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June 29, 2006

Chinese Medicine in the United States

The San Francisco Chronicle examines the growing use of Chinese medicine in the United States, and also interviews patients who have benefited form the treatments and offers a history of Chinese medicine in this country. Also listed are herbal remedies for hay fever and ten commonly used Chinese medicinal herbs.

Like Cohen and Friend, more Americans are turning to traditional Chinese medicine after failing to find relief from conventional treatments. Such patients typically have sought out Chinese remedies at the urging of friends or family; now many are doing so on the advice of doctors at prestigious medical institutions, which over the past decade have been cautiously integrating the 5,000-year-old practice. Just as cautiously, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently revised its research protocols to support clinical trials of Chinese and other herbal treatments.

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Posted by linda at June 29, 2006 11:53 PM