The technique of genomics and proteomics is one of the fastest developments with the farest-reaching consequences in the high and new biotechnology in the world of today. It can be used to screen the target molecules of the action of traditional Chinese medicines, to identify the new effective components from traditional Chinese medicines, and to explore the mechanisms of the effects of traditi...

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...

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...

INTRODUCTION There is no study exploring the trend of utilization in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) from 2000 to 2010. The objective of this study was to investigate the trends of TCM utilization among 3 cross-sectional cohorts of 2000, 2005, and 2010. METHOD This study was a cross-sectional analysis of TCM utilization over time. We compared the mean TCM visits among 3 cohorts of 2000, 20...

Research activities in traditional Chinese medicine have, to date, focused on the search for relevant active substances and mechanisms of action. This research approach is shaped partly by the conventional drug development model, which commences with determining the mechanism of disease, followed by the design and synthesis of therapeutically active compounds or molecules, animal and in vitro s...

Purpose In an effort to better understand why individuals use complementary and alternative medicine a single whole systems provider-based modality was selected, one with the potential for use as an alternative to allopathic care for a broad array of conditions – Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM). A survey was conducted with a sample of individuals who had used TEAM examining their motives...

In the China Medical College in Laioning Province in north-east China 760 kilometres from Peking, obstetric and gynaecological patients were treated using a combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Over many years of practice and experience, Chinese medical workers concluded that certain herbs have significant antibiotic properties whilst others cause contraction of the smooth m...

This paper analyses how the conceptual and therapeutic formation of Japanese traditional medicine (Kampo) has been socially constructed through interactions with popular interpretations of illness. Taking the example of emotion-related disorders, this paper focuses on the changing meaning of constraint (utsu) in Kampo medicine. Utsu was once a name for one of the most frequently cited emotion-r...

Background and Goal. The application of digital image processing techniques and machine learning methods in tongue image classification in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been widely studied nowadays. However, it is difficult for the outcomes to generalize because of lack of color reproducibility and image standardization. Our study aims at the exploration of tongue colors classification...

1. Donders Center for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 HR Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2. Psychiatric Research Institute, LVR-Klinik Bedburg-Hau, 47551 Bedburg-Hau, Germany 3. Division of Acupuncture & Meridian, WHO Collaborating Center for Traditional Medicine, East-West Medical Research Institute and School of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea 4. Karel de Gr...