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Latest news and updates about traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), including Covid-19 treatments, food to eat and avoid, acupuncture, gua sha, and how TCM could help with anxiety and pain relief.
Medical graduates from a Shanghai university have been included in a programme that seeks to bring some relief to Hong Kong’s understaffed and strained public hospitals.
Treatments largely based on herbs have been around for thousands of years and will help complement Western medications for Covid-19 sufferers.
Batches of tablets are yet another weapon to be used in the battle against Covid-19, which has seen authorities constantly playing catch-up.
- Cosmetic acupuncture is a gentler, more holistic approach that aligns with the growing desire for natural, sustainable beauty solutions, without the risks and side effects of synthetic injectables
- Rooted in TCM, the process involves ultrafine needles inserted at key points along the face, harnessing the body’s ‘chi’ to promote blood circulation and stimulate collagen production
Doctors at the Original Mayr health resort in Austria combine traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine to diagnose and treat health conditions, and prescribe a detox diet, to help guests lose weight.
Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners to receive eight months of training on the mainland and another 16 months in Hong Kong as part of government scheme.
A new traditional Chinese medicine-based therapy is said to be helping people with psychological ailments such as stress, depression and grief, but not everybody is convinced of its effectiveness.
A doctor and a nutritionist, both in Hong Kong, describe the differences between stomach flu and food poisoning, the causes of gastroenteritis and how best to treat it.
A man in China has been told by doctors that 15-year-old parasites discovered in his spinal cord resulted from him following traditional folk remedies based on snake parts.
There are now 26 hospitals offering a fusion of traditional Chinese and Western medicine to treat a range of conditions, up from 8 last year.
President Alexander Wai says university will move campus to academic town in Northern Metropolis after governing body agrees ‘in principle’ to plan.
Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office staff catch 14-year-old distributing ‘huge stack’ of smoking advertising leaflets from his backpack.
Study from CUHK finds no smoking, good sleep and regular high-intensity exercise are among lifestyle choices that can prevent irritable bowel syndrome.
Allex Chan, indie dream-pop singer-songwriter and the guitarist of band NYPD, performed with Kay Tse in 2021 and worked on the score of an award-winning animated short. He talks to the Post about his music.
A couple in China were so grateful to finally conceive after almost a decade of trying that they knelt down and wept in front of the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) doctor who helped them.
A new study suggests that tai chi may help lower blood pressure in people at risk of developing hypertension more effectively than conventional aerobic exercise. Experts describe its benefits.
Hong Endian, 52, told by judge ‘only and irresistible inference’ was that he had colluded with others to bring the scales of endangered species to city.
A consortium led by state-owned Sinopharm has revived a take-private bid for China-TCM, the Hong-Kong-listed drug maker said on Wednesday, valuing it at US$2.96 billion.
Lisa Lim spent 30 days in a jail after airport authorities found a huge amount of traditional Chinese medicine in the luggage.
A five-year-old girl in China who learned to practise the ancient technique of acupuncture from her Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor grandmother has amazed mainland social media.
To the uninitiated, traditional Chinese medicine treatments can appear scary and extreme, but as the Post found out, millions of people swear by them as cures for all manner of ills.
As World Leprosy Day comes around, we look at the disease’s symptoms, treatment and transmission, whether it’s contagious or curable, its stigma, and why there was a recent outbreak in the US.
Government-funded facility likely to charge about HK$120 to attend as an outpatient, Health Bureau’s Cheung Wai-lun says.
Government-funded centre signs agreement to cooperate with the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, before its phased opening in late 2025.
Amended pact dating to 1979 establishment of diplomatic relations must ensure ‘fewer opportunities’ for compromising activity, negotiator says.
China’s insatiable appetite for ejiao made from donkey collagen requires the supply of over 5 million of the animals each year.
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The ancient practice of using boys’ urine as an ingredient continues today and stems from the belief that young males embody pure yang energy, masculinity, and vitality.
Scientists say southern Cameroon is emerging as poaching hotspot for endangered animals whose scales are prized in traditional Chinese medicine.
Tailored menopause wellness retreats provide therapies and community support to help women – including those at perimenopause and post-menopausal stages – find relief from their symptoms.
Sources say ambassador Han Tae-song may have been involved in the illegal trade of elephant tusks and rhino horns through deals in four African countries.
