Chi-Med Chief Executive Hogg believes that herbal Chinese medicine is an underexploited reservoir of many more such drug candidates.
Lauren Rosenstadt was working at home as a marketing executive for a Chinese herbal company, but she wanted to be her own boss.
Effects of the traditional Chinese herbal medicine Yi-Gan San for cholinesterase inhibitor-resistant visual hallucinations and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies.
Other researchers at Mount Sinai have found Chinese herbal medicines successful in mice and are conducting trials on people with food allergies, she said.
Hogg got enough money to build the first few of what are now six Chinese herbal medicine shops in London, operating under the Sen name.
Lord Pearson, a patron of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine in the UK, prompted laughter from peers by suggesting he had "benefited much from it over the years".
When I asked what Liang Zi Fitness was, one of the girls politely handed me a menu, which described different kinds of acupressure massages combined with Chinese herbal medicine treatments.
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Rippe said it's difficult to quantify exactly how much more concentrated the supplement is compared to foods, but he said the supplements are "consistent with" supplements that have been used by in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years.
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In the 1990s several big pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer AG of Germany, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, formed alliances with Chinese research institutes or companies that specialized in traditional Chinese medicines, aiming to apply modern drug-hunting techniques to screen Chinese herbal medicines for potential Western blockbusters.
In the 1990s several big pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ) AG of Germany, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, formed alliances with Chinese research institutes or companies that specialized in traditional Chinese medicines, aiming to apply modern drug-hunting techniques to screen Chinese herbal medicines for potential Western blockbusters.
" But if you're a farmer, "you're looking for herbal, natural, green or Chinese herbs, some kind of regimen to help your oral health.
There are over 30 Assam and Chinese varieties (as well as a wide range of herbal teas), and tea production follows the time-honoured system of hand plucking the bushes.
Many Chinese who wouldn't be caught dead without a BlackBerry think nothing of adding ancient herbal treatments to a regimen of Western drugs.
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