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Chinese medicine gets a 4,000-year makeover

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine are upgrading the 4,000-year-old healing method to improve its image. They are trying to make it more palatable to a new generation who are accustomed to visiting spas and "wellness" clinics. Most young Chinese use western-style GPs as their first port of call when they are sick but still believe that swallowing tortoise shell, deer pizzle, centipede, ...
From: news.independent.co.uk

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