by the ton in traditional medicine.
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Many Western analysts had assumed that China's obsession with traditional medicine would wane as it modernised.
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When traditional medicine failed to halt her cancer, our mother had turned to herbs and acupuncture.
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It's easy to explain away the commonality of ants in traditional medicine, and their diverse uses.
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But, Meincke explains, any such system involves standardizing, controlling, and limiting the practice of traditional medicine.
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Despite the encroachment of Western medical practices, traditional medicine remains a vital part of local culture.
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Thousands of years after acupuncture was invented, controversy remains over whether the Chinese traditional medicine technique works.
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Huayu sells its male chicks as food for snakes, which are farmed in China for traditional medicine.
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Despite the ivory ban, senior Chinese officials have defended the use of animal parts in traditional medicine.
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Since the introduction of pharmacies selling Western pills, however, much of traditional medicine had fallen into disrepute.
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Conservation groups say Chinese traditional medicine recipes can make use of substitutes for products from wild animals.
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She was dismembered and some of her body parts were used to make traditional medicine, prosecutors said.
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They're hoping to tap into the growing popularity of traditional medicine and health food in Chinese society.
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Thais used marijuana in traditional medicine and in cooking for centuries before it was banned in 1934.
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Her mother retired as a lab technician at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Medicine, also in Beijing.
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People familiar with the incident suspect the thief might have stolen the animals for traditional medicine purposes.
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In local folklore and traditional medicine, the pangolin's scales are thought to provide a variety of benefits.
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Schools are adding courses on traditional medicine and Confucian thought to highlight China's achievements as a civilization.
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Throughout the '80s and '90s, mindfulness continued to grow as a complement to traditional medicine and pain management.
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The traditional medicine industry, which China has been keen to export overseas, is worth an estimated $100 billion.
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The WHO has said the distrust is fueled by false rumors about treatments and preference for traditional medicine.
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In China donkey skins are used to make a gelatine, called ejiao, that is used as traditional medicine.
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The products are used, again, for traditional medicine, though there is little evidence to support any medicinal benefits.
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He also gets referrals from other vets who have been unable to help a pet with traditional medicine.
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In 2017, it grew by 20 percent, fueled by more than 0003,000 traditional-medicine hospitals across the country.
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"Traditional medicine was wrong to dismiss that idea" that fascia is more than merely connective tissue, Theise said.
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In other cases, he is alleged to have told the victims that the cyanide was a traditional medicine.
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Gravesites and traditional medicine, thousand-year-old artifacts, and remnants of our family members were parcelled and razed.
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Thanks to contacts in the traditional-medicine business, the academic researchers who conducted the study interviewed rhino-horn users.
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It has been produced synthetically since the 1950s, but believers in traditional medicine prefer to use the natural form.
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In the past, TCM doctors had to qualify as conventional doctors first and then be licensed for traditional medicine.
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Some 4,000 dead pangolins were destined for China and Vietnam for the exotic‑meat trade or for traditional medicine.
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Also, a lot of migraines can be triggered or worsened by anxiety, which isn't really addressed by traditional medicine.
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Tiger parts, while illegal to sell, are in high demand in Asia, particularly China, for use in traditional medicine.
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So in my own case, you know, I understand the failure of traditional medicine that is responsive to symptoms.
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In Chinese traditional medicine, it's used as a fever remedy—not, as you may have heard, as an aphrodisiac.
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Traffickers often sell the pangolin meat locally and ship the scales for use in traditional medicine in Asia, mainly China.
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Golden Slumbers "Golden milk," the color of which comes from turmeric, has a long history in Southeast Asian traditional medicine.
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On its own, this won't curb demand for pangolin scales, which are used in traditional medicine in Vietnam and China.
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But to do that, they need as much data as possible — more than traditional medicine has been accustomed to using.
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Traditional medicine men roast and crush the scales into powder to use as an ingredient in stomach and liver tonics.
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"Look at ginseng, it's cheap and easy to farm" Goodrich said, referring to the popular root used in traditional medicine.
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Today, the lake is privately owned by the Okanagan Nation Alliance, for whom it is a source of traditional medicine.
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They do this not just to protect livestock, but also to sell lion bones to the Asian traditional medicine trade.
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But it was not known to be caused by eating centipedes, which have long been used in Chinese traditional medicine.
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" This can include the "unauthorized use of another culture's dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols, etc.
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Demand for animals and their parts — to eat or for use in traditional medicine — carries potential pathogens far and wide.
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As a result, the flourishing communities of people who feel alienated by traditional medicine are willing to try alternative treatments.
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He was Chime Dorje, a prominent doctor and advocate of traditional medicine who ran a clinic in the town center.
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New Zealand's indigenous Māori people have used it as a traditional medicine for centuries to treat digestive or liver problems.
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It wasn't a traditional medicine — the kind you may hear about from your doctor and commercials (at least not yet).
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Traditional medicine, it said, should have equal status in law with modern medicine; it should also be regulated like other types.
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Salgado's father, Fernando, a playful, easygoing man with deep-blue eyes, worked as a farmer and a practitioner of traditional medicine.
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Economic stimulus in the form of tax cuts or higher government spending are the traditional medicine for the current economic ills.
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Dr. Weil is perhaps best known for popularizing the concept of integrative medicine, which melds traditional medicine with "alternative" healing techniques.
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Metzl believes his workout strategy may be more beneficial than traditional medicine and encourages other doctors to adapt these practices as well.
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Gelatine from boiled donkey hide is another ingredient in traditional medicine (skins, probably destined for the Chinese market, are pictured in Kenya).
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Their keratin scales are used in traditional medicine, while their meat is consumed "to demonstrate status," according to the Environmental Investigation Agency.
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Traditional medicine has failed people in many cases, and often lacks solutions for the most common health woes — chronic pain, obesity, Alzheimer's.
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In China, however, they have another purpose: the production of ejiao, a traditional medicine made from gelatin extracted from boiled donkey hides.
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For the Chinese government, the obstacle to ending the wild-animal trade isn't just the domestic popularity and profitability of traditional medicine.
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At this year's National People's Congress, members of China's legislature proposed a ban on the sale of pangolin products for traditional medicine.
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Some species — like yakal and other trees of the genus Shorea, valued for hard lumber and used in traditional medicine — are endangered.
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That infuriating anti-vaxxer on Twitter making spurious claims about the dangers of traditional medicine may have been a Kremlin-backed troll.
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State news outlets warn that the diminishing supply has attracted a flood of fake stand-ins for donkey gelatin, a popular traditional medicine.
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One practitioner, Mame Awa Diop, studied traditional medicine in China before the Confucius Institute in Dakar asked her to set up a clinic.
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A couple of caveats before we dive in: #1: Even if massages can have potential health benefits, they should not replace traditional medicine.
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The global ban on the sale of rhino horn, prized in Asia for use in traditional medicine, has been in place since 1977.
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For one thing, Chinese traditional medicine has long associated high levels of semen with vitality, making some men reluctant to give any away.
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The world's gharial population has decreased nearly 98% since the mid-1900s due to hunting for traditional medicine and changes to its environment.
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But for many other locations, especially in developing countries, people still hunt some animals for bushmeat or body parts used in traditional medicine.
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Now, five South African men are facing murder charges amid accusations they killed and ritualistically ate other people in the name of traditional medicine.
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He said that dried leeches can be ground into a powder that is reputed in Chinese traditional medicine to have a variety of benefits.
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Rhino horn has been used in Chinese traditional medicine for millennia and now is believed, erroneously, in Vietnam to cure both cancer and hangovers.
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The trade in animal parts used for traditional medicine or to denote high status, especially in China and Vietnam, is an even bigger racket.
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A peek into the archived product page for Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism shows many parents praising chlorine dioxide while denouncing traditional medicine.
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Increasingly, recognition of traditional medicine by the scientific community and media is leading to its inclusion in government development plans and policies, she added.
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Vultures are also endangered as a result of the demand for their body parts for use in traditional medicine in certain parts of Africa.
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Among the haul recovered from the ship were AK47s, magazines, bullets, different currencies, satellite phones and even protection charms from local traditional medicine men.
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This fleshy sea-slug is prized as a delicacy, a traditional medicine reputedly capable of curing joint pain and fatigue, and a natural aphrodisiac.
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Many of the products, like ivory and rhino horns, end up in Asian countries, where they are used as ornaments or in traditional medicine.
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It can be tricky to understand the different types of hacks, what differentiates them from traditional medicine, and how safe — or legal — they are.
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"Traditional medicine is a treasure of Chinese civilization embodying the wisdom of the nation and its people," Xi said at the meeting in Beijing.
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Many fisheries target oceanic manta rays for food or traditional medicine products, and other times they are caught by accident in larger-scale fishing operations.
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But Mahto believes that young people like Christy may be turning to self-care threads due to distrust of or difficulty in accessing traditional medicine.
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But the World Health Organization has said aid workers face mistrust in some areas, fueled by false rumors about treatments and preference for traditional medicine.
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According to the indictment seen by CNN, Magubane approached Mbatha for muti -- a South African term for traditional medicine -- to help him attain good fortune.
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And poachers killed dozens of animals each year, spurred on by soaring demand for body parts in places like China, for use in traditional medicine.
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The cultural roots of China's use of wild animals run deep, not just for food but also for traditional medicine, clothing, ornaments and even pets.
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China has, in fact, cultivated cannabis for thousands of years — for textiles, for hemp seeds and oil and even, according to some, for traditional medicine.
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She suspects that the decision was encouraged not by practitioners of traditional medicine, but by "those dealing in the business of profit-making" — tiger farmers.
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Then I learned that the Indonesian police had recently busted a Komodo trafficking ring — 40 dragons smuggled out and chopped into pieces for traditional medicine.
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We also see noise as brujeria [witchcraft, but also the traditional medicine of Mexico, parts of Texas, and the Southwest], as a sonic medicine or witchcraft.
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The WHO says it will formally recognize traditional medicine in its compendium in May, meaning more mainstream recognition of practices dating back more than 2,500 years.
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The parents, whose preference for natural remedies over traditional medicine is said to have caused the child's death, could spend up to five years in jail.
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They also created a slam ball — a weighted fitness ball that's more durable than a traditional medicine ball — shaped like the infamous Death Star for $74.95.
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Beijing in 1993 banned trade in tiger bones and rhino horns, both prized in traditional medicine, as part of global efforts to halt declining animal stocks.
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She attributed the population growth to the Kazakh government's effort to combat poaching for meat and male saiga horns, which are prized in Chinese traditional medicine.
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Poor poachers still use gillnets to catch the totoaba, whose swim bladder sells for $20,3003 on average in China for traditional medicine and even as investments.
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Many in traditional medicine consider fascia as simply the tough, fibrous connective tissue surrounding muscle tissue and separating soft tissue areas (including fat) throughout the body.
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And people with a serious or fatal illness like cancer might look to alternative treatments after traditional medicine fails them or as a potential sign of hope.
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In North Africa and elsewhere in the Middle East, where striped hyenas also roam, the animals are run over, poisoned or killed for use in traditional medicine.
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" Defending the booklet, traditional medicine minister Shripad Naik said that it "puts together relevant facts culled out from clinical practice in the fields of yoga and naturopathy.
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As for the tiger, in China and Vietnam its bones and penis feature in traditional medicine, while tiger fangs and claws are emblems of status and power.
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Lixin Huang, the president of the American College of Traditional medicine, said a reversal of the ban would create a huge challenge for the Chinese medicine community.
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He took a walk through city's center for traditional medicine, Lang Ong Street, and discussed conservation efforts with activists and medical experts in a local coffee shop.
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The Duke has been to Lan Ong St in Hanoi's Old Town to learn more about traditional medicine and its links to the illegal wildlife trade. pic.twitter.
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William is set to visit with the traditional medicine community, meet young leaders from across Vietnamese society and talk with political leaders from throughout South East Asia.
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The university's Medical Cannabis Research Institute has launched prototypes of cannabis water tablets, cannabis oil, an oral spray and phrasa kamcha, a recipe based on traditional medicine.
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Increasingly, they are also shipped to buyers in China for use in traditional medicine, part of an illegal trade that has devastated Africa's elephant and rhino populations.
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Wildlife advocates speculated that the government's decision to end the ban on rhino and tiger parts in medicine had aimed to help China's growing traditional-medicine industry.
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In addition, studies have shown that, in general, users of complementary and alternative medicine spend less over all for back pain than users of only traditional medicine.
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China Traditional Medicine Holdings last year acquired Beijing Huamiao, a company it says holds permits for the "processed products of some of the endangered and protected wild animals".
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"Oh God, oh God, I hope he's bringing more," Samar al-Hussein, 45, a traditional medicine practitioner, said one recent evening as Firas went slowly up her street.
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With more traditional medicine failing to find a vaccine, the doctors at Project Noah believe the vampiric virus' ability to eradicate diseased cells might be humanity's best hope.
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"Traditional medicine is a treasure of Chinese civilization embodying the wisdom of the nation and its people," Xi told a national conference on TCM in October last year.
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It's also complicated by the fact that traditional medicine, a $130 billion industry, has become a valuable form of soft power that China is exporting around the world.
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US Fish and Wildlife Service officials believe the shipment was on its way from South America to Asia, where shark fins are used for cooking and traditional medicine.
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At least 110 people are being tested for it in the U.S. Inside China: In addition to antiviral H.I.V. drugs, the authorities told doctors to prescribe traditional medicine.
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"It just shows that there may be medicines yet to be discovered and we shouldn't turn our eyes up at traditional medicine just because it's not tested yet."
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He said that there was no traditional medicine to treat inclusion body myositis, but that he was exercising every day and hoped to participate in future drug trials.
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The case has turned out hundreds of angry protesters into the streets against the accused and prompted strenuous denials from the country's traditional medicine community that it condones cannibalism.
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Farming of animals used in traditional medicine has been advocated by China's Forestry administration and some breeders as a sustainable way to use endangered animals in traditional Chinese medicine.
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Functional medicine: If the body were a garden bed and its diseases weeds sprouting up, traditional medicine might look to specialists to eradicate the weeds and keep things growing.
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AN ENORMOUS turtle hangs as a good-luck charm from the wall of a traditional medicine shop in a Chinese part of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's commercial hub.
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Ultimately, it's important to remember that massage isn't a magical cure-all, and it can't replace traditional medicine, but it can be a smart supplement to your healthy lifestyle.
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Had I not gone through this, I would have just, you know, upon traditional medicine, thought I was cancer-free because the urologist said I was, from the biopsies.
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But according to our own research and that of others, for too many there is a tendency to distance themselves from traditional medicine, maybe even expressing mistrust toward it.
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Like traditional African power figures, German's sculptures have textile pouches and containers that remind me of traditional medicine packs that hold materials intended to fill the object with power.
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Africa&aposs four species of pangolins are under increasing pressure from poachers because of the decimation of the four species in Asia, where pangolin scales are used in traditional medicine.
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While the use of rhino horn is officially banned in China, pangolin and saiga products are legally used in Chinese medicine with the big traditional medicine companies all producing them.
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With the market for tiger parts in Chinese traditional medicine a constant source of demand, tigers in such small numbers depend entirely on their human protectors for their continued existence.
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Zhu Yonghong, co-founder of Tasly, a big traditional-medicine firm in Tianjin, says Quanjian and firms like it set up in Tianjin to profit from Tong Ren Tang's aura.
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Kenya faces erosion of its indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants due to habitat loss as well as overexploitation and unsustainable use of traditional medicine resources as markets expand, Ngugi warned.
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In a country with a powerful faith in witchcraft and traditional medicine, health officials have worked hard to persuade people to adopt proven methods of preventing and treating the disease.
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Fordham University law professor Susan Scafidi has defined the term as encompassing the "unauthorized use of another culture's dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols" and more.
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After contracting a fever as a child, no amount of "holy water" or traditional medicine in rural Ethiopia was enough to stop Nigussie from losing her sight - and community acceptance.
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The company is part of a new wave of start-ups seeking to upend traditional medicine by marketing prescription drugs and connecting people to physicians online who may prescribe them.
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And in the absence of antiretroviral drugs, many Warao have sought solutions in traditional medicine, turning to a key figure in Warao society, the wisidatu, a kind of shamanic healer.
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Budtenders say they recognize they walk a fine line, delicately navigating the divide between traditional medicine and a federally illegal substance — and avoiding making blatant or irresponsible claims about marijuana.
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"Pangolins are at real risk of becoming extinct -- the demand for their meat and unique scales for traditional medicine is well documented," Kate Nustedt, director of WPA, said in the report.
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Cassandra Quave, professor of dermatology and human health at Emory University and the senior author on the paper,, decided to revisit the guide in hopes of understanding how traditional medicine worked.
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When the international system of drug control, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, was set up in 1961 at the United Nations, the use of cannabis in traditional medicine was ignored.
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But, her distrust of traditional medicine and the government points to something very real: Inequality in traditional healthcare might lead marginalized people, Black women in particular, to seek other forms of care.
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It also comes against the backdrop of a surge in poaching of rhinos for the animal's horn, which is coveted in Vietnam and other Asian countries as an ingredient in traditional medicine.
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But the benefits of local cooperation between mainstream and traditional medicine are clear and strong—as when they helped to stem the tide of Ebola, saving hundreds, if not thousands, of lives.
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The directive reverses a 1993 ban put in place by Beijing on the international trade in tiger bones and rhino horns, both valued for their purported healing powers in Chinese traditional medicine.
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"I've read many pharmacopoeia, and none of them record the medical function of manta ray gills," said Li Junde, a traditional medicine researcher at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing.
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China's State Council has outlined a multi-decade plan to promote traditional medicine, including setting up hospitals, museums, medicinal zoos and botanical gardens in countries involved in its Belt and Road infrastructure rollout.
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Inclusion in the compendium did not mean the WHO endorsed the scientific validity of traditional medicine, or that it recommended or condoned the use of animal parts, a WHO spokesman Tarik Jašarević said.
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In the post-apartheid revamp of Warwick Junction, a transport node in Durban, South Africa, traders were consulted on projects like a traditional-medicine market and purpose-built cubicles for cooking cows' heads.
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Since 2012, the year Mr Xi came to power, the Communist Party has been insisting that traditional medicine be made equal in status to what China calls "Western medicine" (ie, the modern form).
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Yesterday, William met with schoolkids to talk about protecting rhino and visited a traditional medicine market, Lang Ong Street and discussed conservation efforts with activists and medical experts in a local coffee shop.
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Another fad is for education that is directly inspired by ancient Chinese culture, often delivered by small schools in the countryside that offer instruction in subjects such as archery, traditional medicine and Confucianism.
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"They were saying: 'No, no, no, it's not malaria'," he said, describing how the family had sought advice from a traditional medicine man who said a jinni, or spirit, had invaded her body.
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Throughout history, "people ascribed medicinal value to many things in their immediate environment," says Justin O. Schmidt, an ant researcher at the Southwestern Biological Institute in Arizona with an interest in traditional medicine.
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The prescription processes of online pharmacies are criticised for being too loose; and the safety of new digital therapies needs to be supported by the evidence-base, much as it as in traditional medicine.
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Details about traditional medicine will be included in the 11th version of the WHO's global compendium, known as the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, or ICD, for the first time.
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Conservationists have expressed concerns that domestic buyers could also illicitly supply markets in Vietnam and China, where demand for rhino horn - coveted as an ingredient in traditional medicine - has triggered a wave of poaching.
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"Thirty percent of epileptics do not respond to traditional medicine," medical doctor Ana María García Nicora, who heads the Medical Cannabis Argentina group, told local television after the Senate's final vote on the measure.
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We visited an exhibit on traditional medicine showing bone setters, local diseases that had largely been eradicated and a mannequin giving birth standing up with a midwife on the ground in front of her.
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Research shows that over 70 per cent of sales of these drugs take place without prescription, and pharmacists often fail to explain to women how to take the pills or offer traditional medicine instead.
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Some links are direct and obvious, such as the wildlife trade that moves hundreds of millions of animals around the world to be used as food, in traditional medicine, as pets, or other purposes.
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In May, Beijing announced that it is developing 57 traditional medicine centers this year in countries that are part of its globe-spanning Belt and Road Initiative, like Poland and the United Arab Emirates.
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And while, say, painful sex or prolapse are "real" medical issues, constant irritation caused by your long labia or even a change in sensation after childbirth are not, according to traditional medicine, Dr. Pelosi explains.
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Globally, thousands of people have embraced the traditional medicine as an alternative to western psychological or psychiatric solutions, turning to ayahuasca to heal from trauma, depression, anxious tendencies, and as a tool for general wellness.
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What makes Tu even more badass is that she doesn't have a medical or doctorate degree, but got her start instead as a researcher at the Academy of Chinese Traditional Medicine after attending pharmacology school.
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All these people, wasting their money on traditional medicine, when he's willing to take you into his office and lay you on a table and make you good as new without the hassle of insurance.
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If you're sick and in constant pain, or if you're old and scared to die, and traditional medicine has nothing that works to quell your suffering, who can fault you for seeking a solution elsewhere?
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The sale of such a hazardous and scientifically unproven cure-all online and in stores, often marketed to nursing mothers, highlights an alarming flaw in the government's tattered food safety system, which largely ignores traditional medicine.
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The couple, members of the Followers of Christ Church, that shuns traditional medicine in favor of prayer and anointing the sick with oils, have pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the death of their premature daughter.
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South Africa is home to more than 80 percent of the world's rhinos, whose population has been devastated by poaching for buyers in Vietnam and China where it is coveted as an ingredient in traditional medicine.
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"The attitude is that it's already a part of traditional medicine ... and we should ensure that Thais can control their own industry, " said Jim Plamondon, marketing head of Thai Cannabis Corporation said to Reuters last December.
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Traditional medicine Pietermaritzburg High Court judge Peter Olsen sentenced both men to life in prison for the killing of Zanele Hlatshwayo last year, saying they were guilty of "the most heinous crime," according to local media.
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Mr. Kim and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, also toured a Chinese traditional medicine factory.... Zhang Liangui, a North Korea expert at China's Central Party School, said Mr. Kim likely needed to shore up China's support.
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Thanks to the movie Apocalypto and a few survivalist TV shows, if most people have any frame of reference for ants in traditional medicine, it's likely the use of strong-pincered army ant heads as stitches.
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The six-day affair features the rhythms of the region, and crowded with vendors selling traditional food, as well as viche, the sugar cane liquor that serves as the base of its drinks — and traditional medicine.
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As a result, more attention to traditional medicine implies more attention to primary health care, which is best able to monitor the progress of patients with lifestyle-related ailments (such as obesity) and the diseases of ageing.
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Debate over lifting the ban on tiger trade comes as China seeks to develop its traditional medicine industry, worth some $50 billion annually, and position it as a key pillar of its 'One Belt One Road' strategy.
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Grace Ngugi, head of economic ethnobotany at National Museums of Kenya (NMK), the state custodian of Kenya's natural and cultural heritage, said growing use of herbal treatments is an opportunity for the traditional medicine industry to expand.
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Since it can encompass a dizzying range of pursuits, I'm mostly going to look at biohacking defined as the attempt to manipulate your brain and body in order to optimize performance, outside the realm of traditional medicine.
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That means leveraging social media to educate, getting practitioners of traditional medicine to hawk sustainable alternatives to rhino horn, and disrupting trade routes, for instance by engaging with security on both sides of the China-Vietnam border.
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After all, demand for rhino horns -- especially in China and Vietnam, where they have long been used in traditional medicine -- persists, and creates considerable financial incentives for poaching that are hard for impoverished local men to refuse.
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SHANGHAI/BEIJING, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A new coronavirus spreading from the city of Wuhan has put a spotlight on China's poorly regulated wild animal trade - driven by relentless demand for exotic delicacies and ingredients for traditional medicine.
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" Speaking with the semiofficial Fars news agency last week, he said, "If the judiciary had not taken a tough stance, the situation would have been very bad, and drugs would have been available even at traditional medicine stores.
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An estimated 10,000 bears are legally kept on Chinese farms for their bile, an ingredient in traditional medicine that is collected through a tube permanently implanted in the animals' gall bladders, or through a hole in their abdomens.
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"I assist these women because they are currently desperate," he said, adding that doing so is against the constitution of the International Traditional Medicine Council of Malawi, a group of accredited traditional healers of which he is member.
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At the same time, there may be little harm in trying low-risk things like meditation or other stress reduction techniques in combination with traditional medicine, even if trials don't decisively prove that these alternatives help, Xu added.
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All share a connection to the central suspect, Luismi, a dreamy, drug-addled ex-lover of the Witch — who, it turns out, is not some dreadful creature but a trans woman who practices traditional medicine and throws clandestine parties.
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The ad profiles 3 people -- a boy who had hundreds of seizures a day that were not abated by traditional medicine, a man addicted to opioids, and a veteran who was in severe pain after his leg was amputated.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese traditional medicine is rapidly expanding worldwide as a key pillar of the country's Belt and Road initiative, but conservation groups say demand for treatments using animal products is driving a surge in illegal trafficking of wildlife.
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Some women with unwanted pregnancies turn to traditional remedies such as herbs known as "dog's blood" and "Guinea hen weed," said Steve Weaver, head of the nursing school at the University of the West Indies who has studied traditional medicine.
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Letter To the Editor: "How to Talk to Your Child's Doctor About Alternative Medicine" (Here to Help, March 7) raises important issues but does so in a culturally insensitive manner that undermines the legitimacy of traditional medicine in modern life.
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Kenya has become the epicenter of a fast-growing industry in Africa to supply donkey skins to China, where a gelatin called ejiao made from boiling them down is used in a traditional medicine believed to stop ageing and boost libido.
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"I believe what they are trying to do is to create a poultice which has been practiced in traditional medicine," explains John Lucey, PhD, director of the Center for Dairy Research and professor of food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Poaching is driven by demand for rhino horn - consisting mostly of keratin, found in human nails and hair - in countries like China and Vietnam, where it is used in traditional medicine and also increasingly seen as a symbol of success and wealth.
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The gold-colored liquid has been used in traditional medicine in China for thousands of years, with the first reference appearing in a Tang Dynasty medical text in 659 A.D. It is prescribed for epilepsy, hemorrhoids, heart disease, cancers, colds and hangovers.
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"There's the trend towards natural products, but also there are very few dermatologists in the UK. Some might prefer the quick fix of natural ingredients, have a fear towards traditional medicine, or not be bothered with long general practitioner processes," said Mahto.
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That worry tends to be especially pronounced when it's not experts in labs who are using the tech, but biohackers: people who experiment on their own bodies outside the realm of traditional medicine with the hope of boosting their physical or cognitive performance.
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Hidden inside a shipping container were 4.4 tons of pangolin scales—the remains of between 1,100 and 6,600 African pangolins that were poached in Cameroon and shipped for consumption to China, where the scales are used as a cure in traditional medicine.
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A draft national policy on traditional medicine and plants would be a good starting point, if adopted, because it seeks to protect indigenous knowledge holders from exploitation and bio-piracy "by addressing questions on how economic benefits can best be shared", she added.
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Though she's a staunch believer in natural treatments, the star received radiation treatment at her Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne following her recent injury and is also taking an oral form of traditional medicine prescribed by her oncologist.
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There are around 18,000 to 20,000 southern white rhinos left, mostly in South Africa, but they are being relentlessly poached for their horns to feed illicit demand in Asian countries such as Vietnam, where they are a prized ingredient in traditional medicine.
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In China and Vietnam, they are eaten as a delicacy and used in traditional medicine, with their keratin rich scales believed to have a host of positive benefits -- including aiding breastfeeding and curing asthma or cancer -- none of which is supported by science.
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Over the past decade at least 11 tourists have been killed in incidents linked to traditional medicine in South America, according to news reports, including a California man who was buried secretly by a shaman after he died in an ayahuasca ceremony in Peru.
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A recent report revealed that the use of "modern" contraceptives like condoms and IUDs are on major decline, while "traditional" ones like keeping track of one's period cycle and drinking jamu—a traditional medicine made of bark, roots and leaves—are on the rise.
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A protracted civil war is escalating in the region—a brutal and forgotten conflict that has prompted warnings of genocide from the UN. Militarized poacher units have plundered the park to feed the lucrative, insatiable demand for bushmeat, ivory, animal skin, and traditional medicine.
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While WHO maintains the inclusion of traditional medicine in the ICD is not an endorsement of its scientific validity, critics say this nuance may well be lost given that WHO does issue guidelines and advice to member countries on things such as vaccines, drugs and diet.
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Though the results were soundly refuted and the journal retracted the paper—and Wakefield lost his license to practice medicine—his claims burrowed deep among small clusters: celebrities and others who had children on the autism spectrum and those suspicious of traditional medicine and pharmaceutical companies.
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Instead of relying on random screenings of living creatures — an arbitrary scoop of soil or seawater — it is the only strategy that benefits from a pre-made guide to some of nature's most potent drugs, honed by thousands of years of trial and error in traditional medicine.
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The main thrust of her advocacy for free-market medicine, however, seemed to focus on the growing mountains of paperwork faced by doctors practicing "traditional medicine" over the past few years, coinciding with the implementation of the ACA, and the stiffening resistance of health insurance companies to reimburse providers.
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As Vox's Julia Belluz wrote about Goop's ability to galvanize its fans despite critical and scientific debunking, the appeal of a natural cure-all deeply appeals to people: Traditional medicine has failed people in many cases, and often lacks solutions for the most common health woes — chronic pain, obesity, Alzheimer's.
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A senior official of China's National Health Commission, Liang Wannian, said at a briefing in Beijing last month that the likely carrier was a pangolin, an endangered species that is trafficked almost exclusively to China for its meat and for its scales, which are prized for use in traditional medicine.
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Another clause in the bill says the use of wild animals as medicine, supplements or food must be "in conformity with the country's related laws and regulations on Chinese traditional medicine, supplements and food," without specifying which related laws, whether those dealing with consumer safety or those dealing with the sources of ingredients.
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According to Darshan Singh, a researcher at the University of Science, Malaysia's Center for Drug Research, contemporary Malaysian kratom users fall into four categories: old folks practicing traditional medicine, manual laborers, people trying to get off opioids, and people who use kratom in lieu of other illicit drugs, sometimes mixed with cough syrup.
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Advocates have campaigned to integrate Traditional Chinese Medicine into mainstream global health care and those long-standing TCM efforts have paid off: The World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization, on Saturday formally approved the latest version of its influential global compendium, which includes a chapter on traditional medicine for the first time.
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"By adjusting the whole body health and improving immunity, TCM can help stimulate the patients' abilities to resist and recover from the disease, which is an effective way of therapy," she said, adding that traditional medicine had helped fight viruses in the past, such as the SARS pandemic in 22 and 219 that killed hundreds in China.
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The changes — reflected in a new law and in official guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services — tackle a vexing and costly problem in American health care: how to deal with long-term illnesses that can build on one another, and the social factors outside the reach of traditional medicine that can contribute to them, like nutrition, transportation and housing.
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But toppling the illegal trade in big cats and their parts requires coordinated action on a global scale: enacting and enforcing strict laws that criminalize wildlife trafficking; providing livelihoods for marginalized communities coerced by criminal poaching gangs to do their dirty work; and, as quickly as possible, reducing demand for big cats and their body parts by aiming at drivers like fashion and traditional medicine.
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