The rootes of Chinese sage, Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (labieteae) are used to prepare an important traditional medicine in the Chinese pharmacoepia, Dan Shen. Indeed, related members of this genus are common traditional medicines throughout the world, making Salvia species the targets of intense phytochemical investigations. The active constituents of these species have been reported to be seve...

Chinese Medicine and Cancer Care Harriet Beinfield, LAc, and Efrem Korngold,LAc, OMD, have been practicing acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for 30 years at Chinese Medicine Works in San Francisco, California. They are the co-authors of Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine and the Chinese Modular Solutions Handbook for Health Professionals. Beinfield is on the Advisory Bo...

This article introduces the document, Considerations in the Translation of Chinese Medicine, published in PDF form online in both Chinese and English. This 20-page document includes several sections describing why the Considerations is necessary, the specificity of texts in Chinese medicine; the history of translation in Chinese medicine; who constitutes an ideal translator of Chinese medicine;...

DAN ZHOU1, LI-WEI XU2, LI-BO LI3, YONG-ZHI DENG4, LI-JUAN WEI1, GUO XIN5,* 1Department of Ophthalmology, The affiliated Hospital to Changchun University of Chinese Medicine 2Department of Hematology Oncology, The affiliated Hospital to Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun 3Department of Radiology, The affiliated Hospital to Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun 4Dep...

1 Zhenjiang Hospital of Chinese Traditional and Western Medicine, Zhenjiang, China, 2 Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China, 3 Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China, 4 College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Ya...

Chinese medicine (CM) practice, as a knowledge-based industry, has not embraced knowledge management (KM) techniques widely. However, KM may facilitate the adaptation and promotion of evidence-based CM. A KM framework was introduced to its activities in evidence-based CM through the development of a CM portal. A codification strategy was used to codify and store knowledge systematically in a da...

The rootes of Chinese sage, Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (labieteae) are used to prepare an important traditional medicine in the Chinese pharmacoepia, Dan Shen. Indeed, related members of this genus are common traditional medicines throughout the world, making Salvia species the targets of intense phytochemical investigations. The active constituents of these species have been reported to be seve...

BACKGROUND The common randomized controlled trial design has distinct limitations when applied to Chinese medicine, because Chinese medicine identifies and treats 'Chinese medicine patterns' rather than diagnosed diseases. Chinese medicine patterns are a group of associated symptoms, tongue appearances and pulse characteristics. These limitations could be overcome by developing new strategies t...

This article describes the challenges that integration of Chinese medicine (CM) and biomedicine are likely to bring for improving safety, research, education, and cross-disciplinary communication. Potential strategies to meet these challenges are suggested, including the use of accessible language for the Western biomedical community, and further development of whole-system randomized controlle...