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The UBC Centre for Reproductive Health, which takes credit for Canada’s first in vitro–fertilization baby, born in 1983, is collaborating with Acubalance Wellness Centre–which focuses exclusively on the role of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in reproductive health–for an integrated approach to infertility.

Using scientific techniques to investigate the claims of traditional medicine as practised in countries such as China and Japan can help sort effective treatments from unfounded superstitions — and perhaps give modern medicine a few insights into holistic approaches borne from thousands of years of herbal remedies.

Traditional medicine used to treat athletic injuries may cause athletes to fail Olympic drug tests.

An ancient traditional Chinese medicine “wandering free” formula which is at least 700 years old has been proven scientifically to be effective in treating depression. The results of the study will be published in August.

Kami-shoyo-san (加味逍遙散, Jia Wei Xiao Yao San), a traditional Chinese medicine, has been used to treat patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. The Chinese term “xiao yao” means wandering free, which implies its anti-depressive effects.

A new herbal drug derived from traditional Chinese medicine might offer a first alternative to the current first-line medicine to treat Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

Some Beijing medical officials think so, at least for mild cases of the disease. On Thursday, Chinese medicine officials announced that a traditional formula called Jin Hua Qing Gan” (金花清感) has been designated as the world’s first “optimized effective agent” for alleviating the symptoms of the H1N1 virus.

To understand Traditional Chinese Medicine, one must first understand that ailments are as defined and comprehensible only in the context of its own system. As a medical student, I’m tasked with the charge of understanding both East and Western medical philosophies.

Traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) will be a prominent part of the new essential medicines catalogue will be traditional Chinese medicines (TCM), according to the Ministry of Health officials.

Villagers in central China have been using dinosaur bones as medicine - thinking they were from dragons. These bones have been dug up, then boiled in soup or ground down to make traditional medicines for decades. The news emerged this week when scientists displayed some excavated bones at a museum in Henan Province.